Man who fired hundreds of rounds at CDC HQ was angry at Covid vaccines Police say more than 500 shots were fired at the Georgia campus, where a police officer was killed.

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AOC: We should be clear about who Charlie Kirk was. A man who believed that the civil rights act that granted black Americans the right to vote was a mistake… His rhetoric and beliefs were ignorant, uneducated, and sought to disenfranchise millions of Americans.

This is figure 1, which shows global and regional PM2.5 pollution from the 2023 Canadian wildfires.

Around 354 million people in North America and Europe are likely to have been affected by fine particulate matter pollution from the 2023 Canadian wildfire season, a paper published in Nature suggests. go.nature.com/42iffKC ⚒️ 🧪

A people's history of forever plastics: invention, toxic impact on humans & all living things, grassroots organizing for environmental protections, & how DuPont/ U.S. gov't suppressed truth, including Red Scare tactics.

Beautifully written narrative history: www.zinnedproject.org/materials/th...

Bringing men into conversations about parenting in academia A new campaign by the non-profit group Mothers in Science highlights the challenges and experiences that fathers face, providing actionable steps to becoming a better parent and ally.

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📣22 Scientists from @stockholm-uni.bsky.social have written to @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu advocating for a mixture assessment factor to be included in the upcoming #REACHrevision.

They say this is needed to reduce harm from chemical mixtures.

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Maternal PFAS Transfer through Lactation: Dolphin Milk Reveals Routes of Early-Life Exposure Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) continue to increase in concentration and prevalence in the environment due to the creation of emerging PFAS and lack of breakdown of legacy compounds. PFAS ...

Found the pre-print! :) www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Very interesting! Is this work published yet?

Fin Whale as a Sink of Legacy and Emerging Contaminants: First Integrated Chemical Exposomics and Gene Expression Analysis in Cetaceans Cetaceans face numerous anthropogenic chemical stressors in global oceans, yet there is a lack of studies that simultaneously assess their cumulative exposure to both legacy and emerging contaminants and their combined effects. To evaluate the susceptibility of fin whale (Balaenoptera physalus) to chemical pollution, this study employed for the first time a multidiagnostic molecular approach that integrates chemical exposomics and gene expression analysis in live-sampled skin and blubber biopsies from two distinct populations: the endangered Mediterranean subpopulation (Italy) and the vulnerable population from the Sea of Cortez (Mexico). Both marine regions are biodiversity hotspots characterized by different anthropogenic impacts, making them ideal for the assessment of heterogeneous contaminants exposure and their effects. Results revealed distinct exposure profiles in the two populations, with Mediterranean fin whales exhibiting higher concentrations of legacy pollutants such as polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), as well as plasticizers, perfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), while both populations showed traces of pharmaceuticals and lifestyle-related chemicals (e.g., paracetamol, diclofenac, nicotine, UV filters) and other substances not previously reported in whales. Supported by 32 network correlations with gene expression relevant to transcriptional regulation, endocrine disruption, lipid homeostasis, and inflammation, our findings suggest that complex anthropogenic chemical exposures may compromise the health and reproductive viability of the endangered Mediterranean fin whales, affirming their importance as a global sentinel species, which reflects marine ecosystem integrity within the “One Health” framework.

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Whales are majestic sentinels of ocean health. Here we uncover fin whale's exposure & response to legacy & emerging chemical contaminants

🤿 Dive into the full story:
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Self-supervised learning of molecular representations from millions of tandem mass spectra using DreaMS - Nature Biotechnology A transformer model is used to construct the DreaMS Atlas—a molecular network of 201 million MS/MS spectra.

DreaMS come true ! Just published by the @pluskal-lab.org group at @iocbprague.bsky.social : Self-supervised learning of molecular representations from millions of tandem mass spectra using DreaMS.
Paper: doi.org/10.1038/s415...
Github: github.com/pluskal-lab/...

Amazing. Congratulations 🎉!

The exposome at twenty: a personal account Abstract. Non-communicable diseases represent a major global health burden of the 21st century, being responsible for over 70% of deaths annually worldwide

20 years of Exposome by Chris Wild - a very nice read! academic.oup.com/exposome/art...

Airborne microplastics enter plant leaves and end up in our food Evidence for a previously overlooked route for microplastics to enter crops and reach plant tissues has implications for ecology and human health.

Airborne microplastics enter plant leaves & end up in our food

New evidence emerges for a previously overlooked route for microplastics to enter plant tissues & crops and has implications for ecology and human health

Original work www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Trump officials quietly move to reverse bans on toxic ‘forever chemicals’ EPA bids to change chemical risk evaluations, which could expose public to higher levels of PFAS and other pollutants

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A study using an n=1 experiment with single standards at 0V CID reported that 70% of detected ions were in-source fragments (ISFs). www.nature.com/articles/s42... This finding was extrapolated to suggest that ISFs affect all metabolomics experiments to this degree. A counterpoint. rdcu.be/ebFwc 1/n

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. faces Democratic fire on vaccine record at nomination hearing No clear opposition from Republicans to HHS nominee, who promises “unbiased gold standard science”

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the Department of Health and Human Services, was grilled on his antivaccine history at a Senate confirmation hearing today. scim.ag/4aEjEdS

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Creating a National Exposome Project The U.S. government should establish a public-private National Exposome Project (NEP) to generate benchmark human exposure levels for the ~80,000 chemicals to which Americans are regularly exposed.

Day 1 Projects from the Federation of American Scientists. Ideas for incoming administrations. Here is an exposome-based idea. (with Gurdane Bhutani and Sandeep Patel).
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What are the specs? :)

Original article: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Plastic chemicals linked to hundreds of thousands of deaths worldwide A review of chemical exposures across 38 countries finds common plastic products are linked to millions of cases of heart disease and thousands of strokes

www.newscientist.com/article/2460...

MS-DIAL 5 multimodal mass spectrometry data mining unveils lipidome complexities - Nature Communications Lipids are complex molecules crucial for life. The authors developed MS-DIAL 5, a tool that enhances in-depth structure elucidations and the spatial mapping of lipidome. Using advanced techniques, the...

MS-DIAL 5 multimodal mass spectrometry data mining unveils lipidome complexities #NatCommun www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS): Trends in mass spectrometric analysis for human biomonitoring and exposure patterns from recent global cohort studies Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) are widespread environmental contaminants that have been shown to contribute to human exposure, thereby rai…

Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS): Trends in mass spectrometric analysis for human biomonitoring and exposure patterns from recent global cohort studies #EnvironInt www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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