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In a few year's time, or maybe much shorter, we're going to look back and say 'the signs were there'.

submitted 16 hours ago • 25 comments

🚨NEW: Leaked memo reveals expected deadly impact of USAID shutdown: - 71,000–166,000 malaria deaths - 28-32% increase in TB - 200,000 polio cases - up to 28,000 cases of Ebola type diseases - 17 million women/11 million babies denied reproductive care - 1 million children untreated for malnutrition

submitted 22 hours ago • 16 comments

✅Measles was declared eliminated in U.S. in 2000 due to the measles vaccine. 📍Today, Mexico has issued a warning to avoid traveling to the U.S. because of measles outbreaks in Texas and 7 other U.S. states.

submitted 2 days ago • 186 comments

If you are reeling from Trump & Vance's disgusting performance towards Zelensky last night, might you consider donating to www.hospiceukraine.com, the tiny charity I set up with Henry Marsh to support local Ukrainian palliative care teams? We delivered this Land Rover to a rural hospice in Dec...

submitted 3 days ago • 36 comments

It’s insane to think that the Trump administration was more welcoming this week to the Tate brothers than to the President of Ukraine.

submitted 3 days ago • 660 comments

Love this from Denmark

submitted 7 days ago • 49 comments

🧵 This UN resolution vote on Ukraine is worth paying attention to. A brief thread on the Trump administration's bullying under way in the background. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

submitted 8 days ago • 25 comments

Remarkable assessment by an incoming German chancellor. “for me it is an absolute priority to strengthen Europe as quickly as possible, so that we achieve independence from the US, step by step.” www.dw.com/en/german-el...

submitted 8 days ago • 70 comments

In case anyone is still uncertain whether Trump and Musk are allied to Putin — @bylinetimes.bsky.social has been covering the Trump alliance for six years, and we cottoned onto Musk quite quickly

submitted 11 days ago • 11 comments

"Censorship of science is never about protecting the public. It is about controlling them. When governments dictate what research can & cannot be published, they are not defending the truth. They are erasing it." Powerful words from @martinmckee.bsky.social et al 👏 academic.oup.com/eurpub/advan...

submitted 8 days ago • 2 comments

Once upon a time, some villagers came across a large, ornate wooden box in the local woods. On the side of the box was a message: “Whatever money you put in this box will, in future, grow to become 2.5 times larger.” 1/

submitted 9 days ago • 3 comments

Global crisis style note: What Trump is doing to Ukraine is not 'blackmail', which would be demand for payment under threat of exposure of compromising information*. This is demand for payment under threat of violence/refusal to protect from violence. The word is 'extortion'.

submitted 9 days ago • 30 comments

In a world where political leadership for the public good is increasingly rare, @monicagarciag.bsky.social is one of the few politicians who gives me hope. Gracias por su liderazgo

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

“Trump is wrong; the world must say so. He’s taking US down a disastrous path…favouring Putin’s gangster state over democracies of free Europe.He’s standing alongside murder & tyranny against democracy & liberty. His is a historic inversion of America’s destiny” www.independent.co.uk/voices/edito...

submitted 11 days ago • 38 comments

Https://app.theneweuropean.co.uk/story/129227/content.html

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🧵: I am getting texts on what scientists should do in this perilous and scary moment. My advice: your biggest power is to organize through your professional societies. A few ideas -

submitted 39 days ago • 12 comments

Brilliant simple clear explainer by @sheridanflynn.bsky.social of the threat Russia poses to Britain youtu.be/M7O4Eh3Roe8?...

submitted 12 days ago • 46 comments

This is a very thoughtful intervention in the AD debate and crucially highlights the disconnect between what lawmakers & lawyers think medicine does and how medics think about their ability to engage with legal concepts like “capacity”. Also notes the risk of nuance being lost in the debate process

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

Things FEMA does - just so we are all aware. This is going to be a 🧵 that I add to as time permits. 1) Office of Response and Recovery - Provide assistance to individuals & state, local, territorial and Tribal gov'ts (SLTT). There are 23 Cadres within this office, each of them w/ a function.

submitted 17 days ago • 1 comment

Thread. The damage these fuckwits are doing around the world is incalculable.

submitted 17 days ago • 15 comments

As ever, thanks @alastaircampbell2.bsky.social app.theneweuropean.co.uk/story/128997...

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

Really robust and no-nonsense from Starmer.

submitted 18 days ago • 33 comments

I am in Cairo, where I have been visiting with health organizations, including WHO and other partners of USAID. Trump and Musk say lifesaving assistance is not affected by the shutdown of USAID and support to WHO. I can tell you that is 100% false. #SaveAID www.instagram.com/share/_ogGRd...

submitted 18 days ago • 8 comments

Absolutely chilling post by @chrischirp.bsky.social setting out how T rump is aggressively mobilising a classic authoritarian playbook. I did not think I would see the death of American democracy (and American science) in my lifetime. #academicsky open.substack.com/pub/christin...

submitted 19 days ago • 18 comments

Using this popular "draw a scientist" method, my friend has an intervention study and classroom materials that measurably improve how all children including boys (not just girls!) imagine scientists, and their curricula was deleted from federal websites

submitted 20 days ago • 7 comments

healthforxr.com/take-action/ My go-to resource for evidence-based information on the global health impacts of the on-going climate-crisis. I highly recommend it. #climate-crisis

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

From independent @USAID sources, >800 contracts and awards are being terminated en masse – with the procurement team subject to hourly checks on speed of executing terminations. The pace has exceeded the ability to confirm whether lifesaving assistance or any Congressional mandate is affected.

submitted 21 days ago • 33 comments

Proud of you, fellow Canadians!!! #cdnpoli www.thetravel.com/us-travel-as...

submitted 23 days ago • 26 comments