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A Florida weatherman telling his viewers he can no longer be confident in his forecasts due to cuts to atmospheric science is the kind of resistance content I’m here for. Kudos, Sir.🌦️

submitted 7 days ago • 487 comments

I will be damned if I allow a bunch of Confederate-waving January 6th apologists give the American people a lecture on flag waving. There is ZERO reason to enter an argument about patriotism with people who still worship traitors to America 150+ years later. They. Are. Breaking. The. Law.

submitted 4 hours ago • 824 comments

My gut tells me that Trump absolutely guaranteed a big ass protest turn out on Saturday. LAND IF THE FREE HOME OF THE BRAVE, BABY! 👊🏼🇺🇸💥

submitted 3 hours ago • 1 comment

Seems a good time to invite Sen Britt to watch an NIH review panel (aka study section) analyze piles of grants over several days to identify the <10% that win funding. Applications that scientists spent months preparing, whose peers spent weeks poring through in advance of review mtg at NIH.

submitted 6 hours ago • 7 comments

Anyone who has ever gotten an NIH review knows that NIH review is extremely rigorous---arguably, rigorous to a fault, because there isn't enough money to fund all the amazing research being done, so you basically have to guarantee it will succeed to get funded. That's not how science should work.

submitted 12 hours ago • 1 comment

This is maddening. There are so so many great ideas that are not funded because of how competitive grants are And fucking YEARS of Republican demagoguing about this means that if anything, there's a bias towards the safe rather than the truly innovative. The solution is more funding not less🧪

submitted 6 hours ago • 1 comment

RFK Jr.‘s extreme anti-vax views — and his related conflicts of interest — were a huge problem during his confirmation process. So he promised not to change the vaccine advisory panel. Today, he fired every single expert on that panel. It's a public health disaster.

submitted 1 day ago • 1408 comments

If you have never stuck a needle in the back of an infant and watched pus drip out please don’t tell me I am overreacting to RFK Jr.’s latest assault on science.

submitted 1 day ago • 65 comments

🚨BREAKING: 300+ NIH employees call out the harm of censorship & politicized science in scathing email to Bhattacharya, demanding an end to political interference, a lift on funding freezes, & rehiring of fired staff whose work saves lives. This is historic - insiders are blowing the whistle. 🧵(1/5)

submitted 1 day ago • 24 comments

I am hopeful of this too, but it can't wait. If things continue like this for the next 18 months, we will lose huge swaths of our biomedical (and I assume other fields) workforce, including me I am an early stage investigator, and if I don't get grant funding in the next 2 years, I can't continue 🧪

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

Could not possibly agree with this any harder 🧪 www.standupforscience.net/bethesda-dec...

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Thank you for this, @nicolecrust.bsky.social. 🫶🏼 A must read for all graduate student mentors.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

America is ceding the lead in creating the future | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

We have always been at war with Eastasia

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

War is peace! Freedom is slavery! Ignorance is strength

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

JuliaCall is blowing my mind 🤯, running GPU-accelerated #JuliaLang code from Python was insanely easy!

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

California and other wealthy blue states should implement a 1% wealth tax to replace the money illegally impounded by this administration, refundable if money is restored in a timely fashion 🧪

submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments

Good for them! If we in the US are going to idiotically refuse to take the smartest young people in the world, someone else should.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

When 15 million Americans lose their health care and plunge into personal crisis, none of them are going to give a shit about a made-for-clicks twitter fight between two billionaires arguing about who gets the bigger share of the corruption spoils.

submitted 5 days ago • 1134 comments

Remember folks, women are too emotional to be president.

submitted 5 days ago • 39 comments

Amazing account of ChatGPT's sycophancy and confabulation on steroids. amandaguinzburg.substack.com/p/diabolus-e...

submitted 7 days ago • 17 comments

This episode brought to you by the Committee to Increase Child Mortality... Here we're discussing a recent paper out of Stanford that rigorously models how decreasing vaccination rates are going to drive up infections, hospitalizations, and death. 🧪 youtu.be/UwEO-ejbTfM?...

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

Oh don't worry, the evisceration of the NSF and NIH will cripple lots of the best big state schools too 👍

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Awkward way for Joni Ernst to find out she isn’t funny. Let’s stop sending people like Joni Ernst and Lindsey Graham to the Senate.

submitted 10 days ago • 215 comments

Look, acknowledging the fact that life is fleeting is a worthy spiritual practice - we will all die, and the shortness of life is an impetus to make the most of our brief moment. It's not an invitation to hasten the death of as many people as possible.

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

The UC Santa Cruz graduate student was one of hundreds of international students, including at least two others at UCSC, who had their records revoked in April. It’s not clear why the students were targeted.

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

@timmiller.bsky.social Would love to see more content on this administration's attitude towards (contempt for) science. Eg www.nytimes.com/2025/05/29/w... and www.statnews.com/2025/05/30/n... If you need a biomedical scientist to talk to I've got a nice mic 😅 (or can recommend lots of folks)

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

Oh, is it actually hard to do science? Is it a challenge to justify your ideas with evidence? Huh, interesting. 🧪

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

I urge everyone to read Unbreaking’s new page on everything the govt is doing to destroy & diminish medical research funding. It’s the best thing I’ve read on this topic: @lizneeley.bsky.social & co have such done an incredible job. unbreaking.org/issues/medic...

submitted 11 days ago • 24 comments

Very happy to see this bravery in the face of likely firing.

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

New #Audiommunity just droped, this time with the great Abbie Smith (ERV)! No paper this time, just kvetching about the state of American academic science, but it's also a bit inspiring to hear about the work that's being done to combat #HIV 🧪 www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgJe...

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

Gonna give y'all some freebie headlines: MUSK DEPARTS, LEAVING TRAIL OF DESTRUCTION, DEFICITS, AND DEATHS MUSK SCORECARD: EMPTY PROMISES, FEDERAL WORKFORCE BRAIN DRAIN MUSK'S LEGACY: CAREER CIVIL SERVANTS REPLACED WITH INCOMPETENT WHITE NATIONALISTS DOGE HARMS WILL PERSIST FOR GENERATIONS

submitted 12 days ago • 78 comments

Great video podcast from @kevinbonham.com detailing the paper from my main postdoc project in Mike Rosenblum’s lab at UCSF. I was lucky enough to recently start my own lab @jcohenlab.bsky.social m.youtube.com/watch?v=V2Ns...

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

I have many critiques of the science publishing complex, and there are many reforms that I would advocate. But this is just fucking dumb 🧪

submitted 13 days ago • 3 comments

Chef kiss youtube.com/shorts/XeirU...

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

submitted 15 days ago • 2439 comments

I'm about half way through the book and it is somewhat shockingly compelling. I need sleep more than I need to read just one more chapter of a memoir about weight lifting, and yet...

submitted 15 days ago • 1 comment

I liked a lot of this. But the glorification of sleepless nights and the attitude there's some nobility in suffering is a bit much.

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments