Trump administration cutting $4 billion in medical research funding https://www.byteseu.com/848661/ #EverythingScience #Science

Hey everyone let's congratulate Trish and Oisin on their excellent discovery that they have allowed a human scientist to write about!

Seals can sense their blood oxygen level and make decisions based on that information.

💞 💞 🦭🦭🏆 🏆

#seals #news #science #senses #marineMammals
#BetchaTheScientistWontListThemAsCoauthors

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c201y2vpnn5o

#science #images #memes #photos #STEM

Here we are. It's DegrowThursday again. 💚

Every week on this day I turn my focus toward the most important topic of all. Because if we are to have any hope of maintaining some semblance of a healthy human society going forward, our world must quickly and decisively commit to #degrowth.

We're talking real solutions here! Real answers to the many systemic problems that plague us and threaten our very extinction.

Now, I know how unlikely it is that these solutions will be adopted by our present leadership. And I know how challenging they will be to achieve. I'm under no illusion that any of this will be easy.

But — if we don't know where we want to go, we'll never get there.

So today, I'll provide two resources for learning about degrowth. The first is simpler and more basic, while also offering a more hopeful and positive outlook. The second is a darker vision, presenting additional detail about the daunting challenges we face and the many hard steps that lie ahead of us. I hope you'll read both, or I hope you'll read at least one of them.

That's my intro. 🧵1/3 The next two parts will follow soon...

#Economics #Science #Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis

A group of NIH funded researchers wanted to let people know about a project to document 'stop work' notices/defunded grants and canceled study sections. They are creating an archive of these based on user submissions at theresearchwelost.com

Most of the data shared will be publicly available through the site (with some redactions for anonymity). They are just getting started. If you want to contribute, there's a link.

#TheResearchWeLost
#NIH
#Science
#Grants
#USPol

*DO NOT TRAVEL TO THE US!*

“‘I learned with concern that a French researcher,’ on a mission for the National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), ‘who was going to a conference near Houston was banned from entering American territory before being expelled,’ said the Minister of Higher Education and Research, Philippe Baptiste, in a statement sent to Agence France-Presse (AFP). ‘This measure was allegedly taken by the American authorities because this researcher's phone contained exchanges with colleagues and friendly relationships in which he expressed a personal opinion on the Trump administration's research policy,’ he added.”

https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2025/03/19/etats-unis-un-chercheur-francais-refoule-pour-avoir-exprime-une-opinion-personnelle-sur-la-politique-menee-par-l-administration-trump_6583618_3210.html

#USA #fascism #EU #France #science #freedomOfSpeech #privacy #travelWarning

Our oceans are heating up! 🔥

#ActOnClimate #ClimateChange #geography #deforestation #RenewableEnergy #geografia #FossilFuels #ActNow #environment #EndFossilCrimes #ClimateCrisis #Science #warming #Nature #climate #development #gasemissions #ClimateEmergency #climatecrisis #biologia #ClimateAction #photo #photography #GlobalWarming #cartoon #pollution #news #earth #amazon #Politics

Do you love tardigrades? We love tardigrades! And thanks to nearly 30,000 Danish schoolchildren and a citizen science project, we now have NINE new species of tardigrade to love. Congratulations!

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/nine-new-tardigrade-species-discovered-thanks-to-the-efforts-of-danish-schoolchildren-180986010/

#science #scicomm

Every fraction of a degree matters.

Rising temperatures put marine life and coastal ecosystems at risk of irreversible loss.

Urgent #ClimateAction is needed to #SaveOurOcean.

#ActOnClimate #ClimateChange #geography #deforestation #RenewableEnergy #ActNow #environment #EndFossilCrimes #ClimateCrisis #Science #warming #Nature #climate #development #gasemissions #ClimateEmergency #climatecrisis #ClimateAction #photo #photography #GlobalWarming #cartoon #pollution #news

Statement on the #Zoomposium interview with Prof. #Gerd #Ganteför "The #enigmatic fabric of #reality" - a guest article by Dr. Bernd Stein

However, his #answers in the #interview had also led to #debates in the #comments section of my #science #blog, which critically deals with the #theses from his new book "Das rätselhafte Gewebe der Wirklichkeit". Some comments came from Dr. #Bernd #stein who also wanted to comment on this topic here.

