Ad Melkert vragen om het vertrek van Timmermans te duiden, hoe verzin je het? Waarom vraag je het niet aan mensen die relevant zijn voor de partij?

VNG noemt berichten waarin verkiezingsfraude wordt gesuggereerd ‘directe bedreiging voor de democratische rechtsstaat’

Devastation on repeat: 1,000+ dead, 6.9M affected by Pakistan’s monsoon floods Climate change is melting glaciers, intensifying monsoon rains, and worsening floods, hitting the poorest hardest in a country responsible for just 1% of global GHG emissions www.bbc.com/news/article...

FAO, UNICEF, WFP and WHO reiterate call for immediate ceasefire and unhindered humanitarian access to curb deaths from hunger and malnutrition www.who.int/news/item/22...

Dertig jaar na de genocide in Srebrenica is er geen plek in Nederland die daaraan herinnert. Bosnische Nederlanders zetten zich in voor een nationaal monument, maar de beoogde locatie in Den Haag zorgt voor vertraging. buff.ly/JyCjWfN

Newspaper coverage of climate change around the globe dropped 6% from May to June 2025 -- and by 28% compared to June 2024, despite increasing frequency and severity of climate-fueled extreme weather events. Read more from the @media-climate.bsky.social here: mecco.colorado.edu/summaries/is...

Ik vind deze campagne erg belangrijk - doe je ook mee? actie.degoedezaak.org/petitions/ee...

If you were shocked by my film on Israeli settlers in the West Bank, you haven’t been paying attention | Louis Theroux

🎧 Hoe goed zijn Nederlandse ziekenhuizen voorbereid op oorlog?

Today is liberation day in the Netherlands. Clearly, democracy and rule of law is a lot of work, and we’re not doing it well enough. The Dutch constitution - within it a commitment to upholding international rule of law - offers so many clear guidance for an equitable, just and sustainable society.👇

Mijn favoriete weerwoord als iemand mij sociale rechtvaardigheids-veranderdrang te nadrukkelijk aanwezig vindt. *Hállo, heb je ooit gelezen wat we eigenlijk in dit land zouden moeten doen met z'n allen volgens de grondwet?* #OpdeGrondVoorDeGrondwet #GlobalHealth #PlanetaryHealth /1

Harmful bleaching of the world’s coral has now grown to include 84% of the ocean’s reefs in the most intense event of its kind in recorded history.

The future at risk: Tackling newborn and child mortality amidst a global health crisis Due to funding cuts, conflicts & climate change, so many countries are at risk of meeting SDG goals for newborns and kids journals.plos.org/globalpublic...

Ik sta in de Volkskrant! :-)

Important reporting from my NPR colleagues on the human impacts of the cuts to U.S. foreign assistance. They share the story of twelve people - including kids - who have run out of HIV drugs in Zambia.

Woensdag a.s. geef ik om 20 uur een lezing bij Studium Generale van @maastrichtu.bsky.social over #limitarisme - het idee dat er morele bovengrenzen aan rijkdom zijn. Gratis kaartjes: www.maastrichtuniversity.nl/nl/events/li...

Very compelling study showing the association between herpes zoster vaccination and dementia prevention. The authors leveraged a unique cohort for this natural experiment which shows a reduction in dementia risk of 20% in vaccinated individuals. #MedSky #IDSky 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Vandaag om 13 uur schuif ik aan in het radioprogramma van Dr. Kelder & Co om te praten over de bezuinigingen op het hoger onderwijs en wetenschap, de relatie met democratie/autocratie, en de zeer zorgwekkende situatie die zich nu aan Amerikaanse universiteiten afspeelt. Wat leert dit ons?

"The rate of sepsis shot up more than 50% for women hospitalized when they lost their pregnancies in the second trimester"

Minister Eppo Bruins' brief aan de Tweede Kamer gecorrigeerd door #WOinActie @woinactie.bsky.social woinactie.blogspot.com/2025/03/woin...

Zingen voor geluk. De wetenschap is eruit: samen zingen maakt gelukkiger

🇪🇺 EU #GlobalHealth Policy Forum, Brussels | 15 May 🚨 #EU Global Health Strategy 🚨 Global health #financing 🚨 #HealthEmergency prevention, preparedness 🚨 #LocalManufacturing in partner countries 🚨 #Sexual #ReproductiveHealth and Rights international-partnerships.ec.europa.eu/global-healt...

