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I’m not going to be able to tell you about the consequences of EVERY lost grant, but I’m going to try. Let’s start with the Antiviral Drug Discovery (AViDD) program for pathogens of pandemic concern! It just got unceremoniously shitcanned.

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Fascinating and telling. Record high number of Europeans (74%) recognize their country benefited from EU integration, but their expectations re: future EU action vary considerably. Source: @politico.eu

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CERN is approaching a pivotal moment in its history. By the early 2040s, the LHC will reach the limits of its usefulness. What CERN does next matters for science but the stakes are beyond science, and even beyond Europe, as we argue in our editorial 🧪 @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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HHS's Office of Long COVID Research and Practice has been DOGEd. Closing this week.

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Figured I’d hop on here today for the 15th anniversary of the Affordable Care Act. With everything going on right now, it’s easy to feel like regular folks can’t make a difference – but the ACA is a reminder that change is possible when we fight for progress.

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Last chance! Take this 5-minute survey before it closes on March 31. Women: You are invited to participate in a study of how identity characteristics influence women’s experiences of bias at work. Fill out the brief survey here: amy-diehl.com/study (And please repost and share this link).

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Using A.I. to democratize rapid, accurate weather forecasting from multiple inputs with thousands of less time computing power than current systems New @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Breaking News: The EPA plans to eliminate its scientific research arm, firing as many as 1,155 chemists, biologists, toxicologists and other scientists.

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The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization is raising the alarm over a rapidly escalating bird flu crisis as the highly pathogenic H5N1 virus spreads from poultry to mammals, fueling concerns over food security and a potential human spillover.

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By retracting foreign aid, President Trump could make the world’s deadliest infectious disease untreatable again, John Green writes. theatln.tc/h8ah2p2D

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“Back then, the overwhelming public sentiment was: never again. Today, it seems: never what?”—Siddhartha Mukherjee Exceptional essay Gift link www.nytimes.com/2025/03/10/o...

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Mike spotted this before the rest of us. 🫡 Publications from 2025 are shared more on Bluesky than on X/Twitter.

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EXCLUSIVE: Sources tell WIRED that Elon Musk has wanted a government shutdown in part because it would potentially make it easier to eliminate the jobs of hundreds of thousands of federal workers.

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More on the NIH termination of vaccine hesitancy studies.

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NIH is abruptly terminating at least 33 research grants for projects studying why some people are hesitant to receive vaccines or evaluating strategies that could encourage vaccine uptake. scim.ag/4how23i

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📢 Meet the keynote speakers of the upcoming #ICWSM Workshop on #Data for the Wellbeing of the Most #Vulnerable 👉 Paddy Brock at World Bank & UNHCR Joint Data Center 👉 @robysinatra.bsky.social at University of Copenhagen Join us! Submission deadline: March 31 sites.google.com/view/datafor...

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Agencies within the Trump administration have flagged hundreds of words to limit or avoid, according to a compilation of government documents. These terms appeared in government memos, in official and unofficial agency guidance and in other documents. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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New: The administration—through DOJ, HHS, ED, and GSA—says it has canceled ~$400 million in federal grants and contracts to Columbia University.

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Welcome to the Bluesky account for Stand Up for Science 2025! Keep an eye on this space for updates, event information, and ways to get involved. We can't wait to see everyone #standupforscience2025 on March 7th, both in DC and locations nationwide! #scienceforall #sciencenotsilence

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"No one is coming out of the sky to give you your grant money. Your citation portfolio won’t survive this market crash. Your credentials mean nothing. Everything is going to change." New for @undark.org undark.org/2025/03/06/o...

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Trying to wrap your mind around what's happened this week (it's Wednesday)? Same... So for our clarity (and possibly yours) we're resharing some WIRED scoops in this refresher thread, starting with business leaders paying millions of dollars to dine with President Donald Trump.

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🎉 New paper in PNAS: Urban highways are barriers to social ties https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2408937122 Highways are barriers that cut opportunities for social ties. We quantify this effect by overlaying the US highway network with millions of social ties from Twitter.

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Resilience is always an afterthought until a crisis hits. Now the humanitarian system itself is in crisis. Funding diversification is no longer a luxury, but a matter of survival www.thenewhumanitarian.org/analysis/202...

