Bonnie Petrie talked with an expert in the science of empathy. Where does it come from? Why do we experience it? How do we experience it? Is it a weakness, a strength, neither, or both? Listen More👉 ebx.sh/TMIfE3

They are also intentionally conflating machine-learning and generative AI slop to confuse and try to make GenAI seem necessary. Google Maps traffic stuff is machine learning, not GenAI, for example. Auto-correct is too. Don't let them make you lose the thread. GenAI slop is slop.

Thank you for this reporting on @texaspublicradio.bsky.social’s Petrie Dish, @bonniepetrie.bsky.social. The rhetoric on the right about empathy is not only frightening, confounding and incomprehensible it’s also dangerously and scientifically inaccurate.

Empathy is getting a bad rap these days. Some call it a weakness that can be weaponized; others call it a sin. What is this ancient trait that drives humans not only to care about each other, but to act on those feelings? And why do some people insist that you ignore it? www.tpr.org/podcast/petr...

thinking of everyone sheltering from this storm in jamaica. hoping the world will be ready to help.

Since a major global outbreak of mpox in 2022, clade II mpox has been circulating at low levels in the U.S. But three new cases in California were identified as clade I mpox, a much more lethal form of the virus. BSPH doctoral student @drbanda.bsky.social shares insight on what this means.

Brian Schatz: "This is not about money. There is enough money to bail out Argentina with $20b. There is enough money to purchase a brand new aircraft for $173m for Noem. There is enough money to renovate the WH ballroom. What there isn't enough money for under this Republican government is you."

law is a social construct

A dinosaur talking with an NPR producer.

15 US states and territories have formed a new Public Health Alliance, which will counter the absence of federal leadership by tracking outbreaks, issuing guidance, buying vaccines and more. Members of the new alliance include CA, CO, CT, DE, GU, HI, IL, MD, MA, NJ, NY, NC, OR, RI, WA.

Congratulations to all the runners today at the Chicago Marathon! I hope you’re taking a moment after crossing the finish line and enjoying all that the best big city in the nation has to offer.

The FDA has added more brands to its list of lead tainted cinnamon. 1/3

*Is* there a connection? Bonnie Petrie talks with @ameracadpeds.bsky.social member pediatrician Dr. Nhung Tran, who specializes in neurodevelopmental disorders like autism, about the president's claims about autism, Tylenol, the MMR vaccine, and a form of vitamin B9. www.tpr.org/podcast/petr...

EMERGENCY MEDICAID REIMBURSES HOSPITALS FOR CARE TO UNDOCUMENTED IMMIGRANTS BECAUSE BY LAW HOSPITALS CANNOT TURN AWAY ANYONE IN AN EMERGENCY. RONALD REGAN SIGNED THIS INTO LAW.

New World screwworm! There's a travel-related case in the US, linked to El Salvador, north of what was a sturdy biological barrier against the flies responsible for screwworm in Panama. The flies are inching north & threaten to return to Texas. Learn all about NWS here: www.tpr.org/podcast/petr...

This week, Science & Medicine from @texaspublicradio.bsky.social features James Nelson, a @uthealthsa.bsky.social prof whose lab studies anti-aging drugs & focuses on sex differences in how well most potential anti-aging meds work. The exception? Rapamycin. Listen: www.tpr.org/podcast/petr...

New World screwworm! There's a travel-related case in the US, linked to El Salvador, north of what was a sturdy biological barrier against the flies responsible for screwworm in Panama. The flies are inching north & threaten to return to Texas. Learn all about NWS here: www.tpr.org/podcast/petr...

Sweet miracle Jesus, what? 😂

In a statement on Monday on its website, Camp Mystic said it mourned the loss of 27 campers and counselors: "Our hearts are broken alongside our families that are enduring this unimaginable tragedy. We are praying for them constantly," Read More👉 www.tpr.org/2025-07-04/kerr...

The devastation grows.

A video about the Declaration of Independence. I'm proud of this one.

