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The updated count of measles cases in Texas now stands at 90, increased from 58 three days ago. Of these cases, 77 (86%) are children, 85 (94%) overall are unvaccinated, and 0 (0.0%) have been mentioned by RFK Jr. the Secretary of HHS. He’s far too busy casting aspersions on vaccines.

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www.nature.com/articles/d41... 🧪

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People are turning away from the news. Here’s why it’s happening. reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/people-... via @reutersinstitute.bsky.social #journalism

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Genuinely infuriating to read experts on avian flu and what is potentially coming in terms of human to human transmission... ...and to think that we've put a know-nothing anti-vax conspiracist in charge of the public health system.

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Today's front page of The New York Post.

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Recommended podcast, especially for non scienty folks. On why lot of the shit in the USA is a blatant attack on science, why some scientists are afraid to stand up, and why this matters beyond the USA borders 🧪 open.spotify.com/episode/56Co...

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🧪 Another report on the #health benefits of #coffee - it boosts beneficial gut bacterium. www.scientificamerican.com/article/coff...

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#episky #epidemiology 🧪 Trickle down anti-science. Abruptly cutting off funding will hobble public health at all levels throughout the United States and internationally. This is not about judiciously cutting waste throughout the government. This is a chainsaw massacre. www.gapha.org/annual-meeti...

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📵🧠 Blocking mobile internet boosts focus & wellbeing A study found that disabling mobile internet improved attention, mental health, and happiness – 91% saw positive changes. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/pnas... #SciComm #MentalHealth #DigitalDetox 🧪

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The courts function as intended when the American people actively stand up for their rights, advocate for justice, and unite in defense of the values they hold dear. If we passively wait for the courts to safeguard our freedoms, they won’t. But when we take action (1/4)

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DeepSeek is leading the open source community and is a model for how it is done.

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Carville: USAID spent $41 billion the federal budget is 6 trillion. Actually comes to something like .014%. So take that and put it against the 6 trillion and see what you have done when your president is responsible for more federal debt than any president in the history of the United States.

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🚨NEW: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is planning to fire Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff C.Q. Brown, a 4-Star General and 41-year veteran of the Air Force who flew over 130 hours in combat as a fighter pilot. REPOST if you stand with General C.Q. Brown against Hegseth!

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The “CO2 is plant food” myth survives because it’s a convenient lie, not because it’s true. @andrewdessler.com

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Less than $9B in annualized savings, so far and Musk floated a bullshit story about sending everyone $5000.00. That’s a stimulus of $820 Billion, and what about the deficit?

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The recent decline in the Services PMI and consecutive drops in consumer confidence suggest potential softening in specific sectors, the broader economic metrics, including employment growth & manufacturing activity, continue to show resilience. However, the recent surge (1/2)

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Tate should be in jail.

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This will be a dark and painful day at a space agency that brings so much light and joy to the world.

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Great read about what is unfolding.

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Some people stop because it's hard. Some people start because it's hard.

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A while ago, I wrote a review on temporal integration as an adaptive process in perception, attention, and working memory. I’m very happy that it has now appeared (Open Access) in Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews! 1/3 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Thanks to @motherjones.com for a great piece about the impact of cuts to science funding on our communities and our economy 🧪 www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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It appears as if DOGE did a keyword search for words like “diverse” “diversity” and “gender” and deleted any OSHA documents containing those words. popular.info/p/in-botched...

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hey for anyone who might want to actually own their kindle books instead of renting them, or who might be thinking of switching to kobo etc and will want to convert them to epubs, you now only have one week before amazon kills your ability to download its ebooks www.theverge.com/news/612898/...

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The freedom to roam is only as valuable as the ability to maintain your momentum while doing so. Is there anything worse than the weight of unfinished work? For the taste of accomplishment is the sweetest gift that you can give yourself.

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AI is actively shaping fields like drug discovery, climate modeling, & even fundamental physics; unlocking insights humans alone would take lifetimes to find. If this isn’t intelligence, what is? Dismissing it without defining an alternative just muddies the discussion.

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I really do hope that meme coin market dies... $LIBRA 1) Argentinian President tweets out a token 2) Token rockets to a $4.5bn valuation in 2 hours 3) Insiders pull out $87mn 4) Token crashes 90% 5) President deletes tweet, denies involvement 6) Token dumps another 60%

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