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Bon Bon John @bonjohnson.bsky.social · 13h

A bunch of pigs in Texas, Trump's EPA did this. "Today, we are cutting the red tape to deliver the largest power sector deregulatory action ever. We are also proposing to rescind all remaining greenhouse gas emission standards for power plants -- all of them." #FDT 🧪🔬

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Prof Sam Illingworth @samillingworth.com · 11h

🔥 Commercial kitchens are cooking the workers too 68% of US kitchens with gas stoves topped 90°F, some over 100°F. Nearly 70% exposed staff to pollution and heat beyond safety guidelines, even with ventilation running. 🔗 doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ae9d96 #Kitchens #WorkerHealth #AirPollution 🧪

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Combustion-derived air pollution and heat from gas-fired appliances in commercial kitchens can exceed health-based guidelines

Combustion-derived air pollution and heat from gas-fired appliances in commercial kitchens can exceed health-based guidelines, Kashtan, Yannai S, Lebel, Eric D, Lucha, Nicole, Finnegan, Colin, Huang, ...

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Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · 20h

NEW: In March the White House released an FY27 budget request that zeroed out the National Science Foundation's directorate of Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences (SBE). For months it was unclear what would happen. Now, with FY26 over, the damage to SBE is coming to light. My reporting:

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‘Complete devastation’: How NSF gutted its social sciences research

Agency body that funds sociology, linguistics, and archaeology studies in U.S. gave 90% fewer new grants this year

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Princess Vimentin PhD | Cancer Biologist @princess-vimentin.bsky.social · 17h

According to a study out of the Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, Sweden, babies born with certain congenital infections are approximately three times more likely to be diagnosed as having autism. 🧪 www.cidrap.umn.edu/public-healt...

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Infections at birth substantially increase the risk of autism and intellectual disability, study finds

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Bryn Nelson @seattlebryn.bsky.social · 16h

This seems like deliberate obfuscation. Again, they openly plotted to do this kind of deliberate destruction of US science in Project 2025. 🧪

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Yvette Cendes @whereisyvette.bsky.social · 14h

My name (and research) is in today’s edition of the @nytimes.com! 🤩 🔭🧪🎢

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Dr. Or M. Bialik |📚|🔬|🌊|⚒️ @obialik.bsky.social · 14h

Good news, everyone! They are eating the plastics. Who here is fungi that usually decays wood, and by plastics, it's mostly LDPE. Also, they would very much prefer to have the wood if they can; thank you very much. 🧪 Link: journals.plos.org/plosone/article?i…

Scanning Electron Microscopy, mycelial aggregation, and distortions in degraded low-density polyethylene strips after 45 days.
(A) Control, (B) P. tephrophora (DD18), (C) Xylaria sp. DD 27, (D) X. freejensis DD28, (E) Phlebiopsis sp. DD 31, (F) P. flavidoalba KH2 treated microns 37.5 stripes. (G) and (H) Mycelia attached to the LDPE (un washed LDPE sheet with mycelia), (I) to (J) macroscopic distortions of P. flavidoalba KH2 and Xylaria sp. DD 27 treated LDPE. Scale bars represent the 10 μm length.

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Conor Browne @brownecfm.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

A contractor was at my house a few days ago. The last time he was there - about two years ago - he told me that he'd been having some brain fog after Covid. This time, he told me, completely nonchalantly, that he, 'can't remember anything now'. He's ten years younger than me.

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kazza66.bsky.social @kazza66.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

And soon we’ll be reading about the explosion in young-onset dementia…..but not at all connecting the dots.

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Conor Browne @brownecfm.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

'...meaning that each additional infection event represents an opportunity for adaptive mutations that could favor mammal-to-mammal or, ultimately, human transmission'. We keep giving this beast too much space to mutate. beaconbio.org/en/report/?r...

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BEACON

Track biological threats, share vital information, and collaborate on solutions for community protection and preparedness.

