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💼DOROTHY EU COFUND fellow 🔵Physoc Trustee 👂🏼Pronounced “Fair-on” 🌏Karolinksa Institute, Sweden previously Maynooth Uni IRL, Uni of Galway IRL, QMUL London UK, Uni of Nottingham UK, TCD Dublin IRL 🥼obesity-assoc cancer immunology ❤️wild swimming ⚧️She/her
⏳ Deadline Jan. 14 (11:59 PM MST)! Submit abstracts/apply for scholarships for Tumor Microenvironment / Inflammation Resolution.
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Cassiar, BC, was an idyllic place to grow up.
More than 30 years after the asbestos mine closed, some former residents believe their cancer diagnosis is linked to their time there — and they struggle to find supports.
First in a two-part @thetyee.ca series:
thetyee.ca/News/2026/01...
Can never repost this 2025 finding enough:
91,000 deaths EVERY YEAR in the United States are caused by air pollution from oil and gas.
That’s 250 funerals a day
That’s the human sacrifice required for running our economy via extracting and burning fossilized Devonian corpses
You good with that?
USDA U.S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE DATE: November 8, 2025 SUBJECT: Updated Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) November Benefit Issuance TO: Regional Directors SNAP Division All Regions SNAP State Agency Directors All State Agencies This memorandum is a follow up to the guidance shared on October 10, October 24, November 4, November 5, and November 7, 2025, regarding Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits for November 2025. The U.S. Supreme Court granted the U.S. Department of Agriculture an administrative stay of the orders issued by the District Court of Rhode Island in Rhode Island State Council of Churches, et al. v. Rollins, 25-cv-569. Pending any explicit direction to the contrary from Food and Nutrition Service (FNS), States must not transmit full benefit issuance files to EBT processors. Instead, States must continue to process and load the partial issuance files that reflect the 35 percent reduction of maximum allotments detailed in the November 5 guidance. To the extent States sent full SNAP payment files for November 2025, this was unauthorized. Accordingly, States must immediately undo any steps taken to issue full SNAP benefits for November 2025. Please advise the appropriate FNS Regional Office representative of steps taken to correct any actions taken that do not comply with this memorandum. Per 7 CFR 271.7(h), failure to comply with this memorandum may result in USDA taking various actions, including cancellation of the Federal share of State administrative costs and holding States liable for any overissuances that result from the noncompliance.
The US Department of Agriculture has ordered that "states must immediately undo any steps taken to issue full SNAP benefits for November 2025".
Can better understanding misogyny stop gun violence? @bradgage.bsky.social talks to extremism expert and Man Up author @milleridriss.bsky.social for the Real Feels podcast:
Online now: TCR signaling via NFATc1 constrains IL-15-induced bystander activation of human memory CD8+ T cells
excited to read this preprint from rabinowitz lab- how does the body decide which nutrients are burned, and how can this go wrong in T2 diabetes?
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Every time someone says “We DoNt kNoW hOw To Do GoOd ScICoMm!” a meteorologist loses their wings**.
**shit
"43% drop in peanut allergies"
Good example of how science evolves.
And "how a public health recommendation can change children’s health.”
And how good research (support, pls) informs policy.
Peanut Allergies Have Plummeted in Children, Study Shows www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/w...
Early intro to diet no doubt a huge effect, is there also a role for reduced use of peanut oil in baby ointments?
Oh here’s another hill I like to die on.
No outdoor cats. If you have outdoor cats you’re a self absorbed asshole and should not be allowed to have pets.
Meanwhile in the UK
"Do you think it was wrong to leave the EU?"
"Yes."
"And yet you would vote for the people who told you leaving the EU is a good idea?"
"Sure, why not?"
Super interesting! What do you think could be the reason for this difference in response? And did you look at far red?
Our newest publication is out, and it is most certainly a colorful one!!
Using carefully controlled experiments in keratinocytes, we show that different light wavelengths affect cell metabolism and integrity in different manners.
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My linocut print of mathematician & astronomer Nicole-Reine Lepaute (1723-1788) in a vertical gradient (bottom to top) of bright pink to lavender on white paper. She wears a wig and gown and the portrait is from the chest to head. Her 12 diagrams of the phases of the annular the solar eclipse of 1764 as viewed from Paris appear across her shoulders. Behind her head in green is her map of the path of the eclipse across Europe.
For day 12 of #spacetober_challenge prompt eclipse: #mathematician & #astronomer Nicole-Reine Lepaute (1723-1788) and her calculated path of the solar eclipse of 1764. 🧪🐡👩🏼🔬🧮🔭 #histsci She also worked with Alexis Clairaut & Jérôme Lalande to precisely calculate the date of return of Halley’s Comet, 🧵
Awesome public health news:
Maldives becomes the first country to achieve ‘triple elimination’ of
1. mother-to-child transmission of HIV,
2. Syphilis and
3. Hepatitis B
www.who.int/news/item/13...
Remarkable recovery of the Klamath River salmon. Many thanks to the agencies, Tribes, and NGOs who came together to remove dams and monitor the recovery of the Klamath River salmon. And kudos, too, to the indigenous youth who paddled source to sea on the newly freed river
I am open to the idea that there are people who don't have and don't want to gain the skills to engage directly with their data but every single day that I do I learn the answer to a question you'd never even think to ask unless you were personally staring into the abyss of an uncleaned dataset.
Genuinely thrilled to share our new story with the world - an amazing collaboration with @profsharona.bsky.social and Bill Zagotta using their innovative FRET technique to study mitofusin conformational changes. Huge credit to Sophie Hurwitz for tackling this project. urldefense.com/v3/__https:/...
Asthma is a chronic disease characterized by acute, intermittent, recurrent episodes of airway inflammation. A decade of work developing the tools, techniques and collaborations needed to figure out how CD4+ T cells in the lungs propagate disease can be found here:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
The Venezuelan opposition leader was forced to go into hiding in 2024 after being banned form standing in that year’s election.
Immigrant scientists make a massive contribution wherever they go
More than 30% of this century’s science Nobel prizewinners immigrated
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
"We're doing the studies to make the proof."
This is not how Gold Standard Science works. Or any science. You do the study to TEST THE HYPOTHESIS, not to prove yourself right.
Implantation is inherently a mechanical process. We find contractility is necessary and sufficient for spreading behaviors. We can artificially age embryos from young females and even rescue aged embryo spreading just by tuning contractility!
THIS IS THE WAY.
Everyone gets their knickers in a twist when I say we can’t sci-comm our way out of this mess…but maybe you’ll listen to the more eloquent and measured @edyong209.bsky.social!
This isn’t happening because people don’t appreciate the brilliance of the double helix structure.
The remarkable number of people, me included, who were inspired by her work, life and example is the biggest tribute. Find a way to honor her memory. The wolrd is a bit smaller and sadder with her gone
The language of non-consent around AI is really telling. "It's too late to be scared." "It's here whether we want it or not." "You'll have to learn to work with it." "You can't fight the inevitable."
All just variations of "you're not allowed to say no." Creepy technology made by creepy people.
"In 2012, 60 trans-related articles were published by Britain’s media. By 2022, it was more than 7,500, according to figures from Trans Media Watch. The media is not responding to public rage against vulnerable minorities; it is helping to create it." www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/709...
Check out this new thermo-hot paper from the @colllab.bsky.social Lab. Glad to contribute and work with her team.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
