Josie Glausiusz
@josiegz.bsky.social
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Science journalist writing for Nature, Scientific American, National Geographic, Guardian Books, BBC Future, Washington Post Opinions, Prospect Magazine. Passionate reader. #PoetryIsMedicine #ClimateCrisis She/Her
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Gaza Cease-fire Begins: The IDF announced that forces have been deployed to positions agreed upon with Hamas. Following the approval of the agreement, 600 humanitarian aid trucks will enter Gaza daily, along with equipment to repair damaged infrastructure.

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Gaza truce begins as IDF completes pullback; hostages slated for release within 72 hours
The IDF Announced That Forces Have Been Deployed to Positions Agreed Upon With Hamas. Following the Approval of the Agreement, 600 Humanitarian Aid Trucks Will Enter Gaza Daily, Along With Equipment t...
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Today, the IUCN has officially declared the slender-billed curlew (Numenius tenuirostris) extinct 😞

This is the 1st known extinction of a formerly widespread migratory bird species, whose range included Europe, North Africa & West Asia

The last confirmed sighting was 30+ years ago
slender billed curlew
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The Trump administration is considering whether to spend up to $50 million in foreign aid to protect polar bears in Greenland and $25 million for snow leopards in Nepal.

Researchers who work on polar bear conservation in Greenland expressed bewilderment.

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Trump’s new foreign aid plan eyes $50 million for Greenland’s polar bears
Documents reviewed by The Post show the administration may spend millions to protect vulnerable wildlife, proposals that stunned critics of its moves to gut foreign assistance.
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The Welsh Government will extend European Protected Species status to European beavers, making it illegal to deliberately harm them or damage their habitats.

European beavers may help create natural flood defences and cleaner rivers across Wales.

www.gov.wales/wales-gives-...
Wales gives beavers dam good protection | GOV.WALES
European beavers will become a protected native species under Welsh law.
www.gov.wales
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60 seconds on María Corina Machado and why her Nobel Peace Prize win really matters 👏👇

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Both Clinton and former Pres Joe Biden had an “emotional identification” with Israel and Biden seemed “ideologically incapable” of wielding real leverage over Netanyahu even when politicians in his party and officials in his administration were calling for it.

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Column | How much credit does Trump deserve for Gaza ‘peace’ deal?
What happens in the coming weeks will be much more defining of Trump’s legacy than the victory lap he’ll take this weekend.
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How A Publisher Almost Killed The Book I Waited My Whole Life To Write: a thread

My novel Villager came out in 2022. It was published by Unbound, who had little marketing/sales power. But I was excited & proud, since I worked so f-ing hard on it.

Here's an extract: www.tom-cox.com/the-village-...
our cat Charles with Villager, shortly after it was published
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A Rutgers University expert on antifa, @mark-bray.bsky.social, fled the US with his family on Thursday night in the wake of death threats that followed Trump’s push to characterize the left-wing antifascist movement as a domestic terrorist organization.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/n...
Rutgers Expert on Antifa Flees to Spain After Death Threats
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The 2025 Nobel Peace Prize is awarded to Venezuelan democracy campaigner María Corina Machado, "for her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela" and "her struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy."

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Nobel Peace Prize 2025 live updates: Venezuelan democracy activist María Corina Machado wins
Nominations closed in January but US President Donald Trump had led a public campaign to win the award.
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Research shows that these decisions have real consequences. Numerous studies have linked Medicaid expansion with lower rates of premature death, better cancer outcomes and improved management of chronic diseases.
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"Since 2010, states have had the option to expand Medicaid, and many states did. But a number of states—primarily in the South—have chosen not to. This policy choice has left many low-income adults without access to affordable health coverage," writes Zachary W. Schulz

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Calling Deaths ‘Preventable’ Shifts Blame to Individuals
The term, used by many health professionals, mask how policy, access and geography shape who gets care — and who doesn’t
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"I lost my children, my home, my siblings, my memories. I lost every beautiful thing in my life."

"Sometimes my only wish is as simple as having a toilet of our own."

We’ve interviewed more than 700 people in Gaza over the past two years.

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We Tried to Reach Gazans We Interviewed Over Two Years of War. Here’s What Happened to Them. (Gift Article)
We kept wondering: Did they find their missing relatives? Were they even still alive?
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We're spending $20B to bail out Argentina, but they cut USAID down to the bone, causing deaths around the world. The entire budget of USAID, the whole agency, was $21B last year. Shameful.
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The Trump administration confirmed that the U.S. bailed out Argentina.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said he had directly bought Argentine pesos in global currency markets in a bid to relieve pressure on the nation’s embattled President Javier Milei, a supporter of President Trump.
The U.S. just bailed out Argentina, Treasury Secretary confirms
The US Treasury has finalized a $20 billion financial rescue of Argentina, including a currency swap arrangement with the country's central bank.
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Robert E. Primus is part of a series of firings of Black officials from high-profile positions in an overwhelmingly white administration that has banished all diversity, equity and inclusion programs across the federal government.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/u...
Trump Fires Black Officials From an Overwhelmingly White Administration
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A reminder: The World Health Organization (WHO) emphasizes that there is currently no conclusive scientific evidence confirming a possible link between autism and use of acetaminophen (also known as paracetamol) during pregnancy.

www.who.int/news/item/24...
WHO statement on autism-related issues
The World Health Organization (WHO) emphasizes that there is currently no conclusive scientific evidence confirming a possible link between autism and use of acetaminophen (also known as paracetamol) ...
www.who.int
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The 2025 Nobel Peace Prize
will be announced on Friday 10 October at 11:00 CEST

www.nobelpeaceprize.org
Nobel Peace Prize - Home
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The 2025 Nobel Peace Prize
will be announced on Friday 10 October at 11:00 CEST

www.nobelpeaceprize.org
Nobel Peace Prize - Home
www.nobelpeaceprize.org
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"One of my previously published studies found that for every additional 10 micrograms of particulates per cubic meter of air there was a corresponding 10 percent increase in infertility risk."

"Lost Science" interview with Shruthi Mahalingaiah, a Harvard researcher

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/c...
She Found a Link Between Air Pollution and Infertility
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josiegz.bsky.social
A reminder: The World Health Organization (WHO) emphasizes that there is currently no conclusive scientific evidence confirming a possible link between autism and use of acetaminophen (also known as paracetamol) during pregnancy.

www.who.int/news/item/24...
WHO statement on autism-related issues
The World Health Organization (WHO) emphasizes that there is currently no conclusive scientific evidence confirming a possible link between autism and use of acetaminophen (also known as paracetamol) ...
www.who.int
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Golden Eye Lichen, Teloschisties chrysophthalmus, on a Hawthorn in ancient wood pasture up the lane.
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What did I say? The 2025 Nobel Literature Prize goes to László Krasznahorkai.

His novel Herscht 07769 is "bleak from start to finish."

His translator, the poet George Szirtes, has called his prose “a slow lava flow of narrative, a vast black river of type”.

www.theguardian.com/books/2024/n...
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A small U.S. development agency, the Millennium Challenge Corporation, agreed to spend $420 million in part to build a wastewater treatment system for East Timor.

A field of debris may be the project’s lasting legacy, after MCC terminated the agreement.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/w...
In East Timor, U.S. Retreats From Plan to Build ‘Lifesaving’ Sewage Plant
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