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'Hey MAGA, get mad at the shiny thing over there and stop paying attention to selling out America's legacy."

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"We're about to do damaging stuff that rational people would want to stop."

submitted 14 days ago • 1 comment

This is devastating.

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

Attributed to Napoleon and an ideology cited by such infamous persons as Hitler, Mousolini, and terrorist Anders Breivik. Not that his sycophants will ever hear. Instead, I wonder how many of his followers will assume the phrasing means it's a Bible verse without ever cracking open the Bible?

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

We all know money talks. Want to quit the tech bros? Other social media 1. Snap 2. Bluesky 3. Diaspora 4. Mastodon 5. Substack Other shopping platforms 1. Capital One Shopping 2. Discount apps: Rakuten, Ibotta, BeFrugal, Upside, Honey, etc. 3. eBay 4. Etsy

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

Nothing about gutting biomedical research is great for anyone.

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

Haven't been to the Kennedy Center in a while. Definitely not going back any time soon.

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

This is why expertise matters. It gives you the ability to critically evaluate publications in a meaningful way. Not being stupidly biased helps, too.

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

See that gap between the United States of America and those other countries? That gap… that gulf… That’s profit. Profit at the expense of health.

submitted 34 days ago • 5 comments

Unfortunately, I agree. I hope the rest of the world sees that many Americans oppose these reckless and dangerous policies.

submitted 36 days ago • 0 comments

A perfect demonstration of the importance of being qualified for a job. (Also a pathetic demonstration of how unqualified they are.) www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

submitted 39 days ago • 0 comments

The officers involved in this were probably in unnecessary danger just because of the pardons. Not to mention the toll of taking a life in the line of duty. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

submitted 40 days ago • 0 comments

do you enjoy knowing that when you deposit money in a US bank, you won't lose that money? nice, right? it's because bank deposits are insured by FDIC. i don't know what FDIC ever did to these people, but apparently it too is now on their blow-it-up list: www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

submitted 40 days ago • 2006 comments

Our system allows uninformed peer reviewers to publish lab leak agitprop for H5N1 and furthering anti-science animus. The person who wrote the manuscript is a known bad faith entity. This is obvious. We desperately need to reform peer review in so many ways.

submitted 40 days ago • 1 comment

One horrible decision after another.

submitted 40 days ago • 0 comments

"This has never been seen before...the fusion of the state and tech power and business elites." The rise of the tech oligarchs in new #Trump government with @hardeepmatharu.bsky.social @peterjukes.bsky.social @goldbergradio.bsky.social From @bylinetimes.bsky.social pod.fo/e/2a34f9

submitted 42 days ago • 4 comments

“That a second bout of infections would produce milder symptoms in cattle is unsurprising, experts said, &could be welcome news to farmers. But reinfections suggest that the virus, called H5N1, could circulate on farms indefinitely, creating opportunities for it to evolve into a more dangerous form”

submitted 41 days ago • 2 comments

As expected, the Trump team is already deleting climate info from government websites. In anticipation, our team at Urban Ocean Lab created a permanent archive of 100+ key resources and published a permanent archive: www.urbanoceanlab.org/resource-hub 👩🏽‍💻

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While we’re banning books… Finland is teaching children in school how to recognize fake news and propaganda as part of critical thinking and civic responsibility. Some of this will seem very familiar. Be. Like. Finland.

submitted 64 days ago • 1368 comments

Something beautiful to start the new year. ✨ apnews.com/video/waterw...

submitted 67 days ago • 0 comments

"As long as they control the purse strings, there will be no meaningful response to the failure of most people’s paychecks to rise, nor to climate change, nor racism, nor the soaring costs of health insurance, pharmaceuticals, college, and housing..."

submitted 77 days ago • 0 comments

Who cares more about reelection than doing what's right for the country? www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...

submitted 80 days ago • 0 comments

With the anti-science administration coming into DC next month, we can look forward to a robust ignorance when potentially dangerous microbes attack the human race.

submitted 83 days ago • 2 comments

Three must read papers for PhD students. #scisky #PhD #science #research #academicsky 1. The importance of stupidity in scientific research Open Access journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...

submitted 105 days ago • 55 comments

This use of religion to promote an unqualified nominee is nauseating. crisismagazine.com/opinion/is-r...

submitted 95 days ago • 0 comments

RFK Jr has no biomedical training. He is absurdly unqualified to be a health official on any level.

submitted 95 days ago • 0 comments

Next level hypocrisy. It should induce shame, but I'm guessing it doesn't.

submitted 95 days ago • 0 comments

During Trump’s last term, he made over 30,000 false or misleading claims. It’s always important to verify facts. For instance, he once stated that ‘raking the forest’ could help prevent forest fires.

submitted 96 days ago • 73 comments

Another concerning health policy selection that has the potential for disastrous consequences.

submitted 97 days ago • 0 comments

Not a new paper, but still helps (1/2) PhD survival guide @embopress.org #PhD #PhDlife #academics #scisky #medsky

submitted 99 days ago • 6 comments

Interesting historical perspective. I don't agree with every point, but it's clear the Trump administration will not shut down the transfer of wealth to the upper class. There must be a reckoning at some point. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...

submitted 99 days ago • 0 comments

“I think if RFK follows through on his intentions, and I believe he will, and I believe he can, it will cost lives in this country,” ⁦‪@scottgottliebmd.bsky.social said www.statnews.com/2024/11/29/s...

submitted 99 days ago • 0 comments

“Americans often tell the story of Covid now as though our pandemic response was run by safetyist liberals in an unreasonable panic. But while Trump was remarkably indifferent to Covid in 2020, he was also, for the entire period we now remember erroneously as lockdown, in charge.”

submitted 99 days ago • 1 comment