This is why everything is "software as a service" now: you can lock you customers in on long term contracts billed per seat, rather than having to make a good product that people like to use

For the EU, this should be a very urgent matter of national security. All EU member states should build on Denmark's wise strategy to phase out Microsoft products

Sobre mérito e academia “STEM ama o mito da meritocracia —mas a verdade? É construída em cima de trabalho não remunerado, riqueza geracional e sacrifício financeiro. Para muitos, o custo de “fazer ciência” é simplesmente muito alto. Isso não é um problema de protocolo. É uma barreira financeira.”

"It’s not surprising that lifestyles with less exposure to pollution [and inflammaging] are linked to lower rates of chronic disease." Comment on the @nataging.nature.com report on inflammaging in 4 different places www.nytimes.com/2025/06/30/w... www.nature.com/articles/s43...

A paper in Nature suggests that the Australian Bogong moth may be the first invertebrate known to be able to use the stars to navigate. Experiments in flight simulators indicate that the insects use stellar cues to help them fly in the right direction. go.nature.com/3ZEaDgG 🧪

‘Alternative medicine’ is not harmless The rise of anti-science has been happening for more than a decade but was turbocharged by conspiracy theorists and alternative medicine ‘practitioners’ during the pandemic www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Science is not a conjecture of axioms. Science is the best tool we have to better understand reality. When we negate science because it goes against our “identity”, we negate our best understanding of reality. This unfortunately can end badly in many cases. Support Science always!

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."  -Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953

Ministério da Saúde dos EUA vai suspender suporte ao tratamento de HIV. Não sabem se é pq o secretário de saúde não acredita que AIDS é causada por um vírus, pq é outra forma de abandonar minorias como gays e trans ou mais eugenia direcionada aos mais vulneráveis. Provavelmente todas as anteriores.

No que deveria ser uma manchete do The Onion, governo dos EUA considera liberar asbesto novamente

If you think climate change has gotten worse during your lifetime, you're right and there's a good reason. If you're Gen X like me, more than 3/4 of fossil fuel CO₂ emissions have occurred in your lifetime. Even if you're a Millennial, it's at least half. 📊: @neilrkaye.bsky.social

www.ft.com/content/8778... Kudos to Andrea Sella for taking a stand against @royalsociety.org’s inaction over Elon Musk FRS

BREAKING NEWS: Five-year-olds creating a rainbow fairy unicorn pony club to pursue dream steeds for all members of Ms. Johnson's kindergarten.

(This just happened to someone I know and I am INCANDESCENT at every politician, influencer, and grifter who has mainstreamed anti-vaxx bullshit to the point a healthcare worker would tell a patient to not seek the only surefire treatment against a 100% fatal disease)

Hey as a reminder, if you have contact with a bat, that should be treated as a potential rabies exposure and if a fucking *healthcare worker* tries to dissuade you from getting the vaccine, report their fucking ass because holy hell you do NOT mess around with rabies??

one of the biggest advances in technology over the last twenty years is a shift in focus from “how can we make things better?” to “how can we make things worse?”

The toughest part of Medicine is not medicine per se but navigating the ego of some colleagues and the hierarchical thing! Patient comes first, always. And a note to always stay curious, although the dark side of medicine attacks from time to time.

I learned a lot and really enjoyed this @nejm.org interview episode with Dr. David Jones. He’s an incredible physician with deep expertise in medical history—a truly fascinating profile. Lots of food for thought. open.spotify.com/episode/63aA...

The point of the #PandemicAccord is the people of our world. It is about making the world safer for them, and their children and grandchildren. #WHA78

An exceptional new @nejm.org review on cancer of unknown origin www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

Global average temperature is expected to rise to almost 2C above preindustrial in the next five years, according to the WMO, with falls in crop yields and more than a third of the world’s population being exposed to extreme heat. People, I'm sorry but we have to deal with this. Later is too late.

People do this in healthcare and it always irritates me. “Look at that patient. They sit there with an iPhone but say they can’t afford their medications?” Buddy, you are mad at the wrong thing.

