Incredible! Scientists receive a rare standing ovation after announcing that a new treatment can double the survival time for pancreatic cancer, the deadliest cancer which was once considered “undruggable.”
When we fund and support science, we can achieve anything!
(Video: Dr. Wish Dhillon)
NEW: UK's 7th carbon budget will deliver '£865bn' in economic benefits
* Major investments needed to get rewards, inc saving £445bn on oil / gas imports
* Pointedly, given current politics, figures are presented relative to "no net-zero"
Full analysis:
www.carbonbrief.org/...
Not the end of the story, but this is marvellous news.
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The internet of things 😂
Feed the bees! #nomowmay
This is dizzying in its awfulness. These people are a cult of destruction.
Lots of low key terrifying stats in the Climate Change Committee's new report on climate adaptation, but this one is particularly eye catching.
If you are not worried about food security in an era of spiralling temperatures you are not paying attention. www.businessgreen.com/news-analysi...
Come and work on making demographic models of forests better, as part of our #NextGenCarbon EU project with @coxypm.bsky.social in Exeter. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRT853/p...
More for @elizabethginexi.bsky.social on the proposed OMB rule, addressing the far reaching consequences of the rule including and beyond science: open.substack.com/pub/elizabet...
Half of business owners on this Toronto street estimated that more than 25% of their customers arrived by car.
In fact, it was 4%.
And the % of customers who who walked or cycled? 72%.
Retailers routinely overestimate the # of “car customers.” Via @carltonreid.com www.forbes.com/sites/carlto...
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Of all the harm this administration has done to US science, today's proposed changes to the way federal grants are awarded and administered is the most damaging yet.
The text of the federal register document is impenetrably tedious by design, so here's an excellent summary of what it says.
Carl T. Bergstrom
Summary of Key Changes in OMB’s Proposed Federal Financial Assistance Rule.
Russell Vought is going destroy American Science.
elizabethginexi.substack.com/p/summary-of...
Federal judge blocks breakup of NCAR in Boulder while blasting Trump for enacting political revenge on Colorado
Wild #bees & other #pollinators need #wildflowers to survive.
So cut less grass and leave parts of your garden wild or semiwild.
Enjoy beauty and richness of life!
