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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 🤖

We don't need panic, but realism would be good.

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

The rich countries will be shocked and brutal when the people of the countries starved through this manufactured war show up desperate at their borders.

The rich countries will be shocked and brutal when the people of the countries starved through this manufactured war show up desperate at their borders.

“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...

A beautiful thread to remind us that it's more than just the price of gas. Iran is people, history and beauty.

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!

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.

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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.

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

> 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...

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.

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...