Amazing how the world can’t escape the saga of the Koh-i-Noor diamond and its serpentine journey through history and empires. I came to appreciate its legend from @anitaanand.bsky.social & @willdalrymple.bsky.social and their @empirepoduk.bsky.social.

Gerrymandering for dummies.

This is a set of frames of the surface of Comet 67P taken by the Rosetta mission on 1 June 2016. The particles in the foreground are bits of dust and ice or cosmic rays effects. The "waterfall" of points moving in the background are stars.

As the son of Indian immigrants, I take great pride in both my heritage and in the country that gave my family the opportunity to build a better life. The comments shared by Trump on Truth Social about Indian immigrants are offensive, ignorant, and beneath the dignity of the office he holds.

Indian American historian here and so guys I checked this is real. Trump posted an article that called India a “hellhole” and Asian Americans “gangsters with laptops” or maybe I am just a lady gangster with my i phone! And now the justice dept wants to denaturalize foreign born citizens!

Still feel like "Musk and his crew of incels destroyed a bunch of stuff they didn't understand and thereby hastened the deaths of millions of children" did not get the public attention it warranted.

U.S. infectious disease research is on the brink. Without immediate action from Congress, much of it will cease to exist within a year. For example👇 1️⃣ No collaborative RFAs posted for >1 year (normal: many / year). 2️⃣ No foreign collaborators allowed on grants. 🧪🪦 www.idsociety.org/globalassets...

Climate news stories across the globe have dropped nearly 40% since 2021, notes @maxboykoff.bsky.social, director of UC Boulder’s Media and Climate Change Observatory. www.loe.org/shows/segmen...

NEW: A new pre-print study offers the first causal evidence that outsourcing reasoning tasks to AI can rapidly erode users' independent performance AND their will to persist despite difficulty. "People’s persistence drops... they’re also not willing to try without AI.” futurism.com/artificial-i...

Texas' only licensed Hindi, Punjabi, and Urdu legal interpreter is now languishing in a Raymondville detention center. She’s lived in America for 35 years: www.texasobserver.org/immigration-...

WTF. Details are worse than the headline

Here's a fine "how do you do" the day before Tax Day...

There is hope!

If you’ve never heard of her then you don’t realize her impact on popular music was as big (or bigger?) than any global pop star of the time. Absolute legend…

This is insane… Second Venezuelan Doctor Detained in South Texas by Immigration Agents www.nytimes.com/2026/04/11/u...

In case you need some background:…

Last year, Dr. Ezequiel Véliz was named 2025 Resident of the Year at UT Health, Rio Grande Valley. Last week, ICE detained him in McAllen, Texas—ripping him away from his family, his life, and his patients.

The images of Earth from Artemis are amazing. But if we destroy our ability to understand (and live on) our planet, all they are is pretty pictures www.nytimes.com/2026/04/08/o...

It was the best of times. It was the worst of times…

This is a refreshing clip for today

The president’s communication, which unfortunately officially represents us as a people, is unacceptable. We cannot become desensitized to this. We must remember that we’re better than this. We have to enforce a bare minimum of human decency and empathy. The pendulum will swing back one day I hope.

Trump’s Immigration Policy Sidelines Foreign Doctors Amid Shortage www.nytimes.com/2026/04/04/u...

The. Rise. Of. Cognitive. Surrender. Study finds that people who use GenAI chatbots rely on them 80% of the time, and develop almost no capacity to recognize when a chatbot is feeding them faulty information. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

This clip is a stark warning. The future of the U.S., currently the most prosperous nation on earth, is precariously balanced between choosing to prioritize the health and growth of our people or the continued expansion of the military-industrial complex. Hopefully we’re not beyond the tipping point

This is my favorite climate change chart. Japanese monks, aristocrats, and emperors kept meticulous records of cherry blossom festivals for 1,200 years and accidentally built the world's longest climate dataset.

Well, this just about wrecked me.

UConn just pulled a Laettner on Duke!

I was a freshman with the Michigan #FabFive and as much as I love those guys, this may be the most well rounded Michigan basketball team ever. On to the #FinalFour. Go Blue!

This sounds fine...🫣

This is something you say only if you are completely ignorant about what healthcare costs. The fact that no advisor has been willing or able to explain this to him says a lot about him, his administration, and the credulity of the mainstream media (which should be calling him on this nonsense)

If we want World Cup glory, this isn’t going to cut it @usmnt.ussoccer.com. 75 days to figure this out!

Thank you for your service

Is it just me or is the World Cup turf grass looking stressed at this ATLUTD match at the Benz? @robusry.bsky.social @soccerwithdoug.bsky.social @scarvesandspikes.com @fivestripefinal.bsky.social

This is an incredible documentation of the systematic, intentional collapse of American health science, by Elizabeth Ginexi. open.substack.com/pub/elizabet...

“All wars are a choice, and they hasten destruction of people and the planet. A redoubled counter movement from civil society and global health communities is needed to make health the fight of our lives. Health is a bridge to peace, and peace a prerequisite for health” @jocalynclark.bsky.social

Friends keep friends from…becoming a Cybertruck person

Almost all side effects on statin labels not caused by statins, finds major meta-analysis; authors call for labels to be updated. Find out more 👉 spkl.io/63329AsNWb

All of this is entirely disqualifying for both Makary and Means. Natural sunlight does NOT prevent death from measles or being paralyzed from polio. Lifespans have never been longer due to amazing scientific advancements, but reality TV culture will tear it all down through the empowerment of quacks

This week’s main story is about Twitter. Or “X” if you’re a hall monitor. How it went from bad to worse under Elon Musk, how it’s impacting us all, and why there’s exactly one account there that we’re still fine with.

Unbelievable Olympic hockey game. Americans & Canadians played one for the ages. Canadians blow us out if not for Hellebuyck! 🥅 🥇

Interesting op-ed balancing poetry & pragmatism of the heart. “We follow our hearts, have affairs of the heart, open our hearts, & give our hearts to our lovers. Nobody wants our spleens or our kidneys.” Ouch! But how did the plot escalate a Mediterranean diet to a cardiac cath? Something’s missing?

This is such terrible advice that I should use it to update my example of when stretching your y-axis is misleading, and truncating your y-axis is fine. Hint: Only a fraction of people in a trial will get infected regardless.

Five years after the rollout of Covid-19 vaccines started, it seems the mystery of why the Astra-Zeneca and J&J vaccines led to a rare but deadly side effect of unusual blood clots and bleeding has finally been solved. 
 It's a fascinating case of molecular mimicry that may help make vaccine safer.🧪

RIP to a man who helped save countless number of lives...and was fiercely opposed to the current war on science and public health

We need to stop our government's lies. We need to stop the killing. We need to stop our government's lies about the killing. This man may have represented the best of us. Only to be killed by what may be the worst of us. Enough is enough.

This is what a rocket launch looks like from space.

this baseball game...