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A wheelchair-using UNC student who was physically assaulted by police when they broke up the school’s anti-genocide encampment has since had a prestigious scholarship rescinded, been criminally charged, doxxed and constantly surveilled because of her Palestine activism. www.wunc.org/education/20...

submitted 24 days ago • 9 comments

Calling it "illegal DEI," Trump issues EO to shut down a program redirecting human waste away from a rural Alabama area regularly flooded with sewage during climate-change-amplified storms. The area's population is over 72% Black. www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/...

submitted 24 days ago • 138 comments

Marco Rubio says that Americans living in Europe shouldn't ever have to face any ramifications for their political speech online. The chutzpah is jaw-dropping, as he is PERSONALLY trying to deport legal immigrants for their political speech in the United States.

submitted 39 days ago • 627 comments

The full quote from RFK, Jr. is truly disgusting and this is 100% him calling for institutionalization of autistic people. This is horrifying.

submitted 39 days ago • 51 comments

Rutgers University Senate proposal for a mutual defense pact of Big Ten schools. Rutgers faculty, show them the way!

submitted 56 days ago • 6 comments

The former ambassador to Denmark for the United States, Rufus Gifford, posted this video on his Facebook account: Ht: @hpsc24.bsky.social

submitted 57 days ago • 200 comments

The biggest, most enduring scandal of the last few days is Trump's attempt to use an Executive Order to seize control over elections. It will not work, but it is a sign of what comes next. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

submitted 60 days ago • 204 comments

Horrible news - The Adolescent Medicine Trials Networks for HIV/AIDS Interventions (ATN) funded by the NIH has just been terminated. Stopping a clinical trial mid-course like this is insane. www.nichd.nih.gov/research/sup...

submitted 65 days ago • 4 comments

Today I lost an NIH grant training clinicians to do research about intimate partner violence with perinatal women. More women are murdered in the perinatal period than die of obstetric complications. I didn't just lose a grant. We lost an entire cohort of people building careers to prevent that.

submitted 65 days ago • 878 comments

🚨 ALL my remaining NIH grants were just terminated Without philanthropic gifts, this is the end of 1️⃣ my career (as I know it) 2️⃣ @lgbtqhealthexce.bsky.social 3️⃣ our LGBTQ health equity work Yet, reading about LGBTQ families in my kid's class reminded me: love knows no bounds 🌈 You with us?

submitted 64 days ago • 29 comments

Where are the dems to push back on this? Press conferences? Town halls? Bueller? Bueller?

submitted 64 days ago • 0 comments

Nicotine is experienced with many reward — social interaction, work breaks, alcohol, sweet vape flavors, etc. Do these nicotine-reward pairings make nicotine more likely to be taken? Check out my team’s work addressing this question. Spoiler alert-yes it does! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

submitted 90 days ago • 0 comments

This seems….really bad.

submitted 79 days ago • 0 comments

This was a fun one, our kids really enjoyed it

submitted 83 days ago • 0 comments

I can’t even at this point.

submitted 84 days ago • 1 comment

So. It has officially happened. I have been officially let go from my position at CDC. I wasn’t a probationary employee. I had stellar performance reviews every year. I’ll be ok. But please understand that many worked HARD to get into these positions and were doing great public health work.

submitted 93 days ago • 1841 comments

As @jeremymberg.bsky.social correctly assessed at the time, the NIH memo that slashed overhead rates came from Trump/Musk, not anyone within the organization.

submitted 95 days ago • 5 comments

This commission statement refers to people with Autism, ADHD, asthma, auto-immune disease, and chronic illness as a “dire threat to the American people and our way of life”. This is a manifesto against disability. This is the language of eugenics.

submitted 97 days ago • 844 comments

So a former postdoc from our department had just started as a PO at NIH and was terminated in the wave of terminations last week. He is in the research triangle and a phenomenal scientist with expertise in stress and glia. If anyone in the RTI is hiring asap please let me know! #neuroskyence

submitted 98 days ago • 22 comments

It took only 3 weeks for them to fold.

submitted 103 days ago • 0 comments

Ellen Weintraub, the chair of the Federal Elections Commission, said in a social media post that President Donald Trump sent her a letter attempting to illegally remove her from her job.

submitted 103 days ago • 20 comments

If you have an undergrad that will graduate this year but who needs a little more research experience before their next step, encourage them to apply to the UConn RAMP program. genome-postbac.biology.clas.uconn.edu. The application deadline for the 2025 cohort is February 21st. 🧪 1/2

submitted 103 days ago • 2 comments

Just paid $7.25 for a dozen regular eggs, not organic, not cage free, not free range, just regular old white eggs. All this winning is exhausting.

submitted 112 days ago • 0 comments

Wait….what?

submitted 118 days ago • 0 comments

Everything is fine. Nothing bad could possible come of this.

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submitted 145 days ago • 18 comments

lol China's state media is sad about Bluesky because it's not an easy propaganda distribution channel like X (and Facebook) www.semafor.com/article/11/2...

submitted 180 days ago • 273 comments

Hi everyone. The Onion, with the help of the Sandy Hook families, has purchased InfoWars. We are planning on making it a very funny, very stupid website. We have retained the services of some Onion and Clickhole Hall of Famers to pull this off. I can't wait to show you what we have cooked up.

submitted 192 days ago • 2387 comments

One of the great values in being a grant reviewer is reading/hearing other people's critiques. TIL from someone's review of another person's grant why one of our own experiments didn't work!

submitted 314 days ago • 0 comments

I really, truly, do not understand the whole "driving with your foot out the window" thing. How are you even comfortable that way? Is your foot really that sweaty that it needs a breather? Not to mention, if you get into an accident, you're going to fold up like a pretzel.

submitted 324 days ago • 0 comments