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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 3d

“CDC is over. It was killed. This administration only knows how to break things. They have made America at risk for outbreaks and attacks by nefarious players. People should be scared,” said Dr. Demetre Daskalakis, former director of the CDC’s National Center on Immunization and Respiratory Diseases

"CDC is over": RFK Jr. lays off over 1,000 employees in Friday night massacre

Amid the ongoing shutdown, the HHS secretary wiped out entire offices that investigate disease outbreaks, manage infectious disease responses and collect data.

www.msnbc.com

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Lena Sun @lenasun.bsky.social · 4d

NEW: @CDCgov hit hard by massive firings that several staff describe to me as a “bloodbath.”
Among those RIFd:
—leadership of the center for immunization and respiratory diseases;
—leadership of global health center
—leadership of the measles outbreak response; 1/4

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 3d

They have fired the staff of the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report and 70 Epidemic Intelligence Service officers, who are disease detectives that respond to outbreaks around the world.

I cannot emphasize enough how dangerous it is to dismantle our disease surveillance infrastructure.

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Adam Kleczkowski @aklecz.bsky.social · 8d

As usual, a great pleasure to be at the @planthealthscot.bsky.social annual conference.

A poster on Ips typographus, and a talk on #AI in #planthealth #PlantScience

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Adam Kleczkowski @aklecz.bsky.social · 15d

New (very short) post on my blog on AI:

statisticallyinsignificant.blog/2025/09/30/a...

AI – The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: Part 2

It is going to be a very short post today. We increasingly see that companies like LinkedIn, Facebook, and Google are starting to use our personal data and content we create to train generative AI …

statisticallyinsignificant.blog

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Adam Kleczkowski @aklecz.bsky.social · 22d

What a feeling - just submitted to @ukri.org a large £3m grant application with 5 universities/collaborators.

It is my third application this year, first as a PI, total value £7m.

@unistrathclyde.bsky.social

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Adam Kleczkowski @aklecz.bsky.social · 25d

It's this time of the year. It will be a delicious breakfast tomorrow.

#fungi #mushrooms

Mushrooms, one held by hand, more in a basket

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Adam Kleczkowski @aklecz.bsky.social · 28d

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Learning the Quadratic Equation (UK) Doodle - Google Doodles

Learn more about the creation of Learning the Quadratic Equation (UK) Doodle and discover the story behind the unique artwork.

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Adam Kleczkowski @aklecz.bsky.social · Sep 8

theconversation.com/we-risk-a-de...

An article describing how AI is changing the scientific publication landscape. A combination of AI writing and predatory publishing leads to a deluge of "resmearch" - or rather "research slop".

We risk a deluge of AI-written ‘science’ pushing corporate interests – here’s what to do about it

We have to tighten up on what research policymakers rely on, and also the inner workings of peer review.

theconversation.com

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Adam Kleczkowski @aklecz.bsky.social · Sep 7

Carcassonne! Our favourite family game!

Bought Dominion and will be reading it when travelling to Nottingham for the BSPP conference next week.

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Andrew Heiss @andrew.heiss.phd · Sep 6

oh noooo

compared to last year’s results.” However, I take issue with the author’s subsequent interpretation of the most recent test scores which reflects poorly on his/her understanding of basic statistics. The differences in proficiency rates cited in throughout the article are overwhelmingly NOT STATISTICALLY SIGNIFICANT.

Using a standard p-value of 0.05, any improvement in scores must show at least a gain of five percentage points in order to be considered as statistically significant. So, for example, even the slight decline in 4th grade ISAT scores in Idaho (2024 67.1%, 2025 64.6) is not significant. Similarly, the following assertion made by the author of the article is incorrect and misleading.

“Students scoring in the advanced range of the proficient category saw a slight increase, with 23.2% scoring advanced in 2024 compared to 23.6% in 2025.” In order to have been statistically significant, 28.2% of students must have scored proficient in the language arts subtest.

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Adam Kleczkowski @aklecz.bsky.social · Sep 7

An autumn in Scotland – Chopin, 1848 bylines.scot/society/an-a...

An autumn in Scotland – Chopin, 1848

A poetic ode to Chopin and his Scottish benefactor Jane Stirling

bylines.scot

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Matthew Facciani @matthewfacciani.bsky.social · Sep 5

Here are some of the false or misleading claims RFK Jr. made during yesterday’s hearing:
ca.news.yahoo.com/fact-checkin...

Fact-checking RFK Jr.'s testimony during Thursday's hearing

The HHS secretary repeated several false and misleading claims.

ca.news.yahoo.com

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Adam Kleczkowski @aklecz.bsky.social · Sep 6

Science Under Siege: A Talk With Peter Hotez and Michael Mann
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Science Under Siege: A Talk With Peter Hotez and Michael Mann

Lysenko comes to America

open.substack.com

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Raywat Deonandan @deonandan.bsky.social · Sep 5

Well, you're the FDA Commissioner, so tell us. What do the data say?

No? Here, I'll help you.

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CDC: deaths within 42 days of mRNA vaccination were below background (expected) rates in every age group, including ages 6 months–17 years

www.cdc.gov/acip/downloa...

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Adam Kleczkowski @aklecz.bsky.social · Sep 6

You will be surprised how easily and quickly it could happen, see 1930s Germany or Soviet Union.

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Emilio Vilanova @evilanova.bsky.social · Sep 4

www.eldestapeweb.com/sociedad/cie... #Treemortality Forests in Patagonia are experiencing high levels of tree mortality most likely linked to increasing temperatures and severity of droughts

Registran episodios de mortalidad masiva de árboles en bosques patagónicos

Se formó una red de más de un centenar de investigadores y voluntarios para monitorear el crecimiento de árboles en todo el país

www.eldestapeweb.com

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Adam Kleczkowski @aklecz.bsky.social · Sep 4

On genAI bubble:

"Once, men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them."

F. Herbert, Dune

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Adam Kleczkowski @aklecz.bsky.social · Sep 3

Bovine Tb was rampant then and other bacterial diseases.

Souring milk was an alternative.

bTB is back, at least in the UK.

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