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“I do worry that...one of the core dysfunctions of government is that nobody actually wants to make a decision. And so AI is a useful way to say, ‘I didn’t make the decision, the AI did,’” @pahlkadot.bsky.social says. “I don’t think that’s healthy.” www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

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💈 La crociata anti-gender di Trump si conferma un cavallo di Troia per attaccare i diritti umani | @darioaccolla.bsky.social www.valigiablu.it/trump-anti-g... via @valigiablu.it

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Public involvement is needed at all levels and could foster trust in AI’s adoption and effective governance,” write @timdavies.org.uk, @annacolom.bsky.social, Lidia Velkova, @martapoblet.bsky.social, Lydia Nobbs, and Leda Kuneva.

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🚨Happy to share our latest study on the resilience of the mobility network to first and second wave Covid-19 interventions in Chile. 🦠 Thanks to Pasquale Casaburi for leading this and the team! 🔗 journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...

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Judith Butler: "Once you decide that a single vulnerable minority can be sacrificed, you’re operating within a fascist logic, because that means there might be a second one you’re willing to sacrifice, and a third, a fourth, and then what happens?"

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I have insomnia a lot lately so may as well share what’s literally keeping me up at night. It’s a long list but tonight it’s flu. Yes, H5N1, but also seasonal flu. Firing federal scientists brings a flu-filled future. Have you ever wondered how flu vaccine strains are chosen?

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Wastewater from airplane toilets? We introduce a global Aircraft-Based Wastewater Surveillance Network (WWSN) for pandemic monitoring in Nature Medicine 🔗 doi.org/10.1038/s415... Aircraft-based wastewater surveillance allows for real-time, non-invasive monitoring of global pathogen spread Short 🧵

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Modern-Day Oracles or Bullshit Machines? Jevin West (@jevinwest.bsky.social) and I have spent the last eight months developing the course on large language models (LLMs) that we think every college freshman needs to take. thebullshitmachines.com

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📢 CfP: #ICWSM2025 Workshop on #Data for the Wellbeing of the Most #Vulnerable 👉 #AI #NLP #epidemiology #demography #sociology #humanitarian #datascience submit your abstract, or short or long paper by ⏰ March 31 sites.google.com/view/datafor... w/ @kyriakikalimeri.bsky.social + Daniela Paolotti

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The AI Summit ends in rupture. AI accelerationists want pure expansion—more capital, energy, private infrastructure, no guard rails. Public interest camp supports labor, sustainability, shared data. safety, and oversight. The gap never looked wider. AI is in its empire era.

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I have a Commentary in Cell Systems suggesting that we should stop telling simple but misleading stories about biology & give some careful thought to how to incorporate the complexity from the outset. (This link should give free access & downloads until 1 April) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Interested in using data on human behaviour to understand and predict epidemics? Come do a PhD with us! Deadline 7 March – please get in touch if interested! www.lshtm.ac.uk/study/fees-a...

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1. Today the NIH director issued a new directive slashing overhead rates to 15%. I want to provide some context on what that means and why it matters. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

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GitHub reveals how software engineers are purging federal databases. A project called "Remove-DEI" shows the tweaks used to remove "forbidden words" from a database about childhood school readiness. 🔗 www.404media.co/forbidden-wo...

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🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

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“If the freeze is not stopped, I might lose my house." Some NSF-funded postdocs are having trouble paying rent and credit card bills because their salaries were paused this week, even though the federal funding freeze memo was rescinded. www.statnews.com/2025/01/30/t...

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An editorial by @alexvespi.bsky.social, President of @isi.it , published today in Corriere della Sera www.corriere.it/opinioni/25_...

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🧵 STATEMENT: WHO expresses deep concern on the implications of the immediate funding pause for #HIV programmes in low- and middle-income countries. These programmes provide access to life-saving HIV therapy to more than 30 million people worldwide. Read more bit.ly/42yxxIz 1/5

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Glad to see @isi.it as a partner of this new EU project, via @danielapaolotti.bsky.social !

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I’m looking for a PhD student to work at the intersection of modelling infectious diseases and climate change. Deadline of applications: 31st of May, but applications are evaluated on a rolling basis. Please repost and help me spread the words! euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/311728

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BREAKING: The Trump administration has instructed organizations in other countries to stop disbursing HIV medications purchased with U.S. aid, even if the drugs have already been obtained and are sitting in local clinics. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/27/h...

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"The U.S. cannot wall itself off from transnational health threats” latest piece by the extremely awesome @amymaxmen.bsky.social www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-w...

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First CS2Italy (cs2italy.org) in Trento was a fantastic event. Thank you, @mtizzoni.bsky.social @ivanobison.bsky.social @ccattuto.bsky.social, @alexvespi.bsky.social, Bruno Lepri, & many others for inviting me to present our work at SUNLab and making me feel so welcome (photo @ccattuto.bsky.social )

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