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Suzanne Asher

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Ilhan Omar @ilhanmn.bsky.social · 22h
I’m ok. Make no mistake: this is an attempt to target political enemies and weaponize federal law enforcement. For ten years, Trump has targeted me with baseless lies and smear campaigns. This is just the latest escalation in his campaign of political intimidation. I will not be silenced.
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Rebecca Nagle @rebeccanagle.bsky.social · 21h
Columbus used a 15th-century legal doctrine to colonize and slaughter the Indigenous peoples he encountered. And it's still the law in the U.S. today.
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Kristina Killgrove @killgrove.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
For this Indigenous Peoples Day, your astonishing artifact is the earliest known Indigenous depiction of a European — a wood carving from Nunavut dated to 1350. 🧪🏺
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Inuit figurine: A 700-year-old Indigenous carving of a European made a century before Columbus
This Inuit carving was made a century before Columbus set foot in the Americas and likely depicts a Norseman.
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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
WELL NOW, would you look at that? A massive, 4-YEAR-LONG study of NEARLY 30 MILLION people in France found that individuals who received a COVID-19 mRNA vaccine had a 74% LOWER risk of death from severe COVID-19 compared to unvaccinated individuals and ZERO increased risk of all-cause mortality.
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Tom Kindlon @tomkindlon.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I was one of a number of patient scientists and advocates who was interviewed for this sympathetic, open access paper "Patient's knowledge, doctor's ignorance: The production of knowledge about myalgic encephalomyelitis" www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #MEcfs #PwME #epatient #epatients #CFS
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It is usually assumed that patient and doctor know strictly different things: the patient knows the phenomenological aspects of their illness, and the doctor knows its medical aspects. I present a case study, that of myalgic encephalomyelitis, wherein, due to severely dysfunctional institutional knowledge production and transmission mechanisms, the medical aspects of the illness are on the whole better understood by sick people than by their doctors. Indeed, lay scientists within the patient community disseminate and produce science on their disease, ensuring that patients as a whole have reliable knowledge about their disease. By contrast, systemically produced and systemically maintained ignorance on the part of medical professionals is the norm, and may be beyond the specific case study I present.
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Anna Lind-Guzik @alindguzik.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Hard to think of anything less abstract and more materially consequential than being pregnant
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MadGreek 🧿 @madgreek2024.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Women Get the Last Word Tonight! Rightly so.
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Ann Telnaes @anntelnaes.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Exactly—> Trump’s “big appeal to them was less about policy and more anti-immigrant: I’m going to restore an America that looks like you” www.theguardian.com/books/2026/o...
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When is the right time to compare US politics to the Nazi era? This expert on Christian nationalism says: now
Robert P Jones argues that declining white Christian influence has fuelled an alliance with Trump, and warns it is reshaping US democracy
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Katie Shoop @katieshoop.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This is very good
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The main reason you haven’t heard about campus sexual violence in a few years is because Trump and SCOTUS have made it much, much harder for survivors to come forward. You might vaguely remember that Title IX was a big battleground in his first term. And that we lost.
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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 28/09/2026
At the height of the ICE raids earlier this year, agents in armored military vehicles rolled through residential neighborhoods. Masked agents patrolled public parks and stationed themselves outside elementary schools; squadrons of ICE agents snatched pedestrians off the streets. 🧵
Federal agents line up in front of community members at the scene where federal agents fatally shot a man while trying to detain him, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S., January 24, 2026.

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Tom Kindlon @tomkindlon.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Stanford's Genome Technology: Center Community Symposium on the Molecular Basis of ME/CFS Recordings from the symposium sessions are now available. www.youtube.com/playlist?lis... #MEcfs #CFS #PwME
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2026 Community Symposium on the Molecular Basis of ME/CFS - YouTube
Community Symposium on the Molecular Basis of ME/CFS September 11, 2026, hosted by Stanford University and Ron Davis Opening Remarks: Ronald W. Davis, PhD, S...
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Tom Kindlon @tomkindlon.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
“Blistering New Monbiot Column on ME/CFS Mistreatment, Neglect” By David Tuller virology.ws/2026/09/26/t... #MyalgicEncephalomyelitis #ChronicFatigueSyndrome #MEcfs #CFS #PwME
Trial By Error: Blistering New Monbiot Column on ME/CFS Mistreatment, Neglect
Leave a Comment / By David Tuller / 26 September 2026
By David Tuller, DrPH

George Monbiot, the British investigative journalist and longtime contributor to The Guardian, has written a corker of a column about the mistreatment and abuse of people with ME/CFS, including those with Long COVID. This newest piece follows two of Monbiot’s previous Guardian essays—in March, 2024, and October, 2024–that were equally blunt about the failures of the medical and academic establishments in this domain.
