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To those observing Ramadan, have a blessed fast!

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We are in the midst of a deadly measles outbreak and RFK Jr is congratulating Steak n Shake on changing the seed oil in their 650kcal/1400mg Sodium large fries to beef tallow. Chat, is this public health?

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Programs to address HIV/AIDS are being terminated, even in the face of court orders. There had been talk of waivers for life-saving aid programs, but that was untrue. Thousands will die. I'm feeling the weight this week as I received my own first "Stop Work" order on a federal research contract.

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[NARRATOR] So Jacob bought his son a coat A multi-colored coat to wear.... [BROTHERS] We had never liked him all that much before And now this coat Has got our goat We feel life is unfair [NARRATOR] And when Joseph graced the scene His brothers turned a shade of green

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Once, about 9 years old, walking with friends in Rock Creek Park in DC, I came across one of these behind a fence in the woods. I decided it must be a dinosaur in a secret facility. Really it likely was a cassowary in a National Zoo veterinary secondary site. boingboing.net/2025/02/24/i...

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Chaos in the USDA gene banks. A new chief gets fired. Then reinstated. www.science.org/content/arti...

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In today's headline, the U.S. government supports the aggressors in the Ukraine war, while Western Europe begins planning an independent defense. Short wars may be won with bravado, but long wars are won with economics. See the next post for stats. (1/2) www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

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Dr. Shiriki Kumanyika right this moment speaking about the Council on Black Health and the Getting to Equity framework at a symposium on health equity at Tufts University @tuftsnutrition.bsky.social . The audience has an undaunted vibe, unafraid of keyword searches.

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For the lay public, a healthy and sustainable food pattern generally has (in rough descending order of importance): less red meat, less food waste, less packaging, more in-season fruit/veg. Details from life cycle analysis (LCA) research in Berners-Lee: greystonebooks.com/products/the...

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In the new book from WVU Press, "Power Shift: Keywords for a New Politics of Energy," my chapter titled "Airplane" begins: "John Hodgman once asked his audience to choose what superpower they desire, flight or invisibility. If we asked an airplane this question...." wvupressonline.com/node/989

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Multiple universities, including Tufts University where I work, earlier this month filed the lawsuits that led to a temporary halt in a Trump/Musk effort to slash biomedical research funding. www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...

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Leah Douglas at Reuters reports on the upheaval and firings of probationary staff at two USDA research agencies, the Economic Research Service (where I worked from 1998 to 2003) and the National Institute of Food and Agriculture (a research funder).

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Sarah Cooper used to make me laugh out loud. Now her comedy stings too sharp for even a chuckle. Yet I recommend watching. youtu.be/9cJ1IZsp750?...

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Happy Valentine's Day from the center if Arlington, MA, during the morning commute today. @xrboston.bsky.social

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I'm a timid person. If the powers and principalities establish lists of forbidden words for computerized word search, I can obey them. My course in "climate action" will be "climb it arcsin." And my grant proposal topic will be "diver, city, in clue shin, and echinacea." Who am I to make trouble?

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“Am departing presidential councils. Climate change is real. Leaving Paris is not good for America or the world,” Musk said Thursday on Twitter, shortly after the president announced that he would begin the process of leaving the accord. Oh wait that was 2017. edition.cnn.com/2017/06/01/n...

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‪Hope comes from good people working on ambitious climate-friendly initiatives. Hope comes from the phrase, "here is our action" rather than "I'm optimistic." I want to buy goods from this Trans Oceanic Wind Transport (TOWT) and perhaps take a passenger berth some day. www.cnn.com/travel/saili...

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A Sunday morning dream. I wish the U.S. food system would use less corn for biofuels and animal feed, allowing more corn for food as the world population grows, without needing more land use for crops. This dream does well by farmers, food consumers, and the environment in a time of climate crisis.

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At the intersection of food policy, climate policy, and aviation policy, we find a reasonable proposition: don't allow tax credits intended for climate-friendly sustainable fuels to be misused for jet fuel manufactured from food sources.

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From Joe Nevins this week on our #flyingless site: "Not coincidentally, Los Angeles and Miami are also home to two of the largest airports in the United States in terms of carbon dioxide emissions." sites.tufts.edu/flyingless/2...

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Commercial passenger aviation won't sail smoothly into the middle years of the climate crisis. It is vulnerable to fire, flood, storm, violence, pandemic, and breakdown of safety oversight under the stresses of petrostate capture. Something will give. www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

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This 1830 Noah Webster 1830 definition of "equity" feeds recent reflections on how to restate the foundations of a fair and equitable American system in language that preceded the invention of the acronym DEI. Nobody should have to do such a restatement. Yet, as an exercise, we easily could.

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Yesterday I was asked to resign from the President’s Intelligence Advisory Board. I tendered my resignation with this note. Nobody will read it, most likely, but it’s the writing of it that mattered to me.

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Are you a federal employee at USDA? How are the DEI and RTO memos impacting your work? Have you been put on leave? Are grants you administer being reviewed? Get in touch securely at [email protected] or DM for Signal. #agsky

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Universities could comply, not comply, or, as a third option, affirm that they have no DEI, defined as a "Marxist racist anti-white philosophy from the 1980s," while retaining older patriotic American values, specifically citing Frederick Douglass and MLK? Trump hasn't read these authors closely.

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In this episode of Hidden Brain, Sarah Jaquette Ray reflects on how faculty and students can talk about the climate crisis without falling into either nihilistic despair on the one hand or oblivious ignorance on the other hand.

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UC San Diego today. My class on the Climate Crisis was due to meet. It's bone dry, high winds. The campus power plant keeps burning fossil gas.

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TuftsNow covers my new course, Climate Action: "'Truthful communication is my highest aspiration' for the course, he said. 'We are racing against time. That means we are looking at a future that is less about hope and more about motivation for action.'" now.tufts.edu/2025/01/21/c...

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