More at: https://philosophies.de/index.php/2023/05/06/stellungnahme-zum-zoomposium-interview-mit-prof-gantefoer/

For an explainer on #Euclid's background and what's in the Q1 data release, here's a conversation between Shaun Hotchkiss (https://cosmologytalks.com), Guada Canas-Herrera (gcanasherrera.com) from #ESA and our Herve Aussel:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVlKqFrvhRY

#astronomy #science #space

~2h to go until @esa.int and the Euclid Consortium release the first 63 deg² of #Euclid survey science data plus 34 papers to go with this "Q1"-release.

More here: https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Euclid/Follow_the_reveal_of_Euclid_s_new_catalogue_on_19_March

Press releases and directions for data access will follow at the same time.

#astronomy #space #science

The Benefits of the Mediterranean Diet on Mental Health and Depression – Blog https://www.diningandcooking.com/1964840/the-benefits-of-the-mediterranean-diet-on-mental-health-and-depression-blog/ ##Barcelona #aid #blog #cooperation #Development #GlobalHealth #innovation #InternationalHealth #isglobal #Mediterranean #MediterraneanDiet #PublicHealth #RD #Research #science #spain #ThinkTank #TropicalMedicine

DOGE’s Cuts at the #USDA Could Cause US Grocery Prices to Rise & Invasive Species to Spread

Thousands of #US Dept of #Agriculture employees, including food inspectors & disease-sniffing #dog trainers, remain out of work, leaving food to rot in ports & pests to proliferate.
https://www.wired.com/story/usda-food-supply-chains/

"the losses could cause #food to go rotten... even higher grocery #prices... potentially devastating invasive species getting into the country."

#Musk #Doge #Trump #USPol #News #USA #Dogs #Science

'Ice melted beneath our feet': Dramatic photo of huskies running through water reveals Greenland's rapid melting

#ActOnClimate #ClimateChange #geography #deforestation #RenewableEnergy #geografia #FossilFuels #ActNow #environment #EndFossilCrimes #ClimateCrisis #Science #warming #Nature #climate #development #gasemissions #ClimateEmergency #climatecrisis #biologia #ClimateAction #photo #photography #GlobalWarming #cartoon #pollution #news #earth #amazon #Politics

Tomorrow, 19 March, 12:00 CET, #ESA and the #Euclid Consortium will release the first larger batch of science data, the "Q1" data release, covering 63 deg² of sky.

Here is how you can follow the release presentation live:

https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Euclid/Follow_the_reveal_of_Euclid_s_new_catalogue_on_19_March

#astronomy #space #science

Inhibiting Bacterial Metabolism Improves Infection Recovery

https://biohackers.media/inhibiting-bacterial-metabolism-improves-infection-recovery
Study reveals inhibiting <em>S. pyogenes</em> metabolism can reduce tissue damage, enhancing treatment and patient recovery in infections.

#health #science #biology @science@lemmy.world @news@lemmy.world @health@lemmy.world

I can’t get over the cognitive dissonance of spending 12 hours of intense work in clinic, using every minute of my 25 years of training and experience to formulate treatment plans for my patients with #cancer, and then to come home and check the news and to read about every part of the infrastructure needed to attain the knowledge for these treatment plans bring intentionally dismantled

#MedMastodon #healthcare #science #dismantling

The mRNA technology behind coronavirus vaccines is now being used to create bespoke vaccines for cancer patients.

"Cancer vaccines weren’t a proper field of research before the pandemic. There was nothing. Apart from one exception, pretty much every clinical trial had failed. With the pandemic, however, we proved that mRNA vaccines were possible.

mRNA cancer vaccines work by giving the body instructions to make a harmless piece of a cancer-related protein. This trains the immune system to recognize and attack cancer cells carrying that protein. Think of it like a training manual for security guards. The vaccine gives the immune system a guide on what cancer looks like, so it knows exactly who to watch for and remove.

Going from mRNA Covid vaccines to mRNA cancer vaccines is straightforward: same fridges, same protocol, same drug, just a different patient.

In the current trials, we do a biopsy of the patient, sequence the tissue, send it to the pharmaceutical company, and they design a personalized vaccine that’s bespoke to that patient’s cancer. That vaccine is not suitable for anyone else. It’s like science fiction.

