Can the FIFA Peace Prize be transferred to, say, Pakistan? *
*asking for a friend
How to stymie biomedical research in the United States
gift link nytimes.com/2026/04/22/s...
I try really hard to always be courteous to my fellow internet denizens but apparently a quick way to get on my bad side is to be misleading and/or inaccessible with space/science things. Science should be for everyone and misinformation about it undermines the whole point of scicomm.
“In a conflict like Sudan where women’s bodies are the battleground (GBV, lack of SRHR, acute malnutrition), how are we supposed to work when ‘gender’ has been erased from our vocabulary.” Powerful remarks by MSF at @humconberlin.bsky.social SRHR session.
it feels quite bad that it's basically impossible to argue that much of the modern right in the west has become both entirely intellectually shallow and deeply, fundamentally morally corrupt without sounding like a tedious teenage tankie, because it is.....the factual truth
An important reminder that progress is not linear, it needs constant attention and fight.
Yep, we're taking our academic journals off it this month at work. Get almost no engagement nowadays. Although bluesky is not much better, LinkedIn is the best for us now which I kinda hate because it means I have to spend time on LinkedIn