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“Transitioning” from 50 straight months of job growth, a 400% rise in manufacturing construction and the best back-to-back years for the stock market in a quarter century. 🤡

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Everyone--from Democrats to University admin--who helped perpetuate the lie that critique or protest of Israel was inherently antisemitic or constituted harassment of Jewish students, you handed the University to the Right on a golden platter.

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Unfucking believable as CDC is suddenly launching a study into exploring possible links with MMR and autism. I wonder who might have initiated this? 🤔 to be clear There is NO link and this has already been debunked in massive studies 🧪🧵

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Some of the antisemitic conspiracy theories and associations the Pentagon’s new deputy press secretary, Kingsley Wilson, has amplified online: 🔎 Long-debunked lies about Leo Frank 🔎 Great Replacement theory 🔎 Celebrating Christian nationalism 🔎 Praising Germany's far-right AfD party

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Jay Bhattacharya’s confirmation hearings begin tomorrow. Here’s everything you need to know about the man who will (probably) lead our National Institutes of Health. Don’t sleep on this guy. He’s every bit as extreme as Robert Kennedy Jr. www.importantcontext.news/p/everything...

submitted 5 days ago • 4 comments

Truly sad to see, although not unexpected. I was able to do 2 REUs, UMich and UCLA, which was incredibly important coming from a small undergrad (Oberlin). I often credit the REUs as giving me the varied research understanding/skills that I needed to get into and later use in grad school. 💔🪐👩🏻‍🔬🧪🛰️🚀🔬

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ProPublica looked into science grants that Ted Cruz's team flagged as "radical" and "neo-Marxist" and, uh. This would be good comedy if it didn't matter so much www.propublica.org/article/ted-...

submitted 6 days ago • 222 comments

DOGE's crackdown on agency spending means that federal researchers can't do vital experiments, order liquid nitrogen tanks to preserve samples, or refill basic but necessary lab equipment. My story with @zoeschiffer.bsky.social: www.wired.com/story/doge-e...

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'Stop the Ethnic Cleansing': Watch and Read the Most Powerful Oscars Speech for Years open.substack.com/pub/zeteo/p/...

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UM just released a Maoist AI app.

submitted 22 days ago • 2 comments

Everyone who is tempted to downplay the authoritarian threat should remember how many made the same mistake last time.

submitted 7 days ago • 14 comments

How have we not got masks in healthcare? Why are teachers still told to wash their hands for airborne transmission. @rthonwesstreeting.bsky.social Labour promised to clean the air. What’s going on? Why the delay, the science is showing the opposite of UKHSA guidance. We need urgent action on this!

submitted 7 days ago • 4 comments

As of Feb 18, the U.S. is answering 1,800 fewer research questions to improve the quality of life and longevity of Americans. This is not America first. Source: github.com/dhoconno/rep...

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In fact, outfits that grew famous spreading covid misinformation expanded their range.

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Francis Collins, the NIH Director for 12 years, led the Human Genome Project and other NIH efforts for 32 years, resigned today. Key words from his resignation letter www.nytimes.com/2025/03/01/u...

submitted 8 days ago • 65 comments

Francis Collins led the mapping of the human genome, and chose to do big scientific to benefit the public. He is a a former NIH Director. He just resigned his position in government. His resignation letter: www.nytimes.com/2025/03/01/u...

submitted 8 days ago • 66 comments

"downsizes" is a weak way of saying "forced to cancel dozens of programs, which jeopardizes future STEM careers of talented undergrads" @science.org www.science.org/content/arti...

submitted 8 days ago • 202 comments

The Regime has banned CDC staff from authorship on any publications that include authors or funding from the World Health Organization. They have been instructed to remove their name from any work that has already been submitted. This is a grotesque and harmful order that makes the U.S. less safe.

submitted 8 days ago • 17 comments

I don’t even know how this could be presented as being in service of anything other than hindering scientific progress.

submitted 8 days ago • 437 comments

Make sure to thank these guys and all who enabled them

submitted 9 days ago • 3 comments

Yes! Our NIH directors plan was about herd immunity via mass infection. Don’t take my word for it. Just listen as his GBD colleague explains while he sits and listens. youtu.be/L9bYaPnnfsg?...

submitted 9 days ago • 3 comments

The large clinical trial of a new Covid vaccine pill (not shot) was halted by RFK Jr www.aol.com/multimillion... The Covid nasal vaccines may be next up to be axed.

submitted 11 days ago • 409 comments

Here is a piece of the interview. This is Jay Bhattacharya, the new head of NIH, who holds a PhD in Economics, not in Health Sciences. He doesn't see a benefit in vaccinating kids for #COVID because the kids are not dying, completely dismissing the millions getting impaired with #LongCovid.

submitted 10 days ago • 5 comments

I wrote about the firing of Rachel Dawson for the Chronicle. www.chronicle.com/article/anat...

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

Every scientist, long before they were a scientist, was a little kid who stood in front of a fish tank or stared up at the stars or turned over a rock to look at the bugs underneath and said “wow”. On the best days, working in science still feels like that.

submitted 18 days ago • 27 comments

This cause is close to my heart - please sign: sign.moveon.org/petitions/st...

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This cause is close to my heart - please sign: sign.moveon.org/petitions/st...

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

🧵"So this is how liberty dies..." Trump’s first 3 weeks have been a relentless flood of actions. It's incredibly hard to keep up. I’ve gone through 69 actions & mapped out the pattern - showing how they fall within 5 broad domains consistent with authoritarian states 1/9

submitted 24 days ago • 525 comments

Trump just suspended enforcement of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, a key anti-bribery law signed by Carter in 1977. For 50 years, it stopped corporations from bribing foreign officials. Now, Trump is letting corruption run wild.

submitted 26 days ago • 566 comments

www.aclumich.org/en/press-rel...

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An update with latest data available for graph of life expectancy vs health care expenditures per capita for 20 countries and one outlier.

submitted 34 days ago • 34 comments

I wrote for The Contrarian about my decision to leave the New York Times contrarian.substack.com/p/departing-...

submitted 40 days ago • 123 comments

Paul Krugman on why he left the NY Times... "the editing... went from light touch to extremely intrusive... with an immediate editor and his superior both weighing in on the column... toning down, introducing unnecessary qualifiers, and, as I saw it, false equivalence." substack.com/home/post/p-...

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Something that keeps me up at night: The growing global number of people disabled by Covid & how they will be left further deserted as the climate crisis escalates

submitted 39 days ago • 14 comments

All NIH study sections canceled indefinitely. This will halt science and devastate research budgets in universities.

submitted 45 days ago • 609 comments

NIH appears to have canceled/postponed all of its study sections—the independent review panels that approve federal grants for health research. Such grants fund the work/salaries of 300k people at more than 2,500 institutions

submitted 45 days ago • 321 comments