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He/him, UX researcher, based in Pittsburgh, PhD from UC Berkeley.
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SO MANY STAND UP FOR SCIENCE EVENTS TO CHOOSE FROM—153 and COUNTING! To get more information on our local events and to register your own, head to www.standupforscience2025.org/local-event-information/ ☀️⬇️🌎

Yet another protest coming up here in Pittsburgh

Making #pancakes tonight? Here’s a recipe from the 16th century which includes “two or three spoonefuls of ale” — (from The Good Huswifes Jewell, an English cookery book from 1585) #PancakeDay #FatTuesday #ShroveTuesday

50501 Event on MARCH 4TH at NOON at the WILLIAM S. MOOREHEAD building.

Slava Ukraini! 🇺🇦 ✊

Yet another protest coming up here in Pittsburgh

Elon Musk's only profitable company, Tesla, has created a cumulative grand total net income of $34 billion in its more than 20 years of existence. That's less than the total amount of US federal subsidies his empire has collectively received. The economics of Elon Musk are as bad as the politics.

Despite court order, NIH grants remain frozen. Newly awarded grants, grants with fundable scores, & funds for a new budget cycle of a current project are all *FROZEN*🥶 and not being released. US research is being choked to death & is on life support right now www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Important less talked about narrative here: NIH intramural program and clinical trials and patient care also taking a huge hit - NIH has always treated rare genetic diseases and cases that can’t be treated elsewhere and conducted trials. Now all are frozen & patients are suffering. 😭💔

Called my reps! Did you?

Deeply concerned about NSF. They fired more people than they needed and now leadership is illegally reclassifying employees as probationary. www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...

I don’t think any forms of ID should have gender markers 🤷🏻‍♀️

Indivisible protest in Pittsburgh.

Join us this president’s day for a demonstration for democracy.

📍#Pittsburg // Nationwide protests TODAY MONDAY, Feb. 17th, #NoKingsDay. We the people are pissed! Find a protest at > events.pol-rev.com 🇺🇸 Where will we see you? #50501movement #FiftyFiftyOne #BuildTheResistance #PoliticalRevolution #NoKings #VoicesOfFlorida #VoicesUnheard @polrev.bsky.social

All-time corporate-courage quote here from Google: "In the future we will no longer have aspirational goals" www.wsj.com/tech/google-...

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...

im making a playlist for society, for the whole world. its gonna be virtual insanity by jamiroquai 100 times

INBOX: 30+ Pittsburgh businesses are striking tomorrow in a Day Without Immigrants as part of national efforts:

Wired has really risen to the moment www.wired.com/story/elon-m...

The National Science foundation has just updated their FAQ to say they are complying with the court order and has restored access to funds and the ACM$ platform new.nsf.gov/executive-or...

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i'm tired of being told to stop doomscrolling. i'm just scrolling, it's not my fault there's doom on there

Sure would be a shame if a bunch of PhDs who suddenly have a lot of time on their hands due to no grant writing or reviewing spent all that energy calling and writing their elected officials every single fucking day