Zane Mitrevica

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Rare, dangerous side effects of some COVID-19 vaccines explained “Groundbreaking” study uncovers why adenovirus-based shots caused life-threatening blood clots and bleeding in some people

Five years after the rollout of Covid-19 vaccines started, it seems the mystery of why the Astra-Zeneca and J&J vaccines led to a rare but deadly side effect of unusual blood clots and bleeding has finally been solved. 

It's a fascinating case of molecular mimicry that may help make vaccine safer.🧪

This is a criminal attempt at destruction and silencing of knowledge. And it’s very intentional, in light of the leading role Georgian academics and students have played in protests against authoritarian rule

Hesitation is costly in sports but essential to life – neuroscientists identified its brain circuitry There are specific parts of the brain that trigger hesitation in times of uncertainty.

A fun article about our work and the Olympics.
There's some interesting relationships between skiing and basal ganglia function. Also see the front of @cmu.edu 's homepage!
@cmuscience.bsky.social @cmu-neuroscience.bsky.social @ahmarilab.bsky.social

theconversation.com/hesitation-i...

Do you think they’d ban someone honouring people died in a natural disaster or an accident or because of an illness? I doubt it. Meanwhile, Russia can kill you and be sure institutions like that will look away coz Russia made your death “political” and “we don’t talk politics here. It’s a bad taste”

⚡️ BREAKING: International Olympic Committee has banned Vladyslav Heraskevych from using a custom helmet featuring images of Ukrainian athletes killed by Russia at the 2026 Olympics.

If Epstein is Trending, Why Isn’t +1.7°C? The news cycle has become a hall of mirrors: Epstein, Trumpism, war, outrage, retribution. A thousand scandals designed to keep us anxious, tribal, and tired. We have to hold multiple truths at once: ...

"This is the hard truth I want to land: climate does not care what’s trending. It’s not interested in Jeffrey Epstein, Gaza, or Greenland. There is no algorithmic mercy. Physics is physics, and it is getting more abrupt."
#climatecrisis #ElNino #auspol www.lyrebirddreaming.com/post/we-are-...

✨ New 3D pose estimation method from my lab! #FMPose3D allows for monocular (i.e. single camera) 2D➡️3D 🔥

Led by Ti Wang & w/ Xiaohang Yu #FMPose3D is SOTA on human & animal 3D benchmarks, & will be integrated into @deeplabcut.bsky.social ⬇️

📝 arxiv.org/abs/2602.05755
➡️ xiu-cs.github.io/FMPose3D/

Everyone deserves an obituary, but this woman especially.

Trump: "Some very good things happening on Ukraine and Russia. Very good things."

Very good things? Like the humanitarian disaster they caused in Kyiv? Today’s attack on the passenger train in Kharkiv region, or the bombing of a residential building in Odesa? WHAT GOOD THINGS?

Jeb, kā vakardienas Krustpunktā šī temata sakarā norādīja Latvijas otrā augstākā amatpersona, "redziet, Jūs runājat tikai par sliktām lietām".

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The ICE Storm: a year-long escalation Funding, law, rhetoric, violence. How each has fed the other to lead here

The killings in Minneapolis didn’t come out of nowhere.

Funding, legal cover, weakened oversight, and dehumanising rhetoric ramping up over a year. This started on 20 Jan 2025 with Trump's executive orders on immigration.

I lay it out in my latest post.

christinapagel.substack.com/p/the-ice-st...

"The world is not collapsing, but our illusions are. We can't continue as before."-Foreign Minister Baiba Braže at opening of the Latvian Foreign and Security Policy Yearbook.
President Egils Levits 2019—2023: sad, but the rules-based world order has ended. The EU must switch from observer to actor.

I remember the celebration of this ⬇️ and had a tiny hope three years ago that things might get better. But no. The obsession with this term is still there across Western media.

Incredible clarity. This is the best conceptual connection I have seen between the failures of our information ecosystem and the rise of populist and conspiratorial forces

A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.

The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.

Here comes the video analysis:
- Pretti was shot 10 times after they took his gun
- He never "brandished" the gun, assaulted an agent
- They repeatedly pepper sprayed him at point blank range and beat him when he was down
- He was attempting to help a woman who an agent threw to the ground (battery)

in case you're curious about how angry Minnesota is about ICE, it was -20 today

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The Valueless Presidency America is no longer Europe's ally. Stop bleating about NATO. It's already gone.

Thought-provoking piece by @lewisgoodall.com. He argues that the US under Trump is no longer from the UK perspective a
- military ally (Greenland)
- strategic ally (Russia/Ukraine)
- political ally (NSS calling for empowering far-right in Europe)
- economic ally (tariffs)

Nudien! Tur teju katrs teikums ir kā naglai uz galvas. Mūsu augstāko amatpersonu retorika pasaules notikumu kontekstā rada tik mokošu kognitīvo disonansi, ka ir ārkārtīgi patīkami dzirdēt tiešu valodu un strukturētu domu izklāstu no vismaz kāda valsts vadītāja.

