Erik English
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Associate multimedia editor for @bulletinatomic. Views my own. RTs don’t imply agreement. He/him.
Joined August 2012
One overarching theme here: a lot of what really mattered in this election probably happened 2+ years ago. Indeed, the results by state are more correlated with our 2022-House based estimates than the 2020 result
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Experts in public health, biosecurity, vaccine policy, and other biology-related fields write on Trump’s win and what it might mean for their areas of practice. "What Trump might do on vaccines, pandemics, global health, and more," by @MatthewField2. https://t.co/wkvhgPcyDY
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Experts in public health, vaccines, and other health and biology-related fields are concerned about what the next Trump administration could bring.
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“My guess is that we’ll be able to read last night’s election results in the geological record many millennia hence.” @jessimckenzi
https://t.co/XN88ru4ptn
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President-elect Donald Trump is now poised to once again withdraw the United States from the Paris climate agreement, and to begin rolling back President Biden’s climate regulations in favor of his...
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Helpful tip: One thing you might want to do before Jan. 20th is update all your vaccinations.
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please keep scrolling. they actually stop counting votes if you stop scrolling
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"How demagogues destroy democracy: a step-by-step global guide." ⬇️ https://t.co/wB2wG1SUPW
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Today's demagogues are the harbingers of a new, 21st-century form of despotism: a corrupted, "phantom democracy" in which periodic elections are held but the rich become super-rich and omnipotent—w...
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🚨 Just in: UN to conduct new study of the broad impacts of nuclear war. Not all countries want to know My latest for @BulletinAtomic
https://t.co/BAQiNoP89h
#nuclearweapons
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China is the only nuclear-weapon state to have voted in favor of a new UN study on the effects of nuclear war last week.
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Brett Favre is voting because he’s interested in the welfare of the American people Learn more by googling Brett Favre welfare
Packers fans in Wisconsin: Are you with me? I need y’all to get out and vote for President Donald J. Trump today. It’s time to save America! 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
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Good riddance
As a result, I do not know whether we will be able to publish the needle. There are good reasons to bet against it, though perhaps there are scenarios where things are running super smoothly; alternately, we hit bugs at the start and there's no chance.
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Is the reign of tech titans coming to an end? Read the new article from @SteveJFeldstein: https://t.co/pHTx7oGKI0
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Are tech titans more powerful than ever before and holding nation-states subservient to their whims? Or is their influence exaggerated?
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Six quality Bulletin readings, curated for the concerned Election Day voter. With a dash of humor for sanity’s sake. Read the introduction and compilation by Bulletin editor-in-chief @meckdevil: https://t.co/aLlOQ4TQuY
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A collection of pieces from the Bulletin's coverage of the 2024 US election, carefully curated for the benefit of Americans and concerned citizens around the world who have limited reading time...
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And how many @HouseGOP lawmakers took credit locally for these investments they opposed…
New analysis from WaPo: Congressional districts that favored Trump in the 2020 election received 3x as much clean energy & manufacturing investments as those that favored Biden. (Noteworthy because zero Republicans voted for the Inflation Reduction Act in 2022).
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How could RFK Jr. affect US vaccine policy? Experts weigh in. @BulletinAtomic
https://t.co/gAVtyWnL2a
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Some experts worry about what Donald Trump's embrace of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the anti-vaccine activist with a famous name, could signal for the future of federal vaccination policy should Trump win.
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A zombie apocalypse can serve as a useful metaphor for the challenges a community may one day face—be it a pandemic, war, or a horde of reanimated corpses. 🧟 Some Halloween advice from @erik_english and @ThomasGaulkin. https://t.co/OCMhNuKQbX
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Halloween advice: Prepare for the zombie apocalypse By A key feature of most zombie fiction is how unexpected the flesh-eating onslaught always is.
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Our latest analysis explains the link between recent upgrades at the Russian Sergiev Posad-6 military high-containment biological research facility and the increase in malicious #bioweapons #disinformation focused on Ukraine. Read the briefing here: https://t.co/d2BuLHjEAf
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In case you missed it, last week the WHO declared Egypt malaria-free. Evidence of the disease has been traced back as far as 4000 BCE and genetic testing found it to be the likely killer of King Tut. Read more here: https://t.co/Iypwp3qesU
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In its certification that Egypt is malaria-free, the WHO said of Egypt: “the disease that plagued pharaohs now belongs to its history and not its future.”
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When African cattle died, sleeping-sickness flies switched to targeting people in the early 1900s. How will climate change & our age of extinctions affect diseases now? @GeorgiosPappas6 reports on tsetse flies, mosquitos, ticks, & more. @buleltinatomic. https://t.co/n3d6XLAzuw
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As the planet warms and disease-carrying animals like mosquitos follow their ideal temperatures northward and into higher altitudes, they may bring diseases such as West Nile virus to areas where...
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Just in: @mcuban on AI, @elonmusk, and Big Tech’s influence on society and elections In an interview with @BulletinAtomic disruptive tech editor @Saragoud
https://t.co/YkzYrqmMEp
#USElection2024 #AI
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Mark Cuban discusses Elon Musk, artificial intelligence, and Big Tech's influence on society and the elections.
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