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Roland Pease @peaseroland.bsky.social · 22h

Aren't all parents guilty by necessity?

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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 22h

Specifically I'd like to know what is happening with the people who are depopulating these millions of infected birds & are at high risk of exposure. Are they being monitored or tested?

www.wattagnet.com/poultry-meat...

Avian flu invades flock of nearly 2 million Washington hens

More flocks have been affected in Minnesota, Ontario and Manitoba, while Indiana has a presumed-positive case.

www.wattagnet.com

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Roland Pease @peaseroland.bsky.social · 23h

Bad luck for junior Peases

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Deb Houry @drdebhoury.bsky.social · 1d

Devasting cuts on so many levels at CDC this weekend- and per @altcdc.altgov.info note below- for those staff who are remaining, they have lost critical services to take care of themselves, which they need now more than ever, as they continue to protect all of us in the community from health threats

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

More CDC Cuts 💣💥

Gone is the Employee Assistance Program. They help staff deal with many things, among them coping with the trauma of being the victim of a terrorist attack 2 months ago.

Also gone, every policy and communications role left, eliminating any communication function at CDC.

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Roland Pease @peaseroland.bsky.social · 2d

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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 2d

More than 1,000 staff members at the CDC were laid off Friday, affecting units that respond to infectious-disease outbreaks, analyze science and health data to develop policy, and monitor the safety of employees.

Mass CDC cuts hit staff dealing with measles, Ebola and disease forecasting

Another round of mass layoffs has struck CDC. The agency had already been cut during a reorganization this year, and more employees are now being shed amid the government shutdown.

wapo.st

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Crawford Kilian @crof.bsky.social · 2d

This may be the last time you ever see a current issue of the CDC's weekly MMWR: www.cdc.gov/mmwr/index.h...

Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report

The MMWR series is the agency’s primary vehicle for ,,,

www.cdc.gov

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Roland Pease @peaseroland.bsky.social · 2d

The USCSB has its own YouTube channel to share the lessons from its investigations.
youtu.be/2z7h5BOZ2Hk?...

Safety Pays Off: The Value of Vigilance

YouTube video by USCSB

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Roland Pease @peaseroland.bsky.social · 2d

Want to know what happened, how such a devastating explosion took place?

US Chemical Safety Board were the experts who'd sift through the evidence and try to prevent repeats.

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Roland Pease @peaseroland.bsky.social · 2d

The kind of surprise that keeps me on social media.
Another preprint to check out.

Kara McKinley @karalmckinley.bsky.social · 4d

Lab’s 1st preprint!

Menstruation is understudied due to societal taboos + a biological challenge: mice (a key system for research + drug discovery) don’t menstruate.

@cagricevrim.bsky.social made menstruating mice + used them to discover early events in menstruation.

He is on the job market!

Çağrı Çevrim @cagricevrim.bsky.social · 4d

I’m thrilled to share my postdoc work and the first paper from the McKinley Lab! 🎉
@karalmckinley.bsky.social
We built the first transgenic model of menstruation in mice.
We used it to uncover how the endometrium organizes and sheds during menstruation. 🧪
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
🧵

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Roland Pease @peaseroland.bsky.social · 2d

And yet yet more
bsky.app/profile/angi...

Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 2d

For more information about the Friday night massacre at CDC, I wrote up an analysis of who got terminated and what that means for public health.

Grateful to @saveamericamvmt.bsky.social for supporting and amplifying. We are in really terrible trouble.

rasmussenretorts.substack.com/p/the-death-...

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Roland Pease @peaseroland.bsky.social · 2d

And yet more
bsky.app/profile/amym...

Amy Maxmen, PhD @amymaxmen.bsky.social · 3d

The Trump admin is in the midst of laying off 1,100-1,200 HHS staff. The CDC's outbreak responders, gone. The office producing CDC's weekly journal MMWR is gone. CDC staff securing sensitive data, gone. Worker safety, gone. Immunization group, gone.

