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The winners of the 2025 International Booker Prize are breaking boundaries. The winners of this year’s International Booker Prize were announced this Tuesday. Congratulations are in order to Banu Mushtaq, author of Heart Lamp, and Deepa Bhashti, who translated the wi…

Congratulations are in order to Banu Mushtaq, author of Heart Lamp, and Deepa Bhashti, who translated the winning collection.

A photograph of Lenard Monkman wearing a plain black shirt and posing against an orange background

A graphic with a multi-coloured background and a quote from CJF President and Executive Director Natalie Turvey

A graphic with a multi-coloured background and a quote from Canadian Medical Association President Dr. Joss Reimer

A graphic with a multi-coloured background and a quote from selection committee chair and Pulitzer- and Peabody Award-Winning Journalist Connie Walker

The Canadian Journalism Foundation (CJF) is proud to announce that award-winning Anishnaabe journalist Lenard Monkman is the inaugural recipient of the CJF Indigenous Health Journalism Fellowship in partnership with the @cmadocs.bsky.social (CMA). Read: www.newswire.ca/news-release...

#CJFAwards

Restoring Gold Standard Science By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including section 7301 of title 5, United

This EO is a lot of words for a rule that basically says, political appointees will overrule scientists in deciding what the government considers factual information.

A tiny reef builder lighting up the ocean 🪸. This 1-month-old rice coral (Montipora capitata) glows 🟢 with natural GFP and 🟣 with symbiotic algae 🔬. Image taken by Emma Rangel-Huerta
#FluorescenceFriday #ScienceArt #DevBio

Doug Ford's Bill 5 will override Indigenous rights to force risky developments on traditional territories.
The people of Treaty 9 will stand up to defend the land.
Doug the grifter is about to taught a basic lesson in Canadian history.

“Indigenous resistance made the nation of Canada possible.”

“What these Conservatives fail to understand is this: we only have a country today because of the determination of Indigenous leaders like Tecumseh, who led the defence of Canada in 1812.”

So much respect for @charlieangus104.bsky.social

More and more chatter in COVID-aware and variant tracker spaces about a COVID summer wave. That includes from modelers who don't constantly and almost always erroneously predict an imminent surge. Notably, there are several multi-recombinant variants gaining significant ground.

#AskWHO Pandemic Accord: A landmark agreement YouTube video by World Health Organization (WHO)

#AskWHO Pandemic Accord: A landmark agreement

Watch Live: www.youtube.com/watch?v=_VVv...

A methodological review of patient healthcare-seeking journeys from symptom onset to receipt of care Background For many diseases, early diagnosis and treatment are more cost-effective, reduce community spread of infectious diseases and result in better patient outcomes. However, healthcare-seeking a...

“Our review revealed complex, often circular patterns involving both healthcare providers & informal caregivers. Our analyses track the number,type & sector (private, public or informal) of healthcare provider visits,offering a framework to capture key elements of these non-linear patient journeys.

China to donate $500 million to WHO, stepping into gap left by U.S. Beijing will replace the United States as the organization’s top state donor, expanding its influence as the U.S. retreats from international cooperation.

China will replace the United States as the WHO’s top state donor, expanding its influence as the U.S. retreats from international cooperation.

www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

My painting TOWERING STORM

At the #ESCMIDGlobal in Vienna, @msf.ca presented key research on #AMR:

🧪 Salmonella and #HIV in #DRC
📈 Antibiotic use in #Syria
🦠 #NICU outbreaks in #CAR and #Afghanistan
💊 Vancomycin dose monitoring in #Gaza
📚 SR on AMR in #Mozambique

Thank you!

#medsky #episky #microsky @escmid.bsky.social

Ireland is equipping 4,000 schools with free solar panels and interactive displays, making green energy a core part of education. A big step toward a sustainable future! 🌍☀️📚

🔗 fox59.com/business/press-re...

#ClimateAction

AOC: In every single stop that Bernie and I have had in the past couple of days… every single stop has completely blown out all attendance projections.

World map showing origin of the data

Our study ‘The global human impact on biodiversity’ is out in Nature!

Through an unprecedented synthesis (2133 studies!) we show that humans are not only shrinking species numbers—but reshaping entire communities across the planet. 🌍🌐🐟🌿🪲

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Federal agencies plan for mass layoffs as Trump's workforce cuts continue Thursday's deadline for federal agencies to submit plans for large-scale layoffs kicks off a new phase in the dramatic restructuring of how the government operates. Here's what that looks like.

Thursday's deadline for federal agencies to submit plans for large-scale layoffs kicks off a new phase in the dramatic restructuring of how the government operates. Here's what that looks like.

I really don't think this news has made sufficient shock waves.
Dr Katherine Calvin, NASA Chief Scientist Trump-Musk just fired, is the highest ranking American on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the IPCC. She is co-chair of Working Group 3 on mitigation. This is a climate attack.

Here is Jay speaking at an antivaxx conference in front of a slide that used Twitter survey data to claim COVID vaccines killed more than 500K people and helped fewer than 25K people. (COVID vaccines saved more than 20 million lives in their first year alone.) Jay is antivaxx and also bad at numbers

Most people do NOT check their blood pressure correctly

Because arteries get STIFFER with age
...3 BP readings should be taken at each sitting.

DISCARD the 1st one & record the AVERAGE of the next 2 readings.

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"This philosophy—supported by tech figures like Sam Bankman-Fried—fuels the AI research agenda, creating a harmful system in the name of saving humanity"

And of course now we have a paper on the topic:

➡️ Paper: firstmonday.org/ojs/index.ph...

➡️Talk: www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7XT...

CDC plans to waste time and taxpayers’ money chasing windmills in the midst of one raging epidemic (and on the precipice of several others) that would not have existed except for people who claimed fraudulently there was such a link in the first place (which there isn’t)

Bit longer headline but…

~200 cases in the Texas outbreak, double the count 2 weeks ago. 23 hospitalizations. 2 deaths

This outbreak was destined to be terrible bc of low rates of vaccination. Vaccine misinformation & skepticism at the highest levels of government means that more communities will become this vulnerable.

Mike Davis was born on this day in 1946.

“At the end of the day, the best measure of the humanity of any society is the life and happiness of its children. We live in a rich society with poor children, and that should be intolerable.”

You won't want to miss this one. Join @bsky.app CEO @jay.bsky.team for a conversation on the future of social and how users can take control over their own online experience at #SXSW. #Bluesky #JayGraber

Watch LIVE at 1pm CT: ow.ly/3K0U50Vccnj

You can’t have a functioning democracy with an uneducated populace.

White House may seek to slash NASA’s science budget by 50 percent “It would be nothing short of an extinction-level event for space science.”…

Trump's budget plan may cut NASA science funding by up to 50%, alarming scientists who call it an "extinction-level event" for space science. This threatens ongoing missions and would cede future space exploration to China. Also, about 30% of NASA's science budget is for Earth and climate science.

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mine will always be the sperm whale who reacted to a Roman soldier throwing a bottle at him off the Byzantine coast by sinking every ship he could off that coast for the next 60 years and had the emperor declare him an enemy of the state and name him after the Titan who attacked mount olympus

Photo of book Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler with an illustration of the character Lauren, sideview, in a long red and orange dress.

#BannedBookSkyClub

Don't forget! March 2025's book is #ParableOfTheSower by Octavia Butler.

I'll start posting talking points on Sunday, March 2, 2025, and post periodically throughout March.

See replies for link to Banned Book Club feed.

#BookSky