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Jeremy Kamil

@macroliter.bsky.social
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[He, him.] CMV virologist exploring how viruses enter cells and other tricky mischief (lately, of the glycoimmune-centric variety). University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. My posts here are my own speech, not my employer’s. #LoveVirology #Glycotime

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Jeremy Kamil @macroliter.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
🤔 Why would @theatlantic.com spread a story cooked up by the Institute for Family Studies, an openly advocacy-oriented, conservative-leaning think tank. Oh and the report the story is based on was paid for by a Catholic ministry that IFS praises 💋🤰🏻🧑‍🍼👼
Screenshot of an Atlantic article. Headline: "The Americans Having the Most Sex." Subhead: "Regular churchgoers have a surprising advantage over secular couples." By Brad Wilcox and Grant Bailey, September 25, 2026. Illustration: an open Bible lying on a hot-pink satin pillow against a gold background.
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Jeremy Kamil @macroliter.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
🧪 This will blow your mind, h/t @bleachgfp.bsky.social who shared it on LinkedIn. 🎁 🔗 www.nytimes.com/2026/09/15/t...
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Is There Anything a Fruit Fly Brain Can’t Do? (Gift Article)
Models of the insect’s nervous system have been trained to solve a Rubik’s Cube, play video games and even parallel park a car.
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Jeremy Kamil @macroliter.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
🎁 🔗 wapo.st/4y276I3
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The U.S. sent an Iranian Christian to Panama. It had no plan for what came next.
One man’s 18 months in the limbo of Trump’s third-country deportations.
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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Russell Vought. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/20/s...
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White House Moves to Take Control of N.I.H. Grants (Gift Article)
Federal officials are drafting an executive order that would place grants under review by an outside panel, the latest effort to redirect billions of dollars in research spending.
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Jeremy Kamil @macroliter.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
“He is not senile,” she said. “He is not suicidal. He just likes a good solid adventure in nature” wapo.st/4y6w9db
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For 11 days, a lost hiker shouted for help. Then two kayakers appeared.
Craig Berg’s phone vanished in a swamp. As he sought help, he survived on freeze-dried food and “the most disgusting water that you could imagine.”
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Jeremy Kamil @macroliter.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Gift link 🎁 🔗 wapo.st/4y6w9db
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For 11 days, a lost hiker shouted for help. Then two kayakers appeared.
Craig Berg’s phone vanished in a swamp. As he sought help, he survived on freeze-dried food and “the most disgusting water that you could imagine.”
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
My quote of the day Here we stand in the middle of this new world with our primitive brain, attuned to the simple cave life, with terrific forces at our disposal, which we are clever enough to release, but whose consequences we cannot comprehend. Albert Szent- Gyorgi
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Kosuke Takada @kosuke-takada.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
We’re delighted to share that our paper on a highly divergent betacoronavirus from a South American bat that encodes a functional furin cleavage site is now published. 🦇🦠 Another fascinating reminder of the remarkable diversity of coronavirus evolution in wildlife. 🔗 doi.org/10.1038/s414...
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A divergent betacoronavirus with a functional furin cleavage site in South American bats - Nature Communications
There is still limited data reported on virus diversity in South American bats. In this study, the authors report a divergent betacoronavirus with a functional furin cleavage site in South American ba...
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Extreme Temperatures Around the World @extremetemps.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
RECORD HEAT ALLOVER ASIA Besides East Asia,record heat is also in West Asia and Central/South Asia. More September heat records today: SAUDI ARABIA 46.9C Medina INDIA 39.9 Vellore 38.5 Anantapur 34.2 Mysore 33.2 Bengaluru
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Republicans had a conspiracy theory that the government covered up a lab leak. Now they are in charge, they have not been able to find real evidence of a cover-up, but are trying to prosecute scientists anyway. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/05/h...
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Inside the D.O.J.’s Investigation of Fauci and Other Virus Scientists
As Dr. Anthony Fauci has faced public scrutiny from congressional Republicans, the D.O.J. has pursued a quieter and more expansive effort against a wider circle of researchers.
