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Consider how much of a problem you have being online and then ask yourself how often you’ve actually done this

submitted 6 hours ago • 54 comments

CALIFORNIA: Rep. @JayObernolte (R) becomes the latest to hear from the people 🇺🇸 🔥 Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DGZ0d7B...

submitted 5 hours ago • 88 comments

Brilliant protest. Yosemite National Park workers hung an upside-down American flag — traditionally a symbol of distress or a national threat — thousands of feet off the ground on the side of El Capitan.

submitted 5 hours ago • 39 comments

I feel like this is my moment, as an American, to step up, because I have a lot of experience at ignoring emails

submitted 4 hours ago • 31 comments

I think people both within science and outside science don’t fully appreciate the miracle that were the Covid-19 vaccines. How much courage it took to get the sequence out, how much work had already gone into figuring out the best viral antigen and how best to present it. 1/

submitted 3 hours ago • 3 comments

Never in my most pessimistic moments did I expect the response to modern biotechnology saving countless lives in a pandemic to be a powerful elite captured by a conspiracy theory and dismantling our defenses against the next one out of some misguided notion of revenge

submitted 14 hours ago • 23 comments

With Elon’s “tell us what you accomplished last week or you’re fired” emails: I can confirm that he didn’t limit himself to the executive branch. He sent them to employees of the judicial branch as well.

submitted 11 hours ago • 154 comments

The Hubbards are coming (I think I will pick this book up at the Manifolds chapter). I will try to do more of the exercises this round

submitted 9 hours ago • 0 comments

Republican supporters of Donald Trump are giving their Congressional representatives an earful this week. Congressman Kevin Hern of Oklahoma, who won his district by 25 points, under fire in a townhall meeting due to Musk's and Trump's Ukraine policies. He avoids answering their direct questions.

submitted 10 hours ago • 15 comments

Everyone who ever got funding through NIAID should be aware of this bill and start sending messages to their US legislators. The bill intends to dissolve NIAID. This is Project 2025 www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c...

submitted 13 hours ago • 3 comments

Between my regular work, reviewing funding applications for an NIH panel likely to be cancelled, and general angst due to, well, everything, I never posted some of the photos I took on Feb 02, 2025, the last time I took my camera out. Here is a goldfinch in my backyard 📷🪶

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Causal inference is hard, very imperfect and yet necessary. Cool visualization to help grasping the bases!

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

From a source at NIH, some grants may be nixed because the investigator’s bio sketch mentions DEI-related activities, even if the science itself has nothing to do with it.

submitted 1 day ago • 13 comments

RFK Jr.-led CDC kills flu shot campaign, cancels major vaccination conference nypost.com/2025/02/21/u...

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Yes, it is entirely correct to point out that ICE officers do not have any legal authority to break into somebody’s home unless they get a judicial warrant; which they generally cannot do, because judges only issue warrants for probable cause of crimes, not immigration law violations.

submitted 1 day ago • 27 comments

Reposting with complete alt text.

submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments

Marco Rubio's collaboration with Russia's Sergei Lavrov and Putin is one of the most disgusting acts of betrayal to democracy and our nation. Rubio has secured his place in history of infamy.

submitted 4 days ago • 1363 comments

RFK Jr. thinks that a clinical trial should be done for the entire childhood vaccine schedule. Here’s why that will never happen. 1. You can’t do a randomized trial of something that we already know is safe and effective. There would have to be a placebo group that didn’t get vaxxed. Unethical.

submitted 4 days ago • 699 comments

CZI has officially bailed. I have to say one of the most disappointing aspects of all of this has been seeing how many were only doing performative DEI and never really cared about diversity equity or inclusion

submitted 4 days ago • 3 comments

First nuclear weapons management, now this. No one - Democrat or Republican - voted for this kind of incompetence.

submitted 4 days ago • 787 comments

Cardinals in the snow

submitted 6 days ago • 3 comments

Walking the dog this morning and this caught my eye

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submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

Today I went over a basic CI practice problem with Google Gemini. It was interesting where it got messed up. It gave me a strong lead on using Bayes rule for understanding some conditional probabilities. But although it seemed to know about collider bias, it didn’t get the DAG right.

submitted 7 days ago • 2 comments

CISA – a federal agency that helps secure elections from foreign threats and disinformation – has placed its employees on administrative leave. The move puts the security and integrity of elections in the U.S. at risk.

submitted 7 days ago • 396 comments

Most of them were in fact chosen because they would do the bidding of boards/industry/big donors and not make waves. They aren’t capable of much besides cutting and schmoozing.

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“Marcus began to feel “an intense sense of panic” that the U.S. government would abandon its workers in Kinshasa. When he finally made it to Washington after a harrowing journey by boat and plane, Marcus was put on administrative leave.” — www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...

submitted 7 days ago • 2 comments

New from me: Here it is, everything I know about every change I've been monitoring on data.cdc.gov plus an archive of every file that's been removed or altered. www.statnews.com/2025/02/14/t...

submitted 8 days ago • 4 comments

The IRS was a simple test for DOGE: was it really interested in efficiency and state capacity? If so, you support the tax enforcement, the biggest ROI in govt. Or did it want to minimize parts of the state that bothered billionaires? We have our answer. open.substack.com/pub/donmoyni...

submitted 8 days ago • 136 comments

CDC source: “We just had word that all our fellows and post doc staff are laid off effective immediately. The famous Epidemic Intelligence Service, aka the Disease Detectives, is no more. That’s 1260 staff. They are calling this ‘Phase 1’.”

submitted 8 days ago • 600 comments

Only a person with a background in epidemiology, virology, medicine and other disciplines should be allowed to hold this position. What the fuck are they playing at?

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Rep. Pramila Jayapal introduced a constitutional amendment to reverse Citizens United, as an out-of-control billionaire informally appointed by President Donald Trump has set out to destroy the federal government in the wake of the most expensive election in U.S. history.

submitted 9 days ago • 12 comments

"[For the Right], D.E.I...is the mere presence of a woman or nonwhite person or disabled or transgender person in any high-skilled, high-status position. And their alternative isn’t some heretofore unknown standard of merit; it is the reintroduction of something like segregation." (gift link)

submitted 10 days ago • 334 comments

Just got a tip from a guy at the FAA. You'll never believe who is still getting new government contracts while all the contracts at the Department of Education and USAID and other agencies are being nuked from orbit.

submitted 11 days ago • 672 comments

Musk is a uniquely incompetent person, elected by nobody, who has been allowed by Trump to take over the US, and who truly believes that he has a boundless, unrivaled intellect that allows him to go through a 6.7 trillion dollar budget in weeks, and overrule Congress and voters on what parts belong

submitted 11 days ago • 39 comments

This is illegal.

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

Read Livy

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

this attitude — paperwork is for sissies, real wars are won by Big Strong Men — is traditionally a harbinger of ruinous for defeat for everyone who holds it

submitted 11 days ago • 2085 comments

if they made like 17 more Beekeeper movies where Jason Statham just systematically murdered a different category of scammer in every movie it would be the biggest and most successful film franchise on the planet

submitted 12 days ago • 66 comments