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submitted 5 hours ago • 43 comments

Trudeau: I want to speak first directly to the American people… your government has chosen to do this to you. Your government has chosen to put American jobs at risk. They have chosen to raise costs for American consumers on everyday essential items…

submitted 5 days ago • 2128 comments

Your move, National Academy of Engineering.

submitted 6 days ago • 18 comments

Translation: “I’m taking your taxpayer dollars, using them to buy crypto that I’m already invested in, and making myself and my rich friends billions of dollars.”

submitted 6 days ago • 74 comments

$75 million was awarded to plant trees in places that badly need them. A very good investment, I might add, that not only would save lives and improve livability in a warming word, but would very likely actually save public money. In a Trump anti-DEI (aka racist) push, that’s over.

submitted 8 days ago • 3 comments

Rubella is a mild infection in children and adults. Infection during early pregnancy can lead to severe complications, called CRS, resulting in hearing impairment, cataracts or glaucoma, heart defects, and developmental delays. One third of infants born with CRS will die before their first birthday

submitted 8 days ago • 3 comments

How did our country (the U.S.) create and elevate such a group of cowardly, greedy, vain, arrogant, and profoundly insecure men to the highest rungs of power? They bring Zelensky to the Oval Office for what? To mock and denigrate a truly courageous leader & try to bring him down to their base level?

submitted 9 days ago • 68 comments

More than 75,000 digital subscribers to The Washington Post have cancelled since its owner, billionaire Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, announced on Wednesday that he would radically overhaul the paper's opinion pages to reflect libertarian priorities and to exclude opposing points of view.

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

“People will die,” said @ckyobutungi.bsky.social, executive director of the African Population and Health Research Center, “but we will never know, because even the programs to count the dead are cut.” nyti.ms/41yWNgN

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

This is terrifying.

submitted 11 days ago • 88 comments

Classroom/Library enrollment was down pretty bad in February. National chaos and uncertainly likely has something to do with it. Can you help me make sure that all the educators on bluesky know Skype a Scientist exists and is ready to connect them with scientists? Every RT helps! #EduSky #STEMEd

submitted 12 days ago • 6 comments

Entomologists! Not a great photo, but my husband found this bug in the detergent dispenser of our clothes washer this morning. Is it a green stink bug? Stink bug nymph? It was alive and he took it outside #bugsky 🪲

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

The rumors are true: The proposed SAVE Act, now considered a priority for Republicans in the House, will make it harder, if not practically impossible, for millions of women to vote.

submitted 13 days ago • 369 comments

“It’s despicable to treat fellow human beings this way and a sign of immaturity of the people doing it,” www.nytimes.com/2025/02/24/s...

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

Any talk you hear from the current administration about making the US more competitive in science and technology is utter bullshit. What they are doing is sabotaging our country for years if not decades to come.

submitted 15 days ago • 38 comments

I'm a huge fan of Dolly Parton. We're the same age and same height, but she can sing better. We also share the same values, including that every child should have the chance to dream big and succeed. Indiana Republicans should reverse these cuts. www.huffpost.com/entry/indian...

submitted 17 days ago • 177 comments

@npr.org interview with the wonderful @linda-gailb.bsky.social www.npr.org/2025/02/18/n...

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

@hivpxresearch.bsky.social & @treatmentactiongroup.org In addition, NIH funding for the HIV research networks (HVTN, HPTN, ACTG) due in March could be withheld due to the Executive Order regarding South Africa. This could halt both international and domestic HIV prevention and treatment research.