The UK was ready. We had fridges and we had world-class manufacturing and research facilities. During the pandemic, we had proven we could open and deliver clinical trials fast. Also, the UK had established a genomic global lead with Genomics England and the 100,000 Genome Project. All doctors and nurses in this country are trained in genomics.

So the UK government signed two partnerships: one with BioNTech to provide 10,000 patients with access to personalized cancer treatments by 2030, and a 10-year investment with Moderna in an innovation and technology center with capacity to produce up to 250 million vaccines. The stars were aligned.

For many years, we believed that research is inherently slow. It used to take 20 years to get a drug to market. Most cancer patients, unfortunately, will succumb by the time a drug gets to market. We showed the world that it could be done in a year if you modernize your process, run parts of the process in parallel, and use digital tools.

We have a trial to stop skin cancer coming back after you cut it out. It’s now completed. We over-recruited again, just like every single one of the trials that we ran, and the trial finished one year ahead of schedule. That’s completely unheard of in cancer trials because they normally run over-long.

What will happen now is that, over the next six to 12 months, we will monitor the people in the trial and work out if there’s a difference between the people who took the cancer vaccine and the ones who didn’t. We’re hoping to have results by the end of the year or beginning of 2026. If it’s successful, we will have invented the first approved personalized mRNA vaccine, within only five years of the first licensed mRNA vaccine for Covid. That’s pretty impressive."

- Dr. Lennard Lee, UK National Health Service oncologist and medical director at the Ellison Institute of Technology in Oxford

https://www.wired.com/story/wired-health-lennard-lee-cancer-vaccines/

#cancer #vaccination #Science #COVID

The Trump administration is withdrawing funding for scientific research. I have a suggestion for my colleagues: Every minute that you are unable to conduct your research, you should devote to public advocacy in support of higher education. https://stevendbrewer.com/a-suggestion-for-my-colleagues/ #science #research #HigherEducation

Statement on the #Zoomposium interview with Prof. #Gerd #Ganteför "The #enigmatic fabric of #reality" - a guest article by Dr. Bernd Stein

However, his #answers in the #interview had also led to #debates in the #comments section of my #science #blog, which critically deals with the #theses from his new book "Das rätselhafte Gewebe der Wirklichkeit". Some comments came from Dr. #Bernd #stein who also wanted to comment on this topic here.

More at: https://philosophies.de/index.php/2023/05/06/stellungnahme-zum-zoomposium-interview-mit-prof-gantefoer/

This feels like an alien invasion of the United States.

"NIH officials have urged scientists to remove all references to mRNA vaccine technology from their grant applications, two researchers said, in a move that signaled the agency might abandon a promising field of medical research.

'Kennedy’s war on vaccines has started,' the scientist told his colleague.
"

https://kffhealthnews.org/news/article/nih-grants-mrna-vaccines-trump-administration-hhs-rfk/
#Politics #Science
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https://www.sciencealert.com/microplastics-are-disrupting-photosynthesis-and-the-impact-could-be-huge

#science #microplastics #photosynthesis

SXSW 2025: Film, Science, Music and the Elephant in the Room https://www.byteseu.com/833889/ #HughForrest #MarkCuban #Media #Sci&Tech #Science #sxsw

History repeats itself

#FascistAmeriKKKa #fascism #Nazis #science #academics #scientists #history #politics

Health researchers who work in South Africa are on red alert after hearing today that the NIH may terminate all grants that fund work in that country within days.

https://www.science.org/content/article/fear-spreads-nih-will-terminate-grants-involving-south-africa #health #press #Science

This is what an erupting volcano looks like from space.

Credit: NASA Johnson
More details: https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/38985/sarychev-peak-eruption-kuril-islands

#space #science #nasa

Curiosity Rover mission update for Sols 4477-4478

Bumping Back to Business:

#Mars #Curiosity #MSL #MarsRover #NASA #Science #Space #Exploration #Solarrocks #Blog

https://science.nasa.gov/blog/sols-4477-4478-bumping-back-to-business/

Substituted image - Sol 4477 MAHLI mosaic. Image Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS

Had a talk on a technology conference today.
And I seneaked in some climate science.

