During the 2024–25 season, three-fourths of health care workers received a flu vaccine, while only about 40% got a COVID shot. Read more: ow.ly/L1nm50YCYVO

Read-the-room learning

My USDA-Forest Service-funded project with scientists there was about water in the western United States. I guess that’s not a concern anymore.

Bacteria have been fighting off viruses using a huge arsenal of molecular weaponry that scientists did not know about — until now. Researchers have identified proteins that could lead to virus-fighting drugs and technologies. go.nature.com/4dqQnXI

Analysis published today by the UK Climate Change Committee shows that decarbonising the UK by 2050 would cost less than than keeping the system as is if just one 2022 style price shock happened again. This analysis took place before the current price shock by the way.

Cognitive manipulation and AI will shape disinformation in 2026. Here's how to build resilience www.weforum.org/stories/2026...

Four million articles are now downloaded from bioRxiv every month, according to an analysis of the life-science preprint server’s first 13 years of existence go.nature.com/3Px4xMF

LiveNation head of ticketing, talking internally about their fees. “These people are so stupid. I almost feel bad taking advantage of them,” Baker wrote, adding later, “I gouge them on ancil prices...Robbing them blind, baby,” he said, “that’s how we do it.”" news.bloomberglaw.com/product/blaw...

FDA vaccine committee is meeting as we speak to select viral strains for fall flu shots. Everyone is a respected scientist. There are evidence-based presentations. We're an hour ahead of schedule. It's all so...normal. Quite the change of pace. #VRBPAC www.cidrap.umn.edu/influenza-va...

The 2026 National Science Foundation budget is $8.75 Billion.

It is remarkable how much clearer the air is in Silicon Valley than it was ten years ago. Electric cars have made a huge difference www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Talking to Parents About Vaccines, Pediatricians Navigate a Sea of Misinformation www.nytimes.com/2026/03/11/h... "Logic is no longer part of the discussion. It’s just kind of based on a feeling." “It’s just a really a sad & stressful time for pediatricians. I really worry about us as a field...”

World marks 150 years since first-ever phone call

Steve Emt and Laura Dwyer represent the U.S. in the Paralympics' new mixed doubles wheelchair curling event. They could bring home Team USA's first wheelchair curling medal ever. n.pr/4ljaCZ0

Faculty put up such a front against MOOCS — compared to AI? Am I just not seeing it?

Great interview and topic, lots to think on

Nature Report, Killed by Trump, Is Released Independently. A draft assessment of the health of nature in the United States is grim but shot through with bright spots and possibility. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/05/c...

I just had a conversation with an expert on shipping and the Strait of Hormuz that brought into sharp relief just how completely messed up that situation is. Y'all, 20% of the world's oil / natural gas, plus 15% of all container shipping passes through there, and almost no ships are now transiting

CIDRAP’s Vaccine Integrity Project launches an independent review of Tdap vaccine in pregnancy that will: -Be independent & transparent -Assess possible safety outcomes/effectiveness data -Answer policy questions developed w/ medical professional societies Full press release: ow.ly/Q2w250YpheT

During the Renaissance, people in Venice would vote by dropping little balls into an urn. The Italian word for “little ball” is ‘ballotta.’ Now any kind of secret voting, by ball, piece of paper, or voting machine, is called a ‘ballot.’

Oops! It’s March 1st. Isn’t this your April 1st post?

It’s legitimate to want a regime dismantled after decades of terror, regional destabilization, and repression. But that urgency doesn’t erase constitutional limits—or the need for strategy over impulse. The rule of law isn’t a barrier to security. It’s the only durable way to achieve it.

There is, in the imagination only for now, a political party or two, that is good a governing…fair, does what they say they’re going to do, mutes the urge to easy caustic rhetoric…

People keep comparing MAGA/ICE/CBP/MAHA to 1930s Germany. It's also more and more like late 1960s China, during Cultural Revolution. Or mid 1970s Cambodia, during "Year Zero." A war against knowledge itself. thehill.com/policy/defen...

Over the river and through the woods to fungus-resistant chestnut trees and miniforests we go. 🎶🌳 Scientists are creating hybrids to increase the chestnut tree population. Plus, communities are using the Miyawaki method to plant miniforests.

European regulators recommend approval of combined mRNA vaccine for flu and COVID If the recommendation is accepted by the European Commission, Moderna's mCombriax vaccine will be available for adults 50 and older throughout the European Union. www.cidrap.umn.edu/c...

While Donald Trump and RFK Jr. push conspiracy theories over science, my administration is forging a path that puts our people first. Illinois will adopt the American Academy of Pediatrics' vaccine schedule to keep families safe.

Study finds ChatGPT Health did not recommend a hospital visit when medically necessary in more than half of cases. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Our alliance shows the need to work together when a problem pops up! Proud to be able to support the nearly 80 US authors working with IPCC across AR7

Since yesterday, the Einstein AI cheatbot website underwent some rebranding. The tagline changed from "Einstein does the busywork so you don't have to," to "Einstein is the personal tutor every student deserves." In the FAQ, "How does Einstein do all this?" became "How does Einstein help me learn?"

Heartbreaking: “Shah Alam’s death comes just 15 months after his arrival in Buffalo in December 2024.”

Journalism job alert: @wired.com is hiring an experienced politics writer. I might be biased, but WIRED is doing some of the best political coverage out there. This is your chance to join our amazing newsroom! condenast.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/CondeC...

Update: Never mind, says DHS, reversing an earlier announcement. TSA ⁠PreCheck will remains operational "at this time."

Good to know, for sure. But is there some point where MSM becomes msm and this reasoning really can’t be used?

As always, more engaging and fun reporting (and useful - the Tushy during the pandemic!), on the frontiers of science. (Srsly:))

Channeling Judge Young here. See: www.lawdork.com/p/judge-will...

The paperback edition of 'Behind the White House Curtain' will be released early next month with new material about the destruction of the Voice of America. You can pre-order today at your favorite bookstore or online. bookshop.org/p/books/behi...

The American Medical Association and the Vaccine Integrity Project are partnering to review vaccine safety and efficacy separate from the CDC. What prompted this independent review and what impact could it have?

The inevitable next stage of academic publishers profiting from academics' work is here - scraping it for AI then charging subscriptions for access to the AI summaries, and then again for the citations. Academic content assetization as we called it in a recent paper. www.science.org/content/arti...

Watching the Olympic curling finals this weekend? Physicists still aren't 100% sure why the big granite stones 'curl' the way they do. go.nature.com/4rTOAOw

Of course, although public health goals may not be endorsed by everyone.

“I do caution parents of children with ADHD to be extra mindful about their kids’ use of social media,” says child psychiatrist Meredith Gansner. A Nature Outlook feature explores the perils of social media for children with ADHD. 🧪

Research will struggle to keep up - LLMs evolve to SMLs and tools.

People need better information processing skills. “AI sources” are just bits on the internet or curated for an SLM. These skills weren’t there before AI, and mis/disinformation is its own challenge.

Woods Hole MBL goes it alone again?

... Lindsey’s answer is an abundance agenda plus a connection agenda: more growth where it matters, and more human‑scale power over how we live together by nurturing a flourishing of intermediary institutions in which people can do things and live lives that matter. Far from succumbing to post... 3/