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submitted 5 hours ago • 443 comments

YANSS 313 – Why the number of people needed to make a protest movement successful is much lower than you might assume youarenotsosmart.com/2025/05/14/y...

submitted 2 hours ago • 0 comments

Dereliction of duty.

submitted 4 hours ago • 714 comments

As we sleepily crawl to bed, former Director Walensky echoes in our head: "Your voice will matter. Your choices will shape lives. And your willingness to face both facts and uncertainty — with humility, with curiosity, and with courage — will be what defines you." Rest well, #AltCitizens

submitted 18 hours ago • 8 comments

Because the constitution says you can’t

submitted 19 hours ago • 420 comments

This is a horrifying betrayal of founding principles: “Last week, as the Board held its 494th meeting, I listened to NSF staff say that DOGE had by fiat the authority to give thumbs up or down to grant applications which had been systematically vetted by layers of subject matter experts”

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Last time I checked, federal employees (most teachers too) weren't able to accept any gift over $25. Yes. $25 as in 100 quarters or 5 bills of $5. What am I missing?

submitted 1 day ago • 58 comments

And just like that my standing study section at NIH is disbanded This administration truly cares about mental health… (sarcasm) @altnih4science.bsky.social

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

"strains bounds of propriety" is like something out of an Orwell novel

submitted 1 day ago • 64 comments

There is not a single congressional district in the U.S. where more than 15% of voters support cuts to Medicaid.

submitted 1 day ago • 105 comments

Medicaid debate: Focus on "able-bodied" Medicaid recipients is aimed at scaling back Obamacare timothymcbride.substack.com/p/medicaid-d...

submitted 17 hours ago • 0 comments

We desperately need to bring back scientific literacy. At the very least, a working knowledge of germ theory.

submitted 18 hours ago • 4 comments

crucially there was no evidence- or modeling-based analysis of the potential consequences of firing staff it was chaos and deliberately so

submitted 21 hours ago • 0 comments

Celgene kept the drug’s price low when it was initially intended for AIDS patients. But once the drug could be used more widely for cancer patients, the CEO told investors there was now “plenty of room for very substantial increases” in price. ➡️ Read more: propub.li/43jfFQF

submitted 20 hours ago • 60 comments

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com “Across the world, we’ve seen democracy in retreat,” writes A.G. Sulzberger, the publisher of The New York Times. “This anti-press playbook is now being used here in this country — and it could not come at a more difficult time for the American press.”

submitted 22 hours ago • 831 comments

Deportation for honking his horn at an undercover ICE officer

submitted 22 hours ago • 278 comments

i like how roberts even looks a bit like tim robinson in the hot dog sketch www.politico.com/news/2025/05...

submitted 22 hours ago • 423 comments

Young people wonder how biostat and econometrics ended up with parallel, non-intersecting literature on so many topics. Imagine if the library copies of, say, Econometrica and Biometrika were only accessible in different buildings, potentially on different campuses

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

this would be the kind of scandal that demands resignation if these people had any commitment to public service!

submitted 23 hours ago • 306 comments

Sean Duffy changed his wife's flight on Monday to avoid Newark Airport and then made a TV appearance on Tuesday insisting it's safe to fly from there.

submitted 1 day ago • 192 comments

Requiring people to work to access healthcare is a classic eugenicist platform. It says that only those who are healthy and fit enough for jobs are worthy of care. The GOP plan to impose Medicaid work requirements is cruel and grotesque; it should be labelled as such by media.

submitted 22 hours ago • 0 comments

WHOA. Judge Haines because the first judge to uphold Trump's Alien Enemies Proclamation, out of half a dozen so far. However, she rules that the Trump admin CANNOT rush people onto planes (as they've done multiple times already) and must give three weeks notices ahead of time.

submitted 1 day ago • 48 comments

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Update of my analysis of funding missing in FY2025 compared to FY2024. Bottom line: The missing amount is estimated to be $2.05 B from non-competitive renewals and $0.83 B from new and competitive renewals. Total: $2.88 B

