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It matters that scientists speak out against what is being done to US science. Staying silent is neither "objective" nor "staying out of politics". Silence now is political - it supports the status quo, says "nothing to worry about". We need to sound the alarm. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

submitted 2 days ago • 34 comments

Trump could start wearing a crown and carrying a sceptre, and people would still be in denial about what's happening.

submitted 4 days ago • 48 comments

Scientists of the world, this is happening on our watch and we need to face it down. Evidence-based medicine weaponised for overtly ideological purposes. We do not need randomised trials of 'vaccine' versus 'no vaccine' when those vaccines have already been shown to be safe & effective. #episky 🧪

submitted 4 days ago • 15 comments

USDA says it accidentally fired officials working on bird flu and is trying to rehire them In a statement, an Agriculture Department spokesperson told NBC News that officials are "working to swiftly rectify the situation." www.nbcnews.com/politics/dog...

submitted 5 days ago • 807 comments

"AI" is the future. Definitely

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

If music is therapy, who’s your therapist?

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

Then you perceive the body of our kingdom How foul it is, what rank diseases grow, And with what danger, near the heart of it.

submitted 7 days ago • 5 comments

As Wes Streeting trumpets the role of the private sector in “saving the NHS”, it’s worth remembering what happened the only time a whole NHS hospital was handed to the private sector to run. The care failings - gaining the worst CQC rating ever - were chilling (& barely reported at the time):

submitted 7 days ago • 20 comments

“Be careful. When a democracy is sick, fascism comes to its bedside, but it is not to inquire about its health.” Albert Camus

submitted 10 days ago • 81 comments

"When ‘Just Asking Questions’ About Science Turns Into 300,000 Dead" — an opinion piece by epidemiologist Gregg Gonsalves about science denialist RFK Jr. that you need to read. tinyurl.com/bdfb99f4

submitted 10 days ago • 3 comments

Mitch McConnell, the only Republican senator to vote against RFK says of his nomination: “A record of trafficking in dangerous conspiracy theories and eroding trust in public health institutions does not entitle Mr. Kennedy to lead these important efforts.”

submitted 10 days ago • 33 comments

Word of the day is ‘arsle’ (19th century): to have a distinct sense of going backwards.

submitted 11 days ago • 135 comments

"Daddy says he owns you. Can you get me an ice cream?"

submitted 11 days ago • 2373 comments

Mr. Bluebird is probably dreaming of spring and spending sunny days catching fresh insects on wing. (Eastern Bluebird)

submitted 12 days ago • 16 comments

You can tell a lot about a person by how they react to children—and even more by how they treat the ones suffering from hunger.

submitted 11 days ago • 839 comments

At its simplest equality is asking to be safe. I want the world to be as safe for me as it is for you - those who move through it with the least fear. I would like to be as safe as you. And yet, even that is framed as too precocious a request. Too woke. Too much. When it’s nowhere near enough.

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This is fairly similar to Trump deciding he wants Greenland. Just guys who want stuff, going round pointing at it. It would also be a very, very, very, VERY bad idea for Musk - a person with zero impulse control - to be in charge of OpenAI.

submitted 13 days ago • 6 comments

Existential risk/AI safety folks and AI ethics/justice folks find harmony at last, in the worst of all possible worlds H/t @garymarcus.bsky.social

submitted 13 days ago • 3 comments

Now that's what I call a Superb Owl! This is a young great horned owl, photo taken during the summer. #owls #birds

submitted 14 days ago • 92 comments

Happy #Lawyercat Anniversary for all who celebrate! It's been four years since the kitten appeared in my Zoom courtroom, and I released the 48 second video that made the whole world laugh. Here is the full video showing the big reveal at the end (in two parts because Blue sky). Enjoy!

submitted 14 days ago • 63 comments

#ICYMI New guidance fails to address how ‘national shame’ of corridor care and excessive A&E waits will be tackled. RCEM responds to the government’s ‘mandate for the NHS’ and NHSE planning guidance. Read the full news and President's statement: rcem.ac.uk/new-guida...

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Trump is the embodiment of why the ICC exists. He couldn't even make it two weeks in office before committing a de facto war crime. It isn't even as if the ICC has jurisdiction over the US, this is just a move to try and tell the world he is above the law.

submitted 17 days ago • 8 comments

DOGE engineers as young as 19 have terrorized senior staffers at the Office of Personnel Management as they try to gain access to sensitive information. One young DOGE worker reportedly screamed at senior developers and called them “idiots” during a meeting.

submitted 17 days ago • 684 comments

And a third ambulance delay prevention of future deaths report - this time the wait is even longer. Helpfully, the coroner puts this into context of pressures on services and repeated previous PFDs.

submitted 17 days ago • 1 comment

Co-sign.

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News article featured on the hub this week - Dozens of safety probes kept secret by trusts (via @hsj.co.uk) www.pslhub.org/blogs/entry/... #patientsafety

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

The listening & learning culture must go one step further & translate into a doing & fixing culture

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

Oh JFC, try it. Go to www.nih.gov and type a random word in the search bar - see what happens. Then try any of the words on Theo's list. Very odd country, the United States.

submitted 19 days ago • 3 comments

With Google removing their Responsible AI Principles, they no longer state that they will not engage in "Technologies whose purpose contravenes widely accepted principles of international law and human rights". Concerns about surveillance and injury are also erased. ai.google/responsibili...

submitted 19 days ago • 9 comments

What Americans want is a bunch of Tesla engineers (whose self-driving cars kill people) creating a "centralized data repository" and turning loose a bunch of "AI coding agents" on it. What could go wrong?

submitted 19 days ago • 20 comments

La liste (pas officielle à ce stade) des mots-clefs qui pourront valoir aux scientifiques un retrait de financement de la part du National Science Foundation (l'équivalent américain de l'ANR). Mais bien sur, l'autoritarisme, la cancel culture, blabla, c'est la gauche, hein... Cette époque rend fou.

submitted 19 days ago • 2 comments

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

submitted 19 days ago • 1330 comments

Are you paying attention yet?

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

A longtime immigration enforcement official has been tapped to run the agency responsible for managing unaccompanied migrant children, in a move that has alarmed experts and advocates who are concerned that information about children and their families will be shared for arrests and deportations.

submitted 21 days ago • 39 comments

What the actual F?😳

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CDC websites, datasets taken down as agency complies with Trump executive orders

submitted 22 days ago • 5 comments

If this were happening somewhere else, folks would be saying this is the kind of thing that happens in a coup. www.reuters.com/world/us/mus...

submitted 23 days ago • 39 comments

NEW: Cisco and UPenn researchers tested 50 well-known jailbreaks against DeepSeek's AI chatbot, including those related to misinformation, cybercrimes, and other illegal activity. It stoped exactly zero of them. @mattburgess1.bsky.social and @lhn.bsky.social report: www.wired.com/story/deepse...

submitted 23 days ago • 2 comments

repeat after me: an AI system does NOT and CANNOT seek power. it CANNOT seek, want, & desire anything more than your toaster can. people in positions of power use AI to seek, assert, consolidate, and centralise power

submitted 23 days ago • 15 comments

January has been a hell of a year

submitted 23 days ago • 101 comments