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The Trump administration clamped down on visas used by foreign students and researchers to come to the United States. These efforts, scientists say, damaged American competitiveness on the global stage. https://bit.ly/39ESB35

Every lab has its own environment and its own mood, and when you stepped into Kathryn’s lab, you immediately felt very focused. Tatiana Omelchenko, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center https://bit.ly/3sE8yiK

We will need to put together more data on different kinds of processes to try to reconstruct more comprehensively and precisely the source of bias that might still influence the career promotion recognition of women in academia. Flaminio Squazzoni, University of Milan https://bit.ly/3nOpgbB

In 2015, he appeared on a television program called Bigfoot Files. https://bit.ly/3sutfh2

The cancer death rate has tumbled by 31 percent since 1991. https://bit.ly/2N8QVat

As online learning has become a mainstay because of the pandemic, educators have made great strides in its efficacy, but there are still areas for improvement. Via Times Higher Education https://bit.ly/3dUgup1

The United States really has done remarkably badly compared to other countries, Eziekel Emanuel tells @NPR. https://bit.ly/37cPBv6

Mexico’s president is expected to sign the bill for the funding cuts into law. https://bit.ly/35thooz

This latest temporary suspension follows a pause in September by AstraZeneca, when one of its study participants developed transverse myelitis. https://bit.ly/3m6KOzN

There's nothing better than spending a Sunday doing a crossword puzzle! https://bit.ly/2HneHx0

You’re wearing a mask, washing your hands, avoiding crowds. Here are some additional ideas for helping fend off the coronavirus. https://bit.ly/31ghsqy

The authors of a new analysis conclude that if the US COVID-19 death rate after May 10 were similar to that of Italy’s, the US would have had 91,604 fewer deaths. https://bit.ly/34qduOd

The company has released few details regarding an unexplained illness in a study participant, but an independent safety board has been convened to review the incident. https://bit.ly/3dTaNYj

To test for COVID-19 in remote communities in French Guiana, researchers had to go into the jungle, into villages in the middle of the forest, and in very poor neighborhoods." https://bit.ly/345pXXq

The consumer market is creating these devices that didn’t exist . . . devices that open doors for researchers. Olav Krigolson

Roughly half of the field station’s resident howler monkeys, which have been monitored for more than three decades, were killed after two blazes swept through the area. https://bit.ly/354cVbU

During his stay at Walter Reed, Trump is receiving experimental antibodies, remdesivir, and dexamethasone. https://bit.ly/3iZUJoD

See who’s on the ballot for House and Senate seats this year. https://bit.ly/37awrWA

All these groups [of monkeys] we found, I knew everything about them. I knew who was the son, the daughter, the mother. The first [few days] I was crying all the time. Martin Kowalewski

As the hiring season gets underway, academic listings are still way down from last year, but there are signs of the job market picking back up. https://bit.ly/3512jKL

Several scientists have tested their COVID-19 vaccines on themselves, joining a long line of self-experimentation stretching back in history. https://bit.ly/3o1Bte3

The mutant gene at the root of Huntington’s is found throughout the body in many different types of cells. Michelle Gray’s work aims to determine where it causes the disease. https://bit.ly/355vCf5

We always thought this third form of hepatitis existed, but no one could find the virus that caused it. Lorne Tyrrell, speaking of the work of his University of Alberta colleague and Nobel laureate Michael Houghton https://bit.ly/3nTfZQD

I have human faces and fears attached to my vision of what navigating this pandemic looks like. Cameron Webb https://bit.ly/350UVin

If they’re people who might be coming regularly through a clinic, you’ll probably still get quite a bit of information, even if [the test] wasn’t performing as sensitively. Anne Wyllie, Yale School of Public Health https://bit.ly/3j8quMw

Two fires destroyed more than 90 percent of the land inside Argentina’s San Cayetano Provincial Park, home to the southernmost population of black and gold howler monkeys and a research station that has been studying them for decades. https://bit.ly/37aud9X

Historically, Black communities have been pawns, not participants, in experimental medicine. Via STAT News: https://bit.ly/353F3eX

"The attacks on science didn’t start with the Trump administration, but they turned what felt like an attack on science to an all-out war on reality." Shaughnessy Naughton, 314 Action https://bit.ly/3o0nVQ0

The researchers compared COVID-19 death rates through mid-September in 19 countries. https://bit.ly/3j4XGUS

We've counted more than 30 candidates with science, technology, engineering, math, and medical backgrounds on the ballot for national elections. Let us know if we've missed any. https://bit.ly/2HdxTMY

Illinois-based Surgisphere had a brief moment in the limelight this year following its infamous study of hydroxychloroquine. But the impact of the company’s deception reverberated across world. https://bit.ly/358lUsj