‘The flood took everything I have’: survivors grieve for relatives and homes swept away in Nepal

‘The flood took everything I have’: survivors grieve for relatives and homes swept away in Nepal

Army helicopters ferry survivors from inaccessible areas to a camp at a barracks in Bidur The three women sat together in the army tent and wept. They cried out for their sons, their husbands, their homes. As flash floods coursed through the Himalayan mountains on Wednesday morning, a monstrous black wave took everything from them. As a melting glacier high up in the Himalayas between Tibet and Nepal splintered and crashed into the valley below, it set off a deadly cascade of water, mud and debris down the Bhote Koshi River. The impact of the glacier collapse was so strong that experts initially reported it as an earthquake. The Nepali village homes that lined the riverbank and clung to the mountainside stood little chance. Continue reading...

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Is AI changing writing & academia? Yep. Staggering 90% of biomedical papers now show signs of AI help www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Staggering 90% of biomedical papers now show signs of AI help

The figure, which is much higher than previous estimates of large-language-model use, is for papers published in December and archived in PubMed.

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I don't know who needs a real pickmeup today, but in recent court filings about the wealth owned by Andrew Tate, they indicate the Bugattis and Aston Martin he always bragged about owning... were rented. All of them.

Never let a writer help you move

How do I explain to small business owners that the menu on the left is one billion times more appealing than the one on the right

“The preventable deaths caused by the global health order are not mere governance failures but structural outcomes of monopoly intellectual property, sovereign debt, and the commodification of health under a capitalist world economy” @bmj.com www.bmj.com/content/394/...

Reforming global health architecture requires confronting its political economy

Daniel Bernal-Serrano and colleagues argue that the preventable deaths caused by global health inequity are structural outcomes of a capitalist world economy, which organisational reform alone cannot ...

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On paper, she is the most educated, experienced, and qualified person that I can remember. But that is often the case when women are appointed to lead organizations in crisis, especially Black women. Hope her ability to lead and look out for public health isn't undermined by the regime's agenda.

Dr. Erica Schwartz becoming the first Black woman to lead the CDC is historic, but representation & accountability must go together. Trust must be earned by defending science, protecting the CDC’s independence, and putting public health above political pressure. I’ll be watching. #DrUB

been in the cards for awhile, but it’s confirmed now: “For the first time in a quarter century, the U.S. no longer meets a main criterion for having eliminated measles as a public health threat.”

Amy Maxmen, PhD@amymaxmen.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Doctors in Utah pull back the curtain on what's happening in America. You can read (and listen!) to my piece for WIRED/KFFHN without a paywall, here: kffhealthnews.org/public-healt...

It's hilarious that 30% of people are willing to offer an opinion on a book when ~15% of Americans say they read for pleasure. This is astroturfed outrage

Healey as chancellor? Streeting as defence secretary? This isn’t a cabinet to change the UK like Burnham promised | Owen Jones

Healey as chancellor? Streeting as defence secretary? This isn’t a cabinet to change the UK like Burnham promised | Owen Jones

Putting Ed Miliband in charge of the Treasury would have signalled a genuine new era. Instead, the new PM has played it safe, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones

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"Africa bears a heavy infectious-disease burden and is home to a quarter of the world’s biodiversity, yet it accounts for under two percent of pharmaceutical patents: the continent’s plants, fungi, and marine organisms are a formidable but underused resource to address antimicrobial resistance."

One Health Trust @onehealthtrust.bsky.social · 3mo ago

📖 Our latest roundup of #OneHealth research is here! 🌍 From Ebola preparedness and #AMR to #RegenerativeAgriculture, #climatechange, and pharmaceutical #innovation, this week's edition highlights the latest in #globalhealth research. Read here: onehealthtrust.org/news-media/w...

I feel like we moved on from this way too quickly. This scares me.

dell cameron@dell.bsky.social · 4mo ago

NEW: A trove of internal records from Dialog, the secret society cofounded by Peter Thiel, was left exposed online. WIRED obtained a second cache of records that reveal who's really attending, how they're screened, and what personal details they were promised would stay private.

More signs of resurging HIV after USAID’s closure. African Neonatal Network reported at IMNCH (a global health conference): HIV+ pregnant women ↑50% & those not on antiretrovirals ↑>300%, year-on-year, across 22 hospitals in 5 nations. @vtoxfordnetwork.bsky.social

GOOD NEWS! A personalized mRNA vaccine, known as mRNA-4157, has shown promise in keeping melanoma, a deadly skin cancer, from returning. FIVE years later, NEARLY 70% of people in the vaccine group are CANCER-FREE. The vaccine also cut a person’s risk of the cancer metastasizing by NEARLY 60%.

A personalized vaccine for melanoma cut the risk of cancer returning after five years

If the vaccine is effective in a late-stage trial, it would be “paradigm-shifting,” one expert said.

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both the clientele and our cashier at zabar’s complimented my hat. thanks @salome.bsky.social and @cmorten.bsky.social

A Pulitzer Prize photo

Heather Mac@trvlinjunkie.bsky.social · 3mo ago

I haven’t been able to stop thinking about her since this afternoon.

Cape Verde’s World Cup heroes have landed back home, greeted by saluting airport staff and hundreds of fans 🇨🇻 Today is also the 51st anniversary of the country’s independence. Have a day, Cape Verde 💙

They did exactly what you should NOT do: they made sudden & massive cuts in health & humanitarian aid When you do this, our research has shown that you get disease resurgence & deaths The deaths caused by Musk “putting USAID into the wood chipper” (his words) were predictable & preventable 13/n

Health aid can lead to health system fragmentation & inefficiency when allocated to vertical (disease-specific) programs So: aid has saved millions of lives (e.g. the Global Fund estimates it has saved 70 million lives, Gavi estimates 21 million deaths prevented) but it has downsides too 10/n

I’m grateful to @nickkristof.bsky.social for his continued reporting on the Trump Administration’s horrific retreat from global health cooperation—which has had deadly consequences—& for sharing the painful human stories of deaths that could have been averted I guess this topic is kind of my lane 🧵

Nick Kristof@nickkristof.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Elon Musk says that no one died because of his demolition of USAID, and that "Kristof is lying through his teeth." So here I invite him to join me on a visit to Africa to see for himself: www.nytimes.com/2026/07/01/o...

What billionaire racist would have an interest in limiting the soft power of Black American culture as well as trivializing the life-saving effectiveness of USAid? Probably one that caused the deaths of hundreds of thousands of black babies by gutting it through DOGE.

Ebo Taylor - Love and Death [Ghana, Afrobeat] (1980) https://redd.it/4eaczz https://youtu.be/dFLDXp6sy6I

Ebo Taylor - Love and Death [Ghana, Afrobeat] (1980)

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Beer Delivery Driver Points Trembling Shotgun As Crowd Of Scottish Soccer Fans Close In https://theonion.com/beer-delivery-driver-points-trembling-shotgun-as-crowd-of-scottish-soccer-fans-close-in/

every time a heat wave approaches I want to put together a spreadsheet of old churches that are regularly open, free, and cold might actually do it this time but I will probably need to crowdsource info

"We must not forget that decolonisation is a political project that seeks to end untenable conditions of global life. Anything else is merely fairy-tale, delusion and self-deception. For African scholars, the future of African studies cannot be more important than the future of African people."

folukeifejola @folukeifejola.bsky.social · 4mo ago

I make 2 arguments in this essay. Firstly, the absence of proper engagement with Africa in global curricula is an affront to knowledge. Secondly, African Studies does not resolve this, and the decolonisation of a colonial discipline may not be the answer either. folukeafrica.com/africa-missi...