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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 9h

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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Sham Jaff @shamjaff.bsky.social · 22h

It’s a "crisis" when immigrants "take jobs away", but "innovation" when machines do. Funny.

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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 9h

Israel illegally intercepted another flotilla carrying humanitarian aid to Gaza, detaining six Canadians in the process.

The government says it offered consular assistance.

But a contact for the three Newfoundlanders on board told me the support from the government has, largely, been “nothing.”

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Paola Cubillos @paolacubillosr.bsky.social · 5h

WTF?!

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 5h

Almost 9 months ago, our press colleague Anas Al-Sharif removed his press vest following the announcement of a ceasefire.

And then we saw what happened next. May we ensure the bombs actually end this time.

I wish he, and so many more, were here with us.

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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 7h

Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE

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Sarah Schwartz @sarahschwartz.bsky.social · 1d

A letter to those who taught me my Jewishness, and who now sit on the other side of a deep chasm.

When you first heard me speak against this genocide, you heard my words as betrayal. But they were meant as love

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

When you first heard me speak against this genocide, you heard my words as betrayal. But they were meant as love | Sarah Schwartz

Not speaking would go against everything I was taught to honour: the righteous among the nations – those who refused to be bystanders to injustice

www.theguardian.com

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Paola Cubillos @paolacubillosr.bsky.social · 7h

Supplements are, for the most part, an expensive scam.

And the harms from replacing evidence based medical care with these scammy products are real.

J. Offir, PhD @joffirphd.bsky.social · 1d

As I've said before, I expect issue like this will get a lot worse as access to medical care declines in the US, thanks to the Repubs.

Highlights:

🔹️"Well over half" of American adults take at least one supplement; folks are "buying and taking record amounts."

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www.nytimes.com/2025/10/07/w...

A Plea From Doctors: Cool It on the Supplements

www.nytimes.com

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New York Attorney General Letitia James @newyorkstateag.bsky.social · 12h

My office is ordering three different companies to immediately stop selling skin-lightening products that contain dangerous and illegal mercury levels.

Mercury is poison, not a beauty treatment. We won't let companies put profits over New Yorkers’ health.

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 17h

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

Never forget or forgive that Trump, Rubio, & Musk *chose* to inflict this monumental level of death and suffering on the poorest & most vulnerable people.

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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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 23h

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio insisted “no one has died” as a result of U.S. foreign aid cuts. In Myanmar, the grieving father of a 2-year-old boy who died after their food rations were cut calls such claims a lie.

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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Paola Cubillos @paolacubillosr.bsky.social · 16h

The headline should be “Oz makes inappropriate and stigmatizing comments about overweight individuals”.

I don’t understand why medical outlets cover these “news” trying to sugar coat things

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Paola Cubillos @paolacubillosr.bsky.social · 16h

😡😡😡😡

Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · 19h

“The Trump administration plans to export its “war on woke” by forcing foreign governments, NGOs and international bodies to abandon working on diversity, equity and inclusion or face being stripped of US funding”

www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

US ‘undermining global health’ by threatening to strip funding from aid projects that do not fit its political agenda

Trump administration reported to be planning expansion of ‘global gag rule’ to halt any initiatives promoting diversity, equity and inclusion

www.theguardian.com

Paola Cubillos @paolacubillosr.bsky.social · 1d

Damage to our communities coming... and for what?

The Globe and Mail @theglobeandmail.com · 1d

OpenAI eyes artificial intelligence data-centre capacity in Canada

Company’s chief global affairs officer says it can be part of country’s effort to build sovereign AI capabilities

www.theglobeandmail.com

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 1d

quantitative methods, qualitative methods, mixed methods

Photo of a Kansas City Chiefs press conference with Andy Reid, Travis Kelce, and Patrick Mahomes. Reid is wearing a gray suit and red tie with a lapel pin. Kelce is wearing a camp-style short-sleeved shirt with a bird print, along with a suede cap, and Mahomes is wearing a white collared shirt, a pink checkered double-breasted vest, and a pale pink tie.

