Sad! But a happy ending at least... www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/20...

The current Ridglan foster girl has finally found her beagle appetite, thank goodness. She’s tiny — makes my other average-sized beagle, look huge by comparison. My task is to put a few pounds on her before she’s adopted next week.

News from #ASCO26. Personalized mRNA melanoma vaccine shows durable benefit at 5 years. This follows news at #AACR26 that a pancreatic cancer vaccine lowers recurrence risk at 6 years. mRNA technology looks like a winner for reducing cancer relapse. www.cancerhealth.com/article/pers...

Elon cut funding for Ebola prevention. Then it was never fully restored. Now there's an Ebola outbreak. This isn’t just a little mistake. It’s a major screwup that could cost thousands of people their lives.

NASA Astronaut Jessica Meir aboard the ISS earlier today “There is a lot going on right now on the Space Station, but fortunately we are all safe and witnessed a spectacular southern aurora show yesterday thanks to a recent solar event.”

"Real streets are full of administrative residue. House numbers. Doorbells. Intercoms. Mail slots. business stickers. parking signs. waste collection markings. utility covers. drain logic. street-name plaques...ugly details that were not placed there for aesthetics."

Having had 11 beagles, I’ve never seen one more reluctant to eat than our current Ridglan foster girl. She’s joined the begging brigade — she must figure if the others are so enthused, it must be good — but she stops midway through her bowl when she’s full, a concept unknown to most beagles.

A study on alcohol's health risks that was paid for by taxpayers but never released is now out – in a scientific journal. New: www.statnews.com/2026/06/09/s...

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journalism is important, and it is accordingly important that the news is not controlled by billionaires.

New: the FCC is trying to ban burner phones by forcing all telecoms to store ID information on all new and renewing customers. That includes a government issued ID number. Massive privacy-impacting change “We never thought that would happen here,” the ACLU says www.404media.co/fcc-wants-to...

Don’t like what I’m seeing — or rather, *not* seeing — at NIAID.😕

“Did you feel the earthquake?” isn’t something this Californian expected to be asking my family in Florida.😯 Looks like they’re rating it at 6.1 now, but still major & without recorded recent precedent in this region. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Maybe now that a dog is affected, the public at large will care.

Just need everyone to know that the Belgium men's soccer team has new jerseys based on the art of Rene Magritte and this is the official photo shoot

"Coverage decisions around GLP-1s highlight the worst features of our health system—complexity, fragmentation, inequity, and misaligned incentives... decisions should follow the science, and government should use its leverage to make .. health care affordable." www.healthaffairs.org/content/fore...

Great to hear that US doctor Peter Stafford has recovered from #Ebola and has been discharged from care. serge.org/blog/america...

AURORA ALERT: a strong solar storm could bring the northern lights to much of the U.S. tonight (Sunday, June 7) into early Monday morning. NOAA has issued a G3 ("strong") storm watch. Aurora may reach the northern states and into the central U.S. Details in this thread. #heliophysics

NEW: Major posts are vacant. Waves of scientists are gone. Ebola looms. My look at how RFK Jr. manages HHS: “If the C.E.O. lacked deep expertise in the company’s business and the leaders of its most important divisions were missing, investors would revolt." www.nytimes.com/2026/06/07/u...

I'll have A LOT of retatrutide thoughts. Alot. But these cardiometabolic improvements are stunning. 40% drop in triglycerides, 20% drop in LDL. 63% drop in hsCRP, 12 point reduction in BP. It's not a stretch to imagine this drug massively reducing death from CVD and CKD all on its own.

The adventure continues… Of the 135 beagles newly released from Ridglan, 9 came to the SF Bay Area today. The tiny one is a short-term guest until her family picks her up. She’s only 1 year old — super curious & adventurous, but shy. The other is from the last group & needs some extra TLC.

Beautiful eruption minutes ago from AR 4461. Associated with a large filament snacking through the active region and an M1.86 flare. Not sure this AR will have much left after this large event since the filament has released. Possible Earth-directed components with this CME!

Those agendas and biases can be anything! Case in point: you think the fruit in the garden of eden was an apple because a guy translating the story into Latin wanted to make a pun.

This doesn’t surprise me at all: New England, the Scandinavian-heritage upper Midwest & Utah. With the Southeast generally rated worst.

#SevenDaysinJune candlelight vigil tonight in the Castro. On the 45th anniversary of the first medical report of AIDS, advocates gathered to remember those lost, celebrate long-term survivors & oppose cuts to local, federal & global funding for HIV prevention, treatment & care.

Today, June 5th, marks HIV Long-Term Survivors Awareness Day #HLTSAD, a day that honors long-term survivors of HIV and raises awareness about their needs, issues, and journeys. June 5th was chosen because it is the date in 1981 that the CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR)...

Taxpayers fund much of the research. Authors don't get paid for their articles & peer reviewers aren't paid for their time & expertise. Editing, production, websites & printing cost something, but charging this much to allow access is unconscionable. www.medpagetoday.com/washington-w...

