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The spread of Mpox in Sierra Leone is unlike anything we have ever seen - and we have been keeping an eye on this bug in the region for >15 years. Given geographical spread, 50/50 men vs women, this is no "sexual network". This could be the next one. clt.npha.gov.sl/outbreak.aspx

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> This is how they’ll tamp down on leaks. tl;dr — Pierbattista Pizzaballa didn't add his brother and lawyer to the "New Pope, Biatches !!1!" signal chat

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Breaking News: A second child has died of measles in West Texas amid an escalating outbreak. It is the second confirmed measles death in a decade in the U.S.

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Anyone who works in ML/AI knows it is doomed to failure without knowing a thing about the domain. Design for useful predictions/behavior cannot happen in a vacuum, and the objective isn't a fixed point either. There's too much nonsense from deep thinkers about "replacing jobs"

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Had a great time at #CROI2025! As a first-time attendee, it was a fantastic opportunity to be exposed to different topics in HIV research. Got great feedback from our work at Ribeiro’s lab. Can’t wait for next year!

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Francis Collins, the NIH Director for 12 years, led the Human Genome Project and other NIH efforts for 32 years, resigned today. Key words from his resignation letter www.nytimes.com/2025/03/01/u...

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🔬 Research saves lives! 🧪 Rollins researchers are dedicated to promoting human health and making people’s lives better. Chronic disease surveillance and prevention research has long been part of that work, and includes research in cancer, heart disease, diabetes, and more. Learn more:

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One of our supporters shared this with us—people are getting creative tonight!

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1. Today the NIH director issued a new directive slashing overhead rates to 15%. I want to provide some context on what that means and why it matters. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

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good news, finally submitted my grant to nsf on Technical biases in quantifying the inclusive fitness of minority alleles under diversifying selection in diverse microbial communities

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The entire archive of CDC datasets can be found here. HUGE shoutout to data archivists- this work is important 👏🙌🏻 archive.org/details/2025...

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This is not business as usual. It’s not just a change in funding priorities going forward; it is the reneging on funding agreements and is profoundly disruptive for even those grants that will be found to be compliant. Meanwhile, trainees who often live paycheck to paycheck are going unpaid.

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In case you missed it: 2024 was the world's warmest year since @noaa.gov records began in 1850. Global surface temperature was 2.32°F (1.29°C) above the 20th-century average. The 10 warmest years since 1850 have all occurred in the past decade.

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DONATE TO WIKIPEDIA Wikipedia needs donations. A site that many uses to seek information. A site that is still free and not owned by the far-right - such as the Apartheid kid Nazi-Musk.

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The Institut Pasteur has decided to leave X (formerly Twitter) to join BlueSky! 🦋 The Institut Pasteur made this decision due to several serious issues observed on the X platform since its acquisition. Join us here to continue advocating for science. www.pasteur.fr/en/home/pres...

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One of the most important initiatives on the internet since its conception. Happy birthday Wikipedia!

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The world is awful. The world is much better. The world can be much better. All three statements are true at the same time. Understanding this is key to solving big global problems. We believe data & research can help us understand both the problems we face & the progress that’s possible. 🧵

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For most people, international migration means crossing a nearby border, not an ocean

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"Wuhan lab samples hold no close relatives to virus behind COVID" That should settle it, right? The problem, of course, it won't because we're dealing with conspiracy theories and not scientific inquiry - no amount of additional data will change un-evidenced beliefs. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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🚨 Experts are being deployed to Panzi, in the southwest of the Democratic Republic of the #Congo, to support health authorities in investigating a yet undiagnosed disease. Laboratory tests are underway to identify the cause.

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Oh no, poor Brazilians! Do they not know that the only way to defeat an authoritarian assault is “at the ballot box” and that if you want to save the constitutional order, you have to let the authoritarian destroy it? I hope it’s not too late for them to learn from the great U.S. of A.

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I am one of 100s of scientists in the the World that is Watching the U.S. Deal With Bird Flu, and It’s Scary! Today, my opinion piece on the NY Times. Let's hope we take more serious epidemics and pandemics and deal with them before they emerge. www.nytimes.com/2024/11/19/o...

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Another day at Bluesky, and it looks like growth is not slowing down! Welcome! We’d like to take a moment to share our stance on AI and user data:

submitted 189 days ago • 1869 comments

The Onion should buy Elsevier next

submitted 190 days ago • 62 comments

Absolute shots fired. From: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0360319924043957 #Science #Academia #PeerReview #Research

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analyzing and plotting some data in a cabin, well... fair enough. Would benefit of a better chair though

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I'm never going to have a better use for this meme.

submitted 199 days ago • 86 comments

www.nytimes.com/2024/09/21/c...

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If you hate statistics like I do, then you'll love my free lectures. Putting science before statistics, 20 lectures from basics of inference & causal modeling to multilevel models & dynamic state space models. It's all free, made with love and sympathy. 🧪 #stats www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

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Ladies and gentlemen... the weekend.

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seems like the recent fire smoke covering major cities in Brazil (on top of all other signs) is not enough for @lula.com.br www.reuters.com/world/americ...

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No generation ever experienced better living conditions than our generation today. And no generation was ever in a better position to make progress against the big challenges that are ahead. These are my points in my ‘Short history of global living conditions’: ourworldindata.org/a-history-of...

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(2) This but statistical tests and linear models

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this but immunology

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Doctors are AMAZED at these 10 ways to BOOST your immune system: The Tetanus vaccine The Measles vaccine The Polio vaccine The Mumps vaccine The HPV vaccine The Pneumonia vaccine The Hepatitis B vaccine The Rubella vaccine The Diphtheria vaccine The Covid-19 vaccine - @HislopMD

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A study in Nature Ecology & Evolution reports that the frequency and magnitude of extreme wildfires appear to have doubled over the past 20 years, and the six most extreme years for these events have occurred since 2017. go.nature.com/3RFYBPW 🧪

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A whole year of record breaking ocean temperatures. This warmth has significant effects on ocean ecosystems. A large fraction of the world’s human population rely on protein from the ocean to live. Disruption to life in the ocean does affect us all. www.bbc.co.uk/news/science...

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