Ma Ma Ba
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Really good article about clinically relevant innovations this year
New post!
There was a lot of innovation in medicine and biomedical research this year, and I've tried to summarize the biggest ones in this blogpost.
Medical breakthroughs in 2025. Plus a serious note at the end.
www.scientificdiscovery.dev/p/medical-br...
There was a lot of innovation in medicine and biomedical research this year, and I've tried to summarize the biggest ones in this blogpost.
Medical breakthroughs in 2025. Plus a serious note at the end.
www.scientificdiscovery.dev/p/medical-br...
Medical breakthroughs in 2025
... and a happy new year.
www.scientificdiscovery.dev
December 28, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Really good article about clinically relevant innovations this year
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Mirrored here for when that gets taken down: archive.org/details/3mam...
Inside Cecot : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
https://bsky.app/profile/jasonparis.bsky.social/post/3mam565pyes24
archive.org
December 22, 2025 at 11:31 PM
Mirrored here for when that gets taken down: archive.org/details/3mam...
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Don’t use Spotify until the ICE recruitment ads stop: indivisible.org/cancel-spotify?source=bluesky
December 28, 2025 at 2:19 AM
Don’t use Spotify until the ICE recruitment ads stop: indivisible.org/cancel-spotify?source=bluesky
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Post-doc positions:
"Academic freedom is under pressure today. This requires rescue havens of free research. ... [we] invite early career researchers, whose work is restricted due to political pressure in the USA..."
uni-freiburg.de/frias/call-f...
"Academic freedom is under pressure today. This requires rescue havens of free research. ... [we] invite early career researchers, whose work is restricted due to political pressure in the USA..."
uni-freiburg.de/frias/call-f...
Call for Applications: Early Career Rescue Fellowship – Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies
uni-freiburg.de
December 19, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Post-doc positions:
"Academic freedom is under pressure today. This requires rescue havens of free research. ... [we] invite early career researchers, whose work is restricted due to political pressure in the USA..."
uni-freiburg.de/frias/call-f...
"Academic freedom is under pressure today. This requires rescue havens of free research. ... [we] invite early career researchers, whose work is restricted due to political pressure in the USA..."
uni-freiburg.de/frias/call-f...
I love the invention/convention, and it’s one of the few things I was able to teach my husband about, about cars. He’s an excellent shade tree mechanic, but this was new to him!
December 27, 2025 at 2:42 PM
I love the invention/convention, and it’s one of the few things I was able to teach my husband about, about cars. He’s an excellent shade tree mechanic, but this was new to him!
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Is a goldendoodle with the most troublesome qualities of both breeds called a poo retriever
December 24, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Is a goldendoodle with the most troublesome qualities of both breeds called a poo retriever
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Monks walking in Selma, Alabama reminded me of MLK, Jr marching in Selma. #walkforpeaceusa
December 23, 2025 at 1:02 AM
Monks walking in Selma, Alabama reminded me of MLK, Jr marching in Selma. #walkforpeaceusa
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Bill Clinton releasing a statement saying 'release the Epstein files, you cowards' was not on my bingo list.
December 22, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Bill Clinton releasing a statement saying 'release the Epstein files, you cowards' was not on my bingo list.
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It used to be that the United States would use Voice of America and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty to transmit truth across the borders of repressive regimes.
Now the work of American reporters, having been censored, is being smuggled across the border to reach Americans.
Now the work of American reporters, having been censored, is being smuggled across the border to reach Americans.
The 60 Minutes piece on the Trump Administration’s torture prison that Bari Weiss doesn’t want you to see has leaked.
December 22, 2025 at 11:01 PM
It used to be that the United States would use Voice of America and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty to transmit truth across the borders of repressive regimes.
Now the work of American reporters, having been censored, is being smuggled across the border to reach Americans.
Now the work of American reporters, having been censored, is being smuggled across the border to reach Americans.
