Wildlife trade drives animal-to-human pathogen transmission over 40 years The wildlife trade affects a quarter of terrestrial vertebrates and creates opportunities for cross-species pathogen transmission, but its precise role in shaping animal-human pathogen exchange remain...

2026. Wildlife trade drives animal-to-human pathogen transmission over 40 years | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

This is my favorite climate change chart. Japanese monks, aristocrats, and emperors kept meticulous records of cherry blossom festivals for 1,200 years and accidentally built the world's longest climate dataset.

This will seriously disrupt aid getting into the county. Any country that even wants to pretend to care about Cuba and sovereignty needs to bring jet fuel to Cuba immediately

‘He’s not the same’: Father of Liam Conejo Ramos says 5-year-old continues to suffer Some people thought they say the 5-year-old during the Super Bowl halftime show. But Liam is still in hiding with his family, after he and his father were detained and then released from a Texas deten...

Super Bowl viewers Sunday speculated that 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos appeared in the halftime show. In fact, he has been in hiding with his family.

“He can’t sleep well at night. He wakes up three or four times a night screaming, ‘Daddy, Daddy,’” Liam's father Adrian Conejo Arias, said.

More palette cleansing. Human and veterinary neurologists team up to come up with a new hydrocephalus surgery with applications to pediatrics. #OneHealth

Photos of the 14 victims of the Montreal massacre: Geneviève Bergeron, Hélène Colgan, Nathalie Croteau, Barbara Daigneault, Anne-Marie Edward, Maud Haviernick, Barbara Klucznik-Widajewicz, Maryse Laganière, Maryse Leclair, Anne-Marie Lemay, Sonia Pelletier, Michèle Richard, Annie St-Arneault and Annie Turcotte and the rooms where they were killed.

36 years ago today, 14 women, most of whom were studying engineering, were killed by an anti-feminist gun man at École Polytechnique in Montreal. I was a young graduate student studying physics at the time and I will never forget. #MontrealMassacre #NeverForget 🧪 👩‍🔬 ⚛️ 🎢 #AcademicSky 🇨🇦

Basic light pollution diagram showing four different streetlight set ups ranging from more light pollution on the left to less light pollution on the right. The most pollution option, labelled "very bad" is a street lamp with a round uncovered bulb on top, making a sphere of light in the air. The next option, labelled "bad" has a tiny cap on top, that limits the upward pollution a bit. The "better" option is mostly uncovered on top, limiting pollution above the streetlight. The final option, labelled "best" has a full shroud overtop, limiting the light to only below the streetlight, where it is needed for pedestrians and vehicles.

Lots of folks captioning aurora photos like "for a few minutes we didn't think about politics"

guess I'm built different, every time I'm out trying to see night sky stuff I frequently think about how much light pollution is entirely preventable with just a tiny bit of regulation

Regardless of fox’s actual rabies status.

This is your reminder vaccinate for rabies. Always. Even if indoor only.

The ONLY way to test for rabies is euthanize the animal and remove brain tissue. There is no live test for rabies and your state/local health department will not play

James Watson in his own words “Some anti-Semitism is justified” “Whenever you interview fat people, you feel bad, because you know you’re not going to hire them” “Japan should be bombed for d…

Scientific breakthroughs are rarely unique; someone else would’ve made them soon enough. But when prominent scientists cause harm, that harm isn’t inevitable; the world might simply have been better had the harm not been inflicted.
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James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.

A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.

Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."

Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫

Scientists Studied The Infamous "Chicago Rat Hole" And They Have Some Bad News The "Chicago rat hole" became so famous it is now housed in the City Hall-County Building. Scientists studying it found a few surprises, and some grim news.

Just glad Splatatouille's family can finally have some closure x

Wired: ‘Big Balls’ No Longer Works for the U.S. Government

Defector: Hurdler Wins 400-Meter Race Despite His Dick and Balls Falling Out Several Times

Huge news today: Big Balls Out. Also, Big Balls Out.

Confirmed protest sites

Mass protests planned for June 14, everyone hit the streets. Every city, every capital. Resist and defend. #3E #HandsOff #Indivisible #FiftyFiftyOne #StopICE #NoKingsProtest

Find a confirmed location here (more protests exist but are not listed): nokings.org#map

Fascinating study. For every 1000 bears in an area, there is an associated 4% increased likelihood of a bigfoot sighting. 🧪
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Tony Award Winner Cole Escola is one of the best sentences I’ve ever heard in my entire life

Great moments in Pride history:

Isaac Newton invents being gay, 1666.

Overview of avain influenza vaccines out there, and where they are being trialled or implemented.
👉 www.mdpi.com/2076-393X/13...

“Medicine doesn’t treat the root cause, it just treats the symptoms.”

—Every wellness grifter ever

Should someone tell them that we LITERALLY eradicated smallpox from humanity because we identified the root cause?

The root cause is the Variola virus.

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Picture of a translucent hooded, caped, skeleton wrapped around an alarmed looking man seeming to move him involuntarily

When the IT guy takes over my computer remotely

maybe im not mentally well enough to watch the pitt

what they say: our veterinarian office safely disposes of all medical waste

what they mean: damn we've had a lot of neuters today. gonna have a hearty cheese and dog ball casserole tonight

As has happened with veterinarians. Now being a vet pays less, vets are far more likely to get exploited by big corporations... pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

*by vets I mostly mean corporate clinics but private practices have less resources to work with so prices are competitive across clinics

unfortunately the price increases are driven by manufacturers (ie pharmaceutical companies/ other medical supplies) raising their prices, which forces vets to raise their prices to support overhead fees… but the actual vet staff don’t get raises- including techs/ VAs, who often get minimum wage

Are Humans the Only Musical Species? Even those of us who can’t play a musical instrument or lack a sense of rhythm can perceive and enjoy music. But are we alone?

"While not all animals appear to have musical skills like beat perception or relative pitch, it has become increasingly likely that musicality has a biological basis and a long evolutionary history."

For the life of me I can’t understand how he got that worm in his brai…

Power point slide with a corgi in a gilt frame in the right corner. The slide reads “No children. No husband. I want to live all by myself. I want to come home from my self rewarding job and have everything exactly where I left it. And no GROSS children.”

my 14yo made a power point of what she wants her future to look like and this is my favorite slide

Pope Leo XIV: ‘There Couldn’t Be A Better Time To Get The Fuck Out Of America Forever’

Pope Leo XIV: ‘There Couldn’t Be A Better Time To Get The Fuck Out Of America Forever’

No, they don’t contain “endocrine disruptors”

Second: I already wrote about the nonsense re number of vaccinations.

Read it here: news.immunologic.org/p/more-vacci...

Third: hep B is not just transmitted sexually. You can learn about that in the linked article you obviously didn’t read.

we had a dental today and the poor dogs mouth could have been in a textbook it had every single dental pathology (pup did very well and went home with an awesome owner)