"Russian flu," the pandemic that hit in 1977, bears an evolutionary signature of having emerged from a lab, perhaps as part of a failed vaccine effort. Covid, mpox, Ebola, and other influenza pandemics don't. Here's my story on a new way to trace the origins of pandemics. Gift link: nyti.ms/46N0W33
“In this moment, it’s important to soberly recognize what we are up against. Trump is not interested in our safety. On the contrary, he is more than willing to exploit a terrorist attack at home to further consolidate his power.”
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RIP to legendary origamist & mathematician, Toshikazu Kawasaki. He died on March 4 in a house fire at the age of 70.
Kawasaki-san contributed so much to the art & science of origami, paving the way for much of the work being made today. His rose, below, is among his most famous models. #origami
Today we showed up.
Feeling proud of scientists and science supporters in this moment. Thank you all. #Standupforscience
Fascist openly trying to murder The mayor of New York should probably actually be bigger news.
The US and Canada go to Daylight Savings Time tomorrow morning.
Some fantastic new artwork from the talented @drrabbithole.bsky.social for the impeach Vought campaign!
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Keep your dogs close tonight, y'all.
NIH leadership wants to strip worker's rights from the majority of scientists on its campuses.
But, the NIH does not get to say whether we are a union or not. We do, and we are no strangers to having to fight for our union. Time for a short history lesson. 1/n
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JD Vance says that previous wars were bad because they were led by dumb presidents, but a Trump war would be good because Donald Trump is smart.
"Yet after the administration’s 2nd wave of air attacks on Iran, the president’s strategy seems more sundown than Sun Tzu."
Gift link.
Evidently, I'm not the only one who thinks so.
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The Pentagon has identified four of the six US service members who were killed in an Iranian drone strike on Sunday. The two other soldiers who were killed in the strike on Sunday have not yet been identified.
Read more: https://cnn.it/4srnwXq
One thing I can guarantee is the SROs will want to keep their members (unless for some reason they are very bad reviewers) if at all feasible but if subject matters switch a lot some members may be sent to be recurring ad hocs on recurring SEPs. Hopefully it doesn't change continuous submission
"Most of the people we had in mind [to take over Iran] are dead. And now we have another group. They may be dead also, based on reports... ...I guess the worst case would be we do this and then somebody takes over who's as bad as the previous person. Right, that could happen?" -President Trump 🤦🏻🤦🏻🤦🏻
Um this is not normal. Haven’t ever seen this in 10+ years in San Antonio
We have painfully unqualified fox news hosts and reality TV stars sending our soldiers to war in order to distract from all the creepy, abusive criminals running our country, so please enjoy a baby origami penguin.
Design by Syn.
3x F-15E shot down in the friendly fire incidents in Kuwait. Crew recovered and stable
Reviewers rating reviewers is an interesting idea but I think a lot of people would rate opinions (without taking their own biases into account) and not the skill of the reviewer (e.g., how complete, thoughtful, and expert the review is).
Strong disagree about the spread scores. I have seen many cases where both sides have valid points and it can lead to a great discussion. If reviewers felt they were being judged by their scores they would gravitate to the middle and you'd see a lot more score compression.
1. Until Sunday, it wasn’t clear to me why Savannah Guthrie’s mom was still missing nearly a month after her disappearance. Then came images of the FBI director, Kash Patel, partying with members of the US Olympic hockey team after they won the gold medal.
Then it all started to make sense.
Further, several offices at NIH were told that merit-based bonuses and promotions appear to be a thing of the past, so the only real outcome of this is to make employees feel bad — not a way to get better performance, but definitely in line w/ Russell Vought's goal to put federal workers in trauma.
OPM wants us to think this is a way to motivate employees to work harder, but in reality it is demotivating because employees know they are set up for failure.
The Trump administration is making it almost impossible for federal workers to receive any recognition for good work by instituting forced performance distributions and eliminating intermediate ratings.
www.govexec.com/workforce/20...
You must vote against another incompetent leader of a federal science agency. @alsobrooks.senate.gov @vanhollen.senate.gov @kaine.senate.gov @markwarner.bsky.social
Trump plans to send $10 billion in funds that Congress hasn’t appropriated from the US Treasury to an organization that he will continue to chair personally even after he is out of office.
This is looting.
Only when the disaster site is not maga
FEMA disaster response activities are exempt from being impacted by a shutdown but this administration is purposely restricting disaster funding in order to get ICE funding.
They are using FEMA as a political football in order to continue running concentration camps.
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NEWS: The FBI interviewed an Epstein victim who accused Trump of sexually assaulting her when she was underage not once — but at least FOUR times. But the document that shows those additional interviews appears to have been deleted from the DOJ website. substack.com/home/post/p-...
This administration understands people working two jobs just to barely get by.
