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In the COMBI trial in Zimbabwe, treatment of mothers with trimethoprim–sulfamethoxazole daily beginning as early as 14 weeks’ gestation did not significantly increase infant birth weight. Full trial results and Research Summary: nej.md/458SfA8  #MedSky #PedSky #OBGYN

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Scientists excited by discovery of Mongolian dinosaur that has revealed key information about the evolution of fearsome tyrannosaurids www.science.org/content/arti...

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We're living at a moment when ICE is threatening not only to arrest and deport immigrants but arrest and prosecute everyday people and leaders for educating others about their constitutional rights. Helping to defend our immigrant communities is one clear action that we can all take right now. ⤵️

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This hole was burned in ~20 seconds using only the New Mexico sunshine. This cast-iron pan was used as a demonstration of the White Sands Missile Range 'Solar Furnace'. It's a 1,000 sq ft mirror array that can produce temperatures of 5,000 °F (2800 °C). (📷: New Mexico History Museum)

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I agree the thymus likely presents all key epitopes for T cell tolerance. But studies based only on transcriptional data without testing each mimetic cell’s role should be viewed cautiously and given lower priority. #thymus #tolerance #immunology

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'It has been known for decades that influenza viruses isolated from people or animals are typically filamentous, while this phenotype is lost when isolates are passed in either cells or embryonated chicken eggs, both standard ways of growing influenza virus stocks' www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....

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Olusanya et al. study genetic load and extinction in a metapopulation using a novel theoretical framework that tracks the co-evolution of load and population sizes and gives a nuanced picture of factors that affect extinction. Now available ahead of print! www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

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BREAKING: A few minutes ago, a vehicle of three people was rammed by a truck belonging to federal immigration authorities in Boyle Heights, CA. According to security footage shown to me, they deployed chemical munitions & detained the driver at gunpoint. All are US citizens according to the wife.

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W.E.B. Du Bois on Robert E. Lee: “Either he knew what slavery meant when he helped maim and murder thousands in its defense, or he did not. If he did not he was a fool. If he did, Robert Lee was a traitor and a rebel–not indeed to his country, but to humanity and humanity’s God.”

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For the first time, scientists have filmed microscopic worms called nematodes in the wild as they glom together and form large wriggling masses. Learn more: scim.ag/3FBwSx3

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'Years later, Quino told a Spanish magazine that if Mafalda had been a real girl, she “would have been one of the 30,000 disappeared” victims of the junta’s so-called Dirty War.

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Coming to America 'First published in 1964 in the Argentine weekly “Primera Plana” — with material originally drawn for an unrealized ad campaign for home appliances — “Mafalda” blends cutting satire with playful humor, layered with meanings that appeal to readers young and old.'

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Symbiosis stories keep giving intrigue and importance. Very interesting.

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Science’s reform movement should have seen Trump’s call for ‘gold standard science’ coming, critics say.

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BREAKING: Over 300 NIH workers have signed The Bethesda Declaration and delivered it to Director Bhattacharya accusing him and the admin of putting “political momentum over human safety and faithful stewardship of public resources” and demanding changes. www.importantcontext.news/p/nih-worker...

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O governo tem de responder a isto.

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“Pursue other opportunities”

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Cartoon

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“American institutions and the innovators within them have succeeded based on a contract between the federal government and U.S. research universities. The result of major funding for research created the country we know today” www.statnews.com/2025/06/06/u...

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Options are emerging for the tens of millions of people who stop taking GLP-1 drugs because of side effects, cost or availability. https://go.nature.com/3HCtRgr

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Ele estava cobrindo os protestos quando foi abordado pelos policiais que disseram que ele não estava preso, só detido e que não poderia ficar ali e que se voltasse, ai sim seria preso. Antes de liberá-lo os policiais anotaram as informações dele. Um correspondente nacional da CNN... 🤷🏾‍♀️

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Science-wide replication crisis? "The executive order should be a wake-up call for science reformers to communicate more carefully."

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Lisbon's mayor looks at LA and thinks: "we need some of that government sponsored violence here"

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Acirrar os ânimos com base em falsidades para fins eleitoralistas devia ser automaticamente desqualificatório. A mentira tem perna curta, vamos ver o que acontece.

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"É normal que seja prometido o fim de uma República na própria Assembleia da República e que ninguém, a começar pelo seu próprio presidente, franza sequer o sobrolho? Não deve haver regime que não se defenda em relação à promessa de que querem acabar com ele." expresso.pt/opiniao/2025...

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Foi há precisamente 30 anos. A 10 de Junho de 1995, um grupo de neonazis saiu para “caçar pretos no Bairro Alto”. Assassinaram Alcindo Monteiro, um jovem de 27 anos que tinha saído para dançar com amigos. Não esquecemos que o racismo mata. Nunca paramos de combatê-lo.

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Os neofascistas atacam os livros, o teatro e quem faz a cultura. Fazem-no porque acham que podem. O Governo do PSD retirou do relatório de segurança interna a ameaça da extrema direita. É o maior risco à nossa democracia. Solidariedade com o teatro d’A Barraca. Vamos à luta ✊

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há dois racismos em pt: o endógeno, recalcado e saudosista; e o importado, pastiche grotesca de organizações supremacistas estrangeiras. curiosamente, e não desculpando o primeiro, aquele que comete atos de violência parece ser este último. ie, o racismo violento é o menos português dos racismos.

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Pilgrimage site 'In 1821, aristocrat Sessai Matsuyma ordered the erection of the monument. Its purpose was to console the spirits of the flies, crickets & grasshoppers that had been killed in the production of a scientific text— an anatomical study of insects that Matsuyama himself had commissioned'

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Continual reminder that nobody should fucking use genAI because it is a tool of the oppressor.

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Gravissimo! A extrema direita normalizada dá nisto. www.publico.pt/2025/06/10/c...

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Reminder for when we talk about improving NIH grant review. Huberman brought blind review up with Bhattacharya. “redaction caused applications from White scientists to score worse” elifesciences.org/articles/71368

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The @erc.europa.eu & Horizon Europe have to take this into account: these fees should not be allowed to be levied on any researcher or their immediate family members supported in projects supported with EU funds.

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The core question should be what is right. (The legal constraint is a second order point). It would be extremely weird to have an identical threshold for work visas from abroad & British citizens getting married to people from abroad inews.co.uk/news/politic...

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What standing up to ICE looks like. #Resist

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NY's finest

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Alemanha, França e Itália "empregam cerca de metade dos trabalhadores do sector privado europeu, mas esse peso sobe para quase dois terços em sectores industriais tecnologicamente avançados, como a química, o fabrico de máquinas e equipamentos, a electrónica e óptica, e o material de transporte."

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“What’s happening right now with the fall semester just around the corner is that some international students may withdraw, delay or switch to applications elsewhere. The bigger implication will be in 2026.” www.ft.com/content/65b4...

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Fantastic story (in French) www.youtube.com/watch?v=BokW...

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So if your list of worries included reviewer #3, a cancelled funding round, murine hepatitis in your animal house, low sorting purity or cross reactive monoclonals, you can apparently now add a Kardashian driven shortage of salmon sperm DNA www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzgg...

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'Within hours, he had an email from China, offering to move his lab to “any city, any university I want” he said, with a guarantee of funding for the next 20 years. Dr. Patapoutian declined (...) Many scientists just setting out on their careers, however, fear there is no other option but to leave."

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'As I see it, the philosophy of physics is in fact somewhat akin to art criticism – but where the subject matter is not music or visual art or architecture, but the theories of physics constructed by some of the greatest and most creative minds of all time (from Galileo to Newton to Einstein).'

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'There are now hundreds of talent-recruitment policies at the central, provincial and city levels, says Wang. The initiatives are tiered, from highly competitive programmes seeking to attract elite researchers and innovators to those encouraging skilled workers to move to specific cities or regions'

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'The school, founded by George Soros, was once an example of academia flourishing in post-Soviet Europe. Now, less than a decade after Hungary’s right-wing government forced it to move out of Budapest, people there are sounding warnings as P. Trump seeks to bring America’s top universities to heel'

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'Em declarações à agência Lusa, o presidente do IPO do Porto, Júlio Oliveira, avançou que o principal objectivo é promover a capacitação do país para passar a ser possível produzir células CAR-T em Portugal, ou seja terapias médicas avançadas.' www.publico.pt/2025/06/09/c...

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'And there are definitely people in the administration, led by Stephen Miller, who simply hate immigrants — legal or not, it doesn’t much matter. White South Africans seem to be the only exception.' @pkrugman.bsky.social paulkrugman.substack.com/p/we-finally...

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