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In a major ruling late Thursday, a U.S. federal judge told the administration to restore foreign aid funding that had been paused pending a 90-day review and found that the groups that filed the lawsuit had made a strong showing of "irreparable harm."

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🎵 Where have you gone, Bill de Blasio? A nation turns its lonely eyes to you...🎵 (🎵Or at least misses a time when the worst thing the NY mayor did was work out in a different borough...woo, woo, woo🎵) www.politico.com/news/2025/02...

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

Turns out the job of President is also pretty chill. DJT has time to spare for his own side hustle! #KennedyCenter #wtfOTD

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Amid today’s massive NIH cuts to universities, please know that my research colleagues: - Develop new cancer treatments for kids - Are curing sickle cell disease - Build new tech to help premature babies survive - Prevent teens from dying of drug overdose - And more #NIH #MedSky #research #science

submitted 16 days ago • 319 comments

When you solve for the wrong problem, not only do you not get the solution, you can cause harm. The President wasted water that was being saved for farmers for a PR stunt. This was harmful, ludicrous, and solved nothing.

submitted 17 days ago • 872 comments

Dang, all this time I thought Secretary of State was a pretty demanding job but apparently these people have got room for side hustles...

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"If we don’t learn how to extract ourselves from this loop, none of the information we gain will manifest as tangible action—and the people in charge prefer it that way." (Yes, I acknowledge that I'm also posting this on social media.) www.404media.co/you-cant-pos...

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www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/b...

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Of course it’s a coup. Miss the obvious, lose your republic. open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...

submitted 18 days ago • 617 comments

How about just rip up the contract for good and say you won't do business with criminals? (Oh right, because Doug Ford...) techcrunch.com/2025/02/03/o...

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"USAID is a criminal organization." "[USAID isn't] an apple with a worm in it. USAID is a ball of worms." - Quotes from a man propping up a 34-time convicted felon and a guy who has actual worms in his brain. #USAID #DOGE #AmericaWorst

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"To keep the zone flooded, you have to keep acting, keep moving, keep creating new cycles of outrage or fear. You overwhelm yourself...you have to go beyond what you can actually do... you either trigger a constitutional crisis or you reveal your own weakness." www.nytimes.com/2025/02/02/o...

submitted 21 days ago • 1 comment

“NSF this week began to search through billions of dollars of grants the agency has already awarded for anything touching on topics that President Donald Trump has criticized. … NSF has blocked grantees and trainees from accessing funds while the review is underway”🧪 www.science.org/content/arti...

submitted 21 days ago • 9 comments

The entire archive of CDC datasets can be found here. HUGE shoutout to data archivists- this work is important 👏🙌🏻 archive.org/details/2025...

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And here's an article I wrote for @asm.org in 2019 about 15 years of #PEPFAR... just a reminder that this program was started under GW Bush, a Republican president. #GlobalHealth is not partisan, and is not a "liberal conspiracy." #USAID

submitted 22 days ago • 1 comment

Yesterday, the #USAID website went dark and a new section on the State Department website appeared with a press release stating that “the United States is no longer going to blindly dole out money with no return for the American people.”

submitted 22 days ago • 1 comment

How can we load fragile cells into droplets while ensuring viability of those cells? 🧪 #Lightcast enables the creation of millions of uniform droplets optimised for sample flexibility & gentle handling. Read our paper to learn more: go.lightcast.bio/4fggEVC #microfluidics #ScienceSky #SingleCell

submitted 73 days ago • 1 comment