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Conor Browne @brownecfm.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I am rarely affected by discourse on social media, but the current wave of posts asserting that Long Covid is psychosomatic has angered me. To be very clear: if you're asserting that LC isn't a physical disease, you're ignorant of science. End of.

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Rosalind Franklin @odagar.bsky.social · 10h

Mink farming creates conditions that can drive rapid within-farm pathogen spread. The mink upper respiratory tract shares physiological similarities with the human airway, meaning that each additional infection event represents an opportunity [that] …could ultimately… [lead to] …human transmission.”

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Conor Browne @brownecfm.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

A friend has Covid right now. They have lost their sense of smell and they're having cognitive problems. This hit me today, as it often does: we made, and continue to make, a huge collective mistake in allowing a virus that impacts the brain to transmit unmitigated globally.

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spotandmae.bsky.social @spotandmae.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

#Maine Shenna will freeze on property taxes for Maine residents and increase taxes on out of staters! good idea! #mepolitics

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paulpro @mariopro.bsky.social · 17h

This graphic image, by @mackinnonart.bsky.social , shows Lady Justice blindfolded and pinned down as her scales lie beside her, one hand covering her mouth — an explicit reference to how California professor Christine Blasey Ford described an alleged sexual assault by Kavanaugh

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paulpro @mariopro.bsky.social · 16h

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paulpro @mariopro.bsky.social · 16h

https://deadder.substack.com/p/vote-republican?r=3gwynu&utm_medium=ios

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Daniel Medina @danielmedinacomics.bsky.social · 20h

Women who weren’t seeking elective abortions are dying from preventable complications caused by ectopic pregnancies, and abortion laws are making an already dangerous situation even worse. #prochoice #roevswade #politicalart #womenshealth #ectopicpregnancy

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paulpro @mariopro.bsky.social · 16h

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paulpro @mariopro.bsky.social · 15h

Mike Luckovich

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paulpro @mariopro.bsky.social · 14h

Bruce Plante
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paulpro @mariopro.bsky.social · 13h

Weeks before he declared a national emergency over the spread of Covid, Trump said to Woodward, "I wanted to always play it down. I still like playing it down, because I don't want to create a panic." The Washington Post

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kristinekenyon.bsky.social @kristinekenyon.bsky.social · 19h

Today is Brett “he covered my mouth so I couldn’t scream” Kavanaugh’s anniversary on SCOTUS. It’s my mission to live long enough to see SCOTUS expanded by enough seats to make “I Like Beer” Brett irrelevant (plus cameras in the courtroom, for the schadenfreude). Men have no idea how mad we are.

Political cartoon with Brett Kavanaugh holding up his calendar saying “yeah but does she have her own special calendar??”

His calendar is marked:
No Raping
Kegger
Definitely No Raping
Frat Party
Was Gonna Rape But Thought Better Of It
Booze Cruise
And Light Groping But Zero Rape

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paulpro @mariopro.bsky.social · 13h

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paulpro @mariopro.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The U.S. Senate voted to confirm Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court 8 years ago on October 6, 2018. @bagleycartoons.bsky.social

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Law360 @law360.bsky.social · 18h

A former FBI agent has come forward with a claim that when U.S. Circuit Judge Emil Bove was at the U.S. Department of Justice, he directed the Los Angeles field office to illegally investigate protesters. www.law360.com/artic...

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Princess Vimentin PhD | Cancer Biologist @princess-vimentin.bsky.social · 21h

This feels like what life was like before modern medicine. Four young kids, born to "Followers of Christ" family died of treatable illnesses. This is willful ignorance enabled by religious exemptions. Parents were not touched due Idaho's child abuse laws. www.propublica.org/article/idah...

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Four Kids in One Faith-Healing Family Died. Authorities Could Do Nothing.

An exemption in Idaho law shields faith-healing parents from criminal prosecution for conduct that otherwise would be charged as neglect. It also keeps police and social workers from stepping in to pr...

