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The science of starvation A seminal 1940s study remains hauntingly relevant today

The science of starvation - timely column here from @anjahuja.bsky.social on seminal 1940s study that remains hauntingly relevant today www.ft.com/content/fb0a...

The book that explains the billionaire doomers A niche investment text from the 1990s may explain why powerful tech leaders fixate on the apocalypse

The book that explains the billionaire doomers https://on.ft.com/3H4sp6x | opinion

The incredible shrinking fish: Baltic cod evolve to dodge nets Genetic shift driven by over-exploitation risks undermining populations beyond repair, according to research

NEW: The incredible shrinking fish: Baltic cod evolve to dodge nets

Genetic shift driven by over-exploitation risks undermining populations beyond repair, according to research

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Royal Society prize winner returns award in protest over Elon Musk Andrea Sella is latest scientist to express dismay over UK science academy’s refusal to criticise tech billionaire

Top chemist gives back Royal Society medal, in deepening Musk fallout.

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Exclusive @ft by @mikepeeljourno.bsky.social and me.

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I also skeeted about this conference while it was happening: bsky.app/profile/drml...

Health secretary RFK Jr. abruptly fires CDC vaccine advisory panel Health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has taken the extraordinary step of firing the expert panel that advises the CDC.

This is the big one: Kennedy is firing the entire #ACIP in a move he says is needed to restore confidence in vaccines.
"It scares me to think of what’s ahead,” Mike Osterholm of CIDRAP told me. www.statnews.com/2025/06/09/r...

This is on everyone who voted to confirm him, despite his track record.
People fail to acknowledge the obvious when their privilege depends on being blind.

If an animal could speak, would we listen? [FREE TO READ] A prize aimed at cracking interspecies communication could make humans think differently about the welfare of other creatures

If an animal could speak, would we listen? Fascinating column by @anjahuja.bsky.social on.ft.com/4kwGAzC

EU food safety chief warns of bird flu threat to pigs Europe’s swine herds could become a ‘dangerous virus laboratory’, Bernhard Url says

NEW: EU food safety chief warns of bird flu threat to pigs

Europe’s 133mn swine could become ‘dangerous virus laboratory', mixing bird and human influenzas to create pathogens transmissible between people.

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Do we need a new generation of public institutions for ST&I? Is science stuck in the past? Join us to explore how rethinking public institutions could transform science, technology and innovation.

Do we need a new generation of public institutions for ST&I?

Join us tomorrow at 4pm for the first in a new UCL-STEaPP seminar series with @geoffmulgan.bsky.social, followed by a discussion with @anjahuja.bsky.social & @williamcb.bsky.social. Details here:

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The cost of Trump’s attack on American science Sweeping funding cuts threaten to undermine the innovation that has been a central part of US economic strength for decades

The cost of Trump’s attack on American science

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Congrats Alex and lovely to catch up recently!

NEW: Researchers have sued the NIH and HHS, alleging that they have engaged in a "reckless and illegal purge to stamp out NIH-funded research that addresses topics and populations that they disfavor" by terminating hundreds of grants, violating the APA, Fifth Amendment and the Separation of Powers.

Vaccine critic’s apparent selection to head HHS autism study shocks experts The apparent choice of a major player in the anti-vaccine community to conduct an HHS study on autism has shocked vaccine experts.

Even in 2025, some things still shock. Like the apparent selection of a long-time vaccine opponent who was disciplined & fined for practicing medicine without a license to conduct a new HHS study into whether there's a link between vaccines and autism.
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My kids’ schools did have paper forms. And yes, it (mostly) worked!

UK’s Royal Society ‘makes case for science’ after facing calls to expel Elon Musk Academy’s fellows raise alarm as tech billionaire and Trump ally slashes US health and research spending

About that meeting last night, by my colleague @mikepeeljourno.bsky.social

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Your rights are under threat from AI. It’s time to have your say! The Government recently launched a consultation on AI and copyright. Now is the time to have your say and make sure that legislators hear the concerns of creators.

If you haven't - please do fill this in. If you are a creative of any sort. The ALCS guidelines are very useful as the questions become more impenetrable. Also - you don't have to answer it all. www.alcs.co.uk/news/your-ri...

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Thanks Miranda!

Always amazes me (not) that the people who crow the loudest about free speech, are the least tolerant of others exercising theirs.

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