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Trump admin deadnames trailblazing transgender admiral on official portrait: report Adm. Rachel Levine made history in 2021 as the nation’s highest-ranking openly transgender official

If you know my work, you may know how much time, energy, and effort I spent fighting with Biden's HHS on behalf of chronically ill, disabled, and immunocompromised Americans.

One of the only people I trusted in leadership? Adm. Rachel Levine. She deserves better. We all do.

I wrote this short essay for @africasacountry.bsky.social about Trump's attack on the Somali community and how smart their response to him has been.

South Carolina measles outbreak is 'accelerating,' driving hundreds into quarantine Some students who remain unvaccinated are now in a second 21-day quarantine since the beginning of the school year.

“measles is the most contagious known virus in the world and can hang in the air for hours”

111 cases and accelerating spread in SC

www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

In this Perspective, Ryan Langlois hypothesizes that antiviral genes are evolutionarily selected for their function at fever temperatures yet are commonly studied at basal temperatures, a potential blind spot in our understanding of antiviral gene mechanisms. rupress.org/jem/article/...
#Virology

The Empire Is Scrambling To Fully Dominate Latin America, And Other Notes Reading by Tim Foley:

The US pirating a Cuba-bound oil tanker from Venezuela illustrates how the empire is hurrying to shore up control over Latin America in the same way the US and Israel are quickly shoring up control over the middle east.

www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/the-empire...

Adding a Reverse Centaur boss to my Fall of the Nerd Reich RPG, you can only defeat him by unionizing tech workers

New Israeli settlement in West Bank town near Bethlehem threatens the Christian presence in Palestine Israeli settler groups have begun bulldozing Palestinian lands in the town of Beit Sahour to make way for a new settler outpost. The settlement threatens the existence of the largest remaining Christian...

Israeli settler groups have begun bulldozing Palestinian lands in the town of Beit Sahour to make way for a new settler outpost. The settlement threatens the existence of the largest remaining Christian community in the West Bank, residents say.

mondoweiss.net/2025/12/new-...

#Palestine #Israel

the WRAP was developed by former cops from Walnut Creek, CA. It’s been involved in several deaths. Wrote about it a decade ago here shadowproof.com/2016/08/11/n...

Student told me that writing her research paper made her realize how many opinions she has on other topics that she should learn more about before having an opinion and this is one of the many reasons that teaching writing is important even if now that LLMs can create written products.

South Carolina measles outbreak is 'accelerating,' driving hundreds into quarantine As of Wednesday, 111 measles cases had been reported in what’s known as upstate South Carolina.

#SouthCarolina #measles outbreak continues to worsen

“Some students who remain unvaccinated are now in a second 21-day quarantine since the beginning of the school year”

“We are faced with ongoing transmission that we anticipate will go on for many more weeks”

www.nbcnewyork.com/news/nationa...

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Ramirez to Noem: "You lied on the record and you lied to members of this committee. You violated court orders by not turning around deportation flights bound for El Salvador where we know that hundreds of people under your leadership reported they were raped, beaten, and nearly died."

Infant botulism outbreak linked to formula surpasses 50 cases A botulism outbreak linked to ByHeart infant formula has expanded to include 51 cases in 19 states as of Dec. 10, according to the CDC, which warned against using any ByHeart Whole Nutrition formula.T...

🧫 A #botulism outbreak linked to ByHeart infant formula has expanded to include 51 cases in 19 states, according to the CDC, which warned against using any ByHeart Whole Nutrition formula.

#IDSky #MedSky #PedSky

www.healio.com/news/pediatr...

TBC Distribution Corporate Recalls Lucky Foods Brand Cinnamon Powder Because of Possible Health Risk TBC Distribution Corporate of Brooklyn, NY is recalling Lucky Foods brand Cinnamon Powder 40g, best before date 15.09.2027 because it has the potential to be contaminated with elevated levels of lead....

Yep. Lead in cinnamon. Again.

Effectiveness of 2024–2025 COVID-19 Vaccines in Children... This report describes COVID-19 vaccine effectiveness among children ages 9 months to 17 years.

MMWR: Effectiveness of 2024–2025 COVID-19 Vaccines in Children in the United States — VISION, August 29, 2024–September 2, 2025

Stephanie A. Irving et al

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"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."

-Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953

KFF Health News: This HIV Expert Refused To Censor Data, Then Quit the CDC

by @amymaxmen.bsky.social

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Just catching up on this after being in class all day. It would be great to have a functioning federal emergency management agency with competent leadership in times like this…

that’s another thing. stupendous breakthroughs in all kinds of medicine while RFK Jr bans the tech that saved like 300 million lives over the last century bsky.app/profile/blan...

the thing is there really is a epochal tech revolution happening, it’s called renewables and green industry

Noteworthy because it was my first time adding a polygon provider using the interface @mdcatchen.bsky.social built for one of our component packages 🎉

Transposable elements: mediators of epigenetic inheritance in plants DNA methylation plays an important role in plant development and stress adaptation; however, the inheritance of DNA methylation remains poorly understood. A recent study (Baduel et al.) reveals that transposable elements (TEs) mediate transgenerational epigenetic inheritance by influencing the maintenance or reversion of DNA methylation patterns across generations via RNA-directed DNA methylation.

Transposable elements: mediators of epigenetic inheritance in plants #plantscience

Scikit-bio: a fundamental Python library for biological omic data analysis - Nature Methods Nature Methods - Scikit-bio: a fundamental Python library for biological omic data analysis

The scikit-bio paper in online in Nature Methods! Many thanks to our collaborators, community contributors and reviewers! We couldn’t have done it without you. www.nature.com/articles/s41... #Bioinformatics #OpenSource

. This article was partially generated by AI and edited (with additional writing) by Kyle Kearns and Knowledge at Wharton staff. Read our AI policy here.

And @katzish.bsky.social caught the chef's kiss at the end.

Can Your Face Predict Your Salary? Using AI Personality Assessments in Hiring A new study from Wharton faculty explores how AI can extract personality traits from facial images — and what that means for your career.

Computer scientists: "So with machine learning we can extract subtle patterns from massive datasets. What shall we do with it?"

Business school professors, every single time: "You know, I think phrenology got a raw deal in the late 1800s."

Very happy to share this large-scale study from my postdoc with @alexeimaklakov.bsky.social. Lifespan-extending downregulation of insulin signalling reduces germline mutation load. Many thanks to our collaborators @alicegodden.bsky.social @immler.bsky.social Johnny de Coriolis and Hanne Carlsson.

Postscripts from the frontlines of Trump's attacks on science: no simple happy endings Stories from the frontlines of Trump's attack on science: Follow-ups from a year of struggles in Part 7 of our series "American Science, Shattered."

This year, we @statnews.com have brought you the stories of who-knows-how-many scientists, federal workers, policy experts, and patients

For the next part of American Science, Shattered we revisit the stories of some of those people and how the year panned out

www.statnews.com/2025/12/11/a...

Baby eating chocolate cake. Chocolate cake all around baby’s mouth. Heading: “salt-care is important.

Karen Ernst from @voices4vaccines.bsky.social practicing self care (and reminding us that we should, too.

BREAKING: Judge Paula Xinis has ordered the immediate release of Kilmar Abrego Garcia: "since Abrego Garcia's wrongful detention in El Salvador, he has been re-detained, again without lawful authority."