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As a pediatrician, she helped elevate breastfeeding from a medical afterthought to a specialty of its own. As a mother of nine, she practiced what she preached www.nytimes.com/2025/10/23/h...

Will be advertising a PhD studentship on this topic soon. Do get in touch if you are interested.

Nobel Prize winning science being cancelled by a vaccine denier.

After a team of talented teenage baseball players from Venezuela swept through a qualifying tournament in Mexico last month, it seemed they were bound for the Senior League World Series in the U.S. But the team was denied the visas necessary to attend, Little League Baseball International said.

There is currently an NWS flash flood warning in effect for all five boroughs of NYC. But no City agency has posted it on this platform. Please help spread the word. “If you live in a basement apartment or low-lying area, be ready to move to higher ground.”

When history marks the point where we lost the future to China, this will be it.

We can overcome today’s global environmental challenges, but only with the best and brightest professionals on our team. UNEP constantly seeks qualified individuals across various fields who are willing to serve humanity & the planet. See vacancies here: bit.ly/3IMDbge

“We've arranged a society based on science and technology, in which nobody understands anything about science and technology. And this combustible mixture of ignorance and power, sooner or later, is going to blow up in our faces.” ~ Carl Sagan

FDR--who calmed an economic panic, pulled us from the Depression, and built the great alliance that won WWII--died 80 years ago this weekend. Just saying.

Love this so much!! people.com/kermit-the-f...

Are there any Dems in Utah who can stand up for the good folks in Ogden ? Their town could soon face their own Great Recession

To see why destroying the US science enterprise is so detrimental to the world, we have to realize that the US spends more on research and development than any other country in the world (by far), and if we remove China and Japan, the US spends almost as much as ALL other countries combined.

"Until this weekend..." www.nytimes.com/live/2025/03...

A top economics reporter goes off script on national TV: “I am going to say this at risk of my job, but what President Trump is doing is insane.”

A lot can happen in five months. 🇺🇸

If only some of this had been foreseeable before the election, the WSJ edit page might have been able to warn its readers.

We were so naive when we thought that Ivanka posing with a can of Goya black beans was bad.

Trump Says Recession Unfortunate But Necessary Step To Get To Depression theonion.com/trump-s...

Heads up! The @ipcc.bsky.social is calling for nominations for Lead Authors and Review Editors for its 7th Assessment Report. More about how to become an author or review editor here 👉 bit.ly/4krWMTu More on the nomination process here 👉 bit.ly/AR7Nm Submissions close Apr 17, 2025.

After taking unprecedented (illegal) access to federal data systems, DOGE has found basically no substantial waste, fraud, or abuse. They've lied a lot but come up quite empty in reality.

The coolest thing I’ve seen today is that a bunch of volunteer public health professionals and developers have restored the CDC website from before January 20th 2025. This differs from an archive in that they want to rebuild the links between pages and replicate the full website.

“Transitioning” from 50 straight months of job growth, a 400% rise in manufacturing construction and the best back-to-back years for the stock market in a quarter century. 🤡

Good job, Elon 🙄

Israel, Saudi Arabia, and the 4 other members of the Five Eyes spy alliance—Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom—are reportedly examining whether to continue including America in international intelligence.

NEW: The National Endowment for Democracy is suing the Trump administration for freezing $239 million in funds. NED has put on leave 75% of its staff as its programs die. We spoke with Roskam and Martinez, 2 former Republican lawmakers on its board: www.nytimes.com/2025/03/05/u...

UK defence spending is about to boom – can British firms step up?

Trump’s withdrawal of foreign aid and dismantling USAID will cause annually: 18 million cases of malaria, 166k deaths; 200k children paralyzed with polio; 1 million children not treated for severe acute malnutrition, often fatal; >28k new cases of diseases such as Ebola and Marburg Why? Why??

KREMLIN SAYS WASHINGTON NOW LARGELY ALIGNS WITH RUSSIA Sees tension between the United States and Ukraine, laid bare in Trump-Zelensky meeting, as an unexpected, potentially transformative "gift" @francescaebel.bsky.social reports from Moscow www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

Richest guy in the world telling us we can’t afford to have our government fund cancer research.

From today’s pro-Ukraine rally in Irondequoit, NY. Ukraine is not alone. #SlavaUkraini

no, really. must watch.

An estimated 300,000 children globally are expected to lose access to a nutrient-dense peanut butter that’s specially formulated to treat severe acute malnutrition.

Follow the money.

Trump is doing exactly what he was elected to do when he tanks the economy, causes epidemics, cuts Medicaid, destroys freedom of the press, and facilitates genocide in Ukraine and Gaza.

Important: A *Republican* Congressman, Austin Scott, just wrote to Marco Rubio urging him to address the problems I reported on below that are putting lifesaving treatment for severely malnourished children abroad at risk. He joins Dem Rep Seth Magaziner. Horrific stuff:

A 44-year-old Ukrainian man died in a local hospital while in the custody of Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Miami’s Krome Detention Center, the federal government said.

Breaking: FDA's March meeting to select flu shot strains for 2025-2026 season has been canceled per email sent to committee members, a VRBPAC member told me. drug companies need about 6 months leeway to make shots in time for fall vax campaigns. #healthpolicy

Cancelled Amazon Prime. We had been a member for at least 15 years, possibly 20…

Breaking News: President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine said that he would step down if his country could join NATO. His remark came days after President Trump questioned his legitimacy and called him a “dictator,” echoing a Kremlin talking point. nyti.ms/3Qur4ab

Duckworth: "He essentially just surrendered to Putin."

Blumenthal: "What world is he living in? It is not only contrary to the facts and the truth but utterly despicable. A disgusting betrayal of a country that has bled and fought and died for freedom ... the president's surrender is pathetic and weak."

This negotiation between the US and Russia, and cutting out Ukraine, is just like when Trump cut out Afghanistan and negotiated with Taliban. We see how that “good deal” turned out. Afghanistan was on Trump Every Trump deal fails

New York Times is hiring for two climate reporter jobs — descriptions/how to apply at the links: 1) Climate policy reporter: nytimes.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/NYT/de... 2) Climate adaptation reporter: nytimes.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/NYT/de...

BERNIE: “Elon Musk, the richest guy in the world, is going after USAID, which feeds the poorest people in the world. Next, he’ll go after the programs that impact you: Medicaid, Medicare, community health centers, Pell Grants, affordable housing.” Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DF3FXK6...