HPV vaccines have NOTHING to do with “parental values”, as RFK Jr.’s surrogate claims. You could have sex with a single partner—your spouse—and become infected. If your parental values include a desire for your child to die from a vaccine preventable disease, your values need an adjustment.

UK teenage girls say misogyny, harassment and online abuse shape their daily lives. This BBC article describes teenage girls experiences in their own words. Often life is described as being shaped through boys’ expectations, behaviour and scrutiny.

Gestatten, Kurt W. Zimmermann (l.), der Unwahrsager der „Weltwoche“. Er behauptete, er sei der einzige, der den Gewinner der Ungarn-Wahl richtig vorhersage – und setzte dann auf Viktor Orbán. 😉 @niggi.bsky.social über ein Dokument grotesker Selbstüberschätzung. (Abo)

Yes it could be argued that keeping up with world events is important but alternatively can I interest you in hugging an ancient mossy boulder that looks like a face and quietly listening while it tells you stories from centuries cloaked in mist.

Proteomic profiling of brain organoids and extracellular vesicles identifies early Alzheimer's disease biomarkers and drug response heterogeneity alz-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Black Rhino (Diceros bicornis). "(Location not given to protect the rhino.) Rhino ears are highly specialized, independent sensory tools that act as radar dishes to compensate for poor eyesight. Thank you to Ann Warner for sharing your photo taken in Africa. #rhino #africa #wildlife #nature 🦏

www.reuters.com/sustainabili... JAKARTA, 31. März (Reuters) - Der Waldverlust in Indonesien stieg im Jahr 2025 um 66% und erreichte aufgrund schwacher Umweltschutzmaßnahmen und einer ehrgeizigen Kampagne zur Selbstversorgung mit Nahrungsmitteln und Energie auf die höchste Rate seit acht Jahren.

Monkeypox clade IIb lineage A.2.2 identified in the Republic of the Congo, highlighting urgent need for enhanced surveillance and public health response. by Koukouikila-Koussounda F, Kwe Yinda C (...) Roch Niama F et 14 al. in Nat Med #MedSky 👉 get more here 📖 read the article:

The Himalayan vulture showcases its striking “false eyes,” a smart adaptation that makes it look bigger and more intimidating. Original post

Susan Smith @forwomen.scot says so many people tried to write them off because they were middle aged women and they were dismissed as ‘hags’ and ‘unfanciable’. Victoria Smith's excellent book, Hags, explores the very specific reasons why this type of misogyny is so powerful today.

This year's #kakapo breeding season has been the biggest on record: - 256 eggs (252 in 2019) - 148 fertile eggs (116 in 2019) - 105 eggs hatched (86 in 2019). It'll be 2+ months until we know how many chicks will fledge (73 in 2019). There are currently 95 alive. #conservation #kakapo2026 #birds

Orbán’s intelligence agencies have been secretly using Webloc — a mass surveillance tool that tracks hundreds of millions of people via smartphone advertising data — making Hungary the first confirmed EU country to deploy it, in likely violation of GDPR. vsquare.org/orban-spying...

The number of deaths from Wednesday's Israeli strikes on Lebanon have risen to 357, according to the country's health ministry. It comes as many families continue to search through the rubble including a father who lost his daughter in the attack. youtu.be/6JcxPtYJfsA?...

The ridiculous freak-out people are having about IOC using sex tests, and men being excluded from the women's dart competition boggles the mind. So many people apparently think women don't deserve anything of their own! It makes me appreciate the women who fought for our rights even more!!

WOMEN'S SPORTS RESEARCH "...adequate funding remains an obstacle for many researchers, especially when they need to include costly hormone analyzes in studies. That creates a fractured research ecosystem with many competing, small-scale projects..."

One of my all-time favourite record covers and without doubt the best of the three albums the criminally underrated band Public Footpath recorded during the late 60s.

Sex Matters: What’s the harm? A conversation between Helen and Maya about one year on from the @forwomen.scot UK Supreme Court judgement www.sex-matters-news.org/p/fws-one-ye...

Das Wattenmeer gilt als Schlüsselraum für Millionen Vögel – doch der neue Monitoringbericht zeichnet ein alarmierendes Bild. Im Interview mit @thomaskrumenacker.bsky.social erklärt Untersuchungsleiter Kees Koffijberg, warum so viele Brutvogelarten an Bestand verlieren und was jetzt geschehen muss.

Die neue Rote Liste macht deutlich, was die Klimakrise längst zeigt: Die Antarktis gerät aus dem Gleichgewicht. Kaiserpinguin stark gefährdet. Seebär-Population halbiert. See-Elefant unter Druck. Wie viele Warnsignale brauchen wir noch?

Nach den gestrigen großangelegten Bombardierungen der israelischen Armee von Orten im gesamten #Libanon unterstützen unsere Teams dabei, die vielen Verletzten zu versorgen. Unter ihnen sind auch Kinder. Solche Angriffe in dicht besiedelten Gebieten sind absolut inakzeptabel und müssen aufhören! 1/3

Difficult to describe how unusual it is for @icrc.org to speak publicly like this. "Heavy explosive weapons with wide-area effects struck densely populated urban areas, including the capital Beirut, without effective advance warnings." ICRC Outraged by Deadly Strikes in Densely Populated Areas

‼️NEW ANGLERFISH PAPER! 🐟🎣 So excited to share the final part of my Master’s research! We explore the bizarre tacklebox of anglerfish lures and show how these fishes evolved different ways to attract prey and maybe even mates in the deep sea. 🧪🦑🌊🦇🦀 Open access paper link: doi.org/10.1643/i202...