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Lisa Bahr @lisabahr.bsky.social · 12h

Mark your calendars for tomorrow!! This is going to be a GOOD conversation. 2 of my favorites: @hcrichardson.bsky.social & @macfarlanenews.bsky.social reporting. 🙏🇺🇸💪 www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMS4...

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Scott MacFarlane | American Conversations

YouTube video by Heather Cox Richardson

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Julie Elliott @julieelliott.bsky.social · 19h

We have a new paper about a weird earthquake. The 2020 Sand Point event was dominantly strike-slip, but generated a tsunami. Delayed, triggered rupture on the megathrust in an area that had stress increase due to the mainshock can explain the tsunami. ⚒️🧪🌊 seismica.library.mcgill.ca/article/view...

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Triggered Shallow Megathrust Slip following the 2020 Mw7.6 Sand Point (Alaska) Strike-Slip Earthquake Explains its Tsunami

On October 19, 2020, the Mw7.6 Sand Point earthquake occurred near the Shumagin Islands in Alaska. Moment tensor solutions suggest oblique strike-slip faulting, but the earthquake was accompanied by a...

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Douglas Natelson @nanoscaleviews.bsky.social · 19h

🧪⚛️ Just tragic. Remember, this kind of thing could happen to other parts of NSF or DOE or NIH, if OMB is resolved, agency leadership is wobbly or nonexistent, and Congress does nothing. Even if Congress is opposed, unless they're willing to sue the executive branch, the potential is still there.

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AshPoust @ashpoust.bsky.social · 19h

Hey, if you're looking to be part of something positive consider helping us get this upcoming book into as many hands as possible. Gorgeous paleoart and good science. It really is a lovely story. Help us support literacy and museums! 🦕🦣🧪📚 (Warning: contains overly-animated paleontologist cameo)

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Penn NeuroKnow 🧠 @pennneuroknow.bsky.social · 18h

Does splashing water on your face when you're upset actually help? This week's post by Stephanie Uroda dives (pun intended) into how submerging your face in cold water may actually calm your nervous system during stress! Learn more here! pennneuroknow.com/2026/10/06/w... #PsychSciSky #SciComm 🧠🟦 🧪

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When stress takes the plunge: The brain’s drive response

Stress triggers many uncomfortable physiological and psychological responses in our bodies. It turns out that activating a simple, unrelated survival reflex called the dive response may bring some …

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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 06/10/2026

In June, Belgium’s diamond industry gifted Trump an 18-karat gold ring encrusted with 321 diamonds and 75 gemstones. A month later, European diamonds got an exemption from Trump’s tariffs. We don’t know where the ring is today. Where did it go? Did Trump keep it for himself?

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Erica C. Barnett @ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 23h

the pettiness of homeowners who just can't abide people enjoying outdoor spaces in "their" neighborhoods knows no bounds the need for a "solution" to outdoor dining only exists if you concede that outdoor dining is inherently a bad thing www.capitolhillseattle.com/2026/10/if-s...

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If Seattle wants more corner stores, it has to figure out the Volunteer Park Cafe garden patio | CHS Capitol Hill Seattle News

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 23h

Good news from the Badlands! Today, October 6, Thunder Valley Community Development Corporation, a Lakota nonprofit based on the Pine Ridge Reservation, plans to return 50 bison to nearly 40,000 acres in the Stronghold area of Badlands National Park.

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Lakota nonprofit returning bison to 40,000 acres in Badlands National Park to restore native prairie

Thunder Valley CDC will release 50 bison across 40,000 acres in Badlands National Park on Oct. 6, restoring native prairie ecology and Lakota stewardship.

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 22h

Letitia James AND Sally Yates??? AMAZING.

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AZ Attorney General Kris Mayes @azagmayes.bsky.social · 23h

My office seized cash, gold bars, multiple aircraft, luxury items, and more from Yuma doctor Irfan Fazil after he was caught defrauding our state's Medicaid program of $36.5 million. He'll spend 7.5 years in prison and will pay back every dollar he stole from taxpayers. www.azag.gov/press-releas...

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