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Michael J. Stern @michaeljstern.bsky.social · 12h

They are calling it "Ice Fishing" and it's hilarious.

Maggie Fox @maggiefox.bsky.social · 12h

Appeal to any 23 and me users. Have your ancestry results changed significantly in the latest update and in a way that confused you? Contact me for a possible story. #genetictesting #dna #consumer #ancestry maybe #whitewashing (literally)

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 14h

repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself

violent alien @blipstress.bsky.social · 14h

An actual hot take: Too many authors are afraid of editors watering down their voice or whatever and not afraid enough of editors letting you put any old slop on the page.

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Maggie Fox @maggiefox.bsky.social · 13h

Of course, we shouldn't kill or hurt anything that can suffer. It shouldn't be about whether it's intelligent. Otherwise, I am certain we'd all be cannibals.

Jacqueline L. Hazelton @drjlhazelton.bsky.social · 15h

Me neither. Good for you! They are incredible critters. Way smarter than I am.

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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 15h

A study of nearly 300,000 people published today in the New England Journal of Medicine found “that last season’s 2024–2025 mRNA COVID vaccines reduced people’s risk of emergency department visits by 29 percent, their risk of hospitalizations by 39 percent and their risk of death by 64 percent.”

Annual COVID Vaccines Save Lives, New Study Shows

A new study shows that receiving an updated COVID vaccine reduced people’s risk of severe disease and death in all age groups, regardless of immunity from prior infection or vaccination

www.scientificamerican.com

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Maggie Fox @maggiefox.bsky.social · 16h

Huger.

Maggie Fox @maggiefox.bsky.social · 18h

PLEASE DO

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Maggie Fox @maggiefox.bsky.social · 18h

PLEASE name the airline. They'd rather land a whole planeload of people than give up $155 in extra revenue??? Inconvenience an entire airport?

Kashmir Hill @kashhill.bsky.social · 19h

This is absolutely wild. I’m on a cross country flight. We are being diverted midway through to Denver. The reason? Some dude is sitting in the exit row who didn’t pay the $155 fee and he refuses to move back to his seat.

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Deborah Blum @deborahb.bsky.social · 1d

This.

Laura Helmuth @laurahelmuth.bsky.social · 1d

Six of the nine Nobel Prize winners this year work in the U.S.
Three of the six were born outside the U.S., which is the pattern most years. No country has benefited more from welcoming immigrants from around the world.
www.nobelprize.org

The official website of the Nobel Prize - NobelPrize.org

The Nobel Prize rewards science, humanism and peace efforts. This is one of the central concepts in the will of Alfred Nobel, and it also permeates the outreach activities that have been developed for...

www.nobelprize.org

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Liz Szabo @lizszabo.bsky.social · 1d

Eleven percent is too many. No evidence Tylenol causes autism. Pregnant women with untreated fever have a higher risk of miscarriage and other serious complications

Darius Tahir @dariustahir.bsky.social · 2d

Latest Economist/YouGov poll shows only 11% of respondents think tylenol is a cause of autism. 54% say no: d3nkl3psvxxpe9.cloudfront.net/documents/ec...

d3nkl3psvxxpe9.cloudfront.net

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KFF Health News @kffhealthnews.org · 2d

Democrats’ funding proposal would restore access to Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act marketplace for legal immigrants who will lose access once certain provisions of the Republicans’ tax and spending law take effect. kffhealthnews.org/news/article...

GOP Falsely Ties Shutdown to Democrats’ Alleged Drive To Give All Immigrants Health Care - KFF Health News

Immigrants living in the U.S. without legal status are generally ineligible for federally funded health care programs. Democrats’ funding proposal would restore access to Medicaid and the Affordable C...

kffhealthnews.org

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UNICEF @unicef.org · 1d

Israeli strikes on Gaza City and other parts of the Gaza Strip continue. We call on Israel to ensure full protection of the lives of all civilians.

For the sake of all children in Gaza, this war must end now.

Statement from UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell: https://unicef.link/3KG01sT

In the last two years, a staggering 64,000 children have reportedly been killed or maimed across the Gaza Strip in a devastating war that is an affront to our shared humanity. Israeli strikes on Gaza City and other parts of the Gaza Strip continue. For the sake of all children in Gaza, this war must end now. - Catherine Russell, UNICEF Executive Director

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UNICEF Press Office @unicefmedia.bsky.social · 1d

'Israeli strikes on Gaza City and other parts of the Gaza Strip continue. We call on Israel to ensure the full protection of the lives of all civilians.

'For the sake of all children in Gaza, this war must end now.'

Statement from UNICEF Executive Director on Gaza

www.unicef.org/press-releas...

Two years of hellish war have devastated Gaza’s children

Statement by UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell

www.unicef.org

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Physics World @physicsworld.bsky.social · 2d

Fancy a scientific challenge? Materials science is where the action is, says Honor Powrie, especially if you can find new materials that are technologically sustainable "from cradle to grave". ⚛️🧪

physicsworld.com/a/is-materia...

