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Here's our reporting on the proposed dismantling of the jewel of US atmospheric science, @ncar-ucar.bsky.social.
The plan is to break NCAR apart and disburse some parts to other locations (like the research aircraft fleet) and eliminate others.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
🧪 #AGU25 #climate
The plan is to break NCAR apart and disburse some parts to other locations (like the research aircraft fleet) and eliminate others.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
🧪 #AGU25 #climate
Trump team plans to break up ‘global mothership’ of climate science
Much of the National Center for Atmospheric Research’s non-climate portfolio will be dispersed, the White House says.
www.nature.com
December 17, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Here's our reporting on the proposed dismantling of the jewel of US atmospheric science, @ncar-ucar.bsky.social.
The plan is to break NCAR apart and disburse some parts to other locations (like the research aircraft fleet) and eliminate others.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
🧪 #AGU25 #climate
The plan is to break NCAR apart and disburse some parts to other locations (like the research aircraft fleet) and eliminate others.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
🧪 #AGU25 #climate
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“If £1b were to suddenly appear in their bank account, would euthanasia still be necessary?
“If the answer is no, that's not euthanasia; it's social murder.”
“If the answer is no, that's not euthanasia; it's social murder.”
![Tweet by Nico Reznick, AT NicoReznick on 20 June 2025 reads:
“There is a simple test to see if someone should qualify for assisted dying:
If £1b were to suddenly appear in their bank account, would euthanasia still be necessary?
If the answer is no, that's not euthanasia; it's social murder.
[hashtag] AssistedDyingBill [hashtag] assistedsuicidebill”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:3ltsziuodekvpalwz7r6x44c/bafkreifb75ozlukb4tmji3stoy5rigxacp7obmzxfdaljpc4kns252e4uq@jpeg)
December 14, 2025 at 3:31 PM
“If £1b were to suddenly appear in their bank account, would euthanasia still be necessary?
“If the answer is no, that's not euthanasia; it's social murder.”
“If the answer is no, that's not euthanasia; it's social murder.”
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Noticing that Democrats are passing “right to die” laws before passing “right to housing” or “right to healthcare” laws www.nprillinois.org/government-p...
Gov. JB Pritzker signs 'right-to-die' legislation for terminally ill people to end their lives in Illinois
The new law, which takes effect next September, opens the door for people 18 or older with a terminal diagnosis to be prescribed a fatal drug.
www.nprillinois.org
December 14, 2025 at 10:23 AM
Noticing that Democrats are passing “right to die” laws before passing “right to housing” or “right to healthcare” laws www.nprillinois.org/government-p...
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[staring directly into the ~107 year old camera]
December 12, 2025 at 7:02 AM
[staring directly into the ~107 year old camera]
Excellent thread
So, to those who say "masks don't work", cite the flawed Cochrane report, insist upon an unfeasible RCT, accuse folks of panic, and undermine public health on social and mainstream media during a flu/RSV epidemic...
1. Seasonal viruses may be "normal", but they do immense harm.
1. Seasonal viruses may be "normal", but they do immense harm.
December 12, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Excellent thread
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Want to honor Alice Wong and her work? Stop saying "during Covid" or "post-pandemic!"
Want to honor Alice Wong and her work? Wear a damn mask!
December 7, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Want to honor Alice Wong and her work? Stop saying "during Covid" or "post-pandemic!"
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I think the four pieces I edited by incarcerated queer journalist B Speaks may be the thing I'm proudest of this year. Speaks is an incredible writer, with an ability to take you into the world of the GA prison, and its trans and queer inmates, that takes my breath away.
In August, we got a bit of extra money from a generous donor, and I used it to expand into coverage of trans life in American prisons.
This piece, by incarcerated journalist B Speaks, describes the chaos Georgia's forced detransition regime, currently halted by the courts, wreaked in one prison.
This piece, by incarcerated journalist B Speaks, describes the chaos Georgia's forced detransition regime, currently halted by the courts, wreaked in one prison.
