Seth Kroll

The guy on her left was found guilty of 34 felony counts in May 2024, and a year before they he was found liable for rape in another case. What crime are they going after?

Australian Shepherd with orange rubber ball in their mouth, walking on pebbles in dog park. Black chainlink fence and shrubs in the background.

Black Golden Doodle pouncing on an orange rubber ball resting on the pebbles in dog park.

Golden Retriever running with an orange rubber ball in their mouth. Black chainlink fence and shrubs in the background.

Australian Shepherd chasing Golden Retriever who has an orange rubber ball in their mouth. Black chainlink fence and white pickup truck in the background.

Golden hour at the new Flaherty dog park in JP does not miss (and very fitting for the golden retrievers).

Thank you @mayorwu.boston.gov and the @bostonparksrec.bsky.social for renovating the whole park and getting in time for summer fun.

What could go wrong?

Trump executive order seeks to centralize control of grantmaking under political appointees A sweeping new executive order seeks to transform how the federal government awards billions of dollars in research grants

“This turns science into an instrument for partisan gain. Now we have Republican science and Democrat science. The EO formalizes a system that burrows government censors into the roots of the scientific enterprise,” said Scott Delaney, a lawyer and epidemiologist

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Two men standing on a patio wearing Pan-Mass Challenge shirts

Last weekend, Wyss members Kenneth Carlson and James A. Culverwell completed the PMC, raising funds for @danafarbernews.bsky.social.

With their connections to cancer on their minds, the two rode 190 miles over two days. Read Ken's meaningful reflections on the event.

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#CDC has been informed of another pediatric #flu death in the 2024-25 season. That makes 267 children who died from flu this season. Such a tragedy.
90% of these kids (of those for whom vax status is known) weren't vaccinated, up from 82% in 2023-24. www.cdc.gov/fluview/surv...

Kennedy’s rejection of mRNA vaccines thwarts scientific progress — and threatens national security, experts say Health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s decision to discontinue funding for mRNA vaccines has alarmed scientists. But it is also a matter of national security, experts say.

Axing #BARDA funding for research on #mRNA vaccines is not just a problem for pandemic preparedness, it's a national security threat, experts in that area tell STAT. “We're unilaterally disarming ourselves" — and advertising that fact. www.statnews.com/2025/08/07/k...

Foundation for U.S. breakthroughs feels shakier to researchers — Harvard Gazette Funding cuts with economic ripple effects seen as a threat to American status as global driver of scientific progress.

Each dollar that the NIH spends, on average, generates $2.56 worth of economic activity across all 50 states – Cutting NIH funding hurts American health and economic prosperity.

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UF-developed mRNA vaccine triggers fierce immune response to fight malignant brain tumor » Cancer Center » UF Health Cancer Center » University of Florida The breakthrough by UF Health Cancer Center researchers now will be tested in a Phase 1 pediatric clinical trial for brain cancer.

RFK Jr cutting funding for vaccines is depriving Americans of breakthrough technology using mRNA

UF developed a vaccine that triggered an immune response in glioblastoma

mRNA technology is showing promise in the fight against Cancers

#ProudBlue#Pinks

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Federal mRNA funding cut is 'most dangerous public health decision' ever, expert says Many public health experts and scientists say they are stunned by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr’s decision to cancel nearly half a billion dollars in federal funding for future vaccine develop...

Federal mRNA funding cut is ‘most dangerous public health decision’ ever, expert says
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RFK Jr’s health department to halt $500m in mRNA vaccine research Agency to end 22 federal contracts, questioning safety of technology credited with helping end Covid pandemic

He must love infections and cancer.
A short list of what’s been achieved or is in active development with this tech:
– Seasonal flu (Phase 3)
– RSV (FDA-approved, 2024)
– CMV (Phase 3)
– HIV (early trials)
– Rapid-response design for emerging pathogens
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Kennedy Cancels Nearly $500 Million in mRNA Vaccine Contracts

Nobel Prize-winning technology that saved untold amounts of people cancelled by guy who swims in contaminated water and plays with dead bears.

This is a national security risk.

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/05/h...

Health secretary RFK Jr. shuts door on U.S. investment in mRNA vaccine research Vaccine experts and people steeped in pandemic preparedness expressed horror at the news that RFK Jr. has shut the door in U.S. investment in mRNA vaccine research.

Pandemic preparedness in the US has been leveled a crippling blow with the cancellation of multiple #BARDA contracts to help develop mRNA vaccines. No other vaccine platform produces vaccine so quickly; without mRNA, Americans will have a long wait for pandemic vax. www.statnews.com/2025/08/05/m...

