Links for you. Science:

How Much Worse Would a Bird-Flu Pandemic Be?
Increased stomach-brain coupling indexes a dimensional signature of negative mental health symptoms.
A scientific controversy at the Supreme Court. We deserve a solid foundation of data to make smart policy decisions.
Avian Influenza A(H5N1) Virus among Dairy Cattle, Texas, USA
Please Mind the Gap: Indel-Aware Parsimony for Fast and Accurate Ancestral Sequence Reconstruction and Multiple Sequence Alignment including Long Indels
Preventing New Gram-negative Resistance Through Beta-lactam De-escalation in Hospitalized Patients With Sepsis: A Retrospective Cohort Study

Other:

The Future is Terror. Trumpism ushered in an era of threats, intimidation and retribution. It is getting worse.
Republicans Try To Block 4 Million Workers From Getting Overtime Protections
Hochul’s Bid to Stop Congestion Pricing Might Be Illegal
Trump’s Bizarre Moments With Dr. Phil and Hannity Should Alarm Us All. Earth to media: The criminal prosecutions of Trump are legitimate. The “revenge” he’s promising would be wholly illegitimate. Time to make that a whole lot clearer.
Donald Trump and Byron Donalds racial stunts are for white racists, not “outreach” to Black voters
Authority minimization
New York’s congestion pricing disaster. And the larger crisis of Deep Blue governance (it’s Yglesias, and ignoring the part about criminal justice reform, his statements about Democratic executive branch governance are correct)
Quick Note on Respecting the Civil Service
I was listening to a focus group sponsored by NPR of people who don’t like Biden or Trump. They asked one person who was leaning towards Trump about what she saw happening in a second Trump term. She answered, he would create jobs.
MAGA Republicans tip their hand: They’re after contraception, too
We’re Good at Punishing #MeToo Men. Can We Ever Forgive Them?
Boston-area commuter rail bounces back, while other agencies lag
Study finds a quarter of bosses hoped RTO would make employees quit
The “Hot Hand” Is Not a Myth. With the NBA Finals upon us, a mathematician revisits the famous paper that claims a player’s hot streak is an illusion.
Gov. Hochul’s Unwarranted Retreat on Congestion Pricing
Justice Alito Caught on Tape Discussing How Battle for America ‘Can’t Be Compromised’: In a new, secret recording, the Supreme Court justice says he “agrees” that the U.S. should return to a place of godliness
The FBI’s Data Shows A Massive Decline in Crime in Q1 2024, But Is It Accurate?
In Seattle, it’s the millionaires next door — 54,200 of them
FBI Indicts Doc Who Leaked Trans Kids’ Medical Info to Chris Rufo
The Unraveling of Nancy Mace: The tumultuous inside story of the thirstiest member of Congress. (most Republicans strike me as genuine conservatives, but Mace has always seemed like someone who could’ve hitched her star to being a moderate Democrat, but the payoff was more likely as a Republican–and now she’s regretting it)
Gambling For Life
The Strange Villainization of the Walkable City
Colorado’s Bold New Approach to Highways — Not Building Them
Harris escalates criticism of Trump, calling conviction ‘disqualifying’
Some company heads hoped return-to-office mandates would make people quit, survey says
The Mooch’s warning to Trump’s new pals on Wall Street