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Also for this Sunday's @bostonglobe.com Books section, I spoke with @sarahjones.bsky.social about her important new book, DISPOSABLE, and how COVID exposed just how deadly this country is to people who aren't rich. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/02/21/a...

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I escaped poverty because I am a scientist. And I am a scientist because of the National Science Foundation. A 🧵:

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“Let them suffer the consequences of their actions.” I see this so much in my mentions, often from anonymous accounts who could be bots or ops for all I know, but whatever they are, they are trying to normalize a false bifurcation. If “they” are suffering, so are people you consider to be “us.”

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Shostakovich's Fifth Symphony was ironic patriotism such that it could trick philistines into thinking it was in support of Stalin's empire when it was really pointing out the sad and violent futility of it, in this essay, I will...

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A little James Schuyler Valentine this morning.

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My latest from inside NIH as well as universities that get its funding. I think it is important to say clearly what moves like this will actually do to people.

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Ending PEPFAR is a global genocide on the scale of Nazi Germany or the Belgians in colonial Congo. HIV in fact stems from Belgian colonialism in the Congo. 10 million or more will die.

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Excellent 🧵 on this evening's NIH announcement of a dramatic reduction in indirect rates for research institutions, which amounts to a generational restructuring of the US research and development ecosystem. These cuts are effective immediately, not just for new grants but for existing ones.

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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...

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Research universities are often the largest employers in their region. They are often the primary health care providers to communities. This funding shift will not only reduce US research leadership, it will put working people out of work and reduce healthcare access.

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Elon Musk Has Private Security Goons Guarding the EPA www.splinter.com/elon-musk-ha...

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If you are in danger unless you comply with a regime, you are in danger whether you comply or not

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Louisiana folks - Sen. Cassidy may be wavering on RFKj. Cassidy's office number in DC is (202) 224-5824 if you want to let him know what you think about that nomination.

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As a catastrophizer, there’s something almost calming and clarifying about things going exactly as you always worried they might. We were prepared!

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Trump is unconstitutionally freezing federal funds that Congress sent our constituents and dismantling the democratic system. This isn't business as usual—Congress needs to stop it. I will not support any Trump nominee who will do his illegal bidding. I urge my colleagues to join.

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People around the world are without HIV medication – which must be taken daily – NOW. Right now. This second. This emergency is here.

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If you're a scientist that serves on an NSF panel that got cancelled today, I'd love to talk to you about it for an NPR story. DM, email or reach out on signal.

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Wait sorry you're saying AI was a bubble?

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It will save you time and mental energy if you understand that a lot of white people don’t believe anything is racism unless the person doing it is wearing a shirt that says, “I am doing this for a racism.” Plausible deniability is a social survival tool for them in a way it has never been for us.

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If you're a researcher impacted by the NIH/CDC/FDA travel and communication pause and are open to chatting about your experience, big or small, please reach out to me at [email protected] or DM for Signal

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The "he's not gonna listen to her" reactions are missing many points. Lots of other people are also hearing it. Lots of people can see him hearing it, then weigh what she's said with what he'll do. Lots of people can see her refusal to surrender these ancient teachings to the latest face of empire

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Remember to keep your eyes on the prize: the future world you want to build Don’t drown thinking only of the things you are against Remember to dream of and work to create what you’re for

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News: Pamela Paul is out at New York Times Opinion nymag.com/intelligence...

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My hometown in rural Washington now has Indian, Thai, Japanese... Growing up we barely had any restaurants at all other than pizza. Even fast food – McD – only came in the late 90s and with controversy!

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MAX! and I are in an uber to JFK (the 2 train stopped running so…) and the driver just put on PRIDE RADIO. Did he just call me an f slur?

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Your BUT IT'S NEW YEARS DAY reminder that it is also January 1st and RENT is due.

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I am not now, nor have I ever been, "Babygirl."

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"I am going to cheer for Onions the NYU reply dog before he milkshake ducks" I say to my therapist before I am committed.

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“The thought had come into my mind that the philosophers whom they call Academics were shrewder than others.” — Saint Augustine

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ONIONS

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one of the better nights in my NYU employ

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I’m having a very giggle-filled Sunday night. THE THREAD HAS BEEN QUIET FOR 13 MINUTES LONG LIVE THE THREAD

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My partner does something I've never heard of: Putting all our (unwrapped) gifts under the tree AFTER Christmas. Do other people do this? I think it's cute it had just never occurred to me!

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We got Noro in my household on Christmas Eve (HAPPY MERRY) and I went wild with hand washing and sanitizing and didn't get sick, which is good because someone had to do the going-getting-ginger-ale of it all.

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