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

NEW: The 11th Circuit upholds a lower court injunction against Florida's drag ban! My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/banning-dr...

submitted 1 day ago • 134 comments

Incredible paragraph. "He blamed schools." Not the rampant criminality and lawlessness among his political party, much of which he personally enabled, all of which he has remained silent about and has refused to take any action to stop. No, that's not the problem to Roberts. "He blamed schools."

submitted 1 day ago • 149 comments

2.7Billion in NIH research funding cuts in the first three months of 2025. This is not abstract No NIH funding = fewer new treatments for cancer, fewer new vaccines, fewer discoveries for chronic diseases, lower retention of scientific talent, more brain drain. www.cnn.com/2025/05/13/h...

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

Library of Congress staff just showed what resistance looks like. After Trump abruptly fired Dr. Carla Hayden, the respected Librarian of Congress, he tried to install Todd Blanche, his former personal lawyer and current Deputy Attorney General, as acting librarian. Staff weren’t having it.

submitted 1 day ago • 118 comments

it was not right that Hasan was stopped however his encounter seems to have ended when he asked if he was being detained. if this happens to you the script is simple am I being detained? If no: may I go If yes: invoke the 5th

submitted 1 day ago • 68 comments

New ways/data to dial the immune system up or down —Probiotics to increase Treg cells, potential adjunct for multiple sclerosis and autoimmune diseases www.thelancet.com/journals/ebi... —NK cells for cancer www.nature.com/articles/s41...

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

It’s a violation of the constitution readsludge.com/2025/05/12/f...

submitted 1 day ago • 411 comments

I know you all know this, but apparently it needs to be said that basic science is a NECESSARY PRECURSOR to translational science

submitted 4 days ago • 6 comments

A U.S. poll published April 27, 2025 shows >75% of respondents oppose reductions in federal funding for medical research, and 70% oppose efforts to increase the government’s role in the operation of private universities. (www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

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🧵 on why the current Supreme Court's conception of "corruption" isn't the only conception that matters

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It's almost as if granting a criminal blanket immunity was a bad idea.

submitted 1 day ago • 2290 comments

"For me, the answer now lies in refusal, the withdrawal of participation from systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging." Today I am resigning from the National Science Board and the Library of Congress Scholars Council. I wrote about my decision in TIME. time.com/7285045/resi...

submitted 1 day ago • 490 comments

read this please www.nytimes.com/2025/05/13/o...

submitted 1 day ago • 123 comments

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the health secretary, posted photos on Sunday of himself and his grandchildren swimming in a contaminated Washington creek where swimming is not allowed because it is used for sewer runoff.

submitted 1 day ago • 1774 comments

This is getting a fair amount of scorn, and I’d say it deserves it. The hidden premise is that “corruption” requires the specific proof that the Supreme Court has decided (controversially) is required for certain very specific federal criminal statutes. /1

submitted 2 days ago • 331 comments

I think a good measure of "is this corruption" is "would a normal USG employee immediately have their security clearance revoked and get arrested if they did this" and the answer here is clearly yes bsky.app/profile/eric...

submitted 2 days ago • 31 comments

The Constitution disagrees. The Emoluments Clause, part of Article I, Section 9, Clause 8, bans office holders from taking ANY gifts from foreign countries. There is no mention of quid pro quo. That is because the Founding Fathers knew that even the appearance of corruption promotes corruption.

submitted 2 days ago • 954 comments

This is a very fun read.

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thebulletin.org/2025/05/elim... 🧪

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Corruption does not, in fact, require an explicit quid pro quo. As a matter of law, certain gifts are illegal whether anything is delivered in return for them or not. Beyond the law, gifts can create an untoward relationship with a recipient that pays off later in diffuse ways.

submitted 2 days ago • 56 comments

this is not true either legally or in a colloquial sense, but an NYT reporter says it like he's telling you the weather.

submitted 2 days ago • 237 comments