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Me: what’s that black bird with the red on its wings called Bird watcher: that’s a red winged blackbird Me: holy shit

submitted 376 days ago • 78 comments

How scientists capture a polar bear – video

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“Essentially, when you're infected with measles, your immune system abruptly forgets every pathogen it's ever encountered before – every cold, every bout of flu, every exposure to bacteria or viruses in the environment, every vaccination. The loss is near-total and permanent.“ 😳 #MedSky

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I'm sticking with my pro-gun-reform advocacy group even though it feels incredibly futile right now. We'll be at the Texas State Capitol next week with a bunch of coalition partners, letting the Texas GOP who refuse to lift a finger to keep our kids safe know that we see them.

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I know this preprint is getting a lot of attention- I wanted to talk a bit about its findings and address some of the questions that are floating around: www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1... Thread🧵

submitted 8 days ago • 6 comments

Okay, so at the request of the lovely @trance.bsky.social , I'm going to tell a story about what happens when a shitty person is "just joking", and then discovers there are consequences. AKA That Time Kat Started An Antifascist Hallway Riot In The Third Grade. Grab your beverage of choice.

submitted 12 days ago • 50 comments

Time to evict AirBnB from your life, if you have't already.

submitted 13 days ago • 209 comments

First patient in UK tests new treatment for loss of sense of smell

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'Why do you believe you're ugly?' asked Pudge. 'Assume for a moment that those blights are more magnified to you than to others.' 'Perhaps,' said the crane, 'because I have never once been beautiful in the eyes of those I longed desperately to be.' #PudgyHorse #PudgyAndMe

submitted 13 days ago • 10 comments

Reptile Handler At Birthday Party Ruthlessly Heckled By 6-Year-Old For Showing Amphibian theonion.com/reptile...

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#medsky#pedsky#idsky#immunosky 🧪 In the midst of all of the scary headlines recently, I thought I could take a moment to share a bit of good news: for the first time in history, a malaria vaccine with >90% efficacy seems to be within reach! Here’s why that’s a really big deal for EVERYONE 🧵

submitted 15 days ago • 443 comments

From reddit: a letter from a postdoc who survived the Bolsonaro years. This is helpful framing for how to science in this administration. 🧪 www.reddit.com/r/labrats/s/...

submitted 16 days ago • 9 comments

Why are drug prices so high? Consider the case of Zolgensma. While taxpayers and small charities funded Zolgensma's early development, executives, venture-capital backers and a pharma giant have reaped the profits.

submitted 16 days ago • 11 comments

New, from @propublica.org Taxpayers and charities subsidized much of the science that led to Zolgensma. Yet that support came with no conditions for the companies that brought the drug over the finish line, even when it came to setting a price: $2M+ for a single dose!

submitted 16 days ago • 6 comments

Convo with my friend from Hungary tonight who left after Orban’s election. She said “your head will spin with all the wild stuff they try to pull, new things every day, but don’t take your eyes off the money. It’s all about the money, and what they’re stealing, and for whom.”

submitted 25 days ago • 206 comments

Flu Vaccines: Myth Vs. Fact theonion.com/flu-vac...

submitted 28 days ago • 9 comments

This is what the government did with 120K+ Japanese Americans in 1942. I know. I was there in those camps.

submitted 28 days ago • 3624 comments

Planetary astronomers are on the case of potentially hazardous asteroid 2024 YR4. The chance of impact is at 1.3%, so I'm going to be making plans for New Years 2033 - Some updates from astronomers reporting on their latest telescope observations iawn.net/obscamp/2024... #2024YR4 🔭

submitted 29 days ago • 2 comments

Report: Everything Slightly Worse Than Yesterday theonion.com/report-...

submitted 30 days ago • 142 comments

Here’s a photoGARphic version of the XKCD figure:

submitted 34 days ago • 11 comments

"Let It Rip" starting to pay dividends. And don't try that "Who could have known" bullshit. People in Inf Diseases, Public Health and Epidemiology have been screaming about this very thing for at least 5 years now (longer in some cases).

