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NEW: LibGen contains millions of pirated books and research papers, built over nearly two decades. From court documents, we know that Meta torrented a version of it to build its AI. Today, @theatlantic.com presents an analysis of the data set by @alexreisner.bsky.social. Search through it yourself:

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Executive orders from President Trump have agencies across the government scrubbing websites of photos and references to transgender people, women and people of color.

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Thanks to the World Register of Marine Species for including our Mystery Mollusc nudibranch among their top species of the year! :^) This means a lot, since WoRMS is such an important and authoritative resource for marine scientists. 🦑🧪

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they tried to stop us but P00P is too powerful

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I am livid that my student who submitted a diversity F31 and received an outstanding score, near the top of the fundable range, was told to submit again. Refusing to fund F31s from URMs while funding regular F31s from white/privileged students with worse scores is blatant discrimination.

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I spoke with Sarah Cooley, the director of NOAA's Ocean Acidification Program, who was fired under the DOGE layoffs, about all she hoped to accomplish before the wreckage of NOAA defector.com/an-interview...

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This isn’t just anti-DEI, removing people they think were celebrated only because of their color or gender. It is saying that no matter how truly important one’s achievements, if you aren’t a white male you don’t matter. www.axios.com/local/salt-l...

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Deep dives on the deep brain, comedy about consciousness & trivia that’ll blow your mind! Join us THURSDAY 7pm (irl/stream) for THE GANGLIA’S ALL HERE – a science comedy show & science trivia showdown inspired by NEUROSCIENCE! 🎟⬇️ @factsmachinepod.bsky.social @caveatnyc.bsky.social!

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Holy shit. I don’t think I’m exaggerating when I say they’re trying to kill us all. “The Environmental Protection Agency plans to eliminate its scientific research arm, firing as many as 1,155 chemists, biologists, toxicologists and other scientists”

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This isn't anti-DEI - it's retelling history as a story with only white men in it. The tale of the Navajo Code Talkers is essential to understanding the Allies' victory in WWII. Removing it because the people involved were non-white is segregationism.

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We know dopamine guides reinforcement learning in externally rewarded behaviors—think a mouse learning to press a lever for food or juice. But what about skills like speech or athletics, where there’s no explicit external reward, just an internal goal to match? 🧵 (1/7)

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Excited to share our latest work! It’s been a great experience working on this (including building a whole new lab!) 😊 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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🚨This week, many Columbia scientists lost grants that funded over half their annual income. Others will no longer be able to do research that helps treat thousands of sick patients across the US. "It hurts," they told me. My story for @nature.com 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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People might think that whatever destruction is done to science in the US, we can undo in 4 years with a Democratic president and Congress. The problem is that many areas require specialized knowledge and skills built up over years, and once that's lost, it's hard to get back.

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Market prepping. I’m definitely printing frustration crustacean & some plucky shrimp stickers. Idk which monsters to print. Creatures from the black lagoon?? I don’t think enough people know who man-thing is. Teen bedroom mothman?! Ahh!!! Idk!!

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I think of this specific aloe plant at least once a week

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BREAKING: Immigration officials arrest a second person who participated in pro-Palestinian demonstrations at Columbia University.

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With federal funding cuts, the University of Hawaiʻi (UH) may lose 2,500 of its 16,000 jobs across 10 campuses. UH operates on a $1.3 billion annual budget, with $636 million from the state, $410 million from tuition, and $370 million from federal funding. Aloha!

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Plot twist: this is the best explanation I’ve seen on the difference between marine and maritime 😤

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NEW letter to Columbia from Trump admin lists demands for “continued financial relationship” with the US government”: —Suspend or expel students for Hamilton Hall protest —“Time, place, and manner rules” —Mask ban —Address “anti-Zionist” discrimination —Reform admissions —MORE

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The administration's demands for Columbia to get back in good standing and get its withdrawn grant $$ back. This is of course not everything, just the first set of hoops. Katherine Franke, 20+-yr Columbia law prof recently forced out, explains what it means, www.instagram.com/reel/DHKRV8p...

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If Viktor Orbán did this, we’d denounce it in the strongest terms. This is not normal for the US.

