She raised concerns about her company's contracts with ICE. Then she lost her job Billie Little had worked for Thomson Reuters for about two decades. She was fired after questioning whether federal immigration agents unlawfully used their products.

Billie Little had worked for Thomson Reuters for about two decades. She was fired after questioning whether federal immigration agents unlawfully used their products. n.pr/3Ovl8k8

A simple daily routine could cut hospital pneumonia rates Regular oral hygiene could reduce hospital pneumonia risk by up to 60%, according to a new study.

Regular oral hygiene could reduce hospital pneumonia risk by up to 60%, according to a new study.

Starmer created this crisis by sacking a qualified and competent woman.

And when he sacked career diplomat Karen Pierce to give Mandelson her job, SIX other senior women diplomats left FCDO as their careers were doomed under his government.

He's done far worse, but I'm fine if this does for him.

Brian Cant and Floella Benjamin smile out from the cover of an album: Songs from BBC TV's Play School and Play Away

At 11am on 21 April 1964, Play School made its debut, and became the first programme ever broadcast on BBC2

Musk snubs interview summons by French prosecutors amid X probe The Paris prosecutor's office told the BBC it had

"Elon Musk snubs interview summons by French prosecutors amid X probe".

someone who is good at news please help, my brain is dying

Grad students and Post docs are much cheaper than many other material alternatives, its simple economics really

Kudos for using test engineers as reactant

Things I Won't Work With: Dioxygen Difluoride

Reminds me of the Derek Lowe series “Things I won’t work with”

www.science.org/content/blog...

Chlorine Triflourode is a “molecule” in the same way a guy, his wife who he cheated on, his mistress who just dumped him, and the raccoon in his back yard are a “family.”

Eddie Izzard: American Dream - Babies On Spikes YouTube video by btimeline

Free range, or on spikes?

Can we finally agree that burning wood for energy is a terrible idea and won't be carbon neutral, let alone carbon negative, in our lifetimes? BECCS using wood certainly shouldn't qualify as CO₂ removal (CDR).

I know this is true. I've known it for a while. I still have trouble believing it each time I see it because it is so mind boggling.

This is the fourth largest economy in the world.

"Fossil gas down 60% in 2026 v 2023."

That's the sickener. They're disease vectors in the sector.

And someone will shortly be fucking off to another post with a credit on their CV for having 'successfully led on a difficult change management process at a major university'. Rinse & repeat. It's poisonous.

IT is…and yet so widespread it's almost normal.

Solidarity mate. Just fucking horrendous.

Final thought - if this is how they treat the best-performing REF unit of assessment at the university, nobody is safe.

Anyway, got to put the numbing depression on hold for a bit - doing a PhD viva in the morning and need to do one last trawl through the dissertation.

The utter cruelty of some university management teams is staggering.

Passed away on this day in 2003: Nina Simone.
Pics;
Jack Robinson
Michael Putland
youtu.be/eYSbUOoq4Vg

A reminder to people again that Palantir sits on Mark Carney’s US/Canada council. Why do you think he lets them remain there?

Congratulations!

The currently escalating tech backlash must be put in the context of:

“people have been listening to the most insufferable techbros in the world gleefully threaten everyone else with mass unemployment for over 6 years, and they’re sick of their shit”

Lustration ... In modern contexts, it can also mean the process of vetting public officials to remove those associated with corrupt practices, particularly in post-communist countries.

Learned new word and I'm all in on this!

Hey Gregg, great piece.

We need a public discussion as well on transitional justice and lustration. A bunch of lawyers are already thinking about tribunals, how lustration could be used here, and model legislation, but we need a real push for folks on the Hill to take it up.

We Need to Prepare for the Mammoth Task of De-Trumpification The damage he and his cronies have wrought could take decades to repair, particularly when it comes to science and public health.

The task of de-Trumpification of science and public health will take a generation and a "Marshall Plan" to rebuild. Without a bold, expansive vision to guide us, there is no coming back. Small-bore, poll-tested versions of the future will not help us. www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Paging Vannevar Bush. Vannevar Bush?

Well shit no wonder they don't have money for rent. www.latimes.com/california/s...

This also reminds me to say that AI is opposed to all literacy it's anti intellectual and destroys all learning if we allow it to

Exhibit A

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