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Prof Ian Hall @ianhall.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
The fact that nobody alive today has seen an event of this magnitude should really make us stop and think. And yes, I know El Niño is a natural cycle. But that doesn’t make records like this any less remarkable…or any less concerning.
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Anthony Edwards @edwardsanthonyb.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Hottest weather in two years looking likely for much of the Southwest (including interior California) starting in about a week, with well above-normal temperatures potentially continuing through mid-August.
US Hazards Outlook
NWS Climate Prediction Center College Park MD
300 PM EDT July 24 2026

Synopsis: Strong mid-level high pressure is forecast to bring a prolonged heat wave to the West through the beginning of August. Antecedent dryness along with the likelihood of above-normal temperatures and below-normal precipitation during the next two weeks supports an increased risk for the Rapid Onset of Drought to parts of the Great Plains and Corn Belt. A moisture surge associated with a tropical cyclone tracking northwest across the East Pacific along with the ongoing/predicted heat wave favors a renewal of an enhanced Monsoon during early August.

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High risk of extreme heat for portions of the Southwest, Great Basin, and California, Sat-Sun, Aug 1-2.
Moderate risk of extreme heat for much of the Southern Plains, Southwest, Great Basin, and California, Sat-Tue, Aug 1-4.
Slight risk of extreme heat for most of the western two-thirds of the CONUS and Southeast U.S., Sat-Fri, Aug 1-7.
Slight risk of extreme heat for the Midwest, Wed-Fri, Aug 5-7.
Slight risk of heavy precipitation for parts of the Southeast, Sat-Sun, Aug 1-2.
Slight risk of heavy precipitation for parts of the Desert Southwest, Sun-Fri, Aug 2-7.
Rapid onset drought (ROD) possible for parts of the Great Plains and Corn Belt.
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Atul Gawande @agawande.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
More signs of resurging HIV after USAID’s closure. African Neonatal Network reported at IMNCH (a global health conference): HIV+ pregnant women ↑50% & those not on antiretrovirals ↑>300%, year-on-year, across 22 hospitals in 5 nations. @vtoxfordnetwork.bsky.social
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Amy Diehl, Ph.D. @amydiehl.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Study finds narcissism the only trait that predicted objections to remote work. The higher the opinions of themselves leaders expressed, the more they coveted power and status — the more they favored return-to-office mandates. @adammgrant.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/06/22/o...
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Opinion | The Real Reason Bosses Want You Back in the Office Full Time (It’s Not Productivity)
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Happy Father's Day 🖤
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Robert Rohde @rarohde.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
A powerful El Niño Event is expected to develop during 2026. How powerful? Well the seasonal forecasting models are currently all over the place. So, somewhere between a Top 10 event in modern history and super-bonkers extreme crazy land. 🤔 🧪🌊
Chart showing the peak El Niño intensity forecast for the 2026/27 El Niño across 13 models and a comparison to the ten strongest historical events.
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Josie Glausiusz @josiegz.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
A program called Rx Kids that gave women in Flint, Mich., money during pregnancy and after childbirth significantly improved their health and that of their newborns, according to a new study. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/27/w...
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In Flint, Cash for Pregnant Women Leads to Better Outcomes for Babies
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Ivy @askylitocean.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
Golden Lily wallpaper originally designed by J.H. Dearle in 1899 for Morris & Co.
Large, stylized lilies and smaller wildflower-like blooms. Intricately entwined stems and tendrils arranged on a strong diagonal. Rich, natural tones including sage green, terracotta, and soft yellows.
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Amy Diehl, Ph.D. @amydiehl.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
Reviewers in two groups were given identical resumes for Emily Clarke and James Clarke and told they had used AI. Emily's was 2x as likely to raise doubts about competence. "She can't even write a CV herself." But James "just needed a bit of help." fortune.com/2026/05/10/i...
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AI generated identical resumes for a man and a woman: Hers was more likely to be labeled 'weak,' while his got a 97% approval rating | Fortune
“If people believe they will be judged more harshly for using AI, they are less likely to adopt it—regardless of their capability."
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Amy Diehl, Ph.D. @amydiehl.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
Cinderella Complex: When women outsource autonomy and make themselves wholly dependent on a man's goodwill, success, and faithfulness. It a risk and a trap, in which women may lose their identity, agency and freedom and who may be replaced. www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/is-t...
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Betty Broderick and the Cinderella Complex
Betty Broderick gave up everything to build her husband's success. He replaced her anyway. In 2026, women are still making the same mistake.