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I just realized -- these are demands to open negotiations for Columbia to have any financial relationship with the federal gov't, i.e. to not have all federal grant money terminated.

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Ok. So. The US imports more peanut butter than we export- by ~20,000 metric tons. 20K tons isn't much compared to other goods. But it's also a lot, considering the US grows 2.75M tons of peanuts/yr. Why? Well, the US exports peanuts to other countries. They make the butter & sell it back to us.

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the way that I instantly knew which bird species this is because of @cpsc.gov

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Borb mode! 🐦🪶 European Robin, car park, Burton Mere Wetlands, 13th March 2025. #birds #ukbirds #robins #birding

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This is another monstrous cut to biomedical research in the US and one that will gave generational impact if not promptly reversed

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76 notices of grant opportunities have been unpublished by the NIH. It’s likely all the grants funded under each of these mechanisms will be terminated. Look at what will be lost, eg: Addressing the Impact of Structural Racism and Discrimination on Minority Health and Health Disparities

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This should terrify every person in this country. The use of machine learning systems to approximate an individuals views on war and then, if they are here lawfully on a visa, tag them for deportation is about as sci-fi dystopian as it gets. www.axios.com/2025/03/06/s...

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#RECALL: Black Diamond Equipment recalls BD Vision Climbing Harnesses due to fall hazard; risk of serious injury and death. Get refund or store credit. CONTACT: 866-306-0865 or www.blackdiamondequipment.com/en_US/conten... Details: cpsc.gov/Recalls/2025...

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@noaa.gov is due to cut another 1000+ employees as part of a "reduction in force" (RIF). NOAA was already underfunded and understaffed for what they do, and it's going to get so much worse for everyone Posted by RADM Gallaudet over on LinkedIn: subscriber.politicopro.com/article/eene...

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If your research has been affected by the administration’s illegal and immoral cuts to federal funding, please consider submitting your experience to the American Association of Medical Colleges: forms.office.com/Pages/Respon...

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tl;dr (but actually go read it anyway); Born 1957-1967? You might have gotten a weak shot. Born 1967-1989? You might have gotten one shot, not enough. In either case, the options are 1) look up your vaccination records, 2) get a measles titer measurement; or... 3) just get a booster! (I did that.)

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I confirm, one of my own MD-PhD graduate student, who received a perfect 1.0 impact score, just got her F30 award canceled. Enraging.

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New report shows that NIH grants fueled $95 billion in economic activity and 407,782 jobs in 2024. That's not to mention the countless lives that biomedical research has saved. Show me a better investment than that. www.forbes.com/sites/michae...

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🚨Last week Helyeh Doutaghi, a scholar in international law, was barred from Yale and put on administrative leave: ‘The decision came three days after a news site powered by artificial intelligence, published a story calling her a member of a terrorist group.’ www.removepaywall.com/search?url=h...

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An Abdopus (algae octopus) slowly decloaks. They have some of the best camouflage. Mostly uploading this to test if Bluesky increased their video size limit from 50MB.

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I don't understand why 50,000 people need to go to this conference every year www.bbc.com/news/article...

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A special issue on #WomensHealth in #ScienceAdvances highlights a growing wave of research focusing on women’s unique biological and psychological experiences. Learn more: scim.ag/3R59fPe (THREAD 🧵)

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Excellent scrolly-explainer about the perils and questionable necessity of #DeepSeaMining🪸⛏️ h/t @theguardian.com #scicomm 🦑 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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The Trump administration has terminated $800 million in grants to Johns Hopkins University, spurring the nation’s top spender on research and development to plan layoffs and cancel health projects

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The bill, which was approved today by the U.S. House of Representatives and heads next to a Senate vote, includes 20 percent less BRAIN Initiative funding than last year. By @avaskham.bsky.social www.thetransmitter.org/funding/u-s-...

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Jewish students at Columbia university today organized a demonstration in solidarity with anti-war student organizer Mahmoud Khalil and to denounce Trump's attacks on public education and protest. Photo via @/Columbia_psc

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the existence of conodonts imply the hypothetical existence of conodos

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