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Ashley N. DeLorge retweeted
All my life, I've wondered about life beyond the earth. On those countless other planets that we think circle other suns, is there also life? Might the beings of other worlds resemble us, or would they be astonishingly different? What would they be made of? In the vast Milky Way galaxy, how common is what we call life? The nature of life on earth and the quest for life elsewhere are the two sides of the same question: the search for who we are.
- Dr. Carl Sagan
Ashley N. DeLorge retweeted
3,887 measles cases in the US this year, and it's only October.
All of 2025 was 2,289.
We eliminated this disease in 2000.
Eliminating it took decades of work.
Losing it took just two years of RFK Jr and MAHA
Ashley N. DeLorge retweeted
House Republican, invoking Reagan, moves to block Trump's Russia oil deal axios.com/2026/10/10/fitzpat…
Ashley N. DeLorge retweeted
"Why would you need courage to speak the truth?"
Navi Pillay, Nobel Peace Prize 2026
Photo: Wikus de Wet / AFP
Ashley N. DeLorge retweeted
On this day in 2024, the Northern Lights lit up the skies above Oxford 😍
📷 | Marisa Basali (via Bodleian Libraries)
ALT The Radcliffe Camera in Oxford illuminated against a night sky glowing with shades of purple, pink and green from the Northern Lights. The historic circular building and its distinctive dome stand beneath the colourful sky.
ALT Close-up of the Radcliffe Camera’s domed roof and ornate stone architecture, set against a vivid pink and purple night sky illuminated by the Northern Lights over Oxford.
ALT Side view of Oxford’s Radcliffe Camera, its historic stone walls glowing golden under artificial lighting. The Northern Lights create shades of purple and blue across the star-filled night sky, with Oxford’s historic college buildings visible in the background.
Ashley N. DeLorge retweeted
The strongest sentence in the CNN piece is Hotez's: the current system caught myocarditis at about 1 in 20,000 and clots at about 1 in 500,000, so injuries are being found, counted and compensated. A new center can add to that. Whether it does depends on whether its questions are open. Offit's worry is that the answer is chosen first. A fair test is simple: publish the protocol, the data and the analysis plan before the results.
Ashley N. DeLorge retweeted
Curiosity often sparks scientific breakthroughs. For 2026 medicine laureate Peter Hegemann, it began with a question: how could a tiny green alga called Chlamydomonas react so rapidly to light?
The Chlamydomonas algae is famous for its ability to swim towards light. When the alga is stirred into a petri dish, the liquid turns a faint green colour. If one side of the dish is illuminated, the green colour moves towards the light source, as the microscopic algae swim towards it. The algae sense the light with an eyespot, a dot on the cell’s surface that contains a light-capturing molecule, retinal.
Hegemann discovered electrical signals in the light-sensitive eyespot that occurred just half a millisecond after illumination, far faster than the response of the human eye. He could only think of one explanation for this ultrafast response: the process must be much simpler than in a human eye. He proposed that a single protein could both detect light and act as an ion channel, an idea initially met with scepticism.
After years of experiments with his colleague Georg Nagel, Hegemann's hypothesis proved to be correct. Together, they discovered proteins that functioned exactly as he had predicted: ion channels that opened in response to light. This breakthrough laid the foundation for optogenetics, a revolutionary technique that allows scientists to control individual nerve cells with light. What began as a question about a microscopic alga ultimately helped transform the field of neuroscience.
Read more about the newly awarded 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine: bit.ly/4jNd5w7
ALT Peter Hegemann holds a tray of test tubes containing green alga, standing in a laboratory setting. The environment features shelves with various containers and boxes. The lighting is dim, with a focused illumination on the test tubes.
At least there's ONE that can admit they made a mistake. 'Accountability' is not generally a word in which they are familiar.
BREAKING: “I FUCKED UP!” Tillis COMES CLEAN that he made a terrible mistake confirming Pete Hegseth – demands his removal and delivers a SAVAGE jab about his planned public execution!
Republican Senator Thom Tillis of North Carolina has finally admitted what sane and intelligent Americans have known all along: Confirming Pete Hegseth as secretary of defense was a terrible mistake.
And this time, Tillis isn't mincing words.
During an appearance on Real Time Friday night, Bill Maher confronted Tillis on why he voted to confirm Hegseth and other controversial Trump Cabinet nominees despite having serious reservations about them.
Tillis initially defended his votes, arguing that presidents deserve some latitude in choosing their administrations. But when the conversation turned to Hegseth, he dropped the excuses.
“Now I'm telling you, I f*cked up and he needs to go. What else do we need to talk about?”
That's coming from a Republican senator who actually voted to put Hegseth in charge of the United States military.
