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🍂 Nature: NIH Grants Still Frozen 🧪

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They’re firing NIH scientists and replacing them with people with this level of crappy chart-making? Sounds like the DOGE kids would benefit from going through the NIH postbac program. 🧪

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Tesla earned $2.3 billion in the United States in 2024. You'd think it paid a lot in taxes, right? Well it paid precisely $0 in federal income taxes last year. You want waste and fraud? Look at what some big corporations and the rich are getting away with.

submitted 15 days ago • 1527 comments

then there is this to consider #Canada #tradewar

submitted 18 days ago • 1 comment

Here's an interesting thought on Mark Carney as a potential prime minister... He was appointed as the Governor of the Bank of Canada in 2008 to navigate Canada through the most serious global economic crisis since the great depression of the 1930's by the government of the day.

submitted 18 days ago • 8 comments

impact of Trump Tariffs Potash: Nearly 90% of U.S. potash (fertilizer) comes from Canada. Food prices? Prepare to skyrocket. Lumber: Over 30% of U.S. lumber is imported from Canada. Say goodbye to affordable housing. Oil: More than 50% of U.S. crude oil imports come from Canada. Gas prices only up

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As of Jan. 15, a biography of Vera Rubin on the observatory’s website included a section titled, “She advocated for women in science.” That language was gone Monday morning. Some of it was later restored — but not all of it. By @lisalsong.bsky.social

submitted 21 days ago • 45 comments

A Black Hawk helicopter crashing into an American Airlines plane on final approach? Accidents like this are VERY unusual… Last week the Trump administration ordered a performance review of all employees in “critical” aviation safety roles, seeking to fire DEI hires 🤔 travelnoire.com/trump-faa-dei

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“The black hole is at the center of the Perseus cluster of galaxies, and the acoustic waves coming from it have been transposed up 57 and 58 octaves so they're audible to human hearing.” #scicomm www.sciencealert.com/listen-to-th... 🧪

submitted 25 days ago • 3 comments

This father and son cover of a Cat Stevens song is lovely. www.youtube.com/watch?v=1b1o...

submitted 25 days ago • 4 comments

We Canadian's know our history and we have long memories. Why I hate Nazi's canadianheroes.org

submitted 28 days ago • 1 comment

Bluesky has grown by over 3M people in the last week — welcome! With every wave of growth naturally comes an increase in moderation reports. Here’s a status report on how the Trust & Safety team is handling it:

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