EXCLUSIVE: Forced Detransitions ‘Nearly Toppled’ Medical Unit in Georgia Prison During Care Ban — Assigned
In the midst of a lawsuit, a Georgia prison resumes gender affirming care for trans inmates.
www.assignedmedia.org
December 7, 2025 at 6:48 PM
I think the four pieces I edited by incarcerated queer journalist B Speaks may be the thing I'm proudest of this year. Speaks is an incredible writer, with an ability to take you into the world of the GA prison, and its trans and queer inmates, that takes my breath away.
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The real task isn’t “teaching people to spot misinformation.” It’s rebuilding conditions where verification, deliberation and accountability are possible. Critical thinking only works when the world around it gives those skills a place to take root.
December 7, 2025 at 2:18 PM
The real task isn’t “teaching people to spot misinformation.” It’s rebuilding conditions where verification, deliberation and accountability are possible. Critical thinking only works when the world around it gives those skills a place to take root.
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It only took four of us making a two-minute public comment about the library at the city council meeting for the councilors to restore the funding the mayor’s office had cut.
I really can't emphasize enough that if you care about local politics, all you gotta do is show up. Just a regular schmegular person showing up. Literally just show up consistently in person and within a remarkably short amount of time, you will have a shocking amount of influence.
December 6, 2025 at 5:08 PM
It only took four of us making a two-minute public comment about the library at the city council meeting for the councilors to restore the funding the mayor’s office had cut.
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🦠 Viruses don’t just make you sick — some leave long shadows.
Here are infections known to trigger long-term post-acute sequelae (PAIS):
• SARS-CoV-2 → Long COVID: fatigue, brain fog, immune dysregulation, multisystem issues 1/
#BlueSky #MedSky #SciSky #IDSky #NurseSky #PedsSky #EMSky #NewsSky
Here are infections known to trigger long-term post-acute sequelae (PAIS):
• SARS-CoV-2 → Long COVID: fatigue, brain fog, immune dysregulation, multisystem issues 1/
#BlueSky #MedSky #SciSky #IDSky #NurseSky #PedsSky #EMSky #NewsSky
December 5, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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Monsters. They've abolished universal newborn Hep B vaccination, in an 8-3 vote. Since 1991, that dose prevented 6M+ infections, almost 100k deaths, & millions of chronic liver disease/cancer cases.
This is class warfare via crimes against public health.
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
This is class warfare via crimes against public health.
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
December 5, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Monsters. They've abolished universal newborn Hep B vaccination, in an 8-3 vote. Since 1991, that dose prevented 6M+ infections, almost 100k deaths, & millions of chronic liver disease/cancer cases.
This is class warfare via crimes against public health.
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
This is class warfare via crimes against public health.
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
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this is one of the things ... men are given preferential treatment in admissions
December 4, 2025 at 9:03 PM
this is one of the things ... men are given preferential treatment in admissions
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moody gardens (kind of like a zoo) has a mask policy for meeting their penguins due to bird flu and the comments are so. supportive.
normalize feeling this way about humans.
normalize feeling this way about humans.
December 4, 2025 at 6:42 PM
moody gardens (kind of like a zoo) has a mask policy for meeting their penguins due to bird flu and the comments are so. supportive.
normalize feeling this way about humans.
normalize feeling this way about humans.
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The US is close to an institutional collapse across multiple public health agencies. Trump/RFK have purged anyone with expertise, many have fled and they’ve been replaced w functionaries who are either incompetent or malicious. I don’t think many understand how close to the edge we are right now.
a night time view of a city with a few buildings lit up
ALT: a night time view of a city with a few buildings lit up
media.tenor.com
December 4, 2025 at 7:06 PM
The US is close to an institutional collapse across multiple public health agencies. Trump/RFK have purged anyone with expertise, many have fled and they’ve been replaced w functionaries who are either incompetent or malicious. I don’t think many understand how close to the edge we are right now.