And Tillis had something even more explosive to say about Hegseth's plan to livestream the firing-squad execution of Nidal Hasan, the former Army major convicted of murdering 13 people at Fort Hood in 2009.
“We've got to stop that. This is bullsh*t. There's no way we should be doing that,” Tillis declared.
Tillis said he was “shocked” Hegseth hadn't asked to be one of the shooters on the firing squad himself.
“This is performative at the worst level and it has to be reversed,” the senator added.
Tillis supports carrying out Hasan's death sentence. His objection is to turning a military execution into a public spectacle, a distinction that makes his criticism of Hegseth particularly pointed.
Of course, Tillis is retiring from the Senate, which gives him considerably more freedom to speak his mind than Republicans still facing voters or worrying about Trump's retaliation.
But there's something revealing about a senator who helped install Hegseth now publicly demanding his removal.
Tillis has finally found the courage to admit he made a mistake. The question is how many of his Republican colleagues privately agree – and whether any of them will say so while they still have something to lose.
Vote Blue.
Ashley N. DeLorge retweeted
BREAKING: “I FUCKED UP!” Tillis COMES CLEAN that he made a terrible mistake confirming Pete Hegseth – demands his removal and delivers a SAVAGE jab about his planned public execution!
Republican Senator Thom Tillis of North Carolina has finally admitted what sane and intelligent Americans have known all along: Confirming Pete Hegseth as secretary of defense was a terrible mistake.
And this time, Tillis isn't mincing words.
During an appearance on Real Time Friday night, Bill Maher confronted Tillis on why he voted to confirm Hegseth and other controversial Trump Cabinet nominees despite having serious reservations about them.
Tillis initially defended his votes, arguing that presidents deserve some latitude in choosing their administrations. But when the conversation turned to Hegseth, he dropped the excuses.
“Now I'm telling you, I f*cked up and he needs to go. What else do we need to talk about?”
That's coming from a Republican senator who actually voted to put Hegseth in charge of the United States military.
And Tillis had something even more explosive to say about Hegseth's plan to livestream the firing-squad execution of Nidal Hasan, the former Army major convicted of murdering 13 people at Fort Hood in 2009.
“We've got to stop that. This is bullsh*t. There's no way we should be doing that,” Tillis declared.
Tillis said he was “shocked” Hegseth hadn't asked to be one of the shooters on the firing squad himself.
“This is performative at the worst level and it has to be reversed,” the senator added.
Tillis supports carrying out Hasan's death sentence. His objection is to turning a military execution into a public spectacle, a distinction that makes his criticism of Hegseth particularly pointed.
Of course, Tillis is retiring from the Senate, which gives him considerably more freedom to speak his mind than Republicans still facing voters or worrying about Trump's retaliation.
But there's something revealing about a senator who helped install Hegseth now publicly demanding his removal.
Tillis has finally found the courage to admit he made a mistake. The question is how many of his Republican colleagues privately agree – and whether any of them will say so while they still have something to lose.
Vote Blue.
Ashley N. DeLorge retweeted
Dear Ukraine,
Blow that shit hole off the map. Hold nothing back. Nothing.
Thank you.
-Jack
Ashley N. DeLorge retweeted
Well no, we licensed our low-cost, patent-free COVID vaccine technology to multiple groups with the stipulation that they will do this at $2-3 per dose to help humanity, and we will work with them to scale up. No patents, no strings attached. We did it to help humanity. It worked, more than 100 million people got vaccinated…and we made no money. Some delivered like India and Indonesia, some didn’t. Because we used a vegan technology Indonesia figured out that they could make it Halal. We made the Halal Covid vaccine for Muslim majority countries. Not bad for a Jewish guy. Tikkun Olam, repair the world. That’s what I did with my MD PhD @WeillCornell @RockefellerUniv
Ashley N. DeLorge retweeted
Amid an unusually competitive political landscape in Texas this midterm election, almost every Republican nominee for a statewide seat appears to be dodging debate invitations from their Democratic counterparts. bit.ly/4y7QGx0
Ashley N. DeLorge retweeted
This could have been a debate.
While Ken Paxton refuses to face James Talarico on the debate stage, James will be answering questions directly from Texans LIVE on CNN.
Find a watch party near you: jamestalarico.com/thiscouldh…
Ashley N. DeLorge retweeted
I’m in love with this sentence:
“A person's capacity for growth is directly linked to how much truth they can handle about themselves without running away.”
Ashley N. DeLorge retweeted
Many thanks @BloombergTV @business for hosting me this Sat AM as I detail the story of Yersinia pestis and two forms of plague, why the steppes of Central Asia is a plague hotspot and even the origin of the Black Death in the fourteenth century, why there’s a long established Russian institute located in Irkutsk and what we know and don’t know about the recent pneumonia death
