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"Conservation’s silent strain: Nature’s protectors face a mental health crisis"
#Conservation #Nature

Conservation’s silent strain: Nature’s protectors face a mental health crisis
Founder’s Briefs: An occasional series where Mongabay founder Rhett Ayers Butler shares analysis, perspectives and story summaries. Amid the calls of gibbons and the whir of drones scanning forest canopies, a quieter crisis is unfolding within the ranks of those trying to save nature. Conservationists, often seen as tireless stewards of the planet’s dwindling biodiversity, […]

🦀 Cancer risk doubles for Iowa, NC pesticide applicators who used carbaryl, study finds
#poison

Cancer risk doubles for Iowa, NC pesticide applicators who used carbaryl, study finds
By Brian Bienkowski Pesticide applicators in North Carolina and Iowa who sprayed the insecticide carbaryl often during their career have a higher risk of getting stomach, esophageal, tongue and prostate cancers, according to new research led by the National Cancer Institute (NCI). 

After two decades in Congress,
Darrell Issa’s career is all about serving the ultra-wealthy like himself
– and serving Donald Trump. It’s time to send him packing and take our country back. 
On the City Council,
Marni von Wilpert
flipped San Diego’s reddest seat blue.
Now, she’s ready to do it again – in Congress.
https://www.

Marni von Wilpert for Congress
Marni von Wilpert is running for Congress to tackle the skyrocketing cost of living, protect reproductive freedom, defend LGBTQ rights, and make Washington work for working families — not just the wealthy few. With a proven record of service, results, and winning tough races, Marni is the battle-tested fighter we need to flip CA-48 and finally send Darrell Issa packing.

Possibly horrible political idea I just had: double-blind congressional elections. After an election, neither the electorate nor the candidates are told the winner, so both go to Congress as if they were the winner. The only entity that knows the actual winner is the computer that tabulates the votes that their chamber of congress holds, so then everyone has to figure out the result of their respective elections by the results of congressional votes.

From the comments responding to the NYT article on this are several #FAFO responses because we recognize the empathy deficit of a 'proud conservative, but'
'Desperately need these services': Conservative mom blames GOP for cutting son’s Medicaid - Alternet.org
https://www.alternet.org/conservative-gop-medicaid-cuts/

Cowboys Get Concerning Week 4 Injury News in the Secondary https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/concerning-week-4-injury-news-secondary/?adt_ei=[email]

Jaguars' Hines-Allen: Son nearly cancer-free https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45824114/jaguars-josh-hines-allen-son-doing-well-cancer-foundation-set-up

Boosting Pathology Foundation Models via Few-shot Prompt-tuning for Rare Cancer Subtyping
Dexuan He, Xiao Zhou, Wenbin Guan, Liyuan Zhang, Xiaoman Zhang, Sinuo Xu, Ge Wang, Lifeng Wang, Xiaojun Yuan, Xin Sun, Yanfeng Wang, Kun Sun, Ya Zhang, Weidi Xie
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.15904

Boosting Pathology Foundation Models via Few-shot Prompt-tuning for Rare Cancer Subtyping
Rare cancers comprise 20-25% of all malignancies but face major diagnostic challenges due to limited expert availability-especially in pediatric oncology, where they represent over 70% of cases. While pathology vision-language (VL) foundation models show promising zero-shot capabilities for common cancer subtyping, their clinical performance for rare cancers remains limited. Existing multi-instance learning (MIL) methods rely only on visual features, overlooking cross-modal knowledge and compro…

"Conservationist Hail Recovery of 150 Struggling Species Thanks to Projects by Natural England"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Conservation

Conservationist Hail Recovery of 150 Struggling Species Thanks to Projects by Natural England
its report card has arrived, and its A+ work has seen the recovery of 150 struggling or declining species. 

Cancer rates among those aged 15 to 49 have increased by 10 percent since 2000
even as they have fallen among older people.
Young women are more affected than men.
From ages 15 through 49, women have a cancer rate that is 83 percent higher than men in the same age range.

What researchers suspect may be fueling cancer among millennials
Studies suggest modern life may be fueling the rise of cancer in younger adults, with factors like ultra-processed foods and chemicals under scrutiny.