Monthly Archives: April 2025

Links for you. Science: Two Louisiana infants die of whooping cough amid drop in vaccinations The moral injury of participating in a repressive system ‘Hostile Takeover’: DOGE and Howard Lutnick Are Destroying NOAA Meet the Fluffy, Funky and Fabulous Native … Continue reading →

Links for you. Science: RFK Jr. says 20% of health agency layoffs could be mistakes The CDC Has Been Gutted RFK Jr. cuts CDC labs investigating outbreaks of STDs and hepatitis US Weather Agency Websites Set to Vanish With Contract … Continue reading →

Links for you. Science: A new COVID variant is on the rise. Here’s what to know about LP.8.1 Healthcare workers with chronic condition miss more days of work due to COVID than flu, data show COVID-19 may put patients at … Continue reading →

Links for you. Science: New species revealed after 25 years of study on ‘inside out’ fossil — and named after discoverer’s mum Trump promised scientific breakthroughs. Researchers say he’s breaking science. Meet the Fish That Doesn’t Want to Be Met … Continue reading →

Links for you. Science: The Worm That No Computer Scientist Can Crack. One of the simplest, most over-studied organisms in the world is the C. elegans nematode. For 13 years, a project called OpenWorm has tried—and utterly failed—to simulate it. … Continue reading →

Links for you. Science: Trinity warns staff not to answer US government request for diversity and equality information Global Metagenomics Reveals Hidden Protist Diversity Computer Science in the Stars As opposition to fluoride grows, rural America risks a new surge … Continue reading →

Links for you. Science: FDA’s top vaccine official forced out, decries RFK Jr.’s “misinformation and lies” Massive inter-species introgression overwhelms phylogenomic relationships among jaguar, lion, and leopard The CDC Buried a Measles Forecast That Stressed the Need for Vaccinations US … Continue reading →

Links for you. Science: The NIH Moves to Stop Studying Vaccine Skepticism Measles cases rise to 23 in Kansas, may be linked to large multistate outbreak Vaccine skeptic hired to head federal study of immunizations and autism ‘Something was wrong … Continue reading →

Links for you. Science: I’m not going to be able to tell you about the consequences of EVERY lost grant, but I’m going to try. Let’s start with the Antiviral Drug Discovery (AViDD) program for pathogens of pandemic concern! It … Continue reading →

Links for you. Science: List of terminated HHS grants (pdf; as of Mar. 25) Acting NIH director dismisses four neuroscientists from advisory boards Saying ‘pandemic is over,’ NIH starts cutting COVID-19 research FDA approves first new antibiotic for UTIs in … Continue reading →