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Pop quiz: Which paper title could get my NSF-funded research grant flagged to be reviewed and potentially defunded for violating Trump’s executive order… A. “Only white men should be allowed to touch computers” B. “Black women are just as capable of coding as anyone else” Spoiler alert…it’s B.

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Every reporter today should be asking every Congressional Republican why they're OK siding with Putin and walking away from NATO and democracy.

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This morning, the US National Science Foundation fired 168 employees, approximately 10% of its workforce, for no cause other than they were the agency's most recent hires. 🧪 Co-workers are leaving supportive messages before they have to clear out of the building at 5 p.m. Sent to me by a source ⬇️

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are we in one of those blobs right now? for some reason, I really need to know.

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there is no reason for business as usual. call your representatives and let them know you want them to stop voting for these nominees.

submitted 22 days ago • 1 comment

this is a direct attack on science, education, and democracy. we must not be silent. we will not be silenced.

submitted 23 days ago • 1 comment

This made me go “Hmm”

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anyone can explore how the US coast will look with different levels of sea level rise using NOAA’s sea level interactive map. this is how my workplace will turn out if the paris agreement is successful/unsuccessful. Which future would you like to see?

submitted 29 days ago • 1 comment

how quickly the campaign promises are revealed to be lies this time around

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youtube.com/watch?v=UsRP... did anybody else catch that 1. Trump ordered silence from the CDC, FDA, and NIH?! 2. Trump ordered formaldehydes to remain in hair dyes popular among WOC?!

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I will post this everyday for the next 4 years as a reminder that Jan 6th was a day of insurrection.

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just blurted out in class "yes, you have to cite where you got your info. in a world in which lying loudly is the only thing that seems to get rewarded, citing your sources is an act of resistance" and folks, I really believe that.

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this fills me with rage so i felt compelled to post ;^p one interesting finding: outrage-evoking posts are more likely to be shared without being read first. if we all read before reposting that would improve things!

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Here's a graphic explaining how the Big Lie was seeded and mobilized into the events of January 6, 2021 through a kind of "participatory disinformation" process. Trump's "war on drugs" refrain could catalyze a similar kind of participatory propaganda and mobilization cycle.

submitted 91 days ago • 95 comments

this could work well for science labs, too

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switching to heat pumps can help with this

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Out of roughly 153 million votes cast in this election, the presidency was decided by 230k across the three states of Wisconsin (30k), Michigan (80k) and Pennsylvania (120k). That's 00.15%. This remains an extremely closely divided nation. Any agenda viewed as extreme is likely to face backlash.