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Check out the updated @standupforscience.bsky.social website! Lots of local events within day-trips distance being organized by so many if getting to DC isn't within reach: standupforscience2025.org/local-event-...

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Getting my life and work back together so re-invigorated the podcast with an amazinggggg guest @nicolerprause.bsky.social. We discuss the science surrounding the benefits of no fap. Spoiler alert - there are none! Listen now: spotifycreators-web.app.link/e/KclSxj0m9Qb

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See you in Sacramento!

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The weak, weird case against a supposed “orgasm cult” reason.com/2025/02/19/t... My deep dive into OneTaste & the federal prosecution of its founder is now up!

submitted 3 days ago • 7 comments

Apparently the Washington Post accepted, then refused, this ad under political pressure. Free advertising!

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March for Science is March 7, 2025 DC and state capitols www.eventbrite.com/e/stand-up-f...

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Apparently, the vexatious litigation history of anti-porn groups is longstanding. In 2018, one sued their apartment owner, lying they were living in asbestos, lost, and spent years harassing them afterwards. History suggests these "porn lawsuits" are really for personal gain.

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ATTN FEDERAL WORKERS: I’ll say this again: download all your SF-50s, performance evals, and your eOPF. Now. Print hard copies. And make sure you file an informal grievance with your supervisor within 15 days of any adverse action. Here is a template: www.muellershewrote.com/p/informal-g...

submitted 8 days ago • 327 comments

Want to check the new McCarthyism "unwanted" list from the Heritage Foundation's watch list? Use this link so they don't monitor your traffic: web.archive.org/web/20250213...

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Stand Up For Science 2025 www.standupforscience2025.org It's coming, March 7, in your state capital city.

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New liver center at UCLA! online.flippingbook.com/view/1060628... We are still learning how our work is getting integrated, and these are exactly the topics (with alcohol and opioid use) we study.

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A new paper identified predictors of harassing and wishing physical harm on scientists. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39779750/

submitted 11 days ago • 2 comments

BREAKING The Trump administration is maintaining a funding freeze at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in defiance of two federal court orders. The ongoing freeze was confirmed by an NIH official and internal correspondence reviewed by Popular Information.

submitted 11 days ago • 257 comments

If you are at UCLA and want to reach your representative by phone: Senator Alex Padilla 310-231-4494 (LA) Senator Adam Schiff 202-224-3841 (DC) Representative Ted Lieu 323-651-1040 (LA)

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We are hearing that Andy Singleton, director of a new and promising Alzheimer's research center at NIH, just announced his resignation. This will disrupt innovative new Alzheimer's work to go beyond the "amyloid hypothesis." Bad news for anyone who's been touched by this disease. 🧪

submitted 15 days ago • 25 comments

Psychophysiologists know the joy: EEG and GSR both on bluetooth without cross talk. Phew!

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

1. Today the NIH director issued a new directive slashing overhead rates to 15%. I want to provide some context on what that means and why it matters. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

submitted 14 days ago • 271 comments

inhumane. disgusting. Abandoned in the Middle of Clinical Trials, Because of a Trump Order The stop-work order on U.S.A.I.D.-funded research has left thousands of people with experimental drugs and devices in their bodies, with no access to monitoring or care. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/06/h...

submitted 15 days ago • 60 comments

Our office is receiving thousands of calls from concerned Californians. Keep 'em coming. Senate phones are having tech issues, so we're working to resolve the "voicemail full" note that you may be hearing. You can also reach us anytime at ➡️ schiff.senate.gov/contact/

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We had a grant submission just prohibited due to not having sufficient guidance from the Trump administration to be able to comply. The grant had nothing to do with DEI. First person: medical research is being blocked due to poor roll-out.

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After months of fevered headlines about an "investigation" into OnlyFans supposedly allowing access to minors — Ofcom has quietly announced that they've closed the investigation, with no findings. www.ofcom.org.uk/online-safet...

submitted 17 days ago • 4 comments

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

submitted 18 days ago • 1329 comments

I work with federal data and have access to social security numbers, which Elon Musk has just accessed. I had to pass a federal criminal background check with fingerprinting, two drug tests, multiple trainings, and all my file access is monitored. Musk walked in with a hard drive.

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Many "non-profits" rake in millions claiming to combat child sex trafficking. NCOSE (formerly "Morality in Media") regularly hosts speakers like Staci Sprout as "experts". Last weekend she was screaming on a street corner that children were being sex trafficked in secret tunnels under Sedona.

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CDC has removed data the taxpayers purchased worth easily multi-millions of dollars. This includes adolescent data widely used to keep children safe. If you want to help scientists, you can backup data for free on OSF, a private non-profit. osf.io

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

I have verified that some public US universities have shut down grants like HIV and sickle cell that have no DEI, but because they are help non-straight, white populations. This is not theoretical or a concern, it has happened.

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If you are a school mental health provider in Ohio, you are now state-mandated to out youth who describe an LGBT identity, even if you know their caregiver will assault them www.advocate.com/politics/ohi... Remember:The state board also requires you notify authorities of ongoing abuse 1/2

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Don't miss our panel with @woodhullfreedom.bsky.social Foundation about anti-sex attacks on academic freedom. Had your license, employer, publisher, granter, and colleagues threatened if you don't stop doing research? I have! Feb 28, 2025 Free with registration www.eventbrite.com/e/sexuality-...

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Research finds that there is no single activity that nearly everyone identifies as a signature act of “rough sex.” This term does not map onto a coherent concept. It refers to multiple different kinds of acts, animated by different intentions and effects. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

This is what I expected and I expect there will be a lot more of this. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

submitted 25 days ago • 28 comments

I can verify. Scientists are being told their study sections for cancer trials (no relation to DEI) are being cancelled, grant conference travel is being cancelled having nothing to do with DEI. I work largely on liver diseases, including catching cancer progression before it kills you.

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"Most people trust scientists and agree that scientists should engage more in society and policymaking" From a 68-country assessment. Open-access www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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