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baddestmamajama.bsky.social
The easiest win in the world right now is to continue using your own brain while people around you get relentlessly, intentionally dumber
bradleybusch.bsky.social Bradley Busch @bradleybusch.bsky.social · Jun 18
New research from MIT found that those who used ChatGPT can’t remember any of the content of their essays.

Key takeaway: the product doesn’t suffer, but the process does. And when it comes to essays, the process *is* how they learn.

arxiv.org/pdf/2506.088...
June 18, 2025 at 10:47 PM
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naturenow.bsky.social
Want to help study a new method for understanding whale vocalizations?
Help WhaleSETI by participating in the following study to categorize and characterise humpback whale social calls:

whale-seti.eyeqsoft.com/eq/r1/lpauw

#WHALESETI @setiinstitute.bsky.social @whaletalesorg.bsky.social
WHALE-SETI WANT TO PARTICIPATE IN SCIENCE WITH OUR FRIENDS AT WHALESETI? @SETTINSTITUTE Image of a group of whales in the ocean. WhaleSETI needs help characterizing humpback whale social calls! listen to whales and help science Image of white text on a blue background. Thanks for participating! Image of a humpback whale breaching.
June 18, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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itsbabs.bsky.social
if you decry agents of the state concealing their identities as they forcibly remove members of our communities & electeds alike, but don’t connect that behavior to enaction of mask bans adversely impacting normal people protecting their health for the past year+, you miss the forest for the trees
itsbabs.bsky.social babs ✨ @itsbabs.bsky.social · Jun 14
normalize respirators in your daily life. when you do, when you see the choice to use a personal air filter as more akin to sunglasses (worn by all, often for fashion regardless of ocular welfare) than, say, a cast (indicative of active health concerns, often not a choice), all around you benefit.
June 18, 2025 at 10:06 PM
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bill-comeau.bsky.social
At Carney events, reporters scrum and decide on the question and who will ask. They can ask followup. At Poilievre events, handlers suggest questions, reporter(s)who agree get priority, and Poilievre chooses reporters with no followup.
#cdnpoli #canpoli

www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/fed...
April 6, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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mark-ungrin.bsky.social
The roadmap for turning the NIH into an EBM slush fund and shutting down real science. Kulldorf, in the new public health blog ("journal") co-founded by Bhattacharya.

1: Fund based on who applies 🤔, rather than ideas

2: Give ECR grants. But only to "medical, dental and public health school".
From: https://publichealth.realclearjournals.org/perspectives/2025/03/a-blueprint-for-nih-reform/ PROPOSAL #1: To give scientists the freedom to do the research they consider most innovative and promising, grants should be awarded based on evaluation of their three best first-authored articles published during the past five years, rather than promises about proposed future work. If scientists have done excellent research in the past, they will continue to do excellent research, and this system will allow scientists to quickly pursue interesting new ideas. It also means less time spent on grant writing, and more time spent on research. To ensure funding for a wide range of research areas, scientists would specify their area of research, such as genetics, diabetes treatment, or cancer epidemiology, and each area would have a defined amount of NIH research dollars to distribute to the scientists in that area. To ensure research collaboration, there should be a maximum amount of the grant that can be used for principal investigator salary. NIH already has some funding opportunities along these lines, which can easily be expanded. If there are doubts about this new approach, one option is to let universities choose between the old and this new system. Vinay Prasad has argued that different NIH grant award mechanisms should be put to the same rigorous scientific evaluation as science itself, by randomizing scientists or universities to different grant systems.1 With that philosophy, universities could be randomized to either the old or this new system, followed by a thorough and comparative evaluation of research results. PROPOSAL #2: NIH should allocate a certain number of five-year training grants to each medical, dental and public health school in the United States, trusting them with finding the best young scientists to recruit, and letting them immediately start the research they want to pursue. Each medical school would receive at least one new training grant every year, while additional awards depend on the evaluation of research articles by recently supported trainees. To avoid academic inbreeding and ensure competitiveness and excellence, training awards should be used to recruit young scientists educated at other institutions.
April 4, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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canadahealthwatch.ca
People on flight from Mexico to Waterloo region may have been exposed to measles www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... @cbcnews.ca

𝗚𝗲𝘁 𝘄𝗲𝗲𝗸𝗹𝘆 𝘂𝗽𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀: CanadaHealthwatch.ca/newsletter 🍁
digital illustration of a measles virion
April 5, 2025 at 12:52 AM
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clarajeffery.bsky.social
1/ On April 5, there are nationwide protests happening literally everywhere in the US. Find more details here: handsoff2025.com
March 27, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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simongandrew.bsky.social
One of many moments in Omar El Akkad’s new book, “One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This,” that will stop you in your tracks.
There is an impulse in moments like this to appeal to self-interest. To say: These horrors you are allowing to happen, they will come to your doorstep one day; to repeat the famous phrase about who they came for first and who they'll come for next. But this appeal cannot, in matter of fact, work. If the people well served by a system that condones such butchery ever truly believed the same butchery could one day be inflicted on them, they'd tear the system down tomorrow. And anyway, by the time such a thing happens, the rest of us will already be dead. No, there is no terrible thing coming for you in some distant future, but know that a terrible thing is happening to you now. You are being asked to kill off a part of you that would otherwise scream in opposition to injustice. You are being asked to dismantle the machinery of a functioning conscience. Who cares if diplomatic expediency prefers you shrug away the sight of dismembered children? Who cares if great distance from the bloodstained middle allows obliviousness. Forget pity, forget even the dead if you must, but at least fight against the theft of your soul.
March 29, 2025 at 8:31 PM
@kprather.bsky.social I wonder if you heard this and what your thoughts are? I respect your takes so much and this seemed...like a dangerous take with measles and bird flu rising
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/20/p...
Were the Covid Lockdowns Worth It?
A conversation with two political scientists who argue that there is no evidence the measures saved lives.
www.nytimes.com
March 20, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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simpson-ian.bsky.social
A great video.
dcapto.bsky.social DCapTO @dcapto.bsky.social · Feb 16
This simple, short, cool video visually explains how N95s work to keep airborne viruses like Covid, TB, H5N1, Flu etc, from getting in you 😷 Just make sure it’s well-fitted and you don’t take it off to eat, drink, blow your nose, take a photo, or any reason. N95s even protect against wildfire smoke.
February 16, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social
USA: Long COVID impacting more than 1 million children: CDC study suggests.

