An upside-down food pyramid. Anti-vaxxers. MAHA influencers.
This week on More To The Story, infectious disease expert @jessicamalaty.bsky.social takes us inside the upended world of US health policy under RFK Jr.
After 35 years in the US, the awards honoring science that makes you laugh, then think, will be held in Zurich. Organizer @marcabrahams.mstdn.science.ap.brid.gy explains: "We cannot in good conscience ask the new winners, or the international journalists who cover the event, to travel to the USA"
🧵 The war on Iran reveals the total Trumpification of US power.
There’s no difference between Operation Metro Surge in MN and Operation Epic Fury in Iran. It’s a glitzy remake. Noem and Hegseth are the same character in the farce. Bondi and Rubio read from the same obsequious script. 1/3
A heads down approach will not save science. We need to speak up, live our values, and demand integrity.
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17% of Americans delayed or did not get healthcare for cost reasons—New analysis from KFF Health System Tracker. www.healthsystemtracker.org/chart-collec...
The Met Releases High-Definition 3D Scans of 140 Famous Art Objects: Sarcophagi, Van Gogh Paintings, Marble Sculptures & More www.openculture.com/2026/03/the-...
“The University of Wisconsin-Madison Academic Staff Assembly passed a resolution on Monday calling for UWPD to end their contract with Flock Safety and publish all other contracts with surveillance technology companies, like Motorola Safeties and Rhombus.”
The most impt change at #NIH and to US science this year is bigger than grant cancellations— it’s how the agency is governed.
For 75 years NIH has been largely independent of presidential control. That’s changed this year. New piece from me and @nataliebaviles.bsky.social in @nature.com
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The 12yo has declared it Chinese Mountain Cat Awareness Day!
Looking like a short, stocky, sandy domestic cat, this wildcat lives on the Tibetan Plateau, and is do elusive it wasn’t photographed in the wild until 2007.
I sincerely hope that there will not be another pandemic in my lifetime, but I suspect that's wishful thinking. When it hits we'll need some institutional memory of lessons learned getting serological assay up and running with limited materials and knowledge but a desperate need. 1/n
the most important state election of early 2026 is right around the corner… though you’d never know it by the attention it’s receiving.
here’s hoping this bolts article helps jumpstart a little more chat!
Love is in the air at Edinburgh zoo. Pebbling marks the start of the breeding season for Gentoo penguins.
Kids at Edinburgh Children's Hospital Charity painted pebbles for the penguins to choose from and present to their mates.
But they can't spell your name!
The Infectious Disease Control & Prevention page added 12 new items to our timeline. Amid worrying increases in measles, TB, and whooping cough outbreaks, we are seeing further erosion and politicization of public health organizations and networks.
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This week, our big briefing is focused on trans healthcare, and we have quick updates from the Archives & History, Data Security, and Infectious Disease Control & Prevention teams.
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Municipales à Lyon : pour s’assurer du soutien des animalistes, Jean-Michel Aulas veut remplacer des animaux du zoo par des hologrammes
Outdoor fruit stand with huge pyramid of oranges and tall round banana display.
they’re just begging for a car chase
Download 60,000 Works of Art from the National Gallery, Including Masterpieces by Van Gogh, Gauguin, Rembrandt & More
A cartoon from the 1950’s that’s more relevant than ever 💔
NEWSNATION: What will you do to ensure at some point there's an exit strategy in place?
SEN. RON JOHNSON: Well, the greatest restraint on any president is public opinion. President Trump is a peace-monger. I'm not overly concerned about this turning into a long-term engagement
PEPFAR, the program to stop hundreds of thousands of children and adults from dying of HIV/AIDS, was $6.5 billion a year.
It’s fine. Plans to combat the worst outbreak of the MOST contagious disease known to medicine can definitely wait 9 months. We’ll only have 4,000-10,000 new cases by then, and likely a few dead kids ☠️☠️☠️
This is a great awards program for science communication. Enter now (before April 3) and/or please encourage others to do so. Categories include researchers (early, mid- & late career), journalists, independent & institutional. From @nationalacademies.org & @schmidtsciences.bsky.social
A recent Washington Post headline posed the blatantly eugenicist question, “Is autism preventable in certain cases after all?” and posited its answer as “some scientists say yes.” @ejwillingham.bsky.social shreds the article to bits, in the latest TPGA newsletter:
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Do you like ANIMALS? Do you like #WORDLE ? Then you should try... www.animordle.com The Wordle Game with Animals Names
Thank you Rohit Singhal for creating word.rodeo &
@mammalssuck.bsky.social
for making March Mammal Madness #2026MMM. They served as inspiration for #animordle.
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."
-Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953
The @whyshoulditrustyou.bsky.social team asked some tough questions of NIH Director Bhattacharya. It's worth a listen: substack.com/home/post/p-...
I wanted to add some additional context on Bhattacharya's responses. Sorry, long thread.
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It’s insane this is legal. People around Trump are profiting off war and death. I’m introducing legislation ASAP to ban this.
This draft Trump EO on voting is even nuttier than you imagined. Zeroing out all voter rolls and making everyone re-register in person. Mandatory annual online re-registration. Requiring anyone casting an absentee ballot to find a notary. No dropboxes. All post-election disputes federalized. 😟