The scale of the killing and destruction in Lebanon today, where at least 254 people have been killed by Israeli attacks, is “nothing short of horrific”, according to UN’s Human Rights chief Volker Turk. /1

Meet the science sleuths: researchers who volunteer to examine research articles for signs of fraud, manipulation and fabrication. www.chemistryworld.com/careers/how-...

NOW: B52 bombers are literally in the air on their way to Iran and hundreds of thousands of Iranians are in the streets waving flags and surrounding bridges & power plants. Difficult to imagine this has any precedent in modern warfare. (🎥 Al Jazeera)

An amazing text! I agree that “the allure of escaping womanhood would have been huge” for my younger self, given the options a sexist world was offering and my not fitting into a stereotype. Instead of eroding “woman” and their rights, we should therefore create a world that lets us live good lives.

When those from the allegedly progressive left demand that women "give up our hard won sex-based rights, they align themselves squarely with men's rights activists...female trauma is white noise, am irrelevance or else exaggerated or invented" - J.K. Rowling, 2020.

DIAMOND DeepClust: an ultrafast clustering method for organizing the protein universe of life. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Timeline cleanse, featuring the majestic sea flap-flaps (aka mobula rays). They're a migratory animal, moving from one part of the ocean to another in large groups called "fevers". They migrate to follow upwellings that enrich for zooplankton food items & to visit their breeding grounds. (📷:OCR)

🚨 NEW PERSPECTIVE️ 🩺 Sarri et al. discuss injustices in women and girls' health. They provide solutions to shape fair health policies and support women’s education and economic independence to establish equal positions in their societies.

Gender "medicine" increases psychiatric morbidity and doesn't decrease suicide risk. x.com/i/status/204...

More than 150 million lives. Saved by vaccines. Since 1974. That is health and science in action. This #WorldHealthDay, Together for Health #StandWithScience 💙

The actual finding of a sunken old boat is just the exoskeleton of the wider story in the alt text that ends up with straw people and mouse chews

NSF LTER program “archived”. LTER=“Long Term Ecological Research”. This program has been incredibly successful, incredibly frugal for what they accomplish, and…of course…targeted by evil know-nothings. My heart is breaking.

Janine Schweier will head the WSL research unit ‘Forest Resources and Management’ from 1.4.2026. Her emphasis is on the practical application of research findings to facilitate planning in the forestry sector. www.wsl.ch/en/news/new-... #Forest #Forestry #ForestManagement #ForestEcology

The April 2026 issue of #ScienceImmunology is out! This month's cover highlights how copper can "lend regulatory T cells a hand" by sustaining their metabolic fitness and peripheral immune tolerance. Learn more about this research and more: https://scim.ag/4sma5aU

Here are some rabbit-themed Wikipedia articles that might lead you somewhere you didn't expect to go. 🧵⬇️ (1/7)

Bruce and the band opened the Springsteen & E Street Land of Hope & Dreams American Tour in Minneapolis with the Motown classic "War" and "Born in the U.S.A." — a one-two punch that was live streamed on Bruce's social media for the first time, appearing here with a new audio mix by Chiller Sound.

Complete biosynthesis of psychedelic tryptamines from three kingdoms in plants www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

ICYMI: New online! Domestic violence and chronic traumatic encephalopathy — an under-recognized link

This.....finally!

PHOTO OF THE DAY: Perhaps of the greatest photos ever taken. Captured by the crew of Artemis II this morning, looking at all of us through the window of the Orion capsule. The outline of the window is faintly visible in the photo. Breathtaking. (📸 NASA)

This is horrific—horrific for those suffering from a presentation disease For those permanently maimed by this sickness For the families and communities harmed and disrupted For the immune amnesia which will cause more disease in the wake of this outbreak… 1/

Even as the measles outbreak in South Carolina seems to be over, we have another measles outbreak in Utah that is surging and breaking new records.

🐨🧬First came the reference genome. Then came the deeper story. Biodiversity genomics is helping reveal resilience and recovery across wild koala populations. 🐨 This study is a reminder that reference genomes are not the finish line, but the foundation for discovery. @bioplatformsaus.bsky.social

Menschen in der Grenzregion zwischen #Tschad und #Sudan geraten immer mehr zwischen die Fronten der Kriegsparteien. In den vergangenen zwei Monaten haben wir mit dem tschadischen Gesundheitsministerium mehr als 450 Verletzte in der Grenzstadt Tine behandelt. [1/2]

Hi all, conservation efforts have taken the Rafle’s Banded Langur in Singapore from just 10 individuals to a population of nearly 80. We are trying to win $10k conservation funding for this delightful, peaceful monkey. All you have to do is vote for it: uproar.indianapoliszoo.com 🙏

🔦 Amplifying amphipods with two new datasets from publishers in #Italy! 💚🤍❤️ Explore >22,000 amphipod records from scientific literature, unpublished data, public and private institutions. 🔗: gbif.link/amphipod_1 🔗: gbif.link/amphipod_2#Italy! #GBIFItalia

In Mehl, Fertigteigen oder Backmischungen können STEC stecken. Diese Keime gelangen v. a. über gemahlenes Getreide in die Produkte & bilden Giftstoffe, die besonders bei Kindern schwere Durchfallerkrankungen bis hin zu Nierenversagen auslösen können. Beim Backen werden sie abgetötet.