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NEW: Per multiple sources, the National Cancer Institute’s Board of Scientific Advisors has been entirely disbanded.

submitted 2 days ago • 272 comments

Not a single international cargo ship at the Port of Seattle. The port is dead. The last ship from China will dock at a West coast port on the 29th, and the last Chinese ship will dock on the East coast around May 10th. After that, there will be no more shipments arriving from China. We’re screwed.

submitted 4 days ago • 498 comments

Every American should be deeply troubled by this massive escalation, and @democrats-judiciary.house.gov are standing strong for judicial independence. This is an unmistakable descent further into authoritarian chaos.

submitted 5 days ago • 145 comments

Need an excuse to buy more books? Now you have one! Saturday is Indie Bookstore Day! Show your favorite indie some love.

submitted 5 days ago • 28 comments

New study in JAMA. Modelling shows that at current state-level vaccination rates, measles may become endemic again in the USA. If rates continue to decline, ditto for rubella, poliomyelitis and diphtheria, leading to many preventable hospitalisations and deaths. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

submitted 6 days ago • 16 comments

250 years ago tonight: Paul Revere's ride, made famous by Longfellow in 1861 reminding us to fight for freedom. LISTEN, my children, and you shall hear Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere, On the eighteenth of April, in Seventy-five; Hardly a man is now alive Who remembers that famous day and year

submitted 13 days ago • 69 comments

I don't really care what the "political consequences" are of fighting for the proposition that everyone is entitled to due process before they are removed from the United States and sent to a Salvadoran prison. It's not really a principle if you only adhere to it when it's politically expedient.

submitted 12 days ago • 418 comments

What RFK Jr. said was reprehensible. He should be ashamed of himself and step down.

submitted 12 days ago • 806 comments

#AcademicSky 🧪 Well this is …. Something… Heads up journal editors … www.medpagetoday.com/special-repo...

submitted 12 days ago • 8 comments

Literally I was thinking the same thing like, oh Harvard people do not want you to touch Harvard and Harvard is older money than you Like, Harvard was founded over a century before Thomas Jefferson n em signed the Declaration of Independence, you're messing with something older than America lol

submitted 14 days ago • 17 comments

My new piece in The Atlantic continues how to fight Putinization in America. Trump is accelerating his wide-spectrum attacks on the rule of law & on public & private institutions that might slow him. If legislators don’t fight now, they won’t be able to later. www.theatlantic.com/internationa...

submitted 14 days ago • 37 comments

NOAA just announced a long list of datasets that are going away🧪⚒️🌊: www.nesdis.noaa.gov/about/docume... Download what you need asap and send comments to: [email protected]

submitted 14 days ago • 44 comments

NEW: Today, NSF "disestablished" most of its scientific advisory committees. These are committees of outside experts convened to help shape NSF programs. Only five statutorily required committees remain, the rest are gone. www.nsf.gov/executive-or...

submitted 15 days ago • 5 comments

I went chasing the authentic California accent, and found out that a) I have one and b) there are many. We are multifarious and polyglot. Totally. (Always happy for an opportunity to talk about talking with @mixedlinguist.bsky.social, too!) www.altaonline.com/dispatches/a...

submitted 34 days ago • 5 comments

Do you have a PhD in STEM and looking to pivot to a different subdiscipline? The Simons Foundation's Pivot Fellowship provides 1 year of salary + $10k for research + travel to the fellow and $50k to their mentor. Apply by 12:00 PM (ET), May 15, 2025. www.simonsfoundation.org/grant/pivot-... 🧪

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

Dr Peter Marks, "Vaccines have been studied very extensively for being potentially associated with autism" "That theory has been debunked" "One study in Denmark, over 600,000 children. It shows that if anything, children had a lower rate of autism than unvaccinated children"

submitted 19 days ago • 481 comments

Harvard professors filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration over its policy-change demands while reviewing billions in federal funding.

submitted 18 days ago • 25 comments

Adolf Hitler's “Mein Kampf” is still on U.S. Naval Academy shelves. “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” and “Memorializing the Holocaust” are not. An order by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s office led to a purge of books that are critical of racism — but preserved volumes defending white power.

submitted 19 days ago • 500 comments

Anthropic's "AI microscope" approach to see inside how AI models "think" is fascinating. Are there any UIs that help visualize each step an AI takes as its "thinking" of a response? www.anthropic.com/research/tra... #ai #artificialintelligence #anthropic #llm #largelanguagemodels #aiengineering

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

“College-level library banning... reflects the steep escalation of government censorship we are seeing under the Trump administration, which continues its unrelenting efforts to control what Americans can read, learn, and think.” PEN America president @jennyboylan.bsky.social pen.org/press-releas...

