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Scientists globally are engaging in a mass-archiving effort in response to the US CDC removing some of its web pages. The aim is to save vital health databases taken down in response to the executive orders issued by President Trump 🧪
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Scientists globally are racing to save vital health databases taken down amid Trump chaos
The mass-archiving effort is in response to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention removing some of its web pages.
www.nature.com
February 7, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Scientists globally are engaging in a mass-archiving effort in response to the US CDC removing some of its web pages. The aim is to save vital health databases taken down in response to the executive orders issued by President Trump 🧪
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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right now a 25 year old berkeley grad is slapping chat gpt cobol code into the treasury’s electronic payment system. im sure this will be fine.
February 4, 2025 at 6:27 PM
right now a 25 year old berkeley grad is slapping chat gpt cobol code into the treasury’s electronic payment system. im sure this will be fine.
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BREAKING NEWS: Research and basic information on subjects ranging from tuberculosis surveillance to adolescent health disappeared from federal health agency websites.
Trump administration purges websites across federal health agencies
Research and basic information on subjects ranging from tuberculosis surveillance to adolescent health disappeared from federal health agency websites.
www.npr.org
January 31, 2025 at 9:58 PM
BREAKING NEWS: Research and basic information on subjects ranging from tuberculosis surveillance to adolescent health disappeared from federal health agency websites.
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“on Thursday the [National Science Foundation]’s online payment system was still down, throwing lives into uncertainty. An NSF email seen by STAT suggested salaries had been suspended to “ensure only eligible activities” are funded.” www.statnews.com/2025/01/30/t...
National Science Foundation suspends salary payments, leaving researchers unable to pay their bills
An NSF online payment system remained down after the federal funding freeze was lifted, leaving early-career scientists scrambling to pay bills
www.statnews.com
January 31, 2025 at 1:54 PM
“on Thursday the [National Science Foundation]’s online payment system was still down, throwing lives into uncertainty. An NSF email seen by STAT suggested salaries had been suspended to “ensure only eligible activities” are funded.” www.statnews.com/2025/01/30/t...
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1/ RFK Jr. wants to observe unvaccinated kids in Samoa as a “natural experiment.”
This is disturbingly similar to the Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment, where researchers let people suffer and die instead of treating them.
Let’s compare. ⬇️
This is disturbingly similar to the Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment, where researchers let people suffer and die instead of treating them.
Let’s compare. ⬇️
January 29, 2025 at 3:52 AM
1/ RFK Jr. wants to observe unvaccinated kids in Samoa as a “natural experiment.”
This is disturbingly similar to the Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment, where researchers let people suffer and die instead of treating them.
Let’s compare. ⬇️
This is disturbingly similar to the Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment, where researchers let people suffer and die instead of treating them.
Let’s compare. ⬇️
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“We keep giving the new administration the benefit of the doubt, but I don’t think that’s warranted here”, says an NIH scientist who asked not to be identified... “We need to give up the illusion of going back to normal.”
Nature's report on the chaos in US science:
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Nature's report on the chaos in US science:
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Chaos erupts in US science as Trump’s team declares freeze on federal grants
The freeze’s effect on research is still unclear, but scientists fear ‘incalculable’ damage.
www.nature.com
January 29, 2025 at 2:44 PM
“We keep giving the new administration the benefit of the doubt, but I don’t think that’s warranted here”, says an NIH scientist who asked not to be identified... “We need to give up the illusion of going back to normal.”
Nature's report on the chaos in US science:
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Nature's report on the chaos in US science:
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Ten months on from the shocking discovery that a virus usually carried by wild birds can readily infect cows, at least 68 people in North America have become ill from the pathogen and one person has died
https://go.nature.com/3PT5dsY
https://go.nature.com/3PT5dsY
Will bird flu spark a human pandemic? Scientists say the risk is rising
H5N1 is adapting to new mammal hosts, raising the possibility of the virus spreading between humans.
go.nature.com
January 28, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Ten months on from the shocking discovery that a virus usually carried by wild birds can readily infect cows, at least 68 people in North America have become ill from the pathogen and one person has died
https://go.nature.com/3PT5dsY
https://go.nature.com/3PT5dsY
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