garrettbroad.bsky.social
Faculty at Rowan University. Researcher & teacher focused on food systems/sustainability, media/technology, public opinion/social movements, animals/alternative proteins. Philly/South Jersey guy. Soft pretzel aficionado. Opinions mine.
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I was including MAHA within MAGA cultists here but I actually think they deserve their own spot in this death quadrangle.
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I am willing to bet Vinay Prasad 15% of NIH's $27B grant budget that cuts in indirect costs will NOT lead to more money being given out to direct scientific research. Poorly reasoned substack post from Vinay is here. www.drvinayprasad.com/p/nih-reduce...
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The US government has long been in the business of selling things. But now it's being taken over by private equity and stripped down for parts.
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The US government has long been in the business of selling things. But now it's being taken over by private equity and stripped down for parts.
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Yeah they are brothers, family biz, they both worked on that stuff for years
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Barry Lee Myers was the head of Accuweathet nominated to head NOAA in 2017, but never confirmed, in part because of a culture of sexual harassment at his company. That wouldn't even matter this time around, but he's retired now. www.motherjones.com/politics/201...
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I'm seeing posts about how people will die from cuts at NOAA and NWS, which sounds hyperbolic, and maybe is in the sense that people aren't going to die tomorrow. But over time, it probably will kill people, as knowledge that's vital for preparedness is not shared widely or not collected at all.
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They will assess what other data is commercially viable, charging universities and other researchers for data that used to be publicly available. They will stop collecting data on topics they have deemed insufficiently profitable.
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I knew the attack on universities would happen but I thought it would be more directly focused on ideological opponents in liberal arts and social sciences. The gutting of medical and scientific research is beyond my expectations.
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This is amazing 😍😍 @500womensci.bsky.social has made cards for each state on funding for NSF and NIH avail for download bit.ly/NSF_bystate & bit.ly/NIH_bystate if they are helpful for folks
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I agree, I just don't think saying pre-print servers shouldn't exist will do anything. No real way to stop them from existing, and attempts to ban would probably increase their popularity as "forbidden knowledge." Instead, we need to make them irrelevant by offering a clearly better product.
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Great example. Journals have not adapted to the speed of digital knowledge sharing. Instead, a few big corporations have amassed market dominance, made billions of dollars, and shared none of that money with those doing the actual labor (thus keeping it slow). www.newscientist.com/article/mg24...
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Best argument for pre-prints is that traditional journals are broken. Takes way too long to review, a product of relying on full-time academics whose reviews are unpaid and barely recognized. To stop pre-print problems (and predatory open access journals) we need to fix traditional journals.
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One of the most interesting things to watch is how the Trump admin responds to red states freaking out about the economic harm of attacking universities. Will they just ignore it as collateral damage? Carve out exceptions? Or roll back the overall effort? wbhm.org/2025/deep-cu...
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RFK Jr has entered the chat. www.youtube.com/watch?v=FUqU...
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It's tea! Kinda reminds me of Sobe back in the day. It's got ginseng or something in it, how bad could it be??
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Think the cost and lack of packaged grocery options will limit this damage, although I definitely agree with your sentiment! And I think people really don't realize how much sugar is in those things.
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It's true, RFK Jr doesn't really believe in germ theory, but instead endorses miasma theory, which holds that disease is caused by poisonous vapors (i.e., miasmata) generated by rotting organic matter. Details from @pauloffit.bsky.social.
pauloffit.substack.com/p/understand...
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Yeah she's at once this powerful visionary but also totally powerless, whichever is convenient for the moment
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Good roundup here from 2023, although it seems to get worse every year: www.europeanscientist.com/en/features/...
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It's this kind of stuff that made the food movement so susceptible to being hijacked by the MAHA movement.
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Review of Vandana Shiva's book in
@foodprintorg.bsky.social
by Alicia Kennedy brushes off critiques of Shiva, concluding "criticizing power and the Western belief in the endless upward progress of technology as a woman of color will never earn friends in high places." foodprint.org/blog/vandana...
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Yeah they've got veg*ns around 5-7% which is pretty standard
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There is obviously waste in federal funding, and plenty of projects that get funded that I don't like. But this approach is clearly intended to destroy our universities and research infrastructure, not improve it.