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next book is available for pre-order if you like reading stuff www.amazon.com/dp/0262553201/

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Happy father's day to everyone with living parents

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No kings good turnout for rural Arkansas

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"What would happen if one woman told the truth about her life? The world would split open" www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/90874/... It takes courage to risk your employment to speak truth. But it means that these NIH employees bear honest witness. They have preserved their intellectual integrity.

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🚨BREAKING: 300+ NIH employees call out the harm of censorship & politicized science in scathing email to Bhattacharya, demanding an end to political interference, a lift on funding freezes, & rehiring of fired staff whose work saves lives. This is historic - insiders are blowing the whistle. 🧵(1/5)

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The Reichstag fire was blamed on the left and used to justify martial law and the consolidation of fascist power.

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2011 at the occupy protests. I was actually doing a stand-up set to entertain the protestors. As I get more active again, I need to remind myself that I've been at this for a long time, just not in traditional ways, and it probably won't be in traditional ways going forward either

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Science orgs have too many Neville Chamberlains, and not enough Anthony Edens

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We each get a choice between resist and comply. If enough people resist, we get a payoff-dominant equilibrium and the regime falls. If not enough resist, resistors are punished and we have a risk-dominant equilibrium. Show that you and others are willing to resist. Make it easier for the next

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If people really knew the science we were losing there would be riots

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I don't really pay of lot attention to religion stuff, but the pope is like CEO of one of the flavors of monotheist?

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The Deaf Scientists Pipeline in Rochester, NY offers support for students and researchers from high school to postdoctoral levels. Now, due to NIH funding cuts, this one-of-a-kind initiative has been dismantled. My recent story for @science.org

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Department name has been misspelled for like a year and no one has noticed

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I find it pretty relatable that in the Ea-nasir tablet he's so worked up he kept writing into the margins

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I'm not a space guy, but I feel like to launch trump or musk into the sun you'd need to cancel like 30 km/s of orbital velocity, but launching them out of the solar system you'd only need like 12km/s, so that would be a lot more efficient

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My great great grandfather, Schaja Karschenstein began the long family tradition of "being a goof", witnessed here in late 19th century Tallinn

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28: I climbed a mountain and my joints ache 38: I slept on my pillow funny and I'll never move again

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If you are faculty at a school that makes concessions to the new administration, and they ever ask you to go to a "leadership seminar" you should try to patent a perpetual motion machine powered by irony

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If I hadn't won a gas card in a trivia contest I would not have been able to upfront the costs of my interview where I ended up doing my PhD. Something I'm thinking about while watching programs meant to enrich the scientific workforce get ripped away from the next gen. Iracda, mosaic, bridges...

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Take Action NOW to defend academic freedom and higher education. Say no to politics in our research. Sign our Open Letter below in support of institutions that are speaking out, and calling for others to join. ⬇️ sciforgood.org/support-academic-freedom/ #scienceforgood #defendresearch

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This has all happened before. Just like there have been authoritarians, there have been institutionalists who dismantled themselves out of fear

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Come say hi if you're at #asbmb . Unless you're mean then don't

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My train is 7 hours late, but at least this rural station isn't remotely spooky at 3am

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Hands off in Jonesboro was well attended (for rural Arkansas) but interrupted by a tornado warning

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Still refining this argument: Trump is doing stupid stuff because he is stupid. Stupid people voted for him because stupid people make stupid arguments to appeal to stupid people. There's no end goal, or secret meaning, just a never ending gobstopper of layer after layer of stupid.

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🧵 One of the challenges with science communication is "identity-protective cognition." Instead of evaluating evidence on its own merits, we tend to evaluate if the source aligns with our identity-afffinity groups first.

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