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Sparrow Lyn
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February 4, 2025 at 10:28 PM
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Wetlands are vital for #biodiversity, including as critical habitats for many migratory species.🐦🌍🧪

@ipbes.bsky.social #LandDegradation Assessment

Yet, many of these #wetlands are now threatened.

Learn how wetlands support biodiversity with Ramsar for #WWD2025:

www.worldwetlandsday.org
February 2, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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AMAZING! A GROUNDBREAKING sickle cell disease treatment has been APPROVED for NHS use. Exagamglogene (exa-cel) SUCCESSFULLY edits the faulty gene in a patient’s OWN stem cells. Researchers concluded there was a functional cure in 97% of trial participants that received it! Let’s talk about that! 🧪🧵⬇️
February 1, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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RFK Jr. wants evidence that vaccines do not cause autism.

The evidence is there. He refuses to see it.
January 30, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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National Science Foundation suspends salary payments, leaving researchers unable to pay their bills www.statnews.com/2025/01/30/t...
Story by @ericboodman.bsky.social
National Science Foundation suspends salary payments, leaving researchers unable to pay their bills
An NSF online payment system remained down after the federal funding freeze was lifted, leaving early-career scientists scrambling to pay bills
www.statnews.com
January 30, 2025 at 10:53 PM
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Elon Musk staff has been caught installing hard drives inside the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), the Treasury Department, and the General Services Administration (GSA).
February 1, 2025 at 1:14 AM
i#PioneerValley
January 23, 2025 at 11:48 PM
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This is worth learning for all independent women
"Sisters in Science," a new book by jounalist Olivia Cambell, profiles four women physicists who fled Nazi Germany and made it to the US to continue their work. Campbell recounts the harrowing escapes of Lise Meitner, Hedwig Kohn, Hertha Sponer and Hildegard Stücklen. https://buff.ly/3PFMW2h
January 16, 2025 at 2:14 AM
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January 20, 2025 at 4:12 PM
January 16, 2025 at 1:59 AM