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Grocery shopping in Canada this morning.

Plus de 1 900 chercheurs américains lancent un « SOS » face aux attaques de Donald Trump contre la science

The gutting of HHS and the CDC will literally and directly lead to the sickening and deaths of millions of Americans, and many more globally. Far more than that will suffer needlessly. This is horrific.

Visualisez les 380 sites industriels qui rejettent l’essentiel des PFAS en France

Love this quote: "Pro tip: any U.S. foreign policy that can push China, Japan, and South Korea into greater consultation and policy coordination is probably a dumbass policy."

One Health : une stratégie pour faire face aux maladies de demain www.lasemaineduroussillon.com/societe/one-...

This will have a huge impact on state libraries and museums. Yikes!!!—word is, RIP to the Institute of Museum and Library Services.

« Un système mis en place pour alléger les charges du parti » : Le Monde publie les principaux extraits du jugement condamnant Marine Le Pen

Compared to 20 years ago, more Europeans (in many, but not all countries) feel immigration makes their country a better place to live.

This keeps getting worse and worse.

Après sa condamnation à cinq ans d’inéligibilité, Marine Le Pen s’enferme dans le déni, au risque d’ébranler un peu plus le RN

🧪 Interesting article; with the passage of the CR, it will be important to watch the rate at which appropriated funds for FY25 are spent. Remember, Congress appropriates - funds that are allocated to NSF (and NIH, etc.) should actually be spent.

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Condamnation de Marine Le Pen : la sanction d’un « système destiné à constituer une véritable manne financière pour le parti » et de ses auteurs

We are in an age of guerilla archiving. We are all going to have to do the work of preserving history & culture on a micro-basis. I’ve deliberately focused on Black joy so you’ll find adventure and fantasy more than you’ll find overcoming and stoic resilience. Get the list 👇🏾👇🏾 tinyurl.com/2m9bx2jb

“ #Measles was officially declared ‘eliminated’ in the United States in 2000…. ‘thanks to a highly effective vaccination program in the United States, as well as better measles control in the Americas region,’ the #CDC says.” #VaccinesWork #CommunityImmunity #Ivax2protect thehill.com/homenews/nex...

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Marine Le Pen condamnée dans l’affaire des assistants parlementaires du FN : ce que la justice lui reproche

Le Pen has been barred from politics for four years after being found guilty of embezzlement.

« porter la durée officielle des thèses et leur financement à 42 mois en se rapprochant des standards internationaux et de la réalité observée. » www.lefigaro.fr/vox/societe/...

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"The Senate received very troubling information that key Australian groups opposing offshore wind rollouts are not in fact grassroots community movements ...they are linked to political, organised and well-funded global campaigns to undermine renewable energy" #auspol www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03...

The Texas measles outbreak has hit 400 cases Of the 400 cases, 398 were people who were unvaccinated or had an unknown vaccination status

This alone is enough to put @altcdc.altgov.info well above most public health institutions everywhere in the Western world. If you can afford it, get some N95s and learn how to use them. Measles is here, COVID is here, and bird flu is coming. If it can't get inside you, it can't make you sick.

After all, who needs scientific integrity at NIH?

It should be obvious to all that Trump isn’t joking about the possibility of a third term - 22nd Amendment be damned. January 6th showed he doesn’t respect constitutional bounds. His current administration is testing constitutional limits across the board. www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...

Eric Topol, a professor, said he knows people who have been infected within the last three to four months who have long covid. “It’s nonstop. People are still getting it,” “Repeated covid infections increase the risk of long covid or exacerbating its symptoms, research shows.

Donald Trump envisage, sans blaguer, un troisième mandat présidentiel, malgré l’interdiction constitutionnelle

Trump says ‘there are methods’ for seeking third term in White House

This is not just for NIH funding. It’s ALL science funding…NSF, EPA, NOAA….etc. 🧪 science is under attack.

Time series of annual mean temperature anomalies (ºC) averaged over the U.S. Decreasing temperatures in mid-century, from 1960 to about 1980, were due to unregulated industrial pollution. Air quality regulations have improved our health, and at the same time unmasked the global warming signal.🧪

EPA chief Lee Zeldin “says he wants clean air and water, yet is taking steps scientists say will endanger both, while also working to ensure that the E.P.A. can never again limit the greenhouse gases that are dangerously heating the planet.” www.nytimes.com/2025/03/29/c...

L’OMS contraint de couper son budget de 20 %, après le retrait américain annoncé

I received a heartbreaking email today: A paper in a special issue I’m editing is being retracted because one of its authors is afraid of losing their job and their legal status in the U.S. if they publish a scientific study on evolution. Yes, on evolution, nature's engine of diversity.

RFK Jr is only interested in whatever the opposite of “gold-standard science” is.

Digging this back up from the archives as it apparently will always be relevant.

The decision to drink is a personal one, but when you drink & drive on a public road, it is no longer just personal. #Measles is a contagious disease. The decision not to vaccinate is a privilege that takes away the freedoms, and even lives, of others. #Ivax2protect madd.org/drunk-driving/

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Just in NIH grants, It looks like beautiful Iowa City, home of the U of Iowa, will lose $71m in funding. That's almost $1k per resident. And that's before all the other cuts to SSA, FDA, etc. Anyone in Iowa City that can offer more insight? scienceimpacts.org H/T to Prathima !

I hope everyone is planning to attend a Hands Off rally on April 5! Organizers are offering online deescalation training to help keep everything safe and nonviolent. Sign up here: www.mobilize.us/moveon/event...

All of the physicians in Congress should publicly demand RFK Jr & Marty Makary testify on why Peter Marks was forced out of the #FDA . “truth and transparency are not desired by the Secretary, but rather he wishes subservient confirmation of his misinformation and lies” #science #publichealth

This is a huge loss for FDA regulatory science. Peter Marks led FDA CBER during COVID vax clinical development. Rigorous standards for safety/efficacy were met before emergency use authorization. Peter Marks was one of the COVID heroes while RFK Jr was spreading disinformation. wapo.st/4hQn8fm

Musk is trying to buy votes in Wisconsin. Resend this if you’re from Wisconsin and you’re not for sale.

At least 95% measles vaccine coverage is needed in all communities to prevent #measles and stop outbreaks. The only way to prevent measles? Two doses of measles vaccine. Let’s close the gap and keep measles away!

Kristi Noem billed South Dakota taxpayers more than $640,000 in personal travel-related costs, including a six-day trip to Paris, a bear hunt in Canada, a trip to Houston for dental work to fix her smile, and a book tour. But she can afford a $50,000 Rolex for a prison porn photo op in El Salvador.

How the liberal defense of genocide broke liberal universities

One consequence of tolerating pseudoscience is that people die when its legitimatization becomes baked into our culture, health care systems, and institutions.