outrageous! no justice here for the children, the parents or the community

Texass Ranger reinstated more than 2 years after #Uvalde #shooting, officials say

#RobbElementarySchool #shooting https://edition.cnn.com/2024/08/05/us/uvalde-texas-ranger-christopher-ryan-kindell/index.html

The #ClarenceThomas #Corruption Saga Just Got Even Worse

A new ProPublica🗞️ report reveals deep, unethical connections between the #SupremeCourt🇺🇸 justice & the Koch brothers

#injustice #ClarenceThomasForSale #SCOTUSIsCorrupt https://newrepublic.com/post/175709/clarence-thomas-corruption-saga-just-got-even-worse

missing the forest for the trees?

by Matt Wuerker

#DeadBear #CentralPark #JournalisticMalpractice #MSM #politics

woot! look what just arrived: The Apothecary's Wife: The Hidden History of Medicine and How It Became a Commodity by Karen Bloom Gevirtz

thank you, #UCPress!

#MustRead #books #history #medicine https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520409910/the-apothecarys-wife

wow.

Only 6 months ago French🇫🇷 farmers🚜 were spraying public buildings with manure💩 & fighting against measures to address the #ClimateCrisis. Now they want public help because the #ClimateCatastrophe is destroying their crops🌽

https://www.independent.ie/farming/tillage/french-farmers-facing-catastrophic-harvest-seek-state-help/a305721851.html

An Eight-Week Vegan Diet May Slow Biological Aging, study out of Stanford University, published by BMC Medicine

by @grrlscientist

#GoVegan🥕 #HealthyEating🌶️ #foods🫘 #Twins #Aging #EpigeneticClock #SciComm🧪 https://www.forbes.com/sites/grrlscientist/2024/07/30/an-eight-week-vegan-diet-may-slow-biological-aging/

COVID-19 Is Widespread In ‘Common Backyard Wildlife’ In US, study out of Virginia Tech & Fralin Biomedical Research Institute, published by Nature Communications

by @grrlscientist

#Covid_19🦠 #epidemiology #PublicHealth🛟 #wildlife #SciComm🧪 https://www.forbes.com/sites/grrlscientist/2024/07/29/covid-19-is-widespread-in-common-backyard-wildlife-in-us/

Shingrix, The Shingles Vaccine, Could Reduce Your Risk Of Dementia, study out of University of Oxford, published by Nature Medicine

by @grrlscientist

#Vaccines💉 #shingles🦠 #virus #Shingrix #dementia #PublicHealth🩺 #Healthcare⚕️ #SciComm🧪 https://www.forbes.com/sites/grrlscientist/2024/07/28/shingrix-the-shingles-vaccine-could-reduce-your-risk-of-dementia/

Cancer Risk From Pesticides Comparable To Smoking For Some Cancers, study out of Rocky Vista University, published by Frontiers in Cancer Control and Society

by @grrlscientist

#Cancer #pesticides #smoking🚬 #agriculture🚜 #FoodSecurity #health🩺⚕️ #SciComm🧪 https://www.forbes.com/sites/grrlscientist/2024/07/25/cancer-risk-from-pesticides-comparable-to-smoking-for-some-cancers/

Sharks On Cocaine: Recreational Narcotics Are Contaminating Ecosystems | Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, published by Science of the Total Environment

#sharks🦈 #narcotics #ecosystems #environment⛰️ #pollution #SciComm🧪 https://www.forbes.com/sites/grrlscientist/2024/07/23/sharks-on-cocaine-recreational-narcotics-are-contaminating-ecosystems/

Domesticating The Ground Cherry Using CRISPR Gene Editing, out of Cornell University / Physalis Improvement Project, Boyce Thompson Institute / published by #Plants, People, #Planet

by @grrlscientist

#food #crop #botany #groundcherry #CRISPR #domestication #SciComm🧪 https://www.forbes.com/sites/grrlscientist/2024/07/22/domesticating-the-ground-cherry-using-crispr-gene-editing/

Rare Genetic Mutation Turns Green Frog Blue💙, Surprising Scientists, via Australian🇦🇺 Wildlife Conservancy

by @grrlscientist

#frogs🐸 #amphibians #colors #Mutation #Australia #SciComm🧪 https://www.forbes.com/sites/grrlscientist/2024/07/18/rare-genetic-mutation-turns-green-frog-blue-surprising-scientists/

Ancient Genomes Reveal Dingoes Are Not Related To Modern Domesticated Dogs | out of Queensland University of Technology + University of Adelaide, published by PNAS

by @grrlscientist

#dingo🐾 #genetics🧬 #conservation🌏 #Australia🇦🇺 #SciComm🧪 https://www.forbes.com/sites/grrlscientist/2024/07/15/ancient-genomes-reveal-dingoes-are-not-related-to-modern-domesticated-dogs/

When Hippos🦛 Fly: Hippopotamuses Can Move So Fast They Become Airborne, out of #RoyalVeterinaryCollege published by the PeerJ

by @grrlscientist

#hippos🦛 #biomechanics #Movement #veterinary #SciComm🧪 https://www.forbes.com/sites/grrlscientist/2024/07/05/when-hippos-fly-hippopotamuses-can-run-so-fast-they-become-airborne/

exquisite writing, fascinating story

Dr. Calhoun’s Mousery: The Strange Tale of a Celebrated Scientist, a Rodent Dystopia, and the Future of Humanity by Lee Alan Dugatkin

#behavior #science #history #biography #booklovers #mustread #amreading #books UChicagoPress https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/D/bo239362319.html

Frog ‘Saunas’ Help Endangered Frogs Survive A Deadly Fungal Pandemic, via Macquarie University + University of Melbourne, published by Nature

by @grrlscientist

#amphibians🐸 #chytrid #mycology #ecology🌏 #conservation💉 #epidemiology🛟 #SciComm🧪 https://www.forbes.com/sites/grrlscientist/2024/06/28/frog-saunas-help-endangered-frogs-survive-a-deadly-fungal-pandemic/

Wild Boar🐗 Has Five Times More Toxic PFAS Than Humans Allowed To Eat, by James Hutton Institute + University of Graz, published by Science of the Total Environment

by @grrlscientist

#ForeverChemicals #PFAS #toxins #pollution🏭 #environment⛰️ #SciComm🧪 https://www.forbes.com/sites/grrlscientist/2024/06/26/wild-boar-has-five-times-more-toxic-pfas-than-humans-allowed-to-eat/

Climate Change Could Make Fungi More Dangerous To Humans, published by Nature Microbiology

by @grrlscientist

#mycology🔬 #microbiology🦠 #PathogenicFungus #PublicHealth🛟 #epidemiology😷💉 #EmergingDiseases #ClimateCrisis #ClimateChange #SciComm🧪 https://www.forbes.com/sites/grrlscientist/2024/06/24/climate-change-could-make-fungi-more-dangerous-to-humans/

Genome Of The Last Living Wild Horse Species Has Now Been Mapped, from University of #Minnesota & #MinnesotaZoo, published by G3 Genes|Genomes|Genetics

by @grrlscientist

#horses🐴 #genomics🖥️ 🧬 #conservation🌏 #bioinformatics #SciComm🧪 https://www.forbes.com/sites/grrlscientist/2024/06/17/genome-of-the-last-living-wild-horse-species-has-now-been-mapped/

this paperback, The Shadow Docket by Stephen Vladeck, just arrived in the mail, thanks to Oriel the outstanding & BasicBooks📚

An acclaimed legal scholar’s exposé of how #SCOTUS uses unsigned & unexplained orders to change the law behind closed doors

https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/stephen-vladeck/the-shadow-docket/9781541602632/