Ruth A. Lawrence, Doctor Who Championed Breastfeeding, Is Dead at 101

As a pediatrician, she helped elevate breastfeeding from a medical afterthought to a specialty of its own. As a mother of nine, she practiced what she preached www.nytimes.com/2025/10/23/h...

Will be advertising a PhD studentship on this topic soon. Do get in touch if you are interested.

RFK Jr cancels $500m in mRNA vaccine development in the US Since taking office, the vaccine sceptic has made a number of changes to how vaccines are regulated.

Nobel Prize winning science being cancelled by a vaccine denier.

Venezuelan Youth Baseball Team, Denied Visas, Is Left Out of Tournament in U.S. The team had apparently been swept up in the severe travel restrictions that President Trump has placed on more than a dozen countries.

After a team of talented teenage baseball players from Venezuela swept through a qualifying tournament in Mexico last month, it seemed they were bound for the Senior League World Series in the U.S. But the team was denied the visas necessary to attend, Little League Baseball International said.

There is currently an NWS flash flood warning in effect for all five boroughs of NYC.

But no City agency has posted it on this platform.

Please help spread the word.

“If you live in a basement apartment or low-lying area, be ready to move to higher ground.”

When history marks the point where we lost the future to China, this will be it.

#booksky

@barnesandnoble.com Can you please stock Colleen McCullough’s Masters of Rome series of books in your stores? This series is just as worthwhile as her Thorn Birds and deserves to be discovered by a new generation of readers! Thank you! #ancientrome

This is horrific. This young man deserved universal healthcare and we should be ashamed. It’s immoral.

My son and I were just looking at the Univ of Alaska’s “Alaskamester” program over the weekend.

This is so upsetting. All of it.

We can overcome today’s global environmental challenges, but only with the best and brightest professionals on our team.

UNEP constantly seeks qualified individuals across various fields who are willing to serve humanity & the planet.

See vacancies here: bit.ly/3IMDbge

Can someone please provide a gift link? I subscribe to NYT but not the Globe.

Do not de-value this work! These criticisms come across as extremely jealous scientists minimizing the work of a well-respected female scientist and her team. Shapiro said from the start they are modified grey wolves and explained why it’s scientifically OK to refer to them as dire wolves.

Do not call it “upward transfer of wealth.” Call it “stealing from the poorest Americans to give to the richest.”

I studied in Rome in 1989 after my plans to study in China were cancelled after Tiananmen Square. I was a serious poli sci student studying Mandarin. Once in Rome, I fell in love with love, art, architecture, history, beauty, joy, food, fashion, cinema, long walks, the warmth of the sun, the people…

“We've arranged a society based on science and technology, in which nobody understands anything about science and technology. And this combustible mixture of ignorance and power, sooner or later, is going to blow up in our faces.”

~ Carl Sagan

FDR--who calmed an economic panic, pulled us from the Depression, and built the great alliance that won WWII--died 80 years ago this weekend. Just saying.

Kermit the Frog Will Be the University of Maryland's 2025 Commencement Speaker: 'It's Me' The University of Maryland just announced that Kermit the Frog will deliver this year's commencement speech on Wednesday, May 21

Love this so much!!

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Bank of America just did this by switching the status of one of my accounts that required no minimum to one that required a minimum of $20,000! Unbelievable!

I thought the story was a little boring, but if you like racing pigeons, you might enjoy it!

Are there any Dems in Utah who can stand up for the good folks in Ogden ? Their town could soon face their own Great Recession

Bar graph titled "Top 20 Countries by Research and Development Spending." The United States leads significantly in spending, followed by China, Japan, and Germany. Other countries include the United Kingdom, South Korea, France, and Australia, among others.

To see why destroying the US science enterprise is so detrimental to the world, we have to realize that the US spends more on research and development than any other country in the world (by far), and if we remove China and Japan, the US spends almost as much as ALL other countries combined.

"Until this weekend..."

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A top economics reporter goes off script on national TV: “I am going to say this at risk of my job, but what President Trump is doing is insane.”

A lot can happen in five months. 🇺🇸

If only some of this had been foreseeable before the election, the WSJ edit page might have been able to warn its readers.

Trump Poses With a Tesla, a Move Aimed Solely at Helping Musk (Gift Article) President Trump has spent years bashing electric vehicles. But with Elon Musk by his side, he said he would buy a bright red one.

We were so naive when we thought that Ivanka posing with a can of Goya black beans was bad.

Trump Says Recession Unfortunate But Necessary Step To Get To Depression theonion.com/trump-s...

A photo of IPCC working group leads and a statement that "Following the panel's agreement on the outlines of the three Working Group contributions to the Seventh Assessment Report, the IPCC is calling for nominations of experts to assess the body of scientific literature relating to climate change."

Heads up! The @ipcc.bsky.social is calling for nominations for Lead Authors and Review Editors for its 7th Assessment Report.

More about how to become an author or review editor here 👉 bit.ly/4krWMTu

More on the nomination process here 👉 bit.ly/AR7Nm

Submissions close Apr 17, 2025.