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How much expertise did a key vaccine panel lose this week when RFK Jr. fired its 17 members and appointed 8 new ones? @meredithwadman.bsky.social and I looked at their publication records to find out. www.science.org/content/arti...

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Breaking news: The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved the drug lenacapavir as an HIV preventive. The approval comes at a time when global health cuts could stall its rollout. scim.ag/4e9FVSp

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The goal has to be reaching people who have never used PrEP before, Beatriz Grinsztejn says. “The fear I have is that this becomes mostly available for those who are already doing well on oral PrEP,” she says 🧪 #IDsky

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Wir sind halt auch einfach schön so im Doppelpack…

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“What is common knowledge in your field, but shocks outsiders?” Most drugs have several activities in the human body, and discovery of these effects goes on for years after they are on the market.

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the lesson of this isn't that tucker carlson is actually good but that you should ask these people basic factual questions instead of bullshit about politics

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i just find this so bizarre. searching through texts and doing the reading for myself is how i actually think through ideas! trying to put together a sentence is how i figure out what i actually want to say!

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Was hat Louis Pasteur mit Spiegelbakterien zu tun? Warum essen wir nicht alle Spiegelzucker? Und wo kommt da Alice im Wunderland ins Spiel? Wir wollten einmal ganz gezielt die Fragen von Hörerinnen und Hörern beantworten - und natürlich ein paar Geschichten erzählen!

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The most viruslike microbe to date was discovered by accident when researchers sequenced the DNA inside this tiny ocean critter. That story and more of the best from @science.org and science in this edition of #ScienceAdviser: www.science.org/content/arti... 🧪

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FBI Warns Second California Senator Still At Large theonion.com/fbi-war...

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“The streets of Los Angeles — and cities across America — should be protected by those who are trained and equipped to serve with restraint, accountability and a deep understanding of the communities they serve. Our democracy depends on it.” Former chief of LAPD in the @nytimes.com (gift link)

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My team and I at the Crowd Counting Consortium (@[email protected], Soha Hammam, & Chris Shay) have a new piece out: wagingnonviolence.org/2025/06/amer.... In it, we show that through May 2025, the size and scale of anti-Trump protests have dwarfed those in 2017. 🧵

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Laypeople often learn about science from expert explanations & those explanations often contain JARGON. Does jargon make explanations better or worse? In a paper out today in Nature Human Behaviour, @cruzf.bsky.social and I find that jargon can support illusions of understanding...

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“We find that jargon increases satisfaction because laypeople assume the jargon fills gaps in explanations that are otherwise incomplete.” Some required reading here as a science journalist 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Feeling a lot like I did in early days of the pandemic these days. It is so clear what’s coming: The people that will die because of cuts in global health, because of cuts to research, because of the concerted anti-vaccine push. It’s clear what’s coming, but we will have to wait to count the dead.🧪

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🗓️This week: European Youth Event #EYE2025 One of its workshops (on 13/6) is about the do's & don'ts of #science #communication, organised by the #ESMH 👉Interview with main speaker Kai Kupferschmidt @kakape.bsky.social @science.org: wp.me/panTdn-4gK #journalism #SciComm #disinformation

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AI chatbots are increasingly being used by online users as fact-checking tools. But incorrect answers by ChatGPT and Grok are misleading users about the origin of photos showing National Guard troops, sent to Los Angeles during the recent unrest, sleeping on floors.

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HIV control efforts are falling apart in Lesotho en Eswatini, which have the highest infection rates in the world. This story by @cohenjon.bsky.social is the first in a series about Trump cuts' effects on global health, funded by the @pulitzercenter.bsky.social. www.science.org/content/arti...

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“What if, only days or hours from now, the president and Mr. Musk reconcile? It will be like Mr. Trump’s tariffs all over again: now they’re high, now they’re lower, now they’re postponed. The story must change so the show can go on.” www.nytimes.com/2025/06/06/t...

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The national security and cybersecurity impacts of this Trump-Musk fallout are out of this world. Musk and the DOGE boys have their tentacles all up in just about every system that supports US government function…

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just waiting for the Linda Yaccarino post that says "X is where it happens"

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“I would like to cure brain cancer. I think that's not particularly controversial.” Be that as it may, the NIH terminated that scientist's grant. Here's a huge survey of the 2,500 grants that NIH has killed or delayed...so far. Gift link: nyti.ms/43Jz1yJ

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Analysis of 76 #mpox genomes from current outbreak in Sierra Leone suggests that the outbreak may have started in November [21 September - 16 December], so 1-2 months of undetected spread. Researchers also estimate that there were 11,800 [5,500–40,000] cases by 7 May. 🧪 #IDsky

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When viral epidemics are ignored they hardly magically disappear, they spread. Excellent reporting on the large outbreak of mpox in Sierra Leone. A country with a fragile health system and limited resources to effectively respond to this threat. www.science.org/content/arti...

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An explosive outbreak of mpox in Sierra Leone is raising fears of wider spread. The country of 9 million has seen more than 3000 cases already. “We could see very rapid geographic expansion […] if we don’t really try and get things under control quickly,” says @kindrachukjason.bsky.social 🧪 #IDsky

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Im Budongo-Wald in Uganda haben Forscher etwas Ungewöhnliches beobachtet: Schimpansen, die Fledermausguano fressen. Was das mit Tabak und der Gefahr einer Pandemie zu tun hat, darüber sprechen wir in unserer neuen Folge mit @honigsbaum.bsky.social, der daraus ein Ausbruchs-Szenario entwickelt hat

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"Smart can mean a lot of things. In Smith’s case, people said it means cunning, tactical. " Interesting deep dive in @statnews.com on the person at the center of devastating HHS cuts. 🧪https://www.statnews.com/2025/06/02/brad-smith-doge-little-known-architect-67-billion-hhs-cuts/

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Update: a later poll puts Nawrocki, the authoritarian populist, ahead

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A really important election for Europe this one and it's a paper thin lead for the liberal candidate for now...

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Breaking from @science.org: The Trump administration wants to kill off a host of active and healthy NASA climate and planetary spacecraft. It would be a "leaner, more focused" agency, they say -- and one far less capable of studying the Earth and exploring space.

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It’s a question of when not if another pandemic comes and #flu is still one of the - if not the - likeliest infection to cause it. Preparing for this eventuality now could save millions of lives (and billions of dollars) down the road. 🧪 #IDsky

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After being antagonistic to media outlets for the better part of the last 12 months, Musk is starting to do interviews with handpicked reporters and online personalities. It’s a strategy that he has turned to in the past (see 2018 Tesla “production hell”) when he wants to change the narrative.

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I was worried convocation might be an exercise in burying heads in the sand but @celinegounder.com gave a clear-eyed speech that pulled no punches at Harvard School of Public Health today (and imho distilled really well what we’ve learned about misinfo in public health) 🧵 below (sorry for any typos)

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