Links for you. Science:

Covid Pregnancies May Have Boosted Autism Risk, Study Shows
It’s time to renovate the AMNH fossil halls
Metformin reduces the risk of Long COVID or Death over 6 months in an Emulated Target Trial of Primarily Omicron-infected Adults without Diabetes or Prediabetes New-User, Active-Comparator Analysis
Valley fever cases surge in California, already way up from recent years
Species concepts in conservation biology
New England’s deer population is skyrocketing. Here’s why that’s particularly a problem in Eastern Massachusetts.

Other:

Why aren’t we talking about the real reason male college enrollment is dropping? (excellent, must-read)
The Most Powerful Man in America is a Nazi Sympathizer
Elon Musk Assumes New X Identity Linked to White Supremacists
Craig Newmark: The Most Famous Accidental Entrepreneur’s 7 Steps to Success
Democrats Are the Guardrails of Democracy – And Must Act Like It
China is building new detention centers all over the country as Xi Jinping widens corruption purge
It Was Never About Artificial Intelligence
What to know about H-1B visas at the center of Musk-MAGA fight
Trumpers discover a type of bigotry they oppose (against themselves)
Ron Wyden’s Fight For Free Tax Filing Is A Blueprint For Future Democratic Battles Against Trump
Revealed: The secret Republican plot to disenfranchise millions of voters
Who Wants This
MAGA was all about “masculinity” in 2024 — too bad they have no idea what that word means
‘I thought it’d be funny’: Someone built a little bridge for a big Vancouver puddle
Blake Lively inspires more actresses to speak out against Hollywood toxicity
The New Years’ Eve Ethics Massacre: The House Ethics Committee’s decisions let congressmen put campaign cash in their pockets and make other allegations of misusing their offices disappear.
The Blob
What Horrible Things Did We Do To Our Penises Last Year?
Segmentation fault: The politics of migration from poor countries to rich is structured by exploitation and segmentation.
Bluesky Won’t Save Us. Like radiation, social media is invisible scientific effluence that leaves us both more knowledgeable and more ignorant of the causes of our own afflictions than ever
On roads teeming with robotaxis, crossing the street can be harrowing. Our tech columnist captured videos of Waymo self-driving cars failing to stop for him at a crosswalk. How does an AI learn how to break the law?
Democrats need to wake up and build real solutions to California’s affordability crisis
‘The Romans may as well have had lasers’
How Christian Extremists Are Co-opting the Book of Esther
Trump Bibles, Rudy coffee, Tucker nicotine pouches: the rightwing knick-knack racket
What the Kek: Explaining the Alt-Right ‘Deity’ Behind Their ‘Meme Magic’