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The National Cancer Institute (part of NIH) released new guidelines for "controversial, high-profile or sensitive" keywords that require "review prior to publication" if included in a product or materials. Keywords include abortion, obesity, and peanut allergies.

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I've been asking this, too. I want to listen to people whose predictions about reality are CORRECT instead, because they are the ones who have useful insights. Miss me with the pandering and patronizing feel-good crap, legacy media.

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments

All that’s going on now is what I meant when I said this in 2019.

submitted 32 days ago • 1 comment

A pretty key effort to break resistance. The key here is that if you're going to defend the rights of people in the nat sec world you need lawyers who themselves have clearances and thus can dig into the facts the legal questions turn on. that's what this is about. I'm not saying Mark won't be ...

submitted 32 days ago • 16 comments

Wait … they … 𝙡𝙞𝙚𝙙 ???

submitted 32 days ago • 256 comments

They want to destroy the universities because they believe that it's the universities that are turning kids away from far-right reactionary cultural preferences. Thus they want the universities either indoctrinating young people into far-right beliefs, or they want them gone.

submitted 33 days ago • 118 comments

"The United States is in a constitutional crisis" Agree: 54% Disagree: 27% Unsure: 19% YouGov / Feb 6, 2025 / n=1106

submitted 33 days ago • 654 comments

This is starting to feel like 1917; Russian in complexity, only the HeritageF zealots are actually Nazis, and they're thinking that the FedSoc faction are 🍬🍑🚼 who don't have RealGuts. Strange times to be a peasant, I will say that.

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments

Same. It's DEEPLY unfortunate, but MMWR is not going to serve as any kind of genuine digest of need-to-know in this regime.

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments

I’ve been an REI customer (co-op member) for ten years, so I guess “email the REI Board to tell them how I feel about their signing off on Burgum” is another thing to add to tomorrow’s to do list (also they should allow their stores to unionize) www.eenews.net/articles/out...

submitted 36 days ago • 8 comments

Almost as though the REAL problem was education and scholarship all along, yk?

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments

Don’t just say DEI as if it’s a bad word. Spell it out. Say diversity, which is the lifeblood of American society & culture & innovation. Say equity, which a just society should pursue. Say inclusion, because decent people believe in increasing belonging, not isolating people who are different.

submitted 32 days ago • 909 comments

Republicans reveal the real reasons they love Trump as FOTUS. He is pro-financial crime, This IS Project 2025.

submitted 32 days ago • 14 comments

So let me get this straight-- Peter Thiel is Musk's staffing agency? The world's creepiest tech high priest, who collects a certain "type" as his extra special friends--? (Musk and Vance are BOTH his type, btw). Worst remake of Sleepers ever.

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments

Two lawyers, one Yale educated, one Harvard educated; one the VP, one a senator, suggesting that decisions made by courts aren’t legitimate if they don’t like the outcome. This is dangerous territory.

submitted 32 days ago • 1231 comments

Just saw a farmer say, "you don't have to admit you were wrong, you have to admit you were lied to, " and idk that seems like a good framing to call people in

submitted 32 days ago • 102 comments

Trust me, bro.

submitted 32 days ago • 3243 comments

Under fascism, no one is safe. Universities stayed quiet as the admin targeted DEI & foreign aid, censored research, etc. Now, they face devastating cuts to indirect cost rates, threatening research & operations. Silence won’t protect institutions. It won’t protect people; it never does.

submitted 33 days ago • 355 comments

My #Yale colleague Harlan Krumholz explains why the cuts to indirect costs are a disaster for biomedical research in the United States. Want to do something about it? I'll list those who have to hear from us below. Share, recruit friends and family to help. 1/ www.statnews.com/2025/02/08/n....

submitted 32 days ago • 24 comments

Listen to @oniblackstock.bsky.social. Your silence will not protect you. Stand up. Find others to stand up with. There is safety in numbers.

submitted 32 days ago • 1 comment

This basically brings us UTD.

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If comics aren't your thing (as in my earlier skeet)-- there's always the original.

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

In case you are reeling and wondering "What NEXT??" A bunch of talented comics folks put together a little light reading last summer that should help. There's even a PDF button at the bottom of the page. stopproject2025comic.org

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

This is the kind of hopeful content we all need, I daresay.

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

Fabulous resource in quick little modules.

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

Banner day! Blocked my first Homeopathy Sea Lion. Feeling feisty. Who is next??

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

Maybe some heretofore awfully meek and quiet administrators will start bleating in terror instead of just quietly wiping out their diversity policies with a shrug and a fresh cup of coffee-? Just a thought.

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

Hand to heart, I have looked exactly like this since 2016.

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

For a start: medical schools and universities without massive endowments (so, almost all of them) will close. Hospitals attached to universities will scale back dramatically. Research on everything will take an enormous hit. What am I missing?

submitted 33 days ago • 13 comments

The abrupt change represents “a nuclear bomb on university budgets,” says Morgan Polikoff, an education researcher at the University of Southern California. “I mean, listen, it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure this out. They're just trying to hurt universities.” 🧪

submitted 33 days ago • 7 comments

Scientists and journalists need to figure out right quick how to explain to the average person how a massive change in research indirects will impact the medical care they and their children get (eg at the local children’s hospital), the education their children will get, the price of tuition, etc.

submitted 33 days ago • 104 comments

If you still think the GOP will never destroy Social Security and Medicare, Roe v Wade would like a word.

submitted 34 days ago • 30 comments

I'm sure this will be fine. Probably.

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

Don’t want your state economy to collapse? Call you damn representative and demand that this shit stops. Trump is dismantling education and it will end with economic collapse.

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The Senate HELP Committee has jurisdiction over NIH. GOP members of the committee represent AK, AL, IN, FL, KS, KY, LA, ME, MO, OH, and SC. Research universities and hospitals in those states need to be extra loud.

submitted 33 days ago • 14 comments

The NIH overhead cut doesn't just hurt universities. It's deadly to the US economy. The US is a world leader in tech due to the ecosystem that NIH and NSF propel. It drives innovation for tech transfer, creates a highly-skilled sci/tech workforce, and fosters academic/industry crossfertilization.

submitted 33 days ago • 30 comments

"The professors are the enemy" - Chairman Mao Zedong <Checks notes> Ooops, scratch that, it was JD Vance

submitted 33 days ago • 2 comments

Is anyone really shocked that they lied? Ethics is not a high priority here.

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

Stand fast, We have as many friends as enemies.

submitted 33 days ago • 70 comments

This entire 🧵 is SUPER, but this. THIS. This is taking a hatchet to the scaffold all of us in the developed world are standing upon. 😬

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

ALWAYS ask to see it in writing. Also get to know the email "clarification" as a technique: "So to recap our earlier conversation: (Outrageous bs) Please let me know if this is in any way incorrect."

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🧪 PSA The Committee on Human Rights of the National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine does valuable work on behalf of scientists under persecution worldwide, and have this resource for scientists in the US targeted because of their work. www.nationalacademies.org/chr/resource...