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Timothy Caulfield @caulfieldtim.bsky.social · 1d

Reality:
- "Clean", "Natural", "Holistic", etc = marketing scam
- Homeopathy = science-free BS

Wellness industry is "capitalizing on fear" & spin.

Parents are flocking to natural and ‘clean medicine’ brands. Medical experts are worried www.statnews.com/2025/10/07/t... via @statnews.com

Parents are flocking to natural and ‘clean medicine’ brands. Medical experts are worried

Parents are flocking to natural and "clean medicine" brands for Tylenol alternatives and more, leaving medical experts worried.

www.statnews.com

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Derek Beres @derekberes.bsky.social · 2d

Excellent investigation into the problems with private equity taking over IRBs in drug trials.

Once again, the answer is government investment into the drug development and review process. Yet this administration is only concerned with privatizing everything.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/04/h...

How Private Equity Oversees the Ethics of Drug Research

www.nytimes.com

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Ian Weissman, DO @drianweissman.bsky.social · 2d

The booming IV hydration spa industry operates with virtually no oversight or data backing up its claims, according to the first comprehensive national analysis of hydration clinics.
www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

Hydration spas are largely unregulated, study finds

The first comprehensive research on the growing IV hydration industry finds little oversight of invasive procedures like vitamin drips.

www.nbcnews.com

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David Hsu @dhsu.bsky.social · 2d

Nobel Prize Week, a great week to celebrate how scientific research can improve everyone's lives and how discovery helps to understand our place in the universe. I'm especially excited by prizes given to multiple countries, a reminder to work together. wapo.st/3WmtESD

Nobel Prize for medicine awarded for discoveries about the immune system

Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi shared the Nobel Prize for fundamental discoveries about how the immune system keeps itself in check.

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Paola Cubillos @paolacubillosr.bsky.social · 2d

Never forget:
Gloria Stefan
J.Lo
and my fellow 🇨🇴 Shakira

all came before Benito

#superbowl

a woman in a red dress is singing into a microphone on stage

ALT: a woman in a red dress is singing into a microphone on stage

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Paola Cubillos @paolacubillosr.bsky.social · 2d

F I R E H I M !

David Gorski, MD, PhD @gorskon.bsky.social · 2d

In a seven-minute video RFK Jr. posted last week, he demonstrated that he is truly antivaccine, weaponizing an old one deceptive antivax trope claiming that vaccines didn’t do that much to improve global health. sciencebasedmedicine.org/robert-f-ken...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. weaponizes an old antivax trope in his quest to eliminate vaccines

People who keep whistling past the graveyard (of vaccines) to assure themselves the RFK Jr,. won't take away their vaccines are deluding themselves. One seven-minute video he posted last week shows th

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BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · 2d

Without an understanding of immune tolerance, organ transplantation will not be possible. Also, their discoveries opened avenues for cancer and auto immune disease therapies.
Congratulations to these year's awardees of the nobel prize in physiology or medicine.
bit.ly/4mC0Gc5

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Paola Cubillos @paolacubillosr.bsky.social · 3d

Vaccines at work 👇

Dorit Reiss @doritreiss.bsky.social · 3d

HPV vaccination drives cervical cancer rates down in both vaccinated and unvaccinated people www.livescience.com/health/cance...

HPV vaccination drives cervical cancer rates down in both vaccinated and unvaccinated people

Researchers have found that human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccines are highly effective at reducing cervical cancer-causing infections and can offer herd immunity, reinforcing previous research and highl...

www.livescience.com

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Paola Cubillos @paolacubillosr.bsky.social · 3d

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Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 3d

Really, truly amazing that OpenAI wants us to believe that they are worth a trillion dollars but also they are so desperate for revenue that they created an infinite SlopTok app that opens them up to a billion lawsuits just so that they can maybe someday make it even worse by filling it with ads.

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