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Ryan @ryangamblin.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Thank you @georgemonbiot.bsky.social for covering this. I've received no care or support for my ME/CFS since diagnosis while slowly deteriorating. A truly hellish condition that makes you feel like you're screaming for someone to listen www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Abandoned, dismissed and gaslighted: there is no excuse for the way ME sufferers have been betrayed | George Monbiot
Changes in guidance and science seem to have little impact on millions of devastated lives. It’s a social crisis playing out behind closed doors, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I live with Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. MECFS imposes severe energy limitations that interfere with any form of exertion, including mental. At its most severe, it feels as though your body is shutting down, like a living death. Thank you, @georgemonbiot.bsky.social.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Incredible. First Secretary Mullin claimed that DHS had identified 15,903 noncitizens on Nevada’s voter roll. Then DHS officials told a skeptical Nevada, no no no, that’s just people we flagged. Here are the names of 185 people we KNOW aren’t citizens. All 185 were citizens. DHS got 100% wrong.
When the Department of Homeland Security sent Nevada a list of 185 names last month that it claimed identified noncitizens who had been improperly allowed to register to vote, state election officials got to work.
On Tuesday, the state sent a strongly worded rebuke to the federal government: Every single person on the list was a lawful citizen.
"As for the 185 individuals, our records indicate that they were citizens," Greg D. Ott, a deputy attorney general in Nevada, wrote, according to a copy of a letter sent to Department of Homeland Security officials obtained through open records requests.
"You have provided nothing of substance to suggest otherwise."Following the meeting, Ms. Vogt sent a clarifying email to Nevada officials. "I also wanted to be sure I clarified that we did not reduce the 15,903 to 185," she wrote. "We've manually reviewed some of the 15,903 and confirmed 185 are not U.S. Citizens."
Now, Nevada officials are saying even that 185 number is wrong. They also took issue with a letter D.H.S. sent them in early September, in which the agency reiterated its initial claims about nearly 16,000 noncitizens on the rolls and pressured state officials to review each case in a letter to Nevada officials in early September.
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
October 2016: WaPo publishes piece expressing amazement that someone at a Trump rally shouted out the Nazi term “Lügenpresse.” September 2026: Trump’s decision to ban the “fake news” from the White House is defended by a DOJ lawyer who once said Mein Kampf was his favorite book.
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A German crowd gives the Nazi salute to the U.S. Olympic contingent as it marches past the reviewing stand of Olympics host Adolf Hitler, pictured in semi-silhouette on the right. (International News Photos)
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Here's today's column on the astonishing, ongoing mistreatment of people with #ME/CFS. Please spread it far and wide: the only thing which can break the media's wall of indifference is seeing an article about the issue go viral. Thank you. 1/2 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Abandoned, dismissed and gaslighted: there is no excuse for the way ME sufferers have been betrayed | George Monbiot
Changes in guidance and science seem to have little impact on millions of devastated lives. It’s a social crisis playing out behind closed doors, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
BREAKING: The Trump administration’s third-country removal policy is blocked. The First Circuit says the third-country removal final judgment from Judge Murphy is back in effect. “Consistent with this court's September 18, 2026, Judgment, the March 16, 2026, stay pending appeal is dissolved.”
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Mike Rugnetta @mikerugnetta.com · 22/09/2026
a bedazzled security camera
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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 18/09/2026
Yet another pin on Trump's war table against science. Cuts and rollbacks continue to end life-changing treatment for thousands of Americans.
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Patient-Led Research Collaborative @patientled.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
PLRC member @julialmv.bsky.social was just featured in @smithsonianmag.bsky.social — discussing her journey as a #LongCovid patient advocate and her work with PLRC. "The paper that collaboration yielded... has since been viewed online two million times, and it has been cited 4,000 times"
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For Many Americans, Covid Is Still a Chronic, Disabling Disease. These Scientists Are Working Tirelessly to Bring Them Relief
Long Covid saps the strength and vitality of patients, who have little recourse to fight it. A team of specialists—including an afflicted researcher working mostly from her bed—is looking for answers
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Patient-Led Research Collaborative @patientled.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
We're thrilled to see positive results from @biovie.bsky.social's clinical trial on bezisterim in #LongCovid! The drug benefited patients with high levels of fatigue, PEM and/or cognitive impairment, with multiple significant and trending results, including objective cognitive tests. 1/
The summary “forest chart” chart shows only those endpoints that reach statistically significant or are trending, and the charts for all endpoints can be found in the full data announcement presentation that was discussed during BioVie's conference call.
