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FT graph showing massive UK public support for the opinion that it was wrong to vote to leave the EU.

Ah! Good morning, reality. And welcome. We’ve been expecting you…

More measles in South Carolina as US nears 1,600 confirmed cases

South Carolina officials said all new case-patients were in quarantine before they contracted the disease.

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Paper for next weeks Biodiversity COP in AbuDhabi. Special issue of IUCN Parks. We need a UN Global Convention on Freshwater for humanity and biodiversity.
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Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE

CIDRAP is hiring a Deputy Director, who, in addition to other duties, will serve as a liaison between CIDRAP and other areas of UMN, so must either live in the Twin Cities area or have the ability to relocate upon accepting the position. Apply today!

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This Northwestern professor fled the US under Trump. He hasn’t looked back. Trump’s reelection was the tipping point. In April, Matthias Doepke sold his house and permanently moved his family to England to teach at the London School of Economics and Political Science.

Trump’s reelection was the tipping point. In April, Matthias Doepke sold his house and permanently moved his family to England to teach at the London School of Economics and Political Science.

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Awesome faculty position alert! Tenure-track assistant professor position in Evolutionary Biology, with a focus on organismal responses to environmental change.

Please help spread the word!
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Kidney exchange has given rise to work not only in medicine but in economics, computer science and operations research.
#econsky #operations
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Screenshot of graphic showing that the HPV vaccine has reduced cervical cancer incidence by 90%.

RFK Jr. went on Fox News today to claim that HHS has had “no successes” in the past 40 years.

I beg to differ.

Figure from Lei et al., NEJM 2020. Link below.

How plants and fungi trade resources without a brain Fungi and plants have something to teach humans about global trade and cooperation

Beatiful article @tobykiers.bsky.social !
Source: NPR
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What an unprecedented and strong bipartisan voice to sound this alarm. Will the Republican Congress wake up and stop playing politics with the health of the American people?

Firefighter arrested by US border agents was on track for legal status, lawyers say Lawyers say arrest of man fighting Bear Gulch fire in Oregon was illegal and demand immediate release from detention

This firefighter arrived in the US at age 4, has been here for 19 years, was on track to legal status, and was on a crew trying to contain a major blaze (in Washington state, vs Oregon, fwiw.)

h/t @joshuajfriedman.com

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Postal services around the world suspend deliveries to US: how will it affect you? Suspensions including from Australia and Europe come after Donald Trump removed a rule exempting parcels worth less than US$800 from his tariffs

I have an unusual problem with the elimination of the "de minimis" tariff exemption. When I give talks abroad, the host often offers a lovely but awkward gift — say, a 20 lb coffee table book on the history of their city. So I ask them to mail it. No more. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

I’m an award-winning mathematician. Trump just cut my funding. The “Mozart of Math” tried to stay out of politics. Then it came for his research.

An op-ed from the world’s most distinguished active mathematician

JAMA reports on the latest estimates of COVID vaccine effectiveness
“COVID-19 vaccinations averted 2.5 million deaths during 2020-2024… but this benefit was mostly limited to a minority of the population of older individuals."
#vaccine #covid #medicine
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Trump's nominee for BLS commissioner, EJ Antoni, is disastrously terrible. He's a 1200%, 1300% maybe 1400% in-the-tank Trumper, with few credentials beyond a history of misrepresenting or misunderstanding economic statistics. He has shown no commitment to truth
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Let's focus on qualifications: Antoni finished grad school 5 years ago at Northern Illinois with no distinction. Dissertation: No focus on labor or data collection. Zero publications. One lifetime citation (by a former colleague).

This record would not earn you a job as junior economist at BLS.

RFK Jr. in interview with Scripps News: ‘Trusting the experts is not science’ HHS Secretary RFK Jr. sat down with Scripps News for a wide-ranging interview, discussing mRNA vaccine funding policy changes and a recent shooting at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

1. "'Trusting the experts is not a feature of either a science or democracy," Kennedy said."

It's literally a vital feature of both science and of representative democracy.

I've written a fair bit about trust in expertise as a vital mechanism in the collective epistemology of science.

Congrats, Noah!

Improving Oversight of Federal Grantmaking By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, and to improve the process of Federal

1. Federal funding for research promotes tech, biomedical, and scientific discovery in the US, and provides training for the sci/tech workforce that has brought immeasurable wealth to the US over the past 75 years.

Today's executive order includes a provision that will obliterate both functions.

Every reputable expert I know considers mRNA vaccine technology to be one of the most revolutionary advances in medicine in our lifetimes. Its inventors won the Nobel Prize in 2023. Shutting it down now is pointless self-harm to humanity.

RFK Jr. pulls $500 million in funding for vaccine development The Department of Health and Human Services plans to cancel contracts and pull funding for some vaccines being developed to fight respiratory viruses like COVID-19 and the flu.

RFK Jr and his GOP enablers are determined to undermine safe, effective mRNA vaccine technology that offers our best defense against future pandemics.

US universities missed a great chance to effectively fight all this when they chose to go for individual deals as opposed to hold a single unified line. Any university (or country for that matter) alone is bound to be in a weak bargaining position against a hostile US government.

Only a flop nation fails to support its brilliant, world-leading mathematicians.

Firing the BLS Commissioner — the wonk in charge of the statisticians who track economic reality — is an authoritarian four alarm fire.

It will also backfire: You can't bend economic reality, but you can break the trust of markets. And biased data yields worse policy.

Unbelievable…

Trump Administration Puts New Chokehold on Billions in Health-Research Funding The National Institutes of Health can’t award grants to outside researchers under a new White House restriction.

NEW
The White House is blocking the NIH from awarding new research grants for the rest of the fiscal year

Chokes off billions in research funding

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About That Japan Deal Arithmetic has a well-known globalist bias

An instant post about that Japan deal. It's basically a joke
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