'A clear step change': European EV sales jump by over 50 per cent in March Over 224,000 battery EVs registered last month, as businesses and consumers respond to soaring oil prices

It's already destroyed a lot of fossil fuel supply, but the Iran War is shaping up to deliver the biggest destruction of fossil fuel demand in history. www.businessgreen.com/news/4528540...

Absolutely! I set up an account for this (DMed you the info)

Suspect inertia is a major factor!

In an editorial, Gregory Simon of @kaiser-permanente.bsky.social and @uwsom-wwami.bsky.social writes that patients' familiarity with anticipated adverse effects may improve tolerability as well as challenges in the design of the trial.

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I'm impressed with how much your model hates the Atlantic in general (and the Habs in particular)

Understand the frustration that Bluesky hasn't taken off more for science discourse, but going back to X is *not* the answer. X is a sewer that exists to platform white supremacist and anti-science nonsense. Maybe more community-building events here? Is ID Journal Club a thing? #IDSky

Fresh-faced young fella in running attire

Last mile of Boston 1998. Comm Ave between Kenmore and Hereford #marathonmonday

This is 100% real and a frequent cause of hospital admission in the USA

anyway, if this court is going to act as little more than a partisan legislature than it ought to be treated like one by the actual legislature

Why were these drugs approved, are they still on the market? It's collusion btwn companies, @alzassociation.bsky.social preying on the hope of patients. My father died of dementia. I have a stake in this, but no one needs false hope for sale. @dereklowe.bsky.social www.science.org/content/blog...

Tried to get into it a couple of times, and it just seemed like a less cringy version of the bad homegrown sitcoms CBC ran when I was a kid

Orange Man accidentally saves planet by destroying access to fossil fuels

"Introduction of the Gout," George Cruikshank, 1818. A rich man gorges himself on food and drink (including a pineapple, a signifier of extreme luxury), while a demon applies a coal to his big toe (leading to inflammation of the 1st metatarsal joint, or podagra). A picture on the wall of Vesuvius erupting indicates that a gouty attack is imminent.

"An Exquisite Taste, an Enlarged Understanding," by George Hunt, 1830. Engraving of a gouty man savouring his feast; his left leg is wrapped in dressings and raised on a stand to alleviate his pain and swelling.

gouty arthritis among early modern aristocrats. Gout became a status symbol, suggesting noble blood. Montaigne even claimed that gout was an aphrodisiac of sorts: "[when the legs] do not receive the food that is their due … the genital parts … are fuller, better nourished, and more vigorous." 2/2

Lead oxide in glass bottles leached into the wine over time. Lead acetate (sugar of lead) was also added to poor wines by unscrupulous merchants as a sweetener. Lead poisoning became common among the British gentry, leading to kidney damage, high uric acid levels, and an epidemic of... 1/2

50 Years Ago: Apollo 13 and German Measles - NASA The last few days before launch Apollo crews typically finished up any last minute training and also found time to get a little rest before the big day. Not

🧵 1/3 Still riding the Artemis II space high and found an interesting public health and Apollo 13 connection.

Astronaut Ken Mattingly was supposed to pilot Apollo 13, but a rubella exposure and lack of immunity cost him the mission. Bummer.

Every US business over a certain size has to become proficient at providing health insurance & paying for it. It's a huge burden, a pain in the butt, and a competitive disadvantage. It also locks people into jobs because they need the insurance benefit.

Universal healthcare is pro-business

Acetaminophen Exposure During Pregnancy and the Risk of Autism in Offspring This cohort study evaluates the potential association between prenatal acetaminophen exposure and risk of autism in Danish national registers.

In another massive data set of more than 1.5 million children ‌born between 1997 and 2022, the use of Tylenol during pregnancy was NOT associated with autism, even after accounting for ​individual risk factors. Autism was diagnosed in 1.8% of children exposed to Tylenol and 3% of the unexposed group.

It's so funny to me that right-wingers love to pretend to love the Middle Ages and the Crusades and all that and then complain that the Pope shouldn't get involved in politics.

generation lead never fails

"When they were fished out [of the vats], there was never enough of them left to be worth exhibiting, sometimes they would be overlooked for days, till all but the bones of them had gone out to the world as Durham's Pure Leaf Lard!" —Upton Sinclair, The Jungle (1906)

Likes, albeit reluctantly

This is amazing. What is it from?

happy birthday to Big Sam Beckett, 120 years old today just as he was when he was born. here he is complaining to a friend about his arse and inadequate sympathy in the face of death and hardly writing and never getting published

“is the pope Catholic?” the greatest thread in the history of forums, locked by a moderator after 95000000 pages of heated debate

for folks who may not know about/remember jay bhattacharya's long history of dishonesty and badness, check out the comprehensive documentation in @joho.bsky.social's "we want them infected" and "everyone else is lying to you". valuable reference, esp. for journalists, historians, researchers

i couldn’t help but wonder: if trump is so concerned about oil futures, why can’t i get over my oil past?

According to evolutionary geneticist Eske Willerslev, "There was a heavy reduction of Neolithic DNA in temperate Europe, and a dramatic increase of the new Yamnaya genomic component that was only marginally present in Europe prior to 3000 BC."

Not an expert, but I think this is when the Indo-Europeans (or Proto-Indo-Europeans) started to show up. From Wikipedia:

America's disease surveillance system is going dark. Here's what we can build to replace it America’s disease surveillance system is broken. Here’s how to replace it.

In an unrelated story, gutting of US disease surveillance not expected to have dire repercussions

Population discontinuity in the Paris Basin linked to evidence of the Neolithic decline - Nature Ecology & Evolution Analysis of ancient human genomes from a Neolithic collective gallery grave in northern France points to population discontinuity and turnover between the third and fourth millennium BC.

More evidence that the Neolithic population collapse in Europe may have been related to zoonoses brought by migrating Indo-Europeans. A Neothilic mass burial from 3000 BCE shows traces of bubonic plague, yersiniosis, and louse-borne relapsing fever #IDSky

There was some insane drama on Med Twitter, like Gu and all his sockpuppet accounts. And wasn't there some academic twitter person who had a fake terminally ill partner?