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Brynn Tannehill @brynntannehill.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I'm watching the independence referendum in Alberta carefully. Not because I expect it to pass (it won't), but what I think could happen immediately after it fails. brynntannehilll.substack.com/p/the-real-t...
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The Real Threat of the Albertan Secession Referendum
The October 19th referendum has the potential to serve as an excuse for annexation.
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It's ME(Jaime) @exceedhergrasp1.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Here's the article I wrote for #MEAction regarding the reorganization of NIAID. Comments to NIAID are open until Sept 18; #MEAction has submitted a very short version to the form and emailed a more thorough letter, which you can access from the article as well. www.meaction.net/post/nationa...
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National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Proposes Reorganization Plan
The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), has released a proposal to eliminate its Division of Clinical Research (DCR) and move the division’s programs and responsibilities in...
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Kees van der Leun @sustainable2050.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Glaciologist @matthias-huss.bsky.social shows that the centre of the Great Aletsch glacier in Switzerland (the biggest in the Alps) lost 6 meters(!) of thickness just this summer. "No words...", he adds on LinkedIn.
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Tom Kindlon @tomkindlon.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
🧵 I thought this 7-page introductory piece written by a medical doctor was very good "Understanding ME/CFS An Introduction to a Complex Illness" (August 2026) by @drmichaelabauer.bsky.social storage.e.jimdo.com/file/1caec72... #MEcfs #PwME #CFS #MyalgicEncephalomyelitis #ChronicFatigueSyndrome 1/
"Understanding ME/CFS An Introduction to a Complex Illness"
Dr. med. Michaela Bauer · August 2026

Image of a female reading a book entitled "ME/CFS Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome"
with 5 thought bubbles showing what she is thinking about
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Maura Doherty @molowell.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Americans - watch! It's not available in my country yet, but coming soon to the Zürich Film Festival and I scored a ticket!
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Dana Bergstrom @danambergstrom.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
A new database details the thousands of Britains who generated wealth from the slave trade. Wealth that provided structural advancement in so many ways & continues today 1/
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Monarchs, MPs and merchants: the register laying bare Britain’s slave-trading past
Exclusive: New research identifies thousands who profited from trafficking enslaved Africans and traces some financial links to institutions still operating today
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max nesterak @maxnesterak.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Nearly 150 Allina hospital doctors walk off the job in historic 4-day strike in Minnesota minnesotareformer.com/2026/09/14/n...
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Nearly 150 Allina hospital doctors walk off the job in historic 4-day strike in Minnesota • Minnesota Reformer
Nearly 150 unionized doctors at two Twin Cities area hospitals began a four-day strike on Monday in what’s believed to be the first walkout by private-sector hospital doctors in U.S. history. Doctors ...
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 14/09/2026
Cis people do not understand how much trans people's rights have regressed in just 5 years. 5 years ago, there were none of these restrictions. 19 states banned legal recognition 21 states have bathroom bans 8 states ban gender marker changes on DLs 25 ban gender affirming care for trans youth
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Friends of the Boundary Waters @bwca.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
🚨 BREAKING: The Minnesota DNR just canceled one of Twin Metals' state mineral leases. This is a HUGE win, and it happened because of YOU! Tens of thousands of you made calls and flooded the DNR's and the governor's inboxes, demanding action. Thank you for showing up for the Boundary Waters. 💚
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Prison Policy Initiative @prisonpolicy.org · 12/09/2026
"Our handwritten letters turned into ones that are expensive, typed, mass-surveilled by private corporations, and held indefinitely by the carceral state to be accessed by anyone in corrections at any time for any reason."
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Abandon All Connection, Ye Who Enter Here: Digitized Prison Mail as Repression and Surveillance – Scalawag
Suddenly, prison mail is expensive, typed, mass-surveilled by private corporations, and held indefinitely by the carceral state.
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Rachel Hall-Clifford, PhD, MPH, MSc @rahallclifford.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I was so inspired by meeting Joshua last year. Check him out!
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Richard Vallée @richardvallee.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
To put into perspective how little has been done, about $2B of research on Long Covid has yielded less than the institutionally-sabotaged research on ME/CFS did with crumbs. Not a single useful thing has come out of LC research yet. Not even a single bit, tt has effectively been entirely wasted.
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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Have seen this Nature piece about the effects of X's algorithm mentioned again and it bears repeating; exposure to a right wing algorithm makes you - measurably and predictably - more right wing, even after you stop using it. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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The political effects of X’s feed algorithm - Nature
Among users initially on a chronological feed, 7 weeks of exposure to X’s algorithmic feed in 2023 shifted political attitudes and account-following behaviour in a more conservative direction compared...
