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JUST POSTED: Elon Musk and SpaceX are big winners in Donald J. Trump’s 2026 spending plan. “SpaceX’s handprints are all over this,” one industry player told me. nyti.ms/44Ewh7Z

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Thirty-eight of 43 experts cut last month from the boards that review the science and research that happens in laboratories at the National Institutes of Health are female, Black or Hispanic, according to an analysis by the chairs of a dozen of the boards.

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“On today’s X, #AcademicTwitter is dead. And most scholars in the world do not want to be active on what the platform has become.” ~ @claesdevreese.bsky.social

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The Trump administration fired everyone in a CDC lab that is crucial to tracking drug-resistant gonorrhea and other sexually transmitted diseases. "We are blind," an expert says.

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The Trump administration summarily fired the staff of the U.S. Institute of Peace late Friday night, less than two weeks after forcibly removing the congressionally funded organization’s president and installing in his place an agent of tech Elon Musk’s U.S. DOGE Service.

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“Food banks across Michigan are bracing for food shortages this year after the federal government stopped $4.3 million worth of shipments, including chicken, eggs and cheese ― even as many report that the need for food assistance is increasing.”

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“It looks like the days of X’s dominance are over. Competing platforms, such as Bluesky and Threads continue to invest in their platforms that leaves users fully in control of who can interact with their posts.” www.altmetric.com/blog/bluesky...

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American war planning usually takes place in highly secure facilities. But the Trump administration planned its strikes on the Houthis using a group chat—and accidentally included The Atlantic’s editor in chief, Jeffrey Goldberg. theatln.tc/IuULQFiY

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Gérard Depardieu to appear in Paris court over sexual assault allegations

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The Trump administration is now accusing Mahmoud Khalil, the Columbia University graduate and protest leader who was detained this month, of having withheld information when he applied for permanent residency status.

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Elon Musk’s company is set to see billions in new federal contracts, benefiting in part from his role in the White House and President Trump’s policies. nyti.ms/4c3oUsk

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Miri Rubin on the rhetoric of Christian supremacy throughout history

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The U.S. has neglected its public-health infrastructure in recent years. Now, the Trump administration is actively destroying it, Katherine J. Wu writes:

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BREAKING: Deadly H5N1 Mutation Detected in U.S. Dairy Herds Experts Warn of Rising Pandemic Risk Scientists are alarmed by a newly identified H5N1 mutation found in four U.S. dairy cow herds, raising concerns about its potential spread.

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Exciting results in quantum chemistry published w/ Boehringer Ingelheim brings us closer to calculating the exact electronic structure of Cytochrome P450 and FeMoco on a quantum computer, with >200X reduction in resources relative to state-of-the-art quantum algorithms. arxiv.org/abs/2501.06165

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DARPA has selected PsiQuantum for the final phase of the Utility-Scale Quantum Computing program evaluation. www.psiquantum.com/featured-news/darpa-final-phase

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DARPA has advanced PsiQuantum into the final phase of the Utility-Scale Quantum Computing program. We’re proud to continue our partnership with DARPA, whose history of supporting emerging technologies has shaped the world—think GPS, robotics, and self-driving cars. www.psiquantum.com/featured-new...

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“That has really been our approach … to leverage the same fabs, the same contract manufacturers, as far as humanly possible the same networking and so on that is used in conventional data centers, conventional supercomputers ... And we think that gives us a much faster path.”

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Introducing Omega, the first manufacturable chipset for photonic quantum computing. Featured today in @nature.com and designed by PsiQuantum & manufactured at GlobalFoundries, it contains all the photonic components required for million-qubit-scale quantum computers. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Dan Bongino, a former New York City police officer and Secret Service agent turned right-wing pundit and podcaster, will be the next deputy director of the FBI, President Trump said on Sunday night.

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youtube.com/watch?v=Lgms... #musk #Europe worth watching

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The funding freezes by the Trump administration caused widespread confusion among agency officials and organizations that rely on federal support, including states, schools, hospitals and other nonprofits. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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PsiQuantum is a company planning to build one of the world's first commercially viable quantum computers. The company is taking a different path to achieve this goal, with a team of experts working tirelessly to develop cutting-edge quantum technology.

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Does the culture you grow up in shape the way you see the world? In a new Psych Review paper, @chazfirestone.bsky.social & I tackle this centuries-old question using the Müller-Lyer illusion as a case study. Come think through one of history's mysteries with us🧵(1/13):

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HPV and Men - CDC Fact Sheet

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Welcome immigrants from X interested in science to the friendlier skies of @bsky.app, as documented by a new @nature.com survey (but you already knew that 😉) "Bluesky is much better for science. There is much less toxicity, misinformation, and distractions." www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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"In February 1933, Germany’s wealthiest industrialists, financiers, and CEOs were very explicitly promised by Hitler and Göring that these would be the last elections held for the next 10-100 years. They had no qualms getting out their checkbooks and signing over German democracy."

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Really happy to see the Reuters Institute reaching 20K followers here on @bsky.app. A true milestone for a key @ox.ac.uk institution whose mission is exploring the future of journalism worldwide If we don't follow us already, please do it here: @reutersinstitute.bsky.social

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My #Raspishake seismometer is about 9.500km away from the M6.0 #earthquake in Taiwan today. The seismic waves arrived here in Herne, Germany approximately 13 mins after origin time. 🧪⚒️

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Just one more week to apply for the @novonordisk.bsky.social Golden Ticket, which provides lab bench and office space for one year at BioLabs Heidelberg or BioLabs Hôtel-Dieu (Paris), and access to the Novo Nordisk team of scientific and industry advisors www.biolabs.io/novo-nordisk...

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The Oscar nomination announcement has been postponed again in response to the fires that are still raging throughout Los Angeles. Nominations will now be announced on Jan. 23.

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American vaccination rates against once-common childhood diseases have been dropping. The rate of kindergartners with complete records for the measles vaccine declined from before the pandemic to last year, according to the CDC, well before Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s political rise. nyti.ms/42buOVp

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Published yesterday! #Physics #Science Twisted trilayer graphene with the layers consecutively twisted by the same angle hosts correlated and topological electronic states, but local lattice relaxations are important for determining their properties. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Man könnte Peter #Palantir Thiel als 'Graue-Eminenz' sehen. #Thiel #Musk #Trump www.derstandard.de/story/300000...

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If Musk is a noisy battleship firing from all barrels, #Palantir is the quiet submarine. Unknown to the general public it has crept into our critical, most sensitive systems: police, intel, security, public health. Peter - Cambridge Analytica - Thiel shares much of Musk's anti-democracy agenda 1/2

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Wes Streeting plans for your private medical data, held by Palantir, to be sold. https://buff.ly/40i76Wa

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