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‘Species-centric thinking means we’re inclined to value an animal’s life relative to the scarcity or abundance of its species.’ Today’s Essay explores how deciding whether an animal is classified as a species or subspecies profoundly influences our conservation priorities. https://buff.ly/3PRgvOo

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Ten months on from the shocking discovery that a virus usually carried by wild birds can readily infect cows, at least 68 people in North America have become ill from the pathogen and one person has died https://go.nature.com/3PT5dsY

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This isn’t even that big of a deal, not compared to widespread impoundment and imperial threats, but it’s a flashing red warning sign that there’s almost no resistance coming from major institutions right now. Nothing is supposed to work like this, it’s not supposed to be this easy. It’s alarming.

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Trump's "cone of silence" dropped on a batch of agencies whose findings or work he hates does resonate with the '00s and GW Bush. But what's unfolding now is vastly more unbridled).

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NEW — OMB temporarily pauses all agency grants and loans programs. Per copy of memo: "The use of Federal resources to advance Marxist equity, transgenderism, and green new deal social engineering policies is a waste of taxpayer dollars that does not improve the day-to-day lives of those we serve."

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The philosopher Martin Hägglund believes that atheism is a path to a more meaningful life, as well as political and economic transformation.

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No, aging is not a disease. Yes, many diseases are age-related. And why are older adults pervasively represented with a walker? www.wsj.com/health/welln...

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‘An unusual find’: 66m-year-old animal vomit discovered in Denmark

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Breaking news: The White House budget office is ordering a pause to all grants and loans disbursed by the federal government, according to an internal memo sent to agencies Monday, creating significant confusion across Washington.

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An LLM "creates textual claims, and then predicts the citations that might be associated with similar text. Obviously, this practice violates all norms of scholarly citation. At best, LLMs gesticulate toward the shoulders of giants." Bender, West, and I contributed to this pro/con piece in PNAS.

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Debunking can be a fun way to find an audience in science communication, but I think it can be over-relied on. We should be celebrating more than we are defending, not just because it’s less miserable, but also because it’s good marketing!

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My gosh this is the best news. Casey Colvin, who lost his home in the Palisades Fire, just found his dog, Oreo, who was missing in the rubble for 5 days. 💙 🎥 Liz Kreutz, NBC

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from @janemayer.bsky.social, on the campaign to intimidate the Senate into confirming an unqualified Defense Secretary Maybe the best article yet written about the tactics the new administration will use to control Congress, the government and the media. www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

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It's important to know how people get the bird flu so that we learn how to prevent infections. @andrewpekosz.bsky.social has details on how the person in Louisiana was exposed to H5N1 🙏 publichealth.jhu.edu/2025/bird-fl...

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US health disparities are so large it's like Americans live in different countries Asian Americans have life expectancy similar to Japan while Native Americans' rivals those in Congo & Afghanistan Great writeup via @amymaxmen.bsky.social & @kffhealthnews.bsky.social abcnews.go.com/Health/growi...

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Trump doesn't need congressional approval to withhold funds from WHO. The US provides more than a quarter of the WHO's budget for polio, 20% for TB, HIV & measles, and about 20% for emergencies, like Ebola, Marburg, etc. My piece from 2020 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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New: Trump officials have paused all external communications at health agencies like CDC, FDA, NIH. No health alerts and the famed MMWRs; no updates to key websites or social media posts. And no indication how long the pause will last. With @rachelroubein.bsky.social + Lena Sun.

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👋 Give my KFF colleague @sabriyarice.bsky.social a follow, and check out her team's incredible project on government policies that fuel health disparities in America. kffhealthnews.org/systemic-sic...

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Pay attention to America's infrastructure of wealth, secrecy, and tax avoidance, and you might find yourself asking an uncomfortable question. “We talk all the time about Putin and his oligarchic friends," Bernie Sanders told us. “But for obvious reasons, we don’t talk about oligarchy in the US.”

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Not a very promising turn of events oceanographicmagazine.com/news/200000-...

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#USDA confirmed another #H5N1 #birdflu infected dairy herd in California, the state's 713th. CA says that 147 of those herds have recovered & cleared quarantine. Cumulative national total is 930 herds in 16 states. www.aphis.usda.gov/livestock-po...

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I really feel these kinds of studies are not conceptually well founded or informative in any actionable sense (especially if they ignore the fact the relevant gene expression may have been in development).

