Channa Prakash
@AgBioWorld
I am curious about science, farming, food security, innovation, politics, science policy, history. @AAAS Fellow. Tweets are personal.
What's stunning about this hunger crisis in Gaza is that it is not unfolding in some remote part of the world, allowing leaders to feign ignorance; no, this starvation is in the headlines, on television and much discussed -- yet still the world shrugs and the US is complicit.
As a longtime humanitarian who has battled famines and hunger crises, I fear that starvation in Gaza has now passed the tipping point and we are going to see mass-scale starvation mortality. A thread on famine momentum, famine response, and what it means for Gaza today.
New polling finds Trump's approval rating is just 37%, making him the least popular president in history at this point in their term.
New article out on how doctors become fascists. 50% of German physicians joined the Nazi Party––twice the proportion of any other profession. American doctors today are arguably the most conservative in the world, and we're heading along a similar path. authors.elsevier.com/a/1lUTb-CmV5INe
Hot tip I learned—shop at a Dollar Store or other discount stores (with cookies active) before you buy airline tickets with Delta Airlines (soon to start individualized surveillance pricing). Using incognito mode may not help much because Delta knows who you are as a passenger.
You’ve planned and saved for months to take your family on that dream vacation. You buy amusement park tickets. Then, you go to buy the flights, except all of a sudden… the price has skyrocketed. Why? Because your airline knows you just purchased those tickets.
This new preprint was designed so poorly that it provides absolutely no proof that mRNA vaccines caused cancer/other diseases. It compared 10 (!) handpicked sick patients to 803 healthy patients. And behold, they show different RNA expression profiles. Because they were sick.
A convicted felon serial sexual abuser is going to pardon a convicted felon child sex trafficker in order to protect himself from being implicated for child sex trafficking. Congrats MAGA. You’ve outdone yourselves this time.
The communities that welcome migrants and refugees can be a living witness of a society where the dignity of all as children of God is recognised and in which all are brothers and sisters, part of the same family. #WDMR2025 @vaticanIHD vatican.va/content/leo-xi…
Delta Airlines to begin using artificial intelligence algorithms to scrape your emails and more to determine the maximum amount you’re willing to spend on tickets, then adjust your price Example: If you have a death in the family, they’ll know it’s urgent and the price will go…
Japanese scientists successfully removed the extra chromosome causing Down syndrome in lab cells.
How a wild peanut strain help scientists develop a better variety, an awesome PlantBreeding story in @nytimes! Congratulations @BotanyBert. Remove the paywall at archive.is/2025.07.24-142… nytimes.com/2025/07/24/din…
Trump and Pam Bondi will say they didn’t Pardon Ghislaine Maxwell, they just reduced her sentence to time served. In exchange, she won’t name Trump. Bookmark it.
Trump is going to lose ALL CREDIBILITY IF HE PARDONS MAXWELL! If that doesn’t SCREAM he’s a pedophile I don’t know what else does!
The value judgements and misinformation in the comments explains a lot about why we are here today. Ignorance about how things work, conflating misinformation and no empathy for suffering.
One reason we tolerate the evisceration of USAID is skepticism about aid's effectiveness. Yet aid can and does save lives. As @BillGates notes here, child deaths from diarrhea have fallen 72% since 2000. Diarrhea still kills too many children, but we know to solve these problems,…
You’ve planned and saved for months to take your family on that dream vacation. You buy amusement park tickets. Then, you go to buy the flights, except all of a sudden… the price has skyrocketed. Why? Because your airline knows you just purchased those tickets.
He died from Parkinson’s, you fat fuck. @RealAlexJones
Postdoc opportunity in my lab in London. Two positions available to work on programming of novel plant traits: 🪴Plant Biologist and Synthetic Biologist! 🪴 Deadline soon — 3 August 2025. Please share with suitable candidates! @SynBioUK @ImperialBioeng @TheSainsburyLab…