…time to fly back to continental Europe

…great place for a honest meal

…London Hammersmith

…London calling

Hydra (Hydra vulgaris) ✨Small but mighty! Hydra can regenerate its entire body, even its head 🧠 A classic model for regeneration, stem cell dynamics, and body axis patterning 📸 Image by Daniel Bressan de Andrade #ModelMonday #DevBio #Regeneration

Canada has just lost measles elimination status. The U.S. will undoubtedly follow shortly. Elimination means that there is no continuous spreading of measles within the country for a year or longer. Canada and the U.S. have blown it, and it’s largely the fault of the anti-vaccination movement.

Hedy Lamarr was born #OTD in 1914. In the 1940s, in an attempt to help the war effort, she quietly invented what would become the precursor to many wireless technologies we use today including Bluetooth, GPS, cellphone networks & more: frequency hopping. #WomenInSTEM npr.org/2011/11/27/1...

This week's @runforsomething.net feel-good update: 129 wins & counting (including 36 red-to-blue flips!!) 4000+ new people signing up to run for office, and what it all says about the path forward for Democrats. rfsfeelgoodupdates.substack.com/p/rfs-feel-g...

This image shows a mass of human stem cells, collectively known as an ‘organoid’. We stained the neural crest cells of this organoid to better understand diseases related to defects in their development, such as Hirschsprung's disease and Neuroblastoma. Image credit: @carmenmorenogon.bsky.social

1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️

…some excellent sashimi for a business trip to London starting tonight

…have you noticed the growing amount of troll accounts been created daily here in @bsky.app ? Are we heading into a Twitter/X situation we all tried to escape from?

…and wildlife in #natuurpark #deers

…and my collection of #mushrooms pics 🍄‍🟫

…a walk in the Natturpark with fall in full mode …

(thread 1/5) ...interesting to see the growing number of troll accounts being generated in @bsky.app the same way they used to be generated in twitter/X... a young female face, a relaxing, panoramic background, and then no content or only reposting content, no real content made by the account...

…lovely evening view from the one and only @sarahmaklo.bsky.social

…fall in Heidelberg

BREAKING: Letitia James has announced a Government portal for Videos and images of ICE Agents who may have committed crimes. Please use and share!!! ag.ny.gov/federal-acti...

The Victoria pub, Sussex Street near Paddington Station, London. Love this old pub… some nice cider and beer on tap! 🍺 #streetphotography #photography #pub

…this weekend walk in the Netherlands 3

…this weekend walk in the Netherlands 2

…this weekend walk in the Netherlands 1

Frank Herbert (1920-86) While writing an article about Oregon sand dunes he became enthralled by his research. He abandoned the article and wrote 𝑫𝒖𝒏𝒆, which was rejected by 23 publishers before a small press known mainly for its auto-repair manuals took a chance #booksky #writingcommunity #authors

Why engage youth in science? 🧑‍🎓 Hear from the directors and special guests – #CERN Director-General Fabiola Gianotti, architect Renzo Piano, and John Elkann, President of Fondazione Agnelli – on why it is important to get the young generation interested in science.

Amid an ongoing wave of conspiracy theories and bogus claims about Jan 6, I’ll note this from our reporting: Rioters made all kinds of claims and defenses in court … and jurors convicted 100% of the defendants who went to trial 100%

Great to see: The Vaccine integrity Project rolls out this week www.wsj.com/health/healt... @mtosterholm.bsky.social

The math showing one challenge in dealing with rampant scientific misinformation from the Trump administration. 1 false claim from Marty Makary that COVID19 vaccines caused 25 pediatric death led to 10 pages of rebuttal from DPH explaining why he’s wrong based on 5 years of research

On Friday, the Trump administration claimed that COVID19 vaccines caused the deaths of 25 children. They are doing this to gin up a reason for their unnecessary restrictions on COVID19 vaccines. We explain the science for how we know these vaccines didn’t cause pediatric deaths in our report.

I stand by my claim that peak iPhone was the 2016 og iPhone SE. <4oz. Fits in the palm of my hand. I can reach all four corners with my thumb. With Touch ID I can have it already unlocked before it comes out of my pocket. At $399 I could buy several for the price of one iPhone 17.

A new review of multicancer early detection tests (MCED). Without any controlled studies in people without symptoms (and at increased risk), they are "not ready for popular use." @annalsofim.bsky.social www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/... www.acpjournals.org/doi/epdf/10....

Today is International Red #Panda Day. This wonderful, small creature has, alas, become endangered of late. Native to the Himalayas, it is arboreal and feeds mainly on bamboo. And, as you can see, the #RedPanda really knows how to #relax, even on a tree limb! (GettyPhoto) #naps #wildlife #Earth

If ya needed some positive news www.france24.com/en/environme...

Today is the day of the special election to fill the seat of former MN State Rep Melissa Hortman, who was shot by a right-wing extremist.

At Cerro Pelon, the monarch sanctuary.

This surprisingly relaxing footage is from SIX MILES under the ocean – and it’s the deepest ecosystem yet discovered

Stunning! An 8-hour time-lapse to show the Earth is rotating while capturing the Milky Way.

…some nice mushrooms 🍄‍🟫

One type of mammography is much better at finding tumors in dense breasts. It isn’t widely used for screening in the U.S.

Pete Hegseth, constantly paranoid about someone in the Pentagon talking to the press about the crazy shit he’s doing on a daily basis, issues a new set of rules for the media restricting access to the building. Why are they constantly trying to hide everything from the public?

Excess deaths in the US vs other high-income countries. Coming down relative to prior US data but still the outlier jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Sky Mirror by Anish Kapoor Serralves, Porto 2018 #WeekUforUp #AlphabetChallenge 📷