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Animals lay eggs or birth babies. Trees make seeds...except for the ones that have live babies, like we do?! I wrote for @biographic.bsky.social about the genetics of baby-having mangrove trees, and why they might have evolved this way: www.biographic.com/how-some-tre... 🧪

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Bluetorial-A dream and a bit of a nightmare Serving as Editor-in-Chief at Science was fascinating. I greatly enjoyed working with talented and committed editorial, news, graphics, and production staff. But the inside look into scientific publishing and AAAS was also deeply disillusioning.

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Frustrating news. Biden administration backs away from plans to expand ovean speed limits to protect North Atlantic Right whales from vessel strikes. Just 370 individuals remain, and vessel strikes are one of their leading causes of death writes @gristnews.bsky.social grist.org/oceans/feder...

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California’s deadly blaze is an example of urban firestorms, fundamentally different from wildness fires They are likely to become more common thanks to population growth & climate change How exactly do they spread and what can be done to prevent them? bsky.app/profile/alex...

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Our collective amnesia threatens to erase the hard-earned gains made during the pandemic It’s increasing difficult to prepare for the next pandemic because of decreased trust in political leaders,institutions & science By Maria van Kerkhove @who.int @science.org 🔗: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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The latest test of Space X's giant Starship rocket has failed, minutes after launch. Unverified footage shared on social media shows what appears to be the rocket breaking up in flames. But the Super Heavy booster managed to returned to its launchpad as planned. www.bbc.com/news/article...

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Weekend read: “Children should be as safe as necessary, not as safe as possible". Read on for - Why risky play is so important for kids - Why in many nations risky play is more restricted than ever - What to do about it in @nature.com, h/t to my stellar editor @bmaher.bsky.social

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I’m slow, but I’m thorough: my new story in @adeenedenton.com ‘s recent Nature Geoscience paper on how Pluto and Charon were strong enough to stay true to themselves when they impacted and captured into the biggest-equalest solar system binary skyandtelescope.org/astronomy-ne...

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California’s deadly blaze is an example of urban firestorms, fundamentally different from wildness fires They are likely to become more common thanks to population growth & climate change How exactly do they spread and what can be done to prevent them? bsky.app/profile/alex...

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Our collective amnesia threatens to erase the hard-earned gains made during the pandemic It’s increasing difficult to prepare for the next pandemic because of decreased trust in political leaders,institutions & science By Maria van Kerkhove @who.int @science.org 🔗: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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It was an honour to write this story how science journalists can use #opendata in their reporting. A huge thanks to the amazing journalists and researchers who shared their expertise with me, and for the all-star editorial team at @theopennotebook.bsky.social. #scicomm #journalism #openscience

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The 1962 @lafd.bsky.social film on the Bel Air Fire is all too relevant - including this moment on urban fuels (in this case wood shingles) spreading fires well after it's no longer wildland "wildfire." Grandfathered exemptions to fire codes: revkin.substack.com

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Championing queer scientists of colour: ‘I don’t think we’ve scratched the surface on systemic exclusion’

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"Scientists should be careful not to overtly identify with one political side," warns University of Pennsylvania's Jeffrey Morris. Our interview explores how partisan divides are reshaping public health communication.

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The worst question you can ask a woman, Tina Fey writes, is “How do you juggle it all?” Revisit her Personal History, from 2011.

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In Sept 2020, in the wake of a record CA fire season, I wrote an opinion piece for @nature.com about the need to focus on the human metrics of fire, not the acres burned. The #LAFires underscore that our obsession with size fails to convey the scope of the impacts. 🧵 www.nature.com/articles/d41....

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Here’s the thing about “AI-fueled news” though. Since AI can’t go out into the world and do its own reporting, what you’re basically talking about is plagiarism. You want AI to read reporting done by humans, who are presumably paid by competitors, and rewrite it (poorly) for you. I see a flaw…

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Next up: Sanjay Kaul, professor at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center with: "Intention to Deceive: Insights from Sloppy Science to Research Misconduct in Cardiovascular Medicine" George Burch quote: "One's personal integrity must never be questioned and never be reproachable" #AUC2025

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Thrilled to be part of this research. cosmosmagazine.com/history/arch...

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The latest test of Space X's giant Starship rocket has failed, minutes after launch. Unverified footage shared on social media shows what appears to be the rocket breaking up in flames. But the Super Heavy booster managed to returned to its launchpad as planned. www.bbc.com/news/article...

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From my home smack in the middle of the wildland-urban interface, I've been thinking about the more urban nature of the Los Angeles-area blazes. So I wrote about it. #wildfire

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thank you www.nytimes.com/2025/01/16/m...

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