Is dirty air driving up dementia rates? — Harvard Gazette Federal funding cuts halt three Harvard studies exploring how pollution and heat affect the brain and heart.

Federal funding cuts halt 3 studies exploring how pollution and heat affect the brain and heart.

In related news, Trump's EPA rolls back restrictions on pollution shortly after Congressional Republicans stripped healthcare coverage from millions of Americans.

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Amazing!

Reimagine the World - Volume 4 - ReConstruct Edition Denise Skok, a two-time breast cancer survivor, Luba Perry, a scientist at the Wyss Institute, and Samuel Lin, a plastic surgeon collaborating with the Wyss Institute, are all working to reimagine a w...

In this video, cancer survivor Denise Skok, scientist Luba Perry, and surgeon Samuel Lin discuss how they reimagine a world where cancer patients have better reconstruction options following a mastectomy, and how ReConstruct is making this a reality.

Climate: Electric Vehicle Charging Networks Are Growing Fast–For Now In this week's Current Climate newsletter, EV charging networks are growing fast; electric Waymos head for Dallas; upgrading infrastructure for a rapidly changing climate

In this week's Current Climate newsletter, EV charging networks are growing fast; electric Waymos head for Dallas; upgrading infrastructure for a rapidly changing climate

World in $1.5tn ‘plastics crisis’ hitting health from infancy to old age, report warns Plastic production has increased more than 200 times since 1950 and hits health at every stage from extraction to disposal, says review in the Lancet

“Plastics are a ‘grave, growing and under-recognised danger’ to human & planetary health, a new expert review has warned. The world is in a ‘plastics crisis’, which is causing disease and death from infancy to old age and is responsible for at least $1.5tn (£1.1tn) a year in health-related damages.”

Kid wearing orange shirt climbing on new playground structure.

Dogs standing together in dog park.

10-year-old standing an rock in dog park. Black lab running in foreground

Black lab running with tennis ball in his mouth. The dog is absolutely beautiful with the sun glowing on him.

The newly renovated Flaherty playground and dog park in Jamaica Plain are awesome! It’s a great third place, where we bump into neighbors. My kids (and dog) love it.

Thank you @mayorwu.boston.gov and @bostonparksrec.bsky.social.

Amazing. Truly amazing.

“Why Are We Funding This?” Long-standing myths about “silly science” have contributed to the reckless slashing of government-supported research.

“If someone had said, ‘Who cares how desert lizard venom works? Let's not fund that research,’ we never would have discovered semaglutide, a key component of drugs such as Wegovy and Ozempic, which have helped millions of Americans lose weight.”

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In Game-Changing Climate Rollback, E.P.A. Aims to Kill a Bedrock Scientific Finding

Not sure how this helps Americans. In fact, it will degrade the quality of life for tens of millions of people.

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/29/c...

YouTube video by HarpuaFSB Phish | 12.04.09 | Possum | Madison Square Garden - New York, NY

Possum!

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Hope today is a better day.

Louisiana, which Kennedy represents, had a gun death rate death if 28.2 per 1,000 people in 2022. New York was at 5.1.

Also, the shooter was carrying a rifle in open view. Especially in this situation, stop and frisk make zero sense.

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Did a drug prevent this man’s ALS? For over an hour, Jeff Vierstra lay still in Columbia University’s ALS clinic, as a doctor poked him ankle-to-throat with an electric needle. Sometimes,

Jeff Vierstra was likely doomed by his DNA. A radical experiment gave him a chance to rewrite his fate — before ALS symptoms ever began.
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Curing Heart Attacks, Replacing Diseased Organs—Christopher Chen Is Engineering a Healthier Future Healing from a knee injury sent the BU biomedical engineer on a winding road of discovery and innovation

“I’ve certainly reached a point in my career where I recognize that the most important discoveries take time and need legions of researchers to move the needle together... So, I’m thinking, how do I inspire my trainees and others to lean in?"

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For someone as tacky and immature as he is, you’d think he would love windmills as part of his golf experience.

YouTube video by Harvard University Harvard's David Mooney on the Mission to Save Lives Through Cancer Research

"This is my way to make the world a better place." -Dave Mooney

Mooney, of Harvard SEAS and @wyssinstitute.bsky.social, discusses training immune cells to recognize and destroy cancer mutations, emphasizing the profound responsibility researchers have to help patients. youtu.be/5VraalZ-OtE?...

YouTube video by Harvard Biotech Club George Church: Embracing Outliers in Science and in Life

Insightful conversation w/George Church, ranging from early science interest and challenges with dyslexia through his work at Harvard and @wyssinstitute.bsky.social on genome sequencing, CRISPR, de-extinction and conservation, and aging research.

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