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Science’s 2024 Breakthrough of the Year was lenacapavir, an injectable drug that demonstrated remarkable success at preventing HIV infection with one shot every 6 months.

Learn more about last year's #BOTY on #WorldAIDSDay: https://scim.ag/48pk7zZ
Science’s 2024 Breakthrough of the Year was lenacapavir, an injectable drug that demonstrated remarkable success at preventing HIV infection with one shot every 6 months. The drug attaches to the lattice-like capsid proteins that shield the virus’s genetic material—a mechanism that could inspire other antivirals. Lenacapavir could help end the HIV/AIDS epidemic, but that will hinge on access for those who need it most.
December 1, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social
I will cut adrift—I will sit on pavements and drink coffee—I will dream; I will take my mind out of its iron cage and let it swim—this fine October.

- Virginia Woolf
#Womensart
Monochrome photograph featuring a white woman sitting sideways on a patterned armchair dressed in a dark jacket and skirt and with her hand raised to her face
October 15, 2025 at 5:02 AM
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sagan.bsky.social
Grown-up's have beaten the excitement of science out of kids says Carl Sagan.
September 13, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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us.theconversation.com
You don’t have to watch everything. Protecting your peace online is an act of self-care, not a state of denial.

Learn how to filter your feeds and safeguard your mental space ⬇️

theconversation.com/how-to-avoid...
Steps for turning off autoplay or blocking sensitive content
September 13, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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erictopol.bsky.social
Nine of the CDC directors over the past 48 years have a lot to say about what RFK Jr is doing vs health of Americans
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
Opinion | We Ran the C.D.C.: Kennedy Is Endangering Every American’s Health
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September 1, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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altcdc.altgov.info
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3 senior leaders quit after CDC director is ousted
After officials said Susan Monarez was no longer director, its chief medical officer and two high-ranking disease experts resigned, citing budget cuts and politicization.
www.govexec.com
August 28, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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euda.europa.eu
👋 Hello, Bluesky!

We’re the European Union Drugs Agency — and we just turned 1.

We’re here to share how we anticipate, alert, respond and learn to help Europe tackle drug-related challenges.

👣 Follow us for updates and insights: euda.europa.eu

#ActingToday #AncitipatingTomorrow #EUDA
July 9, 2025 at 10:05 AM
vanasypsa.bsky.social
A very interesting article in Science. I would add "encompass" as well!
science.org Science Magazine @science.org · Jul 9
The appearance of large language models caused a drastic shift in the vocabulary of academic writing, according to an analysis in #ScienceAdvances of more than 15 million biomedical abstracts published from 2010 to 2024. scim.ag/3IhpoQF
Delving into LLM-assisted writing in biomedical publications through excess vocabulary
Excess words track LLM usage in biomedical publications.
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July 9, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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theatlantic.com
“In one afternoon, Woolf became known to me, and all my years of blind grievance melted away. Her honesty and fire and rage at the limitations put on women’s minds dissolved all the distance between us,” Xochitl Gonzalez writes:
Lunch With Virginia Woolf
On finally reading A Room of One’s Own
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July 5, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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theatlantic.com
In South Korea, anti-feminism has helped fuel the authoritarian right. Now the fight over women's rights is at the center of a fraught election, Arash Azizi writes: https://theatln.tc/4isuimJM
June 6, 2025 at 11:15 AM
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michaelemann.bsky.social
Trump’s new ‘gold standard’ rule will destroy American science as we know it" by Colette Delawalla (@cdelawalla.bsky.social), Victor Ambros, Carl Bergstrom, Carol Greider, Michael Mann and Brian Nosek for @theguardian.com: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Trump’s new ‘gold standard’ rule will destroy American science as we know it | Colette Delawalla
The new executive order allows political appointees to undermine research they oppose, paving the way to state-controlled science
www.theguardian.com
May 29, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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sagan.bsky.social
Science is more than a body of knowledge. It is a way of thinking; a way of skeptically interrogating the universe with a fine understanding of human fallibility. If we are not able to ask skeptical questions, to interrogate those who tell us that something is true, to be skeptical of those in authority, then, we are up for grabs for the next charlatan (political or religious) who comes rambling along. Carl Sagan
May 12, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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ec.europa.eu
2024 Gender Equality Index:

🇸🇪 82.0
🇩🇰 78.8
🇳🇱 78.8
🇪🇸 76.7
🇧🇪 76.1
🇫🇷 76.1
🇱🇺 75.4
🇫🇮 74.5
🇮🇪 73.4
🇩🇪 72.0
🇦🇹 71.7
🇪🇺 71.0
🇸🇮 70.1
🇲🇹 70.1
🇮🇹 69.2
🇵🇹 68.6
🇱🇹 65.8
🇧🇬 64.5
🇵🇱 63.4
🇱🇻 62.6
🇨🇾 60.9
🇪🇪 60.8
🇸🇰 59.9
🇨🇿 59.9
🇭🇷 59.7
🇬🇷 59.3
🇭🇺 57.8
🇷🇴 57.5
A graphic from the European Commission showing progress toward gender equality in the EU. The title reads 'EU’s journey to a gender-equal future,' with 'gender-equal' highlighted in a gradient of blue and pink. A thick, upward-sloping line graph shows a +7.9% increase from 2010 to 2024, indicating improvement in gender equality over this period. The EU flag and European Commission logo are in the top right corner.
April 27, 2025 at 7:48 AM
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adamjkucharski.bsky.social
The White House has turned COVID.gov from a public health resource into a politically charged platform promoting the lab-leak theory and attacking specific scientists and the pandemic response in general. Let’s fact check its 5 headline claims… 🧵
The virus possesses a biological characteristic that is not found in nature. 2. Data shows that all COVID-19 cases stem from a single introduction into humans. This runs contrary to previous pandemics where there were multiple spillover events. 3. Wuhan is home to China’s foremost SARS research lab, which has a history of conducting gain-of-function research (gene altering and organism supercharging) at inadequate biosafety levels. 4. Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) researchers were sick with COVID-like symptoms in the fall of 2019, months before COVID-19 was discovered at the wet market. 5. By nearly all measures of science, if there was evidence of a natural origin it would have already surfaced. But it hasn’t.
April 19, 2025 at 8:47 AM
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theguardian.com
Rage in Greece as second anniversary of train disaster prompts mass protests
Rage in Greece as second anniversary of train disaster prompts mass protests
Fallout from collision that left 57 dead in 2023 has put pressure on prime minister amid a growing belief of a cover-up by the authorities Tens of thousands of people are expected to join protests and strikes as Greece marks the second anniversary of a…
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February 28, 2025 at 3:26 AM
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science.org
When asked to draw a scientist, school-age kids in the United States are increasingly sketching women, according to a study from 2018.

Read more on #WomenInScienceDay: https://scim.ag/4hOUuvx
SCIENCESHOTS What does a scientist look like? Children are drawing women more than ever before
February 11, 2025 at 5:10 PM