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A Nature analysis shows that the Trump administration has terminated more than 100 advisory committees to science agencies — and reduced the transparency and independence of those that remain.Garisto, Dan
Many US #health agencies are operating with interim heads.
Among the vacant positions are the director of the #InfectiousDisease agency; #SurgeonGeneral; head of the Food & Drug Administration [#FDA]; deputy health secretary; & head of the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention [#CDC] — a leadership vacuum that observers say is unprecedented.
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The restrictions hobble quick cooperation with global counterparts, multiple current & former #health officials said. One staffer characterized it as unheard of during a #US response to multiple emerging #PublicHealth emergencies.
The directive is part of a broader #Trump admin retreat from participation in global health forums — the US withdrew from #WHO in January at Trump’s direction, a move that was widely criticized by public health officials….
The #Trump admin issued the directive stopping individuals at the National Institute of Allergy & Infectious Diseases [#NIAID] from communicating with the #WHO.
The federal #health subagency was led for decades by Dr. #AnthonyFauci & oversaw developing treatments for #PublicHealth emergencies including #HIV / #AIDs & #COVID19.
#nationalism #BrainDrain #medicine #science #research #global #virus #InfectiousDisease
#Trump admin shutting key #US researchers out of #global #virus response talks, documents & sources reveal
Key officials responsible for leading US #research on #InfectiousDisease threats have been #barred from speaking directly with the #WorldHealthOrganization [#WHO] — effectively shutting some of them out of the global discussions on virus #outbreaks, according to documents & multiple sources.
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Skies of blue
In the early 1800s, in the city of Suzhou in eastern China, two striking large-format maps were printed in vivid Prussian blue. One map depicted the terrestrial world of the Qing empire, the other, shown below, depicted the heavens. Look closely and you can see the curve of the Milky Way.
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"Science must always serve the people and the protection of life itself, it must never be subordinated to capital"
Mural outside the Faculty of Sciences at the National University in Bogotá
We’re being conditioned to surrender to automated authority. It’s time to break the cycle and demand structural accountability.
Read my latest on reclaiming human agency:
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Images & text assisted by AI.
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ESA's long-running Mars Express orbiter captured an exceptional view of clouds & atmospheric haze on Mars. A lot of weather happening in that thin air.
(Processing by Andrea Luck.)
flickr.com/photos/andrealuck/5… #space #science #astronomy
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Some magical new images of Mars have just come in from our interplanetary robots.
The Psyche probe, en route to a metal asteroid, got this startling view of crescent Mars during its flyby. (Processing by Kevin Gill.)
flickr.com/photos/kevinmgill/5… #space #science #nature
Processed using Infrared 1, Green, and Blue filters. NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/Kevin M. GillFlickr
But wait! A new neural-net analysis of faint stars observed by TESS just identified another 10,090 potential planets!
When they're confirmed (and most of them probably will be), they will more than double the number of known worlds beyond Earth.
eos.org/research-and-developme… #science #nature #astronomy
That’s more than were detected in the entirety of NASA’s Kepler mission and its follow-on K2 and more than double the existing planet candidates from TESS that await confirmation.Kimberly M. S. Cartier (Eos)
Every blue dot here is a star with known planets.
Every orange dot, one with suspected planets.
Nearly 6,000 total.
Dot by dot, NASA’s TESS mission is filling in our picture of the Milky Way's strange new worlds.
science.nasa.gov/missions/tess… #space #science #nature
NASA’s TESS has released its most complete view of the starry sky to dateJeanette Kazmierczak (NASA Science)
A virtual telescope with a diameter of up to 200 metres, that is what we get when we combine the light gathered by our telescopes at Paranal Observatory in #Chile
Called the Very Large Telescope Interferometer (VLTI), it can capture some of the sharpest views of the Universe.
How does this work? Here's your VLTI 101, with #ChasingStarlight 👇
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Bigger telescopes allow us to see smaller details, and thanks to interferometry we can link multiple telescopes into a single “virtual” one that can make ver...ESO Chasing Starlight (YouTube)
