Gill: All 100 senators last week passed a non-binding resolution condemning any pardon for Ghislaine Maxwell. They're simultaneously considering confirming the guy who met with her and moved her to a low-security facility as the top cop in the United States. That is so insane to me.

Ciara Nic Ionnraic PhD #Health #Research #SciComms@chendirl.bsky.social · 2w ago

No plans for #Halloween #Samhain? Then pop in an abstract for @tcddublin.bsky.social @eurohealthhist.bsky.social Workshop: Negotiating Care: Health Systems & the Social Contract #CFP closes 5 August #CA22159 29-30 Oct 2026 - DETAILS👉 tinyurl.com/5dr8bh7m #HistMed #MedHums #ReproHist #NursingHist

#CFP closes tomorrow 5 August - if you're interested in what happens to healthcare in times of crisis, conflict, or when it simply doesn't exist then check out this workshop seeking papers on a broad range of topics. We have space for 2 more funded places #Dublin #HSTM #HistMed #MedHums #HistHealth

COST Action CA22159 Euro Hist Health@eurohealthhist.bsky.social · 2w ago

#CFP closes 5 August #CA22159 Workshop: Negotiating Care: Health Systems & the Social Contract @tcddublin.bsky.social 29-30 Oct 2026 - Modern healthcare systems rest on a set of promises yet these promises have repeatedly gone unfulfilled DETAILS👉 tinyurl.com/3v2p3edm #HistMed #MedHums #ReproHist

When Whitehouse is on, he's on. This is a flamethrower.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterday

Whitehouse: "Today I think is a sad and embarrassing day for this committee as it looks like on a party-line vote we are going to advance out of this committee probably the most discreditable person ever to seek the office of attorney general. Let's start with the Epstein files ... "

Do you ever wonder how they’re going to halve the Earth’s population? They’re going to remove public health protections & let diseases we had previously eradicated surge out of control. They’re going to slash social services. They’re going to kill the vulnerable. Eugenics.

Scientists say we need to HALVE Earth's population to save the planet

It might sound like the evil plan of a nefarious villain, but scientists now say that we need to halve Earth's population to save the planet.

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I worked for New York’s largest medical center at the start of the pandemic. There were morgue trucks on the streets. They set up emergency medical tents in Central Park. Healthcare worker colleagues died. It is horrific that RFK Jr is on national TV lying that ICUs were empty.

While this reply is getting attention— if you have teacher training/educational experience and you want to volunteer 2-4 hrs/week as an online teacher for girls and women in Afghanistan, message me!

Just a couple of days left to subnit an abstract. Funding to participant available - see #cfp for details #histmed #medhums

Ciara Nic Ionnraic PhD #Health #Research #SciComms@chendirl.bsky.social · 2w ago

A robust response to this #Samhain edition #CA22159 workshop already which is brilliant! Being conference season we had some scholarly pleas to extend #CFP ** NOW EXTENDED to 5 AUGUST 2026 ** Gonna be a good one! #COSTAction #Speirgorm #Skystorians #History #Historians #MedHums #HistMed #Dublin

The overwhelming right wing sentiment is that COVID was an engineered bioweapon that was also harmless. Trump overreacted to it by shutting down the country, then engineered a drive to create a vaccine that was the real bioweapon that killed millions, and it's Joe Biden's fault.

British, octogenarian vicars being classed as terrorists because an Israeli state-linked arms manufacturer wants to keep profiting from genocide. It doesn't get any more blatant or fucked up than, yet our media have spectacularly failed to cover it. www.declassifieduk.org/israeli-arms...

Israeli arms firm lobbied Home Office on Palestine Action court case

Exclusive: Elbit Systems pushed for retrial after charges against Palestine Action co-founders were dismissed, new documents show.

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Pro-Palestine protesters, who sprayed red paint and broke some windows, are about to be sentenced as *terrorists*. Neither they nor the jurors were told of this possibility during their trial for criminal damage. So they were unable to defend themselves against this far more serious charge.

At astonishing speed, our rights are being cancelled, worldwide. In the UK, the prosecution of Rajiv Menon KC is the latest example of blatant authoritarianism. Why? Because this is what billionaires and corporations demand. This week's column. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Think our basic rights are safe? In the age of oligarchs and corporate lobbying, think again | George Monbiot

The global assault on our freedoms is coming ever closer to home. Just look at the sinister prosecution of UK lawyer Rajiv Menon, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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"Nothing is safe from the billionaire assault on humanity. None of our rights, however ancient and familiar, are impregnable. Fight for them now or lose them, perhaps for ever."

George Monbiot@georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 6d ago

At astonishing speed, our rights are being cancelled, worldwide. In the UK, the prosecution of Rajiv Menon KC is the latest example of blatant authoritarianism. Why? Because this is what billionaires and corporations demand. This week's column. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Is it just me or does it really look like we're on a slippery slope towards something that looks suspiciously like new world war, but a bit different from how we may have imagined WWIII.

Social Media Lab@socialmedialab.ca · 6d ago

In a part of the world where people like to sign their work, what stands out in this incident is that no one has claimed responsibility for this particular attack. www.cnbc.com/2026/07/30/e...

