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Don’t buy today. Give the greedheads a taste of their own medicine.

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TOMORROW- Friday, February 28th is BLACKOUT FRIDAY! If you believe we are in danger of losing our Democracy forever, FIGHT BACK! Let's make our voices heard in numbers too big to ignore. JOIN US if you've had it with Comrade Krasnov. 🤬 🇷🇺 #24HourEconomicBlackout

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It was only a matter of time. It took them 6 weeks to get there. www.newsweek.com/push-supreme...

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An environmental abomination. This massive data center will likely use more energy than Manhattan, and for what?

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Boosting Hyperalignment Performance with Age-specific Templates https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.02.19.639148v1

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When the autocratic past becomes frighteningly relevant: Vera Kempe, one our panelists at today's workshop on Science under Autocracy www.scibeh.org/events/works... has recorded her experiences in USSR and East Germany here: substack.com/home/post/p-.... She offers some recommendations, too.

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DOGE isn't saving us money. DOGE is forcing us to DIY society--to manage all the costs, risks, and problems that government is best poised to solve.

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And I am an ally. If you are too, let the world know.

submitted 6 days ago • 1328 comments

"A society should be judged not by how it treats its outstanding citizens but by how it treats its criminals." www.npr.org/2025/02/21/n... 🏳️‍⚧️

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Math is hard

submitted 10 days ago • 2024 comments

"...how can the same sensory information evoke such wildly different interpretations across people, or even within the same person across time?" Learn how @esfinn.bsky.social, a #CNS2025 Young Investigator Award co-recipient, is working to answer that in a new Q&A: #scicomm

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but this is good.

submitted 12 days ago • 54 comments

If you wanted to cut waste, fraud, and abuse, you would empower the inspectors general. If you wanted more waste, fraud, and abuse, you would fire them.

submitted 11 days ago • 2289 comments

Here's a quick summary of happenings at NIH: fabbs.org/news/2025/02... And at NSF: fabbs.org/news/2025/02... I hope these are helpful to those communicating about these with their lawmakers and friends. #FABBS

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

from “Parable of the Talents” by Octavia Butler

submitted 12 days ago • 386 comments

I keep wondering if we're moving towards something more like 1930s/1940s Germany or more like the end of the Roman empire. It's truly baffling and deeply unsettling that people voted for this (or didn't vote when they could have). We had another option, however imperfect!! I'm sad for humanity 😢

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Thanks to all of the NIHers and their friends who reached out to me. I am still here (DM me or Signal jeremymberg.78) I still have a very incomplete picture but based on what I have been told, the damage to NIH and to many wonderful people who work(ed) there is/was impossible for me to imagine 1/n

submitted 12 days ago • 8 comments

The measles outbreak in Texas is reminding me of the public letter Roald Dahl wrote about losing his daughter to measles in 1962, just before the vaccine was publicly available.

submitted 13 days ago • 411 comments

At the moment, mansion-sized Asteroid 2024-YR4 has a one-in-fifty chance of hitting Earth in the next eight years. Now might be a bad time to reduce spending on Science. Just sayin’.

submitted 14 days ago • 1647 comments

Please join us in congratulating the SANS 2025 Award winners! Mid-career award: Cate Hartley (www.hartleylab.org) Early-career award: Mark Thornton @markthornton.bsky.social Both awards will be presented at the 2025 Annual Meeting at Chicago (registration now open)!

