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Science & tech.... Run, bike, swim, work, study, teach...13 years low-key on Twitter…Blogged for a bit at https://acronymrequired.com
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A CDC team that tracked how well in vitro fertilization worked across the US was abruptly cut Tuesday as part of the sweeping layoffs at the Department of Health and Human Services. https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/cdcs-ivf-team-gutted-even-trump-calls-fertilization-president-rcna199261
CDC's IVF team gutted even as Trump calls himself the 'fertilization president'

A team that tracked how well in vitro fertilization worked across the U.S. was abruptly cut Tuesday as part of the sweeping layoffs at the Department of Health and Human Services.

NBC News
Lawsuit aims to overturn many NIH grant terminations: Multiple groups and NIH-funded scientists challenge agency’s decision as arbitrary and capricious | Science | AAAS https://www.science.org/content/article/lawsuit-aims-broadly-overturn-nih-s-grant-terminations
STAT+: Amgen’s rheumatoid arthritis drug Enbrel targeted for first-in-the-nation price limit in Colorado – Utah Colorado Biotech Networks

Texas Implements a New Ban on Covid-19 Vaccine Mandates https://undark.org/2023/11/14/texas-covid-vaccine/
Texas Implements a New Ban on Covid-19 Vaccine Mandates

The legislation, which applies to hospitals, could jeopardize the health of medically vulnerable people.

Undark Magazine

the iconic "on the internet, nobody knows you're a dog" cartoon just sold for $175,000

in case you want to know what art is worth when it's not an infinitely reproducible .jpg attached to a blockchain traded with made-up internet money

https://fineart.ha.com/itm/mainstream-illustration/peter-steiner-american-b-1940-on-the-internet-nobody-knows-you-re-a-dog-the-new-yorker-cartoon-july-1993ink/a/8137-71036.s

Vaccine heroes - a too familiar story for anyone who knows the histories of women scientists https://www.wbur.org/news/2021/02/12/brutal-science-system-mrna-pioneer
How Our Brutal Science System Almost Cost Us A Pioneer Of mRNA Vaccines | WBUR News

A doctor who witnessed the tribulations of mRNA vaccine pioneer Katalin Karikó warns that science is naturally hard, but the system that puts make-or-break financial pressures on American scientists makes it even harder.

WBUR
#Climate #News: Extreme heat may hasten cognitive decline in vulnerable populations: A new study finds that ongoing extreme heat can worsen cognitive decline among vulnerable groups -- particularly Black older adults and those living in poor neighborhoods.
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2023/08/230815151126.htm
Extreme heat may hasten cognitive decline in vulnerable populations

A new study finds that ongoing extreme heat can worsen cognitive decline among vulnerable groups -- particularly Black older adults and those living in poor neighborhoods.

ScienceDaily
@tomlevenson The real Mr. Steve’s was like yeah, whatever 😀
@tomlevenson a few months before that it was AI will change the way we travel!!! 🥳🥳
A New Frontier for Travel Scammers: A.I.-Generated Guidebooks

Shoddy guidebooks are flooding Amazon. Their authors claim to be renowned travel writers, but are they A.I. inventions? And how big is the problem?

The New York Times