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jplagg.bsky.social
Biologist, leftist, dog and cat mom, outdoors lover, St. Louis native
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submitted 8 days ago • 15 comments

Always cuts for social programs. Never cuts for military spending.

submitted 10 days ago • 14 comments

The NIH funding cap on indirect costs will eviscerate scientific research from the inside. Universities won’t be able to support researchers, biomedical progress will slow, & YOUR health will be harmed. Plus, widespread economic collapse. Read more ⬇️ news.immunologic.org/p/the-nih-in...

submitted 10 days ago • 26 comments

This is a room where we turn very modest salaries and budgets (and lots of coffee) into new knowledge, life-saving innovations, and technology that feeds business growth. It's literally the loom that spins hay into gold but these numpties are suddenly worried about the cost of hay.

submitted 11 days ago • 240 comments

Lessons From Black Resistance w/ Kellie Carter Jackson @kcarterjackson.bsky.social | MR Live - 2/10/25 youtube.com/live/_pI4AhK...

submitted 12 days ago • 9 comments

Hey - please help save jobs and lives! Anyone who works at a university, who works on medical research, or could benefit from medical research is at risk! Please tell them to click the link below. Takes 2 seconds, literally. click.info.apa.org?qs=09c745fe0...

submitted 12 days ago • 33 comments

Kendrick Lamar has 22 Grammies and a damn Pulitzer if you don’t know who he is that’s a You problem

submitted 12 days ago • 467 comments

Again I continue to just absolutely love Kendrick Lamar's talent

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

Since i was a kid, I grew up always wanting to be a scientist. As a 1st gen college student I worked my butt off to get my degrees. After years of schooling & work, I put up w/ my family belittling me for my career choice. But it's so disheartening to see how anti scienc the country has become

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

Their aim is nothing short of a new Dark Ages. Anti-science, anti-education, anti-democracy, in favor of needless human suffering. NIH cuts billions of dollars in biomedical funding, effective immediately www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

submitted 14 days ago • 531 comments

In case folks are interested in contacting their congresspeople about the NIH indirect cuts with some estimates of what they would mean for institutions in their state, here are some estimates based on published F&A rates and funding ... let me know if you want a particular state

submitted 14 days ago • 197 comments

Gene editing technology began by people studying salt marshes. Ozempic began by folks studying the venom of Gila Monsters. Support for basic science has empowered us to understand our world. Tethering it to applications health has transformed and saved countless lives.

submitted 14 days ago • 53 comments

ELON IS ALLOWED IN THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION. NOT YOUR ELECTED REPRESENTATIVES OR STUDENTS & PARENTS. I WILL BE BACK.

submitted 15 days ago • 1133 comments

Miriam Adelson gave Trump $100m and the quid pro quo is annexation of Gaza and the West Bank for Israel. Money in politics is a global destabilizing force. END THE CORRUPTION AND ARREST THE ROBBER BARONS!

submitted 17 days ago • 8 comments

Elon Musk is a terrible president.

submitted 19 days ago • 1694 comments

submitted 21 days ago • 46 comments

Elon’s grandparents were members of the Nazi party in Canada and moved to South Africa to support the Apartheid regime

submitted 33 days ago • 1 comment