See a bar chart of the mean air temperature of Germany since 1881.
Its made of silicon oxide and titanium oxide and its just as big as a human hair.
Below a cross section through the structure. Each bar is jusg half a micro meter width.

#science #academicchatter

[Marc Duquet] L’Œdicnème criard nicheur sur un toit industriel

Lien : https://marcduquet.com/loedicneme-criard-nicheur-sur-un-toit-industriel/
#marcduquet #blog #science #ornithologie

It's hard to say this, but science (& research more generally) is just being **stopped** in the US right now. This is just one university, losing nearly a billion dollars in project funding pretty much overnight. That's people's jobs, and the research that could save lives.

https://www.wsj.com/health/healthcare/johns-hopkins-federal-funding-foreign-aid-cut-ca841d31?st=EJYFJk&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink

#America #science

Curiosity Rover mission update for Sols 4475-4476

Even the Best-Laid Plans:

Image Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech

#Mars #Curiosity #MSL #MarsRover #NASA #Science #Space #Exploration #Solarrocks #Blog

https://science.nasa.gov/blog/sols-4475-4476-even-the-best-laid-plans/

"Rep. 1 "...such a competition is rigged from the beginning, since it is organized by an #oligarch who controls the govt. He is fit. You are not. That is natural."
...

"Rep. 1. “...yes, the point is to make the #government entirely dysfunctional for the rest of you. But, right, we will keep the govt functional for us..."

Rep. 4 "Of course we lie. Lying is good. Let #science & the #humanities compete with other opinions in a free market of ideas."
https://snyder.substack.com/p/the-doge-helpline

#Satire #Musk #USA

NIH is abruptly terminating at least 33 research grants for projects studying vaccine hesitancy or evaluating strategies that could encourage vax uptake. NIH has also requested lists of projects involving mRNA vaxs.

"The terminations appear to be part of the agency’s efforts to defund research that does not align with policies backed by Pres Trump and HHS Sec Kennedy—a noted vaccine skeptic."

https://shorturl.at/5Z63F #press #Science

Sag mal, ITAS - Sollten Forschende noch reisen?🚗🛫🚅

Dienstreisen sind für einen Großteil der Treibhausgasemissionen an Hochschulen verantwortlich. Gleichzeitig sind Reisen wichtig für die wissenschaftliche Arbeit. Wie können vor diesem Hintergrund Klimaschutz und gute Forschungsbedingungen zusammen gedacht werden? Das möchte Marius Albiez mit Dir diskutieren.

📆 Dienstag, 18. März 2025, 12 bis 14 Uhr
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Wir freuen uns auf Dich!

“Sag mal, ITAS” ist eine Veranstaltungsreihe des ITAS @KIT_Karlsruhe, in der Forschende ihren Arbeitsplatz in Karl9 @ITAS_KIT und @triangel.space verlegen und Deine Fragen zu ihren Forschungsthemen beantworten, wenn Du welche hast. Ansonsten darfst Du auch einfach vorbei kommen und Dir etwas zum Thema und unsere Forschungsarbeit erzählen lassen. 🤗

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#wissenschaft #arbeit #travel #reisen #science #technikfolgenabschätzung #technik #forschung #dialog #karlsruhe #sagmalitas #klima

#TheConversation #Science #Tech #auspol Why conspiracy theories and misinformation spread in the long wait for Cyclone Alfred Read more…https://theconversation.com/why-conspiracy-theories-and-misinformation-spread-in-the-long-wait-for-cyclone-alfred-251899

[Marc Duquet] OrnithoScience : taxonomie des Ardéidés, Accipitridés et Hirundinidés

Lien : https://marcduquet.com/ornithoscience-taxonomie-des-ardeides-accipitrides-et-hirundinides/
#marcduquet #blog #science #ornithologie

#science and #fascism

#Saharastaub über #Sachsen: Viel #Staub am Samstag in der Höhe. Deutlich weniger #Staub am Sonntag & Montag am Boden, berichten unsere Forschende im TROPOS-#Science-#Blog: https://www.tropos.de/aktuelles/science-blog/beitrag/saharastaub-ueber-sachsen / #Feinstaub #Luftverschmutzung #Fernerkundung #Lidar #AERONET #Klima
@leibnizwgl