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I’m so thankful for this sweet goober of a horse and our mutual love of flying around an arena over not-too-high jumps under a pink sunset sky. My brain chemistry needed that.

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

What these nihilistic vandals are doing to dismantle science & medicine—generations of expertise & public service & life improving benefits—is cultural revolution level national self harm. No foreign foe could inflict such brutal damage & senseless suffering on US so fast & effectively & unresisted.

submitted 10 days ago • 508 comments

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who killed so many children in Samoa they ran out of child-sized coffins, has been confirmed to lead Health and Human Services. The vote was 52-48. All Dems and Mitch McConnell, whose fault this is, voted no. All other Republicans voted yes. The blood will be on their hands.

submitted 12 days ago • 130 comments

Microsoft's own research confirms something that was already pretty obvious: relying on a text generating machine to come up with answers erodes critical thinking, and is a method favoured by those who never liked doing critical thinking in the first place advait.org/files/lee_20...

submitted 16 days ago • 145 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 21 days ago • 1330 comments

Weird fash nerds running around inside the federal government twiddling knobs and flipping switches and going "what does this one do?" Getting big blobs of jelly on everything. Somehow no one is telling them to fuck off. Cards on the table I don't really care for any of this!

submitted 24 days ago • 50 comments

Apparently all the PhD researchers holding prestigious NSF-funded research fellowships are having their salaries withheld until some unspecified time when the leadership figures out how to eliminate any grant funding that doesn’t align with the president’s political ideology.

submitted 25 days ago • 126 comments

Could you use an uplifting moment today? Check out this new video series that highlights the Invent@SC program and tells the story of inspirational scholars making new discoveries at Seattle Children’s.

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

The FDA has scrubbed from its website guidance on conducting medical trials with representative numbers of men/women and racial/ethnic minorities. these aren't symbolic issues. Drugs affect men/men, people with different genetic backgrounds differently. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/medic...

submitted 32 days ago • 131 comments

Devastating for scientists and their research, and everyone who benefits from that research. I’m not sure if everyone outside academia is aware that a delay or “pause” in grant funding often means the researchers themselves are lost from the field, along with their expertise.

submitted 33 days ago • 835 comments

Study sections are the review panels that allocate NIH research grants. They bring in experts from around the country and have to be scheduled many months in advance; they provide the funds that keep the nation's biomedical research going. It's hard to overstate the disruption this causes.

submitted 33 days ago • 22 comments

I’ve avoided social media for the last few days for mental health reasons. I checked in today and… yeah 😬. So here’s a picture of Ravi in his adorable PNW Sasquatch blanket if your timeline needs a little help too.

submitted 34 days ago • 0 comments

Merry Christmas, here is some painful and crusty ✨pinkeye✨ for you in addition to the cold you and your children have ❤️

submitted 63 days ago • 0 comments

Happy National Day of the Horse to my best bud, Ravi! He’s a great example of how versatile and talented horses are: started his career on the track and retired at 8 as a war horse, spent another 8 years at stud and then was gelded and started his third career as a adult ammy mount. Heart of gold!

submitted 74 days ago • 2 comments

Let’s goooooooo Q and team!! So looking forward to nerding out about all things Iditarod with my fellow #uglydogs

submitted 80 days ago • 0 comments

Both Texas and Georgia are destroying evidence of all maternal mortality, blocking proof that women are dying from abortion bans. This story has a lot more going on than you think. Especially since Republicans are lying about the public cases. www.salon.com/2024/12/02/d...

submitted 85 days ago • 174 comments

Pretzel says goodnight. It’s time for him to make mayhem into the wee hours.

submitted 98 days ago • 0 comments

I saw this on a car at a stop light today and actually screamed out loud. I found it: www.etsy.com/listing/1299...

submitted 100 days ago • 0 comments

Ravi says hi to all the new people on Bluesky. We’re glad you’re here!

submitted 103 days ago • 0 comments

Since 2020 I’ve increasingly felt like we’re in a digital dark ages, where illiteracy is skyrocketing, people believe in magic, disease is rampant, oligarchs rule, and it’s all facilitated by ultra modern technology that has evolved to reinforce it

submitted 110 days ago • 151 comments

I hope you found a way to take care of yourself today. This never fails to help me:

submitted 110 days ago • 0 comments

We are going to lose decades of advanced medical research that has saved so many lives.

submitted 111 days ago • 13 comments

I recently was blessed by the CDS with a kitten and have begrudgingly become a cat person. This is Pretzel taking a break from being an absolute menace.

submitted 148 days ago • 0 comments

shit people with their shit ideas and shit beliefs do not deserve your time or your attention

submitted 154 days ago • 32 comments

Top 10%!

submitted 159 days ago • 0 comments

Kamala masterfully baiting him with the rally comments to rile him up, and he takes it 😂

submitted 167 days ago • 0 comments

Getting increasingly pissed off by various politicians "distraught" today. This is America, where every day we wonder if this when someone we love gets mowed down by a shooter. Pretending to be shocked just shows you don't get it. Trump has a Secret Service detail to protect him. My kids don't.

submitted 226 days ago • 29 comments

It’s my dog Arlo’s 7th birthday and I thought y’all might enjoy seeing how ridiculously excited and happy he is.

submitted 226 days ago • 0 comments

Okay so to be clear we are destroying power grids, the livelihoods of actual humans beings, and communication/research infrastructure for the sake of an algorithm that converts stolen data into unreliable stolen data and consistently loses millions of dollars. Just to be clear