“Cleaning up” plastic from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch with giant nets will skin the sea raw, and plastic will continue to come.
“Cleaning” the garbage patch has never been about healing nature. It has always been about cleaning our shame.
“We have long challenged Gilead’s pricing practices, but their outright refusal to sell lenacapavir is deeply troubling,” Doctors Without Borders officials wrote in an open letter…It also called the restrictions “unconscionable,” given public funding contributed to the development of the medicine”
@vscooper.micropopbio.org & @isabelott.bsky.social let me crash their high-school bacteria hunt while I was working on my book "Life's Edge." Their paper's now out, featuring lots of mutants (including my very own CZ1A).
This literature deserves to be better known. For instance, see:
-On poverty: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
-On poverty and inequality: degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
-On child and maternal health: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
States are paying contractors millions to comply Trump's laws to cut food stamps & care.
"These benefits...can mean the difference between someone obtaining medical care & having enough to eat—or going without."
By @rachanadpradhan.bsky.social kffhealthnews.org/news/article...
Carl Zimmer
Kathleen Bachynski
Jason Hickel
Rebecca R Helm
Amy Maxmen, PhD
earlier I described an odd-looking published Hi-C plot as “calling to us like the wild geese, harsh and exciting,” which feels like a first for the genre
The One Big Beautiful Bill Act will add red tape and restrictions for those seeking Medicaid and SNAP benefits. And the costs to update computer systems that determine eligibility for those programs w...
-On child health: academic.oup.com/ije/article/...
-On health system access and neonatal mortality: sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
-And there are many others we were forced to cut for brevity
Isabel
I said it here for @liberalcurrents.com: they want to be rich people in a poor country because that enhances the status of being rich (or so they think).
Madhu Pai, MD, PhD
Jason Hickel
What's something that experts/practitioners in your field universally agree upon, but that remains a "hot take" among the general public?