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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
11/ "Earlier today, AI researcher Jacob Coxon, who spent the past three years working at OpenAI and Anthropic, publicly resigned from Anthropic, warning that both companies are racing toward superintelligence and “gambling with our lives. x.com/yashar/statu...
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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
10/"Do not underestimate the power of this technology. These will soon be superhuman systems that can hack anything, revolutionize any field overnight, & acquire real power and resources. We have all witnessed the progress in each of these domains, and progress is not slowing" x.com/hilbertspaes...
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David Tuller @davetuller1.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Anil van der Zee @anilvanderzee.bsky.social received a Dutch royal distinction last week! Congrats, dear Anil!! Very well-deserved. I was asked to write a letter in support of the honor and was so pleased to do it. I've posted the letter here: virology.ws/2026/09/02/t...
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Trial By Error: Patient Advocate Anil van der Zee Receives Dutch Royal Distinction | Virology Blog
By David Tuller, DrPHLast month, I was delighted to hear that my friend Anil van der Zee, who has been bed bound with ME/CFS for years, had been selected to ...
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
The title really says it all.
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Nicole Rust @nicolecrust.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Not stated strongly enough.
Without notifying Congress or the American people, DoD has signed an interagency agreement that could give the Department access to billions of dollars that Congress provided to NIH for critical biomedical research. These funds were provided to support research to develop treatments or cures for infectious diseases such as influenza, malaria, tuberculosis, HIV, Ebola, and other dangerous pathogens.
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Heidi Siegmund Cuda — Bette Dangerous @heidicuda.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Lithuania - A Model of Resilience French historian and disinformation analyst David Colon offers an inspiring report on the ‘whole of society’ measures Lithuania is taking to combat Russian interference open.substack.com/pub/heidicud...
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Lithuania - A Model of Resilience
French historian and disinformation analyst David Colon offers an inspiring report on the ‘whole of society’ measures Lithuania is taking to combat Russian interference
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U of Utah Dept of Biochemistry @uofubiochem.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Don't miss Thursday's seminar by Dr. Greg Ducker @duckerlab.bsky.social entitled "Follow the Carbon: From Molecules to Mechanisms of Disease." Thurs Sept 3, 12pm in HSEB 1750!
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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
On #LongCovid and profiling my colleague @julialmv.bsky.social @smithsonianmag.bsky.social www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/m...
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For Many Americans, Covid Is Still a Chronic, Disabling Disease. These Scientists Are Working Tirelessly to Bring Them Relief
Long Covid saps the strength and vitality of patients, who have little recourse to fight it. A team of specialists—including an afflicted researcher working mostly from her bed—is looking for answers
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Billy Hanlon @bhanlon15.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
CT Mirror: 'Opinion: 'Congress can finally make progress on this chronic disease' 'The disease is myalgic encephalomyelitis..or ME/CFS: a serious neuroimmune, neuroinflammatory illness..' By Dr. Subramani Seetharama, Hartford Hospital & UConn School of Medicine ctmirror.org/2026/08/31/c...
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Opinion: Congress can finally make progress on this chronic disease
Chronic fatigue syndrome affects 38,000 people in Connecticut. Now there's a roadmap to help them.
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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
One of the most important discoveries about our brain in many years! erictopol.substack.com/p/two-landma...
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Two Landmark Studies Challenge Dogma About our Brain Immune Cells and Aging
Lead Authors Julia Belk and Nathan Zemke Discuss and Translate their Findings
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Jonathan C Slaght @jonathanslaght.com · 31/08/2026
"blueberries can make up to 83 percent of the diet of wolves living in and around Voyageurs National Park during July and August, when it’s more difficult to catch deer and beaver" www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
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From poop to plants, how wolves help blueberries grow and spread in northern Minnesota
A new study shows how wolf digestion in northern Minnesota helps accelerate the growth of blueberries, and may help spread their seeds across the landscape.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
US military leaders have warned Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth that prolonging large-scale operations against Iran is unsustainable and risks weakening the military’s ability to confront threats elsewhere, including threats to the US homeland. 1/
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Military leaders warn Hegseth against extending Iran war operations — The Washington Post
A recent classified assessment advised that prolonged large-scale operations in the Middle East risk weakening U.S. capabilities elsewhere.
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ME/CFS Science @mecfsscience.org · 30/08/2026
1) 🇳🇱 In the Netherlands, ME/CFS patient and advocate Anil Van Der Zee was appointed Knight in the Order of Orange-Nassau. It's an recognition of his outstanding contribution to society, a very high honour.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
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