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Wife and I make decent money (for now at least 🙃) and it's bonkers how much childcare costs. And we know the teachers aren't making enough money. I don't think the daycare owners are getting rich. The system sucks and needs gov help.

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Folks, maybe there actually are federal employees posting inside perspectives anonymously, but please ask yourselves how you specifically would be able to tell them from grifters

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🤣

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In the process of digitizing the fish prints from Okinawa and the results are stunning

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Studies show that funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) contributed to 354 of 356 drugs (99.4%) approved by the FDA from 2010 to 2019. Recklessly slashing NIH funding will mean that patients will be waiting much longer for life-saving treatments.

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Anyone else had a sudden uptick in journal review requests?

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Shambolic defending by the USWNT

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50 min drive for us. Just signed up and went for the first time today. Did a big shop largely on non-perishables bc we don't plan to go often. Sat down and did an item by item price comp if we did our usual target and stop & shop. Saved over 30%. Win win win.

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goodness gracious

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New PFAS analytical method from our Great Lakes contaminants lab. We had issues reliably extracting PFAS from whole fish samples using Method 1633, so we found that lipid-extraction resulted in clean extracts. The work was led by my awesome, but Bluesky-less colleagues. doi.org/10.1021/acs....

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One. For a 300,000 acre national park

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This makes me think about how it became fashionable to shit on the West Wing for being unrealistic and aspirational. And yet, here I sit as a proud civil servant who sure did eat that aspirational stuff up

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Heard this a lot this season

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Small joys

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The ongoing confusion by some Gen X folks that their generation is massively up its own ass selfish really cracks me up

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There is also a possible one-two punch here for RI's health sector, if (1) NIH indirect cost cuts eventually go through and (2) Medicaid spending is reduced significantly Those streams of funding are two foundations of the RI health/biomedical system

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Toughest fish on Earth? Mummichogs are a euryhaline species, which means they can survive a range of salinities from freshwater to water that has 110g salt/L. Heralded as the first fish species in outer space, they even evolved resistance to toxic chemicals that would kill other fish. #TeleostTalk 🧪

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Do the Cyclones not realize that I could really use more joy in my life right now? I can't believe they hate me so much that they would do this to themselves

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Some folks may not be aware that this also has a very direct environmental component as NIH is also the home of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS). URIs STEEP web.uri.edu/steep/ is funded by NIEHS to study the impacts of PFAS.

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Okay, here's some of what we've learned thanks to support from my lab's current NSF project — and there's a more to come, because of course analysis and the publishing process will carry on past the end of the funding ... 🧵

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Fantastic post with so many examples of how federally funded science makes the world better. Scream it from the rooftops, share it with your neighbors, tell the stories of science and how the work matters. 🧪

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People need to fucking focus

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stop!! reposting!! these alt federal agency accounts!! my feed is full of them!! they are not staffed by real verifiable federal employees!! they are random people who don't leave their house!! this is a grift for clout!! they're posting ai slop!! what the hell is wrong with you people!!

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The Pease Lab in the Dept of Evolution, Ecology, and Organismal Biology at The Ohio State University is looking for a Postdoc interested in genotype-phenotype-environment evolution in plant and animal genomes. Details at osu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/OSUCar... and more info at www.peaselab.org

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The way you get to being able to do hard things is by trying to do hard things

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Anyone thinking of a shift into publishing/full-time editing? Editor job avaiable in the Wiley ecology/environmental science team, working on environmental toxicology/ecotoxicology. Unfortunately also working with me, but it’s still a good job: careers.wiley.com/en/position/...

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Go Cyclones!

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What's wild to me is that people know this in their "regular" life. People who don't suck apologize to their loved ones, friends, colleagues when they mess up and appreciate when people apologize to them.

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In winter through early spring, you can sometimes find unspoiled, still-bright groundcherries sitting in the latticed remnants of their husks, like hearts suspended in paper ribcages

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Hi. I'm Andrew. I own New England's oldest map store because last year I moved across the country after an old guy retired and gave it to me Willy Wonka-style. Visit my store in Rhode Island. www.mapcenter.com

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It's weird how I haven't seen any AI products that do the work of upper corporate management or college administrators....you'd think that the most expensive links in the chain would be where AI would be most cost effective...hm, this must just be an oversight that will be remedied soon.

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This has been one of my sadly realized predictions. The low hanging fruit nature and multifold benefit of improving indoor air quality seemed like such an obvious lesson for us to learn that my cynical heart was certain we would fail.

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Many people don't know this but Army actually won the first SEC championship in 1865

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