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If you're keeping track of the long list of things this admin's done that flies in the face of MAHA, censoring and ultimately losing the top intramural nutrition scientist studying food processing and health is definitely towards the top.

submitted 17 hours ago • 10 comments

This right here. Spreading "perfect victim" or "innocence" narratives is dangerous and cedes ground on the fact that all people deserve dignity, humane treatment, and access to due process. Feeding into perfect victim or innocence narratives isn't just irresponsible messaging, it is copaganda.

submitted 17 hours ago • 7 comments

Repeat after me: these deportations have nothing to do with foreign policy. There is a paid contract with El Salvador. Effectively we are paying for private prison services. Nothing to do with foreign policy. The administration is lying in order to commit grave injustices.

submitted 21 hours ago • 1 comment

It works. The government here largely works. Because we are so spoiled by how well it works, we are letting a fool convince us it is broken.

submitted 1 day ago • 27 comments

this is completely nuts.... DOGE wants to audit all independent nonprofits that receive federal grants. for one, there are probably thousands; secondly, under what possible authority can the government go into nonprofits internal systems without a warrant related to a crime?

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Some paper plate zoetropes by Marie Paccou: www.instagram.com/p/DHx68aZotg2

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

WaPo op-ed: Colleges and universities are among America’s most competitive international exporters. In dollar terms, last year, the United States sold more educational services to the rest of the world than it sold in natural gas and coal combined. wapo.st/4luJyph

submitted 1 day ago • 6 comments

yep, I finally wrote it. [gift link] www.nytimes.com/2025/04/15/o...

submitted 2 days ago • 27 comments

more bizarro evil...

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Explain to me why encroaching on the second amendment is not allowed even when children’s lives are at stake but the first amendment is easily eroded when someone simply disagrees with our President.

submitted 2 days ago • 209 comments

We've reached the point in our descent into fascism where the Jewish governor's house getting firebombed on Passover by a guy trying to bash his head in with a sledgehammer is overshadowed by the story of the President saying he wants to build foreign gulags for US citizens.

submitted 2 days ago • 368 comments

how is this anything other than evil? America regularly failed to live up to its ideals, but so many of us have lived our lives trying to do so... www.npr.org/sections/goa...

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

only the most free thinking business genius would try to undercut the market monopoly enjoyed by PhD candidates making $240,000+/year

submitted 2 days ago • 25 comments

Note to fellow journos: If only one "economist" agrees w Trump tariffs—as evidenced by fact that this particular "economist" is now being interviewed and cited everywhere as only "expert" willing to publicly defend them—consider confirming that he's actually an "economist." Check CVs, for example.

submitted 2 days ago • 57 comments

This, from the Holocaust Memorial Museum.

submitted 2 days ago • 59 comments

technology, the cause of and cure for cognitive problems ;-)

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

straight up evil.... (however, presumably if it becomes American property, they would have to obey American laws, so not sure how that would even make sense in their creating of loopholes to get around law).

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

... one of the groups that got this money is part of a notorious anti-drug foundation that once ran a hideously abusive chain of teen rehabs called Straight Inc. .... drug war & corruption have long been linked.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

A couple weeks ago after one of my many “publish locally!” rants, I started corresponding with this author about writing for her dads local paper in Montana. Just a perfect example of the form: www.boulder-monitor.com/featured_con...

submitted 3 days ago • 5 comments

The fundamental legal reason immigrants can be expelled with few protections (no Gideon right to an attorney, less due process, etc.) is that deportation and removal are considered "regulatory" and not "punitive" actions. That distinction collapses when they are sent directly to a prison.

submitted 3 days ago • 5 comments

Also very strange - I haven’t read a lot of statement from elected and/or political elites today expressing concern about anti semitism today. Wonder why?

submitted 3 days ago • 10 comments

Not even 100 years ago. Middle of last century. I have a buddy in his early 80s who grew up in Iowa and he said that as a kid, "sometimes kids just died" from now preventable illnesses. His childhood was marked with the deaths of classmates.

submitted 3 days ago • 47 comments

what the.........??????????????

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

nice to see scientists in the addictions field speaking up.. we need more of this...

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

How to help fight against the heartbreaking loss of our collective knowledge. We are being robbed.

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

3 days ago RFK Jr. told the CDC to stop recommending water fluoridation, claiming it was a neurotoxin (this is a lie). Turns out he also just eliminated the CDC’s entire Lead Program, and now lead poisoned children in Milwaukee are just on their own. Lead IS a neurotoxin and harms brain development

submitted 5 days ago • 874 comments

Can someone explain why purging libraries has anything to do w/ whether race can be used as part of decision making in hiring or admissions? This stuff is not only illegal censorship, but also plainly racist & has nothing to do with court decisions on DEI, which are about hiring & admissions.

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

these universities failed billionaires so hard that they... became billionaires? they failed science so hard that the US leads in discovery & Nobel prizes, they failed culture so hard that the US leads in many areas.... wt everloving fuck?????

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments

This is great progress, but I wonder how the Trump Administration's Executive Orders to make fossil fuels great again (and limit climate action at all levels of governance) will affect these trends...

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

this is 100% it. The diagnostic criteria have dramatically changed since I was a kid. We know this, we've known this.

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

New @science.org Discovery of a mechanism for cancer cachexia (components of severe apathy, depression) explained by a neuroimmune circuit www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

submitted 6 days ago • 6 comments

Great news: NIH postbac program is recruiting again! If your grad school plans were affected by program cutbacks or admissions freezes this year I highly encourage you to apply, this could be a perfect opportunity. Please repost. www.training.nih.gov/research-tra...

submitted 7 days ago • 5 comments

I don't understand how any businessperson could have thought that having this guy in charge was a good idea. Instability, lack of rule of law are KNOWN to damage economies...the reason people invest here is because there's less of that. throw that away & all the tax cuts in the world won't help.

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

It’s amazing that things like cutting FDA funding are never framed as, “I think private companies should be able to profit from having you literally eat shit and you shouldn’t be able to do anything about it”

submitted 7 days ago • 58 comments

If you ever have the opportunity to fly Avelo Airlines—don’t.

submitted 7 days ago • 77 comments

Published an op-ed for @cnn.com: “Nobel laureate: I owe America my success. Today, its scientific future is in danger.” A personal reflection on what’s at stake as science funding gets slashed. I’d be grateful if you could amplify both in and beyond the science world. www.cnn.com/2025/04/09/h...

submitted 8 days ago • 15 comments

I'm calling for an investigation into whether President Trump manipulated the market to benefit his Wall Street donors—all while working people and small businesses paid the price. Did Trump help insiders cash in on his tariff flip-flopping? It sure looks like corruption.

submitted 7 days ago • 861 comments

Question for scientists 🧪: There’s been a lot of criticism of NIH from rightwing hacks, often about how NIH doesn’t support high-risk work. What are some examples of high-risk work NIH has supported recently? Please reply here, DM, or msg on Signal.

submitted 7 days ago • 9 comments

you don't want to know how gross & poisonous food was before the FDA.... but we might be about to find out... great @deborahb.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/04/09/o...

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

'Bluesky has overtaken its flailing rival X in hosting posts related to new academic research, indicating the platform is fast becoming the go-to place for scholars to share their work.'

submitted 8 days ago • 138 comments

it feels so great when you stop banging your head on a wall... but that doesn't mean banging your head on the wall is a great pain relief measure... jeez....

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

"The request from child welfare authorities seemed harmless enough: Order a newborn drug test [...] This time, however, the request gave the doctor pause." Dr. Ostfeld-Johns & others are pushing to end routine drug testing during childbirth. Read more: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments