#NOAA #GOMO "It cost $48 million annually to operate the network. The Trump administration repeatedly tried to shutter it, proposing to cut its funding by 80 percent in both 2025 & again in 2026. Congress pushed back, restoring the money." Disappear it & Congress won't notice? globalocean.noaa.gov

Mi sembra la prima volta che la Festa della Repubblica è anche la storia delle donne che hanno partecipato alla Liberazione e alla Costituente. Da francese, mi colpiscono differenze e somiglianze con le celebrazioni del 14 luglio, festa della Repubblica e della Rivoluzione.

#decisiontheory "Feynman... claimed he had found a mathematical solution: in his simplified model of the situation, he calculated a threshold — a number of visits beyond which [his friend's] rational decision would be to always settle on his favourite dish." Pics of his solution in OA paper 🔽

#Cyanoramphusmalherbi Twice declared extinct, kākāriki karaka are now about 450 in New Zealand, of which 55 were born in the last 2 years from world-famous* superbreeders. *NYT-famous: www.nytimes.com/2026/06/02/w... -

#WorldCup Dear European football fans & relatives, please read the "travel warning".

"L’immigrazione ha un impatto più positivo sull’economia quando la popolazione immigrata riesce a integrarsi: quando cioè prende parte alla vita sociale ed economica del paese." Come "la forza lavoro femminile"...

Masha Gessen: "This Is the Formula That Defeated Orban. It Would Defeat Trump, Too." Also some European far-right, pro-Putin, corrupt candidates, imo. (Tks for the gift, @maddow.bsky.social !)

#Titles Nature: Pigeons might find their way by following their liver www.nature.com/articles/d41... Science: ‘Mind-blowing’: Iron-rich immune cells help homing pigeons navigate

#USpolitics "YouGov has been tracking this population since September 2022, when 38% of Republicans said they identify as MAGA Republicans. Today 62% of Republicans say they're MAGA supporters." "U.S. adult citizens who say they're MAGA Republicans: 19% today, up from 11% in 2022."

#lUKpolitics "The family paid the Home Office 1000s of pounds for their [care-worker] visa applications, pay taxes and do not claim any benefits." Home Office: "It is a privilege, not a right, to settle in the UK and it must be earned, rewarding contribution and those who play by the rules.”

#GlobalSumudFlotilla #IDF #sexualviolence Afaik it's the 14th "terrifying account". ABC News, who had briefly interviewed Juliet Lamont when she returned to Australia, reported yesterday she was among the activists who are taking "evidence of alleged abuse to International Criminal Court".

#warcrimes The US having ratified the 1949 Geneva conventions, Americans should be "surprised" to hear that their Commander in Chief deliberately had 145 little girls killed on day one of his war against Iran...

#evolution #paleontology Where do 🐢 fit in the tree of life? Genetically, they seemed to descend from a lizard-like "proto-turtle" that lived in southern Africa some 260 million years ago. Instead, they are closer relatives of archosaurs than the presumed proto-🐢, & than today's 🐦‍⬛ & 🐊. 1/2

#crimesagainsthumanity #genocide #El-Fasher Colombian mercenaries deployed with RSF in #Darfur were recruited by SGGS^, provided with weapons and hardware in Emirati "government properties and military bases". *See also 🔽

#eusocial policies ♥️ How a subset of "influential" bumble bee workers decentralize queenless colonies and establish "efficient network architectures" Preprint

👀 ”Delaware Superior Court Judge Craig Karsnitz said the beach town of Fenwick Island was not diluting human votes by allowing companies and other legal entities that own property to cast votes in municipal elections.“ Corporations registered in DE >2 million vs 782k registered voters...

R.I.P. "He preached fraternity against all forms of violence" and Morin was his battle name during the Resistance. No paywall www.rfi.fr/en/france/20...

US @state-department.bsky.social Contractor Caddell Construction (Montgomery, Alabama) is accused of importing workers from India who paid 10-15,000 euro to a Turkish middleman for the job "package", and are paid as little as 2 euro/hour less room & board.

#internationallaw In the West I live in, we haven't taken a "sanctuary" for granted since new technologies bombed Liège & Antwerp from the sky in 1914. And we usually know the laws protecting us started changing with the first Geneva convention 50 years later.

#humanrights The Israeli government announced it will "sever all ties" with the UN Sec. General. Afaik, it never contested facts documented in the report that - according to an Israeli Supreme Court's 2024 ruling - violated Israeli law.

#childdevelopment The statement “when a mother works for pay, the children suffer” is proved wrong, and "although overall effects are [...] not statistically significant, children from poorer families appear to mostly benefit from maternal work."

One glimmer of hope in the Ebola response: Within hours of the outbreak in DRC being declared, researchers convened to prepare drug trials. A lot has changed on that front since the Ebola outbreak in West Africa a decade ago. But huge challenges remain 🧪 My story in @science.org (🧵 to come)

"The GAO report estimates that in 2024, researchers used funds from the nine agencies to pay for publishing 46% of all papers produced with agency funding, to the tune of $295 million." The anticipated increase "also reflects inflation in public access fees..."

#USpolitics Context Ambassador & former Trump's AG Matthew Whitaker used to advise World Patent Marketing on how to sell "inventions" such as "masculine toilets for well-endowed men" for millions of $. The scam was closed by the FTC in 2017.

