Unsplash image of the Earth, mostly the nightside with a tracery of city lights on every continent.

OK, this is wild.

In September 2023, geophysicists across the world started monitoring a very odd signal coming from the ground under them.

It was picked up in the Arctic. And Antarctica. It was detected everywhere, every 90 seconds, as regular as a metronome, for *nine days*.

What the HELL?

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12.05.2025 15:20 — 👍 22537    🔁 7748    💬 752    📌 1498

RFK Jr talking about the need for doctors to know how to treat measles for those who are unvaccinated.

“Only very sick kids should die from measles.”

No. They shouldn’t. That was the point of the vaccine. We eradicated the virus so children didn’t die.

Sick & disabled kids are not expendable!

11.05.2025 20:31 — 👍 14431    🔁 3978    💬 1004    📌 1197

Explosion of formulaic research articles, including inappropriate study designs and false discoveries, based on the NHANES US national health database The combination of AI and national health databases offers opportunities, but may also be exploited by unethical agents. This study shows that there has been an explosion of formulaic research article...

In PLOS 🧪, discover AI-based data dredging, and health science paper mills fueled by on-demand misleading results at an industrial scale.

journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

08.05.2025 19:43 — 👍 27    🔁 17    💬 2    📌 2

There is something refreshingly honest about moving the goalpost this blatantly. Adjusting for multiple testing? Not in my house ☝️

30.04.2025 22:20 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

If the NIH gets messed up, there is no alternative. Not just in the US, but globally. It is by far the biggest engine of health research in the world. Which is why the idea that US scientists can just do their work elsewhere is a little fanciful.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/politicizi...

20.03.2025 13:07 — 👍 635    🔁 299    💬 12    📌 18

Ég styð Magnús Karl sem rektor HÍ og hvet öll á kjörskrá að gera slíkt hið sama.

-HÍ þjónar samfélaginu með því að gera það sem hann á að gera vel: rannsóknir og kennsla

-Rektor þarf að hafa burði til að berjast fyrir skólann

-Magnús hefur spilað í efstu deild rannsókna, veit hvað þarf til

17.03.2025 14:10 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Wow. "NIH" canceled my co-mentored (with Dave Sulzer) PhD student's F31 funding. His work is on understanding the genetics and neuroscience of language learning disorders. F31 provides no indirect $ to Columbia, just pays his salary. Not that it should matter, but he's an American citizen. W.T.F.

11.03.2025 12:41 — 👍 520    🔁 222    💬 21    📌 17