Sterile fly facility groundbreaking to stop New World screwworm U.S. Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins and U.S. Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, were part of a groundbreaking on Friday, April 17, 2026, at Moore Air Base in Edinburg, Texas, for a $610 million new ster...

Texas breaks ground in the RGV on the construction of a new sterile male facility for screwworm flies, now only 90 miles from the TX/MX border.

Wildlife trade drives animal-to-human pathogen transmission over 40 years

New in @science.org ‼️ In the most comprehensive study to date, we show that wildlife trade is driving animal-to-human zoonotic spillover at a planetary scale, with +1 spillover per host every 10 years. Live animal markets and illegal trade pose even greater risks. 🔓 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Dear Europe: Germany has shown the way forward, by making the Open Document Format (ODF) mandatory within its sovereign digital infrastructure. Now it's time for other countries to do the same! blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/03... #foss #opensource #freesoftware #openstandards

On brand. Daylight savings is a literal horror story for everyone with small kids.

A chart showing nuclear fission's proportion of global power declining from a high of over 17% to 9%, while solar PV's share grows from zero to 7% and accelerating.

Fusion vs fission. It's fusion for the win - with a bit of help from some solar panels, obviously.

Join me tonight for "Unnoticed Histories of Black Communities in Hamilton."

Our guests tonight are Mara Benjamin site supervisor for Griffen House (#Ancaster) & high school student Daunte Hillen.
Tune in tonight at 6;30 pm
#HamOnt #BlackHistoryMonth2026
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Nurul Shah Alam translates to something like Light Ruler Universe. May he rest in peace.

Often in my speeches, I say how the best activism rarely looks like activism. It looks like doing something you love and bringing it to others. When they connect with you in that way, it creates a sort of cognitive dissonance that can actually change hearts and minds.

My heart is with Pawtucket.
Mi corazón está con Pawtucket.

entre 2012 et 2024 « personne n’est décédé sur une piste cyclable. Mais les 27 cyclistes qui sont morts dans des collisions se trouvaient sur une chaussée non protégée »

« les correctifs à apporter risquent d’être de donner davantage d’espace aux vélos »

Native activists set up prayer camp outside Minneapolis ICE detention center • Minnesota Reformer Tribal members and descendents set up tipis and a fire at a Fort Snelling Park for four days of prayer for those detained by ICE

The Bishop Henry Whipple Federal Building looms in the background of the camp at Coldwater Spring, or Mni Owe Sni, at Fort Snelling along the Mississippi River — where the U.S. government in the mid-1800s killed hundreds of Dakota people and imprisoned more than 1,600 in a concentration camp.

Can you get AQI monitors installed for the school playgrounds?

Graph showing dangerous air quality in Hamilton Ontario

Purple air readings spiked at 730am two days in a row. 200 is the 9-10 cigarettes per day range. Kids are walking to school in that.

Upside for Yale — this freshman journalist has published an unforgettable last sentence.
yaledailynews.com/articles/gel...

Finland has got this. Cheering for the anti Putin team this year! 🇫🇮🇫🇮🇫🇮🇫🇮🇫🇮.

Toussaint Louverture (2006) by Édouard Duval-Carrié

Here’s the original Édouard Duval-Carrié fwiw haitianartsociety.org/edouard-duva...

Are you a curious and skilled molecular parasitologist wanting to discover how Plasmodium parasites enter red blood cells?
Come and join our team!
We have two postdoc positions available.

Find out more here:
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Application closing date is the 2nd of March.

Our founders, though deeply flawed, understood that democracy requires an informed citizenry and a government accountable to it people. That’s why the press is the only profession protected by the Constitution. It’s also why autocrats and oligarchs seek to control and destroy it.

Ethnic Cleansing in Ohio? Nazi Lies in Vance's America

In Springfield, Ohio, people are preparing in advance of a “large deportation” promised by the president. To all appearances, the city is 2 or 3 days from a federal ethnic cleansing, grounded in a hate campaign organized by the vice-president and American Nazis.
snyder.substack.com/p/ethnic-cle...

Sorry guys but you can't fly these anymore 🙃

Well, almost four years after #CanMNT v Belgium, Jonathan David found a win against Romelu Lukaku

A dominant 3–0 win for Juventus over defending champs Napoli in Serie A lifts the Bianconeri to 4th in the table.

3G, 2A for David in the last 5 — 139 days to the World Cup.

The originalist case for the monarchy.

Juventus players celebrate a goal vs Napoli

After Jonathan David's goal against Napoli, the Agnelli family is required to put parmesan on their shellfish pasta. #fiat #melania

It may be the focus on synthetics by their winter wear wardrobists. Many of us are embracing wool or even plant fibers.

MLK Day

Happy #MLKDay from our National School of Tropical Medicine in the Texas Medical Center

Senior Editor, Science WIRED is where a better future is imagined. For three decades, we have been the indispensable guide to a world in constant transformation. We cover humanity’s biggest challenges, from climate change t...

@wired.com is hiring not one but two senior editor positions. Join the best team in journalism, no joke. Here is science... condenast.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/CondeC...

Immigration is good, and we should say it’s good

Postdoctoral Research Associate | King's College London

I'm hiring 2 postdocs on my Wellcome project "How Did Infectious Diseases Become Wild?: Plague, Yellow Fever, and Disease Ecology in the Brazilian Hinterland (1920-1975)"

Department of Global Health and Social Medicine
King's College
3 years 01/10/26- 30/09/29
Deadline: 01/02/26
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You don’t have to want kids or even enjoy being around them. But it’s also worth unpacking why kids simply existing, learning, or having unmet needs reads as “annoying,” “unlikeable,” or “bad behavior.”

This collective discomfort with noise, need, & vulnerability is why many ADULTS are struggling.