Looking to environmental exposures is the most neglected approach in health studies, not only in cancer research. For example, animal models suggests that microplastics cause neuroinflammation, neurodevelopmental alterations and neurodegeneration, contributing to autism, ADHD, depression, etc.

"I now see that the value of a scientific career isn’t measured only by the institution on your diploma, but by whether your work feels meaningful, whether you’re growing as a researcher, and whether you can sustain the curiosity that brought you into science" www.science.org/content/arti...

“My message for the situation when I am killed is very simple: don't give up! If they decide to kill me, it means that we are incredibly strong. The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good people to do nothing.” Alexei Navalny

To keep one's hope, one has to learn to calibrate it. "Best we can hope for is a return to the Pliocene - 3C hotter and sea levels eventually up 20m" - Bill McGuire, professor emeritus of geophysical and climate hazards at UCL, the author of Hothouse Earth: an Inhabitant’s Guide. #ClimateSky

How many academics were driven by their moral duty during the times of the Third Reich? How many today? #AcademicSky

Politruk - a new career path in the U.S. science: "EPA tells..scientists to stop publishing studies... The studies would be subject to a new review process... The decision to reevaluate all manuscripts was made by political appointees." #AcademicSky www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

A recent report, "Cradle to Grave," outlines health hazards of #fossilfuels, from extraction to combustion, including raising infant mortality to 31 per 1000 births and lowering life expectancy to 50 near extraction sites. via @healthpolicywatch.bsky.social healthpolicy-watch.news/ban-fossil-f...

How many academics were driven by their moral duty during the times of the Third Reich? How many today? #AcademicSky

After Hitler came to power, Max Horkheimer was forced to leave academia. Soon after, he left Germany. "Those who are too weak to make a stand against reality have no choice but to obliterate themselves by identifying with it." 13/n

To keep one's hope, one has to learn to calibrate it. "Best we can hope for is a return to the Pliocene - 3C hotter and sea levels eventually up 20m" - Bill McGuire, professor emeritus of geophysical and climate hazards at UCL, the author of Hothouse Earth: an Inhabitant’s Guide. #ClimateSky

New York Times; Jan. 28, 1934: "Liberalism in Germany is dead... the Germans generally—many with enthusiasm, some doubtless with reluctance—have accepted the goose-step as the guiding principle in politics, in thought, in education and in the arts."

Sharing this article because I think it's an important conversation to have and it might be worth having our own word to convey what's happening: www.nytimes.com/1934/01/28/a...

Cardinal Dolan quotes Pope JP II, who once said, "The best way you can tell somebody you love them is to tell them the truth," and that "The most effective way to tell the truth is to do it with love". Who will tell the Cardinal the truth, and will he listen to it? www.foxnews.com/video/637979...

"Efforts aimed at breaking down oligarchic structures may ironically create the conditions of possibility for further concentrations of power... Big Tech companies... benefit from open databases and source code to create proprietary products" #AcademicSky

A lesson on what a response to birtherism should have been: "The far-right podcaster has spread..conspiracy theories that the first lady of France was born male..The Macrons filed a..lawsuit.. Brigitte Macron to provide ‘scientific proof’ she is a woman" www.the-independent.com/news/world/a...

"Efforts aimed at breaking down oligarchic structures may ironically create the conditions of possibility for further concentrations of power... Big Tech companies... benefit from open databases and source code to create proprietary products" #AcademicSky

"If we continue down this path, we are not prepared, not just for pandemics, but for preventing chronic health disease, and we're going to see kids dying of vaccine-preventable diseases." - Dr. Debra Houry, the CDC’s former chief medical officer www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

"If we continue down this path, we are not prepared, not just for pandemics, but for preventing chronic health disease, and we're going to see kids dying of vaccine-preventable diseases." - Dr. Debra Houry, the CDC’s former chief medical officer www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

After Hitler came to power in 1933 and Nazi laws and power were imposed on German universities, Martin Buber resigned in protest from his professorship. “We can be redeemed only to the extent to which we see ourselves.” - Martin Buber #academicfreedom 10/n

After Hitler came to power, James Franck, in protest, resigned from his professorship. "In the past, scientists could disclaim..responsibility for the use to which mankind had put their disinterested discoveries. We cannot take the same attitude now"- Franck Report #academicfreedom 9/n

One of Husserl's students, Hannah Arendt, was jailed by the Gestapo for her research on antisemitism prohibited by the Nazis and on her release, fled Germany. “The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.”- Hannah Arendt #AcademicFreedom 3/n

After Hitler came to power, Edith Stein, another of Husserl's students, was forced to quit her teaching position. She became a Carmelite nun and perished in Auschwitz. “Those who remain silent are responsible.” - Edith Stein #AcademicFreedom 5/n

After Hitler came to power, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, who was a Lutheran theologian and pastor, became an anti-Nazi dissident. The Nazis hanged him in 1945. "Silence in the face of evil is itself evil." #AcademicFreedom 7/n

After Hitler came to power, Erich Fromm left Germany. “When Fascism came into power, most people were unprepared... They were unable to believe that man could exhibit such propensities for evil, such lust for power..or such yearning for submission.” - Erich Fromm #AcademicFreedom 6/n

"American colleges..are confronting..problems of rampant grade inflation and declining rigor.. Teacher evaluations are a big part of how higher education got to this point.. Faculty feel pressure to cut workloads and pump up the grades..to boost their own scores." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