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inkywretch.bsky.social @inkywretch.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
We can post the Ten Commandments in every school across the land. We can quote Bible verses on government websites and open government meetings with prayer. That won’t change the fact that … this “nation under God” has failed heaven’s entrance exam. mtstandard.com/eedition/pag...
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View the Montana Standard for Thursday, September 3, 2026
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Max Kozlov @maxkozlov.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
The agreement was signed out of the public view a month ago by Pentagon official Robert Kadlec and NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya, echoing my reporting. It establishes a 10-year framework that officially runs through September 30, 2036.
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Revealed: inside the US military's plan to tap huge sums from the NIH
An agreement paves the way for hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of projects to be transferred from the NIH’s institute for infectious diseases to the Department of Defense.
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Max Kozlov @maxkozlov.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Under pressure, the DOD just released the text of its secret 10-year agreement with the NIH. Here are the biggest revelations from the document 🧵
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Jen Mercieca @jenmercieca.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
"You should write about take no-shit women like me. Girls need to know they can break the rules." ― Gloria Steinem, My Life on the Road
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Cara Giovanetti @idontevencara.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
LZ is very patient. It waits for dark matter—which is all around us here on earth!—to drift through the detector and scatter off a xenon nucleus. The nucleus rockets through the detector after scattering, knocking light and electrons off surrounding xenon, which the detectors are poised to see 7/10
A diagram from the LUX experiment showing how dark matter interaction becomes a signal of light and electrons.

Diagram created by David Malling and Carlos Faham.  Image credit Gigaparsec, CC BY 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons
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Michelle Momany @mcmomany.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
We knew that A. fumigatus conidia were bigger when produced at 50C vs 37C. We never imagined that genes encoding master regulators of asexual & sexual development would be differentially expressed in conidiophores at each temp. New, surprising work from Momany lab. journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...
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Temperature during conidiophore development primes Aspergillus fumigatus spore transcriptome for asexual or sexual reproduction | mBio
The human pathogen Aspergillus fumigatus has been found in natural and agricultural environments around the world. Disease is acquired when susceptible individuals inhale airborne asexual spores from ...
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
NIH funding curves posted at grant-witness. It looks like grant making is slowing down noticeably and we are in the now in the last month of the fiscal year. It seems like "NIH" may be challenged to get all of the appropriated funds out the door (even if that is their intention).
NIH funding curves showing the NIH grant making is slowing down with only one month to go in the fiscal year.
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Ryan Hisner @ryanhisner.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
I've spent that past 2 weeks beating my head against the wall trying to wrangle the most incorrigibly unruly mutation type of all—insertions. I'm sure I'll find some more fine-tuning to do, but I'm finally satisfied with the results and will share a quick summary of them in this 🧵. 1/13
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Jeremy Kamil @macroliter.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
🧪 🎁 🔗
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Maura L. Gillison, Who Linked Throat Cancers to HPV, Dies at 61 (Gift Article)
She challenged the conventional view that most head and neck cancers resulted from cigarette smoking and excessive alcohol consumption.
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Dr. Sandra Steingraber 🏳️‍🌈 @ssteingraber1.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
U.S. Scientists Losing Their Funding: The NSF Data 🧪 “The National Scinece Foundation is withholding $1 billion of its budget so that the money can go to a special White House project.” www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Exclusive: NSF set to issue lowest number of new grants in four decades
The US science-funding agency is withholding $1 billion of its budget so that the money can go to a special White House project.
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Jeremy Kamil @macroliter.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
#ProtectWildPlaces 🌍 www.npr.org/2026/08/18/n...
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Trump administration moves to open untouched national forests to logging
The end of "roadless rule" protections would open millions of acres of pristine forests to commercial use. Supporters say it will lead to better managed forests.
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Bruce Y Lee @bruceylee.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
NIH Proposes Big Change In How Grants Applications Evaluated Here's my coverage in @forbes.com of this 🛟 🧪 😷 #AcademicSky #MedSky #episky🩺 #HiSciSky Public Health #science www.forbes.com/sites/brucel...
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NIH Proposes Big Change In How Grants Applications Evaluated
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is proposing yet another significant change in its grant review process, moving away from numerical scores for applications.
