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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 1h

BREAKING: Trump administration officials seriously discussing invoking Insurrection Act, five people with knowledge of the talks tell NBC News.

Trump administration officials seriously discussing invoking Insurrection Act, sources say

A decision is not expected to be imminent, one source said, but debate within the administration has shifted recently to more deeply exploring how and when the act might be invoked.

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 1h

A Shortlist of Federal Data the Trump Administration Has Tampered With or Destroyed talkingpointsmemo.com/news/a-short...

A Shortlist of Federal Data the Trump Administration Has Tampered With or Destroyed

The scale and scope of federal data and statistics that have been...

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Just ‘Steve’ 💙 @steveplou.bsky.social · 14h

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A replicating RNA vaccine protects cynomolgus macaques against lethal clade 2.3.4.4b influenza A H5N1 virus challenge | Science Translational Medicine www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 🧪

A replicating RNA vaccine protects cynomolgus macaques against lethal clade 2.3.4.4b influenza A H5N1 virus challenge

LION-delivered replicating RNA vaccines are immunogenic and protect cynomolgus macaques against lethal influenza A (H5N1) virus challenge.

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Javi Ibarrondo @jibarrondo.bsky.social · 2h

Quantum effects in electrical circuits honored with Physics Nobel | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti... 🧪

Quantum effects in electrical circuits honored with Physics Nobel

Breakthrough paved the way to many of today’s budding quantum computers

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Javi Ibarrondo @jibarrondo.bsky.social · 2h

miRNAs for the win!

Well-exercised male mice appear to pass fitness to their male offspring | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti... 🧪

Well-exercised male mice appear to pass fitness to their male offspring

Surprising epigenetic effect relies on snippets of RNA packaged within sperm

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Javi Ibarrondo @jibarrondo.bsky.social · 2h

Gut-microbiota-derived indole sulfate promotes heart failure in chronic kidney disease: Cell Host & Microbe www.cell.com/cell-host-mi... 🧪

Gut-microbiota-derived indole sulfate promotes heart failure in chronic kidney disease

Heart failure (HF) is highly prevalent among patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD), yet the exact mechanisms remain unclear. Zhang et al. demonstrate that E. coli-derived indoxyl sulfate promotes...

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 5h

i desperately want everyone involved in the destruction of USAID to have to, st the very least, answer to the american people for the suffering and misery they have caused apnews.com/article/myan...

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

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KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 1d

A masked ICE agent sprayed Pastor David Black of First Presbyterian Church of Chicago, directly in his face.
📸 Ashlee Rezin of the Chicago Sun-Times

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Javi Ibarrondo @jibarrondo.bsky.social · 1d

Medicine Nobel goes to three researchers who identified immune system’s security guards | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti... 🧪

Medicine Nobel goes to three researchers who identified immune system’s security guards

Mary Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell, and Shimon Sakaguchi revealed how regulatory T cells prevent autoimmune disease

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Javi Ibarrondo @jibarrondo.bsky.social · 1d

Big U.S. West Coast earthquakes could come as a one-two punch | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti... 🧪

Big U.S. West Coast earthquakes could come as a one-two punch

Cascadia and San Andreas fault zones appear to generate synchronized earthquakes

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Javi Ibarrondo @jibarrondo.bsky.social · 1d

The role of innate immunity, antibiotics, and bacteriophages in the course of bacterial infections and their treatment | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... 🧪

PNAS

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...

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Javi Ibarrondo @jibarrondo.bsky.social · 1d

Exceptionally broad HIV-1 neutralization via bispecific antibody–mediated prepositioning | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... 🧪

Exceptionally broad HIV-1 neutralization via bispecific antibody–mediated prepositioning | PNAS

Antibodies that recognize the conserved prehairpin intermediate (PHI) of class I viral membrane-fusion proteins typically show limited neutralizati...

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Javi Ibarrondo @jibarrondo.bsky.social · 1d

Toward a relational biodiversity economics: Embedding plural values for sustainability transformation | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... 🧪

PNAS

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...

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Jennifer Ouellette @jenlucpiquant.bsky.social · 2d

Nobel prize for medicine goes to trio for work on immune tolerance www.newscientist.com/article/2498...

Nobel prize for medicine goes to trio for work on immune tolerance

The 2025 Nobel prize in physiology or medicine has gone to Mary Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi for their discoveries around how we keep our immune system under control

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Javi Ibarrondo @jibarrondo.bsky.social · 2d

Science teachers scramble as U.S. climate resources vanish | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti... 🧪

Science teachers scramble as U.S. climate resources vanish

As government websites go dark, some nonprofits are trying to fill the void

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Javi Ibarrondo @jibarrondo.bsky.social · 2d

Conscious awareness determines whether a second learning session disrupts or facilitates earlier learning: Current Biology www.cell.com/current-biol... 🧪

Conscious awareness determines whether a second learning session disrupts or facilitates earlier learning

Bruns et al. report that successive training sessions in visual perceptual learning based on motion stimuli can facilitate rather than impair prior learning—if the stimuli are subthreshold—suggesting ...

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Sue Massa @smassa.bsky.social · 2d

US Breaks New Measles Record, Surpassing 1,500 Cases – The Most In 33 Years

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US Breaks New Measles Record, Surpassing 1,500 Cases – The Most In 33 Years

Measles was declared eliminated in the US in 2000 – that is no longer the case.

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Dr. Sandra Steingraber 🏳️‍🌈 @ssteingraber1.bsky.social · 4d

🧪 NEW STUDY: Air pollution increases risk of Lewy Body Dementia, the 2nd most common dementia after Alzheimer’s*

Your reminder that air pollution is just another name for fossil fuel combustion byproducts.

*linked to air pollution in previous studies

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Lewy body dementia promotion by air pollutants

Evidence links air pollution to dementia, yet its role in Lewy body dementia (LBD) remains unclear. In this work, we showed in a cohort of 56.5 million individuals across the United States that fine p...

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 5d

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Neurons can communicate via hidden network of nanotubes, study finds | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti... 🧪

Neurons can communicate via hidden network of nanotubes, study finds

Tubes in mouse and human brains may also influence spread of brain disease

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Javi Ibarrondo @jibarrondo.bsky.social · 5d

New radioactive isotope therapies promise more targeted attacks on cancer | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti... 🧪

New radioactive isotope therapies promise more targeted attacks on cancer

Recent clinical successes, and profits, have prompted a rush among pharma companies to try new isotopes and targeting strategies

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Javi Ibarrondo @jibarrondo.bsky.social · 5d

After months in limbo, four NIH institute directors fired | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti... 🧪

After months in limbo, four NIH institute directors fired

Two leaders removed by Trump administration had hoped to stay at agency as in-house investigators

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Javi Ibarrondo @jibarrondo.bsky.social · 5d

Made to order bioweapon? AI-designed toxins slip through safety checks used by companies selling genes | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti... 🧪

Made to order bioweapon? AI-designed toxins slip through safety checks used by companies selling genes

Researchers expose flaws in safeguards intended to block rogue actors from making bioweapons

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Javi Ibarrondo @jibarrondo.bsky.social · 5d

Renowned U.S. climate center trims staff ahead of expected budget cuts | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti... 🧪

Renowned U.S. climate center trims staff ahead of expected budget cuts

NSF-funded National Center for Atmospheric Research is already shuttered during shutdown

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