JoAnna (big ‘A’)

Jameela Jamil spitting facts

Los Angeles protests live: National Guard to arrive in LA in 24 hours, as governor calls Trump's move 'inflammatory' The US president says he's sending in 2,000 troops to deal with unrest over raids on undocumented migrants.

Trump's claim that 'paid troublemakers' are behind current disorder in LA is a common myth often used to explain why people get involved in riots. This myth is almost always unfounded & not supported by any credible evidence that I'm aware of #LosAngelesProtests
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cv...

Nailed it ✅

Science-integrity project will root out bad medical papers ‘and tell everyone’ Group behind Retraction Watch aims to pinpoint the most influential flawed health data.

Science-integrity project will root out bad medical papers ‘and tell everyone’ www.nature.com/articles/d41... via @nature.com @retractionwatch.com

"I don’t think anything is more of an immediate threat to people than bad medical research."

“Just breathe” isn’t always easy but it is necessary to blunt the #stress response. The more O2 your lungs get the faster your brain can process sensory information (incl pattern recog) and regulate bodily systems…which helps regulate mood/affect.

It’s all connected.

#brainscience #mentalhealth

[2/2] I wonder if this targeting applies to potential students from the Gulf, China, Korea, Russia, India or ANY other non-US state, regardless of how many coins or jets mum and dad provide, right?

Trump Administration Says It Is Halting Harvard’s Ability to Enroll International Students

[1/2] We’re officially cycling through the 5th-7th circles of hell.

Trashing higher ed by going after the +7K intl students who form huge %s of Harvard’s graduate, certificate and continuing ed programmes…GTFO.

#highereducation #seeingcrimson

www.nytimes.com/2025/05/22/u...

As above, so below.
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This dedicated group of Panamanian women are bridging marine science with local, traditional knowledge to combat climate change fallout and improve the health of vital coral reef ecosystems.

#WomeninSTEM #environmentalscience

Stade Toulousain unveils new shirt in partnership with ESA Worn proudly on the chests of French rugby team Stade Toulousain, the new European Space Agency-branded shirt made its debut in late April before a stadium packed with 33 000 supporters.

🚀🏉 From the stars to the stadium! @esa.int and Stade Toulousain launched a new limited-edition jersey celebrating where rugby meets space: discipline, dedication and teamwork 🤝.
👕 With Thomas Pesquet, this partnership brings space exploration closer to fans through the universal language of sport 🏅.

The reshuffling of the NWO is in full effect…

Flowchart of the imaging and behavioral data analysis and the lesion distribution map of the 33 patients. The data processing workflow was as follows. Top left: Workflow for task fMRI data. Bottom left: workflow for HARDI data. Bottom right: Workflow for correlation analysis. Top right: the lesion distribution map of the 33 patients.

This study shows that communication between the visual cortex and the brain's #language system is necessary for the representation of object knowledge in the #VisualCortex and for corresponding behaviors in humans @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4k1Jkoz

Since 1954, "The Handbook of Social Psychology" has been the field’s most authoritative reference work, and today is the launch of the 6th edition. Best news? The HSP is now open-access—free to read, download, and share.

the-hsp.com

Why (tattoo) art has always had a place in science.
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Tangentially, can anyone point to studies that unpack the addiction factor of tattoos/tattooing? Asking for a friend…
#cantstopatone
#STEAMisthenewSTEM #sciencematters

What strikes me about the NSF termination data is exactly this: the PIs *doing the work* of making science more inclusive are primarily women, people of color, people with disabilities, and all intersections of those identities.

“Empathy and compassion are evolved states of being.”

Not wrong. Conscious animal behaviour…but better.

New Research Reveals Impact of Menopause Stigma New research reveals how menopause stigma affects women's mental health and workplace performance. Astellas' study emphasizes the importance of awareness, support, and inclusive environments to empowe...

A study of 13,800 cisgender women in Australia, Brazil, Canada, Germany, Mexico and the U.S found that menopause significantly affects women’s mental health and job satisfaction:

www.astellas.com/en/stories/i...

🎯 I’d take it further and say there likely isn’t. Politics informs society and culture, which drive and shape political thinking—at systems, community and individual levels. Taking politics out of a subject is like removing someone’s lungs and expecting them to keep breathing.

I need to look for the full piece since this is behind a paywall but, from what I read, it’s absolutely nuts. Also a little unsurprising—I mean, on most socials I’m uncertain about whether I’m interacting with humans or bots anymore. 😬

The Trailblazing Black Woman Chemist Who Discovered a Treatment for Leprosy After Alice Ball's death in 1916 at age 24, a white man took credit for her research

Dear Dr. Ball, there’s generations striving to do right by you.
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“In 2020, the World Health Organization recorded 127,558 new leprosy cases globally. […] Ball’s contributions to the treatment of leprosy were overlooked for decades.”

#WomeninSTEM #chemistry

www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-...

Medicine Spares Cancer Patients From Grisly Surgeries and Harsh Therapies (Gift Article) For a limited group of cancer patients who have solid tumors in the stomach, rectum, esophagus and other organs, an immunotherapy trial offered stunning results.

🧪In an immunotherapy clinical trial led by researchers at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York, most cancer patients saw their tumors disappear and have not seen them recur.

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/27/h...

This. 🎯🎯🎯

Having tried ChatGPT for certain strategic work functions that involve a heavy dose of common sense and non-algorithmic thinking…this is a certified clusterf*** that will take years to return from.

#AIfutures #techandsociety

Making a well informed guess about preferences based on mountains of data points isn’t an indication of AI smarts.
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How about getting more legislation and SOPs in play that protects users more than the developers/financiers? This human experiment has become tiring.
#AIfutures #ethicaltech

In several ways, a minority government backed by a strong popular-vote plurality is the ideal Canadian outcome. Liberals + NDP + lone Green have a strong mandate from a majority of voters. The need to compromise leads to better policies, as we’ve seen in recent years, and a desirable humility

All of this 👆🏽 but perhaps louder for all the men who believe they know what a woman wants without bothering to ask and/or do the work (research).

so, so excited to share our new theory which endeavours to answer why depression and poor metabolic health go hand-in-hand: "An interoceptive model of energy allostasis linking metabolic and mental health" 💪🧠🔋 @saramehrhof.bsky.social
@hugofleming.bsky.social

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Canada's Federal Elections has finally arrived and this election is the most important in my lifetime. Voted last weekend - if you're Canadian please vote today if you haven't already.

Thanks to you for the work you’ve done/do in this space. 🎯