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Exclusive: NSF director to resign amid grant terminations, job cuts, and controversy 🧪 “I have done all I can,” says Sethuraman Panchanathan, a Trump appointee who has led agency since 2020 www.science.org/content/arti...

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Just saw the really phenomenal play #Retrograde at #Apollotheatre. Easily best thing I've seen in theatre for ages—absolutely gripping—Ivanno Jeremiah plays the tempered, righteous anger of Sidney Poitier perfectly, as he faces question of stardom or his principles, with backdrop of McCarthyism.

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🧪⚛️ Textbooks: cell is a bag of weirdly shaped stuff. Reality: it's all moving & changing shape. Research on the endoplasmic reticulum by my colleagues Zuben Scott, Lena Koslover, Greg Huber and their experimental collaborators Laura Westrate & Samuel Sheen. scitechdaily.com/scientists-d...

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🧪Check out today's #NSF update on priorities page. Don't miss the FAQ e.g. "3. What types of awards are being terminated? Awards that are not aligned with NSF's priorities have been terminated, including but not limited to those on DEI & misinformation/disinformation." www.nsf.gov/updates-on-p...

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About that new paper on K2-18b, which headlines with "Scientists hail ‘strongest evidence’ so far for life beyond our solar system," evidently prodded by a Cambridge U. press release. arxiv.org/pdf/2504.12267 . It's not actually any kind of evidence for life, and here I'll give my take on the paper.

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So invade another country and Trump wants to reward them with more trade, while he wants to punish the rest of the world with tariffs !! Perfectly logical ! #r4today

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What is going on? Farage advocating nationalisation and reindustrialisation — I completely agree — but I wonder if he is trying to tap into Trump's protectionsim, as a way to promote nationalism. And unsurprisingly, he is advocating DOGE like cuts to council budgets. #bbclaurak

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The tax payers are not on the hook for anything! #bbclaurak

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The only reason anyone thinks Trump is a business genius — he's not as all his failures show — is because of the myth created by the makers of The Apprentice for the purpose of boosting ratings!! #blackmirror #r4today

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If there is a policy reversal at some point, anyone in the administration with ten minutes advance notice stands to make a fortune

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Everything in this article is spot-on. However, we shouldn't ignore systemic issues in science that means extreme pressure to publish & get grants to stay alive academically means lure of AI to cut corners is v great. Fix this & I suspect most scientists will use AI responsibly. 🧪⚛️

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It is sad that discussions of the current repressive regime in Iran ignores its origins in MI6 and the CIA overthrowing a democratically elected and moderate prime minister Mosaddegh, purely so Anglo-Iranian oil (that became BP) could continue to make profit from Iranian oil! #r4today

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Trump stooge : I'm going to make up a definition of inflation that suits my world view and doesn't include the effect of tariffs!!! Justin Webb with barely any push back! #r4today

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Labour are trying to take a leaf out of the Trump playbook. It's not about preferential treatment, but about addressing historical inequities in justice for minorities. Labour and Shabana Mahmood should be ashamed of this latest lurch to appease the right (it won't work!) #r4today

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"Chickens can be reared in cramped housing.. Chicken houses don't have to be cleaned between flocks. These conditions increase risk of disease & bacterial cross-contamination. Yet despite chlorine-washing, US chicken doesn't contain lower levels of bacteria than UK chicken." #r4today #farage

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Rachel Reeves may well turn out to a be worse chancellor than Osborne. She has no clue how growth is generated!! If you arbitrarily aim to reduce the deficit then the government is extracting money from the economy and preventing that growth she wants!!! #bbclaurak

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Rachel Reeves and Liz Kendall want to get people back into work — fine — do that & then numbers claiming benefits & PIP claimants would naturally come down — why tie it to £5Billion in cuts, which suggests that the cuts will be arbitrary and people who need support will lose out! #BBClaurak

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🔥 Patriotic Millionaires UK campaigned last week across the country to advocate for a Wealth Tax, against the backdrop of significant possible welfare cuts in the spring budget.

