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x.com/Atul_Gawande... [On February 26] Rubio terminated 5800 USAID contracts – more than 90% of its foreign aid programs – in defiance of the courts. Nearly all were Congressional mandated. They've saved millions of lives. And include FENTANYL checking. Among them: 1. All malaria ...

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This just in. What now? www.nytimes.com/live/2025/03...

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Rubio terminated 5800 USAID contracts – more than 90% of its foreign aid programs – in defiance of the courts. Here’s a list of just some of the lifesaving awards that were terminated. Nearly all were Congressionally mandated. They’ve saved millions of lives. 🧵

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Congratulations to North Dakota, where the state senate (narrowly) defeated a bill that would have added "intelligent design" to the state science standards!

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So - I've actually led Ebola outbreak response at USAID. This is bunk from Elon. They have laid off most of the experts, they're bankrupting most of the partner orgs, have withdrawn from WHO, and muzzled CDC. What's left is a fig-leaf effort to cover their asses politically.

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You first.

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It was nice to see a thorough discussion of a paper I coauthored with Jon D. Miller in Undark's "The Uncertain Resiliency of Public Trust in Science"!

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Cruel, destructive but presumably that’s the point. “Scientists studying neuroscience, diabetes, autism and bird flu became emotional as they spoke to the Guardian about the possibility of losing their life’s work.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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To Hell With Your Hatred, Mr. Trump open.substack.com/pub/johnpavl...

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A treasure trove of a🧵about interacting with NSF from a true hero in @jeremykoster.bsky.social 🙏🏾

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I was electrocuted, beaten, stabbed in the leg and starved after being captured while defending my home and family in Mariupol. We held back Putin’s invasion for several weeks while Russia slaughtered over 25,000 predominantly Russian speaking Ukrainians including women and children.

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Dark Pence is back.

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it's absolutely wild to shitpost about yourself being a king of a country whose entire foundational story of itself is centered on overthrowing the last person who deigned to call himself king on these shores

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if you were accidentally fired while transporting a nuclear warhead and currently need a place to stay with said warhead please know that i have a sizable backyard and an abiding desire to be a nuclear power

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Here’s a better peace plan for Ukraine. “Russia, you’ve already sustained twice as many casualties as the US did in ww2. Leave Ukraine or suffer four times more, and collapse as a country in the process” Done

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Today, the USDA lost experts in Psylloidea, Thysanoptera, Cerambycidae, Hymenoptera, Pseudococcidae, and Malacology. This is a devastating loss of expertise, occuring without warning. Their union's official statement on the issue can be found here: aginspectors.org/2-14-2025-a-... #entomology 🧪

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This is an excellent resource for teaching and learning about the Scopes Trial. PBS Learning Media newsreel - mass.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/evo... #ScopesSunday

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The Great Recession happened in 2008 because Congress defunded the Superconducting Super Collider in 1993. That threw physics grad student out on the street where they got jobs in finance and invented new kinds of financial derivatives that eventually produced Enron and global financial collapse.

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On Friday night, HHS ordered CDC to take down all flu vaccine campaign materials from its website. Materials are starting to come down. For example, a campaign explaining that flu shot can reduce flu severity from "wild to mild" is now offline. Left image is from Friday, right is now Meanwhile...

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“I don’t think the richest guy in the world should be cutting funding for cancer research,” Vanity Fair’s Molly Jong-Fast posted to X on Sunday. “I’m not,” Musk responded. “Wtf are you talking about?”

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Omg wow...

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The battle lines are being drawn: Not left vs. right but MAGA vs. people with even an ounce of integrity.

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1000s of #clergy just released a statement explaining the importance of #diversity #science #religion #truth & #inclusion. Together we need to push back on actions placing all of this, and us, under attack. Please read the statement and share it widely. Join us at The Clergy Letter Project.

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🌟 @revbatgirl.bsky.social (AAAS DoSER director) explores how #ScienceCommunication enhances public understanding of #evolution. Join her at the #ScopesSymposium! "Science, Ethics, and Religion" 📅 July 13, 2025 | @ncse.bsky.social 🔗 loom.ly/KTSAQ6U

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Why didnt PhRMA and BIO and the AMA and AARP go to war to stop RFK? Because fucking Dem leaders said inflation was the number one issue, not fascism or worm-addled antivaxxers. Why didn’t a single Dem Senator object to unanimous consent and slow the nomination? Fucking useless Dem leadership.

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"When the U.S. breaks its treaties, only China wins." I dunno. Putin is probably pretty pleased also. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

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An open letter to the President of the @royalsociety.org – time to stand up for your values. occamstypewriter.org/scurry/2025/...

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Selecting a Window Size for the Analysis of Whole Genome Alignments using AIC https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.02.05.636755v1

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Where does the censorship end? Do we really want to find out? freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2...

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I just posted a piece called "A plug for The Elements of Marie Curie, by Dava Sobel," which is frankly a plug for The Elements of Marie Curie, by Dava Sobel, on The Panda's Thumb, here pandasthumb.org/archives/202...

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This is absolutely the last thing anyone from the Fire Brigades Union should be doing.

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Gerry Connolly: "It is a matter for Congress to deal with, not an unelected billionaire oligarchy named Elon Musk. And Elon, if you want to run USAID, get nominated by Trump and go to the Senate and good luck in getting confirmed."

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Marco Rubio's new acting undersecretary of state for public diplomacy, ladies and gentlemen.

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The champions of Free Speech are now forcing scientists to retract submitted publications until they can be checked for the appearance of “forbidden terms.”