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and when those of us who do understand urge caution, mitigation, community care, we're scoffed at.
things are so dire—masks may not always feel spectacular but the diseases our leadership is cultivating feel worse.
things are so dire—masks may not always feel spectacular but the diseases our leadership is cultivating feel worse.
we’re in an extraordinary time that calls for extraordinary action. wearing a respirator may not feel extraordinary, but when masks are stigmatized if not criminalized, it becomes so.
it’s a helluva lot harder to #Resist without your health—preserve what you & your community have. mask up.
it’s a helluva lot harder to #Resist without your health—preserve what you & your community have. mask up.
last night, someone on tiktok asked
me how wearing a mask is antifascist, so i answered: unfortunately, even passive, austere eugenics works faster if YOU participate.
so step up: stand out, mask up, and take care take care take care for yourself & others—before those who seek to harm stop you.
me how wearing a mask is antifascist, so i answered: unfortunately, even passive, austere eugenics works faster if YOU participate.
so step up: stand out, mask up, and take care take care take care for yourself & others—before those who seek to harm stop you.
December 4, 2025 at 7:09 PM
and when those of us who do understand urge caution, mitigation, community care, we're scoffed at.
things are so dire—masks may not always feel spectacular but the diseases our leadership is cultivating feel worse.
things are so dire—masks may not always feel spectacular but the diseases our leadership is cultivating feel worse.
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Every time I try to explain to people just how precarious this all is right now, they think I'm being dramatic. "We'll miss flu shots for a couple years and we'll go back to normal when the Democrats are back in charge." That's... not how public health works.
December 4, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Every time I try to explain to people just how precarious this all is right now, they think I'm being dramatic. "We'll miss flu shots for a couple years and we'll go back to normal when the Democrats are back in charge." That's... not how public health works.
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Holy shit.
Reuters reporting that new admin instructions on visas are if you worked at a platform in trust & safety or content moderation or on fact checking or online safety at an platform you *and your loved ones* are ineligible for H-1B visa.
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
Reuters reporting that new admin instructions on visas are if you worked at a platform in trust & safety or content moderation or on fact checking or online safety at an platform you *and your loved ones* are ineligible for H-1B visa.
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
December 4, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Holy shit.
Reuters reporting that new admin instructions on visas are if you worked at a platform in trust & safety or content moderation or on fact checking or online safety at an platform you *and your loved ones* are ineligible for H-1B visa.
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
Reuters reporting that new admin instructions on visas are if you worked at a platform in trust & safety or content moderation or on fact checking or online safety at an platform you *and your loved ones* are ineligible for H-1B visa.
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
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Leslie Lee III, an educator, critic, and Long COVID advocate, died on November 10.
“He was one of the few voices in leftist spaces that refused to buy into COVID denialism," Taylor Lorenz told @mileswgriffis.bsky.social. "He was such a strong voice..."
bit.ly/44MICG4
“He was one of the few voices in leftist spaces that refused to buy into COVID denialism," Taylor Lorenz told @mileswgriffis.bsky.social. "He was such a strong voice..."
bit.ly/44MICG4
December 4, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Leslie Lee III, an educator, critic, and Long COVID advocate, died on November 10.
“He was one of the few voices in leftist spaces that refused to buy into COVID denialism," Taylor Lorenz told @mileswgriffis.bsky.social. "He was such a strong voice..."
bit.ly/44MICG4
“He was one of the few voices in leftist spaces that refused to buy into COVID denialism," Taylor Lorenz told @mileswgriffis.bsky.social. "He was such a strong voice..."
bit.ly/44MICG4
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A medical professional working while they know they are sick with a highly contagious disease is an absolute failure by the individual.
It is also a complete failure of the place they work for allowing this type of behavior.
It is also a complete failure of the place they work for allowing this type of behavior.
More Health Workers Came in to Work With COVID as the Pandemic Wore On.
Presenteeism (working while sick) increased among healthcare workers with COVID. 7.9% worked while sick from Dec 2020–Apr 2024.
