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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 11h

Trump calls climate science a ‘con job’. That could make tackling the crisis a whole lot easier | Francesco Grillo

Europe and Brazil have a rare opportunity, unimpeded by the US, to make a success of Cop30 – and reshape the world order, says Francesco Grillo of the European University Institute, Florence

www.theguardian.com

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Nicola Low @nicolamlow.bsky.social · 13h

🧪 👇 read the 🧵 for all the posts being cut - health statistics in US will disappear

Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 1d

More CDC Cuts :: NCHS Edition 📊🔫

At least 1/3 of the staff at the National Center for Health Statistics has been cut (and remain cut). This is catastrophic for our nation’s health data.

Say goodbye to national health statistics that you can trust, healthcare surveys, NHANES and data systems.

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Ricardo Levins Morales Art Studio @rlmartstudio.bsky.social · 1d

This week in 1988: 1,000+ ACT UP demonstrators shut down the FDA headquarters, demanding (and eventually winning) action on developing HIV/AIDS treatments. ACT UP's militant and creative actions always included powerful visual artwork, and paved the way for movements in the decades to come.

A photograph from the 1988 ACT UP demonstration outside the FDA. Many people are participating in a die-in on the front steps, holding mock tombstones with messages like "RIP - killed by the FDA" and "Dead from lack of drugs." A line of police officers (some with classic 80s mustaches) wearing riot helmets stands between them and the building; one cop wearing white gloves is walking through the demonstrators. Affixed to the 2nd story windows of the building is a series of posters and a large blank banner reading Silence = Death.

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Nicola Low @nicolamlow.bsky.social · 1d

I think that’s national pride - replace Pasteur with John Snow…

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Nicola Low @nicolamlow.bsky.social · 1d

No idea - but I’m pretty sure Latour didn’t get Pasteur and Fleming mixed up

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Karen Masters @karenlmasters.bsky.social · 1d

Jess Wade is amazing, and it's my absolute honour to be one of the more than 2000 women in STEM whose wikipedia page she started: mymodernmet.com/jessica-wade... 🧪🔭👩‍🔬

Meet the Physicist Who Wrote Over 2,000 Wikipedia Biographies for Women in STEM

After noticing a lack of entries on Wikipedia for incredible women throughout history, this incredible woman decided to take matters into her own hands.

mymodernmet.com

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Nicola Low @nicolamlow.bsky.social · 1d

🧪 #BBC #BroadcastingHouse
Anthony Seldon (ex history teacher and now commentator) says „Pasteur, who discovered penicillin, was thought to to be mediocre“ 🤦🏻‍♀️

Natalie Haynes @nataliehaynes.bsky.social · 8d

I’m on BBC Radio 4’s Broadcasting House today! The show starts at 9, but I’m not on straight away. Tune your sets, or stream on Sounds…

Catch up after broadcast: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

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Nicola Low @nicolamlow.bsky.social · 1d

#microplastics consumer tests are “very premature”, Prof Stephanie Wright, Imperial College… “Your test results suggest you’ve got 40 particles per ml of blood – but we don’t know if that’s bad or good, what type of plastic, where they’ve come from, what they’re doing or where they’re going.”

Nicola Low @nicolamlow.bsky.social · 1d

🧪 upside down

„Finally, think about your environmental footprint.“

The environmental footprint of actual plastic is going to destroy our planet before anyone dies from the glue in teabags 🤦🏻‍♀️

Sorry @lindageddes.bsky.social this is all upside down

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The plastic inside us: how microplastics may be reshaping our bodies and minds

The particles are in our blood, brains and guts – and scientists are only beginning to learn what they do

www.theguardian.com

Nicola Low @nicolamlow.bsky.social · 1d

🧪 upside down

„Finally, think about your environmental footprint.“

The environmental footprint of actual plastic is going to destroy our planet before anyone dies from the glue in teabags 🤦🏻‍♀️

Sorry @lindageddes.bsky.social this is all upside down

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The plastic inside us: how microplastics may be reshaping our bodies and minds

The particles are in our blood, brains and guts – and scientists are only beginning to learn what they do

www.theguardian.com

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Nicola Low @nicolamlow.bsky.social · 1d

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Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 1d

OOOPS! UPDATE: Two HHS officials tell me that disease detectives, measles response officers, global health officials and the MMWR staff were laid off by mistake and will be reinstated. But Washington office is still RIFed

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 2d

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Jennifer Nuzzo, DrPH, SM @jennifernuzzo.bsky.social · 1d

Some of these people have now been fired and rehired TWICE since January. The current state of dysfunction is mind boggling.

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 1d

OOOPS! UPDATE: Two HHS officials tell me that disease detectives, measles response officers, global health officials and the MMWR staff were laid off by mistake and will be reinstated. But Washington office is still RIFed

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 2d

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Gil (Guillermo) Penalosa @penalosag.bsky.social · 1d

We need to be honest on climate movement. We are failing.

