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A cartoon by Ellis Rosen. #NewYorkerCartoons

Sure, if you want to display them at a French bakery shop window, they need to be iced and carefully decorated.
The squares I see here look more of a casual home bake.

Petit four?

We want to see the stats on those em dashes and delves.

'Puppets on a string': ACIP chair airs independence concerns The newly appointed chair’s comments were overheard Friday during a break in the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices’ proceedings.

'Puppets on a string': ACIP chair airs independence concerns

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The ‘Clean’ Technology That’s Poisoning People

Please give a listen to today's episode of @nytimes.com The Daily which features our joint investigation with @theexamination.org on horrific lead poisoning of communities in Nigeria as part of recycling of lead used to make car batteries in the US. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/p...

Revealed: Europe’s water reserves drying up due to climate breakdown Exclusive: UCL scientists find large swathes of southern Europe are drying up, with ‘far-reaching’ implications

NEW! Vast swathes of Europe’s water reserves are drying up, two decades of satellite data reveals, with freshwater storage shrinking across Europe

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Looks like dRACKoula is hiding again.

What is that they anticipate with this change?

Messenger RNA is made in the nucleus before it is exported to the cytoplasm for translation. But how are only correctly made mRNAs chosen and remodeled in the nucleus for export?
Our new paper investigates the nuclear events leading to human mRNA export. www.nature.com/articles/s41.... (1/4)

A glorious selfie with the official MAHA lanyard seconds after I made it past Secret Service screening.

About that exclusive, "closed-to-press" MAHA summit last week with RFK and JD Vance: I got in.

Here's what I saw. 🧵 🧪

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

It’s not all about genes.

I wonder if contacting the authors directly would be more helpful.

Alt text and Ponies 💛

How a comma can save your life.

Actually it seems that the AS01 adjuvant used in Shingrix and Arexvy RSV vaccine is the culprit for this beneficial effect. Some kind of trained immunity effect.

It's the time of year again -- time to do your holiday shopping from independent artists. It's more important than ever to support people actually making stuff!

If you're an artist or craftsperson of any kind, please reply to this with what you make and a link to your store and I'll share it!

C.D.C. Links Measles Outbreaks in Multiple States for the First Time

"Heck of a job, Bobby."

"If the outbreaks cannot be extinguished by January, the anniversary of the first cases in Texas, the United States will lose what is known as “elimination status” as determined by the World Health Organization."

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Check out our recent preprint, "Live longitudinal imaging of meningeal cerebrovascular injury and its sequelae in adult zebrafish."

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Japanese people being silly.

Oh my

I guess we are doing Alt text and Cows today. Enjoy 😊

Ultimately, public health agencies encouraging people to take whatever steps they can to improve their health will have a dramatic effect during the next pandemic. Whether simply by stopping smoking, controlling hypertension or diabetes, or getting up and walking more, anything that makes the population healthier will prepare us better for the next pandemic. The best pandemic preparedness playbook for the United States is making America healthy again.

Jay Bhattacharya's plan for a new pandemic is for everyone to suddenly be healthy.

Do you want to know why Michelle Obama won’t run for president?

Here it is, and she’s not wrong…

Also, it is easier for the public to justify and normalize behaviors if they’re “linked” to some genetic disorder.

A morbidly inclined sheep, who likes to hang around in graveyards, detests parties and owns original pressings of the entire classic run of Leonard Cohen LPs from 1967-1974.

THREAD. A collection of photographs of excellent sheep I have met on walks.

You will find the captions to each photo in the alt text.

Is this process different from apoptosis?

Anyone with long hair in the lab?

Switching gears for me means “I haven’t figured out the overarching idea of my lab yet”