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Jeremy Kamil @macroliter.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Worth a read.. our country has some reflecting to do 🎁 🔗 wapo.st/4q7B6iK
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Inside school investigations frozen under Trump: Racial slurs, sexual harassment and more
The Education Department was in talks with dozens of districts at the end of the Biden administration. The cases have stalled since the president took office.
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Teresa O'Meara @teresaomeara.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Bacteriology-Focused Assistant Professor Position in Microbiology and Immunology at the University of Michigan Application deadline: August 15, 2026 Come be my colleague!
Bacteriology-Focused Assistant Professor Position in Microbiology and Immunology at the University of Michigan

Application deadline: August 15, 2026

Applicants are requested to send
1) A cover letter (up to 1 page)
2) A CV
3) A description of research interests and goals (up to 2 pages)
4) A description of teaching experience and philosophy (up to 1 page)
5) Contact information including email to solicit 3 letters of recommendation.
Application materials should be combined into one PDF and addressed to the department chair, Dr. Bethany Moore, and sent via email to Sheryl Smith - sherylhs@umich.edu
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Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
'Deprived of classical resistance pathways because of their fitness costs in vivo, pneumococcal populations convergently evolved mutations in rny (...) Unlike drug-specific resistance mechanisms, rny mutations emerged across diverse antibiotic classes and immune states'
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RNA quality control enables antibiotic tolerance
Antibiotic resistance poses significant challenges, yet pathogen adaptation pathways vary. To determine how host environments affect adaptation, we ex…
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Musk calls for the assassination of a reporter who embarrassed him with basic questions
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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 27/07/2026
"The muted response to Mei’s death sharply contrasts with the Gelsinger tragedy decades ago." This story in @science.org is long, detailed, and very much worth your time.
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Exclusive: Death of girl in Chinese gene-editing trial was never made public
Parents want accountability after study went disastrously wrong, Science and Retraction Watch investigation reveals
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Jeremy Kamil @macroliter.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
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Prof Jenny Rohn @jennyrohn.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
A ribosomal “crash and reboot” strategy for bacterial response to antibiotics Super interesting work about the battling selection pressures of #antibiotics vs #immunity in vivo #AMR #IDSky #MIcroSKy
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Amy Maxmen, PhD @amymaxmen.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
🧵The US no longer meets criteria for measles elimination. Utah's outbreak has lasted for more than a yr. And cases this yr are at a 35-yr high. I talked w/pediatricians treating measles & talking w/parents who don't vaccinate. My latest @wired.com @kffhealthnews.org www.wired.com/story/the-ch...
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‘The Child Is Terrified’: Measles Doctors Speak Out
Hear from six pediatricians in measles hot spot Utah, as the US faces infection levels not seen in over three decades and prepares to lose its status as a country that eliminated the dangerous disease...
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Cahir O'Kane @cahirokane.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Another amazing beast in the zoo of bacterial anti-phage defences
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Absolutely everybody who knows anything about labor demographics saw this coming miles away. The last 18 months have been a steady stream of “nobody could have predicted” things every minimally knowledgable person loudly predicted.
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Andrew Hardaway @andrewhardaway.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Wow!!!! Incredible People! Whatever happens, we all showed up and made our voice heard. Now to see a thorough breakdown of the comments and present those to Congress. #standupforscience #neuroskyence
Screenshot of the Federal Register posting of OMB-2026-0034
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Craig Kaplan @triggerloop.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Update of my NIGMS funding estimates/data. Thanks to @needhibhalla.bsky.social for pointing to some FY2025 numbers showing funding rates. Funded grant # are from Reporter. FY2026 is in progress. A few points 1/
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 30/06/2026
As many as half a million Americans have been afflicted with alpha-gal syndrome—a tick-borne disease that can cause a life-threatening allergy to red meat. Burkhard Bilger reports on the epidemic. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/dzPniM
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The Tick That Hunts Down Its Hosts—Including Us
Lone-star ticks don’t just pursue and bite people. The affliction they’re spreading, an allergy to red meat known as alpha-gal syndrome, attacks a way of life.