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@faisalislam.bsky.social #r4today

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BBC economics reporting is failing again. The whole tone about gov borrowing is negative and ideological and not base on fact. It should be made clear that a gov surplus is not good when growth is anaemic, because it means money is being taken out of the economy, further stalling growth. #r4today

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You literally cannot tell this incredibly cool part of American history without centering Native American identity. It is an powerful demonstration of how diversity provided tangible military advantages over an enemy committed to White supremacy. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/whitewashi...

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🧪tRump administration politicians want to be able to dictate what medical researchers can say about health care! www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

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🧪 Inspiring stories about great women scientists by the award-winning women they inspired

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I think this is very true, a sign of an idiot is cruelty, a cruelty born of being beholden to the basal fear response of the brain — Trump and Musk sadly show this in abundance. Conversely, "the kindest person in the room is often the smartest" #trump #musk

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Bernie is on FIRE!🔥

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Mordaunt : "we got to do less better"! Doing less is by definition not better!! #bbclaurak

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For all of Starmer sucking up to the US — and despite his better polling — what has it achieved? The US are still allying with Russia. We need to make war more costly for Putin, not easier, so while Trump is in the Whitehouse, we have no prospect for a just peace. #bbclaurak

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Attended the #StandUpForScience in Montpellier France 🇫🇷 Science is a universal language …. It is the basis of our prosperity and health (as well as inspiration!) and needs protecting and nourishing

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Posting in science, as don't know many songs positive about science, progress & investment in common good like railways. Wonderful song with great melodies & lyrics: The song of the future has been sung All the battles have been won.. We have opened up the soil With our teardrops and our toil ⚛️🧪

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I wish more would be made of response of the stock market and borrowing costs on the reports on Germany boosting gov spending/borrowing, since if you followed economics by #r4today it is irresponsible and you'd be hammered by money markets!!!

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Very clear headed analysis by Timothy Snyder. To paraphrase him "the USA is now weaker internationally and less free at home, and Trump's "peace" is really warmongering, as instead of making war more costly for Putin, it has emboldened Putin" youtu.be/Vea2fTYYypM?...

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Exactly, this I think movies have brainwashed us to think that in the face of clear corruption people act with courage and honour, but sadly it seems self-interest and self-preservation is more common characteristic among Democrats

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🔁 Tune in to #BBCRadio4 tonight at 21:00 GMT for the second broadcast of @doynefarmer.bsky.social's interview with @jimalkhalili.bsky.social for #thelifescientific 🧙‍♂️ Featuring Doyne's stories on #roulette #jurassicpark and more! 🔗 www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m... @inet-complexity.bsky.social

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(1/3) It needs repeating: in 1994, Ukraine was persuaded to give up its nuclear weapons to Russia in return for the US, the UK, and Russia guaranteeing Ukraine’s sovereignty, security, and territorial integrity.

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US president Trump's 90% reduction in USAID is estimated to lead to 100,000 deaths that would otherwise have been prevented. Simply callous. #usaid #malaria #r4today

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If you think Trump rapidly increasing tariffs is stupid — it is — then gov cutting spending when growth of the economy is anemic as Labour & Reeves are proposing is equally stupid. It is literally reducing people ability to spend!! Labour are handing the next election to the far right. #r4today

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The BBC presenter clearly did not want to hear that Germany will increase gov spending massively as opposed to the UK which wants to cut!! He literally cut him off with "well there are different approaches to spending" !! #r4today

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Germany having a debt break was a econimcally illiterate idea in first place, but why is defence not climate emergency a reason to lift it?? Of course Germany, or the UK with its equally illiterate fiscal rules, can borrow to do both!!! #r4today

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This is quite a kicker in Thomas Edsall’s latest op-ed. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/04/o...

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Vance, the US are asking Ukraine to give up their mineral wealth and their territory... what exactly is Russia giving up??? #r4today

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There appears to a whole lot of fawning over Starmer and while I agree the optics of his leadership over Ukraine looks good, it is meaningless if he continues to make spending decisions based on neoliberal fairy tales, e.g. cutting foreign aid budget to allow defense spending. #r4today

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Been struggling with Heinlein's supposed classic as it has issues with racism, casual objectification of young girls & women in general, & imo it's just a badly written & implausible libertarian manifesto.. then I discovered that Heinlan was an inspiration to Musk, which totally makes sense! 🧪⚛️

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