Congress voted to pass the largest job-killing bill in history. Congress voted to take away health care from 17 million people to pay for tax breaks for billionaires. Congress voted to take away food assistance from 3 million people. Congress voted to betray working people.

NEW: EPA workers who signed onto the “Declaration of Dissent,” sent out Monday criticizing Administrator Lee Zeldin’s leadership, are facing retaliation. 144 have received letters placing them on administrative leave pending an investigation. www.importantcontext.news/p/epa-worker...

The economy got half a percentage point smaller last quarter

This right here is what we’re up against. Closing Colorado’s rural hospitals so the ultra-wealthy can get another tax cut? Unacceptable.

New: Pentagon believes Iran’s nuclear program was only set back roughly 1-2 years as a result of the US strikes last month, the chief spokesperson at the Defense Dept Sean Parnell said Wednesday @theguardian.com latest on the intel situation www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Joe Neguse now wants to know why Mike Johnson continues to leave votes open indefinitely for hours every time they don’t have enough votes.

Morning Briefing: The number of neo-Nazi right clubs associated with the Active Club Network has 'increased by 25 percent,' according to a new report published by the Global Project Against Hate and Extremism (GPAHE).

AOC: "On this point of tax on tips, as one of the only people in this body who has lived off of tips, I want to tell you a little bit about the scam ... the cap on that is $25,000 while you're jacking up taxes on people who make less than $50,000 across the US ... while kicking them off the ACA."

This week on Science & Medicine I talked with @uthealthsa.bsky.social professor and researcher Brij Singh, PhD, about magnesium and cancer. I'm obsessed with magnesium, so I found this chat fascinating. www.tpr.org/podcast/petr...

I talked with ProPublica about the rise in severe morbidity among people diagnosed with pregnancy loss at TX hospitals. Check out their important reporting about the increase in blood transfusions: www.propublica.org/article/texa...

No primates or even animal models. So straight from the lab into you. You're the animal model.

The White House has ordered the US Dept. of Justice to prioritize denaturalization: voiding the citizenship of US citizens. Who will it denaturalize? "Any" case that it "determines to be sufficiently important". Point 10 leaves the criteria opaque and arbitrary. substack.com/redirect/169...

The U.S. Air Force will manage the new NDA, which will cover approximately 250 miles of the Rio Grande in Cameron and Hidalgo counties on land transferred from the International Boundary and Water Commission. Read More👉 www.tpr.org/border-immigrat...

This week's ACIP meeting was full of the same intentionally misleading fearmongering that causes vaccine hesitancy. Children and families deserve better — public health information grounded in science.

The EU is committed to global health partnerships like @gavi.org Vaccines have cut down child mortality by 50%, building prosperity and hope. Proud to extend the @eib.org €1 billion financing facility for immunisation, pandemic response and local vaccine production in Africa. #MakingADifference

@gavi.org's success is the 🌍’s success. In the past 25 years, Gavi has been crucial in the success of under-5 mortality dropping by more than half. And Gavi’s new strategy seeks to protect more people, against more diseases, faster than ever before. A fully-funded Gavi is essential #ForOurFuture.

"There can be no keener revelation of a society's soul than the way in which it treats its children." @billgates.bsky.social quotes #NelsonMandela and recommits to the impact of @gavi.org with $1.6B.

The history of NYC is migration. Some of my ancestors migrated there around the turn of last century. The population has been in flux since the first European showed up more than 400 years ago. This is one of the things that makes NYC thrilling & why some say it's "the greatest city in the world."

President of American Academy of Pediatrics, which normally acts as a “liaison” to the CDC’s vaccine advisory board, this morning: “We won’t lend our name or our expertise to a system that is being politicized at the expense of children’s health.”

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presentation on COVID vaccines summary:

Also, do they not know anything at all about the history of New York?

Follow this journo! He's been live-posting ACIP. Read this thread for play-by-play.

My weekly @texaspublicradio.bsky.social update on the Texas measles outbreak: www.tpr.org/bioscience-m...