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Science + health + education + academia + research + film + e-learning + 50 other random things + cats. The cats are the important bit.
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Please make up The resistance must be free of disease in order to keep resisting. I honestly can’t believe so many people in the resistance don’t mask up 😷 mask up 😷

Mask up NOW “A new COVID variant, known as NB.1.8.1, has made landfall in the United States, and it's more transmissible than other variants.” www.huffpost.com/entry/the-mo...

The eternal question. Am I burnt out or do I have long covid

Mask up this fall, we’re on our own.

It’s now Marxist to understand that the Constitution only authorizes Congress to impose tariffs.

No tax on tips? Cool. Now make companies pay a living wage so rent doesn’t hinge on someone’s mood after a burger.

All the guys who think they're so alpha, seem awfully afraid of the big bad subway.

Treating a new Covid strain like a crime and not a public health issue is deranged.

RFK Jr. is reportedly going to forbid government scientists from publishing in the world’s most respected medical journals — the Lancet, The New England Journal of Medicine, JAMA, etc. It’s going to take decades to repair the damage done by this administration.

I subscribe to the @newyorker.com, I was part of ACT UP, I knew Larry Kramer well and know Tony Fauci too. Daniel Immerwahr's piece on RFKJr, features this and other passages that need a reponse. 1/

Can anyone recommend a book about the end of the pre (either) war German academic global dominance? I know there are parallels, but I feel pretty under informed as to what they are.

Make pirating fashionable again! 🏴‍☠️

Thinking about the children whose families were subject to police raids because they had pirated the wrong songs

Here’s the thing about suggesting “cooking classes” as an alternative to insulin for diabetics. It’s ignorant. It’s ableist. It’s eugenicist. We know all of this. It’s also incredibly privileged. It assumes that healthy eating is accessible to everyone & that not doing it is a choice 🧵

-A living wage -Guaranteed healthcare -The right to join a union -The right to vote -The right to choose when, how, and with whom you start a family -The right for you and your family to live free from gun violence These are the foundations of real freedom.

MMR is one of the most effective vaccines at preventing and transmitting #measles. It works fast enough to be used to reduce the severity and transmissibility within 48-72 hours of being infected.

Moreover, cyclists’ selfish insistence on using locks and chains is *crippling* the bike thieving industry.

The biggest mistake I see in discussions of trans people's healthcare is the idea that hormones and the like are some special service just for us when really all kinds of people access the same health care for all kinds of reasons but they are *withheld* from us because we are trans

The treatment of trans people by the U.K. and U.S. governments often takes the form of state-sanctioned sexual harassment and assault. Contrary to the idea that this protects women from sexual violence, it demands it. Giving officers access to women’s bodies ensures it

Looking for a job that pays me to imagine catastrophic scenarios

You believe I've changed. You think I've become radicalized by the Left, that I'm a woke bleeding-heart LiberaL; an anti-Jesus, anti-American baby-killing heretic, determined to destroy the fabric of this nation with socialism, DEI, and wide-open borders. johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/you-raised...

Thrilled to learn from DOJ's argument that the 14th Amendment applied to the "children of former slaves, not illegal immigrants, who didn't exist as a class yet" that modern firearms are not protected by the Second Amendment!

"Masked security forces captured an opposition leader in the coastal province of New Jersey as regime officials continue their months-long crack-down against pro-democracy elements in the embattled United States. The arrest comes as the regime issued calls for summary detentions without trial."

…y'all need to rehire all those DEI's because it seems like they were the ones who understood how aircraft carrier tie-downs work

trying to imagine the reaction to two planes falling off an aircraft carrier with kamala harris as president

vandalism www.nytimes.com/2025/05/06/u...

The Prime Minister of a sovereign country came to the United States today and actually had to tell the President of the United States - to his face - that his sovereign country wasn’t for sale. And would never be for sale. That actually happened today.

An example of the disruption to science caused by the NSF’s 15% overhead dictate: At the University of Washington, all newly awarded NSF grants are now on hold indefinitely with no advance spending allowed.

Recently, we found out that our R01 funded through PAR-22-241 was withdrawn by NIAID as the NIH no longer prioritizes research programs related to DEI. This has been devastating news for our young research group, and we are now trying to scram together for a path forward 🧵1/12

What's happening with these grants is much more complicated and mostly unknown. None of the NIH have been officially cancelled. The NIH was just ordered to stop paying. They got the Unis to enforce silence on their own campuses because they thought they were "negotiating" and cld get the funds back.

"So start cheating. Because when everyone does, no one is" is genuinely one of the most rancid things I have ever seen.

france should just repo the statue of liberty

@maddow.msnbc.com We’re out in New Glarus WI, Americas Little Switzerland, 💪🏻💪🏻

@maddow.msnbc.com No Kings rally in Green Bay, WI

Aditya Harsono—Indonesian student legally in US, married to American citizen, father of their special needs child—has his student visa suddenly and secretly revoked, and is raided, arrested and detained by ICE for deportation. Make no mistake: If you’re legal, they can, and will, MAKE you illegal.

Nothing says "we're the party of small government that's trying to stamp out government waste" like having US Attorneys investigate the editorial practices of academic journals read by a few thousand people.

Guys, I love all of you, but the answer to RFK, Jr. is not that autistic adults hold jobs, pay taxes, and get laid, it's that everyone deserves to live even if they can't work, pay taxes, or get laid.

I don't know which is less surprising, the white shooter being a Trump supporter, or the white shooter being taken alive.

I want to teach an honors course called “Every Regulation is Written in Blood” and just teach the young everything that had to be put in place to make the safe, clean American life they take for granted

Shout out to all the finance bros who didn’t give a shit about democracy, human rights, racism, homophobia, misogyny, the future of the planet or basic human decency and voted for the conman they thought was gonna be good for the economy. You guys are geniuses.

This is a WILD list of data to disappear. I was braced for climate stuff, but not, like, shoreline maps and coastal bathymetry

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