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9 people were killed in a tornado last night in KY. The NWS office responsible for that area has faced some of the most extreme cuts by the Trump administration, including the loss of overnight forecasting.
Last night, they were rushing to find help for the office.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/w...
Last night, they were rushing to find help for the office.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/w...
After Cuts, a Kentucky Weather Office Scrambles for Staffing as Severe Storms Bear Down
www.nytimes.com
May 17, 2025 at 1:24 PM
9 people were killed in a tornado last night in KY. The NWS office responsible for that area has faced some of the most extreme cuts by the Trump administration, including the loss of overnight forecasting.
Last night, they were rushing to find help for the office.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/w...
Last night, they were rushing to find help for the office.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/w...
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Powerful graphic. In a single day on April 25, a DOGE-fueled NSF canceled 340,226 future days of research.
Or 932 years.
[And that’s just one of three rounds of terminations so far.]
Or 932 years.
[And that’s just one of three rounds of terminations so far.]
For #TidyTuesday this week, we're looking at data on terminations of NSF grants 📊
🎨 Using colour to highlight one category
📈 Transparency to highlight the important data
✍️ Annotations instead of a legend for transparency
#RStats #ggplot2 #DataViz
🎨 Using colour to highlight one category
📈 Transparency to highlight the important data
✍️ Annotations instead of a legend for transparency
#RStats #ggplot2 #DataViz
May 6, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Powerful graphic. In a single day on April 25, a DOGE-fueled NSF canceled 340,226 future days of research.
Or 932 years.
[And that’s just one of three rounds of terminations so far.]
Or 932 years.
[And that’s just one of three rounds of terminations so far.]
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Some experts fear that the Trump administration's recent moves on public health are setting the stage for a long-term measles resurgence in the U.S.
Why Measles Outbreaks May Be the New Normal
Recent Trump administration actions are setting the stage for a measles resurgence, experts fear.
www.nytimes.com
April 5, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Some experts fear that the Trump administration's recent moves on public health are setting the stage for a long-term measles resurgence in the U.S.
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Your chances of dying by crashing into a fake wall painted by a 1940s cartoon character are slim, but never zero.
Someone made a Wiley E. Coyote style painted wall to see if Tesla’s autopilot would detect it and well…
March 16, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Your chances of dying by crashing into a fake wall painted by a 1940s cartoon character are slim, but never zero.
I’m heartbroken how much we have lost in ten years. We have to turn back around to the right way.
It’s the 60th Anniversary of “Bloody Sunday” at Selma, and thus the 10th anniversary of President Obama’s speech there, my favorite of all his public oratory, although it reads differently now. 🧵
time.com/3736357/bara...
time.com/3736357/bara...
Read the Full Text of Obama's Speech in Selma
The President spoke on Saturday in Selma, Ala.
time.com
March 7, 2025 at 5:11 PM
I’m heartbroken how much we have lost in ten years. We have to turn back around to the right way.
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A Comment article in Nature Medicine describes the steps that should be taken now to prevent an epidemic of H5N1 avian flu in humans and to prepare for an outbreak should it occur. 🧪
Steps to prevent and respond to an H5N1 epidemic in the USA - Nature Medicine
Steps should be taken now to prevent an epidemic of H5N1 in humans and prepare for an outbreak should it occur.
go.nature.com
February 28, 2025 at 11:32 PM
A Comment article in Nature Medicine describes the steps that should be taken now to prevent an epidemic of H5N1 avian flu in humans and to prepare for an outbreak should it occur. 🧪
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🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.
February 4, 2025 at 1:26 AM
🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.
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Trump has deployed active military to help round up migrants and put them into detention camps.
The military forced us out of our homes at gunpoint in 1942 because we were considered possibly disloyal Americans. They sent us to internment camps for four years.
History is repeating. Pay attention.
The military forced us out of our homes at gunpoint in 1942 because we were considered possibly disloyal Americans. They sent us to internment camps for four years.
History is repeating. Pay attention.
January 23, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Trump has deployed active military to help round up migrants and put them into detention camps.
The military forced us out of our homes at gunpoint in 1942 because we were considered possibly disloyal Americans. They sent us to internment camps for four years.
History is repeating. Pay attention.
The military forced us out of our homes at gunpoint in 1942 because we were considered possibly disloyal Americans. They sent us to internment camps for four years.
History is repeating. Pay attention.
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As the planet warms, insurance companies are dropping homeowners in communities they deem too dangerous because of wildfires, hurricanes and other threats. Now, for the first time, the scale of that pullback is becoming public. nyti.ms/41EOpNc
December 18, 2024 at 7:35 PM
As the planet warms, insurance companies are dropping homeowners in communities they deem too dangerous because of wildfires, hurricanes and other threats. Now, for the first time, the scale of that pullback is becoming public. nyti.ms/41EOpNc
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An Israeli airstrike hit a car in the Gaza Strip on Saturday, killing five people, including at least three employees with the food aid charity. World Central Kitchen said that it was "urgently seeking more details."
World Central Kitchen workers killed by Israeli airstrike, Gaza health ministry says
An Israeli airstrike hit a car in the Gaza Strip on Saturday, killing five people, including at least three employees with the food aid charity. World Central Kitchen said that it was "urgently seeking more details."
www.npr.org
November 30, 2024 at 8:10 PM
An Israeli airstrike hit a car in the Gaza Strip on Saturday, killing five people, including at least three employees with the food aid charity. World Central Kitchen said that it was "urgently seeking more details."
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World’s 1.5C climate target ‘deader than a doornail’, experts say
World’s 1.5C climate target ‘deader than a doornail’, experts say
Scientists say goal to keep world’s temperature rise below 1.5C is not going to happen despite talks at Cop29 in Baku
The internationally agreed goal to keep the world’s temperature rise below 1.5C is now “deader than a doornail”, with 2024 almost…
dlvr.it
November 18, 2024 at 11:15 AM
World’s 1.5C climate target ‘deader than a doornail’, experts say