Wrote about a new effort to advance alternatives to animal testing in preclinical biomed research: check it out! www.fiercebiotech.com/cro/backed-b...
01.08.2025 21:16 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0@megadarren.bsky.social
Science journalist and silly billy Staff writer at Fierce Biotech, other words in NYT, Science, Science News, etc. Inveterate invertebrate evangelist Opinions mine! Signal: dinc.49
Wrote about a new effort to advance alternatives to animal testing in preclinical biomed research: check it out! www.fiercebiotech.com/cro/backed-b...
01.08.2025 21:16 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Mary K Gaillard, a theorist who had a knack for telling experimental physicists where to look, died in her home on May 23 at 86.
Dr. Gaillard was an unpaid scientist at CERN for more than a decade, & the first woman physicist hired & tenured at Berkeley:
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/31/s...
Omg Iโd forgotten about this guy
31.07.2025 18:28 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0Palestinian children have been killed at a rate of more than one child per hour during Israel's war in Gaza.
โA whole classroom of children killed every day for nearly two years,โ UNICEFโs executive director said.
Here are some of their stories: wapo.st/3UCiAjn
NEW: i spoke to nine (!) scientists across several disciplines whose work was cited in the new Department of Energy report that downplays the severity of climate change. all of them say their work was misrepresented, cherry picked, and/or lacked context โ
30.07.2025 20:38 โ ๐ 3874 ๐ 1915 ๐ฌ 66 ๐ 99Youโve been badly misled over COVID origins theconversation.com/how-conspira...
29.07.2025 20:52 โ ๐ 176 ๐ 94 ๐ฌ 10 ๐ 15Crab-like creatures are famed for having evolved five times in evolutionary history. But anteaters have evolved at least 12 times--in half the evolutionary span. Cool story by @jakebuehler.bsky.social for @science.org
28.07.2025 15:54 โ ๐ 834 ๐ 292 ๐ฌ 25 ๐ 74Get them on the runway immediately
25.07.2025 15:20 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Exclusive: The Justice Department told President Trump in May that his name is among many in the Epstein files.
23.07.2025 19:11 โ ๐ 10187 ๐ 3854 ๐ฌ 595 ๐ 1835Are you a trans journalist trying to change your byline? You should check out this guide I have been writing for the last few months for @theopennotebook.bsky.social, which is full of tips/tricks from me and many other trans journalists.
www.theopennotebook.com/2025/07/22/h...
๐ก I'm looking forward to contributing to next week's Science for Society webinar all about the science of stress and stress management!
Join us for an overview of best practices in stress measurement, the evidence base for stress management interventions, and critical research on weight stigma.
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18.07.2025 18:22 โ ๐ 1691 ๐ 698 ๐ฌ 32 ๐ 31A 3rd patient has died after receiving one of Sarepta's gene therapies. The patient was part of a phase 1 limb-girdle muscular dystrophy trial.
The death occurred last month.
We're hiring an Assistant/Associate/Full Professor and Director for our amazing, newly renovated herbarium!
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Oh and while vitamin A can help kids with measles as part of supportive care, it does nothing to prevent catching the disease or to stop the virus from replicating. It's really only helpful if the patient is vitamin A deficient, and virtually no kids in the US are
17.07.2025 18:24 โ ๐ 4 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0We have a safe and very effective vaccine, and honestly measles by all accounts should be eradicated by now. We've already proven we can do it--in 2011 we officially eradicated rinderpest, a measles relative that infects cattle
17.07.2025 18:20 โ ๐ 13 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0Plemper has one that shows promise in animals, but even then treatment must happen early after exposure to the virus, at the first signs of infection. Once symptoms ramp up, it's too late
17.07.2025 18:19 โ ๐ 4 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0This story features Richard Plemper, a scientist who has worked on developing antivirals for paramyxoviruses (which includes measles) for decades. There are no approved antivirals and none in clinical trials
17.07.2025 18:19 โ ๐ 4 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0With measles raging and RFK casting doubt on the vaccine, I thought it'd be worth looking into what treatments are out there for kids who catch this terrible disease. And...there are none. My story on why "you just cannot develop a drug" for measles (and how it really should be eradicated by now!)
17.07.2025 18:14 โ ๐ 68 ๐ 33 ๐ฌ 4 ๐ 1you've heard about the college kids who can't do anything without ChatGPT's helpโbut what about the students who oppose generative A.I. for myriad reasons and refuse to rely on it as a shortcut? well, I found and spoke with a few of them here: slate.com/life/2025/07...
15.07.2025 16:06 โ ๐ 2317 ๐ 884 ๐ฌ 62 ๐ 128People working in food banks in Oregon say they are already seeing a system that can't keep up with needs, and the federal Republican bill is going to have dire consequences when it takes effect.
10.07.2025 15:54 โ ๐ 11 ๐ 7 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 1In the past two years, with surprisingly little notice, renewable energy has suddenly become the obvious, mainstream, cost-efficient choice around the world, @billmckibben.bsky.social writes.
09.07.2025 17:25 โ ๐ 1160 ๐ 296 ๐ฌ 65 ๐ 27NPR's Gaza producer faced Israeli military fire, private U.S. contractors pointing laser beams at his forehead and masked thieves as he tried to get food from a U.S.-supported group.
By Anas Baba
"A new communication is waiting for you in your online insurance portal"
05.07.2025 19:36 โ ๐ 3171 ๐ 328 ๐ฌ 19 ๐ 14Biotech leaders are urging the FDA not to restrict mifepristone based on a report from an anti-abortion think tank. The FDA's own website notes mifepristone is safe and was approved more than 20 years ago "based on a thorough and comprehensive review of the scientific evidence.โ My story:
02.07.2025 21:25 โ ๐ 12 ๐ 4 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0The flip flopping continues: NIH director Jay Bhattacharya tweeted today that all agency staff will have full access to all scientific journals including those published by Springer Nature.
I've gone back to the WH, HHS, NASA, DOE, USDA to understand what the heck is going on. I am lost.
I don't think you can discount the desire to de-fund journalism as a key driver of the USAID cuts, esp given that it was driven by Musk. This hasn't gotten as much attention in the US because USAID didn't fund journalism there, but it was one of the top funders of journalism on corruption globally.
02.07.2025 04:38 โ ๐ 88 ๐ 20 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0How have attempts to prevent the teaching of evolution evolved since the Scopes trial 100 years ago?
21.06.2025 16:01 โ ๐ 8 ๐ 2 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 1The Liberal Misinformation Bubble About Youth Gender Medicine How the left ended up disbelieving the science By Helen Lewis
โWe often ask parents, โWould you rather have a dead son than a live daughter?โโ Johanna Olson-Kennedy of Childrenโs Hospital Los Angeles once explained to ABC News. Variations on the phrase crop up in innumerable media articles and public statements by influencers, activists, and LGBTQ groups. The same ideaโthat the choice is transition or deathโappeared in the arguments made by Elizabeth Prelogar, the Biden administrationโs solicitor general, before the Supreme Court last year. Tennesseeโs law prohibiting the use of puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones to treat minors with gender dysphoria would, she said, โincrease the risk of suicide.โ But there is a huge problem with this emotive formulation: It isnโt true. When Justice Samuel Alito challenged the ACLU lawyer Chase Strangio on such claims during oral arguments, Strangio made a startling admission. He conceded that there is no evidence to support the idea that medical transition reduces adolescent suicide rates.
The "misinformation" in question here is that gender-affirming care reduces suicides among youth. It merely reduces depression, anxiety, self-harm and suicidal ideation.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...