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🩸🩸🩸 I'm going to post this video every day so we never forget what the 34x POS convicted felon who incites political violence, adjudicated rapist & pedophile Trump did 🩸🩸🩸
December 20, 2025 at 12:11 PM
🩸🩸🩸 I'm going to post this video every day so we never forget what the 34x POS convicted felon who incites political violence, adjudicated rapist & pedophile Trump did 🩸🩸🩸
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Closing out my year with a journal editor shocker 🧵
Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...
Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...
December 19, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Closing out my year with a journal editor shocker 🧵
Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...
Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...
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We’ve had this talk before.
This is disconcertingly similar to the setup for the Tuskegee trials.
It is a basic and agreed-upon principle of research that we do not withhold effective standard treatments from people just to do an experiment. This rule was set in place because of the Nazis.
This is disconcertingly similar to the setup for the Tuskegee trials.
It is a basic and agreed-upon principle of research that we do not withhold effective standard treatments from people just to do an experiment. This rule was set in place because of the Nazis.
47's admin will fund a $1.6m study on hepatitis B vax of newborns in Guinea-Bissau, where 1/5 adults live w/ the virus. It's a move researchers call “highly unethical” & “extremely risky” because the proven-to-be-safe vax will be withheld from 1/2 of the babies.
No pay wall.
No pay wall.
US plan for $1.6m hepatitis B vaccine study in Africa called ‘highly unethical’
Experts decry ‘neocolonialist’ Guinea-Bissau study after Trump administration changed advice for US babies
www.theguardian.com
December 19, 2025 at 5:06 PM
We’ve had this talk before.
This is disconcertingly similar to the setup for the Tuskegee trials.
It is a basic and agreed-upon principle of research that we do not withhold effective standard treatments from people just to do an experiment. This rule was set in place because of the Nazis.
This is disconcertingly similar to the setup for the Tuskegee trials.
It is a basic and agreed-upon principle of research that we do not withhold effective standard treatments from people just to do an experiment. This rule was set in place because of the Nazis.
Is Anne Lamont a mensch? I think so.
December 19, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Is Anne Lamont a mensch? I think so.
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GOOD NEWS! Researchers have developed a heteromultivalent nanogel capable of killing some of the MOST dangerous bacteria known to medicine- with OVER 99.9% effectiveness against P. aeruginosa. It also showed STRONG antibacterial effects against other major threats, including E. coli and MRSA.
December 19, 2025 at 5:00 PM
GOOD NEWS! Researchers have developed a heteromultivalent nanogel capable of killing some of the MOST dangerous bacteria known to medicine- with OVER 99.9% effectiveness against P. aeruginosa. It also showed STRONG antibacterial effects against other major threats, including E. coli and MRSA.
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ProPublica could not find evidence Trump ever lived at either of the two Florida properties he claimed as principal residences in the 1990s.
Legal documents and other records from the period give his address as Trump Tower in Manhattan.
Legal documents and other records from the period give his address as Trump Tower in Manhattan.
Trump’s Own Mortgages Match His Description of Mortgage Fraud, Records Reveal
The Trump administration has argued that Fed board member Lisa Cook may have committed mortgage fraud by declaring more than one primary residence on her loans. We found Trump once did the very thing ...
www.propublica.org
December 17, 2025 at 2:30 AM
ProPublica could not find evidence Trump ever lived at either of the two Florida properties he claimed as principal residences in the 1990s.
Legal documents and other records from the period give his address as Trump Tower in Manhattan.
Legal documents and other records from the period give his address as Trump Tower in Manhattan.
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Is there reliable information, peer reviewed NEJM/Lancet-level, that dry needling is better than sham treatment?
December 12, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Is there reliable information, peer reviewed NEJM/Lancet-level, that dry needling is better than sham treatment?
They are full of attention & thought, and mostly not full of money
600 Readers Told Us About the Best Gifts They Ever Got. These Are the Top 13. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/15/o...
600 Readers Told Us About the Best Gifts They Ever Got. These Are the Top 13. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/15/o...
Opinion | 600 Readers Told Us About the Best Gifts They Ever Got. These Are the Top 13.
www.nytimes.com
December 16, 2025 at 5:15 PM
They are full of attention & thought, and mostly not full of money
600 Readers Told Us About the Best Gifts They Ever Got. These Are the Top 13. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/15/o...
