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these terminations are good evidence that this is just wanton destruction by deranged ideologues. there is no rhyme or reason other than whatever makes sense to a bunch of zoomer nazis and their bosses and enablers

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huh, is this bad?

submitted 4 hours ago • 227 comments

If there is someone in your life contemplating joining the military, tell them DON’T DO IT! 1) the current civilian leadership of the military does not give a hot damn about the safety of our troops, which is seriously compromised by the breakdown in our intelligence capacity. 2) there is a high

submitted 1 day ago • 13 comments

huh, is this good?

submitted 1 day ago • 165 comments

Already did-

submitted 2 days ago • 145 comments

@standupforscience.bsky.social anything in San Diego?

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Breaking: FDA's March meeting to select flu shot strains for 2025-2026 season has been canceled per email sent to committee members, a VRBPAC member told me. drug companies need about 6 months leeway to make shots in time for fall vax campaigns. #healthpolicy

submitted 1 day ago • 446 comments

ah, as always, elon has his eyes on the prize: making it impossible for the government to enforce civil rights law

submitted 1 day ago • 67 comments

The NIH summer internship program was cancelled today. www.reddit.com/r/NIH/commen... Another important summer program that allowed young researchers pathways into STEM, gutted.

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I’ll be in DC March 7th at the StandUpForScience rally. See you there! If you can’t make it to DC there will be a StandUpForScience rally in a city near you. @standupforscience.bsky.social

submitted 1 day ago • 17 comments

The second largest employer in our region is no longer hiring and probably won’t be again as long as Elon Musk is in power. @repscottpeters.bsky.social and @levin.house.gov need to call this a coup and call people into the streets while there is still an economy to save.

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For reference these are basically mandatory components of getting an undergrad physics degree. If you don't have an REU, you simply don't get hired or advance, and REUs are only available for students, typically between junior and senior year. This is wiping out an entire year's worth of graduates.

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments

Fun fact: When the sun comes up, nitrogen becomes daytrogen.

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

Deport people who work hard for a living, import international criminals

submitted 2 days ago • 198 comments

Given that Bezos just did a full takeover of @washingtonpost.com and now it can only report that America and money are great--today is a great day to cancel if you have it, you check to make sure you aren't paying for a forgotten subscription.

submitted 2 days ago • 302 comments

From Dow Jones, CEO of Alcoa speaking at a conference: Alcoa CEO: 100,000 US Jobs at Risk of Being Eliminated from Tariffs >AA Alcoa Would Not Reshore Aluminum Production in US Based On Tariff Structure In Place for Short Time Period >AA

submitted 3 days ago • 14 comments

RNA xkcd.com/3056

submitted 2 days ago • 160 comments

At least the rich guys around the turn of the 20th built libraries and stuff as extracurriculars. The guys today seem largely focused on being upset that some people find them obnoxious

submitted 2 days ago • 31 comments

Healthcare is a human right, and this is unacceptable. $2,000,000,000,000. Two TRILLION Dollars. That's an incredible amount of lost healthcare. Call your representatives today. Email your representatives today. Speak out. www.house.gov/representati...

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Remember when the WH insisted that global HIV prevention & treatment was exempt from the freeze? When it seemed MAYBE they understood that cutting off medicine could put the entire planet at risk of drug resistant HIV strains? Wrong. Elon Musk’s interns were simply shutting payments off manually.

submitted 3 days ago • 82 comments

Ukraine is not, as the Russian ambassador said, a "project." Its statehood is older than Muscovy’s. It has been a member of the US longer than Russia. It has a language, an identity and its own aspirations. youtu.be/p4JFNtlxz9k

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The Trump administration's efforts to slash research funding have US graduate students, postdocs and other early-career scientists fearing for their careers. Some might leave the country -- or abandon research altogether. https://go.nature.com/43ao2zq

submitted 3 days ago • 7 comments

"Data doesn't lie"? It's amazing how much the same people who mocked pre-eminent scientists during COVID are now blindly following a ketamine-fueled hustler and the teenage DOGE dorks.

submitted 3 days ago • 476 comments

The only war that Putin is winning is inside Trump’s head. Putin only wins the war on the ground by setting American policy, through Trump. www.theatlantic.com/internationa...

submitted 4 days ago • 58 comments

The divide in politics today is between unreality and reality. Those who seek to rule the world blur human experience and smudge memory, making cooperation and friendship laughable and unthinkable. Ukraine resists an unreality war. snyder.substack.com/p/the-realit...

submitted 4 days ago • 35 comments

Do Americans want to be aligned with Russia against all of our traditional allies in Europe and Asia? I don't think so

submitted 4 days ago • 923 comments

Please share this fact sheet on Ukraine with anyone who needs it understandingwar.org/backgrounder...

submitted 5 days ago • 138 comments

Gee, I hope none of our global adversaries realizes that we have a totally unqualified Defense Secretary and are about to have a Joint Chiefs Chairman who doesn't meet the statutory criteria for appointment unless waived. I guess that's merit hiring for 'ya.

submitted 6 days ago • 19 comments

Ok scientists & those who love science 🧪: here is another exhortation. Call Congress TODAY about the freeze on NIH Council Meetings and Study Sections. Emphasize that this means NO new grants are being funded & labs will soon start to shut down and fire employees. Phone numbers are at: 5calls.org

submitted 7 days ago • 5 comments

Why did Hegseth just fire every top military branch lawyer? What did they refuse to sign off on? A Pulitzer awaits the reporters and outlet who can tell the public.

submitted 6 days ago • 670 comments

The NIH funding cuts are leading to decreases in PhD. training spots. Those who can do the math, will surely have realized by now that the impending Medicare cuts will lead to a massive reduction in the postgraduate residency spots funded by the Feds. Ask me what comes next

submitted 5 days ago • 4 comments

Take Russia's frozen assets now (written in December 2023, now even more urgent) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

submitted 6 days ago • 29 comments

Everyone is scared right now. And that fear is paralyzing. But now is the time to knuckle up. These fuckers aren’t anything close to a majority. Now is not the time to withdraw. It’s not the time to be silent. It’s not the time to make concessions. We have to not only hold our ground but advance.

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Almost all grant-review meetings under Trump 2.0 remain suspended at the US National Institutes of Health (NIH), preventing the world’s largest public funder of biomedical research from spending much of its US$47 billion annual budget. https://go.nature.com/4gM6oW4

submitted 7 days ago • 6 comments

hey no offense but are we in my stress dream right now

submitted 10 days ago • 90 comments

Live like a libertarian! Don't think the planes are safe? Just don't fly. Don't think the food is safe? Just don't eat.

submitted 9 days ago • 354 comments

They don't want to teach history so they can repeat it.

submitted 10 days ago • 616 comments

History: “Eventually the incompetent fascists invariably lose power and then society recovers in a new and stronger way” Me: “Oh, cool, so what has to happen for the spell to be broken??” History: “mmmm…well, that part is less encouraging.”

submitted 10 days ago • 389 comments

Hearing that there is at least one research program at UCSD for which all NSF program managers were fired. In other words, they have no point of contact at NSF for grant management.

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@juliusgoat.bsky.social

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theintercept.com/2025/02/17/e...

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The administration only needs to keep defying the court for another few weeks, maybe a month or two at most, to damage cancer research beyond repair any time in the next few decades.

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Maybe I wasn’t clear about this. I wanted more egg and no plane crash, not many plane crash and no egg.

submitted 10 days ago • 605 comments

Boycott #AirBNB

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If San Diego is targeted with funding cuts because of our policies, we should ban vacation rental licensees from using AirBNB as a platform.

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