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Marcus Muench
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🧪 Scientist with an interest in developmental hematology 🩸, transfusion science, stem cells, playing guitar 🎸, and bread baking 🍞. My thoughts, my account, don't blame my employer. 🖖🏻
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Eric Feigl-Ding @drericding.bsky.social · 14d
Welp—CDC’s entire data team for its legendary national health and nutrition survey (NHANES)—our health census—has been laid off. Now we are flying blind to nutrition and chronic disease status in the U.S.—is this supposed to help us be MAHA? www.statnews.com/2025/10/14/c...
CDC team running top survey on health and nutrition is laid off
NHANES has collected data on eating patterns, diabetes, and other common diseases for decades. The CDC team that runs it has been fired.
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Barry Ritholtz @ritholtz.bsky.social · 8d
Pretty astounding:

Solar leads EU electricity generation as renewables hit 54%

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WIRED @wired.com · 9d
Another round of terminations, combined with previous layoffs and departures, has reduced the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention workforce by about 3,000 people since January.
A Quarter of the CDC Is Gone
Another round of terminations, combined with previous layoffs and departures, has reduced the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention workforce by about 3,000 people since January.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 10d
Dutch intelligence suspends sharing arrangements with the US after concluding that high level intel was routinely being shared by the White House with their friends in the Kremlin. www.volkskrant.nl/binnenland/n...
Nederlandse diensten delen minder informatie met de VS: ‘Soms vertellen we dingen niet meer’
Het aantal dreigingen dat op Nederland afkomt is groot, zien de hoofden van de AIVD en de MIVD elke dag: niet alleen Russische agressie, maar ook de opmars van China als digitale macht en binnenlands ...
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Billy Hanlon @bhanlon15.bsky.social · 10d
June 2021, MedPage Today: “COVID Long Haulers Illuminate Overlooked Medical Condition”

‘More evidence for POTS after SARS-CoV-2 infection is helping to raise awareness’

www.medpagetoday.com/special-repo...
COVID Long Haulers Illuminate Overlooked Medical Condition
More evidence for POTS after SARS-CoV-2 infection is helping to raise awareness
www.medpagetoday.com
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Josh Luke Davis 🏳️‍🌈 @joshlukedavis.com · 14d
And the winner of this year’s ✨Young Wildlife Photographer of the Year✨ goes to Andrea Dominizi!

Awarded for their poignant picture of a longhorn beetle seemingly watching the destruction of its own forest. Or maybe the beetle is a symbol of resilience, surviving against all the odds 📸🧪🪲
A longhorn beetle stands on a log in focus at the bottom left corner of the frame, as a logging machinery is pictured blurred in the background.
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Marcus Muench @marcusmuench.bsky.social · 14d
Weather radar map showing thunderstorms over Salina’s
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Marcus Muench @marcusmuench.bsky.social · 14d
Tornado? About Salina’s, CA.

#CAwx
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Marcus Muench @marcusmuench.bsky.social · 14d
That was quite horrific.
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 18d
The editors of the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) were apparently fired today.

The precursor to MMWR began in 1878 to address emerging public health threats rapidly.

We are not “great” without it. We are vulnerable to threats from sporadic foodborne illness to bioterrorism.
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Elisabeth Bik - Perpetrator 5, a fraudulent microbiologist @elisabethbik.bsky.social · 18d
Trump Administration Lays Off Dozens of C.D.C. Officials
“Disease detectives,” high-ranking scientists, the entire Washington office and the staff of a weekly public health journal were among those who learned late Friday that they would lose their jobs.
#GiftLink

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...
Trump Administration Lays Off Dozens of C.D.C. Officials
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 18d
CNN reporting that 4,000 federal employees were fired on Friday, in HHS, Education, Energy, HUD, Homeland Security, Patent and Trademark Office, EPA.
www.cnn.com/2025/10/10/p...
Trump administration lays off thousands of federal workers during government shutdown | CNN Politics
More than 4,000 federal employees received layoff notices Friday as part of the Trump administration’s broad effort to reshape the government while it remains shutdown, according to a court filing Fri...
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Marcus Muench @marcusmuench.bsky.social · 18d
I bet she puts pineapple on her pizza.
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New York Attorney General Letitia James @newyorkstateag.bsky.social · 19d
This is nothing more than a continuation of the president’s desperate weaponization of our justice system.

