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Anadama bread. Great smell of molasses. #Breadsky

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That rumbling you feel is Teddy Roosevelt rolling in his grave.

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Blood is shared across legal borders to save lives. Equitable and efficient movement of blood is guided by science and justice and must be insulated from ideologically motivated practices, argue co-authors @jwjacobs12.bsky.social @aabbupdates.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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This photo. This is fascism. This is authoritarianism. This is not normal. Don’t forget.

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NYC Comptroller Brad Lander arrested at bu masked ICE agents at immigration court just now, when he asked to see a warrant. He is a mayoral candidate too.

submitted 2 days ago • 17 comments

ICE just arrested Brad Lander, the NYC Comptroller and one of the leading candidates for Mayor, without grounds. He was conducting routine immigration court work, escorting individuals from hearings. He asked ICE for their warrant - well within his legal rights. This is political intimidation.

submitted 2 days ago • 1168 comments

Judge in NIH trial declares the “whole enterprise was rotten to its core” and that the “ideas that animated the policies” illegal. Ruling means that NIH has to restore funding to hundreds of research projects. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

I want to take a moment to share an excerpt from the Declaration of Independence's grievances against King George III. Sound familiar?

submitted 6 days ago • 422 comments

The head of the FEMA’s disaster command center, who coordinates the national response to earthquakes, floods and other disasters, has submitted his resignation, according to people familiar with the matter. His resignation came a day after President Trump said he would wind down the federal agency.

submitted 7 days ago • 31 comments

Russia has abducted thousands of Ukrainian children, plunging families into every parent's worst nightmare. Now, Trump funding cuts threaten to close a Yale center that helps identify these children and bring them home. Please consider donating to help continue this work: sph.yale.edu/give-hrl

submitted 8 days ago • 72 comments

A journalist got fired this week for calling this guy a hater, something that's just objectively true and has been true since he was a kid.

submitted 8 days ago • 24 comments

CA High Speed Rail CEO Ian Choudri: "Major utilities not getting out of the way in time literally derailed the rail program." Let's fix this by passing #SB445, and get CA High Speed Rail moving! youtube.com/clip/Ugkx-Z8...

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

NEW: Per a source with knowledge, the directors of all of EPA's Office of Research and Development research centers resigned this week. Their last days will be Thursday or Friday.

submitted 8 days ago • 7 comments

www.theatlantic.com/science/arch... Trump is killing FEMA. It’s up to the states to take care of their own disasters. People in poorer red states should get out their sharpies and start redirecting those hurricanes.

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Over the next 6 months, iNaturalist will be participating in the Google.org Accelerator: Generative AI program to help build tools to improve the identification experience on iNaturalist. Learn more: www.inaturalist.org/blog/113184-...

submitted 9 days ago • 714 comments

Breaking News: The health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. removed all 17 members of a CDC advisory panel in his latest move to dismantle years of vaccine policy.

submitted 10 days ago • 112 comments

Reminder: Nobel-prize winning PCR (1983), used in basically all genetic tech today, was only possible because of extremophile bacterium discovered in 1964 in Yellowstone funded by a small ~$80k NSF grant with no obvious application at the time. #science 🧪 www.richmondscientific.com/how-a-discov...

submitted 11 days ago • 22 comments

An analysis shows that NIH grant awards supported 407,782 jobs and $94.58 bn in new economic activity nationwide, the largest figure in the history of the report, w/ an ROI of $2.56 for every $1 in awards. Deep cuts to NIH funding will contribute to a recession. www.forbes.com/sites/michae... 🧪🔬

submitted 11 days ago • 3 comments

Tear-gas fired into peaceful crowds. ICE crosses the line AGAIN‼️

submitted 11 days ago • 3 comments

The federal government is taking over the California National Guard and deploying 2,000 soldiers in Los Angeles — not because there is a shortage of law enforcement, but because they want a spectacle. Don't give them one. Never use violence. Speak out peacefully.

submitted 12 days ago • 2624 comments

Challah! One of my favorite breads takes its turn this weekend. #Breadsky

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submitted 12 days ago • 107 comments

Two babies have died from whooping cough in Kentucky. Neither they nor their parents had been vaccinated. The current whooping cough outbreak in the U.S. hasn’t grabbed the media spotlight as much as measles has, but it’s important to update your vaccination if you’re going to be around babies.

submitted 12 days ago • 204 comments

🙋‍♀️ 👋🚨 Two of my grad students had their NIH Diversity Supplements abruptly cancelled. We plan to appeal. We'd love to coordinate with other folks w/ cancelled grants. Does this already exist? If not, could we start a Slack, email or text thread, or shared Google Drive to share appeals & strategize?

submitted 13 days ago • 5 comments

In 2019, NIAID proposed an ambitious scientific network focused on pandemic preparedness, research, and response - the "CREID Network". Ten centers kicked off just as the pandemic was taking off, playing critical roles throughout. We were just notified the whole network is terminated. Reason? 👇

submitted 13 days ago • 16 comments

Rep. Zoe Lofgren is looking for scientists who have had their work disrupted by this administrations cancelation of their grant to share their story, follow the link below to share yours. 🧪 democrats-science.house.gov/news/press-r... #savescience #science #Lofgren

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment

NSF budget proposal slashes funding across the agency The proposed 57% cut will drive down the agency’s funding rate and eliminate training programs. cen.acs.org/policy/resea... #chemsky 🧪

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Simple as that…👇 Enjoy. 😎🌈✨

submitted 15 days ago • 51 comments

www.nytimes.com/interactive/... Your tax dollars being wasted on a massive scale only to deny you the benefits down the road of our investment.

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

I’m officially running to be the Ranking Member of the House Oversight Committee. These are not normal times—and this cannot be a business-as-usual moment. Read my full letter to my colleagues here: crockett.house.gov/media/press-...

submitted 16 days ago • 1906 comments

1. Florida banned cities from lighting up bridges rainbow colors for Pride. So the people of Jacksonville did it themselves using flashlights and gels. They opened the drawbridge to block them. So they marched to a different bridge. The latest from S. Baum. Subscribe to support our journalism.

submitted 17 days ago • 247 comments

Imagine what this woman and her family went through. All for what?

submitted 17 days ago • 461 comments

Zucchini basil muffins represent one of the smells and tastes of summer in our house. #Breadsky

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments