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davefernig.bsky.social
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Mer de Glace 2003 | 2022 From one major heatwave to the other!🔥 Not even 20 years... Caption for history books: 'Rapid demise of the largest western Alps glacier during the early 21st century under the impact of increasing anthropogenic GHG from a greedy society' 🎥 @etienneberthier.bsky.social

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New blog post (finally!): Science Integrity Digest – catching up scienceintegritydigest.com/2025/02/21/s...

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I don’t like how everyone is so confident going into the 🇩🇪 election tomorrow, claiming that the good guys will win anyway and Merz will be chancellor I remember 2016 Brexit and first Trump votes. The same kind of confidence beforehand I’m prepared for AfD nazis doing better than we think

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Tesla is turning into the Hindawi of car manufacturers.

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It is kind of ironic that Trump wants Canada as his 51st state, but all of his efforts appear to be turning America into Russia’s 47th oblast.

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Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller February 19,1946

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So, looking at flu, Covid, and RSV rates this year… can we finally put the “immunity debt” idea to rest? I think a much more parsimonious explanation is that people are getting vaccinated less and taking disease less seriously.

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I was electrocuted, beaten, stabbed in the leg and starved after being captured while defending my home and family in Mariupol. We held back Putin’s invasion for several weeks while Russia slaughtered over 25,000 predominantly Russian speaking Ukrainians including women and children.

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It shall be fickle, false, and full of fraud

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Springer Nature (who charges $2,600 to $12,300 USD for Open Access articles) is conducting a survey to know "how easy" authors have found it to fund OA fees. As a reward for participating in the survey (and to show how much they care) they generously offer authors a small chance to win... $100.

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It seems almost unavoidable at this point that we are headed for a deep, deep recession. Just based on 200K+ federal firings & pullback of contracts, the March employment report (to be released April 4) seems certain to show bigger job losses than any month ever outside of a few in 2008-9 and 2020.

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Another retraction for Sabine Hazan and Peter McCullough, who should spend less time on social media and more time figuring out about which clinical trial they are reporting. h/t @SmutClyde pubpeer.com/publications...

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The history of Russian wars since WW2 -- almost without exception -- is that the population are manipulated by a tsunami of propaganda that plays on primal emotions to 1st believe that the war won't happen & then that it was inevitable. At no point do they admit wrong & shut up.

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One thing I admired Americans for was they provided efficient and effective aid for people around the world. I thought this made America great. The PEPFAR program saved plausibly about 25 million lives and prevented at least 5.5 million babies from being born with HIV. See: pepfarreport.org

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The UK's horrendously unhealthy food system is costing the nation a staggering ÂŁ268 billion a year. It's killing nature and killing us. The Gov needs to regulate ultra-processed food. Why should we all pay the cost? Report by @proftimjackson.bsky.social

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Yeah, it happened.

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If you thought it wasn’t possible—well, here we are. Musk pulled $80 million in funding authorized by Congress straight from NYC’s bank account. The federal government took the funds and called it a “clawback” of taxpayer money. A lot of others would simply call it stealing.

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Has she considered lifting the economic sanctions we placed ourselves under in order to get blue passports? www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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Nice visit to the Royal Armouries in Leeds. It's one of the 'survival strategies' in my latest cookbook. They've set up a crossbow range, so we decided to have a go, and I was genuinely impressed that the 12yo fired 2 bullseyes out of his 8 bolts!!

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This is like watching a fish trying to bury a nut for winter

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