One of the most extraordinarily beautiful paintings in the Mauritshuis and the world.

Last week's heatwave in Belgium caused the highest peak of excess mortality since the pandemic. Terrible. And it will only get worse.

No tengo palabras. Solo llantos

Tale as old as time

There are always tears left to cry for Venezuela. Tanto dolor, mi gente. Que Díos los ampare.

For the first time in 30 years, child deaths are now rising, in large part due to USAID cuts Lancet modelling shows USAID cuts will cause 14 million deaths including 4.5m children, by 2030. Independent CGDev research backs this up

Trop fort RDC!

Dr. Tedros is humanizing this epidemic. It is not about fear, stigma, phobia. It's about showing up and helping people. Exemplary to see him there in person. Bravo @who.int

Finally, a clear repudiation of the brain-dead “it’s just a tool” argument that gets floated cynically about every new technology:

There are too many true and powerful statements in this reporting to just choose one. But fundamentally, Africans are experts in disease response. If there are gaps it is the result of a profound and deliberate social injustice. #ebola

Amidst hantavirus & Ebola outbreaks, the world has not paid much attention to this devastating (and totally preventable) outbreak of measles in Bangladesh Since mid-March, the country has seen more than 60,000 suspected cases and 528 suspected measles-related deaths!! www.npr.org/2026/05/24/g...

Patients flee and Ebola treatment area is burned in Ituri. One of the most desparately forgotten and exploited places in the world. It's no wonder it's people are suspicious and afraid. May the good people of Alima recover and safely continue their work. Epidemics are stopped with communities.

Diagnostic capacity ramping up should tell us more. The lack of readily available rapid point of care diagnostic is a major barrier.

Looking for updates on the Ebola epidemic and all I see are stories on flights being diverted for travelling while Congolese 🙄

Good lord. The way Americans make everything about them. It's a good thing the Congolese are experts.

The way West/North folk on here are making the Ebola outbreak about their own world and governments is giving me whiplash. All my support to the exemplary responders in DRC.

Very worrying confirmation of what is obviously a large Ebola outbreak in Ituri province in DRC. The area is rife with conflict and displacement. Like throwing a match on gasoline.

wow — the preprint host, arxiv, is banning authors for a year if they submit papers with hallucinated citations 🤖

Hear hear! Add me to the list

Proud alum of the Cornell Daily Sun ☀️

First malaria drug for babies is approved in ‘major public health milestone’

Yes, Swiss scientist Fritz Zwicky coined the term “dark matter” which is impressive, but he also coined the term “spherical bastard” to describe people who are bastards no matter which way you look at them, and I think that should be celebrated more.

It's often stories and not numbers that spur our action. This one tears at your heart. Utterly devastating. Utterly preventable. Rest in peace, Renae

“We can build all the walls we want, but if there are hungry mothers that need to feed their children, there is no wall thick or big enough that is going to stop them” he said. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

Belgium eyeing everyone

Pope Leo on Palm Sunday: “This is our God: Jesus, King of Peace, who rejects war, whom no one can use to justify war. He does not listen to the prayers of those who wage war, but rejects them, saying: ‘Even though you make many prayers, I will not listen: your hands are full of blood’ (Is 1:15).”

Also, sounds exactly like something the antichrist would say, Peter

Le Messager dedicated to the lost children - Jean Michel Folon Parc, Royal de Bruxelles

It's no accident that the commercial determinants of our food supply are also tied up in weapons design to maim and kill at scale. (Gift link) #commercialdeterminants #cdoh #foodsystems

This is a great movement. Please sign up and commit if you use these tools. An AI future is not inevitable. I do wonder if I'm the only person left in my field who has never used these tools....😬

It’s never a bad time to quit using Amazon, folks. Been a year and a half and any minor inconvenience has been far outweighed by the satisfaction of not contributing to this man’s grotesque wealth and influence.

Some good news!

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Currently dorking out over this graph about child mortality with my brother. Just mind boggling to take in.

"As Mumbai sees increased energy demand from new datacentres, particularly from Amazon, the filthiest neighbourhood in one of India’s largest cities must keep its major coal plants" www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

"The marginalisation of local and Indigenous knowledge has long been driven by entrenched power structures. GenAI simply puts this process on steroids." Damn good essay.

Caribbean reparations leaders in ‘historic’ first UK visit to press for justice

Everything is terrible but Ginkgo trees dgaf

"These generative AI systems give sometimes correct and sometimes wrong information. The errors are not bugs, but by design. They "predict" next words based on probabilities. Facts are not their forte." (Sigh)

I would like to purchase this album, please.

NOAA aerial imagery is coming in. Hurricane Melissa literally turned western Jamaica from green to brown. Vegetation damage is immense — recovery will take years.

The beautiful seaside village of #Bluefields in western #Jamaica #HurricaneMelissa

Doing God's work

We have progressed from data collection to data analysis.

Please. #Jamaica needs help. People are lost, homeless and pretty desperate. Most of the island has no power and very little telecoms. Some places, especially where #HurricaneMelissa made landfall (as the strongest Atlantic storm ever to do so) look like war zones.

Nighttime polar orbiter satellite photos of Jamaica before and after #Melissa show how the power grid was affected. Melissa knocked out power to about 77% of Jamaica’s customers, said Minister of Local Government Desmond McKenzie. Photos from worldview.earthdata.nasa.gov

We have this in Latin culture too. So many tíos, tías, abuelitos, abuelitas, hermanos, primos.... They are our collective family but not blood relations. Some are in our lives every day. Some we've met once but are still called that way as a sign of kinship and honor.