Roli Roberts

$300 Million in jet planes lost to a fuckup.

That’s 83 five year NIH R01 grants burned in minutes due to error, aka poor execution of this unnecessary war which serves only to make the world more dangerous.

Measles outbreaks are costing the U.S. millions of dollars. The true losses can't be counted. As vaccination rates decline, the economic consequences will increase, research suggests.

Every public health professional could have predicted this 👇🏾

Measles outbreaks are costing the U.S. millions of dollars. The true losses can't be counted.

www.nbcnews.com/health/kids-...

This is just the truth.

ExE 2026

Interested in the interface of evolution 🧬 and ecology 🌳? Then you cannot miss #ExE2026! Hosted by @uniexecec.bsky.social in beautiful #Cornwall, this #conference has a stellar line-up of speakers and lots of pre-and post-conference workshops. Space is limited, so register now at evoxeco.uk!

We are 30 today!! 🎂🎈🎉
30 yrs of scientific ups and downs, exciting new findings and totally wrong hypotheses, fundable scores and not, and the privilege of working with all the many people who joined our adventures in the wormverse.
Can’t wait to see everyone again at our lab reunion this summer!

Cover Illustration of a bearded Viking warrior with Horned helmet

Identical illustration of the same warrior, but with the horns removed from his helmet

Old Ladybird Books updated (1976).
Oops.
When you find out a bit late that their helmets didn’t have horns

Artist: Roger Hall

Opinion | What Happened in Chicago When Science Became the Enemy

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"Thirteen months into the second Trump administration, science, medicine and public health have been hijacked by a cadre of grifters and ideologues and by the politicians in obvious thrall to both. Federal institutions have been all but dismantled."

Gift link

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/23/o...

Gallego: "They're going and racially profiling people and rounding up Americans until they can prove their citizenship. That money came from kicking millions and millions of Americans off Medicaid. It was the same bill. They cut Medicaid to expand ICE."

#ReformUK is funded by huge donations from rich backers in the fossil fuels, finance, crypto & property industries, who'd profit massively from Reform being elected & implementing their plans to deregulate & strip away numerous legal rights that protect people & planet.
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I will take any opportunity to post this again

More of this, please. The folks in this grassroots group are heroes.

Haven Watch lives by the promise, “No One Walks Alone.” Day or night, they show up. When people are released from ICE detention, volunteers meet them in the cold, disoriented, and exhausted.

Beautiful and devastating all at once.

first they came for Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, and I said nothing, but i did laugh quite a lot

We know exactly why. It is clear.

Casual Reading #oilpainting #art

Okay, this is quite outstanding from Bedford Council.

Cartoon by Mike Luckovich.

“Is there a technology the left is excited about?”

High-speed rail! MRNA vaccines! New cancer treatments! Solar and wind energy collection! Better and longer-range EVs! That wood that's harder than steel! New apples! Fibermaxxing! Buldak Swicy ramen! Muppets! Muppets are too a technology, shut up!

‘The trend is irreversible’: has Romania shattered the link between economic growth and high emissions? Emissions have plunged 75% since communist times in the birthplace of big oil – but for some the transition has been brutal

Romania has decoupled economic growth from pollution faster than anywhere else in EU. Its net greenhouse gas emissions intensity fell 88% between 1990 & 2023, so each euro’s worth of economic activity heats planet 10 times less. Emissions have plunged by 75%. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Screenshot of a CNN segment shared by Acyn. A split-screen shows commentator Lydia Moynihan on the left and Kevin O’Leary on the right during a heated exchange. The chyron reads, “Obama: Dems need to avoid scolding and ‘virtue-signaling.’” The post quotes O’Leary referencing China and concentration camps, and McGowan responding about West Virginia.

I spent my childhood inside of American concentration camps. I know one when I see one. And that is what ICE is building.

Meanwhile, in Germany, the public weighs in on what they think of the Epstein Administration.

#BrutalButAccurate

We're pediatricians. We see how ICE is harming children. | Opinion Liam Ramos is one of more than 1,700 children to have been put in family detention centers since 2025. We call for these centers to close.

Grateful to pediatricians for speaking up and for standing up for the rights of children

www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...

"We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both." –Justice Louis Brandeis

Words spoken many years ago that are just as relevant today.

We must continue the fight to get big money out of politics.

Staggering that 24% of voters in this advanced country continue to believe in a bunch of entitled bigots with unworkable policies, whose very ideas put us in the abject chaos we are in. Truly God awful idiots, and I make no apology for saying that.

An mRNA Refusal to File

'Right off, let’s just make clear that an outright refusal-to-review rejection like this is quite unusual, since biopharma companies (large and small) typically work with the FDA during their trials to make sure that things are being run in a way that the agency finds acceptable.'

Wow.

Our latest preprint: Together with the team of Jan Löwe, @danieltamarit.bsky.social and many others we discovered and characterized several Asgard tubulin genes and propose that microtubule architecture and dynamics evolved in Asgard archaea prior to eukaryogenesis
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Ossoff: "Among today's false prophets are the election deniers who indulge this president's obsession with overturning the 2020 election. Hear me when I say this -- they tell a lie so absurd, and therefore so debasing, that the act of telling it proves the teller's total and humiliating submission."

If this country was truly “pro-life,” we would have Medicare for All, a Green New Deal, gun reform, universal child care, and a living wage.

The right-wing agenda isn’t about “life.”

It’s about control.