Exclusive: Key US infectious-diseases centre to drop pandemic preparation
Staff members have been instructed to scrub this topic and ‘biodefense’ from the agency’s website.
"[the US's] premier infectious-disease research institute have been instructed to remove the words “biodefense” and “pandemic preparedness” from the institute’s web pages".
As leadership said, all as part of the effort to "restore trust".
Down is up and up is down.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
13.02.2026 19:37 — 👍 64 🔁 39 💬 5 📌 1
I'm looking to interview some non-American musicians or bands who've decided not to tour in the U.S. this year because of ICE. Please hit my DMs if you are willing to chat about this decision.
13.02.2026 18:20 — 👍 54 🔁 70 💬 1 📌 0
This Is How a Child Dies of Measles
When your family becomes a data point in an outbreak
This is a vivid, horribly relevant read. “She does not sleep well. And as you lift up her pajama top to check her rash one morning, you see that her breathing is labored, shadows pooling between her ribs when she sucks in air. You suffer an icy moment of realization: This is a medical crisis.”
13.02.2026 12:35 — 👍 353 🔁 228 💬 8 📌 33
Please enjoy our research paper on how Bluesky is the preferred home of academics of all stripes, including professors of rare moths. (Yes, we actually have lots of entomologists here).
academic.oup.com/icb/article-... 🧪
12.02.2026 15:03 — 👍 434 🔁 129 💬 7 📌 10
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10.02.2026 22:37 — 👍 61 🔁 22 💬 5 📌 5
É aguentar mais esta semana.
Depois, parece que São Pedro também quer ir ao Carnaval e dá-nos 4 dias de tempo seco.
Aproveitem, que isto não dura.
10.02.2026 11:25 — 👍 42 🔁 9 💬 7 📌 3
What do you say to those who claim you’re not American?
I understand it’s confusing to encounter an American who can speak two different languages.
The Onion’s Exclusive Interview With Bad Bunny https://theonion.com/the-onions-exclusive-interview-with-bad-bunny/
08.02.2026 22:00 — 👍 7891 🔁 1343 💬 67 📌 49
Resolver problemas. Responsabilizar e assumir responsabilidades.
Ainda se escrevia aqui há dias que o populismo predava os falhanços das instituições.
E temos muito para melhorar.
08.02.2026 23:48 — 👍 9 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
A fazer lembrar a clássica anedota do parlamento que culmina no "É hoje! É hoje!"
08.02.2026 21:08 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Não fico contente nem sossegado. 1 em cada 3.
08.02.2026 21:05 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 3 📌 0
Seguro é um daqueles casos em que parece que a história esperou por ele.
Só isso já me dá algum gozo como observador. Foi à sua vida e entretanto volta, com a história à sua espera.
Melhor das sortes. Não vai ser fácil.
08.02.2026 20:59 — 👍 21 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
"Dedico esta vitória a Augusto Santos Silva"
Não vamos ouvir. Merecia.
08.02.2026 20:40 — 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
Mais de um em cada três portugueses preferir uma opção destrutiva não é motivo de festejo.
08.02.2026 20:38 — 👍 28 🔁 4 💬 3 📌 1
Eish
08.02.2026 12:45 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Outra grande foto.
Fico sempre impressionado por ver uma estrutura metálica toda torcida e, obviamente, pensar em todas as consequências a jusante.
As equipas da E-Redes têm trabalho extra para meses.
08.02.2026 08:42 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
"Trump refuses to apologize" is the inevitable headline that follows every misdeed. Apologizing requires a measure of integrity, self-awareness and, yes, confidence. Deep down, this man knows he's a shitpiece. He's terrified that if he's seen admitting an error, he's exposed...
07.02.2026 15:35 — 👍 547 🔁 81 💬 19 📌 6
Grande foto.
07.02.2026 13:20 — 👍 8 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
Já tem nome e zona expectável de impacto?
07.02.2026 10:22 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Este é daqueles estudos de síntese de múltiplos estudos, habitualmente com menores declarações de conflito de interesses. E estão lá no final do artigo do link as mesmas, com múltiplos autores sem qq tipo COI, minor ou irrelevante.
06.02.2026 13:51 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The Film Students Who Can No Longer Sit Through Films
The attention-span crisis goes to the movies.
"the attention-span crisis is not limited to the written word. Professors are now finding that they can’t even get film students—film students—to sit through movies."
05.02.2026 11:12 — 👍 11 🔁 9 💬 1 📌 0
Across social media platforms, political posting is linked to affective polarization--extreme users post the most.
As polarized partisans increasingly dominate the conversation, casual users disengage and the online public sphere grows smaller, sharper, and more extreme. arxiv.org/html/2510.25...
05.02.2026 20:02 — 👍 34 🔁 20 💬 1 📌 1
Single frame. Title: “[redacted]” A line of early teen? girls looking at the viewer. Behind them, silhouettes of four generic men, some with hand on shoulders of the girls, which have been through six iterations of redaction to satisfy the newspaper’s lawyers that none are identifiable.
A heavily redacted cartoon.
My @smh cartoon.
03.02.2026 20:45 — 👍 1938 🔁 815 💬 60 📌 48
Physician-scientist, microbiologist, infectious diseases specialist, medical school professor. Opinions expressed are my own.
Meteorologia e ambiente.
Informação em tempo real.
📊 Licenciatura em Gestão e Administração Pública.
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designer, melrense, entusiasta de paisagens sonoras aos fins-de-semana. 🌺
Backyard orchadist enthusiast... posting my orchard pics and weather related news...
Thomas Münzel is a senior cardiologist and vascular biologist whose work reveals how noise, air pollution and other environmental stressors damage the heart. A global leader in environmental cardiology with 1300 publications +h-index, google scholar: 165
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Quality Engineer. Conference Speaker on all things Software Quality.
Lisbon, Portugal 🇵🇹 Benfica ⚽️ Musician 🎸
It’s like I’m watching a reality show about the collapse of civilization on my phone.
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Pai de 4 filhas, SLB, canhoto, professor de Ciência Política no Colégio Moderno. Editor da secção Internacional do Expresso, aqui em nome pessoal.
Structural virology / Structure-based vaccine design
mclellanlab.org
Professor of Molecular Biosciences
The University of Texas at Austin
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Ph.D. Molecular biologist, industry scientist, debunker of anti-vaccine nonsense.
Everything is Connected.
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Fighter. Neo-Swoletariat.
Ex-Washington Post.
Substack: https://substack.com/@karenattiah?r=2bz6j&utm_medium=ios
Rogue Radical Professor: @resistanceschool.bsky.social
Professor of Medical Anthropology (St Andrews) researching and writing on zoonoses, plague, epidemics, history of colonial medicine, animal studies, and visual culture
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