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Yes the institutional erasure of your administrative history matters. We also haven’t fully appreciated in a big way how much landlording has just consumed the absolute worst tech, linking that bad tech to all kinds of predatory and criminalizing systems.

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Thinking about devastating cuts to NSF: US gov-funded science has been the engine upon which most of the tech wealth was generated. But the oligarchs (currently hoarding much of that $) think it’s their own brilliance & not the accident of standing close to the scientific engine that made them rich.

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Incredible. Hacked Signal chats of CBP officials are now floating out there.

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"'one of the least transparent universities I’ve ever seen in terms of what they put in their audited statements,' Bunsis said. 'They put their total expenses into three different categories...it’s hard to really know what’s in them.'"

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Take Five, standing by

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Live footage of me trying to mind my business.

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"All Americans who benefit from publicly funded science—GPS, touch screens, Google, the Internet, weather data, MRI, CRISPR, 3D printing, tiny hearing aids, bluetooth, broadband, electric cars, suspension bridges, PCR tests, AI tools, Doppler radar, barcodes... should be alarmed & taking action."

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I just realized that many of you may have missed that Amercorps has been defunded.

submitted 3 days ago • 43 comments

I just got word that this federal transportation grant was terminated today, despite us removing the word "climate" from the title. The moral of the story? Obeying orders doesn't keep you safe with this administration.

submitted 3 days ago • 26 comments

Universities will now have to develop methods, and hire tons of additional staff, to figure out how to bill every little bit of the costs for doing research, adding tons of administrative burden and bloat. (I say as as someone who wrote a whole book burden w/ @donmoyn.bsky.social)

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The key thing to understand here: Tech start-up AccelerateX pivots to government AI in 2024 Co-founders join DOGE, slash size of government *Returns to private company, proposes it will use AI to replace federal employee functions Cut-to-contract model, clear conflicts of interest.

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The #NIH will no longer allow researchers working on its grants have sub-awards in other countries, a common practice that allows US scientists to investigate questions that cannot be studied in this country. @mmolteni.bsky.social reports. www.statnews.com/2025/05/01/n...

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The private universities have been the first to cut staff in anticipation of financial loss #RadminSky #Duke

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BREAKING: NSF has frozen all grant funding, as of yesterday. It's unclear when they will resume funding awards, or why the pause has been put in place. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

submitted 4 days ago • 40 comments

this is so sad jill sobule sang an incredible version of warren zevons‘ “don’t let us get sick”

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Grim things ahead for NSF, but I guess we knew that when the Trump appointed director resigned last week. #RAdminSky

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“However bad everyone on the outside thinks it is, it is a million times worse. They’re dismantling and destroying everything.” Read, share, respond. Call your representatives. The health and well-being of Americans & America's innovation economy are at stake. www.science.org/content/arti...

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BREAKING: Police just surrounded Rev. William Barber, prominent activist and pastor, as he and others prayed in the U.S. Capitol Rontunda. Police then expelled everyone (including press!) from the Rotunda to (presumably) arrest them. I've covered protests here a lot. Never seen anything like it.

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They are segregationist and this will be open season for discrimination. “the Attorney General shall initiate appropriate action to repeal or amend the implementing regulations for Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 for all agencies to the extent they contemplate disparate-impact liability”

submitted 12 days ago • 47 comments

Back in my day we didn't have the internet and if we wanted shitposts we had to go to the drug store and buy a pack of them for 25 cents they were called Garbage Pail Kids

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What I say to myself when shopping for sandals that will keep my toes covered

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Pope Francis telephoned a church in Gaza nearly every night since October 2023. But the New York Times didn’t include that fact in its obituary. mondoweiss.net/2025/04/main... #Palestine #Israel

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Alternate frame: how the U.S. created the Internet, advanced digital technologies, and developed medical innovations that have increased the quality of life and health of the entire world.

submitted 16 days ago • 8 comments

Back on the Coachella lives streams feeling like an old person. This DJ set by Sammy Virji is reminding me that UK Garage is straight up dancey fun and that was before he sampled Space Jam.

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As pacific coast bike tour season starts up, I’ve been wondering how this will affect international bike tourists. Improvised lodging is part of the deal, whether it’s walk up hiker/biker camp sites, wild camping, or someone’s yard from Warm Showers.

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Just heard from the VP research that my grant with @dgrand.bsky.social, "Promoting Accurate Information on Social Media" was terminated as well

submitted 17 days ago • 12 comments

🚨Report your NSF grant terminations! 🚨 We are starting to collect information on NSF grant terminations to create a shared resource as we have for NIH. The more information we collect, the more we can organize, advocate, and fight back! Please share widely! airtable.com/appGKlSVeXni...

submitted 17 days ago • 7 comments

It's Missy Elliott o'clock on the Coachella live stream www.youtube.com/watch?v=LnAU...

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NEW: The entire NIH payment system is currently frozen for all grantees. This is tied to DOGE’s new “Defend the Spend” caper, reported in today’s Post, which has already led to payment cutoffs to doctors and health workers at hospitals treating the poor.

submitted 17 days ago • 54 comments

This statement from the NSF is insane. Science is, in essence, designed to separate the true from the false. Understanding how falsehoods spread is key to the scientific endeavor. It is not a violation of free speech to be proven wrong.

submitted 17 days ago • 99 comments

This is such a ridiculous attempt at walking back bullshit.

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THIS IS NOT OK! Head start: Eliminated CDC: Gutted Rural health programs: Eliminated NIH: +40% reduced funding #savethenih #radminsky insidemedicine.substack.com/p/scoop-leak...

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NEW: You've heard about Trump's cuts to the NIH and the CDC and the FDA... but have you heard about his cuts to the National Science Foundation? www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-scie...

submitted 19 days ago • 6 comments

Here is the situation if I’m understanding it correctly: 1. They are deporting lawful immigrants erroneously to prisons overseas 2. They are claiming no recourse to return these individuals 3. They say they are open to deporting citizens in the same way

submitted 21 days ago • 187 comments

Great points from Don. Private philanthropy simple cannot replace federal funding, nor should it! All the private philanthropy funding for health and science research, from every foundation in the country, is about $30 billion a year. every foundation combined is less than the NIH provides!