—> Moderna has put its plans to establish vaccine manufacturing in Kenya on hold

This sucks. 40% cut in funding for the BRAIN Initiative. What does this say about our values as a society when we continue to underfund science?

The fact that there has not been a single article in the NEJM on this war — a war where bombed hospitals and now famine are center stage! —  is utterly indefensible. Everyone will agree on this in some years to come, when it's too late to alter the course of events.

Normand Meunier.

Say his name. A victim of our failing health system. He was left on an ER stretcher for 4 days and developed a bedsore that worsened so much that bone + muscle were exposed. 2 weeks ago, he ended his life via MAID.

via André Picard

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.Financial Times splash on a new generation of models with partial “reasoning” capabilities. W/Cristina Criddle ft Brad Lightcap, Yann LeCun and Joelle Pineau

Not in the path of totality for the solar eclipse? Worried about cloudy skies?

Join us virtually for IU Luddy's live stream of the total solar eclipse, starting at 1 pm on Monday, April 8th.

Please spread the word! #Eclipse2024 #SolarEclipse2024

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In this lecture we review the discovery of RNA and DNA tumor viruses and how an understanding of how they transform cells lead to an understanding of the mechanisms of cell growth control. 📺 bit.ly/3TMl4uF

With tremendous joy, I share that our patient who received a gene-edited pig kidney transplant was discharged home today after removal of his dialysis access. We hope that this is a first step that will bring hope to many patients waiting for a kidney transplant #xenotransplant

'Breen had falsified 12,499 records related to 1,452 students at 300 schools. Rather than administer shots to protect kids against hepatitis B, chicken pox, and other diseases, Breen had given nearly all of her patients homeopathic pellets.'
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Second piece of my freelance era: For The Cut, I wrote about the attendance crisis and one way some schools are attempting to solve it -- by encouraging parents to send kids to school sick.

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So much of what we see as automated is really powered by humans in hidden corners of the world. A student I spoke to in Bulgaria used to watch old people in a US geriatric ward and trip an “AI”alarm if they fell. As Anjli Raval says, this is Chapter 1 of my book Code Dependent.

Today, Christie Aschwanden and Scientific American dive into the unknown. listen here: scientificamerican.com/podcast/episod…

Nine foreign doctors have told the Guardian that they have been treating a steady stream of children, elderly people and other clear non-combatants with single bullet wounds to the head or chest. #Gaza #Israel theguardian.com/world/2024/apr…

Having covered #H5N1 #birdflu for a very long time now, I don't like seeing it move into new species & I don't like human infections. That said, this situation — human case in Texas, caught from cows — probably isn't as unsettling as it might seem. statnews.com/2024/04/01/bir…

Packed house at NYU Journalism last week for a great conversation with Elizabeth Kolbert and Wesley Allsbrook on communicating the #ClimateCrisis in word and image. Did you miss it? Watch it here! journalism.nyu.edu/about-us/event… #SciComm National Association of Science Writers (NASW) Society of Environmental Journalists (SEJ) #climate

It’s not you, it’s us.

My colleagues and I are heartbroken at the tragic loss of another one of our own in an airstrike in #Syria this morning, engineer Emad Shehab. We extend our deepest condolences to his family.

Emad served as the World Health Organization (WHO) water and sanitation focal point in Deir-ez-Zor. His untimely…

Today is #WorldTBDay . Around a billion people have died of tuberculosis since 1800. At the current rate of decline, we can expect another 100 million to die of TB in the next century. Each of those deaths would be needless.
It all reminds me of a different date: October 24th.