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Gathering a couple of saddening threads on US science from people with the NIH expertise to know. Not a single scientist in my life expects the rest of their career to go as they had expected a few years ago.

elizabethginexi.substack.com/p

PSA: If you get a Medicare Benefit Statement in your my.gov.au inbox, DOWNLOAD THE ATTACHMENT! It expires in 3 months and you need it to claim on your private health insurerance.
Now I have to call Medicare to try and get them to resend the statements.

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Another #OpenStreetMap mapping party in two weeks in East Perth (not the Scottish one):

geogeeks.org/2026/0308_osm-eas

The East Perth Cemeteries are also open that day, so maybe we'll do some grave mapping.

This is our second visit to East Perth: in 2022 we mapped Victoria Gardens. This time we'll be south-west of there.

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Why there’s no European Google? - Ploum:
ploum.net/2026-01-22-why-no-eu

tl;dr; Europe has a lot to be proud of in terms of technological development! Even if it doesn't look like what comes out of the US.

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And here's an American Ford F-350 next to the most popular car in Europe (Dacia Sandero).

There's a reason why we need to do everything we can to prevent people from driving these stupid American trucks in Europe.

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