- The temperature keeps rising.
- True problem is structural, NOT individual behavior!
- Industry has masterfully marketed individual's fault.
- Collective civic action to change policy
- Say pollution, not emissions
Prof. Katharine Hayhoe

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Nicola Low @nicolamlow.bsky.social · 1d

🧪 #CDC annihilation

“The executive branch is using the shutdown as cover for an intentional and targeted dismantling of leadership across the agency. It’s designed to sow chaos… „Calling this a budget issue is a lie. It’s an abuse of power — unethical, unlawful, and profoundly dangerous.”

Helen Branswell 🇨🇦 @helenbranswell.bsky.social · 1d

100s of #CDC employees were notified Friday they were being fired — RIF'd. The firings cross multiple parts of the agency, endangering its core mission of keeping Americans safe.
Saturday, some were informed they were RIF'd in error.
Hard to imagine how this happens www.statnews.com/2025/10/11/c...

CDC battered by government shutdown firings, while some are rescinded

The White House’s mass firing of CDC staff on Friday has decimated offices related to injury prevention, respiratory disease surveillance, and chronic disease, according to four people familiar with t...

www.statnews.com

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Nicola Low @nicolamlow.bsky.social · 1d

That’s amazing - and I thought mine was stunning 😂 ❤️ 🇨🇭

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Nicola Low @nicolamlow.bsky.social · 2d

Sunset, yesterday, 10.10.2025 from Halenbrücke, Bern 🇨🇭

Nicola Low @nicolamlow.bsky.social · 2d

Sunset, yesterday, 10.10.2025 from Halenbrücke, Bern 🇨🇭

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Nicola Low @nicolamlow.bsky.social · 2d

I’ve found the perfect vegan egg mayonnaise, thanks to Lupi, from Yellow Sunshine spinoff of New Roots yellowsunshine.ch/project/vega...

The texture of Lupi is the perfect substitute for hard-boiled eggs 🥚 - much better than tofu

Highly recommended

Vegan egg mayonnaise - perfect recipe - made from ‚Lupi‘ - Lupin protein from https://yellowsunshine.ch/project/vegan-egg-salad

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Dr Emma Hodcroft @firefoxx66.bsky.social · 2d

The cruelty is the point.

They are using this as an excuse to fire even more of our best, most dedicated scientists, researchers, and civil servants.
They do this because they do not believe in science, and they do not genuinely care about the health of America.

Jeremy Faust, MD @jeremyfaust.bsky.social · 2d

We have breaking news in Inside Medicine.

We had heard rumors of RIFs to CDC.

But this is the first visual confirmation that it has occurred tonight, and at high levels in the agency.

Here is what we know...and then some well-sourced rumors (but rumors, nonetheless, not confirmed) 🧵...

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 3d

Nobel peace prize 2025 live: María Corina Machado wins for work promoting democratic rights in Venezuela

US president had been conducting campaign to influence prize committee

www.theguardian.com

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Nicola Low @nicolamlow.bsky.social · 3d

Freitag - made from used tarps freitag.ch/en_CH I have a Hazard rucksack

HOME | FREITAG

FREITAG – bags and accessories made from used and circular materials

freitag.ch

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 5d

Indigenous artist Emily Kam Kngwarray is the first Australian artist to have a solo exhibition at London's Tate Modern. Featuring over 80 of her batiks and large paintings, capturing her ancestral land, the exhibition runs until January 2026 #WomensArt

Photo of a gallery space with large suspended and wall mounted artworks, the walls are white and the floor brown, two women view the art

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 5d

Ukrainian-born French painter, textile/stage set designer Sonia Delaunay, fashion designs (c.1924) #womensart

Three stylised painted female figures in dresses with bold angular designs in blues, black, white and peach

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Horizons Magazine @horizons-en.bsky.social · 7d

The next #pandemic will surely come. We look at how researchers are helping to prepare us for it.
- cohort studies👫,
- vaccines 💉and
- pandemic plans📄.
@nicolamlow.bsky.social @unibern.bsky.social @bereadycohort.bsky.social @aureliafnguyen.bsky.social @cepi.net

After the pandemic is before the pandemic

Horizons - Background

www.horizons-mag.ch

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Nicola Low @nicolamlow.bsky.social · 7d

No www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

The truth about vitamin pills: should midlife women start taking supplements – and if so, which ones?

The market for supplements is booming and it can be difficult to know which are actually any use. Dietitians give the lowdown on those you should take and those you can ditch

www.theguardian.com

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Nicola Low @nicolamlow.bsky.social · 7d

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Nicola Low @nicolamlow.bsky.social · 7d

Thank you! 🤦🏻‍♀️