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How and why? 🧪🩺 "The immune system learns to ignore both the nanoparticles and the attached proteins, and stops attacking the body."

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Sunlight might heal autoimmune diseases in surprising ways. Really. Read about the new science, and new therapies, in Rowan Jacobsen's story, just published in @sciam.bsky.social. And check out the world map showing that multiple sclerosis is rarest in places that get the most sun.

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Not a recruiting ad for the Mexican Navy. Also not funny. This is a 1800-ton ship, 220 feet long, that crashed into the Brooklyn Bridge tonight. It could have been really really bad. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/17/n...

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Anybody on Bluesky interested in the best science evidence about nutrition supplements that actually help your health? 🧪🩺 Because there's some good research about the few pills that work, and SciAm has a bead on it.

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Against measles, do 3 drugs or vitamins that RFK Jr. just said are "good" & "effective" remedies work? Nope, and I explain why in this Scientific American story. Meanwhile the measles outbreak keeps growing. www.scientificamerican.com/article/do-a... 🧪 🩺

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If you don't measure it, you can't fix it. Right? Trump is stopping federal measurements, even of things he supports. Education survey showing problems at DoE and justifying cuts? Gone. EPA measures of greenhouse gases emitted by industrial facilities? Gone. 🧪🩺 Claims of success: w/o evidence

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Trump tries to censor scientific journals. What's the response from @springernature.com , @elsevierconnect.bsky.social, @aaas.org , @johnwiley.bsky.social , @cellpress.bsky.social and so many others?

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Businesses seem to want more electric, not more gas and oil, say 2 new reports.

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Thank you, #France #Aix-MarseilleUniversity ❤️ The work must continue! #StandUpForScience #ScienceNotSilence 🧪 www.theguardian.com/education/20...

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Trump paid El Salvador $6 million to imprison one illegally kidnapped US resident, someone that every court has said was illegally grabbed. That's Trump's version of efficient govt? Trump's response? "I'm not involved." That's your commander in chief. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/04...

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Different burial customs for different members of our ancient ancestral species Homo naledi from S. Africa. And a skull called "Neo." What do they mean? 🧪 www.facebook.com/share/14XK4w...

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Trump starts cutting Homeland Security, including emergency management, and Tom Frank at E&E News has the story: subscriber.politicopro.com/article/eene...

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"Jew hatred is real, but today’s anti-antisemitism isn’t a legitimate effort to fight it. It’s a cover for a wide range of agendas that have nothing to do with the welfare of Jewish people." -- the Jewish president of my former college on the Trump admin's fake Jewish sympathies. Read:

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Justice not for sale in Wisconsin: Despite Musk spending millions to boost reactionary conservative judge, liberal Wins Wisconsin Supreme Court Race www.nytimes.com/2025/04/01/u...

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Extraordinary story that illustrates the depth of RFK Jr.'s perfidy in assuring congress he is an antivaxxer no longer. Peter Marks headed perhaps the outstanding success of the first Trump administration—Operation Warp Speed—developing a highly successful COVID vaccine in record time.

submitted 66 days ago • 31 comments

BREAKING The FDA’s top vaccine official has resigned. Dr. Peter Marks wrote this in his resignation letter about Robert Kennedy Jr.: "It has become clear that truth and transparency are not desired by the Secretary, but rather he wishes subservient confirmation of his misinformation and lies.”

submitted 66 days ago • 146 comments

Is Wisconsin justice for sale to Elon Musk? He's offered more that $17 million to get his favorite conservative judge elected to the state supreme court. Wisconsin voters have a proud history of independence. Can a billionaire who is a South African and Canadian citizen (US too) buy their votes?

submitted 67 days ago • 1 comment

Women's BB March Madness starts right now! www.usatoday.com/story/sports... If you're not rooting for the Grand Canyon Antelopes to get to the Sweet 16, or for Notre Dame to go very deep because they are cool, you need to get in on the fun! (And the Maryland Terrapins! Fear the Turtles, I hope.)