I am not fearful — I am fearless.

We will fight these baseless charges aggressively, and my office will continue to fiercely protect New Yorkers and their rights..
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Marcus Muench @marcusmuench.bsky.social · 19d
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Dr. Eva Pfannerstill @evayp.bsky.social · 19d
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She Found a Link Between Air Pollution and Infertility
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California Democrats @cademocrats.bsky.social · 21d
Ballot drop-off locations are now open. You don’t have to wait until November to vote!

If you’re voting by mail, we recommend returning your ballot before October 31st to ensure it is postmarked by Election Day, November 4, 2025.

Bottom line: VOTE EARLY!
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San Francisco Chronicle @sfchronicle.com · 22d
The flight appeared to have taken off from UC Davis Medical Center, according to a flight tracking app.
Helicopter crashes onto Sacramento freeway
The flight appeared to have taken off from UC Davis Medical Center, according to a flight tracking app.
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OncoDaily @oncodaily.bsky.social · 22d
2025 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine: Peripheral Immune Tolerance, FOXP3, and the Future of Immunotherapy

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#OncoDaily #Oncology #Cancer #Health #Medicine #MedEd #MedOnc #MedNews
2025 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine: Peripheral Immune Tolerance, FOXP3, and the Future of Immunotherapy - OncoDaily
2025 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine: Peripheral Immune Tolerance, FOXP3, and the Future of Immunotherapy / 2025 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine,
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HELLody SchreiBOO @melodyschreiber.com · 22d
It is way, way better to get vaccinated for chickenpox than to get sick with it
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A new Nature Medicine study analyzing health records from >100 million people in the US offers compelling evidence that reactivation of varicella-zoster virus (VZV) ,the same virus that causes chickenpox and shingles may contribute to dementia risk.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Varicella-zoster virus reactivation and the risk of dementia - Nature Medicine
Large-scale longitudinal health records reveal consistent association of varicella-zoster virus reactivation with dementia.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 22d
Australia's grid operator has a clear line of sight to 100% renewables. There's nothing unknown or exotic required.

It'll be fun when the first large/major economies start hitting the goal. Too bad the US is likely to be at the rear of the pack.
As coal fades, Australia looks to realize dream of 100% renewable…
The country’s grid operator says shifting from coal to clean power is not only possible but inevitable. The work there could provide a road map for other…
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Marcus Muench @marcusmuench.bsky.social · 22d
So the reason Hillary and Kamala didn't win is misogyny. This is worth remembering when all those people are wringing their hands over how the democratic party has lost its way and have to stop being woke etc. The party platform is fine, the problem is men and women! won't vote for a woman.
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Marcus Muench @marcusmuench.bsky.social · 22d
"... 1 in 5 voters said they ... would not elect a woman ... candidate. ... 25% of women under 50 and 20% of men under 50, who said they would not back a qualified female candidate for president, while 13% of men and women over 50 said they wouldn’t be open to supporting a woman for president."
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Marcus Muench @marcusmuench.bsky.social · 23d
Made my first potato-rosemary sourdough bread. Mostly happy with the outcome, but next time I’ll be a little less careful with mixing after addition of the potato. The potato pieces were larger than what I was aiming for.
An oval loaf of bread with flour dusting and two score marks. Slices of bread with an airy crumb and pieces of potato visible.
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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 24d
Not just academics. This is something that everyone should be aware of. If you don’t do research, you won’t feel the cuts today. But think of how recently you heard about scientific researchers discovering a new miracle injection that cures obesity. Ozempic only came to market in 2017. Look around.
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