Is materials science the new alchemy for the 21st century? – Physics World

Honor Powrie pays tribute to the work of materials scientists

physicsworld.com

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Maggie Fox @maggiefox.bsky.social · 1d

"Secretary Kennedy is entitled to his views. But he is not entitled to put people’s health at risk. He has rejected science, misled the public and compromised the health of Americans." wapo.st/3VTALll

Opinion | Six surgeons general: It’s our duty to warn the nation about RFK Jr.

We took an oath to declare dangers when we found them. We’re doing that again today.

wapo.st

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Maggie Fox @maggiefox.bsky.social · 1d

#Science is about discovery. It's about trying stuff to see what happens.

Maggie Fox @maggiefox.bsky.social · 2d

Putting a camera at the entrance of a tightly packed bat cave revealed so many surprises. Just a few of them: Monkeys will hunt and eat bats. So will Nile monitors. Guess what else will?

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Maggie Fox @maggiefox.bsky.social · 1d

One winner's wife let him sleep through the call.

kinesinmotors.bsky.social @kinesinmotors.bsky.social · 2d

💥 🧪 Nobel Prize in Physics 2025 for Quantum Mechanics

“Our discovery in some ways is the basis of quantum computing. ... One of the underlying reasons that cellphones work is because of all this work’’

The Associated Press @apnews.com · 2d

BREAKING: John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret and John M. Martinis win the Nobel Prize in Physics for discoveries in quantum mechanics.

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kinesinmotors.bsky.social @kinesinmotors.bsky.social · 2d

🍂 🏛️ 🧪 Federal Worker Speaks Out on Government Shutdown

"Every awful thing that would happen in a shutdown ... all of this is already happening ... Congress is the only remaining chance we have to stop the gutting of public services Americans depend on"

Why some federal workers aren't scared by the threat of shutdown layoffs

Some federal workers support the government shutdown, even as President Trump threatens to use this moment to lay off employees and cut funding to programs.

www.npr.org

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Laura Helmuth @laurahelmuth.bsky.social · 2d

"99.97 percent of families, even when given the option, chose to let their children learn about LGBTQ+ people."
Nice result, and it reinforces everything Montgomery County said to SCOTUS before its theocrats made their dehumanizing ruling. open.substack.com/pub/erininth...

Only 0.03% Opt Out Of LGBTQ+ Education In Maryland After SCOTUS Gives Them A Right To

After SCOTUS gave families a right to opt out of LGBTQ+ education, Montgomery County, Maryland is reporting only 43 families took them up on it.

open.substack.com

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Maggie Fox @maggiefox.bsky.social · 2d

I've covered wars and political unrest around the world. One thing I have seen with my own eyes over and over: If you give young men guns and unfettered authority, they will use them. Even on their fellow citizens. Especially if they are scared, and especially if they are encouraged to hate.

George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 6d

History has many painful lessons.

A screenshot of an X post by Q. Anthony Ali (@NobleQAli
, 12h ago) featuring a black-and-white historical image of a person lying on the ground while others, including a woman kneeling and several standing figures, are around them in what appears to be a park or open area. Below this, a reply by Antonio Benetto (@Tony_Benetto
, 1d ago) to @drmistercody
states: "I don't believe US troops will fire on American citizens."

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Kai Kupferschmidt @kakape.bsky.social · 3d

“Anyone who does not have an autoimmune disease, that’s because of these regulatory T cells,” says Markus Feuerer, an immunologist at the Leibniz Institute for Immunotherapy.

www.science.org/content/arti...

Medicine Nobel for researchers who identified immune system’s security guards

Mary Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell, and Shimon Sakaguchi discovered regulatory T cells that prevent autoimmune disease

www.science.org

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Maggie Fox @maggiefox.bsky.social · 2d

Putting a camera at the entrance of a tightly packed bat cave revealed so many surprises. Just a few of them: Monkeys will hunt and eat bats. So will Nile monitors. Guess what else will?

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Maggie Fox @maggiefox.bsky.social · 3d

I though Summit County had the best fall colors until we headed down to Custer County in the south of the state. Maybe the moose was also going there. #fall #colorado #leafpeeping

Sunrise scene shows red, gold, orange and yellow aspen interspersed with dark green firs aganist a cler blue sky with a few white clouds and smoky gray and blue mountains in the distance. Yes, it looks fake.

Aspen with yellow, gold and orange leaves catch the morning sunlight against a brilliant blue sky. A dark green fir contrasts.

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Maggie Fox @maggiefox.bsky.social · 3d

It's not often a moose pops out on the trail right in front of you, but this one did this week in Colorado. He was headed downhill for the evening and did not care one bit that he startled me and the one other hiker he nearly knocked over. He mooseyed on down the slope. #moose #wildlife

A dark brown moose with long dewlap (beard-like flap under its jaw) and antlers walks among aspen trees with white trunks and yellow leaves. A fallen trunk is in the foreground.

A mountain hillside covered with many yellow aspen trees, firs of various greens, and yellow and green shrubs slopes away towards blue and brown mountains in the distance. A dark brown moose can be seen about 100 yards downslope. The sky is gray with clouds.

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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 3d

Earlier this year, Dr. Jane Goodall sat down for an interview for Brad Falchuk’s new Netflix series, Famous Last Words.

The premise of the series is to interview people on the condition that the interview not air until the subject has passed away.

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