"The authors said there may be an under-reporting of long COVID in younger children due to difficulty with the verbalization of their symptoms."

Study: jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
Long COVID impacting more than 1 million children: CDC study suggests
A new CDC study published Monday found that more than 1 million children were affected by long COVID in 2023. Higher levels were found in lower-income households.
abcnews.go.com
February 3, 2025 at 11:07 PM
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thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social
Nanoparticle Vaccine Could Protect Against Future COVID-19 Variants – Plus Other Coronaviruses.

Study: www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

Source: archive.md/lz3Gf
Nanoparticle Vaccine Could Protect Against Future COVID-19 Variants – Plus Other Coronaviruses And maybe even the next coronavirus that comes along. Laura Simmons headshot Laura Simmons Health & Medicine Editor Edited by Francesca Benson Current vaccines against COVID-19 can become outdated quite quickly, particularly since Omicron (virus particles shown here in orange) and its various subvariants have emerged. Image credit: NIAID/NIH via Flickr (public domain)
February 3, 2025 at 11:23 PM
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propublica.org
3/ Aid groups and government officials say they’ve never faced a catastrophe this sudden and extensive.

Here's a stark example from a group of malnutrition clinics in Sudan.
Screenshot of article excerpt. Text reads: On Friday morning, the staffers at a half dozen U.S.-funded medical facilities in Sudan who care for severely malnourished children had a choice to make: Defy President Donald Trump’s order to immediately stop their operations or let up to 100 babies and toddlers die. They chose the children. In spite of the order, they will keep their facilities open for as long as they can, according to three people with direct knowledge of the situation. The people requested anonymity for fear that the administration might target their group for reprisals. Trump’s order also meant they would stop receiving new, previously approved funds to cover salaries, IV bags and other supplies. They said it’s a matter of days, not weeks, before they run out.
February 1, 2025 at 1:07 AM
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crampell.bsky.social
A new era of government censorship has begun.
It started with the silencing of scientific speech, when the admin blocked release of research on bird flu. But MAGA has also cracked down on other wrongthink—on race, geography (!), and of course Trump himself
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
Opinion | A new era of government censorship has dawned
Donald Trump fancies himself a champion of free speech. Oh, really?
www.washingtonpost.com
January 31, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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drericding.bsky.social
🪓MASS DELETION UPDATE—More than 1,000 pages are now deleted from websites of CDC, National Institutes of Health, and other sites of the Department of Health and Human Services, according to a new WSJ analysis—including many **vaccine recommendation** scientific pages!
February 1, 2025 at 1:23 AM
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jessicavalenti.bsky.social
The Trump administration is scrubbing the CDC’s website of documents on reproductive rights issues, sexual health, intimate partner violence, and more.

I'm trying to save them.

You can find the deleted docs at cdcguidelines.com - I'll be adding more over the weekend.
Download CDC Guidelines Removed By The Trump Admin
The Trump administration is scrubbing the CDC’s website of documents on reproductive rights issues, sexual health, intimate partner violence, and more.
CDCGuidelines.com
February 1, 2025 at 12:58 AM
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broadwaybabyto.bsky.social
Community will save us in the end.

Work locally. Work together. Find people who care and see how you can give back.

What mask blocs & clean air advocates did during the California wildfires likely saved thousands of lives.

This is how you resist.
January 30, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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msf.ca
#Bluesky: we have set up a variety of feeds in order to help our followers keep track of crises. The full list can be found on our profile @msf.ca or look read the list below in this thread.
January 28, 2025 at 10:09 PM
This cause is important - please sign: community.350.org/petitions/he...
Kitchener Centre: Let's Win Heat Pumps for All!
The impacts of the climate crisis are literally on our doorsteps, threatening our health, homes, and communities. We can’t face this disaster alone, and we cannot shoulder the costs as individuals. Our government must make a bold investment in a Universal Heat Pump Program to save lives, cut our bills, and protect the planet. • HEAT PUMPS SAVE LIVES: Extreme heat is worsening every year, putting our health and safety at risk. Heat pumps could have saved hundreds of lives by keeping people...
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January 28, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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thenarwhal.ca
In this week’s newsletter, editor-in-chief Carol Linnitt writes that more than a decade into environmental journalism, her message remains the same: we’ve got way too much to remain hopeful about instead of giving up — even when the forces at play want us to give up. thenarwhal.ca/newsletter-r...
No point in despair, when there’s so much to hope for | The Narwhal
More than a decade into environmental journalism, my message remains the same: we must remain hopeful — even when the forces at play want us to give up
thenarwhal.ca
January 24, 2025 at 12:55 AM
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mehdirhasan.bsky.social
Yep.
Bird Flu Is a National Embarrassment
America should have more aggressively intervened almost a year ago.
www.theatlantic.com
January 12, 2025 at 10:09 PM