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drmel.bsky.social
🇦🇺Microbiologist in 🇬🇧 again adrift from Academia…. Disabled STEMMinist who has grown weary of discrimination in STEMM. #FuckMS #OneHealth 🌈 pan&poly she/her
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Access to Work is a very fine idea in principle, helping support people with disabilities etc manage in their work roles. However, I've just applied and received this "If we need more information, we will contact you... within the next 30 weeks.” 1/2

submitted 11 hours ago • 1 comment

Congrats to @humanistsociety.bsky.social 🎉 & best wishes to the 50K couples who've had legally recognised ceremonies in line with their beliefs since 2005! Bittersweet moment for humanist couples watching from England & Wales though. Time for choice & equality here too! humanists.uk/2025/06/18/s...

submitted 11 hours ago • 0 comments

When the Soviet Union collapsed, their health system infrastructure also fell. Combine that with changing vaccine requirements to try and cut costs, and sowing distrust in vaccines, and you got one of the biggest outbreaks of diphtheria in the vaccine era.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

If only disabled folks had been saying this for decades…getting really loud about 5 years ago when the ‘Oh well, those at risk of COVID death had underlying conditions’ and assigning DNR orders to folks without their knowledge.

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Wow, it’s almost like they’re setting up eugenics as healthcare based on social Darwinism where they get to kill anyone they see as not worthy. If only only people on the academic and research side of countering authoritarianism and fascism had pointed this out repeatedly over the last month. Wait

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Previewing #Lowitja2025: Strong, Fearless, Together: honouring a legacy at the 2025 Lowitja Conference – By Associate Professor Danielle Manton www.croakey.org/strong-fearl...

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Reporter who covered ICE raids now faces deportation: report www.rawstory.com/ice-raids-26...

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'The chief executive of a FTSE 350 company is paid 52 times as much as a typical worker, according to the latest measure of inequality between bosses and their employees' www.theguardian.com/business/202...

submitted 2 days ago • 9 comments

The latest Digital News Report shows Australians are still avoiding traditional media, but are highly sceptical of social media players.

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From today, every paper submitted to Nature -if published - will be accompanied by peer reviewers comments & authors rebuttal. We started the trial in 2020; we now want to open up the review process & showcase its role in shaping & improving papers 🧪 #AcademicSky www.nature.com/articles/d41...

submitted 2 days ago • 8 comments

#YesKings

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New "sweating" paint captures moisture and slowly evaporates to passively cool houses, reflects around 90% of sunlight, and emits 95% of absorbed heat; home tested used 30%-40% less energy on air conditioning

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"Simply put, this is a lesson in how to administrate vaccination out of existence without technically banning it", in the 6th year of an ongoing #Pandemic that #PublicHealth decided to manage with a vaccine-only strategy. But now without the vaccines -

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RCT found that fecal microbiota transplant was noninferior to oral vancomycin as an initial treatment for primary C. difficile infection, with slightly higher cure rates and no recurrence at 60 days. FMT is limited by cost, availability and regulatory hurdles #AMR www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/...

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THIS IS IT! THIS IS HUGE!! PLAINTIFF'S WIN!! Judge Young rules that the NIH grant terminations at issue in these cases are illegal and therefore vacated. BOOM!

submitted 2 days ago • 12 comments

Despite claiming to represent a break with the current political establishment, Reform is largely funded by ex-Tory donors with links to fossil fuels, the financial services industry and an unusual high number of overseas backers with links to tax havens. www.opendemocracy.net/en/dark-mone...

submitted 3 days ago • 16 comments

A sign sighted at a Rhode Island #nokings rally. I definitely can get behind this.

submitted 4 days ago • 50 comments

Gestapo / Stasi v2.0

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Fortunate Son! An anti-war song about rich kids dodging military service!

submitted 3 days ago • 47 comments

Just in time for Father's Day: I wrote about a postdoc whose baby rejected pumped & frozen milk. His solution? Pitch a project to his PI, do a high-throughput screen for food compounds that block milk fat globule breakdown, and launch a company to develop the result. cen.acs.org/biological-c...

submitted 5 days ago • 2 comments

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

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Secretary Kennedy’s HHS Sent Congress ‘Junk Science’ To Defend His Vaccine Changes. kffhealthnews.org/news/article...

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