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Ivy @askylitocean.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
"Three Hundred Things a Bright Girl Can Do" by Lilla Elizabeth Kelley, published in 1903 by Dana Estes and Company. The distinctive cover art was designed by American artist Amy Sacker. I am such a sucker for beautiful antique book covers. They just don't make them like this anymore.
It is a first edition hardcover, bound in red cloth with black and gilt lettering.The book content covers various educational activities and skills for young women of the early 20th century.
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Geoff Millikan @gmillikan.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
How to post some pictures of myself every once in awhile! Here’s me from last couple of weeks. Not shown is me in front of my computer eight hours a dsy which is where I invest most time
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Adam Kucharski @adamjkucharski.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Per-contact transmission risk was previously estimated as 3.4% in household (pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17471425/), so below could imply [big assumption] a single case on average infects roughly 20x0.034 = 0.7 others per day infectious on cruise. Can see why cluster can occur.
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Dr. Nahid Bhadelia @bhadeliamd.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Dutch newspaper, AD, (highly credible) reports South Africa has reported to them a new confirmed hantavirus test in the 69 year old Dutch woman who left the boat after her husband passed away. Follow up "Request for Information" on hantavirus cluster on MV Hondius.
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San Francisco Chronicle @sfchronicle.com · 04/05/2026
The Chronicle was honored for revealing how companies drastically underpay wildfire survivors. Gabrielle Lurie and an investigation of for-profit psychiatric hospitals were named finalists.
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San Francisco Chronicle wins Pulitzer Prize for home insurance investigation
The Chronicle was honored for revealing how companies drastically underpay wildfire survivors. Gabrielle Lurie and an investigation of for-profit psychiatric hospitals were named finalists.
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Amy Diehl, Ph.D. @amydiehl.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Global study (N=23K) finds 1/3 of Gen Z men and boys think a wife should "obey" her husband. 13% of Boomer men, 18% of Gen Z women & 6% of Boomer women agreed. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...
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Gen Z males twice as likely as baby boomers to believe wives should obey husbands
Global survey shows young men and boys hold more traditional views about gender roles than older generations
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Amy Diehl, Ph.D. @amydiehl.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
Driverless cars have to prove that they meet strict safety standards, including protection from hacking or cyber threats before being allowed on roads. AI tools that enable harassment, humiliation, abuse and hounding of women require no such guardrails. www.ft.com/content/60e2...
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How tech turned against women
As AI-generated sexualised images proliferate and app-facilitated abuse spreads, we are sleepwalking into a new age of gender inequality. It is time to regulate properly
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Jayden Lacy @jaydenmlacy.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
#BreakingNews: Several backcountry skiers are missing after an avalanche in #CastlePeak around 11:30.
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Anthony Edwards @edwardsanthonyb.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Don’t blow away @norcalstormchasing.bsky.social! Winds are picking up over Donner Pass as the leeward low forms in the Great Basin. Gusts of 25+ mph making for brief whiteout conditions. Much stronger winder expected Tuesday with gusts of 40 to 60 mph a high possibility.
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Kai Kupferschmidt @kakape.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Next pandemic is gonna be lit 🔥 We’ll all be chugging protein drinks and swallowing deworming tablets and talking about “that which cannot be named” while our social media feeds tell us that anyone who died did not do enough push-ups…
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Anthony Edwards @edwardsanthonyb.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
The pattern doesn't get much better than this for Sierra Nevada snow. A series of storms moving out of the Gulf of Alaska *should* track just long enough over the Pacific to pick up plenty moisture. First storm Tue-Wed before pattern gets cranking Valentines Day. 5-10 feet on table thru ~Feb. 22.
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James Munday @jdmunday.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Our paper modelling transmission risk in schools is published in Nature Communications. **The relative contribution of close-proximity contacts, shared classroom exposure and indoor air quality to respiratory virus transmission in schools** doi.org/10.1038/s414...
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Amy Diehl, Ph.D. @amydiehl.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Study (N=160K mtgs) finds that when AI notetaking is used, women spoke 9% more than men. Perhaps because people are more aware of what they say when it is being captured. But men still used non-inclusive terms (swear words or "you guys") 2x more than women. www.thepersistent.com/when-ai-is-l...
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When AI is Listening, Women Speak More
A new study shows that when meetings are transcribed by AI, women find it easier to speak.