Instead, Congress watches RFK "make the proof"

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4d

RFK Jr on Tylenol and autism: "It is not proof. We're doing the studies to make the proof."

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Roland Pease @peaseroland.bsky.social · 2d

I came across this extraordinary submarine tectonic çidilla when looking for island-hopping routes for migrating birds or marine mammals to take H5N1 from South America to Antarctica.
Keen to know what the seismic activity tells us.

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Ian L Morgan @ianlmorgan.bsky.social · 2d

Yesterday, I was devastated to learn that many of my CDC colleagues were told they would be illegally fired as part of this administrations continued attacks on science and public health. To our CDC colleagues, we see you and stand with you.

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Roland Pease @peaseroland.bsky.social · 2d

Surely you have to show you can do maths before you can enroll for a medical degree.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

Dr Oz: "Drugs for lung diseases are discounted massively. The president highlighted 650%. Significant discounts ... "

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Roland Pease @peaseroland.bsky.social · 2d

More here
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Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 3d

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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Tim Wright @timwrightleeds.bsky.social · 2d

Early days for this one, but doesn’t look like somewhere we’d associate with magma movement.

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Roland Pease @peaseroland.bsky.social · 2d

That was the swarm at the bottom here?
Each seems slightly smaller, but it's the cumulative effect you're talking about?

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Roland Pease @peaseroland.bsky.social · 2d

I guess it's 20 years ago, at #AGU05, I first learned of activity in the region.
I still recall vividly Roger Bilham outside the Moscone Center, arms and legs stretched for emphasis, gasping "abso-fcking-lutely enormous" about the rift then (not inc in the write up).
news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tec...

BBC NEWS | Science & Environment | Geologists witness 'ocean birth'

news.bbc.co.uk

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Roland Pease @peaseroland.bsky.social · 2d

. @timwrightleeds.bsky.social
Is this in "your"area?
earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...

The Earthquake Event Page application supports most recent browsers, view supported browsers. Or, try our Real-time Notifications, Feeds, and Web Services.

earthquake.usgs.gov

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Roland Pease @peaseroland.bsky.social · 2d

Oh! I'll check that out. It's usually the first to bloom (except I now have Canary Bird, which is a cheat) and always the last. Fearsome thorns.

Roland Pease @peaseroland.bsky.social · 2d

I'm rooting for you. #Scicomm is under threat everywhere, often more through indifference than malevolence, but clear, accurate reporting is needed more now than in decades.
💪

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Chris Tregenza @tregenza.bsky.social · 2d

Alongside Science in Action, Q&Q is my favourite science podcast.

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Dr. Judith Hubbard @judithgeology.bsky.social · 3d

This makes me so sad! My favorite media interviews were with Science in Action - somehow the conversation just flowed, and I got unexpected compliments from distant friends and colleagues who happened to tune in. The world needs more in-depth, accessible coverage of science, not less.

Roland Pease @peaseroland.bsky.social · 3d

Science in Action on the BBC World Service celebrated its 50th birthday in 2014, but sadly won't be around to celebrate its 61st next month.
#BudgetCuts

Let's hope Quirks & Quarks reaches a healthy old age.🎉🍾🎉

Denis Gilbert 🌎 @denis-gilbert.ca · 3d

CBC Radio's science show 'Quirks & Quarks' celebrated its 50-year anniversary in a fun episode that invited experts to discuss the last 50 years of research in cosmology, genetics, climate, computers, agriculture and speculate on the next 50 years! 🧪

www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...

#SciComm #Science

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Roland Pease @peaseroland.bsky.social · 2d

I comment every year what a persister this old, unidentified rose is. A source of inspiration, perhaps.

Multiple red blooms on an old unidentified rose.

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Roland Pease @peaseroland.bsky.social · 3d

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Roland Pease @peaseroland.bsky.social · Mar 5

In the latest issue of Private Eye (thanks to a friend for sharing) -
"So farewell then, Science in Action..."
Wishing I could tell EJ Thribb that reports of the programme's demise are premature, but that may depend on support from outside the BBC. ☹️

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