submitted 34 days ago • 2 comments

Fun fact - the parrots we study vary a lot in how they sit when we take photos! Some (regent, superb and swift parrots) sit up nicely looking like perky little birds🫡 Others (gang gang and OBP) just kind of flop over onto your hand and look like a puddle 🫠 very cute, very silly 🪶🧪🐣🦜🌿🌏

submitted 35 days ago • 14 comments

I tried to save your young life in a Gaza hospital. Now your face haunts me | Seema Jilani

submitted 35 days ago • 6 comments

I just got one heck of a welcome home. Volume up, but not too high. The wolves were singing tonight. A few seconds in you’ll hear the closest howling wolf I’ve ever heard. I couldn’t see it, but it might have been at the end of my driveway. I went right back inside after this. 😊🐺🦊

submitted 37 days ago • 146 comments

Once again, Teen Vogue is on it.

submitted 37 days ago • 8 comments

Being a person with deadly, incurable cancer who is nonetheless still alive for an indefinite timeframe gives me an interesting metaphor that helps me deal with things like large-scale corruption in government or commerce. Bear with me for a second while I try to explain.

submitted 39 days ago • 505 comments

After fossil fuel-fired hurricanes 🌀 Helene and 🌀 Milton ransack Southeast US & massive 🔥 🔥 burn down parts of LA, people cheer a fossil fuel president #Trump. Just surreal. 🤯

submitted 38 days ago • 14 comments

30 years ago. We knew. Even Exxon knew.

submitted 56 days ago • 63 comments

Fuck. This is so fucking stupid.

submitted 39 days ago • 228 comments

An entire lineage of influenza B viruses literally went extinct due to COVID mitigation measures and people will still say “masks don’t work”

submitted 39 days ago • 39 comments

Just posting this picture of an iron lung at University of Pittsburgh School of Public Health, for no particular reason. Jonas Salk was pretty dope. #VaccinesSaveLives

submitted 40 days ago • 16 comments

“Sure, Trump initially supported the ban and Congress overwhelmingly voted for it before Biden ultimately signed it into law. But behind the scenes was an intense lobbying campaign by the intelligence community, from the FBI to the CIA.” Infringing on your rights is bipartisan.

submitted 40 days ago • 2 comments

Did you guys know there are free cats outside

submitted 288 days ago • 82 comments

As a hematologist, I highly recommend you keep as much of your blood in your body as possible* *with rare exceptions such as hemochromatosis or polycythemia

submitted 42 days ago • 34 comments

Yesterday, across from Ebenezer Baptist Church—just days before MLK Day, when crowds will gather to honor justice and equality—a homeless man was killed during an encampment sweep by an Atlanta city vehicle. These sweeps are cruel, brutal, and utterly counterproductive in addressing homelessness.

submitted 42 days ago • 48 comments

Sunrise above a small island in the vast Sagebrush Sea. In this cold high desert with all the creatures in their subterranean nests waiting for summer’s warmth. All the life –not considered by many– but obsessed on by few. Snakes, lizards, seeds. Cicadas, wasps, spiders. All there. Waiting.

submitted 43 days ago • 6 comments

The print shop is open ✨ canieatthisforaging.com/print-shop My dad, Nick Venechuk, runs a professional print shop for his own photography in my home town of Rockford MI, and he’s printing these for me 🙌 it couldn’t be more perfect

submitted 43 days ago • 19 comments

3M knew firefighting foams containing PFAS were toxic, documents show

submitted 44 days ago • 10 comments

It seems to me that the time is ripe for a Bluesky thread about how—and maybe even why—to befriend crows. (1/n)

submitted 559 days ago • 459 comments

This is us. We are pushing back. www.msnbc.com/msnbc/amp/sh...

submitted 45 days ago • 4 comments