Some good news!

Tell me about it, cappuccino.

One thing Venezuelans have learned the hard way over the last decades is that no one gives a single sh*t about us. We've learned never to hope.

Hope everyone got their Cha Cha heels.

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When an extreme event hits a place that has no built resilience, that place, is more often than not taken below a tipping point from which complete recovery is not possible. This leads to permanent loss. We see this playing out everywhere. news.un.org/en/story... #ClimateCrisis

"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future." - @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit. Incredible words. Listen to all of it!

There's your problem, right there.

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

Old enough to remember the AIDS quilt, neighbors wasting away and dying, the miraculous arrival of the drugs. Old enough to have worked in Africa when medications were still not accessible, to see people dying from AIDS, sick kids. So much has been achieved and so much still to be done #worldaidsday

"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)

Evergreeeeeen

I would like to purchase this album, please.

Going to need some more edits there.

Having lived many years in Houston, the city would very much prefer for pedestrians to disappear altogether.

An allegory

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.

The government of Jamaica has set up a portal for contributing to official relief efforts. I will update this thread if anything analogous opens up for Haiti, Cuba, or the DR supportjamaica.gov.jm

To friends and colleagues in Jamaica, I am thinking of you. Praying you will be safe on the other side of this terrible storm. 🖤💚💛

> Among the signatories is Luc Steels, "the father of AI in Belgium." And he's not the only Belgian scientist supporting the resistance to "so-called 'AI' technologies." Apache spoke with Steels and co. "Universities encouraging students to use ChatGPT? I'm stunned" apache.be/2025/10/23/a...

Oh my heart. My dear Jamaicans, please be safe. May it not be as bad as they say.

It's that time again. For the next 24 hours, drop any infectious disease and/or vaccine-related questions below in response to this post, and I will do my best to answer them. Responses are for information only and are NOT medical advice. #AskAnIDDoc October 2025 edition.

I would like to pet the kitty cat.

MMWR stole the show in the first round of headlines about CDC cuts but in the chaos, many missed that the NHANES mobile team remains RIF'd. This is the backbone of this key survey that contains some of the only representative anthropometric, biochemical, clinical and dietary data on the country.

I will never forget the few words we exchanged when she came to speak at my university. An inspiring and committed scientist and activist.

Blessed are the peacemakers

All this he must possess and he must yet add something more substantial, in the improvement of his mind by extensive reading.

A general scientific review (in english) to learn everything about Nutri-Score, written by researchers from the Research Team in Nutritional Epidemiology (Sorbonne University Paris Nord Inserm/Inrae/Cnam/University Paris Cité) nutriscore.blog/2025/09/20/t...

A fully paid up ticket to hell for the ones responsible.

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I wonder what Bob Dylan thinks of his songs being still highly relevant 60 years after they were first written.

From INRB colleagues. The Ebola outbreak in Kasaï is confirmed as a zoonotic transmission.

From INRB colleagues. The Ebola outbreak in Kasaï is confirmed as a zoonotic transmission.

Democratic Republic of Congo declares Ebola outbreak in Kasai province with 28 suspected cases and 15 deaths; information on index case provided by DRC's National Institute of Public Health spr.ly/63324A8ddG

Early autumn in Belgium? 🍂 With a dry summer, trees are shedding leaves early as a survival tactic, highlighting the impact of climate change. This is prompting foresters to plant more resilient species like tolerant oaks. 🔗 www.rtbf.be/article/feui... (in French)

Even as our political leaders find more ways to demonize migrants and refugees, let’s remember: Migrants aren’t the problem Inequality is

I was just telling my girlfriend the other day that the old world is dying. And, my stars, the new world is struggling to be born. And now is the time when you meet such INNNNteresting monsters.

In days like these we need to be reminded of the good that is possible in this world.