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Anthropologist in the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability studying human adaptation, infectious disease dynamics, and climate fiction. https://heeh.stanford.edu
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Serious congratulations to my homie Julia and her crew at The Bridge! stanforddaily.com/2025/02/20/b...

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Yes! This is compatible with my own personal windmill against which I tilt regularly. The popular discourse in virology is always about mutation whereas it’s selection that really matters.

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I was saddened to learn this news this morning. Jim was a great scholar and we had a good relationship of tremendous mutual respect, despite being on opposing sides of that long and tedious war for the future of anthropology at Stanford. stanforddaily.com/2025/02/19/j...

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NSF fired 168 yesterday. Today its staff directory page says this:

submitted 4 days ago • 16 comments

sounds totally legit.

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New: Last night, hundreds of CDC post-doc fellows were fired, including all in the group who call themselves the "disease detectors," and are the future of public health lab leaders. One senior official told me, "It is going to cripple public health for decades." www.nbcnews.com/politics/dog...

submitted 7 days ago • 77 comments

Help clean up the streets.

submitted 8 days ago • 20 comments

ASPR == Administration for Strategic Preparedness and Response, the people in the government who prepare us for disasters and public health emergencies. Cool, cool, cool, …

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We are gutting EIS and our general capacity to respond to novel infectious threats right as bird flu is ramping up. What could possibly go wrong? www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

submitted 9 days ago • 3 comments

EIS now? Maybe if we just pretend there are no biosecurity risks out there, they'll just go away.

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Apparently, the Musk administration is pro-cancer?

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

pavement princess blocking pretty much the only accessible path between East campus, where most students live, and the main quad, given the construction on the school of education.

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What's happening with the Covid nasal vaccine programs? And why are they in jeopardy? erictopol.substack.com/p/a-covid-na...

submitted 9 days ago • 27 comments

A metaphor for my life right now. A Muskmobile parked in my driveway last night in the middle of a rainstorm so that we had to park in a remote lot and walk home late at night in the rain and we now have to carry all the stuff for our Valentine’s Day event tonight across the soggy Field

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Trains definitely not running on time under this particular version of fascism.

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Abortion bans lead to higher infant mortality.

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People like to compare deficit spending to “eating your seed corn” but that phrase applies much better to cutting investments that will have long term returns

submitted 10 days ago • 4 comments

One of our supporters shared this with us—people are getting creative tonight!

submitted 9 days ago • 792 comments

The consequences of today's policies are not necessarily observed immediately, but be sure they will be consequential: - Without this sustained support, we risk slowing – if not halting – crucial research with the potential to improve millions of lives. news.stanford.edu/stories/2025...

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

What kind of optics do we have here? The president of the United States sitting behind the resolute desk while reporters interview a lurking, ballcap-sporting, unelected minion of the administration?? Do the White House handlers not see this?

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

“It is a misnomer to call these funds indirect costs. They are essential to the safe and ethical performance of research. The environment in which research is conducted is highly specialized and costly.” 🧪 Great editorial by @holdenthorp.bsky.social in @science.org

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Hard to overstate how bad the Musk administration is going to be for American agriculture.

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Good thing we traded in democracy, science, and the future for lower egg prices, amirite?

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

On changes to #NIH indirect rates, there is a law in place that prohibits NIH from making such changes without the approval of Congress. See Division D, Title II Section 224 of The Further Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2024 (Public Law No: 118-47) grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

submitted 16 days ago • 82 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 16 days ago • 271 comments

SCOOP: Cats that became infected with bird flu might have spread the virus to humans in the same household and vice versa, according to data that briefly appeared online in a report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention but then abruptly vanished. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/06/h...

submitted 17 days ago • 164 comments

Good Lord.

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

whatever bespoke hypothetical thing you mean by "end social justice practices in the workplace", this version that they mean is the actual, concrete political project confronting labor and the left right now. move accordingly

submitted 17 days ago • 74 comments

This one is helpful. statuskuo.substack.com/p/is-somebod...

submitted 20 days ago • 4 comments

the extent of illegality is staggering. musk/trump are the gravest threats to america since civil war. they are trampling rule of law. they are the natural extremist end-point of republican radicalism. the acts of a hostile power. lawsuits may slow them down. but dem lawmakers must step up now.

submitted 20 days ago • 1 comment

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

submitted 20 days ago • 1330 comments

I take it that Congress is just planning to roll over and piss on itself? www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

submitted 20 days ago • 1 comment

Great thread on the chaos the Musk/Trump administration is causing in US agriculture.

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"This decision was clearly made by someone with no understanding of the system or the impacts that come from knee-jerk political actions." sjvwater.org/trumps-emerg...

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

My first and definitely last time working with the Los Angeles Times. Editing out the most urgent point of an OpEd in the minutes before sending to press while then also assigning a title and image that suggest an argument entirely opposite to the author’s clear intent is pretty shitty.

submitted 23 days ago • 509 comments

From a journalist friend: Just spreading the word. The CDC is purging data, so people should archive their favorite CDC datasets today, namely ones around race/ethnic diversity, LGBTQ, and reproductive health. Also health data involving climate. The youth risk behavior survey has already gone down.

submitted 23 days ago • 166 comments

Huh, I wonder why.

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I'm very focused on the reporting we're doing at @wired.com and not on takes, but what I'm inferring from the reporting our reporters are doing is that in a very literal, not take-having sense, Elon Musk is the head of government while Donald Trump is the head of state.

submitted 24 days ago • 144 comments