Kevin Ng

It used to be completely the opposite, science as the gateway to morality. Such historical swings between thinking that science or humanities are the foundation of ethical life show that neither is inherently

A Fish Falls From the Sky and Sparks a Brush Fire in British Columbia Officials say a flying osprey dropped its catch, which then struck power lines, causing sparks that ignited dry grass.

A small brush fire and power outage in British Columbia started on Wednesday when an airborne fish struck power lines, according to fire officials.

U.S. Science Has Weathered Attacks Before and Won Federal officials seized 3,000 copies of Scientific American in 1950 in a “red scare” era of attacks on science. The move backfired, and offers lessons for today

"Federal officials seized 3,000 copies of Scientific American in 1950 in a 'red scare' era of attacks on science. The move backfired, and offers lessons for today."

www.scientificamerican.com/article/u-s-...

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Olivia Giovetti | Against Consensus During the curtain call for the closing performance of Verdi’s Il trovatore at the Royal Opera House on 19 July, one...

Anyway, hi Bluesky. Here's something I wrote for @lrb.co.uk earlier this week about Danni Perry bringing the Palestine flag onto the stage of the ROH and why claiming political impartiality in relation to a Verdi opera is like calling Guernica a painting of a horse. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ju...

Wall Street Journal headline and deck: "New York Shooting Puts Mamdani on the Spot Over Policing Views: The killing of four people in a Midtown office building rattled a city where mass attacks are rare and violent crime has declined."

It's really weird to demand accountability from a NYC mayoral candidate for a deadly NYC shooting rather than the current NYC mayor, an ex-cop who campaigned on a "tough on crime" platform and promptly got indicted for crimes

Bob Wilson (1941-2025)

(Photo : Robert Mapplethorpe)

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RIP Robert Wilson.

György Kurtág's new opera coming soon – Die Stechardin Is there an afterlife? Does our soul live on after death? Is there love that lasts beyond the grave? Although no one knows the answer, many people would answer yes, but even those who do not believe i...

😳 www.umpemb.com/en-US/News/2...

Read the Brazilian President’s Comments on His Feud with Trump

Q: What is your strategy if the tariffs take effect?

Lula: I’m not going to cry over spilled milk.
If the United States doesn’t want to buy something of ours, we are going to look for someone who will.
We have an extraordinary trade relationship with China.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/30/w...

Vinay Prasad departs the FDA A top FDA official is out after less than 3 months on the job.

#Breaking: Vinay Prasad, a top official at the Food and Drug Administration, has suddenly departed after a series of controversial decisions about a treatment for boys with Duchenne muscular dystrophy.
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the spectre of zeffirelli’s dancing cows

Tricia wrote ‘The Freaks Came Out to Write,’ an extraordinary oral history of the Village Voice; her book very much informed my thinking about this essay. Thank you so much for your incredible work!!

World Central Kitchen | WCK Resumes Limited Hot Meal Service in Gaza After 5-Day Pause After a five day pause, limited cooking operations resumed today at World Central Kitchen's Deir al-Balah Field Kitchen in Gaza.  This marks the second time in 2025 our hot meal program has been force...

After a five-day halt due to a lack of supplies, our team at WCK’s Deir al-Balah Field Kitchen has resumed limited hot meal service in Gaza. #ChefsForGaza (1/3)

i cannot wait omg

‘It’s heartless, it’s careless, and it’s deeply damaging’ says former NIH director on cuts to medical research | CNN Dr. Francis Collins, former director of the National Institutes of Health, speaks to Christiane Amanpour about his decision to leave the agency and what he says is the Trump administration’s crackdown...

Straight talk from Dr. Francis Collins on the devastating - and politically motivated - cuts to science and public health in the United States.

Anybody who cares about their health or the future or science, technology, and innovation in this country should watch this.

www.cnn.com/2025/07/25/T...

How Starvation in Gaza Could Cause Lasting Health Problems Large numbers of people in Gaza are experiencing malnutrition. Studies of famines in other countries show they can have long-lasting impacts on people’s health and even that of their descendants

United Nations officials and experts have recently warned that children and adults in the Gaza Strip are on the brink of famine.

Medical Research Funding — Unbreaking How the administration is breaking the government, and what that means for all of us.

Find more information on these and other updates to medical research funding in our explainer. unbreaking.org/issues/medic...

The NIH has capped the number of proposals researchers can submit, citing concerns about AI-generated content. But this may harm researchers who need to submit more proposals due to massive funding cuts. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

Exclusive: Gates warns White House he can't fill shortfalls in US global health funding Bill Gates is personally lobbying Trump administration officials to keep funding health programs worldwide, from childhood vaccination to HIV treatment, and warning that his foundation cannot step in to fill gaps, two sources familiar with the matter told Reuters.

While approximately 900 NIH grants have been reinstated, thousands remain terminated, and researchers are looking to alternative funding sources, including philanthropy. But no other funding source can make up the difference. www.reuters.com/business/hea...

NIH will reinstate 900 grants in response to court order Projects touching on sensitive topics such as DEI had been illegally terminated, judge found

In a bit of good news, medical research grants on vaccine hesitancy, diversity, and other topics are being reinstated, following court rulings.
www.science.org/content/arti...

‘We were heard’: the Pacific students who took their climate fight to the ICJ – and won In a packed court thousands of kilometres from home, Cynthia Houniuhi saw years of work come to fruition with the landmark ICJ opinion on climate harm

‘We were heard’: the Pacific students who took their climate fight to the ICJ – and won

I agree but also I think she makes the most musical sense when it’s a full lyric with agility

Writing Successful Fellowship Applications For many research trainees, writing an individual fellowship application will be their first experience with the highly competitive scientific funding system. This course offers students and early …

Very happy to be collaborating again with @embo.org & to have our first workshop in partnership with IndiaBioscience. @davalamo.bsky.social & I will be working with students & postdocs on how to write a successful fellowship application. Registrations open until July 25th at the link below 👇

The ICJ Rules That Failing to Combat Climate Change Could Violate International Law In a landmark ruling, the International Court of Justice declared that failure to act on climate change can be an “internationally wrongful act”—meaning countries could face legal consequences for...

In a landmark ruling, the International Court of Justice declared that failure to act on climate change can be an “internationally wrongful act”—meaning countries could face legal consequences for harming the planet. www.wired.com/story/the-ic...

Mort du ténor britannique David Rendall "Nous avons beaucoup de chance qu'il nous ait laissé de magnifiques enregistrements."

Le ténor britannique David Rendall, qui s'est produit avec quelques-uns des plus grands chefs d'orchestre dont Leonard Bernstein, est mort des suites d'une longue maladie à l'âge de 76 ans.

I was so hoping this would be a Barbara Hannigan programme

My favourite is the live recording from Basel (?) - her first Salome, and it’s remarkable

Just downloaded "Reimagining #SciComm in the COVID Era & Beyond" www.pnas.org/topic/575 The papers ID 4 major challenges: uncertainty, politicization, myth of value-neutral science, & reactive comms infrastructure. From @moefeliu.bsky.social @dietram.bsky.social @freiling.bsky.social & many others.

I've been saying to friends for a few months that the more I study authoritarianism in other countries, the more concerned I become that the CBS story is the sleeping giant here. The process has been a simmer (people inside the network have spoken out in real-time) but don't mistake slow for safe.

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