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Is this what they meant? I thought they were saying the US is behaving worse than nazis.

"Turning West Asia into a wasteland" w/ Ali Alizadeh YouTube video by Makdisi Street

This is the most balanced and thoughtful assessment of events in Iran that I've come across.

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What’s so religious about opposing vaccines? What, exactly, is “religious” about refusing vaccination?

This a rich discussion of this challenging topic

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How the Iran war could create a ‘fertiliser shock’ – an often ignored global risk to food prices and farming Without this form of fertiliser, crops will not produce yields on which the world’s population depends, leaving people starving.

"A prolonged disruption at Hormuz would not simply reprice crude; it would test the resilience of the industrial nitrogen cycle on which modern civilisation depends."

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I need this on a tshirt!

How Stand Up For Science is trying to 'pull every lever' to win over the public Stand Up For Science has become a formal organization and adopted a new strategy that's more confrontational with grassroots tactics

"Our strategy, our goal, is to meet the moment in the streets, so to speak."

Spectacular. This is how it's done.

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You are finishing your PhD and looking to continue in science?

The Martin lab @biology-unige.bsky.social has an open postdoctoral position in cell biology to study cell-cell fusion. For more information, please consult mocel.unige.ch/research-gro....

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World map highlighting countries where polio has been detected in the last 12 months

CDC issued a Global Polio Level 2 Travel Health Notice advising enhanced precautions

Tragic. We had polio almost eradicated, but disruption to vaccination campaigns due to COVID, global instability, defunding & vaccine hesitancy have led us here

#VaccinesWork
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Dear Shabana, I notice today that you referred to me in your speech on immigration at the IPPR think tank. You said: “A party leader should not be on the beaches of France encouraging people to make a perilous crossing on small boats.” I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised especially after the hateful Labour campaign in Gorton and Denton, but this is just the latest in a string of lies peddled by a discredited Government who intentionally fan the flames of racism and division. When I went to Calais, I was not there to encourage people to travel to the UK. I was there to see at first hand the suffering your Government and successive Governments have done in demonising migrants in a pathetic bid to pander to the base instincts of Reform and the flawed strategy of Morgan McSweeney. As you will know, if you even bothered to research my visit instead of taking Reform talking points, I was there to witness the brutality of families living in tents in freezing temperatures. I filled water tanks and picked up litter. What that visit did do is confirm my belief that if we are to smash the boat gangs and stop the boats, we need to offer safer and managed routes for migrants to come to this country. Showing compassion as a politician is not a crime. In fact, we need to see much more of it. It reminded me of a young MP who in October 2015 spent three days in Lesbos helping migrants fleeing war-torn Syria. She posted videos on X, talked about handing out water and croissants to refugees and food parcels. When she returned to the UK, she wrote a very moving piece in the New Statesman. She said “we have to work with our European partners and create new, safe, and legal routes for refugees to get to Europe. We cannot abandon them to their fate, left as prey for smugglers whilst risking death on the seas.” She said “maybe we can make ourselves feel better by saying no-one is making them get on the boats. And again, the Home Secretary is not entirely wrong when …

Dear Shabana,

Let's clear some things up around migration and remember we're talking about people's lives.

New research article

Clinical prevalence of collateral sensitivity: a systematic exploration of multicentre antimicrobial surveillance data

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#IDSky #ClinMicro #AMR #OpenAccess #OA

(Un)intended consequences: a social sciences stocktake of a decade of Global Action Plan-inspired antimicrobial governance Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) remains a major global health threat. Despite increasing international attention, AMR governance has often neglected social and equity dimensions, and there is a crucial...

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Claas Kirchhelle and Lloyd Czaplewski on AMR governance and financing - The Lancet Microbe in conversation with Elena Dalla Vecchia talks with Claas Kirchhelle and Lloyd Czaplewski about the current antimicrobial resistance (AMR) governance (with a historical perspective on how it came to be), the 2015 WHO Glob...

Great fun to chat about #antimicrobials, #innovation & #AMR - including our recent stocktake of the (un)intended consequences of the WHO's 2015 Global Action Plan with Lloyd Czaplewski & Elena Dalla Vecchia on @lancetmicrobe.bsky.social "In Conversation"!

www.buzzsprout.com/1794195/epis...

Can AI Replace Social Science Researchers? No. No it can't. Come on, now.

Karpf: "If you think Claude Code is a better social scientist than you, then you’re probably right. But that means, at some point, you stopped trying to answer interesting/puzzling questions and started trying to win the publish-the-most-articles race." davekarpf.beehiiv.com/p/can-ai-rep...

Don’t trust Generative AI to do your taxes — and don’t trust it with people’s lives “The problem comes down to how A.I. chatbots are fundamentally designed”

Only use this technology for things that don’t matter, like corporate busywork

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Your regular reminder that the UK is in fact a high trust society and anyone who implies it isn’t is either selling you a pup or has bought one.

Timeline cleanse:
Baby tapir getting scritches for their itches.

If you want to scritch your very own tapir & you live outside of Central or South America or SE Asia, you'll need to visit a zoo.

But these little guys are (evolutionarily) from around here, in North America. Let's talk about it.

This hurts my head

This helps me to remember that imposter syndrome relies on circular logic: if you're a fraud then you must have outsmarted everyone.

Dive into Wool Creature Lab's World of Vibrant Felted Nudibranchs How artist Arina Bovenich's job at a remote biology research station transformed into a unique craft practice.

Wow, amazing #sciart via @thisiscolossal.com

Exciting research here on the development and lab evaluation of #CRISPR #POC tests for #STIs (chlamydia, gonorrhea, syphilis, HSV 1 /2)

Also very interesting they could detect S91F to predict cipro resistance in #gonorrhea

POC tests for STIs can be game-changers in many settings

#STIsky #IDsky

Historian here history first time as tragedy the second time as farce.

The Epstein scandal is a wake-up call — new rules are needed on links with rich donors A systemic failure of oversight allowed the sex offender Jeffrey Epstein to curry favour with academia. Stronger governance is urgently needed.

"The deeper lesson is unmistakable: faculty members must never be left to manage patron relationships without institutional oversight."

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

When the Default Is Inaction How Shared Clinical Decision-Making Became a Mechanism for Dismantling the Childhood Vaccine Schedule

"The policy asks the most of the practices that have the least, in the service of families who can afford it the least."

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How the Iran war could create a ‘fertiliser shock’ – an often ignored global risk to food prices and farming Without this form of fertiliser, crops will not produce yields on which the world’s population depends, leaving people starving.

"A prolonged disruption at Hormuz would not simply reprice crude; it would test the resilience of the industrial nitrogen cycle on which modern civilisation depends."

theconversation.com/how-the-iran...

small gray squirrel looking pissed off

Smol but angry squirrel is all of us #sqrlpix

Job opening: Professorship for Molecular Pharmacology at Marburg University, Germany.

We seek a scientifically outstanding researcher in the field of epithelial biology in inflammation, regeneration, and/or cancer.

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#WorldBookDay #Microbes #Microbiome

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