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ACIP is a little niche (though perhaps less niche than pre-pandemic!) but this should be very concerning to parents and parents-to-be. The childhood mortality rate has _crashed_ because of vaccines. Kids today live amazingly longer and more healthy lives by not dying of vaccine-preventable illness.

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I had natives planted in wide swaths of my yard last fall. First iris bloomed today. Irises are my favorite! 🌱

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This really isn’t a hard message. Obama neutralized the Iran nuclear program through the hard work of diplomacy, but Trump tore up the deal in his first term out of spite and chose war instead.

submitted 7 days ago • 87 comments

First monarch eggs of the season! I will leave most of them outside (where the majority will become someone else’s food), but it is so satisfying to shepherd some of them to adulthood. 🌱 🦋

submitted 10 days ago • 4 comments

10 years of obsession about what Trump supporters think & care about has warped our understanding of their size & popularity: Trump is historically unpopular, pro-democracy supporters far outnumber the object of Corporate Media’s love. Time to hear more from majority of US.

submitted 14 days ago • 38 comments

Stephen Miller is privately raging over deportation numbers he deems too low. So he's shifting huge amounts of law enforcement resources away from fighting serious crimes and into his immigration crackdown. If voters knew about this, they'd recoil. 1/ (new piece) newrepublic.com/article/1961...

submitted 24 days ago • 1128 comments

"Imagine the auto industry without 3D printing. NSF funded that. Artificial intelligence? NSF. MRI machines that help doctors diagnose you? NSF. Doppler radar technology that makes aviation safer by conquering wind shear? NSF. Duolingo‘s underlying programming? NSF. The internet itself? NSF."

submitted 46 days ago • 3 comments

Tip: add -ai to your search and you won’t get that stupid AI summary.

submitted 46 days ago • 0 comments

re #5, I would say if you can’t confirm that the paper says what you claim it says, don’t cite it. Doing otherwise can perpetuate errors through generations of papers.

submitted 46 days ago • 1 comment

Your School House Rock moment.....🤔

submitted 48 days ago • 322 comments

I just ordered a set! Where do you think are the most effective places to post these?

submitted 54 days ago • 0 comments

A wonderful personal story on the benefits scientific research can have down the road (even if they can’t be predicted at the time) and why we shouldn’t be destroying the scientific enterprise.

submitted 55 days ago • 0 comments

Cannot emphasize this too strongly.

submitted 58 days ago • 2 comments

“However bad everyone on the outside thinks it is, it is a million times worse. They’re dismantling and destroying everything.” Read, share, respond. Call your representatives. The health and well-being of Americans & America's innovation economy are at stake. www.science.org/content/arti...

submitted 60 days ago • 27 comments

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This is a new image from #JWST. The bright points with spikes are stars in the Milky Way. Everything else is a galaxy. Everything. Else. Is. A. Galaxy.

submitted 61 days ago • 629 comments

Congratulate people for being one of today’s lucky 10,000! xkcd.com/1053/

submitted 63 days ago • 2 comments

This “battle against antisemitism” isn’t doing anyone any favors, least of all Jews. Glad to see Jewish communities speaking out against the pretense and the actions. #notinourname

submitted 68 days ago • 0 comments

“You can’t stop a regime by asking the king to sit down. You dismantle the throne he’s standing on — one coward at a time.” From a list of specific actions Dems can take. @amyklobuchar.com @smith.senate.gov

submitted 70 days ago • 0 comments

Dear senators who think you can’t do anything, Today, Senator Van Hollen - through diplomatic pressure - got a meeting with Abrego Garcia in El Salvador. So that thing you’re thinking about doing? DO IT. ~ All of Us

submitted 73 days ago • 900 comments

And what a waste of time and money—in addition, of course, to the lost knowledge. Nothing “efficient” about it.

submitted 71 days ago • 0 comments

Never again means never again for anyone #notinourname

submitted 91 days ago • 1 comment

Does anyone know what “Ali plugs” are called in the US? They are used for hanging insulation (bubble wrap) in a greenhouse. 🌱

submitted 92 days ago • 3 comments