Links for you. Science:

Long Island’s last duck farm weighs closure after outbreak leads to killing of entire flock
‘A Dangerous Virus’: Bird Flu Enters a New Phase
National Science Foundation suspends salary payments, leaving researchers unable to pay their bills
Pathogen genomics in healthcare: overcoming barriers to proactive surveillance
Postdocs should receive relocation benefits from the universities that hire them (the federal government also should pay them on time too…)
Male Amazon river dolphins pee into the air, confusing scientists

Other:

Capitulating to Trump: why people are warning about ‘Vichy’ America. As Trump creates unprecedented chaos, Democrats have offered little more than platitudes – sparking comparisons to France’s collaborationist second world war regime
A Few Thoughts on Messages and Morale
Elon’s Twitter Destruction Playbook Hits The US Government, And It’s Even More Dangerous
Elon Musk’s Friends Have Infiltrated Another Government Agency. Elon Musk’s former employees are trying to use White House credentials to access General Services Administration tech, giving them the potential to remote into laptops, read emails, and more, sources say. (Wired finally named the 18 and 21 year olds DOGE staffers in this story)
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is Trying to Hide Who He Is. How Trump’s HHS nominee spent two days of hearings obfuscating decades of scientific falsehoods.
RFK Jr. confirmation could hinge on his embrace of false vaccine-autism link
The Hip-Hop World Isn’t Resisting This Trump Administration
Acting on Trump’s order, federal officials opened up two California dams
The new free speech crisis hiding in plain sight
“AI nurses” as “good as any doctor”: RFK Jr. confirms he wants to take away people’s health care. Kennedy’s plan to “make America healthy”: Replace real medical care with robots and lectures about diet
Elon Musk Plans to Take Over GSA Next—With Disturbing Plan of Action
Trump Signs Executive Order Directing Federal Funds to School Choice, Directly Attacking Public Schools
Pro-RFK Jr. letter to the Senate includes names of doctors whose licenses were revoked or suspended
Has NYC congestion pricing worked? MTA releases dramatic new traffic volume numbers
Smithsonian Institution to Close Its Diversity Office
New White House lawyer described himself as a “raging misogynist,” praised Nazi theorist
Who Can Stop Elon’s ‘Team’ Wilding Its Way Through the Federal Government?
Raft Of Government Websites Go Dark Or Remove Key Information About Diversity In Trump Purge
Israel Is Not Committing Genocide in Gaza. But It May Be on the Way There
This Is What A War On Democracy Looks Like
AI Invaded My Classroom. I Felt Shocked and Defeated
Trump Is Trying To Make The Federal Workforce Whiter
There’s No Auschwitz in Gaza. But It’s Still Genocide
Trump Plans To Nullify New Federal Union Contracts
The messianic arrogance of RFK Jr.
Why DeepSeek’s Surprise Breakthrough Shouldn’t Have Come as a Surprise