Our future is being shaped to a terrifying degree by people who have just … completely lost their marbles…

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

“In interviews, federal judges called the Supreme Court’s emergency orders “mystical,” “overly blunt,” “incredibly demoralizing and troubling” and “a slap in the face to the district courts.” …Another said the courts were in the midst of a “judicial crisis.””
#giftarticle

I’m sorry to say but after 15 years at Science Magazine they’ve finally got me with their US spelling…

Always fun to be on the BBC’s science show Unexpected Elements. As an added bonus I got to talk a bit about the color blue this time with @amsterdammed.bsky.social and @andradaf.bsky.social.
Mostly though it was about the topic of “strength”.
🎧🧪 You can listen here:
www.bbc.com/audio/play/w...

MIT President Kornbluth announced on Friday the university “cannot support” Trump’s compact, saying the university disagreed with a number of the principles laid out in the document, including policies that would limit freedom of expression and institutional independence.

Worth remembering however there have been 64 cases including 43 deaths already in this Ebola outbreak including most recently a 3-week-old neonate that died.

“The Ebola virus disease (EVD) outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) shows signs of containment, with no new confirmed or probable cases reported since our last update”
Some cautious good news from @who.int
#IDSky

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Ihr findet uns ab sofort auch auf Instagram.
Unter dem handle @truekeim :)

www.instagram.com/truekeim?igs...

Last week, new WaPo opinion editor Adam O'Neal quietly carried out another purge of staffers, cutting editors and major names like Marc Fisher and David Hoffman, among others.

Meanwhile, he welcomed three conservatives to the section.

Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/washington...

Not happening somewhere else. Here. In America. Right now.

My new op-ed with @lkfazio.bsky.social:

Trump sent a 'compact' to our universities. They should reject this devil's bargain.
Any institution that yields to these broad and intrusive demands would forever be subservient to the whims of the government.
www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

Game changer for cell-based plant genetics: the labs of Caixia Gao & Jin-Long Qiu have developed very efficient self-replicating vectors and they just published a very nice proof-of-concept paper.
#plantscience
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

My thanks to TEAMS (Teaching Association for Medieval Studies) for posting a notice on their newsletter of the new #OpenAccess teaching module on the Black Death: teams-medieval.org/untitled-4/. #histmed #MedievalSky #PandemicPedagogy 🧪🗃️

Nobelpreise für Medizin 2025 geht an Shimon Sakaguchi, Mary Brunkow & Fred Ramsdell für ihre bahnbrechenden Arbeiten zur peripheren Immuntoleranz. Gratulation 👏
#Tregs #Tolerance #FoxP3 #Nobel2025
Super Erklärstück dazu von @florianschumann.bsky.social @jasimmank.bsky.social @zeitonline.bsky.social

Once again worth pointing out that before Trump came along politicians didn't tell bald-face, easily disprovable lies. They equivocated or shaded, and occasionally told a whopper if they thought no one would ever find out. But Trump's complete disregard for truth is a brand new thing.

Wir sind die Influenza-Influencer...

“Anyone who does not have an autoimmune disease, that’s because of these regulatory T cells,” says Markus Feuerer, an immunologist at the Leibniz Institute for Immunotherapy.

www.science.org/content/arti...

Weil dank Merz jetzt wieder darüber geredet wird, dass man die „AfD inhaltlich stellen“, also ihre Themen bedienen müsse, hier nochmal mein Interview mit @tabouchadi.bsky.social zur Forschungslage (es funktioniert nicht). Wir reden über medialen & politischen Umgang mit Rechtsextremen & was hilft.

NEW: ICE is planning to hire a team of nearly 30 people to surveil social media 24/7, build dossiers on people, and flag them for arrest and deportation. @dell.bsky.social has the scoop: www.wired.com/story/ice-so...

Pandemia wird allein durch euch, unsere Hörer:innen, finanziert.
Mit einer Mitgliedschaft bei Pandemia+ helft ihr uns, das Projekt am Leben zu halten und häufiger Folgen zu recherchieren und produzieren.
Das geht zum Beispiel bei Apple Podcasts oder hier:

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Ein toter Forscher, ein vermeintlich ungefährliches Bakterium und der Kampf von Mensch und Mikrobe um eine wichtige Ressource: Eisen.
Darum geht es in unserer Bonusfolge zur Pest-Serie für unsere Unterstützer.
Und: Der nächste Mehrteiler ist schon in Arbeit und beginnt hoffentlich diesen Monat...

Dr. Jeanne Marrazzo, former Director of NIAID, is Fired by Health and Human Services Secretary Kennedy in Retaliation for Filing Whistleblower Complaint with the Office of Special Counsel

bit.ly/4gRA3yx

Thanks!