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
One of the things I was most worried about is starting to come to fruition. RFK Jr. will succeed in eliminating all of our vaccines if allowed to remain in office. His disinformation campaign and the falling demand for vaccines will cause American companies to stop making them.
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Moderna curbing investments in vaccine trials due to US backlash, CEO tells Bloomberg TV
Moderna does not plan to ‌invest in new late-stage vaccine trials because of growing opposition to immunizations from U.S. officials, CEO Stephane Bancel said ‌in an interview with Bloomberg TV ​on Th...
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
This is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again. www.nature.com/immersive/d4...
This line graph illustrates the percentage change in agency staff levels from the previous year for nine major U.S. federal scientific and health organizations between the fiscal years 2016 and 2025. The agencies tracked include the CDC, Department of Energy, EPA, FDA, NASA, NIH, NIST, NOAA, and NSF. For the majority of the timeline between 2016 and 2023, the agencies show relatively stable fluctuations, generally staying within a range of +5% to -5% change per year. However, there is a dramatic and uniform plummet starting in the 2024–25 period. Every agency depicted shows a sharp downward trajectory, with staffing losses ranging from approximately -15% to over -25%. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) shows the most significant decline, dropping to roughly -26%, while the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) shows the least severe but still substantial drop at approximately -15%.
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Vincent Ledvina @vincentledvina.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
MUST READ thread before Monday night's forecasted G4 / SEVERE geomagnetic storm. Auroras could be seen as far south as the U.S.-Mexico border at times. Widespread mid-latitude displays are possible. Here's what you need to know to have a successful aurora chase tonight! 🧵 #heliophysics #aurora
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Ben Lorber @benlorber8.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
Yesterday Elon Musk retweeted "white solidarity is the only way to survive". In our numb overwhelmed media environment it barely made headlines that the world's richest man endorsed blood-curdling white nationalism. My brief writeup for @religiondispatches.org religiondispatches.org/elon-musk-ju...
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Elon Musk Just Endorsed Blatant White Nationalism And the Silence is Deafening
On Thursday morning Elon Musk retweeted (with a ‘100%’ endorsement) a post declaring that: If white men become a minority, we will be slaughtered. Remember, if non-Whites openly hate White men while...
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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
Children will die with RFK Jr.'s new vaccine recommendations. We're NOT doing the "experts disagree" game. The US vaccine schedule was painstakingly constructed through a deep & thorough process by experts with unquestionable expertise. This is policy by fiat. It is pre-meditated murder. 1/
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Stephen McDonell @stephenmcdonell.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
So might Xi Jinping now think it’s OK for PLA special forces to hit #Taiwan and kidnap Lai Qing-te for his “crimes”? #China
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Stephen McDonell @stephenmcdonell.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
Traffic control concrete baubles in #Beijing getting the winter crochet cover treatment. They’re lovely eh! #China
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Amy Diehl, Ph.D. @amydiehl.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
Older women's authority in the workplace is not presumed & must be re-earned. They must be not be “angry” or “difficult.” While older men age into bluntness & are accepted for their lack of tact, women of the same age are often punished for speaking their minds. philanthropywomen.org/feminist-fun...
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How Structural Inequality for Older Women Thwarts Social Progress
As I spend more time reflecting on my own life course, I have come across some startling, and very grounding, realizations for older women that I want to take the opportunity to share. At the end, I w...
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Ryan Hisner @ryanhisner.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
BA.3.2 emerged in Nov 2024 after ~3 years of intrahost evolution with >50 new spike AA muts, but since then, it's changed very little. Could the mutagenic drug molnupiravir (MOV) galvanize BA.3.2 into pursuing new evolutionary paths? A new 89-mut BA.3.2 sequence hints that it could. 1/11
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mattwilsonwx.bsky.social @mattwilsonwx.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
Before the 1990s, plane crashes caused by microbursts used to kill planeloads of people fairly regularly. Dr. Ted Fujita and NCAR scientists figured out how to detect microbursts and warn pilots about them. Since then? Zero airliner crashes from microbursts.
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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 28/10/2025
Stunning video of the enormous eye at the center of hurricane Melissa. Taken by the 53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron “Hurricane Hunters” just before they had to abandon their mission. Melissa is extremely dangerous, the strongest Atlantic hurricane to occur this late in the season.
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US Air Force provides views from inside Hurricane Melissa
The U.S. Defense Department has released footage of views inside Hurricane Melissa. The military said a U.S.
