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“The PMC estimates that there are approximately 565,000 new daily infections across the country. This elevated level of transmission means that roughly 1 in 87 Americans—or 1.2 percent of the population—is actively infectious on any given day.”

Heartbreaking

“Today, March 11th is the 178th anniversary of Canadian democracy. 178 years of unbroken, uninterrupted parliamentary democracy. Which makes Canada the oldest continuous democratic federation in the world.”
- John Ralston Saul

Happy Canadian democracy day peeps.

The age of animal experiments is waning. Where will science go next? Advances in organ and computer models are raising the prospect that some animal experiments could be eliminated. But there are still huge hurdles to overcome.

Ethical and animal-welfare concerns have long fuelled efforts to curb animal use in research — and now rapid advances in alternative scientific methods are accelerating the shift

go.nature.com/3P0OtCB

Thanks! Not mine unfortunately. And not on Kindle or Overdrive. I’ll keep looking.

Ohhh CJ Cherryh. I’ve just read and loved The Pride of Chanur. I can’t find any of the other books in the series.

OB-GYN tip of the day:
Fertility is influenced by age, health, genetics, and chance. It’s not a reward for “doing everything right.”

Routine reminder that there is no treatment for measles. But vaccination is 97% effective at preventing measles infection.

Guinea-Bissau suspends a US-funded vaccine trial as African scientists question its motives Officials from the US Department of Health and Human Services, which funded the controversial study, say that it will proceed as planned.

"Public health authorities in Guinea-Bissau say that they have suspended a controversial US-funded hepatitis B vaccine study..."

"African scientists question its motives" www.nature.com/articles/d41...

"...the trial denies a safe and life-saving intervention to infants..."

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We choose Canada • Nous choisissons le Canada YouTube video by Mark Carney

This is our country. This is our future. The choice is ours.

We choose Canada.

youtu.be/_MTTo8Qt6tU?...

Middle Cove, Newfoundland Northern Lights. #Aurora #Northerlights #Newfoundland #Canada

This is excellent! The audiobook is narrated by the author and is pure entertainment. The book has the conversational tone of Bill Bryson, but Alan Doyle’s knowledge and love of his subject shines through every line. If Newfoundland & Labrador are on your travel list this year, read this first!

Does anyone know
where the love of god goes
when the waves turn minutes to hours?
Lightfoot

Parents pick up their children as they are dismissed from a school in Mississauga, Ont., on Monday, Nov. 22, 2021.

Doctors fear CDC vaccine recommendation changes will fuel vaccine hesitancy in Canada https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/article/doctors-fear-cdc-vaccine-recommendation-changes-will-fuel-vaccine-hesitancy-in-canada/

More news → CanadaHealthwatch.ca 🍁

Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
Yeats

Happy New Year! 🎆

As expected, sadly, the radars once again lit up with MILLIONS of birds fleeing from #fireworks.

GIF of the @knmi.nl Herwijnen radar

See other years: horizon.science.uva.nl/fireworks/

Thread and more science below 🧪🪶

Here's a really easy New Year's Resolution:
If you're sick with something contagious, you will stay home if your circumstances allow.

If you can't stay home, you will mask around others until there is no possibility you are contagious.

By making these choices, you will literally save lives.

Protecting Africa's children from extreme risk: a runway of sustainability for PEPFAR programmes PEPFAR (President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief), a landmark US foreign health policy, is recognised for saving 26 million lives from HIV. PEPFAR investments have also had life-saving impacts for c...

Evil.

"Without continued PEPFAR programmes, models predict that by 2030, an additional 1 million children will become infected with HIV, 0·5 million additional children will die of AIDS, & 2·8 million children will additionally become orphaned by AIDS."

Study: www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Photo by M Sequiera Instragram @msequeiraphotography

The 🦅 is an aggressive carnivorous predator with speed, agility and weaponry. He also thinks he’s going to win.
The 🪿is a placid grass-eating migrant. But he’s stubborn, protective and fiercely loyal to home and family. He knows the 🦅 won’t win.

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Slava Ukraini 🇺🇦

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Wolf howling in a field of mixed sage and tall grass. Caption reads We are howling for justice.

We're not giving up our parks to developers and con men. Get in this fight and help us defend our parks.

Follow, retweet and repeat
@altyellonatpark.org

I am so tired of US politics. It is exhausting.

Try Persuasion by Arlene Dickinson

The censorship algorithm on Twitter reduced our audience by roughly 95%, and seriously, who does that to a wildlife biology & advocacy group ?
So we moved 😇 over here to BlueSky

If you could, please help us regain our following
Follow
Retweet and
Repeat ;-)

Together we can change the world.

Twillingate, Newfoundland #Newfoundland #Canada #Iceberg #Photography

A Rise in Unreasonable Doubts About Health Science - ConscienHealth In current discourse about health policy, dietary guidelines, and the future of FDA, unreasonable doubts can have profound effects.

A Rise in Unreasonable Doubts About Health Science conscienhealth.org/2024/12/a-ri...

Yep, doubt mongering driven by many forces, including:
- Misinformation & Oversimplification
- Personal Anecdotes Over Evidence
- Generating Mistrust of Institutions

Needed: > scicomm > relationships > equity