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Screaming at these people works. They’re fundamentally wimps, we just have to actually DO the screaming instead of preemptively admitting defeat. I am talking about my fellow Americans, not the Democrats. We actually need to scream, gang, not just complain that Schumer isn’t.

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Waterfront Homeowners Demand City Drain Lake Washington to Prevent Nudity at Denny Blaine Beach: tinyurl.com/dsj8rsaf

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The unexpected elimination of funding for the decades-long research project focused on women's health shocked scientists. They were heartened by the quick restoration of support.

submitted 12 hours ago • 65 comments

An example of what we in the NIH Intramural program can accomplish. Excited to share our latest paper in close collaboration with Nick Ryba's group. We examined how inflammation transforms representation in somatosensory neurons to cause pain. Lots of surprises here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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re: UAW, I'm pissed about the tariff shit but it doesn't come close to my seething hatred of Shawn Fain for his silence on the abduction of my fellow NYC-area white collar UAW member Mahmoud Khalil.

submitted 16 hours ago • 9 comments

NIH is going to hold a town hall for staff with director Jayanta Bhattacharya, and apparently the form to submit questions is publicly available. In case that’s of interest. forms.office.com/pages/respon...

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A colleague emailed me today to flag the fact that the superb Fourth Circuit Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson ended a quotidian insurance opinion with an unusually introspective conclusion.

submitted 22 hours ago • 125 comments

‘You Can’t Lick a Badger Twice’: Google AI confidently invents meanings for fake idioms. This reveals a core flaw in generative AI: it prioritizes plausible output over factual accuracy.

submitted 23 hours ago • 1 comment

Hell yeah I read theory

submitted 1 day ago • 102 comments

I would like for stupid people to stop making important decisions that affect my life

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💥 BREAKING: Levi Strauss shareholders voted today to reject a proposal calling on the company to cease / abolish all DEI efforts (tally TBD). LEVI Board: “Diversity and inclusion principles are critical in ensuring that our products reflect and are relevant to our diverse global consumer base.”

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Eating a fish and crab salad sandwich from Subway after the FDA inspectors have called it a career sounds like a hazing

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i think it is bad that among the most influential people in government are the monomaniacal adherents of a millenarian tech cult

submitted 2 days ago • 70 comments

Just putting this here so you can accuse your right-wing acquaintances of committing sodomy:

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“Universities do things private companies with research capacities cannot: train research talent, conduct basic research with uncertain payoffs, and distribute knowledge as a public good. And the rewards have been enormous…We are richer and healthier for the investment.”

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let’s be clear that personalisation amounts to determining a person’s future based on recurring patterns of the past. if you belong to a groups that society has not been kind to in the past (black & brown, LGBTQI, poor, disabled, etc), AI personalisation ensures your future encodes past injustice

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Well the NIH has cancelled the Women's Health Initiative, the largest study of women in history It has been running continuously since 1991 and has provided massive key knowledge about diseases in women Unreal www.science.org/content/arti...

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Hey, huge news! Barnes & Noble is having their occasional sale on preorders today through Friday! And that means you can order my book for 25% off, which imo is QUITE the bargain. www.barnesandnoble.com/w/bad-compan...

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Why a Man Who Pointed a Gun at a Pregnant Woman Over a Parking Spot Is the Transit Hero Seattle Needs: tinyurl.com/zfe26r2z

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"The NIH budget has not increased in more than 20 years despite research being more expensive to conduct. This is a necessary data point for policymakers to consider as they determine funding priorities." 🧪 jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

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As my college sunbaes would say, Coffee is bitter because life is bitter

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a friendly reminder never to buy your books from Amazon, where they are used as a loss leader so that you'll buy a flatscreen TV and your toilet paper instead-- and then use that money to send Katy Perry to space. Books aren't just products. They're culture. Buy them from those who understand that.

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Musk: drilling holes in the hull

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Predictable, but still sad.... Exclusive: a Nature analysis signals the beginnings of a US science brain drain. A trawl of job views and application data suggests jobseekers are looking abroad as the Trump administration’s cuts to science take hold. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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Got served this deeply weird AI-generated ad for some AI service on the NYT games app (I looked at the spelling bee hints, don’t judge me). I find its cursedness oddly compelling. #cursedimages #aislop

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NO DRAB GAB TUESDAY

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My hometown of Longview, TX has a plastics 'molecular recycling' plant run by Eastman Chemical Co. It's a major cancer cluster, with the 5th highest rates of cancer in the state. Trump is handing out exemptions from EPA standards, letting companies exceed regulatory maximum emissions.

submitted 3 days ago • 3 comments

1. I study how science works as a collective endeavor to make sense of the physical world. I also study how misinformation about science spreads and affects society. There are fewer examples more poignant than a Minnesota bill that would criminalize mRNA vaccines as weapons of mass destruction.

submitted 3 days ago • 36 comments

I feel like we need to keep saying this because it’s so insane: This is a legal U.S. resident who has been detained for over a month now for his political opinions.

submitted 3 days ago • 251 comments

Um www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

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The thing is, it’s not really about having more healthy babies and helping people and families. Once you know it’s all about controlling and subjugating women, it all makes perfect sense. We are being ruled by aggrieved insecure white men.

submitted 3 days ago • 8 comments

gentle reminder:

submitted 199 days ago • 29 comments