This is a view from the surface of Comet 67P. The busy particles in the foreground are cosmic rays or bits of dust and ice. The dots moving in the background are stars.

The World Health Assembly votes to adopt a new treaty on pandemic prevention, preparedness and response. #WHA78 @who.int

When you are invited to an "educational webinar" to "hear from a specialist in the industry," your presence in the audience is for their benefit.

In college a professor quoted a farmed saying you shouldn't have to be a superhero to do the right thing and it's been my North star for how a society should function for awhile

Interesting article by @vmontori.bsky.social and others. Business schools and accelerators especially teach to focus on niche markets and groups. This has broad consequences and it doesn't take into account the person who will use it! jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

What an important and necessary article. Good for us to think twice before posting or promoting a paper, a trial. Food for thought. 🧠 #MedSky @raffaelegiusti.bsky.social jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

I went to a private Waldorf high school in the 2000s that was filled with the children of tech professionals - who explicitly wanted a lower-tech education for them. Many tech execs believe in careful exposure to tech for their kids, while also thinking AI teaching is fine for the great unwashed.

There are legitimate issues with the pharmaceutical industry and how it's regulated; the wellness industry is even more predatory, like it's not even close. Woo woo bullshit on par with leeches and humors

1. To look at a photograph by Sebastião Salgado is to experience something of the drama of the human condition. Or perhaps it would be more accurate to say, the violent dramas of the human condition (a thread...)

Happy 99th birthday to the man who gave voice to the wild. 🎉 Sir David Attenborough, thank you for a lifetime dedicated to the natural world, and for sharing its story with wisdom, wonder, and grace. You've inspired generations to fall in love with nature.

Ok, medicine requires specialization nowadays. But this doesn't mean you have to set aside your interests. It is so good to see examples like him! It sort of gives you permission to explore your side curiosities and interests too!

I just found out the bio/CV of the founder of Expertscape, Dr. John Sotos. And wow, what an amazing person! Instructor at Hopkins, consultant for House, MD and The Good Doctor, CMO at Intel, MS in AI from Stanford, colonel, writer, and creator of (sort of) a game of periodic elements! Just wow! 😮

How does perspective work in art and photography? In a new paper, we describes experiments suggesting answers to age-old questions about how people perceive perspective. 1/ #VisionScience
#Art #ArtHistory www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Heard a great talk by a commercial airline pilot about safety regulations for pilots compared to surgeons. I asked if older pilots get mad when younger pilots voice safety concerns because they think the only way to be a great pilot is to work while exhausted and he looked at me like I was crazy.

So much awful could have been avoided if there were more bidirectional communication between academics and the general public. Increased isolationism between these two groups means policy uninformed by the best possible evidence and disregards academics as relevant stakeholders as well.

Microplastic distribution in the global oceans. 🌊 microplastics concentrated in coastal regions, but also present even in remote regions of Antarctica. Size fractionation with depth. Contributing to the carbon cycle.

Remember when you first learned about genetics at school? All those fascinating examples of human traits that are each apparently determined by just a single gene? Time to check in on some of your favourites to see how they’re doing. 🧬🧵🧪 1/n

clinical pearl: do not sleep on a farmer who seeks out health care voluntarily youtu.be/Ni0YfrSK570?...

A fantastic episode done by @radiolab.bsky.social about the importance of curiosity-driven research. Support basic science! 🧪 open.spotify.com/episode/4Elq...

Excited to share our new study: "Cold memories control whole-body thermoregulatory responses" by @andreamunozz.bsky.social, @aaron-douglas.bsky.social & team at @tcddublin.bsky.social, in collaboration with @lydialynch.bsky.social & @drchristineannd.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

This could be a big deal for the hundreds of climate lawsuits underway around the world. @jsmankin.bsky.social and @ccallahan45.bsky.social link emissions from specific fossil fuel companies to trillions of dollars in damages. “I think this is going to be the future of climate litigation." 🧪🔌💡

Interesting thing: you can also see this pattern of occurrence using data from Google Trends. There are some really cool papers on this. The ones that come to my mind now are from Mayo and Los Alamos.