Do you remember the 2019 study about how we can feed the world’s growing population without causing catastrophic climate breakdown?
"But the backlash was ferocious, with researchers receiving personal threats and insults." Twitter at the front of hate, then came articles. A leaked document shows that actions against the #scientists were a targeted PR-campaign for the #meat lobby: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/apr/11/pr-campaign-may-fuelled-food-study-backlash-leaked-document-eat-lancet

#apache #parquet files is used by many #scientists . Beware of files with unknown origin as CVE-2025-30065 has a CVSS v4 score of 10.0

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/max-severity-rce-flaw-discovered-in-widely-used-apache-parquet/

The USA might lose a #generation of #scientists because of an #ignorant #administration's #slashing of #science #budgets & #staffs. That will make it much harder to treat the #ill & #prevent #disease. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/03/opinion/young-american-scientists.html?unlocked_article_code=1.-k4.u5hn.7LLO_JZnVV7_&smid=url-share

From @medpagetoday: >40% of 225 #scientists & public health workers at the #CDC's National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities were put on administrative leave earlier this month as part of the Tr*mp administration's reduction-in-force initiative. https://tinyurl.com/mwbfnnj5

#NSF slashes prestigious #PhD #fellowship awards by half
#US National #Science Foundation announces lowest number of Graduate Research Fellowship Programme (#GRFP) recipients in 15 years. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-01098-9

Who needs another generation of #scientists? </s>

BBC: Rare Turing papers worth £397k saved from export. “A collection of rare documents by World War Two codebreaker Alan Turing have been saved for the nation. Last year, a temporary export bar was placed on the wartime project writings to prevent them being taken abroad. A successful campaign was launched to keep the papers on home soil, which were described by the government as some of […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/04/09/bbc-rare-turing-papers-worth-397k-saved-from-export/

We are witnessing the destruction of science in America | Paul Darren Bieniasz

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/apr/09/science-destruction-america

Not so sure about the "unmuzzled scientists" part since many of us are forced to sign nondisclosure agreements for various reasons, some legit, some not. Ideally, we would get rid of NDAs. They are abused, and result in unnecessary muzzling of federal, provincial, and private sector scientists far too often. (Harper was horrific to federal scientists though. Hands down, Harper was the worst PM I ever encountered, for eliminating scientific progress and scientists.) #scientists #science #canada

https://www.europesays.com/uk/5598/ Nasa and Esa want to bring Martian rocks to Earth. Here’s what will happen to the samples once they get here #Earth’sAtmosphere #EuropeanSpaceAgency #MarsSampleReturn #MartianRocks #MartianSamples #MSR #Nasa #Science #ScientificCommunity #scientists #UK #UnitedKingdom

‘Well-preserved’ baby mammoth dating back to Ice Age dissected by scientists: photos https://www.byteseu.com/903684/ #animals #Russia #Science #scientists

#Galaxies Without #Stars? #Scientists Zero In on the #Universe’s Darkest #Halos

https://scitechdaily.com/galaxies-without-stars-scientists-zero-in-on-the-universes-darkest-halos/

Trump Misleads on #Transgender Issues

https://www.factcheck.org/2025/04/trump-misleads-on-transgender-issues/

#Trump’s first transgender-related order declared that people are either #male or #female at “conception.” But #scientists say that excludes certain people and #sex is not fully determined at conception.

#Scientists debate actual weight of the #internet

https://www.wired.com/story/weight-of-the-internet/

#NIH #scientists have a #cancer breakthrough. #Layoffs are delaying it.
Scientists demonstrated a promising step toward using a person's own immune cells to fight gastrointestinal #cancers" at America's National Institutes of Health (or NIH), the same day the agency was hit with devastating layoffs that left many NIH personnel in tears.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/other/nih-scientists-have-a-cancer-breakthrough-layoffs-are-delaying-it/ar-AA1Co50C

10 #Scientists Convicted of Serious #Crimes

https://listverse.com/2025/04/07/10-scientists-convicted-of-serious-crimes/

After 'coding error' triggers firings, top NIH scientists called back to work

https://www.science.org/content/article/after-coding-error-triggers-firings-top-nih-scientists-called-back-work

Bridging the gap: Why scientists must master communication in age of misinformation – EnviroNews https://www.byteseu.com/897547/ #communication #FutureOfScienceCommunicationForum #Misinformation #Science #scientists

The next generation of #scientists is being pushed into fleeing the #US due to the policies of #Trump, #Musk, #RFKJr, & others. This must be immediately reversed, public #science is an important aspect of healthy #democracy!

https://futurism.com/majority-scientists-considering-fleeing-america

Top American #scientists just lost their jobs. #Canada is rolling out the welcome mat. Manitoba, B.C., Ontario looking to recruit top scientists from the U.S., by Jennifer Yoon

https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/us-scientists-canada-1.7502527

Scientists witness living plant cells generate cellulose and form cell walls

https://phys.org/news/2025-03-scientists-witness-cells-generate-cellulose.html