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Billionaires Musk and Trump take away food from hungry schoolchildren. And they stop payments to farmers for growing the food. www.politico.com/news/2025/03...

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Fun Friday excuse not to work: “Make it stop!” Musical earworms stuck in your brain! New podcast from Scientific American on how to stop earworms, and why they’re there in the first place. Listen to Lady Gaga, Whitney Houston, the ooga chaka song… and me definitely not singing. 🧪

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Good thread here on what this Vanity Fair / Katherine Eban story gets wrong in promoting a lab leak theory. TLDR: The FBI implies the genetics of one virus was hidden by Chinese scientists, but it was in fact publicly available. Other scientists looked at it. Eban never gives you those facts. 🧪

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Trump and RFKjr cancel medical meeting that was supposed to start making most effective flu shots. You have an older parent vulnerable to the flu? You should be worried about them. 🧪🩺 insidemedicine.substack.com/p/scoop-fda-...

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The MAGA leader of Congress, Mike Johnson, says stopping money that millions of Americans use to feed their kids and pay for a cheap apartment is "going to be harmless." www.nytimes.com/live/2025. The government just did exactly that. I guess Johnson doesn't use money to pay for food.

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Siri… show me what joy looks like 🖤 🔊 🎥 orbplanet

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Scientific American is hiring! A senior tech reporter, to be exact. It's a great writing job with great colleagues and huge impact. Please spread the word and DM me with any questions. Here's the official ad: springernature.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/SpringerNatu...

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As Trump and Kennedy plan to cut NIH budgets, remember this: NIH money directly develops cancer and heart disease drugs that save lives. See data below. (H/t @beebrookshire.bsky.social )

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As Trump announces US policy that there are only two genders (www.kqed.org/news/1202312...) it's a good to remember science has shown serious threats facing LGBTQ kids--and how their parents are protecting them, as Scientific American has reported: www.scientificamerican.com/article/fami...

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As Trump announces US policy that there are only two genders (www.kqed.org/news/1202312...) it's a good to remember science has shown serious threats facing LGBTQ kids--and how their parents are protecting them, as Scientific American has reported: www.scientificamerican.com/article/fami... 🧪

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Um, if y’all thought the extinct lungfish looked scary, I’ve got news about EXTANT lungfish:

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Hmm. Trump promises to go to Mars the day after his buddy Musk's Starship--a Mars transport-- blows up. (Thankfully no one on board.) 🧪 www.npr.org/2025/01/17/n...

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This is like every NYT oped happening at once

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Jimmy Carter, rest in peace. He showed us how to live a great life, and give more than you get. www.ajc.com/news/former-...

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Superb reporting here on how we can stop this rush of new viruses from afflicting people, by the excellent @janeqiu.bsky.social . 🧪🩺 With awesome photos!!!

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Mistakes by US govt and dairy industry have let bird flu spread out of control, interviews with 70 farmers, farmworkers, and researchers reveal🧪🩺

submitted 163 days ago • 20 comments

And in comfort news, my dog makes a good pillow. (And the very soft complaining growling lulls you to sleep.)

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A serious case of bird flu hits a person. This H5N1 virus can move beyond birds and cows and into people, folks, as Scientific American reports. 🧪🩺 www.scientificamerican.com/article/u-s-...

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PUPDATE: Sarge had to get anesthesia for a small procedure today and now he is very very high

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Skúgvoy seabird populations: Fulmar -89% Kittiwake -87% Arctic skua -84% since 2001! #seabirds and all these species are legal to hunt year roynd 🧪🌍

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I’m proud to join more than 30 colleagues today in sharing our analysis of potential risks from “mirror life”. We summarize our findings in a @science.org article, and in greater detail in a 300pg technical report: Article: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... Report: purl.stanford.edu/cv716pj4036

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@chrislhayes.bsky.social The US likes to push pills rather than treat chronic pain comprehensively. Pills are cheaper, though comprehensive treatment works better.🩺🧪 We wrote about this in Scientific American; there's also a third way that works well: www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-...

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Print magazines are important (and endangered). Because if they disappear...

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