The clever people at NASA have created this deceptively simple yet highly effective data visualisation showing monthly global temperatures between 1880-2021. Watch until the end... Learn more here - svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4975 #ClimateEmergency #ClimateCrisis #climate

Idea to replace Twitter: we all get added to the same Google Doc and see what happens

On Tuesday my mid child will be 6.5 years old. I will be exactly 6 months away from paying off my 20% portion of her $1.2mil birth. We can't be deciding as a country to force carrying pregnancies when we wont provide insurance that covers the cost.

Read this. This era of "precision medicine" we are entering means NOTHING if the therapies produced aren't accessible to everyone.

Very cool to see Jennifer Gunter outline how to have a medication abortion — including a misoprostol only abortion — and link to resources for where to get pills in her latest newsletter. I love seeing this message go mainstream! vajenda.substack.com/p/stop-talking…

Lately I've been hearing folks talk about reproductive rights and living in MA/New England, feeling less scared. I agree, but also remember the clinic shootings in Brookline in 1994. It could happen here, it has happened here. wbur.org/cognoscenti/20…

Why you can't use eQTLs to interpret GWAS hits: A story in 2 parts

Last night, a younger patient arrived with abdominal pain, chest pain, and shortness of breath. While assessing, the patient began to appear more and more pale with each moment. "I tested + with two at home tested, but I have an IUD." VS=HR 150 BP 80/40 I sounded an alarm. 1/8

A story that's not getting enough national attention: Here in the Myrtle Beach, S.C. area for the past 13 years, the FBI and local law enforcement officials left the impression that a white girl on vacation was abducted by a 16-year-old black dude who did evil things to her. 1/

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There’s a massive story unfolding in Atlanta, but it’s barely getting any media attention. Right now the city’s forest, a vital site for humans and animals alike, is under attack, and some amazing people are fighting back. Here’s the story. 🧵

Oh, goodness! 17,000 followers! What a nice way to close out #juneteenth2022! Please give us a follow for weird, wild, and wonderful comics and graphic novels, from the (Black-owned! 🖤) BIGGEST COMICS PUBLISHER in the American Midwest! ♥

Bored youth summertime vandalism at its best: flicking the switch on businesses that keep their lights on all night in the midst of an energy crisis.

Local EMS brought in an unresponsive patient the other night. She had a pulse, she was breathing, but the only response you could get from her was occasional groaning. "We gave 4mg Narcan, she perked up a little bit, but this is the best she's been. It's probably fentanyl."

One of those weird US things where we've moved so far right we forget than not going into student debt was simply the norm just 50 years ago

To all my non Iranian friends. You might have heard random things about Iran,It's crucial for us to increase awareness on the global scene and spread our voice by giving the world a clear view of the systematic brutality in the Islamic Regime of Iran. #MahsaAmini #Mahsa_Amini

I’m working on a horror comic using primarily caput mortuum violet, and just wanna give this color a shout-out. Good color, great name, the haunted eggplant tone everyone needs more of in their life this halloween season

Confused by all the "what is epigenetics" discourse? Well I have just the thing for you -- presenting the Epigenetics Alignment Chart!

I applied to 50 jobs after my PhD, got one (my postdoc). This was in 2017. I was paid ~$55K/year, couldn't have taken the job without living at my dad's for cheap rent. Life as a research scientist is 1000x better, postdocs need to be paid real wages.