"The environment should be put in the category of our national security. Defense of our resources is just as important as defense abroad. Otherwise, what is there to defend?" RIP Robert Redford

"Peril must be faced head-on. This is the least among the forms of courage that might save us. We can always recover from pain, catastrophe, or mourning, but evil will always claim a share. We will never be saved in advance". - Anne Dufourmantelle

“My message for the situation when I am killed is very simple: don't give up! If they decide to kill me, it means that we are incredibly strong. The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good people to do nothing.” Alexei Navalny

"Yulia Navalnaya, the widow of the Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, said that two foreign laboratories had confirmed her husband was poisoned, after tests on biological samples secretly smuggled out of Russia." www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

Commitment to the future of humanity means a commitment to a livable planet. So far, humanity as a whole is not showing any signs of such commitment.

"Veritas numquam perit"- Seneca the Younger "The Department of Justice has removed [from its website]a study showing that white supremacist and far-right violence 'continues to outpace all other types of terrorism and domestic violent extremism' in the United States" www.404media.co/doj-deletes-...

"The environment should be put in the category of our national security. Defense of our resources is just as important as defense abroad. Otherwise, what is there to defend?" RIP Robert Redford

"The tech mogul is amping up his apocalyptic rhetoric... Why is a tech billionaire trying to convince us we’re on the brink of apocalypse? These rehashed Satanic panic tactics must be exposed for what they are: a cynical ploy to further inflame political divisions." newrepublic.com/article/2004...

"36% of the abstracts in 7177 manuscripts submitted to AACR contained at least some AI-generated text. But when asked in an automatic step in the submission process to disclose any use of AI to prepare the manuscript, authors only did so for 9% of the papers studied." www.science.org/content/arti...

"I never thought I’d see fear spread so far and fast... Universities, business leaders, law firms, media platforms and tech supremos have utterly failed... They have either kept their heads down..or fawned on the president" www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

"It is time to resist the injustice that now threatens to be normalized by those who capitulate, sometimes in advance, to powers that are clearly willing to destroy the basic principles that protect the university’s independence against external manipulations..." www.chronicle.com/article/when...

"It is inhumane to expect nearly half a million children, battered and traumatised by over 700 days of unrelenting conflict, to flee one hellscape and end up in another." www.reuters.com/world/middle...

"The forest of New Guinea will stand or fall in one human generation. And what will mainly determine the outcome is going to be the tenacity and the resistance of forest peoples and the work of indigenous researchers and conservationists." #ClimateSky #GreenSky

"Many American universities have advised academics not to speak out on 'controversial' issues such as climate change, even when this is still technically possible. .. people seek to avoid or minimize adverse consequences by anticipating what the regime expects of them, and complying in advance."

"At the core of #ClimateCrisis, there is a deep behavioral crisis. Our behaviors, once adaptive, became maladaptive and hijacked by corporate capitalism," and "It is easier to end #democracy than #FossilFuels in the US" - from my virtual Grand Rounds talk in Victoria, BC. Thank you, Victoria!

"Taking drastic measures against AI in higher education is..about creating the conditions necessary for young people to learn to read, write, and think, which is to say, the conditions necessary for modern civilization to continue to reproduce itself" #AcademicSky www.theatlantic.com/culture/arch...

"Taking drastic measures against AI in higher education is..about creating the conditions necessary for young people to learn to read, write, and think, which is to say, the conditions necessary for modern civilization to continue to reproduce itself" #AcademicSky www.theatlantic.com/culture/arch...

"The attacks on Mann encompassed death threats and 'demands for him to be fired from his job, all because his findings threaten the profits of the fossil fuel industry.'... How can the anti-science movement be defeated? ... Hotez and Mann write that scientists must take to the battlefield..."

After Hitler came to power, he joined the resistance and collaborated with the White Rose movement. He was executed by the Nazis in 1943. "As a German professor..I hold it to be..my moral duty to take part in the shaping of our German destiny, to expose and oppose obvious wrongs"- Kurt Huber 18/n

This is true for human relations in general, not only international relations. "There is nothing more dangerous in international relations than giving a guarantee that is not credible." www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

Larry Ellison, the world's wealthiest person and Donald Trump's ally: "Citizens will be on their best behavior, because we’re constantly recording and reporting everything that is going on... if there’s a problem, AI will report that problem". fortune.com/2024/09/17/o...

The presenter of FOX News, the TV station with the highest number of viewers in the U.S., calls for euthanizing homeless people. This is America today. "Ethical obligation has to subordinate itself to the totalitarian nature of war"-Karl Brandt, who oversaw the euthanasia program in the Third Reich

Holocaust Encyclopedia:The Euthanasia Program..aimed to eliminate what eugenicists..considered 'life unworthy of life'..individuals who..because of severe psychiatric, neurological, or physical disabilities represented..a..burden on German society and the state encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/a...

Holocaust Encyclopedia:The Euthanasia Program..aimed to eliminate what eugenicists..considered 'life unworthy of life'..individuals who..because of severe psychiatric, neurological, or physical disabilities represented..a..burden on German society and the state encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/a...

Larry Ellison, the world's wealthiest person and Donald Trump's ally: "Citizens will be on their best behavior, because we’re constantly recording and reporting everything that is going on... if there’s a problem, AI will report that problem". fortune.com/2024/09/17/o...