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If you work at NOAA or have details about recent changes there, you can contact me via @signal.org (dell.3030) from a non-work device/network.
NEW: Sources tell WIRED that NOAA* employees were ordered to give a Musk engineer (Nikhil Rajpal) editor access to all NOAA's Google sites by EOD.
*monitors oceans/atmosphere & forecasts long-term effects of climate change.
By @timmarchman.bsky.social & @hudsongiles.bsky.social:
*monitors oceans/atmosphere & forecasts long-term effects of climate change.
By @timmarchman.bsky.social & @hudsongiles.bsky.social:
This DOGE Engineer Has Access to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Sources tell WIRED that NOAA employees were ordered to give an engineer from Elon Musk's DOGE task force access to all NOAA Google sites by the end of business Wednesday.
www.wired.com
February 5, 2025 at 8:41 PM
If you work at NOAA or have details about recent changes there, you can contact me via @signal.org (dell.3030) from a non-work device/network.
Awesome! #ilovescience
Seeing atoms was thought impossible. Science found a way www.youtube.com/watch?v=88bM...
What if you just keep zooming in?
YouTube video by Veritasium
www.youtube.com
February 6, 2025 at 1:39 AM
Awesome! #ilovescience
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💰 DOGE "intern" Luke Farritor is delaying HHS (NIH, CDC) payments and grants per Marisa Kabas.
💰 DOGE "interns" are also "searching Medicare Payment system for fraud" per WSJ buff.ly/3Es35Wu
🧪 #medsky #IDsky #publichealth
💰 DOGE "interns" are also "searching Medicare Payment system for fraud" per WSJ buff.ly/3Es35Wu
🧪 #medsky #IDsky #publichealth
February 5, 2025 at 9:57 PM
💰 DOGE "intern" Luke Farritor is delaying HHS (NIH, CDC) payments and grants per Marisa Kabas.
💰 DOGE "interns" are also "searching Medicare Payment system for fraud" per WSJ buff.ly/3Es35Wu
🧪 #medsky #IDsky #publichealth
💰 DOGE "interns" are also "searching Medicare Payment system for fraud" per WSJ buff.ly/3Es35Wu
🧪 #medsky #IDsky #publichealth
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'Scientists with retracted publications had younger publication age, higher self-citation rates, and larger publication volume than those without any retracted publications'
journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
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Linking citation and retraction data reveals the demographics of scientific retractions among highly cited authors
Retractions are becoming increasingly common but still account for a small minority of published papers. Using a database that links retractions to the top 2% most highly-cited scientists across scien...
journals.plos.org
February 5, 2025 at 10:41 PM
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NEW RESEARCH: The amount of tiny, shard-like particles of plastic, especially polyethylene, is rising in human brain tissue in tandem with their rising concentration in the environment and is higher in the brains of people with dementia.
Maybe…let’s fund science? 🧪
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Maybe…let’s fund science? 🧪
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Bioaccumulation of microplastics in decedent human brains - Nature Medicine
Pyrolysis gas chromatography–mass spectrometry reveals the presence of microplastics and nanoplastics in human kidney, liver and brain tissue samples from 2016 and 2024, with higher proportions found ...
www.nature.com
February 6, 2025 at 12:38 AM
NEW RESEARCH: The amount of tiny, shard-like particles of plastic, especially polyethylene, is rising in human brain tissue in tandem with their rising concentration in the environment and is higher in the brains of people with dementia.
Maybe…let’s fund science? 🧪
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Maybe…let’s fund science? 🧪
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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“USAID-backed studies have been shuttered, data streams have dried up, researchers and technical staff have been fired or put on leave, a system to predict food crises has been muzzled, and a USAID-supported global health journal has stopped reviewing manuscripts.”
From our @science.org news team 🧪
From our @science.org news team 🧪
'It’s tectonic:’ U.S. foreign aid freeze deals a blow to research around the globe
Dismantling of USAID could disrupt many clinical trials and wipe away U.S. “soft power” in developing countries, scientists warn
www.science.org
February 6, 2025 at 12:23 AM
“USAID-backed studies have been shuttered, data streams have dried up, researchers and technical staff have been fired or put on leave, a system to predict food crises has been muzzled, and a USAID-supported global health journal has stopped reviewing manuscripts.”
From our @science.org news team 🧪
From our @science.org news team 🧪