"The Times’s analysis shows that the damage was often caused by strikes in crowded neighborhoods — especially in Tehran, a capital of 10 million people that is as densely populated as New York City." www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
STAT Polk awardees
STAT Polk Awardees
So honored to receive a Polk award today with STAT colleagues @mmolteni.bsky.social @aniloza.bsky.social @angusrohan.bsky.social @jonathanwosen.bsky.social @isabellacueto.bsky.social @lizzylawrence.bsky.social @jaspar.bsky.social @rickberke.bsky.social Gideon Gil Laura Chang+Sarah Todd. What a team.
"The laws of war forbid the deliberate destruction of civilian infrastructure as a means of coercing a government." www.nytimes.com/2026/04/07/u...
"No other recent American president has talked so openly about committing potential war crimes, legal experts, historians and former U.S. officials say." www.nytimes.com/2026/04/05/u...
"The disgraced former law school dean at Manitoba's largest university has been disbarred for a second time — this time overseas — as a Canada-wide arrest warrant remains in effect over two years after he disappeared." www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
My one-hour special “Rick Steves Iran: Yesterday and Today,” which helps humanize 90 million Iranian people, is streaming free and ad-free at www.ricksteves.com/watch-iran.
Current administration outlines plan to cause further harm to scientific research. Proposed self-harm extends across the board from basic science research & health research to environmental research & protection. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
BREAKING: In response to huge cuts in Trump's budget request, NSF is shuttering its SBE directorate. Staff will be transferred to other parts of the agency and "grants that align with Administration priorities" will be maintained.
That & more w/ @maxkozlov.bsky.social & @edwrdchen.bsky.social
"Intentional attacks against educational institutions may be considered a war crime under international law." www.nytimes.com/2026/03/30/w...
"Since artificial wombs don’t exist yet, brainless bodies can’t be grown in a lab. So he’s said the first batch of brainless clones would have to be carried by women paid to do the job. In the future, though, one brainless clone could give birth to another." www.technologyreview.com/2026/03/30/1...
"For all the uncertainties, one truth I feel deeply from having seen war up close: Old men should not fix their messes by dispatching young people to die in unnecessary wars." www.nytimes.com/2026/03/28/o...
Thirteen people have died in federal immigration custody in the first three months of this year, and 46 have died since President Trump took office last year and began his mass deportation campaign, according to death reports and news releases made public by ICE. trib.al/XITKbfd
Four portraits of Minnesota residents inside and outside their homes. From left to right: A woman in a hijab, an older woman wearing a red whistle, an elderly couple in winter coats standing in the snow, and a woman wearing a buttoned-up cardigan and dark blue jeans.
The news has moved on, but ICE is still in Minneapolis.
My neighbors are still patrolling streets, driving strangers to work, and providing aid. As a photojournalist at @propublica.org, I wanted to know: What do they look like in their daily lives?
So I picked up my camera 👇
Pregnant women who have been swept up in President Trump’s immigration crackdown have been held in detention centers as late as eight months into their pregnancies without adequate food or medical care, a New York Times examination found. nyti.ms/40QJ7wD
“Demagoguery and scapegoating of minorities has always been a powerful force in politics. What’s new is that people in leadership roles don’t see it as their job to tamp it down.” www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
California lawmakers said they plan to rename Cesar Chavez Day, observed on March 31, to “Farmworkers Day,” following the devastating accusations of sexual abuse by Chavez, a labor leader who has been celebrated for decades in the state.
From the OIG report: “We found that nursing homes inappropriately diagnosed schizophrenia to mask their misuse of antipsychotic drugs, artificially inflate their star rating, and skirt established safeguards meant to protect residents." www.washingtonpost.com/health/2026/...
“The farmworker movement has always been bigger and far more important than any one individual. … I have kept this secret long enough. My silence ends here.”
Read Dolores Huerta's statement on Cesar Chavez in full:
Having a deep-fried President & Secretary of Health & Human Services probably hasn't helped matters.
"Government data provided to CBC News reveals B.C. has hired 414 health-care workers since it launched a recruitment campaign in the U.S. exactly one year ago."
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
"In the end, the sports and books departments were folded, and the metro section was gutted. Most international correspondents and editors were laid off, including those in the Middle East, just weeks before the United States and Israel attacked Iran." www.nytimes.com/2026/03/14/b...
"When intending to upload code, some researchers have also accidentally published partial or entire Biobank datasets to GitHub, a popular online code-sharing platform." www.theguardian.com/science/2026...
"Over the last year, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and his associates have questioned the safety of childhood vaccines, made false statements about their effectiveness and rescinded recommendations for routine vaccination against a half-dozen diseases." www.nytimes.com/2026/03/11/h...
"The center, founded in 1960, is responsible for many of the biggest scientific advances in understanding of weather and climate." www.nytimes.com/2026/03/13/c...
NEW: Nevada Regulators Fine Peptide Providers at Anti-Aging Festival Where Two Women Became Critically Ill, by @anjeanette-damon.bsky.social
Come work with The Public's Science team @ the Institute for Advanced Study. Hiring a fellow to develop digital infrastructure for public engagement, and are seeking someone committed to reimagining the social contract for American research. Please share widely.
jobs.chronicle.com/job/37962820...
"When these products [made from human cells or tissues] require but lack FDA approval, they may pose a danger to American consumers. FDA continues to receive complaints or reports of adverse events involving such products, including patient deaths following their use." www.fda.gov/vaccines-blo...
"One recent such report of a patient death stated the patient injected themself with a product called Laennec that appears to be an imported human placental tissue-derived product that FDA has not approved. FDA is conducting an investigation." www.fda.gov/vaccines-blo...
Research sleuths are starting to organize, but the field, and the people, remain idiosyncratic — my latest for @cenmag.bsky.social:
cen.acs.org/research-int...
@mcintold.bsky.social, @reeserichardson.bsky.social, @elisabethbik.bsky.social, @sholtodavid.bsky.social,
@eugenie-reich.bsky.social
