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Jane Palmer

@tjanepalmer.bsky.social
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Science, environment and health journalist. Lover of nature and the outdoors (she/her).

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Josh Sternberg @joshsternberg.com · 29/09/2025
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has reported 1,514 measles cases as of Sept. 24, the highest number of annual cases since the United States declared measles eliminated in 2000. Gift link. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Tracking U.S. Measles Outbreaks (Gift Article)
As new cases are reported, our maps show the spread of the virus.
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jay pico @jpco.io · 30/09/2025
‘tis the season
some fir-cone mushrooms growing out of a Douglas-fir cone
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Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative (DNDi) @dndi.org · 30/09/2025
Scientists tested how the body processes acoziborole, a potential single-dose cure for sleeping sickness. It’s well absorbed and slowly cleared via the gut. A step forward in the fight against this deadly neglected disease. ⤵️ journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...
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Mass balance, pharmacokinetics, metabolism, and excretion of radiolabeled acoziborole, a potential novel treatment for human African trypanosomiasis, following single microtracer oral dose to humans |...
Acoziborole (SCYX-7158) is a first-in-class oxaborole 6-carboxamide derivative active against Trypanosoma brucei (T.b.) gambiense and rhodesiense, the parasites responsible for human African trypanoso...
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Jane Palmer @tjanepalmer.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Indigenous people were making stone tools on Vancouver Island up to 14,000 years ago. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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The Tsalwadi Site: Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene Stone Tool Industries on the Lower Woss River, Vancouver Island, Canada
The Tsalwadi Archaeology Site (EbSp-9) has components that date to the terminal Pleistocene and early Holocene. It is situated on relict terraces and scroll bars of the Woss River on north-central ...
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Jane Palmer @tjanepalmer.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
My favorite morning activity is looking through the back yard webcam and seeing who has paid us a visit. Not quite sure about this visit though - seemed like the bear was making a statement #bears
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Jane Palmer @tjanepalmer.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
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EPA tells some scientists to stop publishing studies, employees say
Staff from the EPA’s Office of Water were summoned to a town hall meeting this week and told to pause the publication of most research, pending a review.
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RSPB @rspb.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
It’s a fond #FlyDay farewell: Puffins are leaving our shores and vanishing into the blue once more... See you next Spring! 😍
A Puffin in flight, wings outstretched and orange feet tucked beneath it. Its colourful beak and black-and-white plumage stand out against a soft blue backdrop of sea and sky. In the lower corner, blurred wildflowers perch on a clifftop, hinting at the coastal setting.
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Nature Portfolio @natureportfolio.nature.com · 08/08/2025
A paper in Nature Aging discusses how diet affects long term health conditions in Swedish older adults, with possible implications for dietary guidelines, public health strategies, and clinical practices. go.nature.com/47cI3aA #medsky 🧪 🍎📃
Fig. 1: Association between the cumulative adherence to dietary patterns and the yearly rate of total chronic disease accumulation during a 15-year follow-up (N = 2,473).
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Jane Palmer @tjanepalmer.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
Trauma is carried in your DNA. But science reveals a more complicated story theconversation.com/trauma-is-ca...
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Trauma is carried in your DNA. But science reveals a more complicated story
While trauma can ripple across generations, its effects aren’t hard-coded in our genes.
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Jane Palmer @tjanepalmer.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
In my attempts to unplug yesterday I didn't take my phone on my morning hike. Then I saw these guys. My walk turned into a quick run to find someone with a phone - so long since I've seen two together like this. Of course, they would show up just as I'm writing a story about bears #bears
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