'What surprised them was that 16.3% of those babies received a neurodevelopmental diagnosis by three years, compared with 9.7% of the babies who were not exposed to COVID-19 in utero'.
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Three CIRES researchers are listed as 2025 Clarivate "Highly Cited Researchers 2025." The annual list celebrates researchers with significant and broad influence: Jennifer Balch, Noah Fierer, and Jose Jimenez! @cu-esiil.bsky.social @clarivate.com @noahfierer.bsky.social @jljcolorado.bsky.social
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PhD candidate @colorado.edu Rebecca Mesburis is going to give a Town Talk in #Nederland on Thursday. The town of Ned had a devastating fire recently in their town shopping center. Support #Ned and learn about mitigating indoor air quality impacts from #smoke! @jljcolorado.bsky.social
Also see the great study by Mesburis et al. (@jljcolorado.bsky.social and @gouwlab.bsky.social), which used some different approaches but arrived at the same conclusions. Air cleaners (legit ones) work, and enable other technologies (like GUV) to be used more safely.
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NYT: The Trump administration has drafted a plan to repeal a fundamental scientific finding that gives the United States government its authority to regulate greenhouse-gas emissions and fight climate change, according to two people familiar with the plan.
The article claiming that SARS-CoV-2 remains infectious in the air for 16 hours has been making the rounds on social media again.
I thought I would take this opportunity to discuss it, what it shows, what it doesn’t, and why I think it shouldn’t be taken seriously.
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A victory for the federal scientific workforce! We could not stand by while this irreparable harm continues at NSF, NOAA and all our scientific agencies.
TODAY the judge granted our request to temporarily HALT the mass firings at federal agencies under Trump’s Executive Order.
There is no need for this suffering.
The solutions are here, work well, way cheaper in the long term and magnitude better for our wellbeing.
-Electrify all homes including rentals and social housing.
-Ban gas connection to new homes.
-Plan the end of the residential gas network
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Nice: 49% strongly oppose withholding funds from universities, 23% strongly support www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
A new article estimates that even a 10% DECLINE in MMR vax coverage in the US could lead to 11 MILLION US measles cases over 25 years.
IF instead MMR coverage INCREASES by 5%, cases would falled to <10K.
Given infectiousness of Measlies, it's VITAL to ⬆️ MMR vax rates.
Measles info below 1/2
Last month, the CDC Division of Viral Hepatitis found the source of a Hepatitis C outbreak in Florida that state officials had been unable to solve since December. Now the entire Division has been fired, leaving investigations of outbreaks in OR, PA, MA, NM, WI, WV and GA, unsolved in addition to FL
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A square graphic with an aerial view of swirling ocean currents in teal and blue. Bold white text reads: “Only $21/year from the average taxpayer helps fund NOAA.”
A square infographic with a dark stormy ocean background. The white header text reads: “Your $21 funds these essential services.” Below are six dark blue boxes, each with a white icon and label: 1. Coastal Mapping – Detailed charts of shorelines, navigation hazards, and more 2. Weather Monitoring – Vital data for tracking storms, extreme heat, and drought 3. Marine Resource Management – Conservation of ocean life and sustainable fisheries 4. Coastal Resilience – Infrastructure that withstands storms and rising seas 5. Storm Research – Studies of severe weather patterns and impacts The graphic uses clean lines, oceanic tones, and emphasizes the small taxpayer cost for these vital environmental services.
Last one for Tax Day – NOAA 🌊
The average U.S. taxpayer contributes $21/year to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
💡 NOAA turns science into safety — for coasts, communities, & the climate. It helps safeguard lives, property, and ecosystems from rising seas and extreme weather.
Canadian academics warned against travel to the US
"Given the rapidly evolving political landscape and reports of individuals encountering difficulties crossing the border, CAUT strongly recommends that academic staff travel to the US only if essential and necessary"
www.caut.ca/latest/2025/...
The Trump administration is quietly carrying out a plan that aims to kill hundreds of bans on highly toxic “forever chemicals” and other dangerous compounds in consumer goods
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
A good article explaining the senseless destuction of one of the US's most critical research institutions www.nytimes.com/2025/04/11/o...
Some good news. Let’s accelerate this!
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Very pleased to see this from the UK PROTECT study published. There’s still gaps on translation to humans, infectious dose etc, but it adds further evidence that covid can transmit by airborne routes academic.oup.com/ofid/advance...
📃 Facts and myths about #measles
“Measles is a ‘canary in the coalmine’ for under-vaccination [...] knowing the facts about measles information and disinformation is key.”
Read and share the @thelancetinfdis.bsky.social’s April Editorial ➡️ hubs.ly/Q03g26gH0
A second child has died in the current US measles outbreak: An entirely avoidable tragedy and one more sign that this outbreak is probably much larger than reported numbers suggest and not going anywhere soon...
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Climate crisis on track to destroy capitalism, warns top insurer
"Action urgently needed to save the conditions under which markets – and civilisation itself – can operate, says senior Allianz figure"
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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We've added a page to the guide to point out further resources: those of @ukhadds.bsky.social , Andre Henriques & Al, and the World Health Organization. Our guide can be downloaded from letsair.org#mediation
NEW | Fossil fuels fall below 50% of US electricity for the first month on record 🇺🇸
Among all the turmoil, some positive news from the latest @ember-energy.org data for March 2025:
🏆↘️ The share of fossil fuels fell to a record low of 49.2%
🏆↗️ Wind and solar power hit a new record high of 24.4%
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Colleagues are cancelling their US work trips. I worry that international colleagues in the US are at risk if they collaborate with us on certain topics.
I've written a new post about the increasing danger of being a foreign scientist in the US.
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EPA Solidarity walks are happening TOMORROW, May 25th in cities across the United States! ☀️🌎💧
Check out the link below to learn more, join a walk, or find more information about how to advocate for the EPA. Clean water and air are human rights.
linktr.ee/EPAsolidarity
#scienceforall
“The head of the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention said a sharp drop in outside funding, spurred by a broad shutdown in most foreign aid by the Trump administration, will lead to two million to four million more deaths each year” www.cidrap.umn.edu/mpox/african...
The Great Barrington Declaration, but for chickens.
RFK Jr. is truly the stupidest motherfucker.
mRNA is at the forefront of cancer research, as well as vaccines
National Institutes of Health officials have now told scientists to remove all references to mRNA vaccines from their grant applications.
This means that all research in the field will be stopped and abandoned.
"Hospital staff are scrambling with damage control efforts implementing emergency masking policies and giving babies as young as 3 days old injections of immunoglobulin, an antibody that helps their fragile immune system try to fight off #measles."
www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
