Bacteria found in Target baby wipes could be life-threatening to infants; recall underway

You are only a real New Yorker if you grew up in the sewers under the city with your Italian-named brothers and were raised by a mutant Japanese rat and trained in the martial arts.

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

There are currently more bills attacking trans youth’s right to play sports across the U.S. than there are trans youth in school sports.

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For the #scientists here: who has experience hosting “artists in residence” or commissioning work from artists? #sciart

But Trump ran on bringing down food prices! So on Feb 1 2025, he re-opened US ports to cattle imports from Mexico. Then in March, he canceled a screwworm monitoring program. So we have even less info on where it is & how serious it's getting. www.agri-pulse.com/articles/226...

What’s funny to me about gaffes like this is they are such own goals. Your state’s one hockey team has made it to the championship round for the first time in *20* years. Your campaign can’t find one real photo of a star player looking cool? The thing sports photographers specialize in? Really?

The only message not voting sends to a politician is that your opinion can be safely ignored because you will never hold them accountable. That's it. You can tell yourself not voting is good for your personal brand or your moral well being, but never pretend it makes a difference in the real world.

My uncle is going to eat mac and cheese for the first time tonight and it’s going to be the stuff my sister makes. He is going to be ruined. Nothing he has after this will come close. I would feel bad for him except for the fact that he’s in for an absolute treat.

@declanwalsh.bsky.social reports from a Congolese town overwhelmed by the Bundibugyo virus. Gift link: nyti.ms/4vhUZoz

One of my strongest takeaways from the Bee this week is that it was a showcase for why critical thinking matters more than ever. So much of what the kids do up there isn’t rote memorization—it’s using their insane prep to solve words like puzzles (using etymology, patterns) in real time.

Summary of Key Changes in OMB’s Proposed Federal Financial Assistance Rule. Russell Vought is going destroy American Science. elizabethginexi.substack.com/p/summary-of...

You can’t beat ‘em? Join ‘em.

Would really like to understand the rationale here

So many things are possible just as long as you don't know they're impossible.

Taking a moment this Memorial Day to reflect on the service and sacrifice of people who fought against tyranny and terrorism, especially those who fought and died for a country they called home but which didn’t see them as full human beings.

the world needs more guinea pig cartographers

Every summer I repost this article on how to spot drowning. Please read it and pass on. In the last few years I’ve had SIX messages from people who saved a kid’s life after clicking on the link from my feed. slate.com/technology/2...

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Scully claims it’s a “three hour drive” from Atlantic City to DC in Friday night traffic. Unless the roads and traffic have changed a lot in the last 30 years, that means she’s driving like a speed demon.

The movies get it wrong. Drowning happens quickly and silently. Always watch kids closely at pools and spas.

Thinking of new swears to avoid using canonically “bad” words. Current idea: Cheese and crackers!

Hey ocean friends! 🌊 Apply to be a 2027 Knauss fellow! Spend a year working in Congress to advance science, research & evidence-based policy. You are needed! I was in the class of 2006 serving in the U.S. Senate & it fundamentally changed my life. seagrant.noaa.gov/communities/... #science

What #MAGA needs to remember about #whatmakesAmericagreat

Have I done this too? Oh yes.

Yo, this is really on point. Back in my days at VOA I watched the Arab Spring unfold in real time, from DC, via video. Some of the on-the-ground footage I watched from Syria haunts me to this day.

this account is run by a human at NASA JPL who only posts real images with their receipts. it only has 11k followers compared to the 200k the ai slop space account has

Happy National Library Week to whoever did this.

Honestly this is what worries me so much about “AI overviews.” If I can’t trust the sourcing is vetted then I can’t trust the output.

My intern pondered whether he would become more conservative as he got older. I told him I’ve become more liberal as I’ve aged. Because the more I understand how the world works, incl how awful conditions are too often awful by choice, the more I embrace ideas calling for radical, positive change.

SPLASHDOWN!!! Welcome home ArtemisII

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What an amazing day filled with science & Moon joy! I’ll be painting Artemis pics the rest of the week if you want to follow along! I’ll sprinkle in some planetary science for you too 🫶

As much as I miss Elliot Cadeau playing at UNC (just imagine what he and Wilson could have done this season), he’s crushing it at Michigan and I really hope he gets a national championship.

We can do such amazing things; they make us so much better. And we are doing so few of them compared to what we could choose to do.

Oh shit the Moon *was* haunted

That little sliver on the right? That’s the Earth. Home. Where all of humanity is on or in orbit except four people who are currently ABOVE THE DARK SIDE OF THE MOON.

As a space and science nerd it’s very hard for me to somehow just keeping working while this is happening in real time

Apollo record surpassed!!! Way to go Integrity and Artemis II!!!!

Good morning everyone today is MOON DAY 🚀🌖🥰 #Artemis

Watching the excellence of UCLA’s seniors makes me miss the days when the men’s side also built real teams for the long haul and didn’t settle for one-and-dones and single-season transfer portal players. Way to go Bruins!!

I highly recommend putting this NASA #Artemis II mission livestream on and just leaving it playing as you go about your weekend. Live views of the spacecraft, occasional visualizations of the current config, views of the control room, space-ground radio audio. www.youtube.com/live/m3kR2KK...

It’s remarkable how much chapter 1 rings true today re: biotechnology and regulation. Like nothing has really changed in over 30 years.

I painted the new image of Earth from Artemis!

Can you read English cursive? Ever wanted to volunteer from the comfort of home for a useful cause? Have I got an offer for you... The Newberry Library in Chicago is always in need of transcribers to help decipher historical handwritten documents. If this is you, learn more about it below:

Trans lunar injection!!! First time with a crewed spacecraft since 1972… #ArtemisII

❗Early-career researchers: The deadline to apply for an Early Career Representative seat on FASEB’s Board or Science Policy Committee is this Friday, April 3. Add your voice to decisions shaping biological and biomedical research ➡️ buff.ly/Pb5s9fc

During the early phase of the Covid-19 pandemic, I taught a series of courses on basic epidemiology for journalists My course materials are still available! www.teachepi.org/courses/epid...