This looks v. positive 👏 But to be meaningful it has to lead to immediate ruling out of *any* new fossil fuel drilling, including Rosebank & Jackdaw & the urgent reinstatement of international climate finance. For more on climate as a security threat, see my podcast for @therestpolitics.bsky.social

Leo Hickman@leohickman.carbonbrief.org · 7d ago

++BREAKING++ The UK and Spanish governments have issued a joint statement overnight: "[We] agreed that this summer’s wildfires demonstrated that climate change was now a national security emergency facing Europe and threatening our way of life." www.gov.uk/government/n...

Haven't seen this shared, but it's a great one by a giant in the field, Trevor Bedford. Finds that fastest SARS-2 fitness growth was 2021 to mid-2022. Since then there's been a steady rate of evolution ("fitness flux") >4x faster than H3N2 flu A, a benchmark for rapidly evolving RNA viruses. 1/2

This is surely curtains for Farage's political career. I don't think there's any coming back from it. I hope not, at any rate. Looks like there could be a strong basis for a criminal case as well. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Revealed: George Cottrell transferred $2m to his mother days before her donations to Reform UK

Exclusive: Sources say Fiona Cottrell told bankers the transfers, received 24-72 hours before her donations to Reform, came from her son

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My Oxford Bibliographies entry on 'Asylums, Mental Hospitals, and Other Forms of Institutionalized Care' is now out 🎊 If your institution has access, please consider recommending to your students and adding to any #histpsych reading lists! doi.org/10.1093/9780...

Asylums, Mental Hospitals, and Other Forms of Institutionalized Psychiatric Care

The appearance of the asylum as a form of institutionalized psychiatric care is a major theme within the history of psychiatry. Ranging from private asylum

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As a species, we are right now unthinkingly recreating the very conditions that gave rise to global mass extinction events in prehistory.

Nature@nature.com · last wk.

Fern-covered landscapes dried out and fuelled gigantic wildfires some 200 million years ago during the mass-extinction event that ended the Triassic period of geological history go.nature.com/45r5jzz

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Pentagon reports more than 600 Iran war casualties in quiet database update

Figures are source of dispute as US defense department days ago reduced record of troops killed and wounded

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I think it is now very possible that the outbreak in DRC will become the most deadly outbreak of Ebola thus far recorded. A nightmare is unfolding in DRC, and a deadly combination of the virus itself, armed conflict, aid cuts, and misinformation is fueling it. news.sky.com/story/ebola-...

Ebola outbreak in DR Congo 'fastest on record'

The ongoing outbreak is unlike most previous ones as the Bundibugyo virus responsible for it has no approved vaccines or treatments.

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It’s literally not possible to have a functioning society, anywhere on earth, where this piece of shit is not imprisoned for life and stripped of all his assets.

Jenny Cohn@jennycohn.bsky.social · last wk.

“Teens sue Musk's xAI over Grok's pornographic images of them *** Two of the teenagers behind the lawsuit are under the age of 18…” 3/16/26 … 1/ www.bbc.com/news/article...

The people or Palantir? Leading campaigners including @pulltheplug-ai.bsky.social and @globalactionplan.bsky.social set out their non-negotiables for Burnham Get it first thing tomorrow ➡️ citizensreunited.substack.com/subscribe

No plans for #Halloween #Samhain? Then pop in an abstract for @tcddublin.bsky.social @eurohealthhist.bsky.social Workshop: Negotiating Care: Health Systems & the Social Contract #CFP closes 5 August #CA22159 29-30 Oct 2026 - DETAILS👉 tinyurl.com/5dr8bh7m #HistMed #MedHums #ReproHist #NursingHist

Between Arecibo and now this, climate change is really hurting space science

Andy Scollick@andyscollick.bsky.social · 2w ago

The Madrid Deep Space Communication Complex at Robledo de Chavela municipality in the Community of Madrid, Spain on fire. Burgohondo wildfire. 📷 via Infues Avila

Journalists must stop normalizing Trump. "Hitler was impossible to discourage, not because he ran an efficient machine but because he was immune to the normal human impediments to absolute power: shame..." www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

The Forgotten History of Hitler’s Establishment Enablers

The Nazi leader didn’t seize power; he was given it.

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You want to know why too many people don't respect the media? It's because the media doesn't respect itself. We're all embarrassed for you. Have some fucking dignity.

Jon Passantino@passantino.bsky.social · 2w ago

After insisting the correspondents' dinner was worth reviving, the WHCA handed Trump a nationally televised platform to smear the very journalists it exists to represent, effectively turn the stage into a Trump rally. It was a disgrace. My latest @status.news www.status.news/p/the-white-...

"Study uncovers molecular connections between COVID-19 and Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension (PAH)." COVID-19 can damage blood vessels in the lungs, causing inflammation. These changes resemble pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH), a serious disease affecting the arteries that supply the lungs.

Study uncovers molecular connections between COVID-19, PAH

Researchers have identified shared molecular connections between COVID-19 and PAH that may explain common disease features, a study reports.

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OK this is ridiculous. The draft new Canadian public health guidance-development mechanism doubles down on excluding subject matter experts from voting roles, restricts membership to people from inside the EBM pseudoscience bubble, and sets up to funnel public money to McMaster-GRADE courses etc.