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1/8. This week I had a few different conversations with scholars who, in the face of the attacks on science and institutions of learning in the U.S., are wondering what to do. One suggestion I have is: keep doing your work. It matters in and of itself. Why do I say that? A few reasons.

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I’m telling you @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social, please watch this. This is the energy. Not egg prices and book tours and strongly worded letters. It’s time to take the gloves off.

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When the norms that sustain rational discourse break down; when truth is devalued, reason is sidelined, and bullshit takes over; the only thing left to mediate conflict is power, often manifesting as violence.

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💫🎉 Behind every successful ESA space mission, there's a woman. Behind the ESA & NASA Solar Orbiter mission, there are more than a hundred of them! Join us in celebrating them today, on international day of women and girls in science! #WomenInScience #WomenInSTEM 🔭🧪 www.esa.int/ESA_Multimed...

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Just received an email from the NSF. As a second federal court has issued a temporary restraining order on Trump's war against NSF funding (my words, not the court's), and DOJ has determined this applies to all award recipients, NSF funds will flow again as of noon. Let's celebrate every victory! 💪

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AMAZING! A GROUNDBREAKING sickle cell disease treatment has been APPROVED for NHS use. Exagamglogene (exa-cel) SUCCESSFULLY edits the faulty gene in a patient’s OWN stem cells. Researchers concluded there was a functional cure in 97% of trial participants that received it! Let’s talk about that! 🧪🧵⬇️

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CARTOON OF THE DAY

submitted 26 days ago • 596 comments

The Air Force will no longer teach its recruits about the Tuskegee Airmen, Black pioneer pilots honored for their service during World War II. Also halted, teaching the history of Women Airforce Service Pilots, or WASPs, the female World War II pilots who were essential in ferrying warplanes…

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A patient on inpatient hospice told our music therapist that he's been craving Twinkies and actually hallucinated that her guitar was one! Of course, she went out to get him a box. During these crazy times, let's take a moment to acknowledge that #kindnessmatters. @3wishesprogram.bsky.social

submitted 29 days ago • 16 comments

taking this great advice to get me thru the next 4 years and thought, fuck it, why not make it permanent. I recommend you do the same. Today - new jacket

submitted 33 days ago • 27 comments

Explore the AHA’s Resource Library, with hundreds of resources developed or vetted by the AHA and our partners. Our resources range from classroom syllabi, to archival documents from the Civil War, to standards and guidelines for the discipline, and more. 🗃️

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Happy MLK Day.

submitted 33 days ago • 429 comments

This is excellent. focused on the real enemy: SCOTUS, where the Trump Protection Squad rejected basic US law to save the convicted felon. They were led by John Roberts, who has always hated the right of Americans to vote to elect their leaders. open.substack.com/pub/aaronrup...

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#auspol

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There is a crucial distinction which is too often underappreciated and whose underappreciation places democracy in peril It is the distinction between lies and bullshit (see especially Frankfurt, 2005, passim, or my 2024 essay entitled 'The Truth Crisis')

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1/ What is the difference between implicit and explicit bias? At first blush, it seems straightforward: explicit bias is conscious and intentional, while implicit bias operates unconsciously But let’s examine whether this distinction holds up logically or empirically We shall find it doesn't

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From that exploded Cybertruck in Las Vegas, through Reagan's cardboard individualism, to the cowboy myth that arose after the Civil War, and then back to the present— no one does it as well as @hcrichardson.bsky.social Today's column is very good. heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/january-5-...

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"No person was ever honored for what he recieved. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." -- Calvin Coolidge, who died #OTD 1933

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In other news, rampant capitalism achieved a 0.53% death rate in America last year. So well done to these folks.

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The cartoonist is the outstanding, Pulitzer Prize-winning Ann Telnaes @anntelnaes.bsky.social. Read her account and why she decided to quit @washingtonpost.com in her substack post. anntelnaes.substack.com/p/why-im-qui...

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All four gas giants captured by the James Webb Space Telescope Thankyou NASA 💫👏💫✨💫💙✨

submitted 51 days ago • 6 comments

THIS IS HUGE! Researchers at Stanford Medicine have devised an influenza vaccine that prompts immunity to ALL four major flu subtypes AND shows potential against bird flu, indicating a significant advancement in flu prevention and a potential increase in vaccine efficacy. Let’s talk about that! 🧪🧵⬇️

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This is an amazing 1 minute and 22 second demonstration of selective attention. I won’t say more so that I won’t spoil it for those who have not already seen it. 🧪 youtu.be/vJG698U2Mvo?...

submitted 61 days ago • 3 comments

Someone shared this with me, and I think it's beautiful. That's what I wish for everyone I love and appreciate in this New Year 2025, that your life is filled with an abundance of real luxuries. ❤️

submitted 52 days ago • 290 comments

Colorado Reporter says he was attacked and choked by a man who shouted 'This is Trump's America.' coloradomedia.substack.com/p/colorado-r...

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Do you want to have a look at earth when the first vertebrates walked on land, or see what your country looked like when dinosaurs got extinct? 🧪 Check out this website! dinosaurpictures.org/ancient-eart... #science #geology #evolution #biology

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Saw a new baby this morning. Parents vaccine-hesitant. "Doing their own research" from the internet. My response- "Please don't make a decision you may regret forever based on bad information from non-scientific resources." I really like that line. I think I'll keep using it. #PedSky #MedSky

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Time it takes to generate $100 million in sales: 🇺🇸Walmart: 1 hour, 16 minutes 🇺🇸Amazon: 1 hour, 22 minutes 🇺🇸Apple: 2 hours, 17 minutes 🇺🇸Alphabet: 2 hours, 27 minutes 🇺🇸Microsoft: 3 hours, 18 minutes 🇺🇸Costco: 3 hours, 29 minutes 🇺🇸JP Morgan: 4 hours, 59 minutes 🇺🇸Meta: 5 hours, 19 minutes

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Check out the “Unified Science Feed” also that I created, it pulls from all the major domain specific science feeds and sorts by recent popular (most liked) posts. bsky.app/profile/did:...

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The resistance begins. Axios: Secretary Deb Haaland to run for Governor of New Mexico.

submitted 67 days ago • 456 comments

My arrangement of the piano-and-whistling intro to Billy Joel’s “The Stranger.” It was the first album I obsessed over as a child; my sisters and I would fight over who got to hold the lyric sheet.

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“Each of us has a choice: we can tell others that resistance is futile and that we should give up, or we can say that we aren’t giving up, no matter what. I am not giving up, no matter what.” — Robert Hubbell (12/9/24) I, too, am not giving up, no matter what.

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Normalize this line of thinking as we approach 1/20/25. #resist #bluecrew #fucktrump #democracy

submitted 78 days ago • 17 comments

Help us commemorate victims, preserve memory & educate the world. Amplify our voice. Your interaction here is more than just a click. It is an act of remembrance against forgetting. Like, share, or quote our posts. Let people know that @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social is present here.

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