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sciencejuls.bsky.social
Asst.Professor, Dept. of Neuroscience, UMN, progressive democrat, beagle mom, Minnesotan by way of the East Coast. Opinions are my own.
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Barry Blitt’s cover for this week’s issue, “The First Hundred Days.” #NewYorkerCovers nyer.cm/ysrCZ47

Hi Science colleagues! Does anyone have recommendations for companies selling custom cannula for intracranial microinfusions. Plastics 1 has gone through so many transformations, now only a limited off the shelf inventory is available.

Thank you to @vanhollen.senate.gov for going down to El Salvador. We all have to make noise everyday until Kilmar Abrego Garcia is back home!

In defiance of the Supreme Court & without any evidence, the White House claims that Kilmar Abrego Garcia is a “terrorist,” who was “sent to the right place.” This is a blatant LIE. He is innocent. He cannot be allowed to rot in an El Salvadorian jail. He must be brought home.

At this point as a matter of law, principle and morality Trump has to be impeached. Flagrantly violating a Supreme Court order to facilitate the return of an innocent man sent to a slave labor gulag with no due process is so immensely evil it's earth shattering.

They are the sick ones! Garcia is not a terrorist, he’s not MS-13. This is the most disgusting miscarriage of justice. What can we do? I feel totally helpless.

STAND and DEMAND the immediate return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia. BRING HIM HOME! Abrego Garcia is a SMART Local 100 first-year apprentice who was working full-time to support his young family — before he was brutally abducted and illegally deported to El Salvador. SMART General President…

Hear that, bring him home motherfuckers…bring him home!! #kilmarabregogarcia

At some point, it’s just not worth it…

While the entire Trump administration exists in a moral vacuum, Kristi Noem is a dead eyed psychopath. Pretty sure there is just a hole where the amygdala or claustrum would be.

Oh my God. Jennifer Welch from the I’ve Had It Podcast said it best. We are living in The Stupid Era.

Hard NO!

I know this first hand. When I was a child, my entire community was branded as spies and sabateurs, justifying our internment inside barbed wire camps for years without due process, trial or charge.

these are our party leaders now, ignore all other opinions

In a new statement, Nancy Pelosi is calling on Democratic Senators to go against Chuck Schumer. “Democratic senators should listen to the women…” Full Statement:

We’ve all fallen for at least one (or more) “Jordan Catalano” in our life, right?

@schatz.bsky.social Shame on you. I thought better of you.

Yes congresswoman!!!

Only a mother can say…Julie, just be smart, ok and stay with the group and make sure they know you hate Trump too, tell them your Canadian…to her 43 yr old PI Prof Neuroscientist daughter headed to Austria today for a conference…ok, well I’m traveling w/ a US passport, but ok Ma!

Seriously…Gavin Newsom’s podcast should just be called A hot stone massage w/ The WORST PEOPLE IMAGINABLE. Michael Savage, really? Who’s next…Gav want to get Andrew Tate’s thoughts on feminism.

The end says it all about the state of the media…no, you dolt, insanity is not a strategy.

The GOP is the party of loathsome ghouls who can’t extend basic decency to their colleagues. Good for @billkeating.bsky.social. The time is always right to do what’s right.

Is it just me or do you all find that at least once a day you rub your eyes and think what in the actual fuck is going on…not always about Trump, sometimes I’m just confused why Fresh Thyme thinks tortillas should be by milk and eggs.

Reward Democrats with the guts to meet the moment! @algreen.house.gov @repjasmine.bsky.social @maxwellfrost.bsky.social @aoc.bsky.social @sanders.senate.gov @smith.senate.gov and tell cowards like @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social that he can either step up or step aside. Fuck decorum. #goodtrouble

Bae and I #StandingUpForScience in Minneapolis

Oh Happy Day…the study section that was suppose to review my grant in February is on the federal register for April 1-2.

Is this a storm we’re weathering or nuclear fucking winter. Will I make it on the train? Will I be a tailie?

Both Vance, Thiel and Musk are fans of Curtis Yarvin who advocates an anti-democratic Dark Enlightenment. He believes the free press and universities (termed The Cathedral) have subversive liberal influence and must be stopped.

Do you know how often I think…why couldn’t I have thought up frickin’ Peppa Pig and saved myself this 😩. It’s a couple of circles, some stick arms w/ charming British accents. But no, I have to try to figure out the brain…look where that’s gotten me. At the mercy of a walking sunscreen commercial.

The House GOP are just pissing on the working poor w/o even bothering to call it rain. Cutting Medicaid and SNAP for tax cuts to the 1% is such naked cruelty…they exist in a moral vacuum.

Dear manager: 1. Is this the real life? 2. Is it just fantasy? 3. Caught in a landslide 4. No escape from reality 5. Open your eyes, look up to the skies and see

Jeffries: hey the GOP controls the government, absolutely nothing i can do, gonna work on my personal book tour Sanders: brb i am going to personally barnstorm strategic GOP house districts and try to peel off 2 votes so we can block Trump's cuts to Medicaid www.commondreams.org/news/bernie-...

Of all the sickening and despicable things that this administration has done…knowingly subjecting people to rape, torture and death as a culture war talking point is truly the most evil.

"Even NIH officers don’t know what will happen next." In our latest @science.org Working Life essay, an assistant professor expresses frustration with stalls at NIH and asks: "Will my grants ever be reviewed?" @vjrp.bsky.social www.science.org/content/arti...

New York Times article now up on Federal Register stuff. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/s... 1/n

Yes Queen! Only thing bullies understand is strength.

41/47 (87%) of NIH study sections are cancelled this week Frustrating to see all this good research stalled (& not funded) You can search for study sections that ‘did not meet as scheduled’ here with ones with * ⤵️ www.csr.nih.gov/RevPanelsAnd...