The key public health question is not whether Andes virus is as transmissible as measles or SARS-CoV-2. It is whether a pathogen with documented human transmission and a case fatality rate (by WHO's own estimate) of ~38% warrants stronger airborne precautions. We argue yes. 5/

Beautiful piece by Awais. Money quote below. My one concern is that many psychiatrists do not in fact mean what Awais means when they say "you have ADHD". They mean it in exactly the same way one says "you have liver cancer". And it's very harmful for mental health science and practice.

“Even if you stopped climate change today, New Orleans’s days are still numbered,” he added. “It will be surrounded by open water, and you can’t keep an island situated below sea level afloat. There’s no amount of money that can do that.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

It's good to see Science publishing this Open Letter to Jay Bhattacharya, by @dereklowe.bsky.social Derek did not come to play 👏

Understanding the Genetics of Autism www.brainfacts.org/diseases-and... - a primer I wrote for @brainfacts.org to try and counter the pseudoscience around autism by explaining what we actually know about the (complex) genetics of the condition

This is truly mind-blowing: Norway has gone from near-zero sales of non‑emitting battery electric vehicles to now close to 100% of all new passenger car sales - achieved in about 13 years. More in my next substack newsletter. Sign up here: substack.com/@janrosenow

Yes!!!! Beautiful essay, @tonyzador.bsky.social.

Comprehensive piece that'll get you up to speed on this very important system that has been in the news lately

I always assumed that brain function had to line up with cytoarchitectonics. It turns out I was wrong. Human cortex, especially PFC, is tiled by chains of functional patches that subdivide and interlink architectonic areas into parallel processing streams. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

📢 We've reached *3000* documented authoritarian-like actions of Trump's second term since Jan 2025... the two most recent are classic suppression of the press & using the justice system to attack political enemies www.trumpactiontracker.info

Becoming a parent is much more detrimental to women’s academic careers than it is to men’s Read the full story: go.nature.com/4v4rxmQ

Open-mindedness was the strongest predictor of *rejecting* conspiracy theories in a sample of 46,745 participants in 68 nations In particular, participants who were threatened by people who disagree with them were the most likely to believe conspiracy theories. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Scott Bessent said 2 days ago there would be no more extensions. Now Donald Trump extends sanctions relief on Russia for another month, also recently lifting sanctions on Belarus, which also eased pressure on Moscow.

"alienated voters are more willing to choose a candidate if the typical decision frame is inverted from selecting the better candidate to rejecting the lesser" tinyurl.com/4wxhshfy Dzirdot, cik ātri 15.04. Krustpunktā eksperti noraidīja "pret" balsīs balstītu vēlēšanu ideju, domāju par šo pētījumu.

Guess who's winning the war? "The world’s top 100 oil and gas companies banked more than $30m every hour in unearned profit in the first month of the US-Israeli war in Iran..."

🛡️Pēc Ukrainas dronu nokrišanas Baltijas valstīs Krievija sāka dezinformācijas kampaņu, ka baltieši oficiāli atļāvuši to lidojumus un tā iesaistījušies karā. Restaurējam, kā kampaņa sākās - un kas liecina, ka tā ir organizēta. Lasi un padod tālāk! 🙌 rebaltica.lv/2026/04/ka-k...

This is an actual post. This is not funny. This is beyond desperate. This is a deeply unwell man who doesn’t belong anywhere near the levers of power. Every member of his cabinet and Congress is complicit in not demanding his removal now.

war_iran_final-blow_v1.pdf war_iran_final-final-blow-v2.pdf war_iran_final-blow-no edits.pdf war_iran_final-blow-no edits (1).pdf war_iran_final-blow-no edits (1) APPROVED.pdf IRANWARPLANSFINALFINALFINAL.pdf IRANWARPLANSFINALFINALFINAL (1).pdf

Divas nedēļas militārās agresijas Irānā klimata budžetam pievienojušas Islandes patēriņa gadu - 5 megatonnas CO2. Aprēķini neietver vēl gaidāmo militarizāciju un fosilo kurināmo meklējumus un infrastruktūras atjaunošanu. Karš ir klimata kaps. climatecommunityinstitute.substack.com/p/iran-war-p...

The deadline for all these positions is now April 12th. Please do not be put off by the "Senior" in the job title. We have hired people at different career stages into roles at this grade, what matters is whether you can do the job!

Even if the destruction somehow stopped today, it will take years to rebuild.

This is a fucking travesty. “In just three days of fighting in the Middle East, more than 800 Patriot missiles were used — more than Ukraine has received throughout the entire Russian full-scale invasion.” (A year’s worth of production or more, btw) kyivindependent.com/over-800-pat...

Latvijas Tēatra darbinieku savienība skaidro, ka "demokrātiskā valstī nav pieļaujams izdarīt spiedienu uz māksliniekiem, lai tie noklusētu kādam politiķim netīkamus vēsturiskus notikumus".

