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Also that enormous nationwide protests are planned again next weekend during Trump's parade

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I've been saying for years how dangerous the carefully chosen rhetoric of Miller and the Christian Nationalists is

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Palantir’s Collection of Disease Data at C.D.C. Stirs Privacy Concerns

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Update from Newsom 👇

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Hard part about indoor bike is lack of airflow and working for every mile, no coasting

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"For those keeping track, Donald Trump's National Guard had not been deployed on the ground when he posted this."

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Seems convenient that California is being cast as having an "insurrection" one day after this article

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We live in weird times

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Reminder that both OpenAI and Anthropic CEOs have stated drug discovery will be transformed and AI will provide miracle cures within the next 5 years. That is the extent of the plan Failure of this hype cycle will extend further than just the economy if cuts to science funding continues

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This is well worth your time to read and share with people you know

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I helped explain to the Chicago Tribune the enourmous and irrational damage the NIH funding freeze is causing at Northwestern. “You’re at risk of losing an entire next generation of scientists" "it’s terrifying; it’s completely senseless." www.chicagotribune.com/2025/06/07/w...

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Funding freeze at Northwestern from Emma Mairson at grant-watch.us. Data from USAspending. Normally, ~$70 M per month. Now, bupkis. Northwestern is keeping research moving and must be spending ~$40 M per month. Clearly not sustainable for too long.

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Loss of Harvard science funding affects more than Harvard

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Also that enormous nationwide protests are planned again next weekend during Trump's parade

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Seems convenient that California is being cast as having an "insurrection" one day after this article

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If there is no shortage of law enforcement this is absolutely no reason to do this and you should be saying so. Any orders to the National Guard need to go through you! It’s in the statute they’re invoking!

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A timely reminder that if you are interacting with someone encouraging violence on this app right now they are either an idiot, a cop, or both. So don’t. Don’t like it, reshare it, nothing.

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There are many questions left to be answered about this. Please be careful about spreading information with certainty about any of this until more facts come in.

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“…warned of “very serious consequences” if Musk gave money to Democratic candidates” Holy crap. A sitting president warning someone from donating to an opposition candidate or face “very serious consequences”. And this is barely a headline. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06...

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Weird comment by a member of a coequal branch of government

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1/2 This isn't the threat he thinks it is. Republicans claim to want no federal tax.

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Request for help: We are hoping to host a mixer for our participants in LA at #ASMicrobe thus month. If you have local knowledge/connections, please let us know!

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EXTREMELY BAD NEWS for economic research, per former BLS Commissioner @ericagroshen.bsky.social on LinkedIn. BLS is suspending access to its restricted data "for the forseeable future." Applies to projects through the Federal Statistical Research Data Centers & onsite projects with BLS. #EconSky

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Them: "Don't worry. Things will be okay. Smile." Photo of me:

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If they cut all of the federal grants in California, that's probably the point at which we have to accept their goal is $0 into any basic science at all in the United States, and the total repurposing of NSF and NIH to fund specific areas with vested financial interests, like quantum and AI

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Senator Durbin- voicemail, not surprised Senator Duckworth- just got off the phone with her staff, they're always nice Call your reps! Some of them listen. Even if they don't, it still helps. Tell them what's happening. Ask them to intervene.

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Call your representatives: "Every fucking day: 5calls.org "

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California, the new Harvard

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"This should be alarming not just for the scientific community but for the wider public. NIH and HHS leadership seems to have little regard to or awareness of the damage being done by the wholesale elimination of entire communications offices across campus."

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Getting confirmation from several sources that the review branch at the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) at NIH no longer exists. I am sure this is true across many/all institutes and centers at NIH. I hope the Center for Scientific Review will be up to the task.

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A source tells Rolling Stone AG Pam Bondi intentionally inflated the number of lives saved by fentanyl seizures in a cabinet meeting not just to flatter Trump, but to troll the media. White House officials were howling with laughter about it. Read: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

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NEW: We obtained records showing how a DOGE staffer with no medical experience used artificial intelligence to identify which VA contracts to kill. “AI is absolutely the wrong tool for this,” one expert said. By @bxroberts.org, @vernalcoleman.bsky.social @ericumansky.bsky.social

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This seems like a great day to remind Bluesky that Stephen Miller lived four doors down from me freshman year And our student council person asked him (and everyone) to sign a birthday card for our dorm’s janitor And he threw a tantrum and wrote an op-ed about not socializing with “the help.”

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Join us for a week of hands-on experience in the computational analysis of transposable elements with @valentinapeona.bsky.social & @ritarebollo.bsky.social Check it out 👇

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race does not equal genes www.statnews.com/2025/06/05/n...

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