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Florida officials warn about risks of drinking raw milk after 21 people sickened Florida health officials say 21 people, including six children, were sickened by E. coli and campylobacter bacteria linked to raw milk, and seven were hospitalized.

The reason we pasteurize milk is to ensure it does not kill you.

If money is tight and your child needs a new backpack for the upcoming school year, you can register for one in Waterloo region here: www.eventbrite.com/cc/2025-back...

American Society for Cell Biology newsletter piece about the grant termination lawsuit and SCOTUS.

www.ascb.org/society-news...

Survival of Transplanted Allogeneic Beta Cells with No Immunosuppression | NEJM The need to suppress a patient’s immune system after the transplantation of allogeneic cells is associated with wide-ranging side effects. We report the outcomes of transplantation of genetically m...

Important first-in-human report today for donor pancreatic islet beta-cell transplant to an individual w/Type 1 diabetes. With genome editing, there was no immune response induced or need for immunosuppression. Major implications for transplantation in general @nejm.org
www.nejm.org/doi/pdf/10.1...

Mathematicians. lol. Snake eating tail.

I found two Amazon.ca gift cards I'm never going to use. I don't know how much is on each of them, but I think it's $15–$20. I'd like to send each to someone in need, so if you could use this and I'm not already regularly sending you mutual aid, please DM me. First come, first served. Canada only.

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Seriously

Horrific

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It’s like the repetitive mirror images 😊

Walking to car or bus (esp at night) is the biggest issue. Need to be noisy!

I’ve worked on two campuses with regular bear alerts (& occasional cougar alerts). Not as much fun as it sounds. 🐻

Gates Foundation Announces Catalytic Funding to Spark New Era of Women-Centered Research and Innovation Investments Through 2030 to Catalyze Innovation in Maternal, Menstrual, Gynecological, and Sexual Health for Women Globally

Outside of oncology, just 1% of health R&D goes to women’s health. Pregnancy, birth, menstrual conditions, STIs and contraception all together get less than 1% of health research funding www.gatesfoundation.org/ideas/media-...

Who was the person who said that you wouldn't send a robot to the gym and expect to build muscle?

NIH Reiterates Appropriate Use of AI in Developing Grant Applications NIH issues new guidance on “Supporting Fairness and Originality in NIH Research Applications" to ensure appropriate use of artificial intelligence in grant applications.

NIH issues new guidance limiting AI use in grant applications to ensure they reflect the applicant's original ideas. Read more in the Washington Update:

Terence Tao (@teorth.bsky.social) has written a thread on Mastodon about the impact of the federal grant freeze to UCLA, particularly to his own field of Mathematics. UCLA's IPAM (Institute of Pure and Applied Mathematics) could shut down entirely

mathstodon.xyz/@tao/1149568...

Very proud of this new paper describing a novel human immune defect caused by ASXL1 deficiency.
We really had to open the genomics tool box to solve this one, including neat tricks like calculating the epigenetic age.
All led by Dr. Catherine Biggs!

Yup

The feeling I recall most is: we males belong here but you, you need to be “allowed”. Like they’re doing us a favour.
Ugh.

I try not to recall cos it makes me too angry. For all of us.

I’ve blocked out most of my similar experiences, esp after 3 degrees in a male dominated discipline.
I had good support most of the time but wow when misogyny is overt, it’s really a sledgehammer.

Ugh. 😩

Depo-Provera and Meningiomas Is there a risk and should I be worried?

Is there a link between Depo-Provera and brain tumors and should I be worried? I explain the new study at The Vajenda vajenda.substack.com/p/depo-prove...

Oh my ❤️. Sending best wishes and many hugs.

A plop of puffins

Great initiative by Wiley! The publisher has started marking retracted papers in reference lists. When you click on the retraction notice, you can also see the date and reason for the retraction.
All publishers should adopt this practice. But also screen references during submission.

Jennifer Doudna is named 2026 Priestley Medalist The award recognizes the biochemist for discoveries on ribozyme function and CRISPR gene editing, and international science leadership

@acs.org is recognizing Jennifer A. Doudna with the Priestley Medal for her discoveries on ribozyme function, the Dicer RNase enzyme, double-stranded RNA processing, and CRISPR gene editing, along with her impactful international science leadership. cen.acs.org/people/award... #chemsky 🧪

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Addressing the Challenges of Online Misinformation and... : Obstetrics & Gynecology ices that are unsupported by the literature and guidelines or, in some cases, harmful. Health care professionals committed to evidence-based medicine should be aware of myths and misleading menopause-...

Addressing the challenges of misinformation about menopause. My article was just published in the Green Journal, who have made it free for all to read! journals.lww.com/greenjournal...