600 Readers Told Us About the Best Gifts They Ever Got. These Are the Top 13. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/15/o...
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In a huge French study of >28 million adults, those who received the mRNA COVID-19 vaccine:
✅25% lower risk of death from any cause over 4 years
✅75% lower death from COVID
buff.ly/SP0sCpJ
Strong long-term, population-level evidence reinforces vaccine's safety and protection.
#medsky #episky🛟😷🧪
✅25% lower risk of death from any cause over 4 years
✅75% lower death from COVID
buff.ly/SP0sCpJ
Strong long-term, population-level evidence reinforces vaccine's safety and protection.
#medsky #episky🛟😷🧪
December 12, 2025 at 8:01 PM
In a huge French study of >28 million adults, those who received the mRNA COVID-19 vaccine:
✅25% lower risk of death from any cause over 4 years
✅75% lower death from COVID
buff.ly/SP0sCpJ
Strong long-term, population-level evidence reinforces vaccine's safety and protection.
#medsky #episky🛟😷🧪
✅25% lower risk of death from any cause over 4 years
✅75% lower death from COVID
buff.ly/SP0sCpJ
Strong long-term, population-level evidence reinforces vaccine's safety and protection.
#medsky #episky🛟😷🧪
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Indianapolis Star, November 22, 1918
December 12, 2025 at 1:51 AM
Indianapolis Star, November 22, 1918
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Benedikt Pleyer/Nomadic Nostoc filmed these tiny ostracods collected from the beach of a Japanese island.
Vargula hilgendorfii live in marine sand & emit a mix of luciferase & luciferin that lights up to deter predators.
The same chemicals produce firefly glow.
海蛍: umihotaru = "Sea fireflies"
Vargula hilgendorfii live in marine sand & emit a mix of luciferase & luciferin that lights up to deter predators.
The same chemicals produce firefly glow.
海蛍: umihotaru = "Sea fireflies"
December 11, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Benedikt Pleyer/Nomadic Nostoc filmed these tiny ostracods collected from the beach of a Japanese island.
Vargula hilgendorfii live in marine sand & emit a mix of luciferase & luciferin that lights up to deter predators.
The same chemicals produce firefly glow.
海蛍: umihotaru = "Sea fireflies"
Vargula hilgendorfii live in marine sand & emit a mix of luciferase & luciferin that lights up to deter predators.
The same chemicals produce firefly glow.
海蛍: umihotaru = "Sea fireflies"
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MINNEAPOLIS: “All I did was step outside as a Somali American citizen, and I got chased by a masked person, assaulted, kidnapped. It was inhumane. If this is what’s happening to a 🇺🇸 citizen on camera, imagine what could happen to your loved ones.”
December 11, 2025 at 4:00 AM
MINNEAPOLIS: “All I did was step outside as a Somali American citizen, and I got chased by a masked person, assaulted, kidnapped. It was inhumane. If this is what’s happening to a 🇺🇸 citizen on camera, imagine what could happen to your loved ones.”
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House Democrat Seeks to Impeach Kennedy for Undercutting Public Health www.nytimes.com/2025/12/10/u...
House Democrat Seeks to Impeach Kennedy for Undercutting Public Health
www.nytimes.com
December 10, 2025 at 3:47 PM
House Democrat Seeks to Impeach Kennedy for Undercutting Public Health www.nytimes.com/2025/12/10/u...
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🚨 Today, I formally introduced articles of impeachment against Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
RFK Jr. has turned his back on science and the safety of the American people. Michiganders cannot take another day of his chaos.
RFK Jr. has turned his back on science and the safety of the American people. Michiganders cannot take another day of his chaos.
December 10, 2025 at 1:10 PM
🚨 Today, I formally introduced articles of impeachment against Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
RFK Jr. has turned his back on science and the safety of the American people. Michiganders cannot take another day of his chaos.
RFK Jr. has turned his back on science and the safety of the American people. Michiganders cannot take another day of his chaos.
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