#hantavirus #zoonosis Among the updates, NIH director Jay Bhattacharya who accused Fauci, Collins etc of not apologizing for mandating allegedly harmful lockdowns during covid, has locked down a non-infected American citizen in a "prison" like center in Arizona. www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

#internetsafeguards #sexualabuse Recommendations based on authors' previous study estimating "that more than 130 million children globally experienced sexual violence in 2024 alone": www.nature.com/articles/s41... also paywalled. Press release news.gsu.edu/2026/05/27/g...

#AGW #mitigation Famous abstract: "No one is too small to make a difference." (Gift link to the paper in the 🧵)

#USpolitics 🧵 "All have been targets of Trump administration investigations. And by freezing funding to Harvard in particular, the agency could be in violation of a judge's order last September."

#polsci "How dichotomies such as 'good' and 'bad' immigrants are created and reinforced by public policies and political narratives," in 36 countries. Conclusions are "perhaps surprisingly positive". OA Focus www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... and paper 🔽

(1/3) Throughout the Land of Hope and Dreams American Tour, Bruce and the band have been supporting local organizations defending the civil and human rights of marginalized communities across the country — including immigrants and refugees — at their concerts in every city.

#Ebolaepidemic "Eastern DRC has a number of armed groups." Dr. Tedros can't call for Rwanda's, Uganda's and DRC's autocrats to stop arming them, but lots of countries could tell the autocrats "no ceasefire, no deals, no loans & no aid".

#dirittiumani Se fate parte della comunità medico-scientifica, potreste leggere la lettera indirizzata alla Presidente del Consiglio e al Ministro per la Salute, e firmala se siete d'accordo? Grazie.

#AGW #modelli Quasi dimenticavo di segnalare che, per chi non ha seguito il cancan in America e non segue nemmeno @climalteranti.bsky.social (!), @giacgrassi.bsky.social racconta "Come un telefono senza fili può distorcere il dibattito climatico: la storia dello scenario RCP 8.5".

#statistics "Using confidence-accuracy characteristic analysis [based on Bayesian logic], data from previous lab studies now showed that highly confident witnesses were up to 97% accurate. This was a seismic and controversial finding," Are they as highly confident in police precincts?

#AGW Reminder, no paywall.

#Geopolitics Perhaps the UN could also name-shame its rich member-states who're defunding its World Food Programme? And national ones like USAid?

#USforeignpolicy October 2025 Trump: My Board of Peace Council is the alternative to the failed UN, and my Gaza fund $17 billion. May 2026 His fund is empty, the members of his Board and committees MIA, Gaza bombed every day.

#evolution #primates #wristbones "Bone structures tied to sophisticated tool use emerged surprisingly late in human evolution, within the past few hundred thousand years."

America's new normal While "fake ICE agents intimidate and even injure or rape immigrants" www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news... in the Occupied Territories, real DHS troops intimidate US citizens and even pepper spray or arrest lawmakers.

#IA Pope Leo's encyclical Magnifica Humanitas. On safeguarding the human person in the time of artificial intelligence 🔽. Tks @smaurizi.bsky.social for the link.

#Ebola 😧 "The first burning of an Ebola centre in Rwampara was by a group of young men trying to retrieve a friend’s body, according to witnesses and police. The witnesses said the crowd accused the foreign aid group operating there of lying about Ebola."

Dr. Fauci is surely right. Let's also credit Dolly Parton who funded Vanderbilt U.'s development of Moderna's mRNA vaccine in April 2020, Angela Merkel who funded BioNTech's in February followed by EU's president Ursula von der Leyen in March. Operation Warp Speed was launched in May.

Pls read & support if you can. With other Israeli and Palestinians, they also fight for "two states in a shared homeland with confederative institutions [that] will benefit all of us." More info www.2s1h.org/en

#humanrights "UN resolution 2417 *unanimously* condemned the deliberate starvation of civilians in 2018." Since then it "is being increasingly weaponised with the supply of food routinely targeted in Gaza, Sudan, Lebanon and Haiti among others."

#AGW Oh dear, Roger Pielke Jr still attacked the #RCP8.5 scenario, @andrewdessler.com on May 11 www.theclimatebrink.com/p/rcp85-asks... and @climateofgavin.bsky.social's on May 20 www.realclimate.org/index.php/ar... notwithstanding. Guenther & Mann, May 22: Stop! Stop! It's already dead...

#AGW #biodiversity #globalpollution A propos One Earth One Health, two OA studies NGOs may find useful: "Towards climate-smart rewilding" www.cell.com/one-earth/fu... (based on 3 examples from Europe) "Food and beverage plastics dominate global shorelines" (sigh...) www.cell.com/one-earth/fu...

#OneEarthOneHealth "UK official development assistance spending is projected to fall by 45% between 2020 and 2026, Germany’s by 37% between 2023 and 2026, and France’s by 30% over the same period," while "governments sharply increase defence spending".

#USpolitics What next? Grill New York's and other sanctuary cities' mayors in the public square, like San Lorenzo on the barbecue?

#USpolitics Surveys of voters' issues vs Harris's program aren't discussed. Previous elections vs changed electoral & media "landscape" are, duh, followed by too many tables showing Democratic vs Republican parties' fundraising & spending. Insert angry goose meme "And you call that an autopsy".

"The Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo is spreading rapidly", says @drtedros.who.int at @who.int presser. 82 cases and 7 deaths have been confirmed in DRC. "But we know the epidemic in DRC is much larger. There are now almost 750 suspected cases and 177 suspected deaths."