Aimee Curtright

Federal mRNA funding cut is 'most dangerous public health decision' ever, expert says Many public health experts and scientists say they are stunned by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr’s decision to cancel nearly half a billion dollars in federal funding for future vaccine develop...

It’s mind boggling how many additional people this administration is killing.

“I have been in this business for over 50 years on the front lines of public health…And I can say unequivocally that this was the most dangerous public health decision I have ever seen made by a government body.”

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Opinion | The Elite Panic at the Heart of Liberal Attacks on Mamdani

“Democrats are supposed to know better”

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/27/o...

Y’all I dunno about you, but I’m feeling pretty sad from all of the reposting of “open to work” for people that I like and respect. It shouldn’t be like this.

Meet the early career scientists planning to leave the United States Decreased funding, reduced opportunities and growing uncertainty has made life tough for international postdocs living in the US.

Decreased funding, reduced opportunities and growing uncertainty has made life tough for international postdocs living in the US

go.nature.com/4mg4ct9

Thirdly, dudes need to get a life

The DNC needs to rein this stuff in because letting it continue (a) risks burning out its small dollar donors and (b) makes it harder for advocacy groups to reach our members and activate them around key votes.

Opinion | I Covered the Epstein Case for Decades. These Are the 9 Questions We Actually Need Answered.

Question No. 10:
What can be done to ensure that this kind of thing never happens again?

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/o...

Accelerating increase in the duration of heatwaves under global warming Nature Geoscience - The duration of long heatwaves increases at an accelerating rate with warming such that a large increase in the risk of long-lasting heatwaves results from relatively modest...

As the planet warms, heatwaves don’t just increase — they increase in duration faster with each degree rise in temperature. Something to look forward to. 🥵

Can you point me to your first McRib reference? It’s been with us so long that I’ve never thought to ask until now

This ⬇️

Thing I think about a lot

How long does it take people to realize they’re on the wrong side of history?

Decarbonizing Aviation with Electrochemical Fuels This report describes barriers to large-scale development of electrochemical sustainable aviation fuels (SAFs) using captured carbon dioxide. It offers recommendations for philanthropic organizations ...

Aviation will be one of the hardest sectors to #decarbonize.
We found that electrochemical fuels (e-fuels) will require (much) more innovation to become part of the solution. Absent strong policy signals, it's not likely to take off. ✈️ In the meantime, hop on a train. 🚅

www.rand.org/pubs/researc...

In midnight move, CMU students roll in new fence to protest closure of free speech icon Under the cover of darkness, CMU students erected a new ‘fence’ to demonstrate free speech after university leadership restricted a mainstay of student expression.

“For the first time in 100 years, The Fence is shut down.”

www.publicsource.org/cmu-students...

Yes

National Weather Service map of the US showing a variety of colored warnings, including heat advisories across the southeast and the south into the plains, as well as flood warnings in Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, West Virginia, and Kentucky, and red flag warnings (fire weather) in Nevada, Idaho, and Wyoming, and air quality alerts in northern Minnesota

Heat, fire, smoke, flood, summer is so fun now

Look, it’s my fault that there are three fewer male novelists than last week or whatever, I’ve been eating them.

do you ever stare at the ceiling and think about how the worldwide scientific establishment did the impossible and created a COVID vaccine in under a year and the response of the general public has been to go on an unstoppable rampage to destroy science and scientists

The scientists outside Dayton court: In front row, from left, William Goldsmith, Wilbur Nelson and Winterton Curtis; in back, Fay Cooper, Maynard Metcalf and Horatio Newman

John T. Scopes (far right) with, from left, his father, Thomas Scopes, and defense counsels Dudley Field Malone and Arthur Garfield Hays

Chattanooga, Tenn., Daily Times

July 16, 1925: The Scopes trial turns to the question of whether to hear from expert witnesses in biology, zoology and Bible studies. The defense of schoolteacher John T. Scopes insists on their right to present evidence that he didn’t violate Tennessee law by teaching evolution. 1/6

"I'm surprised he was appointed."
Do you know who appointed Powell?
Donald J. Trump.

I want to be clear: this is what American prisons are like.

I spent years posting about the humanitarian crisis in U.S. prisons. The criminal legal system consigns Americans who are incarcerated to live like this FOR YEARS. DECADES.

Unprecedented acidification expected for corals in Hawaiʻi waters Across the globe, oceans are acidifying as they absorb carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, threatening coral reefs and many other marine organisms.

"We did not expect future levels of ocean acidification to be so far outside the envelope of natural variations in ocean chemistry that an ecosystem is used to," said Friedrich. "This is the first ocean acidification projection specifically for Hawaiian waters to document that."

Tomorrow’s “Energy and Innovation Summit” at CMU, organized by Senator McCormick with Trump attending, is a moral failure. The university is leveraging this event for institutional gain while it promotes fossil fuels as “innovation.” This is slap in the face to real clean energy researchers. 🧵

Find Out Why Health Insurance Denied Your Claim You likely have the right to access records that explain why your insurer denied your claim or prior authorization request. Use ProPublica’s free tool to generate a letter requesting your claim file f...

I don't know who needs to know this, but Pro Publica has an online thing that will format a letter to your US health insurance company to demand the records behind a claim denial. (which the insurance is then legally required to provide in most cases)

projects.propublica.org/claimfile/

Why Did Cars Get So Hard to See Out Of? If it seems like forward visibility has gotten worse, you’re right: Since the 1990s, cars and trucks have grown bigger A-pillars that can create dangerous blind spots.

You know that post btw a car’s windshield and side window? It’s called an A-pillar – and it’s becoming a problem.

A-pillars are expanding, enlarging driver blind zones and concealing pedestrians at crosswalks.

Blame car bloat, as well as ill-conceived federal rules.

Me, in Bloomberg 🧵

Trump Seeks to Cut Basic Scientific Research by Roughly One-Third, Report Shows An analysis by the American Association for the Advancement of Science shows the impact of the administration’s budget plan on the kind of studies that produce the most breakthroughs.

If Trump's proposed budget were adopted, it would end the United States' longstanding dominance as the world leader in science and innovation.

Get. Vaccinated.

Then tell your neighbor you did.

Trump Got the Green Light to Fire Federal Workers. Now, They Wait.

Them: how’s the new job going?
Me: it’s mostly great. But…

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/08/u...

Floods are getting more dangerous around the country, not just in Texas The deadly floods in Central Texas were caused by extremely heavy rain. Climate change is causing even more rain to fall during the heaviest storms.

The deadly floods in Central Texas were caused by extremely heavy rain. Climate change is causing even more rain to fall during the heaviest storms.

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