Geoff Millikan

What effect does this have on the atmosphere? More rain?

You sure that’s support? The most powerful person in the world is well known to love over the top praise and when he doesn’t get it, he’s repeatedly shown he’s vindictive. This is CEO’s kissing the ring, keep their companies in good standing

Good write up by the study’s authors. Suggest reading if you’re in a workplace with other employees.

A few have asked me about this.

XFG is the main lineage in the US at the moment.

If there is a choice between a JN.1 or an LP.8 vaccine, I would take LP.8.

If you missed our coverage on the BBC yesterday of the World Humanoid Robot Games in #Beijing, here’s a taste in two parts… #China

Let's take a look at some of the rhetoric RFK Jr. has used over the last couple of years in describing the CDC.

First up, search his statements on X: x.com/search?q=fro...

I'll show a few examples in the following.

"cesspool" "crooked", etc.

Email from an nih.gov email address addressed to Jenna Norton saying they are removing the KICC meeting summary due to “unauthorized language” including “health equity” and “racial/ethnic”

Jay Bhattacharya says that Program Officers made up banned words lists at NIH.

This is a real email I got at NIH. (Granted, before Jay started.) But nothing has changed since he joined.

I refused to censor the summary, so it remains unposted. And I have tried since Jay arrived.

Stop coaching women to 'lead like a man' Stop coaching women to 'lead like a man'. Here's what to do instead.

Instead of telling women:
- Avoid weak language: Call it strategic language
- Be authoritative: Use participative leadership
- Master self-promotion: Share credit generously
- Don't be emotional: Balance authenticity & discretion
See my latest @fastcompany.com
www.fastcompany.com/91363032/sto...

Amazing how far up the hill the wave comes. Dog almost doesn’t make it!

Why So Many Women Are Quitting the Workforce Labor force participation among women has started falling again in 2025.

Return-to-office policies are not proven to make companies more productive. Many CEOs who reported women quitting said they were struggling to fill jobs because of that loss of female employees and that their overall workforce productivity is down. time.com/7306896/wome...

ТАСС ❗️Волна цунами высотой 3-4 метра зафиксирована в Елизовском районе Камчатки, сообщили власти.

Tsunami waves of up to 13 feet recorded in Yelizovsky in Kamchatka Krai, Russia, state-linked media says, following preliminary magnitude 8.7 earthquake

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All women — not just mothers — could benefit from more workplace flexibility New research highlights that the career outcomes of both women with and without children are negatively impacted by engaging in unpaid labour.

Study finds for women without children, an unequal division of cognitive labor (anticipating, filling and monitoring household needs) was a predictor of emotional exhaustion. For mothers, it was unequal child-care responsibilities.
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🔴⚠️🔥♨️🇬🇷🇹🇷The E.#Mediterranean is engulfed by smoke of #wildfires from the #Balkans to #Turkey.Last 6hrs by meteosat-12 #MTGI1 with main fires in #Greece and Turkey.#Evia #Messinia #Kythira #Crete.Devastation in the forests of #Karabük and the city of #Bursa #climateemergency

FDA’s cancer review team overseeing breast and gynecological products has lost about 1/3 of its medical review staff and the malignant heme group will lose about 2/3 of its medical review staff—all to voluntary resignations clustered among seasoned reviewers

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‘It’s heartless, it’s careless, and it’s deeply damaging’ says former NIH director on cuts to medical research | CNN Dr. Francis Collins, former director of the National Institutes of Health, speaks to Christiane Amanpour about his decision to leave the agency and what he says is the Trump administration’s crackdown...

Straight talk from Dr. Francis Collins on the devastating - and politically motivated - cuts to science and public health in the United States.

Anybody who cares about their health or the future or science, technology, and innovation in this country should watch this.

www.cnn.com/2025/07/25/T...

If we want men to be less lonely, we should start by socializing them in boyhood to be part of a shared project of care. Give them dolls, toy kitchens, and tea sets. Ask them to help care for younger children. Expect them to clean up after themselves. Let them feel the work and value of care. 1/

Study: For 60 Years, Kids' TV Cast Boys As Doers And Girls As Passive New research reveals that the language in kid’s TV is reinforcing harmful gender stereotypes, and that little has changed in 60 years.  In some cases, it’s getting worse.

Study of 6,600 episodes of kids’ TV over 60 years finds boys portrayed as ‘doers’ and girls as passive. And male characters still dominate dialogue, 50% more than female characters. @kimelsesser.bsky.social www.forbes.com/sites/kimels...

I expanded this thread about the hypocrisy of HHS and NIH leadership for spending half a billion dollars on an ancient vaccine technology that was tested with “dangerous gain-of-function” research.

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Being Too Helpful At Work Can Hurt Your Career—Here’s How To Say No Women are more likely to take on behind-the-scenes duties at work—extra tasks like onboarding or event planning—and it's hurting their careers. Here's how to say no.

In a study of professors, women got 378 new work requests over 4 weeks vs 118 for men. Women spent more time on service, advising & teaching; men on research. Orgs should track who is taking extra duties & ensure they are rewarded and distributed fairly. www.forbes.com/sites/kimels...

Excerpt from proposed NOAA budget showing zero funding for Climate Laboratories and Cooperative Institutes

Proposed NOAA budget zeros out ALL climate laboratories and cooperative institutions.

GFDL, NSSL, GML, etc.

This appears to also end the US greenhouse gas sampling network, including at Mauna Loa, the oldest continuous carbon dioxide monitoring site on Earth.

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It’s blowing out to the desert from west to the east, which is mostly away from normally populated areas (I believe). And not much smoke getting into populated areas so not a lot of questions from general population. Just my $0.02

I can see him doing that fairly 😂

Everything that’s happened over the past six months has been a response to an imaginary crisis. There is no immigrant invasion. No trade crisis. No scientific or governance crisis. Just people completely high off their own supply trying to fundamentally reorder society. None of this had to happen.

Hot weather is rapidly melting California’s snowpack. Here’s where the water is going Warm weather this week is melting snow in Yosemite National Park and fueling waterfalls.

Several California rivers fed by snowmelt are expected to hit their spring peak flows in the coming days amid a spell of warm, sunny weather. The Merced River at Pohono Bridge and the Tuolumne River at Hetch Hetchy, both in Yosemite National Park, are forecast to reach maximum flow May 11. #CAwx

Enjoyed this wide ranging discussion of how we use data and models in epidemic response:

Please note, the National Weather Service has NOT yet been granted a public safety exemption, despite the order reading:

"This memorandum does not apply to military personnel of the Armed Forces or to positions related to immigration enforcement, national security, or public safety"

From CNN Medical Correspondent Meg Tirrell: “Among cuts at HHS: most of the workers at NIOSH, incl Pittsburgh national lab that approves and ensures continued quality of respirators - N95s + breathing devices for firefighters, miners, people working w chemicals, construction dust.”

“Nothing is […]

Column | Bid to help new parents in Congress turns into proxy for pandemic wars Five years after the pandemic created pitched, partisan fights over congressional duties, a bipartisan duo of new mothers have run into a buzzsaw fallout from the covid era.

When Rep Wasserman Schultz ran for Congress, pregnant in 2004, her opponent said, "You can be a good member of Congress or a good mother [but not] both at the same time.”Not true. Congress should allow parental leave & proxy voting for lawmakers w/new children. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Cool, followed!