NEW—I got an exclusive excerpt from a USAID whistleblower's new book that made me gasp multiple times. It details Trump's dismantling of the humanitarian aid agency & his team/DOGE's shocking ignorance to public health.
'Into the Wood Chipper' by Nicholas Enrich is out tomorrow. Read excerpt here:
Jane's Walk NYC is back again this May. The yearly festival offers in-person, guided group walks plus virtual and self-guided explorations. This year, there are over 250 walks across all five boroughs—a record number! www.mas.org/janes-walk-n...
Then why use the term 'wildlife' if you're excluding fish, amphibians, reptiles, and birds? It doesn't seem that volume of trade was a consideration in the study, but there is A LOT of trade in non-mammals, and if global trade is the most important predictor, shouldn't it apply across taxa?
Just a note that the study speaks to wildlife trade but only modeled mammals represented in three databases - CITES, LEMIS, and TRAFFIC. I don't know if the findings would be replicated in fish for example, or how they would change if wildlife that are primarily traded within countries were included
The annual observance marks how far into the new year women must work to make what men earned in the previous year. This year, it's March 26, a day later than it was in 2025. n.pr/4t9rLqU
Title: "The United States is Driving a Public Heath Emergency of International Concern"
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Race is not a biological category: challenging this misconception will help tackle racism in healthcare www.bmj.com/content/392/...
U.S. Considers Withholding H.I.V. Aid Unless Zambia Expands Minerals Access A draft State Department memo outlines ways the Trump administration may ratchet up pressure on the African country by ending health support “on a massive scale.”
“The State Department is considering withholding lifesaving assistance to people with H.I.V. in Zambia as a negotiating tactic to force the government of the southern African country to sign a deal giving the United States more access to its critical minerals”
Extractive, colonial, & depraved
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Exposure to chemical irritants can cause chest tightness, coughing and shortness of breath. For kids, there’s more potential for serious side effects.
A beautiful reminder that we all have the power to make a difference
This is excellent & draws out something the rest of the media is ignoring: among other things, the Epstein files have made it super, super clear that the entire "anti-woke" cultural hysteria was engineered by powerful men averse to accountability.
A landmark study challenges the foundation of blanket bans, “finding that despite larger muscle mass about one to three years after hormone therapy, trans women have physical fitness levels comparable to those of cis women.”
Virologist Nathan Wolfe sought funding from Jeffrey Epstein to study whether sexually transmitted infections increased women’s sex drive.
He planned to conduct this study among female undergraduate students.
There’s literally a straight line between Trump, Epstein, and the retaliatory lawsuits against women who came forward with allegations against celebrity men like Amber Heard and Blake Lively. They all even have the same PR folks. And yet people still refuse to see it
Of course there are academics in the Epstein files
Academia is not a natural space for radical politics, knowledge and emancipation as many pretend it is, buoyed by reactionary moral panics
It is primarily built on conservatism, hierarchies and thirst for power so this should not be surprising
It's easy to see these academics as individual bad actors. But I'd argue--they were enabled by "elite" schools' look-the-other-way approach to dealing with big-name abusers, and by the fact that, societially, we treat people associated with "elite" schools as automatically deserving of deference.
Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche admits that the DOJ excluded all images showing “death, physical abuse, or injury” from yesterday’s Epstein files release.
WHAT ELSE ARE THEY HIDING???
😂😂😂
Meta:
✅ Sexual chat bots for children
❌ Website unmasking ICE gestapo agents who kidnap children
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Science: U.S. government has lost more than 10,000 STEM Ph.D.s since Trump took office
By Jeffrey Mervis, Monica Hersher @science.org @policyhound.bsky.social @mghersher.bsky.social
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January 24, 2026 at 18:42 Statement from Michael and Susan Pretti Parents of Alex Jeffrey Pretti "We are heartbroken but also very angry. Alex was a kindhearted soul who cared deeply for his family and friends and also the American veterans whom he cared for as an ICU nurse at the Minneapolis VA hospital. Alex wanted to make a difference in this world. Unfortunately, he will not be with us to see his impact. I do not throw around the 'hero' term lightly. However, his last thought and act was to protect a woman. The sickening lies told about our son by the administration are reprehensible and disgusting. Alex is clearly not holding a gun when attacked by Trump's murdering and cowardly ICE thugs. He had his phone in his right hand and his empty left hand is raised above his head while trying to protect the woman ICE just pushed down, all while being pepper sprayed. Please get the truth out about our son. He was a good man. Thank you.
“Please get the truth out about our son. He was a good man.”
insane scenes coming out of Minneapolis
Amazing work by Erik Karlsson and co - a huge diversity of viruses in animal markets, detected through both sampling of birds, but also environmental surveillance approaches.
👉https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-68245-8
“Can’t believe NYC elected a Muslim as mayor.”
In truth—a Black American Christian woman swearing in a Ugandan American Muslim of South Asian ethnicity as his Syrian American wife holds the Qurans he swears in on, all while standing on the steps of a subway station—is the most NYC thing imaginable.
How did I miss that this is somehow real and not the plot of a Despicable Me movie. Shooting dust up into the air to block the sun? Seems cool, why not? Smh the world has gone INSANE
I have posted about this before, but...
Researchers at Pitt School of Public Health (with NIH funding) developed Project Tycho where they digitized reportable disease data from across the country going back to ~1900.
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Amazing news, congrats!!
I'm not sure a feeling of accomplishment is the thing people are looking for from 'simply watching others from my couch'? Academics seem to forget there are other reasons for doing things 😂
I hope everyone watches this
So many academics are putting in free labor and paying outrageous publishing fees on tight budgets, meanwhile academic publishers are spending their weekends like Scrooge McDuck diving into piles of money