Another Special Military Operation is upon us.

Delighted to share that part of my PhD work is now published in @cp-iscience.bsky.social: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... TL;DR Forelimb-hindlimb coordination is up to a quarter-phase more synced when hindlimbs are relatively more loaded, regardless of speed & phases of other limbs. 🧵1/11

💯Izrāde kā piedzīvojums uz citas planētas, turklāt psiholoģisks bezsvara stāvoklis saglabājās vēl ilgi pēc pēdējās nots. Hands down, jaudīgākā šosezon redzētā izrāde, un neiztrūkst arī Liepājas teātrim tik raksturīgais sirsnīgums.

🇱🇻 Rihards Lozbers is just so unique. He’s just 16 years old, so not even the top of the Youth age category. He just finished 32 in the Sprint at the Olympic Games. Youth Worlds just isn’t a challenge for him and that’s not an insult to the other young men. He’s so good 📸 Deubert/IBU #biathlon

"Estonia, Latvia and Poland will also stay away from the ceremony." www.helsinkitimes.fi/themes/theme...

SWC is the best place to do neuroscience in the world

Five years after the rollout of Covid-19 vaccines started, it seems the mystery of why the Astra-Zeneca and J&J vaccines led to a rare but deadly side effect of unusual blood clots and bleeding has finally been solved. 
 It's a fascinating case of molecular mimicry that may help make vaccine safer.🧪

This is a criminal attempt at destruction and silencing of knowledge. And it’s very intentional, in light of the leading role Georgian academics and students have played in protests against authoritarian rule

A fun article about our work and the Olympics. There's some interesting relationships between skiing and basal ganglia function. Also see the front of @cmu.edu 's homepage! @cmuscience.bsky.social @cmu-neuroscience.bsky.social @ahmarilab.bsky.social theconversation.com/hesitation-i...

Do you think they’d ban someone honouring people died in a natural disaster or an accident or because of an illness? I doubt it. Meanwhile, Russia can kill you and be sure institutions like that will look away coz Russia made your death “political” and “we don’t talk politics here. It’s a bad taste”

⚡️ BREAKING: International Olympic Committee has banned Vladyslav Heraskevych from using a custom helmet featuring images of Ukrainian athletes killed by Russia at the 2026 Olympics.

"This is the hard truth I want to land: climate does not care what’s trending. It’s not interested in Jeffrey Epstein, Gaza, or Greenland. There is no algorithmic mercy. Physics is physics, and it is getting more abrupt." #climatecrisis #ElNino #auspol www.lyrebirddreaming.com/post/we-are-...

✨ New 3D pose estimation method from my lab! #FMPose3D allows for monocular (i.e. single camera) 2D➡️3D 🔥 Led by Ti Wang & w/ Xiaohang Yu #FMPose3D is SOTA on human & animal 3D benchmarks, & will be integrated into @deeplabcut.bsky.social ⬇️ 📝 arxiv.org/abs/2602.05755 ➡️ xiu-cs.github.io/FMPose3D/

Everyone deserves an obituary, but this woman especially.

Trump: "Some very good things happening on Ukraine and Russia. Very good things." Very good things? Like the humanitarian disaster they caused in Kyiv? Today’s attack on the passenger train in Kharkiv region, or the bombing of a residential building in Odesa? WHAT GOOD THINGS?

Jeb, kā vakardienas Krustpunktā šī temata sakarā norādīja Latvijas otrā augstākā amatpersona, "redziet, Jūs runājat tikai par sliktām lietām". . . .

The killings in Minneapolis didn’t come out of nowhere. Funding, legal cover, weakened oversight, and dehumanising rhetoric ramping up over a year. This started on 20 Jan 2025 with Trump's executive orders on immigration. I lay it out in my latest post. christinapagel.substack.com/p/the-ice-st...

"The world is not collapsing, but our illusions are. We can't continue as before."-Foreign Minister Baiba Braže at opening of the Latvian Foreign and Security Policy Yearbook. President Egils Levits 2019—2023: sad, but the rules-based world order has ended. The EU must switch from observer to actor.

I remember the celebration of this ⬇️ and had a tiny hope three years ago that things might get better. But no. The obsession with this term is still there across Western media.

Incredible clarity. This is the best conceptual connection I have seen between the failures of our information ecosystem and the rise of populist and conspiratorial forces

A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.

The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.

Here comes the video analysis: - Pretti was shot 10 times after they took his gun - He never "brandished" the gun, assaulted an agent - They repeatedly pepper sprayed him at point blank range and beat him when he was down - He was attempting to help a woman who an agent threw to the ground (battery)

in case you're curious about how angry Minnesota is about ICE, it was -20 today

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Thought-provoking piece by @lewisgoodall.com. He argues that the US under Trump is no longer from the UK perspective a - military ally (Greenland) - strategic ally (Russia/Ukraine) - political ally (NSS calling for empowering far-right in Europe) - economic ally (tariffs)