Vērts izlasīt vai noklausīties — sevišķi tiem priekšstāvjiem Saeimā, kuri Trampa prezidentūru Latvijai vērtē "ar plusa zīmi".

"when we only negotiate bilaterally with a hegemon, we negotiate from weakness. [..] It is the performance of sovereignty while accepting subordination."

This line graph illustrates the percentage change in agency staff levels from the previous year for nine major U.S. federal scientific and health organizations between the fiscal years 2016 and 2025. The agencies tracked include the CDC, Department of Energy, EPA, FDA, NASA, NIH, NIST, NOAA, and NSF. For the majority of the timeline between 2016 and 2023, the agencies show relatively stable fluctuations, generally staying within a range of +5% to -5% change per year. However, there is a dramatic and uniform plummet starting in the 2024–25 period. Every agency depicted shows a sharp downward trajectory, with staffing losses ranging from approximately -15% to over -25%. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) shows the most significant decline, dropping to roughly -26%, while the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) shows the least severe but still substantial drop at approximately -15%.

This is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again.

www.nature.com/immersive/d4...

I love everything about Cow Tools -- this is peak Current Biology, one of the few journals with a personality.

Wikipedia’s Baltic Battle: Estonian Journalists Warn of Coordinated Pro-Soviet Edits, Lithuania Reports Similar Targeting Estonian and Lithuanian media have recently reported coordinated mass Wikipedia edits aimed at normalizing the Soviet occupation of the Baltic states as legitimate statehood.

Wikipedia’s Baltic Battle: Estonian Journalists Warn of Coordinated Pro-Soviet Edits, Lithuania Reports Similar Targeting - The Baltic Sentinel balticsentinel.eu/8394326/wiki...

👀 #newpreprint:

🎮 Real-time Pong gameplay after #spinalcordinjury by learning to control just one motor unit from paralysed muscle - no implants.

Co-led by @juangallego.bsky.social and Dario Farina, with work carried out at @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social.

📄👉🔗 shorturl.at/RYuYG

@taragarnett.bsky.social made the crucial point: the real gains won't come from converting people to veganism, but from many people cutting back on overconsuming meat.

The good news that cutting back would save lives from poor health.

Dear Sir Paul, Re: Royal Society Code of Conduct I am sure that many scientists have written to you about the specific question of Elon Musk’s Fellowship and whether, under the Royal Society’s Code of Conduct, his retaining that Fellowship is appropriate. I will not rehash these issues. Instead, as a female scientist with extensive experience of activities aiming to increase equality, diversity and inclusion in the engineering and physical sciences sector, I am writing to you (in a personal capacity) to ask you to reconsider the statements you have recently made in this context to the UK press about the Royal Society’s Code of Conduct and how it is applied. A 2018 report from the joint National Academies of the United States of America, concluded that “sexual harassment is common in academic science, engineering, and medicine” and that “greater than 50 percent of women faculty and staff and 20–50 percent of women students encounter or experience sexually harassing conduct in academia”. This report described codes of conduct that make clear that sexual harassment is unethical and will not be tolerated as a “powerful incentive for change”. The authors also noted that sexual harassment can have significant and damaging effects on the integrity of research. In my own praxis, I have found that clear and consistently-implemented codes of conduct that address these issues make female scientists and engineers safer, and allow them to focus more effectively on their research. For codes of conduct to have such a positive effect, it is vital that sanctions for actions which transgress the code are meaningful and substantial.

I was hence aghast to realise that in an interview with the Financial Times published on 9/1/26, you appear to have suggested that the Royal Society “should only expel fellows if their science proved “faulty or fraudulent or highly defective””. Moreover, in a further interview with the Guardian on 11/1/26 you suggested that the code “may need to be looked at again”, with the implication that your aim would be to remove the option of sanctions on Fellows for reasons not strictly related to faults or defects in their research. I suggest that changing the Royal Society’s code of conduct so that the likelihood of serious sanctions for sexual harassment is reduced, would directly endanger women who interact with the Royal Society at events or otherwise, and would provide a licence to harass to the already powerful people on whom the Society bestows fellowship. The implications of your words - that under your leadership the only infringements of the code which are likely to receive the sanction of the Fellowship being removed are those related to research misconduct - already risk empowering harassers. You stated, in the Financial Times interview, that “there’s many bad people around, but they have made scientific advances”. Given this awareness of the possibility of bad actors in our scientific community, it is wholly irresponsible to suggest that the Royal Society would not act to sanction these people if they harass more vulnerable scientists. I am hence writing to request that you retract any suggestion that the Society’s Code of Conduct should be changed so that the only reason a Fellow might be sanctioned by the removal of their Fellowship is “faulty or fraudulent or highly defective” research. This action is necessary to safeguard female scientists, a requirement placed on the Society by safeguarding legislation and UK statutory guidance. Yours sincerely, Professor Rachel A. Oliver.

Following coverage over the weekend of Sir Paul Nurse's comments that suggested that the only reason that a Fellow should be expelled from @royalsociety.org is scientific misconduct, I have written to him to explain the risks such an attitude poses of increasing sexual harassment in STEM.