Have you seen this one? Dubbed the mad hatterpillar, it wears it's own old heads as a hat.
www.newscientist.com/article/mg24...
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Have you seen this one? Dubbed the mad hatterpillar, it wears it's own old heads as a hat.
www.newscientist.com/article/mg24...
"They put the number of cases connected to Sturgis in the range of 115,000-260,000, or 10 to 20% of all cases in the US at the time. This was just one month after the rally occurred & it was still spreading."
ICE has arrested and detained a Nashville journalist who reported stories critical of ICE. She’s married to a U.S. citizen and has been seeking asylum here after fleeing death threats in Colombia because of her journalism there.
They’ve already sent her to Louisiana.
@mmolteni.bsky.social of @statnews.com with the scoop on #Epstein and Harvard geneticist George Church. "Thirteen years later, the whereabouts of the sex offender’s skin cells are a mystery." www.statnews.com/2026/02/24/e...
Have been listening in to today's hearing. So far, she's dodged questions on vaccines and Tammy Baldwin noted Means made $325K shilling supplements over the last 2 years. But sure, vaccine advocates are the one making bank. 🙃
Who will be the first reporter to ask Trump for a comment? Lawrence Summers Will Resign From Harvard After Epstein Revelations www.nytimes.com/2026/02/25/u...
New from @katherineeban.bsky.social in @rollingstone.com: CDC appointees bypassed the agency’s scientists to rush-fund a study questioning the hep B birth dose. The ethics committee president says his name was used on the approval without his knowledge.
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
it’s very difficult for me to reread old pieces of mine, but I am sharing this for the Olympics, for nostalgia, for Asian American women of a certain age, for little Asian girls everywhere
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The $100 whole human genome sequence finally reached!
www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2026/02/19/s...
Hilarious
This is perhaps the most tragic of the consequences of the attack by Trump and colleagues on NIH. Gutting the next generation of American science 🧪
@lataco.bsky.social is raising money to launch a dedicated investigative news desk. If you've relied on their immigration coverage this year like I have, you know this is a worthy cause to support. givebutter.com/la-taco-inve...
This is the agency that is charged by law with preventing sexual assault in the workplace
Very strong "Al Capone arrested and in custody on suspicion of tax evasion" vibes.
Report: Staff at Dilley raiding cells to confiscate kids' letters and drawings detailing conditions inside
ProPublica published children's letters and drawings documenting their sadness and suffering at Dilley. And Dilley staff are now retaliating by confiscating kids' letters and drawings.
www.sacurrent.com/news/san-ant...
If you're an environmental journalist in the UK or Europe, the biggest gathering of ocean scientists in the world is happening in Glasgow next week, and you should consider coming to cover some of the most important findings about our life support system. #OSM26
A lot of institutions looks mighty foolish and boy is the damage already done. Have principles.
"I’m gratified that such a prestigious award can help this important, heartrending story find an even wider audience,” says editor in chief Ross McCammon. https://www.texasmonthly.com/press-room/texas-monthly-contributor-elliott-woods-wins-polk-award/
So proud of my niece, @lizzylawrence.bsky.social, an intrepid FDA reporter @statnews.com who has won a Polk award. A few months ago I sent her off in an Uber after dinner, then a half-hour later saw her name on a news alert. "Did you write that in the *car?*" I asked, amazed. But of course she did.😂
I believe O’Neill would be the second director in NSF history without a PhD, and the first without any sort of research background. (Eric Bloch, director from 1984-1990, was an engineer who worked at IBM.)
BREAKING: The Department of Education has ended its directive that attempted to restrict diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts in schools nationwide.
This is a victory for academic freedom and education equity.
STAT has won a prestigious George Polk Award for documenting the Trump administration’s shakeup of the FDA, scientific research, and public health. www.statnews.com/2026/02/18/s...
just renewed my stat subscription (and congrats to all the polk winners today!)
Thank you. You’re the best. Everyone be like public health guy. 💕
So thrilled @lizzylawrence.bsky.social and @statnews.com have won a Polk Award for our coverage of the Trump Administration assault on science+health. I couldn’t be prouder of our powerful coverage and the many stories we were first on. What a team. www.statnews.com/american-sci...
The FDA reversed course and told Moderna it would review its application for a new flu vaccine, the company announced Wednesday. www.statnews.com/2026/02/18/f...
It's been a year since Kennedy became health secretary. What has he accomplished? We updated our tracker: www.statnews.com/2025/09/10/r...
Laura Helmuth on panel at AAAS meeting.
”The information ecosystem is massively polluted, people are pickled in propaganda.” @laurahelmuth.bsky.social on misinformation and low public trust in science @aaas.org. “We‘re fighting an unfair fight.”
For a panel this morning at the #aaasmtg, the other speakers and I will share ideas and examples for improving trust in science. Here are a few I'll mention if I get a chance (we have a LOT to talk about). I'd love to hear yours. (1/7)
Joe Wright Helen Burstin and Shazia Siddique standing at podium at AAAS meeting.
“Safe care is equitable care,“ said @shaziamsiddique.bsky.social at our @aaas.org panel on removing harmful racial algorithms from medicine. “Think racism not race,” advised Joseph Wright. “There is complexity and the need for humility here,” said @helenburstinmd.medsky.social