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Scientist running a group that throws CRISPR tech into the tumor microenvironment. Aussie in USA. Dad to 2 scruffy mutts. We’ll get along best if you’re a microscope…or a DNA sequencer (also often a scope).
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China seems to have used Llama to build an AI surveillance tool to collect anti-China social media posts, and presumably intimidate at least some of the people who posted them. The power of open weights www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/t...

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Real question: can they pass a budget that just has “$TBD” where all the numbers should be?

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Trump take knowledge

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Correct. They bought nothing with their capitulation except disdain from their users.

submitted 1 day ago • 40 comments

Very much like the Iraq War, somehow "I thought Elon Musk was a genius until a couple years ago" is now considered the more respectable and serious opinion than "I knew he was a fraud for a decade and was never fooled by him."

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So. It has officially happened. I have been officially let go from my position at CDC. I wasn’t a probationary employee. I had stellar performance reviews every year. I’ll be ok. But please understand that many worked HARD to get into these positions and were doing great public health work.

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it’s a win-win situation, everybody just needs to cum together

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So, was on instagram and saw this. If Canada, United States and Mexico became one country we could call it is and ya know..I don’t hate it

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We need way more public access to public transportation in America, for free! Europe does it right.

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Wells Street Bridge

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Chicago

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Report: You Live In An Embarrassing Country

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Remarkable thread offering guidance to current and prospective NSF grantees about how to navigate the times ahead — from an NSF program officer who was fired in yesterday's DOGE purge (!)

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Awh Dahl! Aussies think they’re in a democracy. Right-oh. Sweet things!

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This is why you fight these cowards. The moment you stand up to them, they crumble. Homan has nothing. The Fourth Amendment is clear and I am well within my duties to educate people of their rights. He can threaten me with jail and call names all he wants. He’s got nothing else.

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If I were the richest guy in the world I would simply not do this with your tax dollars.

submitted 7 days ago • 383 comments

Good news, everyone! You get to do whatever you want! As long as you say you were trying to save the country, it’s all legal now.

submitted 7 days ago • 703 comments

Unqualified, rich via divorce toddler weighs in.

submitted 7 days ago • 590 comments

Even Larry, the cat at No. 10, is impressed.

submitted 7 days ago • 62 comments

Things are uh really escalating

submitted 7 days ago • 86 comments

Same for Aussies! I couldn’t comprehend the magnitude of it all until I was in it. I’ve always maintained that I would never return… until now?

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History buffs will know that every authoritarian leader eventually converges on some version of: "I *am* the state. I can not break the law, I am the law, the law is instantiated in me." Our march to authoritarianism so far has been excruciatingly by-the-book. Hitting every beat. No surprises.

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👇🏻👇🏻

submitted 7 days ago • 778 comments

Every single attorney who advocates for the defiance of court orders should be DISBARRED. Immediately. Every. Single. One.

submitted 8 days ago • 420 comments

Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s idea of efficiency is stopping research on curing cancer.

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MINISCULE

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98% of NIH grants that should have gone out this month, didn't. Despite court orders 'unfreezing' the funds, they are frozen. Biomedical research will grind to a halt. Clinical trials will end. All for no reason: the total impact on the US budget is miniscule

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Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who killed so many children in Samoa they ran out of child-sized coffins, has been confirmed to lead Health and Human Services. The vote was 52-48. All Dems and Mitch McConnell, whose fault this is, voted no. All other Republicans voted yes. The blood will be on their hands.

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This is basically my entire book in chart form

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I can’t believe it - after years of advocacy, exclusionary zoning has ended in Cambridge. We just passed the single most comprehensive rezoning in the US—legalizing multifamily housing up to 6 stories citywide in a Paris style Here’s the details 🧵

submitted 11 days ago • 70 comments

Kangaroo Embryo Produced Through IVF For First Time theonion.com/kangaro...

submitted 12 days ago • 13 comments

Yep. This is always a concern. Talk about slush funds...

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What is going to happen next with regard to NIH from the administration?

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"’America's competitors will relish this self-inflicted wound,’ Owens says. ‘We urge NIH leaders to rescind this dangerous policy before its harms are felt by Americans.’” www.npr.org/sections/sho...

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My top Super Bowl memory is when Musk tweeted “Go Eagles” in 2023 from the game and then deleted it after a similar tweet from Biden got more engagement. Then he flew to Twitter HQ and demanded his workers find out why his posts were doing poorly, starting a multi-day fact finding mission.

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A pair of macaws flying deep in Amazon 📹 Dan Ng

submitted 13 days ago • 210 comments

I'm a one-issue voter and it's "we absolutely need to let banks do mortgage fraud again, it's important." So this is a pretty big day for me.

submitted 13 days ago • 57 comments

Scientists, as well as bureaucrats. This is the head of OMB, folks. He coauthored Project 2025. This is the playbook we are seeing with the attacks on DEI efforts, on healthcare, on NSF and NIH funding. They want us out of the way so they can destroy many institutions and resegregate the rest.

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🌺 My Happy #Sunday post, with a special thought for my fellow #academics this week 🍀🧪

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Instead of cutting costs for working families, Donald Trump is slashing the federal investments that fund their lifesaving care, fuel their local economy, and lower their health care costs. It’s cruel, short-sighted, and will cost jobs and devastate millions of families.

submitted 14 days ago • 195 comments

Cuts to the NIH are a strategy to strangle research universities not “reduce waste”

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This is a distribution of indirect cost rates for R01 grants. These data are relatively old (2013) but these rates are relatively stable. 1/2

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Executive wants to frame the NIH indirects cut as $4B in savings. But given that NIH returns $2.5 on every $1 investment, this would actually cost US economy a net $6 BILLION (per year!). Not to mention the human costs of wrecking education and research sectors and the communities they serve.

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