When we say people think AI plus robots will replace cancer, neuro, &c #NIH / #NSF research, this is what we mean: "The legislation would establish a nat'l network of cloud labs, physical labs where humans alongside robots could do biotech experiments that researchers could access remotely." 🧪 1/2
Sen. Todd Young readies AI and biotech bill package
Most tech bills fail, but these could be on a gliding path.
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This is who you REALLY are. You are not a reflection in a mirror. There are no liposuction or fillers to prevent your neurons from showing your actual age. Support basic scientific research so that one day we may learn how to grow new neurons in the brain. #FluorescenceFriday
Thrilled to collaborate with @zhixingchen2.bsky.social Lab @pku1898.bsky.social ! We tested new PK Mem dyes—gentle, photostable tools to label the plasma membrane in live neurons, making it easier to track growth cone motility & axonal transport. #liveimaging #neuroscience tiny.cc/3qhp001
I didn’t think I was a dog person until the pup bus… Today’s edition is priceless
Martijn Nugteren nature photographer "I was curious about the life in the pond in my garden. So I decided to put my camera under the duckweed and this is the result. New life? 💚"
1 in 7 Americans relies on SNAP for their food benefits. Not only is it a critical program in promoting food security/health, but it has an outstanding return on investment: for every $1 invested in SNAP, there is $1.54 in economic activity as people go to local grocers. www.cbpp.org/research/foo...
A Closer Look at Who Benefits from SNAP: State-by-State Fact Sheets | Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP, formerly known as food stamps) is the nation’s most important anti-hunger program, reaching some 41 million people nationwide in 2024. These...
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Bobby Kogan@bbkogan.bsky.social · last yr.Now that we’ve seen the full Senate text, we can say for certain: either the House or the Senate version would be the largest transfer of wealth from the poor to the rich in a single law in history. Each have the largest Medicaid and largest SNAP cuts ever. And each give huge tax cuts to the rich.
I plan to post at least one of my photos a day here on Bluesky. I design each of my photos using recent research into the benefits to mental health of looking at plants & patterns in nature. Making my collections relaxes my noisy autistic+ADHD brain & they'll relax yours by looking at them here:
Our brains love the colour gradation in rainbows, maybe due to our ancestors searching for sources of water. Looking at plants helps us recover from stress & looking at something we think is beautiful causes dopamine release. I've posted this photo to alter your brain biochemistry for the better 🌿
'David Carpenter, a professor of medieval history at King’s College London, stumbled on a document labelled as an unofficial copy of Magna Carta from 1327 in Harvard law school library’s online collection.' Hmmm: 'stumbled on'? No training, rigour or methodology involved in the find, then.
Harvard’s unofficial copy of Magna Carta is actually an original, experts say
Document issued by Edward I in 1300 was bought by law school library for just $27 in 1946
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The Dog Scolding Naughty Timber for the Wait is Absolutely Everything! 😂
new oranges, painted by amanda almira newton, 1914
This is Sequoia National Park is in California's southern Sierra Nevada mountains. It's known for its huge sequoia trees, notably the General Sherman Tree dominating the Giant Forest. These are the largest trees in the world. The General Sherman is the equivalent of a 26-storey building.
🔔🧪 A 30-year study in Nature Medicine identifies the #foods you should prioritize for #healthy mental and physical #aging and those that may harm your health. (Important: exercise, smoking, and BMI were accounted for! 😇) #health #food #diet www.news-medical.net/news/2025032...
The best diet for aging well, backed by a 30-year study of 100,000 people
A 30-year study of over 100,000 U.S. adults found that consistent adherence to healthy dietary patterns, especially the AHEI, was strongly linked to successful aging. Diets rich in plant-based foods a...
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Rich people live longer than poor people in the US and Europe – but rich Americans have far shorter lifespans than rich people in northern, western and southern Europe.
Americans die earlier at all wealth levels, even if wealth buys more years of life in the US than in Europe
New research shows that Americans’ personal wealth is not enough to compensate for factors that affect how long people live, such as health behaviors, education or social support.
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Really nice data-driven explainer of recent causes of global warming from @hausfath.bsky.social www.theclimatebrink.com/p/exploring-...
Exploring the drivers of modern global warming
By using a simple climate model, we can disentangle greenhouse gases, aerosols, and natural forcings.
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Science, I realized, gave us superpowers. We evolved sensory capabilities consistent with our physical scale and temporal experience. But with science, we can understand what happened in the femtoseconds after the Big Bang, the molecular basis of inheritance, a 4 billion-year story of life on earth.
At our #BIOFACH session on “Managing and Financing Sustainable Transformation,” we explored how two innovative financial approaches, #SEBIT and #NatureEquity, can help steer investments into more sustainable business models.
Prof. Pattie Maes, head of the Media Lab’s Fluid Interfaces group, talks to MIT ILP about innovation, AI, and prioritizing people. “The Media Lab tends to emphasize the human and societal impact of emerging technologies,” ilp.mit.edu/read/Maes
A new report from the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine is helping to define what misinformation is, how it starts, and how to combat it. Hear about the findings from @hsph.harvard.edu's Vish Viswanath: www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHjN...
870 - The Origins, Impacts, and Challenges of Misinformation
YouTube video by Public Health On Call
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That's the general paradox of public health. If public health does nothing to combat infectious disease, they get blamed for incompetence. If they do their duties with care, and many fewer people die, everybody says, "Oh, it wasn't such a big deal after all." Maddening.
Dr. Ellis and her team are developing helpful tools ccr.publichealth.gwu.edu
Center for Community Resilience | Milken Institute School of Public Health | The George Washington University
Providing technical assistance, facilitation, analysis and policy guidance to help institutions, organizations and collaboratives create measurable, lasting change.
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These are things like education, income and access to healthcare. As an epidemiologist for more than 25 years, I’ve come to conclude that nothing can have a greater impact on public health than addressing SDH. Without education and access to healthcare, people tend to make poor health decisions.