Le Monde reporting that a French scientist traveling to Houston to attend a conference was denied entry to US after a search of his phone & computer revealed messages critical of Trump's science cuts, "which [says CPB] conveyed hatred of Trump & could be qualified as terrorism". Computer confiscated

‘We will just die in silence': #USAID cuts hit #Ethiopia Aid agencies distributing U.S. food aid in Ethiopia’s war-affected #Tigray region say they have had to stop feeding millions of people because of the Trump administration’s restrictions on foreign aid www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

🧵"So this is how liberty dies..." Trump’s first 3 weeks have been a relentless flood of actions. It's incredibly hard to keep up. I’ve gone through 69 actions & mapped out the pattern - showing how they fall within 5 broad domains consistent with authoritarian states 1/9

A brief PubMed outage has focused attention on scientists’ reliance on the US-government-funded website www.nature.com/articles/d41...

We're getting our first estimates of the harm inflicted by the illegal shutdown of USAID, and they're predictably grim: 1 million children not treated for severe malnutrition annually 18 million new cases of malaria 200k kids paralyzed by polio “Unless reversed, this will cost millions of lives"

Hello, Bluesky!👋 We are excited to connect with you!🌟 Europe PMC is an open database of global life science research - discover articles, preprints, theses, grants, and more. We talk about scholarly communication, open science, bioinformatics, and meta research. Follow us and join the conversation!

What is happening with Pubmed is unclear: what is clear, it can happen, now let us invest in decentralised systems that can't be switched off by national policies or leadership

PubMed down .... Here's my post on what to do

This contains all PubMed records and a great advanced search option. bsky.app/profile/ourh...

Another dystopian situation in our biomedical knowledge production system: #PubMed, the database all scientists and students use is down. This harms science, health care, patients, communities, and policy making: evidence-based medicine requires findability of scientific articles.

📢 New report on #Texas' abortion ban: - 50%+ rise in sepsis from 2nd-trimester pregnancy loss - Rise in pregnant and postpartum fatalities - Delayed care for miscarriages due to healthcare provider legal fears 🚨 Restrictive laws = worse health outcomes. www.texastribune.org/2025/02/20/t...

“At a minimum, 300 babies that wouldn’t have had HIV, now do,” one current USAID worker estimates. The impact on PEPFAR HIV programs is likely even more severe. The number is likely much higher. 🧵 www.wired.com/story/usaid-...

4) Many scientists also feel an instictive aversion to advocacy, worried that it is not scientific or objective enough. 5) Some who benefit from changes in funding priorities will welcome the opportunity to further their own research. 19/24

When patients are not heard by their doctors there can be devastating consequences. So why does this happen & what can be done to address it? On the cover, Dr Rageshri Dhairyawan explores this question. Read her full essay & more: tinyurl.com/5c7xwj2e ‪@drrageshri.bsky.social‬

Just published: ‘Key tips to shift student perspectives through transformative learning in medical education’, available here: bmcmededuc.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.... #MedEd #GlobalHealth #TranformativeLearning #PlanetaryHealth

What currently is happening in parts of DRC sends us back to very dark times. And am afraid this is just a part of what is occuring. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...

Reports of data theft, breaches of privacy and security by new US ministry DOGE multiply. Data in US are not secure One more reason to argue for European [public] data clouds Important @ec.europa.eu investigates extend to which public bodies in Member States have their data on clouds in US

Auschwitz was at the end of a long process. It did not start from gas chambers. This hatred was gradually developed by humans. From ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder. Auschwitz took time.

Zorgen om gezondheid grondpersoneel Schiphol. ‘Ik wil niet in een gifwolk staan’

Tip voor onderweg naar het kerstdiner, deze #ZoSimpelIsHetNiet over altruïsme, solidariteit en (gedrags)economie. open.spotify.com/episode/3Qln...

I wish Global North countries had the humility to learn from Rwanda’s quick and science-based response to the Marburg outbreak www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...

Reality bats last www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

In July 2025 we will host 6 #GlobalHealth and #PlanetaryHealth summer schools at the @umcutrecht.bsky.social & @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social! ✨🇳🇱🧵

In het beste geval een onwetende, en in het ergste geval een kwaadaardige keuze in woordgebruik & intentie. En zeker het klassiek liberalisme onwaardig om zo onzorgvuldig te zijn met mensen, hun achtergronden & de polarisatie die er al in de samenleving is. Bah.

The history of medicine never ceases to amaze me.

I'll be one of the lecturers in the upcoming spring school on "Forms of Knowledge and Values in Science and Society" at Utrecht University 13-17 April 2025. Great opportunity for master students & early PhD candidates utrechtsummerschool.nl/courses/huma...

@utrechtuniversity.bsky.social & @umcutrecht.bsky.social welcome! And.. looking at the 🥳-vibe here - maybe time for a UU & UMCU starter pack?