American war planning usually takes place in highly secure facilities. But the Trump administration planned its strikes on the Houthis using a group chat—and accidentally included The Atlantic’s editor in chief, @jeffreygoldberg.bsky.social. theatln.tc/AmsjsuT6
Research led by Lancaster University has revealed clear evidence that changes in the orchestration of brain oxygenation dynamics and neuronal function in Alzheimer’s disease contribute to the neurodegeneration.
#neuroscience #NeuroSky #MedSky #neurology #science
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/24/o...
The top 10 stories at Retraction Watch in 2024. A 🧵.
10: ‘We authors paid a heavy price’: Journal retracts all 23 articles in special issue
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Scientists, academics, researchers: We’re excited to share that @altmetric.com is now tracking mentions of your research on Bluesky! 🧪
Having a modern morning — ie both on phones. Me: "Martial law in Korea!" Robin: "I don't see that anywhere" Me: "It's on Bluesky"
This site has arrived
I will never, ever get over this.
Researchers probing the effects of tobacco, alcohol, and ultraprocessed food are often the targets of intimidation and tactics designed to deter them from continuing their work or to discredit them, a study has found.1 The intimidation most often takes the form of companies in these sectors seeking to discredit researchers but has also included surveillance, threats of violence, burglary, bribery, and cyberattacks. A team of researchers from the University of Bath collaborated with others at the George Washington University Milken Institute School of Public Health, Washington, DC, and Inserm, France’s national institute of health and medical research. They compiled and reviewed public data and reports of intimidation tactics used by the tobacco, ultraprocessed food, and alcohol sectors between 2000 and 2022 and focused on 64 …
In the @bmj.com this week we read that researchers in alcohol, tobacco, and processed food are being threatened, intimidated, and discredited.
A very worrying development.
#MedSky
#PublicHealth
#SDOH
Commercial Determinants of Health at play here.
Link:
www.bmj.com/content/387/...
From the archives: The late Carl Sagan reminds us of how dangerous anti-intellectualism can be.
#Resist #altgov
New from the BJPS Review of Books:
The Brain Abstracted
—Mazviita Chirimuuta
Reviewed by Daniel C Burnston
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What about scientists?
I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time - when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the key manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness. The dumbing down of America is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30-second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance.
Today would have been Carl Sagan's 90th birthday. He wrote this in 1995. Carl was absolutely right. #CarlSaganDay