• 2020: 1.4%
• 2021: 6.2%
• 2022: 7.2%
• 2023: 10.5%
• 2024: 15.2%
Source: archive.md/UETph
Presenteeism (working while sick) increased among healthcare workers with COVID. 7.9% worked while sick from Dec 2020–Apr 2024.
• 2020: 1.4%
• 2021: 6.2%
• 2022: 7.2%
• 2023: 10.5%
• 2024: 15.2%
Source: archive.md/UETph
December 4, 2025 at 7:02 PM
A medical professional working while they know they are sick with a highly contagious disease is an absolute failure by the individual.
It is also a complete failure of the place they work for allowing this type of behavior.
It is also a complete failure of the place they work for allowing this type of behavior.
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I'll say it again: there is a hard limit to how many satellites you can have in orbit without terrible consequences, and I am quite sure we are already above that limit, mostly thanks to Starlink.
December 3, 2025 at 9:28 PM
I'll say it again: there is a hard limit to how many satellites you can have in orbit without terrible consequences, and I am quite sure we are already above that limit, mostly thanks to Starlink.
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On International Day of People with #Disabilities, please note some disabilities are invisible
#Disability #invisibleillness #disabled #disabledpeople #IDPD #IDPD2025 #IDPD25
#Disability #invisibleillness #disabled #disabledpeople #IDPD #IDPD2025 #IDPD25
December 3, 2025 at 8:08 PM
On International Day of People with #Disabilities, please note some disabilities are invisible
#Disability #invisibleillness #disabled #disabledpeople #IDPD #IDPD2025 #IDPD25
#Disability #invisibleillness #disabled #disabledpeople #IDPD #IDPD2025 #IDPD25
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Just imagining how much better it would be if ALL news stories about vaccine-preventable illnesses were illustrated with pictures of people with the disease, not pictures of needle injections. If you must show something that people will find scary & unpleasant, make it the disease, not the cure.
I'm so tired of measles.
I'm also tired of people using needle shots on stories like this.
Show what measles looks like.
I'm also tired of people using needle shots on stories like this.
Show what measles looks like.
Gallatin Co. reports 2nd measles case, warns of exposure sites nbcmontana.com/news/local/g...
December 2, 2025 at 4:40 AM
Just imagining how much better it would be if ALL news stories about vaccine-preventable illnesses were illustrated with pictures of people with the disease, not pictures of needle injections. If you must show something that people will find scary & unpleasant, make it the disease, not the cure.
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We’re doing to be paying these insider threats’ salaries for the next 20 years or so. And then their federal retirements. Corsitine isn’t even American, but he’s a GS15 w/no bachelors degree, no experience, & a list of known criminal activities. 3/
November 23, 2025 at 6:54 PM
We’re doing to be paying these insider threats’ salaries for the next 20 years or so. And then their federal retirements. Corsitine isn’t even American, but he’s a GS15 w/no bachelors degree, no experience, & a list of known criminal activities. 3/
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Reporting this🧵given the new reporting. Which is correct reporting unlike the garbage from 8 to 10 days ago.
DOGE isn’t gone. The 19-26 year olds burrowed in to the agencies they were assigned to. We’ve got dozens of unqualified 19-26 year old GS15s still pursuing Musk’s agenda, which is stealing everyone’s PII/data, all contracting info, moving it onto his servers, & mining it for his profits. 1/
Bye bye, “DOGE”.
It no longer exists as a “centralized entity”, according to the Office of Personnel Management.
@reuters.com
www.reuters.com/world/us/dog...
It no longer exists as a “centralized entity”, according to the Office of Personnel Management.
@reuters.com
www.reuters.com/world/us/dog...
December 2, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Reporting this🧵given the new reporting. Which is correct reporting unlike the garbage from 8 to 10 days ago.
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Never forget: Art matters.
‘Stoppard never learnt how many lives he saved by writing Arcadia’
December 2, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Never forget: Art matters.