Does Trump really think we are that stupid that anyone believes that or his brain so wrong that he believes that himself? Either way it’s highly concerning

Photo of the earth rising over the moon taken by the Artemis astronauts

Artemis photo of Earth from the far side of the moon.

Breathtaking.

What a precious and beautiful planet we live on

Is now a good time to brush up on the principle of universal jurisdiction? It applies to grave breaches of all 4 Geneva Conventions. While heads of state have immunity (while still in office), those obeying their orders don't.

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Well, we're not talking about the Epstein files, are we.

No fighting in the war room.

*If* this is the case, it would be nice if the US Congress could, I don't know, have a long hard think about what has gone on and maybe do something about it.

regardless of what happens tonight, isn't it a shame that the Supreme Court gave Trump absolute immunity to any duties carried out as part of his office...

Massive budget cuts for US science proposed again by Trump administration Budget proposal would also curb federal payments for scientific publishing.

Concerned about the possible dismantling of the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Directorate of NSF?? www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Find out what's happening and what we can do to protect behavioral science with @fabbs.org Friday April 10th at 1:30 ET. Register at us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

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Restoring measles-free status in the UK Reducing barriers to vaccination and education remain key Losing measles-free status reflects shortcomings in the UK’s approach to public health and healthcare provision.1 Gross geographic and demogr...

Pleased to have written this with my @independentsage.bsky.social friends @sheencr.bsky.social, @duncanrobertson.bsky.social, and @helensalisbury.bsky.social

We must reverse the decline in MMR and other vaccines, urgently...

bmj.com/cgi/content/...

"...He's always watching the TV..."

Counting on Confusion Graph crimes: Reform spokesperson’s open admission that they are manipulating statistics to boost their visibility.

Inaccurate election bar charts are nothing new.

But when we challenged a Reform spokesman on the numbers didn’t apologise or plead mathematical incompetence; he openly admitted that the misleading bar chart was a deliberate tactic.

Read about it here:

I'm sure it has nothing to do with this.
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UK must feed and fuel itself - but Labour would rather attack wealth The policies of Sir Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves push us to rely on imports.just as war, inflation and global instability demand self-reliance

The UK has relied on food imports since at least Napoleonic times.

Unfortunately, the Brexiters were so busy obsessing over blue passports and the tax cuts they never stopped to work that one out.

Great post

Nina Schwalbe: global health advocate running for US Congress Global health expert and advocate Nina R Schwalbe has spent her career working on multifaceted global health issues, ranging from HIV and tuberculosis prevention to negotiations for a pandemic treaty....

Delighted to see my friend and former colleague @nschwalbe.bsky.social profiled in the Lancet. A real champion of public health now running for US Congress. Good luck!

www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

While the world shifts to renewables, Trump is dragging America backwards As the Strait of Hormuz crisis shows the dangers of fossil-fuel dependence, Trump has spent his second term pushing the US deeper into it

more in my substack
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As the world goes for renewable energy (even if too slowly), the US has gone the other way.

Since the start of his second term in Jan 2025, Trump has done all he can to promote fossil fuels and block renewables

Tying the US to a fossil fuel future will leave US less powerful & consumers worse off

Restoring measles-free status in the UK Reducing barriers to vaccination and education remain key Losing measles-free status reflects shortcomings in the UK’s approach to public health and healthcare provision.1 Gross geographic and demogr...

Pleased to have written this with my @independentsage.bsky.social friends @sheencr.bsky.social, @duncanrobertson.bsky.social, and @helensalisbury.bsky.social

We must reverse the decline in MMR and other vaccines, urgently...

bmj.com/cgi/content/...

To tackle such issues we call for sustainable changes that embed vaccination in a well informed patient population- this must include supporting education to spot misinformation, funding and training more local staff and community networks/champions. Please do read! www.bmj.com/content/bmj/...

This coupled with the proliferation of disinformation has worsened vaccine hesitancy + enhanced confusion about the risks of the diseases themselves v the vaccines...if you are not convinced whether a vaccine is needed and its not convenient to get one - then this presents huge barriers for uptake.

Excited to share our editorial in @bmj.com - we discuss the need for targeted action to address the fact that the UK has lost its measles-free status. We highlight issues like public health spending cuts, fragmented infrastructure, training cuts that impacted vaccine access #HealthPolicy 🧵

This was very much a a team effort led by @profstevegriffin.bsky.social with @helensalisbury.bsky.social and @duncanrobertson.bsky.social

Planetary microbiome structure and generalist-driven gene flow across disparate habitats A planetary-scale analysis of over 85,000 metagenomes establishes a framework for exploring the structure and drivers of global microbial habitats, revealing that generalist species bridge ecological ...

Planetary microbiome structure and generalist-driven gene flow across disparate habitats: Cell www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

The US' Suez. With added crisis.

Currently experiencing that exact feeling...!

What about the bit where your beautifully researched and detailed paragraphs are just too much and you know it and when you editor says: cut them out, and they scream and lie bleeding on the floor…

I enjoy research and I *love* writing. But the bit in between, where the research has to be turned into material that you use in the writing, is the most godforsaken activity on earth. Like extracting marrow from your bones.

Vaccines for all? Inequalities in vaccine access hamper our global health.

I wrote this last year to mark the day which considered some of the major disparities around vaccine access across the world. I also tried to contextualise my very personal reason for advocating so strongly for vaccines (and no I don't get paid for this at all)