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It should surprise no one that most contemporary scientists are woke. As far as I can tell, most of us are into improving the human condition, minimizing hardship across the board, empowering the underprivileged, and ensuring the prosperity of our society for the future.

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I know I should take this seriously but this ICE tweet genuinely made me laugh.

submitted 5 days ago • 2008 comments

yes

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#LetsGoTaco

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COVID infection in pregnancy is associated with DOUBLE the rate of stillbirths because the SARS-CoV-2 virus damages the placenta

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“Medicine doesn’t treat the root cause, they just treat symptoms.” —Every wellness grifter Marty Makary, RFK Jr & MAHA allies claim they’re going to “fix” American health by focusing on “root cause medicine.” Reality? They’re using the FDA to spread wellness propaganda. 1/

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💥 NEWS: McDonald's shareholders voted Tues. to reject an anti-DEI proposal, 99-1 percent. McDonald's Board said the proposal "unduly interferes" with the company's "flexibility and judgment." MCD: "Our success in the future builds on our history of embracing diversity as a competitive advantage."

submitted 11 days ago • 505 comments

A tiny reef builder lighting up the ocean 🪸. This 1-month-old rice coral (Montipora capitata) glows 🟢 with natural GFP and 🟣 with symbiotic algae 🔬. Image taken by Emma Rangel-Huerta #FluorescenceFriday #ScienceArt #DevBio

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

They're talking about "water based" cooking now. Cooking things in water instead of oils. It's soup. They're making soup.

submitted 16 days ago • 1075 comments

I think it’s kind of interesting that so many cultural and political elites decided “learning loss” from remote schooling during a pandemic was so severe it was worth ignoring medical safety, while actual learning loss from AI is pervasive and growing and they all want to impose more of it on us.

submitted 18 days ago • 38 comments

This is a fascinating post (h/t @econmarshall.bsky.social)

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there is a food vending machine for cats in Turkey, the seagulls meow pretending to be cats

submitted 21 days ago • 42 comments

🧵5 Top Free Alternatives to BioRender for Scientific Illustrations! These five websites offer free scientific illustrations for biologists. Great for presentations, research papers and other research communication needs. Save and share the post!

submitted 22 days ago • 34 comments

Racist and sexist roots in the cancellation of NSF grants under Trump: Grants with female PIs canceled 2x more than men Grants with Black PIs canceled 4x over White PIs Grants with Hispanic PIs canceled 2x over White PIs Grants with PIs with disabilities canceled 2x more than without

submitted 22 days ago • 12 comments

Brushing your teeth significantly and dramatically changes the oral microbiome

submitted 22 days ago • 2 comments

Read the whole thing. You won’t be surprised, but you should be outraged.

submitted 23 days ago • 39 comments

In addition to VitaminA (& cod liver oil), RFK has been saying budesonide (a steroid) and clarithromycin (an antibiotic) “treat” measles. Neither treats measles - although steroids & antibiotics may sometimes be used for complications - and there are significant risks (ie HARMS) associated with them

submitted 23 days ago • 37 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 23 days ago • 148 comments

new toon: victory posters! 🫡 www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

submitted 23 days ago • 14 comments

youtube.com/shorts/CuSwN... I made some people big mad with this one

submitted 25 days ago • 52 comments

You’re allowed to argue that black people and women are genetically inferior. But you’re NOT allowed to argue they are NOT inferior because that’s divisive. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/09/u...

submitted 25 days ago • 138 comments

HAPPY 75th, NSF! We’re celebrating this milestone by highlighting some of NSF’s most transformative accomplishments—innovations that have shaped our world and continue to drive progress in health, technology, the environment, and beyond. Read on 🧵(1/11):

submitted 25 days ago • 6 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 26 days ago • 6 comments

"I'm a Republican CEO. I'm adding a 'tariff tax' to my price tags so customers know why prices are rising." www.businessinsider.com/republican-b...

submitted 28 days ago • 17 comments

LLMs were created with no sense of ethics and thrown out with no sense of ethics, and HUGE SHOCKER, probably the most lucrative way to use it is literal automation of scams to get money from people by scaring and/or lying to them.

submitted 28 days ago • 26 comments

just so we’re all clear: the reason they keep using dolls as their example is because they’re trying to frame caring about material stuff as feminine and thus inherently shameful

submitted 29 days ago • 658 comments

In which the Senate-confirmed director of the National Institutes of Health - talks down to the highly experienced @jocelynkaiser.bsky.social - says "it's not me personally" who cancels agency grants - claims @nature.com is spreading rumors, hours before he confirms said rumors

submitted 30 days ago • 28 comments

A fascinating interview with Bhattacharya, who seems in denial of the fact that he’s now the Medical Establishment, and he owns everything that’s happening now. “Don’t blame me” is the theme. www.science.org/content/arti...

submitted 30 days ago • 26 comments

Two cities stopped adding fluoride to water. Long-term data showed how ending fluoridation adversely affected the health of the population. www.sciencenews.org/article/fluo...

submitted 32 days ago • 25 comments

Which FDA-approved vaccines had randomized, placebo-controlled trials? ALL OF THEM. Polio? Measles, mumps, rubella? Haemophilus influenzae B? Diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis? Meningococcus? Varicella? Pneumococcus? Rotavirus? RSV? Hepatitis B? Influenza? HPV? COVID-19? Shingles? YEP. A thread🧵 1/

submitted 31 days ago • 60 comments

It's a smart move because most foreign powers already have Mike Waltz's contact information.

submitted 31 days ago • 66 comments

Looks like the Trump administration is trying to cancel the Rivian DOE loan www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

submitted 32 days ago • 21 comments

Proof this guy is full of SITH.

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A bleak summary of this week’s damage to US science

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BREAKING: NSF has frozen all grant funding, as of yesterday. It's unclear when they will resume funding awards, or why the pause has been put in place. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

submitted 34 days ago • 40 comments

"A report by economists at American University in Washington DC estimates that a 50% reduction in federal science funding would reduce the US gross domestic product by approximately 7.6%." Science is an amazing engine of economic activity and progress for the US ... or at least it was.

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RFK Jr. ordered the NIH’s Integrated Research Facility in Frederick to stop all research on serious infectious diseases yesterday at 5:00 PM. They study pathogens like Ebola there. You may be familiar with it from The Hot Zone. www.wired.com/story/hhs-ni...

submitted 35 days ago • 779 comments

responses to this have included -grow all your own food -buy organic -check labels -go to the farmers market -check for recalls -make your own food from scratch etc WRONG. none of you have read the article

submitted 35 days ago • 78 comments

personally would like to see every store show what part of the price increase is due to tariffs bc if these tariffs ever come down, i need to see that price go right back down

submitted 36 days ago • 976 comments

Please highlight this story. ICE stormed into the wrong house, trashed the place, and made women/girls stand outside in the rain in their underwear. ICE also stole phones, laptops, and cash savings from the family, who moved to OKC two weeks ago. kfor.com/news/local/w...

submitted 36 days ago • 1331 comments

This is fascinating, but also terrible news regarding antimicrobial resistance in multidrug-resistant Gram-positives 'Emergence of transferable daptomycin resistance in Gram-positive bacteria' www.nature.com/articles/s44...

submitted 37 days ago • 4 comments