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

The public library is one of the most powerful ideas ever. Walk in with nothing—walk out with a world of knowledge. That kind of freedom is priceless. On Right to Read Day, let’s remind everyone that libraries are worth fighting for. #NationalLibraryWeek #BookSky 💙📚 #TLSky

submitted 23 days ago • 3 comments

I have never seen anything like this in NYC. 5th Ave covered from 42nd St well to the 20s. Nobody prepared for this volume. Volunteers are holding the traffic on all the side streets. No police in sight. #handsoff

submitted 25 days ago • 1030 comments

Where do I sign up??

submitted 25 days ago • 7 comments

Breathtaking. A federal prosecutor in LA was fired Friday at the behest of the White House, after lawyers for a fast-food executive he was prosecuting pushed officials in DC to drop all charges against him White House ordered firing of L.A. federal prosecutor on ex-Fatburger CEO case, sources say

submitted 32 days ago • 752 comments

1. Another Friday afternoon massacre of sorts: NIH just rescinded its Scientific Integrity Policy. h/t @lizborkowski.bsky.social

submitted 32 days ago • 38 comments

#LibrariesChangeLives #SupportLibraries

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

The US Department of Health and Human Services will announce today it is cutting 10,000 employees across health agencies

submitted 35 days ago • 2 comments

When scholars of authoritarianism and fascism leave U.S. universities because of the deteriorating political situation here, we should really worry.

submitted 36 days ago • 617 comments

“Our brain doesn’t see words either—just a storm of electrochemical activity, just as #LLMs only see numbers.” […]

submitted 36 days ago • 0 comments

Text STOP to unsubscribe from war plan updates.😂 R/t MikeinHouston #BlueSky #MedSky

submitted 37 days ago • 3 comments

23andMe is going under. Californians have the right to delete their genetic data before it's turned over to next party buying the assets. If you have a 23andMe account, go log in to download whatever reports you want to save, then follow these instructions to delete your data.

submitted 38 days ago • 171 comments

Books

submitted 40 days ago • 543 comments

Our first post is a big one...Statement from Keker, Van Nest & Peters on Trump’s Latest Executive Order “Preventing Abuses of the Legal System and the Federal Court.”

submitted 39 days ago • 352 comments

1/2 21 March 1768: mathematician and physicist Jean-Baptiste Joseph Fourier was born. "The profound study of nature is the most fruitful source of mathematical discoveries." — Joseph Fourier A biography➡️ mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/... 🧪 ⚛️ #mathematicians #histsci

submitted 40 days ago • 4 comments

A phone call or email for the right and access to read..

submitted 42 days ago • 0 comments

Bravo. These kids are showing more spine and character than a lot of the people they work for.

submitted 43 days ago • 237 comments

New tech could create "audible enclaves" – localized pockets of sound isolated from surroundings. Imagine listening to music without headphones or having private conversations in public. #Acoustics scholars explain: buff.ly/BZaNFfT Cinefootage Visuals/iStock via Getty Images Plus

submitted 43 days ago • 4 comments

Are you a junior faculty member interested in spending 2-4 weeks at Princeton Psych? Please apply for our Microsabbatical program! It’s a fully funded visit for professional development and creating long-term collaborations. psych.princeton.edu/diversity/mi...

submitted 69 days ago • 1 comment

Craziness apnews.com/article/fda-... FDA staff return to crowded offices, broken equipment and missing chairs

submitted 44 days ago • 0 comments

As a reminder, they are listening.

submitted 45 days ago • 12 comments

"Adding English proficiency as a prerequisite to civic participation is a gratuitous burden to those who are already struggling to make ends meet." Which is not to say immigrants don't want to be proficient in English - they do, which makes this worse.

submitted 44 days ago • 45 comments

I am begging blue state governors to have lunch this week with your adjutant general of the National Guard. Cannot stress enough how important this relationship is going to be in the near future.

submitted 45 days ago • 645 comments

Scientists have just cured pancreatic cancer in some patients with personalized mRNA vaccines. Pancreatic cancer. And this Trump administration wants to throw it all away. They’re throwing away a cure for cancer.

submitted 45 days ago • 629 comments