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Research scientist in pediatric genetics. I love my chihuahuas. 🐶
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1) Do something autocratic 2) Wait to see how people react 3) If they don't push back hard enough, carry on 4) If they do push back hard enough, "pause" it 5) Illegally consolidate more power 6) Repeat

submitted 3 days ago • 187 comments

A tricky thing about modern society is that no one has any idea when they don’t die. Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.

submitted 6 days ago • 1116 comments

Protests being cringe is fine. South Korea just threw out their right wing president and their protests are full of families, glow sticks, goofy flags, free iced coffee, and K-pop. It's the numbers that matter.

submitted 7 days ago • 54 comments

If the goal was to decimate U.S. leadership in biomedical innovation & fire scientists developing cutting-edge treatments—the Trump Administration is succeeding. Trump & Elon are setting America back decades, undercutting research to discover lifesaving cures. It's inexcusable.

submitted 10 days ago • 19 comments

For researchers / #polisky folks: if you’re dealing with online harassment because of your research, here is a useful set of resources (potentially relevant to others too):

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

"Pausing" scientific research is like "pausing" a car in the middle of the highway—it's liable to have catastrophic, long-term effects that restarting it won't fix.

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

submitted 30 days ago • 3 comments

Trump: “There is absolutely nothing I can say to make them happy or to make them stand or smile or applaud.” Yes, there’s no standing ovation for cutting funding for cancer research, stripping Medicaid, and raising costs for working people.

submitted 39 days ago • 18 comments

Democrats should boycott Trump's address tonight. If they feel they need to attend, they must not signal to the nation that we're living in normal times. Make good and loud trouble. Disrupt the speech. When he lies, boo loudly! Anything less will legitimize Trump’s coup.

submitted 39 days ago • 510 comments

Trump and Musk are cutting off cancer research.

submitted 43 days ago • 82 comments

submitted 50 days ago • 892 comments

Nearly every medicine we benefit from started with NIH-funded research. Early discovery work starts in academia. Immunotherapies? Gene therapy for rare diseases? Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s medicines? Vaccines? Novel cancer treatments? Psychiatric medicines? You betcha. 1/

submitted 59 days ago • 87 comments