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NIH funding is frozen. @annikabarber.bsky.social is keeping score: 50%+ of study sections planned for this year (77/148) have been cancelled. I talked to Dr. Barber about why these delays are disastrous, and why scientists should be pooling info and speaking up: www.chronicle.com/article/nih-...

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I'm delighted to reenter the academic writing fray with my @osucccjames.bsky.social colleagues Ted Wagener & @micahberman.bsky.social! Check our @nejm.org piece about the very strong legal and scientific footing on which FDA's landmark nicotine proposed rule rests. www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

submitted 8 hours ago • 1 comment

Are evil billionaires trying to out evil each other? WTF? 👇 I think a broad range of perspectives is important, but this editorial shift....? www.theguardian.com/media/2025/f...

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"Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos said Wednesday that the newspaper’s opinions section would now be focused on “personal liberties & free markets” & won’t publish anything that opposes those ideas." www.washingtonpost.com/style/media/... "W/the shift, opinions editor David Shipley has resigned..."

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Good informative post from @stemcells.bsky.social on in vitro gametogenesis - making eggs and sperm from somatic (including skin) cells. ipscell.com/2025/02/a-cl... Good overview and review of some pros and cons - & a plug for my The End of Sex and the Future of Human Reproduction!

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Full-on eugenics, in its most rabid, racist form is oozing its way back into mainstream discourse.

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In mice! @inmice.bsky.social (In fairness, the press release does include "in rodents" in the title, but this breathless summary conveniently left that part out.)

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Exclusive: NIH appears to archive policy requiring female animals in studies www.thetransmitter.org/policy/exclu...

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Thanks to my co-organizer and host Christopher Leslie for a great conference at UC Irvine School of Law bringing together scholars and enforcement officials to discuss pharmaceutical competition. And grateful for the fabulous contributions of...

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Researchers Refuse to Alter Patient Safety Papers to Comply With Trump Orders www.medpagetoday.com/special-repo...

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This vote by the US is just staggering. Not standing against a violation of international law and not condemning the massive numbers of war crimes of Russia will affect US security and damage our alliances and national reputation. I’m ashamed of this action.

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Robert Flack has died, at 88 from complications from ALS. Beautiful voice, delivering some moving songs, mainly in the 1970s. From the WaPo obit, seemingly a good and well-centered person, too. RIP! www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2...

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“Predators like wolves can subsist on diets with extremely high animal protein for a long time, but people cannot handle this without intake of substantial amounts of fat or carbohydrates. Neandertals had to be more selective in their prey choices than other hunters.” johnhawks.net/weblog/abric...

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It is remarkably exciting to see these linear marks associated with human footprints from White Sands, with some as old as 22,000 years. The researchers interpret these as travois marks. Bottom line: People have probably missed these at many other sites. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Disgusting Trump behavior. But that’s redundant.

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Stanford Law School's Bernadette Meyler discusses how the language used in the pardon is specific to events around Jan. 6. But the defendants and their lawyers are arguing otherwise via @wsj.com. Read more here: www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...

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Would have been nice if the "firing generals" headline had somehow made room for the race and sex of the 2 most prominent generals fired...and the race and sex of the (statutorily) unqualified new Chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. The statute has a "national security" exception, but, really...

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America held hostage

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No Republican in Congress should be allowed the claim to be “pro-life” ever again. This is a disgrace. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/cdc-s...

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This night, 34 years ago, we were preparing to cross the Saudi Arabia-Iraqi berm to help free Kuwait. Three years ago, Putin gave the order to violate the territory and sovereignty of our partners and friends in Ukraine. We must continue support.

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I hope Merz can get a coalition together quickly - Ukraine issues can't wait for the end of what would be very complicated negotiations on immigration with the SDP.

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One of the first statements by the CDU after winning the elections: „Ukraine must win the war!“

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I have been wanting to believe all this sort of stuff from the "liberal" US media was mere incompetence, but it is pretty much impossible now not to conclude that it is collusion.

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Just refinished re-reading (listening to this time) Orwell's Homage to Catalonia. Probably for the 4th time or so...1s time was 1971. It still gets my vote for the best non-fiction writing of the 20th century. Not bec/it was always right, but bec/it was always honest. (Or seemed to have been).

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RT if you agree with this plan

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On FTN, @scottgottliebmd.bsky.social debunks "the argument from Mr. Kennedy, as well as people within his anti-vax movement ... that measles itself isn't a bad illness." "27% of the kids who have been infected in [the current] West Texas outbreak and the New Mexico outbreak have been hospitalized."

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More on gene therapy from @endpts.com's @scienceboss.bsky.social. endpts.com/biotech-is-s... Long and thoughtful. I like Jennifer Doudna's first priority, rare diseases, but w/a new financial model.

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Gene therapy bad news #2, also from Pharmalittle (& Reuters): "Pfizer will stop global development & commercialization of its hemophilia gene therapy, Beqvez, citing soft demand from patients & their doctors, Reuters notes. Beqvez is a one-time therapy that was approved in the U.S. last year for

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Gene therapy bad news #1: From Pharmalittle newsletter of @statnews.com: "Bluebird Bio announced it would sell itself & its portfolio of gene therapies to the investment firms Carlyle & SK Capital for less than $30 m, in a deal that lets the beleaguered biotech avoid bankruptcy, STAT says. The sale

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US Senator Roger Wicker, head of the US Senate Committee on Armed Services, commented on the talks with Putin: "No, Putin cannot be trusted. Putin is a war criminal and should be in jail for the rest of his life, if not executed."

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The court ordered that NIH grant funding be unfrozen, so The Regime found a way around it. For NIH grants to be funded, a review panel must rank them. In order for a review panel to meet, they must post it on the Federal Register. Submissions to the Federal Register are now on hold “indefinitely”.

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Episode 10 of the current Kilauea eruption has started. Here's a screenshot (from right now) and the link to the live web cam. Pretty stuff! www.youtube.com/usgs/live

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In light of news that Trump and Stephen Miller are once again trying to invoke Title 42 public health authority to block immigration -- probably on the pretext of stopping the spread of measles! -- let me re-up my post on why that would be an illegal abuse of power: buttondown.com/sbagen/archi...

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Great piece on how devastating HHS cuts are & will be for health & innovation. HHS civil servants are dedicated to advancing public health & have chosen to use their talents to serve our country, very often for much less $ than they would be paid elsewhere. They don't deserve this. Neither do we.

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Trump calls Zelensky “incompetent”! The man has held his country together and fought his huge invading neighbor to a standstill for 3 yrs. Wonder what Trump would have said about Churchill in 1942 or ‘’43? Meanwhile, he radiates incompetent ignorance in everything he does and says. Arrggghhh!

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BREAKING — USDA says it accidentally fired officials working to combat bird flu and says it’s trying to rehire them www.nbcnews.com/politics/dog... by @allansmith.bsky.social

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NEW: Here is Trump's executive order purporting to end the independence of multi-member head independent agencies. www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...

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Imagine being rich enough to do anything you want and choosing to take food and medicine from starving children to give yourself even more money.

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