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I talked to NIH officials, current and former, about what's been happening inside the agency since the Trump administration shut down their grantmaking pipeline in January. Their stories showed just how willing our new leaders are to break the law: www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...

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Trump and his administration are now deciding how deep a rift to make in America’s scientific firmament. How long it takes to repair the damage, or whether that will be possible at all, depends on the extent of the damage they inflict now.

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Read this one by the great @katherinejwu.com www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...

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CDC data’s “explicit purpose” is to guide researchers toward the places and people who most need attention, Patrick Sullivan, a former CDC Epidemic Intelligence Service officer, said. “It’s hard to understand how this benefits health.” www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...

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What is the Senate going to ask RFK Jr. tomorrow and is it “how will you handle the outbreaks of disease that will follow a drop in vaccination rates?” www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...

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related: EV batteries complicate debris removal after wildfires finance.yahoo.com/news/ev-batt...

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LA is breathing in burnt plastic www.theatlantic.com/science/arch...

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The LA fires are sadly an example of what @mikecaulfield.bsky.social and I wrote about in our Justification Machine piece earlier this week. It's not an opportunity to learn anything about how to help people or what needs to be done. it's an opportunity to blame. www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

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this line from Ethan has been stuck in my head all day. And I felt it most reading my friend and colleague @nancywalecki.bsky.social's beautiful and heartbreaking dispatch from LA this evening. Here's a gift link, I urge you to read it www.theatlantic.com/science/arch...

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No one totally knows how GLP1 drugs make people lose weight but it is clear that (unlike with older drugs) prescriptions for diet and exercise don’t add much of any additional effect. www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...

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“Any of these projects faltering is just going to keep New York City reliant on an aging and dirty fossil fleet,” @dzarrilli.bsky.social tells @emilypont.bsky.social. How Attentive Energy's offshore wind pause could derail New York's climate plans:

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This is like one of those "before" pictures showing the same street in Amsterdam in 1974 and today.

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I think if they listened to me and invented Big Rice, it would become a centerpiece of Thanksgiving dinner within five years.

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Some people itch for no clear reason, for months or even years. Annie Lowrey is one of them, and explains the strange science behind this maddening condition. theatln.tc/ZVVLdntB

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♻️ “If recycling is the answer, what is the question [it’s answering]?”♻️ Adapted from the preface to @finnarne.me #plasticpollution #inc5

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Even if CO₂ emissions decreased as much as it did during COVID every year until 2030, we would still miss the 1.5°C target (emissions of 20 GtCO₂/yr by 2023) by a lot.

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Drought monitor data released a day early cause of the holiday and we're still in drought nyc

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On one of the busiest travel days of the year in the United States, here's a visualization of the human footprint... (red = flights, blue = ships, green = roads, yellow = lights) Graphic from NOAA's Science On a Sphere: sos.noaa.gov/catalog/data...

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People are often surprised when I tell them this: both Twitter and Facebook/insta/threads are now specifically engineered to downgrade, hide, suppress real journalism. If this platform is different, that's a huge change

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Massachusetts passed a big clean energy law on Nov 14th. Lots of great stuff! @canarymedia.com has details www.canarymedia.com/articles/pol... A quick summary of highlights... 🧵 🔌💡

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Good news, everyone, the recent Pew poll has resolved this longstanding debate once and for all. 🧪

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Consider which direction the evidence points www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...

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Not everyone has a genetic disease but everyone has a polygenic risk score www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...

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OpenAI's chief scientist made a tragic miscalculation when he tried to overthrow Sam Altman, Ross Andersen writes. Here's why he may have done it:

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The math is still not adding up www.theatlantic.com/science/arch...

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"As things stand, the United States could be heading into the winter with the fewest people recently vaccinated against COVID-19 since the end of 2020, when most people didn’t yet have the option to sign up at all." www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...

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It’s always tuberculosis www.theatlantic.com/science/arch...

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Full sequence of the annular solar eclipse at Shiprock, New Mexico. This was a dream composition of mine. So much time, energy, and money went into making it happen. I'm forever grateful to the Navajo for letting me shoot it from sacred ground. An experience I'll never forget.

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I never thought of the insurance industry as a particular climate villain but … www.theatlantic.com/science/arch...

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What is common knowledge in your field but shocks outsiders? More than half the CO₂ emissions of the Industrial Age have been pumped into the atmosphere since 1990.

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The feral horse situation in the Australian Alps has been allowed to grow to frightening proportions. Another report… this time there needs to be action. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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This one hit "friends are texting me to ask how worried they should be"-level nerve

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I think I'd like some pie.

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weekend project www.theatlantic.com/science/arch...

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This started as a joke between me and Sarah Laskow, my former editor, and she turned it into an actual piece, and I love it.

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Today in “we can’t have anything nice” https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2023/07/compostable-plastic-trash/674626/

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The hottest day ever recorded was Monday. Then that record was broken. Now the hottest day ever recorded is Tuesday: July 4, 2023. Also happens to be the 247th Independence Day for the USA. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-07-04/world-records-hottest-day-ever-on-july-3

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The average global sea surface temperature over the last three months was easily the hottest on record relative to any other April to June... Data from NOAA ERSSTv5 (https://psl.noaa.gov/data/gridded/data.noaa.ersst.v5.html) averaged over each April-June as available from 1854-2023. 🧪

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Does anyone know what happens after the first 15 minutes of Moana

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seems like this is the kind of content that bluesky craves https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2023/07/twitter-outage-elon-musk-user-restrictions/674609/

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