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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
Cannot believe I just searched “teenage sperm count” on PubMed to confirm my suspicion that nowhere near enough adolescent semen research has occurred in any era to support this claim. Why is he always so weird about kids?
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Kristian G. Andersen @kgandersen.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
You might be wondering why we haven't updated outbreak.info for months. Well, the reason is that GISAID cut our access in January - as they did others. Without telling us. After a ♾️ back and forth, that is now permanent. More on that soon - and why GISAID should not be trusted with critical data.
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
Respect to those who got here first.
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Ryan Hisner @ryanhisner.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
There's a new BA.3.2.2 from South Africa today. For the most part, there's been little substantial change in BA.3.2 over the past few months—mostly synonymous mutations & very little happening in spike. But this new one has 3 spike mutations & looks quite interesting. 1/6
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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
The newsletter from agricultural producer news site WATT Poultry is now a primary source of my anxiety. H5N1 is exploding in North American poultry. Every day, a headline like this. But no human cases. Either there aren't any or there's no testing. Given CDC's dismantling, I can guess.
Headline: "Avian flu invades flock of nearly 2 million Washington hens"
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Anthony Edwards @edwardsanthonyb.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
Models are trending up 📈 for #snow in the #Sierra and #Tahoe from Monday-Wednesday. This morning’s data has 15-20” of snow at @cssl.bsky.social near Donner Summit. Some of this will melt initially due to warm ground temps, but this would be a memorable October snow. #CAwx
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Alex Shevrin Venet @asv.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
wowwww this is incredibly beautiful. tagging some friends who will love this: @ladyofsardines.bsky.social @heymrsbond.com @marcusluther.bsky.social therumpus.net/2025/10/02/h...
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Human Error Is the Point: On Teaching College During the Rise of AI - The Rumpus
My syllabus is a mess of half-remembered intentions. I re-use icebreakers that I know don’t work. I forget to grade the first assignment until Week Four. I write emails that begin with “So sorry for t...
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Geoff Millikan @gmillikan.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
Good write up by the study’s authors. Suggest reading if you’re in a workplace with other employees.
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Solid Evidence @solidevidence.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
A few have asked me about this. XFG is the main lineage in the US at the moment. If there is a choice between a JN.1 or an LP.8 vaccine, I would take LP.8.
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Stephen McDonell @stephenmcdonell.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
If you missed our coverage on the BBC yesterday of the World Humanoid Robot Games in #Beijing, here’s a taste in two parts… #China
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Kristian G. Andersen @kgandersen.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
Let's take a look at some of the rhetoric RFK Jr. has used over the last couple of years in describing the CDC. First up, search his statements on X: x.com/search?q=fro... I'll show a few examples in the following. "cesspool" "crooked", etc.
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Jenna Norton @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
Jay Bhattacharya says that Program Officers made up banned words lists at NIH. This is a real email I got at NIH. (Granted, before Jay started.) But nothing has changed since he joined. I refused to censor the summary, so it remains unposted. And I have tried since Jay arrived.
Email from an nih.gov email address addressed to Jenna Norton saying they are removing the KICC meeting summary due to “unauthorized language”  including “health equity” and “racial/ethnic”
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Amy Diehl, Ph.D. @amydiehl.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
Instead of telling women: - Avoid weak language: Call it strategic language - Be authoritative: Use participative leadership - Master self-promotion: Share credit generously - Don't be emotional: Balance authenticity & discretion See my latest @fastcompany.com www.fastcompany.com/91363032/sto...
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Stop coaching women to 'lead like a man'
Stop coaching women to 'lead like a man'. Here's what to do instead.
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Geoff Millikan @gmillikan.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
Amazing how far up the hill the wave comes. Dog almost doesn’t make it!
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Amy Diehl, Ph.D. @amydiehl.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
Return-to-office policies are not proven to make companies more productive. Many CEOs who reported women quitting said they were struggling to fill jobs because of that loss of female employees and that their overall workforce productivity is down. time.com/7306896/wome...
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Why So Many Women Are Quitting the Workforce
Labor force participation among women has started falling again in 2025.
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Shipwreck @shipwreck75.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Tsunami waves of up to 13 feet recorded in Yelizovsky in Kamchatka Krai, Russia, state-linked media says, following preliminary magnitude 8.7 earthquake t.me/tass_agency/...
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ТАСС
❗️Волна цунами высотой 3-4 метра зафиксирована в Елизовском районе Камчатки, сообщили власти.
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