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NOAA is reportedly on the DOGE chopping block. The National Weather Service, which is part of NOAA, provides life saving weather forecasting in the US. A study found that for every $1 invested in NWS, it produces $73 in value to Americans. Again, this isn't about efficiency.

submitted 14 days ago • 544 comments

This is where you go to tell the National Park Service to restore the word "transgender" in its entry on the Stonewall monument. (Scroll down.)

submitted 15 days ago • 519 comments

Hey look at this! My new 600-page calculus book has landed: www.amazon.com/dp/B0DX6BPPZ8 And the git repo for Python code to reproduce all book figures and exercise solutions: github.com/mikexcohen/C... YouTube video explanations of all 162 exercises: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

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Just finished a draft of my Models of Memory (grad) course that I'm teaching this spring! Please share/borrow/re-use/follow along as desired, and if you have feedback or suggestions I'd really love to hear (especially while I can still change it)! All materials are here: github.com/ContextLab/m...

submitted 15 days ago • 1 comment

Hello! I'm looking to hire a post-doc, to start this Summer or Fall. It'd be great if you could share this widely with people you think might be interested. More details on the position & how to apply: bit.ly/cocodev_post... Official posting here: academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/14723

submitted 15 days ago • 3 comments

‘You Can’t Let This Happen,’ Says Fundraising Email From Sitting U.S. Congressperson

submitted 16 days ago • 309 comments

You are not powerless, and he is not unstoppable. Look at, and learn from, the funding freeze and how quickly he was forced to surrender.

submitted 18 days ago • 3902 comments

🧵 If you’re applauding the abolishment of the Department of Education, you need to do a little research. You have ZERO clue what the DOE actually does. Here’s a reality check on what the Department of Education actually does: (1/14)

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Anticipatory obedience is understandable given the real threat of further lawlessness, but it is terrible nonetheless. And it didn't work out terribly well during the original 1930s version: www.chemistryworld.com/opinion/scie... @psychonomicsociety.bsky.social @psychscience.bsky.social

submitted 19 days ago • 1 comment

1/8. This week I had a few different conversations with scholars who, in the face of the attacks on science and institutions of learning in the U.S., are wondering what to do. One suggestion I have is: keep doing your work. It matters in and of itself. Why do I say that? A few reasons.

submitted 20 days ago • 16 comments

Thing is, it's not just a big cut - it's a cut that hits the framework in which research happens. It's like taking away half the shoes in your closet, only it's all the left shoes in every pair. Are we supposed to hop on one foot?

submitted 20 days ago • 3 comments

1. Today the NIH director issued a new directive slashing overhead rates to 15%. I want to provide some context on what that means and why it matters. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

submitted 21 days ago • 270 comments

The NIH overhead cut doesn't just hurt universities. It's deadly to the US economy. The US is a world leader in tech due to the ecosystem that NIH and NSF propel. It drives innovation for tech transfer, creates a highly-skilled sci/tech workforce, and fosters academic/industry crossfertilization.

submitted 21 days ago • 31 comments

Scientists and journalists need to figure out right quick how to explain to the average person how a massive change in research indirects will impact the medical care they and their children get (eg at the local children’s hospital), the education their children will get, the price of tuition, etc.

submitted 21 days ago • 105 comments

🚨RED ALERT for 🧪: The Trump NIH just gashed indirect costs. This is a direct attack on universities. “Pursuant to this Supplemental Guidance, there will be a standard rate of 15% across all NIH grants for indirect costs.” 😮 Just a devastating Friday night news dump. #scicomm #academicaky

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This is how fascism operates. In the 1930s the Nazi regime enforced strict control over academic institutions, censoring research and silencing dissenting voices. Many left Germany: Einstein, Born, Hahn, Meitner, Schrödinger, Szilard etc. etc. Today, US scientists are looking at moving abroad.

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Neuropixels and Optogenetics are delighted to announce the birth of Neuropixels Opto Combining high-resolution electrophysiology and optogenetics Today in bioRxiv 960 sites, 28 emitters, 2 colors By Lakunina, @karolinazsocha.bsky.social, Ladd, et al www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... (1/2)

submitted 21 days ago • 7 comments

Neat idea!

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Dear biologists & neuroscientists -- I'd like to collect some cursory data on what the "typical" breakdown of funding between federal & private looks like in labs. If you run a research lab or know enough about yours, could you fill this small form out? forms.gle/PEzWEYojBjfj...

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White House budget proposal may slash NSF funding from 9 billion to 3 billion a year.

submitted 22 days ago • 29 comments