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merz.bsky.social

"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 attacks on DEI are a pretext for a much more radical agenda of reversing the gains of the civil rights movement, an objective the Trump administration is pursuing with zeal. A Great Resegregation. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

submitted 7 hours ago • 90 comments

Any talk you hear from the current administration about making the US more competitive in science and technology is utter bullshit. What they are doing is sabotaging our country for years if not decades to come.

submitted 57 minutes ago • 8 comments

The reply email inbox for this “what did you do last week” email is [email protected], so, you know, definitely don’t send them any unrelated messages that would interfere with their ability to carry out Elon’s dumbass bullshit

submitted 1 hour ago • 145 comments

1. Monday - fell apart 2. Tuesday - broke my heart 3. Wednesday - same 4. Thursday - didn't even start 5. Friday - I'm in love

submitted 1 hour ago • 30 comments

PRAMS is the source of data for basically every effort to limit infant mortality and all the health dangers mothers face before and after birth. So a pretty big deal the Elon and Co decided to cancel the program.

submitted 2 hours ago • 33 comments

This is the first movement from Sen. Fetterman, please fill out immediately if you have been impacted. Please circulate Penn, Pitt, PSU, Temple etc @cbartman.bsky.social

submitted 3 hours ago • 4 comments

It means talk to your union shop steward and someone who really knows federal employment law before you do any damned thing — including opening that email.

submitted 3 hours ago • 2 comments

"The Office of Community Planning and Development, within the Department of Housing and Urban Development, is slated to lose 84% of its staff...." This isn't about efficiency. This is racism and racist cruelty. www.wusf.org/2025-02-22/t...

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Written by a MD-PhD student who had worked with rhe incoming NIH director stanforddaily.com/2025/01/29/s...

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

Virginia representative (where NSF HQ sits) takes NSF to task for "unilaterally stripping permanent status from both union and non-union workers, including executives, without notification." www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...

submitted 8 hours ago • 0 comments

it is shocking the extent to which they openly sneer at morality

submitted 21 hours ago • 441 comments

NSF changed my life for the better. I was working as an engineer in NY and got a call from my potential advisor that his grant on climate decision-making just was awarded, could I start the doctoral program in a month? Three weeks later I was there. Everyone deserves these types of opportunities.

submitted 21 hours ago • 3 comments

Besties.

submitted 18 hours ago • 1 comment

The dinner scene with John Turturro, Christopher Walken, and John Nobel is absolutely the best thing in _Severance_ so far.

submitted 19 hours ago • 0 comments

Oh , good. @jeetheer.bsky.social is on here so I can block that tankie fuckwit’s ass.

submitted 19 hours ago • 0 comments

BREAKING — States attorneys general lead by @newyorkstateag.bsky.social were just granted a preliminary injunction in their case against DOGE. The team cannot access Treasury Department payment systems or data while the lawsuit proceeds. Major.

submitted 1 day ago • 156 comments

Like, very very Very conservative

submitted 19 hours ago • 0 comments

OR-2 is a /very/ conservative district.

submitted 19 hours ago • 0 comments

Doing this right before firing three top military leaders is so deranged. Source at DoD told me, “Disdain for Hegseth is a near-universal feeling even among the Trumpiest in the office.“

submitted 20 hours ago • 90 comments

btw, i will tell you this - i have been talking to people all day, and the media is missing, whether intentionally or not, how absolutely, volcanically angry the people who have been fired are, not because they lost their jobs, but because their jobs matter, to us

submitted 23 hours ago • 57 comments

Rarely do I ever print out papers but this one legit deserves analog attention. Enthralled to say the least. So much bioengineering wisdom gleaned from this. My toolbox doth expandeth. Phenomenal work by @fernpizza.bsky.social and another @baym.lol lab banger. SO. GOOD. #MEvoSky

submitted 23 hours ago • 0 comments

God fucking dammit I'd call this spineless but that'd be an insult to all the invertebrates of the world

submitted 22 hours ago • 17 comments

THIS IS AWESOME - shame on universites and even foundations (looking at you @hhmi.bsky.social) for your cowardly anticipatory obedience!!!! www.huffpost.com/entry/us-tru...

submitted 22 hours ago • 0 comments

Oh, damn it. This is just non-stop a nightmare. Patrick is absolutely right, the grants are starting to disappear again. Here is the R15 REAP (the R15 for med schools) grants.gov/search-resul...

submitted 21 hours ago • 3 comments

Firing all the JAGs is very very bad

submitted 22 hours ago • 70 comments