Who is this kind of protest targeting & what is the hypothesised mechanism of action? Because reinforcing the association Trump supporters already make between ppl being “well-educated” & mocking/not giving a shit about them seems like a pretty dumb way to persuade them science is on their side.
Francis Collins pointed out that more than 99% of drugs approved by the FDA were developed with at least some funding from the NIH. And I was like “I know that study!” https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1715368115
But he is slightly wrong: it was 100% of drugs. All of them.
Thanks @beebrookshire.bsky.social for call out. Our 2018 paper @pnas.org found NIH funding for all 210 drugs approved 2010-16. Follow-up @jama.com https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama-health-forum/fullarticle/2804378 found funding for 99.4% of 356 drugs approved 2010-19 totaling $187 billion. @bentleyuniv.bsky.social
We have to get out onto the street tomorrow, Women's March, March 8th! @generalstrikeus.bsky.social will have details for the US, but this is a world march! No matter where you are, get out tomorrow, march in solidarity for women's rights and bodily autonomy! If you can't be there, spread the word!
This is so aawesome. They won't bother looking up "transgenic" in the dictionary or read the abstract. Instead, they'll continue to get dumber by becoming irate over the use of the prefix "trans."
Dumb bastards.
#dumptrump
#resist
#resistfacism
#SlavaUkraina
#trumpthefacist
the "evil sciences" saved the life of my Grandad when I was Young after he had a Cardiac Arrest, It got him 9 more years with us despite his other ailments and the majority of those days he was going out enjoying his life BECAUSE science saved his life (and of course my parents+friend who did CPR)
At our stand up for science rally, we were chanting "Science saves lives" and "Research saves lives" and many people were honking their support, but one driver made it very clear he was thumbs-down. I wondered what was so terrible about finding cures for diseases.
A striking example of how homophobia and xenophobia stem from ignorance, lack of education, a failure to understand the topic, and an outright refusal to even try. And yet, these people have power—the ability to ruin your life. All thanks to the choice of over 30 million Americans.
The White House site has become a comedy site.
There is no seriousness to it whatsoever and every page I’ve seen has some comment kissing the ass of the clown.
“Official” is out the window.
Yeah, but in an Iannucci satire it would result in acute embarrassment behind the scenes and a desperate attempt to make it look like guy knew what he was talking about. This administration gives not a shit because they hate science and know their supporters are too thick to notice.
I get it that the dude's supporting scientific research, but still think he would have got double bonus points if he'd dressed in drag while holding that sign.
Poor babies. Subject to human cruelty and insensitivity. Humans are like, oh, why you care about mice? Because all life is connected and how we treat these beings is how we treat each other
Even with all the evidence available, U.S. voted to die younger by destroying Obamacare/ Medicare/ Medicaid Canada life expectancy is 82, USA life expectancy 78. A publicly funded healthcare system leads to longer life expectancy and better overall health. @donaldjtrump-maga.bsky.social @cnn.com
It's ludicrous that there are some scientifically uneducated people who don't realize that lots of words incorporate "trans" in them to describe moving from one state to another. So they should translate their transcription of the English language to transcend their linguistic transactions.
Thank you. I wish more participants masked with you, though. With all of the anti-mask bills popping up, and the total failure to advance on Covid treatments and prevention, those of us who mask for safety could use the solidarity. Breaks my heart a little.
Thanks for letting me know and I'm sorry for the mixup! Yours was a post being shared on my timeline and had one of the imo too few photos I'd seen up to that point with someone masked. I've since seen more, but still not enough for the hit of hope I was (probably naively) looking for.
We don’t wish to inconvenience anyone, but our shelter currently houses 18 trans individuals for safety and our electricity bill has surged to an unaffordable level. I'm genuinely at a loss regarding how we'll manage to keep the electricity flowing.
When I had first heard of the “transgender” mice thing, I thought it was an Onion article. It’s so difficult to tell the difference between real current events and fake ones now.
I was there today before catching a flight back home to Canada and I am so proud of all of you for standing up for science! There were so many incredible signs and the music was great too!
Lots of medical research has been using transgenic mice (genetically modified) for decades. There is an entire business involved in the generation of these mice, and it is huge. This administration is made up of idiots, seemingly without any education at all.
I agree with many goals of this movement, but actually would like to see emphasis on phasing out mice and other animals from experiments. For many areas of research, there are already new technologies that can produce better results for humans without the animal suffering.
On a logical level, it doesn't make sense to oppose Transgender women so much. Like, don't Republicans promote women in guys sports?
There wasn't this crazy pushback when women wanted to participate in men's sports. Implicitly, they are sending this message that women are inferior to men, too.
Trump had videos at his rallies saying trans women were both weakening the military (where cis women serve) but also encroaching on women in sports because of their “innate” physical advantages.
There are videos of women wrestling men all over YouTube. And if men are so much superior to women and women are allowed in men's sports, that is worst than Transwomen in female sports, because the hormone therapy reduces male advantages.
It's just weird to me, all the logical inconsistencies.
Cause it’s almost like you have to do me at gymnastics to even start to comprehend what retardation those fucking idiots spread. They’re walking buzzfeed headlines who have been told how to act and who to be mad at.
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I mean, like those scientists in poland who released millions of cannibal ants from a soviet-era nuclear bunker.
DON'T THEY KNOW THIS IS HOW THE WORLD ENDS IN AT LEAST 3 B-RATED HORROR MOVIES!!!
(/s if it wasn't obvious.)
But he is slightly wrong: it was 100% of drugs. All of them.
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9440766/
Dumb bastards.
#dumptrump
#resist
#resistfacism
#SlavaUkraina
#trumpthefacist
I believe in science! I received an MMR booster shot today.
Conditional knockouts are even better1
To show Trump how dissatisfied we’re with his policies, what he is doing to the USA and Ukraine!
He’s decimated our gov and denied arms, stopped intelligence and commercial satellites to Ukraine.
ALL for Putin and the so called King! #repost
https://gofund.me/a1fffdbd
https://www.whitehouse.gov/articles/2025/03/yes-biden-spent-millions-on-transgender-animal-experiments/
There is no seriousness to it whatsoever and every page I’ve seen has some comment kissing the ass of the clown.
“Official” is out the window.
"Reading Is Fundamental"
Just Freaking Unbelievable
Republican want to know.
He lost, Harris won
https://electiontruthalliance.org/
https://bsky.app/profile/alexip718.com/post/3ljsmabp73s2z
this is the best way you couldve handled this
But I was also masked, and the mask ratio was much higher than at any other gathering I've been to recently.
I love this person’s sign, though.
( not sarcasm)
Mice Rose Up and let's make the red hats seeth
https://theduckandcat.etsy.com
There wasn't this crazy pushback when women wanted to participate in men's sports. Implicitly, they are sending this message that women are inferior to men, too.
Trump had videos at his rallies saying trans women were both weakening the military (where cis women serve) but also encroaching on women in sports because of their “innate” physical advantages.
It's just weird to me, all the logical inconsistencies.
Like back in the olden days when you went to the library to get some knowledge?