Meera Drelich

Molecular Biologist, Biochemist, tried Cancer & AIDS research in a past life. Reengineered Cook, Entrepreneur, Iove design, life and smileys @spicegourmet

[Nick Mark MD @nickmmark]

The best of us are being murdered by the worst of us.

[Dina D. Pomeranz 🟣 @DinaPomeranz]

U.S. voluntarily giving up its pole position in attracting global research talent.

Two of my research assistants got into MA programs at Harvard (yay!) but can't go because the Trump administration refuses visas to any students from their country of origin.

Now they want to limit PhD visas to 4 years (when in fact many good PhD programs take 5-6 years)...

[Max Kozlov @maxdkozlov]

NEW in @Nature: This is now the largest Cyclospora outbreak in US history. But CDC's parasite surveillance team was slashed from 11 people to 3 last year.

Joel Barratt, who ran the team, worries the CDC doesn't have the staffing to stop the outbreak quickly.

[Mark Cuban @mcuban]

Cheaper medicines exist — middlemen are keeping them out of reach https://t.co/00YITQ5POf

[Nick Mark MD @nickmmark]

He did not die of a heart attack.

He had cardiac arrest due to an aortic dissection.

[The Atlantic @TheAtlantic]

"Once you give in to spending the day inside—with a good movie or the right book, or just dancing around the kitchen with your loved ones—you’ll find that beauty exists there," @IsabelFattal writes. In The Wonder Reader, she explores finding joy at home: https://t.co/eV4d5aCVjQ

[IMCrit @IM_Crit_]

Some fortunate ICUs have that one aide who seems to know everything: where every piece of equipment is kept, from gauze to 9 Fr catheters to pacing wires; what needs to be reordered; and, just as important, when something should not be reordered at all! They know how to move patients safely, how to calm someone who is frightened or agitated, and how to recognize the subtle signs that a patient is starting to go downhill. They also have a way of making nurses and physicians feel steadier when the unit is under pressure. When they are out sick or on vacation, everyone feels the difference. We are lucky to have this aide as part of our ICU team:

[Jim Beattie @JimBeattie18]

Good Morning Sunday ☀️
•
My destination
is no longer a place,
but a new way of seeing.....
( Marcel Proust )
•
Juan Brufal art.

[Tom Nichols @RadioFreeTom]

https://t.co/whhL8OIwlX

[Dario Amodei @DarioAmodei]

Today I'm publishing a new essay, Policy on the AI Exponential. AI is progressing extremely fast—much faster than the policy process was built to handle. The essay lays out where I think the technology is now, and the action needed to close the gap: https://t.co/Lh6PWae178

[Phys.org @physorg_com]

June 29 marks Switzerland’s Glacier Loss Day: snow reserves are gone, so every liter of meltwater now cuts directly into glacier ice. @ETH_en https://t.co/46WJ0mCR8q

[The Atlantic @TheAtlantic]

Some people die from heat; others just die when it happens to be hot. In 2023, the physician @BenMazer wrote about the science (and politics) of “heat-related” death: https://t.co/l49sx23jNb

[Science X @sciencex_com]

Structured AI use improved students’ problem-solving most clearly, while more than half of classroom experiments gave no guidance and many flagged cognitive risks. https://t.co/gu0WIbGHTi

[Aimy 🍓🥛 @erdbeermilcher]

Marie Antoinette ist für deutlich weniger gestorben

[Christiane Amanpour @amanpour]

"It's not enough to read a book to your kid and then sit there looking at your phone. Your kid is going to want to look at a phone if that's what you're doing... children have to see you reading books." Acclaimed novelist Ann Patchett tells me why she's "evangelical" about the importance of reading and protecting books. "Book banning is a terrible thing. And it's an extraordinary waste of time... it takes up the energy that we need to make children safe from guns."

[Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum]

She is not wrong

[Pandemic Center at Brown School of Public Health @pandemiccenter]

Dr. @Craig_A_Spencer recalls surviving #ebola with @projo. As someone who fought & survived it, his voice is an important one.

He shares that the current outbreak in the DRC could get far worse because of US cuts on the global health programs needed to fight it.

[Gerhard Pfister 🤍❤️ 💛💙 @gerhardpfister]

Je weniger Ausländer:innen, desto mehr JA Stimmen. Und umgekehrt.

[Oded Rechavi @OdedRechavi]

A PhD's success depends more on the fit between the student, the advisor, and the lab than on the specific topic being studied (it barely matters at all).

Similarly, a lab's success depends more on how excited (or miserable) its researchers are than on the precise project they are working on (it could be virtually anything).

This information isn't in papers or in grant proposals, you have to ask the researchers.

[Jim Himes 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @jahimes]

A must read article on America’s new senior intelligence official in which our hero pushes meme stocks, invents a fantastical 50 year mortgage and encounters a large green dildo.

We used to be a serious country. https://t.co/vhvp1AdUWi