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This is a five-alarm fire 🔥 for US science 🧪. (We keep saying that, but it keeps being true 😭.) Trump and Musk are blocking ALL NIH grants ‼️ by "exploiting a loophole in the process"—stopping study sections & council meetings. Every biomedical researcher in the country should be screaming. 1/

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“We found that ACE2 plays a key role in helping the cells in the placenta grow properly and when it is ‘knocked out’ the cells struggled to grow, and more cell death was observed.” 🧪 #ReproSky #Placenta #Development news.flinders.edu.au/blog/2025/02...

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Hmmm…nothing to see here, no conflict of interest, I’m sure:

submitted 10 days ago • 71 comments

The Israel lobby appears to have a voice to parliament

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Robodebt. The worst scandal in public sector history. Over 400,000 Australians hit with false debts, ruining lives. We must learn the lessons and make sure it never happens again. @pennyallmanpayne.com and I on the job.

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Dear ABC Mgmt, People read, watch & listen to ABC News bc they want intelligent, informed, nuanced reporting, interviews, commentary & analysis of world events, politics, news. Rptedly platforming & pushing the tabloid news media's narrative on a story is insulting to your audience. 😔 #journalism

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Ukraine and Europe must be part of any negotiations - a joint statement by Ministers of Foreign Affairs of France, Germany, Poland, Italy, Spain, the United Kingdom, Ukraine, EEAS, and European Commission. Full text of the statement: "We are ready to enhance our support for Ukraine.

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Peter Dutton bleeds from fury as he’s shredded by Chris Bowen following his interview with “Pulitzer Prize winning journalist” Peta Credlin Bowen “They could talk about old times, like the 2014 budget where they took $50bill out of the health system.” “Cigars and all”💥🔥🤣#QT youtu.be/qKRWZ0FpniM?...

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Great point

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It's not a book, it's another Qld LNP pamphlet. Brace yourselves, Australia. You're about to get a lesson in stationery. #auspol

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@zalisteggall.bsky.social has launched an 'Ethical Political Advertising Code. "Telling the truth in your political ads. What a concept. Will be very interesting to see who decides to not back this idea," said @amyremeikis.bsky.social > live.australiainstitute.org.au

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"Law enforcers have a duty to act proportionately; their attack on Sam Kerr has been an attempt to break a butterfly on a wheel." — Geoffrey Robertson, AO, KC archive.is/E6aC2

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Some evidence of compliance

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Fortescue could easily buy offsets to meet their Safeguard obligations, but they are choosing not to, & actually decarbonising instead. “Many offset projects are failing to deliver the emissions reductions they promised. We are largely being duped,” Dr Shanta Barley, Chief Climate Scientist.

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"Advance" Australia is a well-funded 'junk tank' front for billionaire climate change deniers, and extreme right-wing supporters and promoters of the LNP, and its 'Temu Trump' leader, Peter Dutton. #AusPol #auspol

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How much Elon Musk makes from the government a day: $8 million. How much a senior on Social Security gets a day: $65 Guess which budget Musk and Trump want to cut?

submitted 11 days ago • 898 comments

Nailed it…

submitted 10 days ago • 356 comments

I wish Tim Cook would say the quiet part out loud: “The people we are taking money away from are the people who buy our products.”

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Happy International Day of Women and Girls in Science from the women of the Ogden Lab! 🧪 👩🏼‍🔬 ✊🏼

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Happy International Day of Women and Girls in Science! A special shout out to the Women and Girls in science in the US. Remember it is always darkest before the dawn. And from this stage, a man with General Paresis generally takes only 3-4 years to become completely incapacitated.

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This is very long, but very good: "What the hell is going on with the billionaire tech boys?" www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xXL...

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"Trump is acting like a king because he is too weak to govern like a president." www.nytimes.com/2025/02/02/o...

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The Cybertruck has never passed independent crash testing by the US National Highway Traffic Safety Authority, and has refused to release its in-house safety testing data.

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“A new analysis by independent automotive blog FuelArc suggests that fire fatalities are 17 times more likely in a Cybertruck than in the infamous Ford Pinto — the posterchild deadly cars if ever there was one.”

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