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Jeremy Kamil @macroliter.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
🧪 Fantastic @newyorker article: bridges ticks 🕷️ , #OneHealth, #glycobiology (alpha-gal), conspiracy theories, and so much more 🐖 . www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
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The Tick That Hunts Down Its Hosts—Including Us
Lone-star ticks don’t just pursue and bite people. The affliction they’re spreading, an allergy to red meat known as alpha-gal syndrome, attacks a way of life.
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Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD @prasad.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
www.nytimes.com/2026/07/06/u... an ominous trend: graduate admissions are down 15 percent from last year, on top of an 11 percent decrease from the previous year we are destroying our seed corn
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Research Universities Are Admitting Fewer Ph.D.s, a Bad Sign for Science
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Physgal ⚛️ @physgal.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Meanwhile we’re seeing an increase in US students applying to our grad program in Canada.
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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 03/07/2026
🚨 HEADS UP: If you haven't submitted a comment on the OMB proposal yet, there's still time - but it's running out! There are only 10 days left to push back against Russell Vought's attempt to give political appointees unprecedented control over federal research funding. Take Action: zurl.co/Bl59I
Graphic from Stand Up for Science urging action on a federal funding proposal. Large text reads: "10 Days Left" and "Help Us Stop Vought From Destroying American Science." A portrait of Russell Vought appears beside the U.S. Capitol. A banner along the bottom reads: "Submit a comment on the OMB proposal | Link in bio to take action." The Stand Up for Science logo appears in the top left.
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Jason Scott @textfiles.com · 03/07/2026
I'll summarize this: Mamdani asked NYers to keep air conditioning at 78 degrees. A wave criticism hit online. A MSNBC broadcast pointed out the US Department of Energy recommends that 78 degree figure. Immediately after, the US Department of Energy deleted 6,000 web pages related to energy saving.
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Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · 01/07/2026
"Climate Shift Index (CSI) levels of 5 — the highest possible — are forecast across the eastern U.S., meaning human-caused climate change made this extreme heat at least 5x more likely. This signals an exceptional climate-influenced event." 🔥 ➡️ Learn more: www.climatecentral.org/climate-shif...
Graphic showing the Climate Shift Index for July 2, 2026 using data from the 18z GFS model for minimum temperatures. The graphic shows the change in likelihood due to climate change. Many areas are seeing a maximum of temperatures being at least 5x more likely due to climate change. This tool is available at https://csi.climatecentral.org/climate-shift-index.
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DrArchivalGenomics @ehekkala.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
🧪🌏😡💔👇
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Nikolai Slavov @slavov-n.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Since the 1960s, the genetic code has been used to predict protein sequences from DNA and mRNA sequences. Our @nature.com article demonstrates that these predictions miss thousands of protein sequences present in human tissues. www.nature.com/articles/s41... 1/
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Jeremy Kamil @macroliter.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Amazing recap (and how’s it possible we are now hurtling toward “Seven years ago..” instead of 5?)
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Norma @looftsabine.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
⬆️ worth reading "How the U.S. is losing ground to China in university research" COREY: You know, it may be that we can tell somebody, yeah, there's going to be a cure for your deaf child. NADWORNY: You just might have to go to Shanghai, he says, to get it.
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Chris Ashwood @cashwood.proteaglyco.com · 26/06/2026
Sounds like some big shifts are happening, in two different ways: 1. China is increasing their research lab funding 2. The US is putting barriers in the way of grant funding while simultaneously reducing the total amount of research funding.
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Jeremy Kamil @macroliter.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
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How the U.S. is losing ground to China in university research
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Leah Stokes @leahstokes.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
The heatwave in Europe is so extreme, it's 25–32°F (14–18°C) above normal. You read that right. France recorded it's hottest day ever. The UK had its hottest ever June day. The ground is exceeding 122°F (50°C). People are dying. Tell me again why we shouldn't talk about climate change???
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
The rise of larger vehicles like SUVs and pickup trucks, with their taller hoods and larger blind zones, has contributed to a 75% increase in pedestrian and cyclist deaths since 2009. Until we design better streets and ban these vehicles, people outside these vehicles will keep dying.
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The Deadly Rise of Giant Trucks and S.U.V.s (Gift Article)
The vehicles on American roads have grown larger — and they are killing thousands more pedestrians, a Times investigation found.
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