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"There are no answers; only choices." – S. Lem I choose one [o] or two-cell [8] organisms and dissonant music. Professor of Biochemistry @ UW-Seattle. Any coincidence of my opinions with my employer's is coincidental.
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The Dumb of All Fears

submitted 50 minutes ago • 1 comment

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submitted 53 minutes ago • 0 comments

As with Noem, Duffy, Hegseth, Musk, & McMahon, Trumpism rewards officials who evince a complete lack of interest in, and even a hostility to, governing, & convey a boastful and belligerent ignorance about the most basic functions of their duties.

submitted 2 hours ago • 18 comments

"More of us should be resigning in protest," one federal health official told CBS News, in response to the news of Panagiotakopoulos leaving her role.

submitted 11 hours ago • 0 comments

RFK Jr. wants to eliminate as many vaccines as he can. Don’t believe him when he claims otherwise and says he just wants better science and safer vaccines He’s lying. His endgame is, for all practical purposes, to eliminate access to vaccines. thehill.com/policy/healt...

submitted 20 hours ago • 108 comments

RFK Jr. is absolutely poisonous. He has now caused Dr. Lakshmi Panagiotakopoulos, the person in charge of COVID19 vaccinations at the CDC, to resign. She did so because RFK Jr. demanded that the experts in charge of vaccine guidance listen to him and not to the scientific evidence.

submitted 11 hours ago • 371 comments

This is absolutely right and they are hilariously, catastrophically wrong. Why? Because these guys don't know enough science to distinguish shit from shinola.

submitted 12 hours ago • 0 comments

Reminder, because I live to serve.

submitted 12 hours ago • 1 comment

Absolutely correct and closely linked to this phenomenon, yet another boil lanced by the always outstanding @acollierastro.bsky.social

submitted 12 hours ago • 1 comment

That's a lot of rulings against Trump today.

submitted 12 hours ago • 0 comments

holy shit tesla is such an unserious company, this is from an actual job listing

submitted 13 hours ago • 68 comments

Terrific reporting from the WSJ on the Ukrainian strike against Russian strategic bombers, the methods used, and the strategic consequences. Meanwhile the NYT continues to be a glorified political gossip rag. www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTAQ...

submitted 12 hours ago • 0 comments

Correct. People who say otherwise either don't understand the numbers, or are engaging in wishful thinking.

submitted 13 hours ago • 8 comments

Don't comply in advance.

submitted 14 hours ago • 0 comments

Judge extends ban on Trump administration canceling COVID school aid reut.rs/3HjrAXx

submitted 15 hours ago • 2 comments

NEW: Federal judge protects trans care for federal prisoners, blocking Trump order for now. Disputing Trump's oft-repeated "gender ideology" claims, Judge Lamberth wrote that "the plaintiffs do not seem interested in propagating any particular 'ideology.'" This afternoon, at Law Dork —>

submitted 18 hours ago • 3 comments

Federal judge blocks dissolution of union at TSA www.govexec.com/workforce/20... via @GovExec

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

WASHINGTON (AP) - Judge rules federal prisons must continue providing hormone therapy and social accommodations to transgender inmates.

submitted 20 hours ago • 24 comments

yeah- as someone who was doing their PhD at the height of the pandemic, many of us already had substantial disruption to deal with. now that cohort is junior faculty, and being hit with an even bigger one. if we all have to bail, that missing cohort will have ripple effects for decades

submitted 17 hours ago • 5 comments

The human drama is a little funny here, but the net result is going to be a larger-scale tragedy: this is a signal that the only kind of president the Board of Governors will accept is a reactionary hard-liner who will likely oversee the rapid decline of a very fine university.

submitted 17 hours ago • 12 comments

I've seen folks talk about how "in four years" they'll be able to get back to their planned projects and I really don't think that's going to work out. People & projects losing funding now will not be able to hit pause and come back once funding is restored. Hard-won progress & capacity will be lost

submitted 18 hours ago • 297 comments

Hawley is the type specimen of an empty suit.

submitted 18 hours ago • 0 comments

PRO PUBLICA: Of the 238 men sent to an El Salvador mega prison, only 6 had prior violent crime convictions. 0 were on the gang member list. 130 had no criminal history. 32 had minor offenses. All 238 thought they were being sent back to Venezuela. www.instagram.com/p/DKcjM7FPhz...

submitted 19 hours ago • 367 comments

Big news: The Trump administration has essentially proposed shutting down tribal colleges and universities, displacing more than 20,000 students. My latest for ProPublica:

submitted 19 hours ago • 33 comments