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It’s pretty amazing that these guys are going with “Covid, which wasn’t a big deal, is the worlds greatest bio weapon, that we shouldn’t have cancelled school for a semester for, but also China did almost destroy the world, but don’t forget it’s also just the flu”

x.com/Atul_Gawande... [On February 26] Rubio terminated 5800 USAID contracts – more than 90% of its foreign aid programs – in defiance of the courts. Nearly all were Congressional mandated. They've saved millions of lives. And include FENTANYL checking. Among them: 1. All malaria ...

This just in. What now? www.nytimes.com/live/2025/03...

Rubio terminated 5800 USAID contracts – more than 90% of its foreign aid programs – in defiance of the courts. Here’s a list of just some of the lifesaving awards that were terminated. Nearly all were Congressionally mandated. They’ve saved millions of lives. 🧵

Congratulations to North Dakota, where the state senate (narrowly) defeated a bill that would have added "intelligent design" to the state science standards!

So - I've actually led Ebola outbreak response at USAID. This is bunk from Elon. They have laid off most of the experts, they're bankrupting most of the partner orgs, have withdrawn from WHO, and muzzled CDC. What's left is a fig-leaf effort to cover their asses politically.

You first.

It was nice to see a thorough discussion of a paper I coauthored with Jon D. Miller in Undark's "The Uncertain Resiliency of Public Trust in Science"!

Cruel, destructive but presumably that’s the point. “Scientists studying neuroscience, diabetes, autism and bird flu became emotional as they spoke to the Guardian about the possibility of losing their life’s work.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

To Hell With Your Hatred, Mr. Trump open.substack.com/pub/johnpavl...

A treasure trove of a🧵about interacting with NSF from a true hero in @jeremykoster.bsky.social 🙏🏾

I was electrocuted, beaten, stabbed in the leg and starved after being captured while defending my home and family in Mariupol. We held back Putin’s invasion for several weeks while Russia slaughtered over 25,000 predominantly Russian speaking Ukrainians including women and children.

Dark Pence is back.

it's absolutely wild to shitpost about yourself being a king of a country whose entire foundational story of itself is centered on overthrowing the last person who deigned to call himself king on these shores

if you were accidentally fired while transporting a nuclear warhead and currently need a place to stay with said warhead please know that i have a sizable backyard and an abiding desire to be a nuclear power

Here’s a better peace plan for Ukraine. “Russia, you’ve already sustained twice as many casualties as the US did in ww2. Leave Ukraine or suffer four times more, and collapse as a country in the process” Done

Today, the USDA lost experts in Psylloidea, Thysanoptera, Cerambycidae, Hymenoptera, Pseudococcidae, and Malacology. This is a devastating loss of expertise, occuring without warning. Their union's official statement on the issue can be found here: aginspectors.org/2-14-2025-a-... #entomology 🧪

This is an excellent resource for teaching and learning about the Scopes Trial. PBS Learning Media newsreel - mass.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/evo... #ScopesSunday

The Great Recession happened in 2008 because Congress defunded the Superconducting Super Collider in 1993. That threw physics grad student out on the street where they got jobs in finance and invented new kinds of financial derivatives that eventually produced Enron and global financial collapse.

On Friday night, HHS ordered CDC to take down all flu vaccine campaign materials from its website. Materials are starting to come down. For example, a campaign explaining that flu shot can reduce flu severity from "wild to mild" is now offline. Left image is from Friday, right is now Meanwhile...

“I don’t think the richest guy in the world should be cutting funding for cancer research,” Vanity Fair’s Molly Jong-Fast posted to X on Sunday. “I’m not,” Musk responded. “Wtf are you talking about?”

Omg wow...

The battle lines are being drawn: Not left vs. right but MAGA vs. people with even an ounce of integrity.

1000s of #clergy just released a statement explaining the importance of #diversity #science #religion #truth & #inclusion. Together we need to push back on actions placing all of this, and us, under attack. Please read the statement and share it widely. Join us at The Clergy Letter Project.

🌟 @revbatgirl.bsky.social (AAAS DoSER director) explores how #ScienceCommunication enhances public understanding of #evolution. Join her at the #ScopesSymposium! "Science, Ethics, and Religion" 📅 July 13, 2025 | @ncse.bsky.social 🔗 loom.ly/KTSAQ6U

Why didnt PhRMA and BIO and the AMA and AARP go to war to stop RFK? Because fucking Dem leaders said inflation was the number one issue, not fascism or worm-addled antivaxxers. Why didn’t a single Dem Senator object to unanimous consent and slow the nomination? Fucking useless Dem leadership.

"When the U.S. breaks its treaties, only China wins." I dunno. Putin is probably pretty pleased also. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

An open letter to the President of the @royalsociety.org – time to stand up for your values. occamstypewriter.org/scurry/2025/...

Selecting a Window Size for the Analysis of Whole Genome Alignments using AIC https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.02.05.636755v1

Where does the censorship end? Do we really want to find out? freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2...

I just posted a piece called "A plug for The Elements of Marie Curie, by Dava Sobel," which is frankly a plug for The Elements of Marie Curie, by Dava Sobel, on The Panda's Thumb, here pandasthumb.org/archives/202...

This is absolutely the last thing anyone from the Fire Brigades Union should be doing.

Gerry Connolly: "It is a matter for Congress to deal with, not an unelected billionaire oligarchy named Elon Musk. And Elon, if you want to run USAID, get nominated by Trump and go to the Senate and good luck in getting confirmed."

Marco Rubio's new acting undersecretary of state for public diplomacy, ladies and gentlemen.

The champions of Free Speech are now forcing scientists to retract submitted publications until they can be checked for the appearance of “forbidden terms.”

It’s pretty amazing that these guys are going with “Covid, which wasn’t a big deal, is the worlds greatest bio weapon, that we shouldn’t have cancelled school for a semester for, but also China did almost destroy the world, but don’t forget it’s also just the flu”

Letter from SFRC democrats on USAID.

This sort of mistake is really bad for public trust in science.