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

"This feels like the early days of the pandemic, except there's less I can do about it", a colleague told me yesterday. Yep. One thing you can do is outreach. My sense is that the majority of the country doesn't yet understand the scale or the stakes of what is happening. We have to tell them:

submitted 19 days ago • 13 comments

Mike Pence just reposted an old article he wrote about the limitations on the powers of a president. For some reason. Here is a part of it.

submitted 22 days ago • 2044 comments

The community note 🤌😘

submitted 22 days ago • 2974 comments

It is really short-sighted and stupid to be gutting public health and outbreak surveillance capacity right now: - H5N1 nationwide - uncontrolled - TB in Kansas - largest U.S outbreak - Measles in Texas - Expanding - Seasonal flu - Worst in 15 years - Pertussis - outbreaks in multiple states.

submitted 23 days ago • 93 comments

Can we please, please, please stop calling RFK Jr a “vaccine skeptic?” I’m a vaccine skeptic. I want evidence a particlar vaccine is effective, safe, and appropriate for the patient to whom I am seeing. There are lots of researchers looking at this. RFK Jr has been explicitly antivaccine for years.

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

Come hear about the latest #careeropportunities at Fred Hutch this Tuesday, February 11 during the National Urban League's Black History Month #CareerFair! This event is a 100% online career fair and there is no fee for job seekers to attend. Register: bit.ly/4gqLqfa

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

I have a confession . . . I was an “overhead cost”. I was a beaker washer, agar plate pourer, research secretary. I was paid by “overhead cost” fees. Loved it. Those “overhead cost” jobs allowed this rural kid to become a physician. Please tag how #OverheadCostJob impact u.

submitted 29 days ago • 30 comments

Warm #caterday wishes from Winnie.

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

Scientists and journalists need to figure out right quick how to explain to the average person how a massive change in research indirects will impact the medical care they and their children get (eg at the local children’s hospital), the education their children will get, the price of tuition, etc.

submitted 30 days ago • 104 comments

Yikes!

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Rubio claims that @USAID lifesaving assistance for health and humanitarian needs will continue. But his team just communicated that the entire agency will be imminently reduced from 14,000 to 294 people. Just 12 in Africa.

submitted 31 days ago • 146 comments

This is VERY good news. Love bookshop.org and all the stuff they do! www.salon.com/2025/01/28/b...

submitted 33 days ago • 508 comments

We are members of Congress at the Treasury Department. We want to be let in to provide oversight on behalf of our constituents. @jasmineforus.bsky.social @sethmagaziner.bsky.social

submitted 33 days ago • 4320 comments

As Trump prepares to turn Guantanamo into a concentration camp, the front page for the Amache National Historical Site is down. As if you could erase history by pretending a place doesn't exist. Stalin would blush. www.nps.gov/amch/index.htm

submitted 37 days ago • 8 comments

BREAKING NEWS: Research and basic information on subjects ranging from tuberculosis surveillance to adolescent health disappeared from federal health agency websites.

submitted 37 days ago • 271 comments

Trump is trying to “flood the zone” so we focus on a few outrages that we find most offensive and lose sight of the big picture. Some thoughts on how to maintain focus. robertreich.substack.com/p/keep-your-...

submitted 37 days ago • 97 comments

To recap, Trump: -Forced out the FAA chief at Musk's insistence -Imposed a hiring freeze that reportedly included air traffic controllers -Fired the TSA head and gutted a key aviation safety committee -Blamed the DCA crash on DEI This is disastrous leadership.

submitted 38 days ago • 429 comments

Is the communications pause that's been imposed on the US government's health agencies affecting you? @statnews.com would love to hear about it. Please let us know. www.statnews.com/2025/01/25/t...

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submitted 43 days ago • 17 comments

Please help Virgil if you can. This is a real GoFundMe and a real family in need near me. gofund.me/da9a2c4d

submitted 43 days ago • 5 comments

Funk Off! The Olympia funk festival returns for a second year January 31 through February 2.

submitted 44 days ago • 0 comments

Yoh can watch here the recording of the IDSA Clinician Call we did yesterday on Avian Influenza www.idsociety.org/multimedia/c...

submitted 44 days ago • 1 comment

Fauci is the latest in a string of former Trump aides-turned-critics to see their federal protection canceled.

submitted 44 days ago • 228 comments