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In the late 90s, the company 3M made a disturbing discovery, explains @rachelfrazin.bsky.social. They could not find a single person whose blood was free from forever chemicals. She joins us this week to discuss her latest book, "Poisoning the Well" bigpicturescience.org/episodes/som...

In Brooklyn to get gender affirming care (tattoo)

please don’t put in the newspaper that that i got swamp ass

Skrmetti is hideously evil I'd say check in on your trans friends but like frankly we're past give your trans friends money we're all the way out at if you want to help us we need you to be organizing a workers council Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

It's pretty obvious that a lot of US mainstream media either doesn't recognise authoritarianism or doesn't want to call it out. Either way, it's an excellent way to destroy trust in your institution.

dude this party is such an echo chamber. it's just friends hanging out and chilling and having a good time. you need to invite some people over who want to kill you with hammers

as someone who lives nextdoor to both supportive housing and public housing, i need people to understand that the best locations for both are going to be the central neighborhoods in a metropolitan area, where there is easy and reliable access to services and jobs.

The shareholders will NOT be pleased

Wheee come talk to us tomorrow for the last day of Pax East!!!

coolest booth i've found so far - go check this out if you have some free time!!

It was so so cool meeting @damienhaas.bsky.social yesterday! Thanks so much for visiting and I hope you have a great time at Pax East!!

Find us here at #PaxEast next week - we'll be in the expo hall close to the Pax Arena! We'll be selling the first 300 copies of Synthesis to exist - the books came out amazing and we're so excited to share them!

RIP Zeus, you would have loved the Animorphs #greekmythology #animorphs #tobias

Excited to announce that the Synthesis #ttrpg will be debuting as an Alpha at Pax East 2025! We'll be selling the first 300 copies of the core rules! Synthesis is a tabletop RPG about soul-searching, where magic is shaped by your character traits, growing more complex as your character does!

Jesus this is a kidnapping video of Tufts student Rumeysa Ozturk being detained by plain clothes immigration forces. Remember that Columbia agreed to a "no masks" policy for its fucking students while these thugs keep their faces covered. www.youtube.com/watch?v=PuFI...

I couldn't do what I do w/out the generosity of scientists, many of whom have taken calls while on vacation, while ill, or while dealing with personal tragedies. They communicate complex ideas, oftentimes in a second language. They have made me laugh, cry, and buckle beneath the wonder of it all. 🧪

Scientists do not get paid for getting quoted in the newspaper about science. People know this, right? Last year I was quoted in about 30 media articles, and I received a grand total of $0 for this. We do it because it’s important, not because we get paid.

So proud to be a part of FOP freedom.press/issues/wired...

We spoke with @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social on @bipisci.bsky.social for our episode "Preventable," and it's a conversation I won't soon forget. Equal parts empathetic and informative, and clearly lays out the injustice currently baked into our global health system. Horrifically relevant.

if this is you please email [email protected] we would love to talk to you

Measles is one of the most contagious diseases we know of. It is also preventable. But as vaccine hesitancy rises, more outbreaks are likely to follow. We're joined by @adamratnermd.bsky.social to discuss the lessons measles can teach us about public health. bit.ly/41B0p0u

As @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social says in this week's episode of @bipisci.bsky.social, "Tuberculosis is the exemplary disease of injustice"

We've got a great episode out this week. @adamratnermd.bsky.social and @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social provide great insights into why our healthcare systems continue to allow people to die of preventable - and curable - illnesses.

“It should be obvious to everyone that what’s happening on this campus is not about protecting Jews.” -Columbia Professor Emerita Marianne Hirsch, daughter of Holocaust survivors #FreeMahmoud

🚨 EMERGENCY PRESS CONFERENCE Columbia/Barnard faculty, Jewish community leaders, immigrant advocates, and rabbis are demanding the immediate release of Mahmoud Khalil from ICE custody. We will not be silent or cower in the face of American Fascism. #FreeMahmoud

A crowd has gathered for the NYC protest against the illegal ICE arrest of Columbia grad student Mahmoud Khalil. Protesters are chanting and calling for his immediate release. Multiple helicopters overhead.

Check out our conversation with @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social about his new book, “Everything is Tuberculosis.” As the US gov continues to make cuts to global health funding, it’s unfortunately never been more relevant.

“Former Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett joked to hundreds of people about sending explosive devices to dissenting event attendees at a talk at the Harvard Business School on Thursday, according to six people present at the discussion.”

This will directly cause hundreds of thousands of new and needless deaths from tuberculosis every year, and reverse decades of progress in fighting our deadliest infection. I'm just devastated.

@columbiauniversity.bsky.social I got a long, pandering alumni email about all the ways you're going to "protect" students on campus. What about your students standing up against genocide? Did you willfully forget that you have Palestinian students on campus as well?

This development is a horrifying and further escalation of the very topic I wrote about yesterday evening: The Trump administration’s move from governmental changes to individual attacks focused on political opponents. www.lawdork.com/p/trump-test...

WHERE WILL YOU BE TOMORROW?

I'll be attending @standupforscience.bsky.social Boston tomorrow! Hoping to speak with folks about their motivation for standing up for science for a new piece. Come chat! www.eventbrite.com/e/stand-up-f... #boston #science #bostonevents #massachusetts_events #civicscience #standupforscience

There's been so much publicity about the now-Oscar-winning doc No Other Land being unable to find a U.S. distributor (which is appalling) that some people may not realize it's currently on 100 screens here. In Manhattan you can see it at Film Forum; in Brooklyn it's at Alamo Drafthouse.

However much you hate the New York Times, it isn't enough

Check out our interview with @kantrowitz.bsky.social about the arrival of DeepSeek and why it created such a shockwave. Episode: Skeptic Check, Into the Deep Seek

Thanks for coming on the show @dorianlynskey.bsky.social! I hope you'll "be back" ..... I'll show myself out 😂

“A record number of journalists were killed worldwide in 2024, figures published today by the Committee to Protect Journalists show. Israel is responsible for nearly 70 percent of that total. At least 124 journalists across 18 countries were killed last year.”

‘You Can’t Let This Happen,’ Says Fundraising Email From Sitting U.S. Congressperson

Massive protest happening in Union Square right now to defend trans youth from President Trump’s attempts at eradication.

If you're screaming at a hospital about teen trans care, keep screaming.

Good 👏🏻 riddance 👏🏻

Ok if you’re gonna make it make one where they open a dinosaur park and it goes fine. Everybody has a nice day! Directed by Wes Anderson. The Dinosaurs have little hats

Montgomery County Public Schools comes out and tells Trump to pound sand with his EO telling schools that they have to discriminate against transgender students. This is how you refuse to comply.

If you’d like to know more about the extremely valid philosophical basis for this admonition, well… that’s exactly what my last publication was about. Give it a read!

Major news: Donald Trump has just issued a trans military ban, with much of the details left to Hegseth. It states that being trans is incompatible with "an honorable, truthful, and disciplined lifestyle" I know many military trans people who have served admirably for decades. Shameful.

oh so when pixar makes a movie about monsters harvesting the fear of children as an energy source its a classic family film but when i do that in real life its bad. grow up

Trees may look inert, but there's more happening on - and beneath - the surface, explains environmental historian and author Daniel Lewis. They're not only essential parts of the ecosystem around them, but also the ecosystems that exist within them. https://buff.ly/42mSdmK

Working on this episode was a bright spot during an otherwise crappy week 🌳