HIV at 45: The evolution of HIV prevention and treatment is among the most remarkable stories in medical history, but while antiretrovirals & PrEP for prevention have steadily improved, an HIV vaccine & a functional cure remain elusive. www.ebar.com/story/166844/

Useful explainer. Reminds me of when I was studying AI as an undergrad in the early’80s — we got an allocation of compute time on the mainframe at the start of the semester & had to plead our case if we ran out & needed more. techcrunch.com/2026/06/05/t...

Reposting from Facebook because I do not have the energy to reformat for BlueSky. Bottom line is something has to change with this Bz or it’s going to be a long night. But, that change could come, we’ll just have to see. Gn!

Only in San Francisco crime… “After breaking into a yoga studio in San Francisco and stealing activewear, a burglar made his getaway in an autonomous Waymo…”

NEW The FDA has launched a study of the safety of the abortion pill. The effort was kicked into high gear after complaints from anti-abortion advocates and an October court deadline. Results are expected at the end of the year. (After the midterm elections.) 🎁🔗 www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Very sad to hear of the passing of MARJANE SATRAPI. A lot of the 'graphic novels' produced since the format became popular, really are collections, not 'novels' at all. Persepolis was something special. A novel that lived in my mind long, long after I read it. A very sad loss.

Countries with centralized health systems & anonymized national databases — like the UK Biobank — are troves of valuable information, but this is just a fishing expedition. Do you trust RFK Jr with your personal health info? And if so, would you trust the next Democrat appointee?

🐾 GREAT NEWS: Another 135 beagles are being released from Ridglan Farms this week, and BFP will oversee the placement of 68 of them as they begin their journey to loving homes!❤️ Check out this video from the Ridglan Release earlier this month: www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3lI...

Trump is dismantling a $368 million ocean monitoring system that took a decade to build and was designed to run for 25 years. When we need answers about our oceans and our climate, this network is where we get them.

I spent more time on this piece than almost anything else I've written in the last year. Building a better, more decentralized internet is an inherent necessity if you want a functioning democracy. I hope people find it a useful encapsulation of where we're at. www.liberalism.org/p/enshittifi...

A company that makes a no-tech, repairable tractor is having trouble keeping up with demand from farmers sick of John Deere's repair monopoly and simply want a tractor that turns on and works: www.404media.co/demand-is-bo...

The biohackers subreddit banned all posts about peptides and HRT because peptide companies were spamming + manipulating the sub in order to manipulate Google AI and ChatGPT answers. Very insidious industry that is drastically changing the internet www.404media.co/companies-ar...

Impressive! NOAA has modeled the recent CMEs, and impact could be in just over 24 hr from now! Tomorrow night (Thursday) we could see G3 / Kp 7 conditions and widespread auroral displays. Impact slated for 18 UT / 1 pm CDT June 4. Charge those batteries!

The Sun has really woken up today, with some beautiful edge-on filament eruptions addition to the Earth-directed solar flares we just experienced. Our local star is certainly beautiful!

This is weird. Yeah, a segment of gay men are -- & have been for decades -- fans of HD motorcycles, but this "woke" accusation seems to have come out of nowhere. substack.com/inbox/post/2...

Rubio tosses RFK Jr under the bus on vaccines: "The State Dept made the decision that we are going to reengage ... we have certainly allowed Sec. Kennedy to play a leading role, but right now we're at a stage where we are going to reengage."

ICYMI (I did): #FDA has accepted the recommendation of its expert panel, #VRBPAC & recommended that Covid-19 vaccine manufacturers make a monovalent targeting the JN.1 lineage XFG variant. How will #CDC handle the change? It would normally go to #ACIP but it's in limbo. www.fda.gov/vaccines-blo...

Happy Pride Month. If you're a gay man, please remember your power. People often think that gay men are innately fashionable, which means if you wear some stupid shit for long enough, straight people, including homophobes, will copy you and then you can laugh at them.

Good morning, here is an update on the state of the Sun today. The main headline is the coronal hole facing Earth, but the sunspot number is also > 100, and the whole disk has a 25% chance for M-flares. We may see higher geomagnetic activity (Kp 4-5) around June 3-4 due to the coronal hole.

When I was studying AI in the early ‘80s, most assumed you couldn’t do natural language or AI by brute-force pattern matching because there wasn’t enough compute capacity. We got an allocation of time on the mainframe at the start of the semester & had to plead our case if we needed more. Well…

A lot of people aren’t paying much attention to COVID any more, but it’s good to have a post-exposure prophylaxis option. www.shionogi.com/global/en/ne...

Some of us are approaching retirement & don’t have years to recover from someone else’s poor decisions.😡

Got another video of our former Ridglan foster in her new home. Based on her appearance & behavior, I think she has some hunting beagle blood. I wonder how a hunting phenotype made its way into Ridglan's breeding stock? I presume she was born there.