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Ages 0-4 are the most important, emotionally & intellectually, in human development. Yet, in the US, we have a very high rate of childhood poverty and a broken child care system. Congratulations to New Mexico for leading the way forward for high quality, free child care. Other states must follow.

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Not that I need another reason to hate golf www.psychiatrist.com/news/golf-co...

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Humans think we're so special with our technology and our AI, but we're not even the first species to try handing all our needs over to an incomprehensible superintelligence. That's been tried before

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Available for preorder now: MOOP, an autobiography

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Heron neighbor catching some breakfast

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Sorry America, I don't want to waste your tax dollars but these tarriffs mean researchers like me have to spend your hard earned money less efficiently. Does it make sense for the govt to collect taxes, distribute those taxes and then tax those taxes? Is that a smart thing to do?

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🔔BREAKING🔔 The NSF has frozen all research grant awards—cutting off life-saving science midstream and demanding ideological screenings for future funding. This is censorship disguised as oversight. Here’s how you can help us spread the word ➡️🧵(1/3): www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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Ooh, hot cross buns! How many can I get for a penny? Hold up, what

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A huge majority of Americans (77%) oppose the cuts to medical research that the current administration has made. (Source: Wash. Post/ABC/Ipsos poll)

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PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

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[talking to the next cell] "what brings you to CECOT?" "i broke some university rules"

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Onboarding a new grad student

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The plan for NIH is in, source with full 64 page proposal for all of HHS is linked. Reported in WaPo. This is catastrophic. Reduction to 8 centers. 40% cut in budget. 15% IDC cap. This will decimate science across America open.substack.com/pub/insideme...

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Duration of membrane rupture (ie how long ago the water broke) better explains newborn microbione than birth mode (cesarean vs vaginal). This should change the way we think about birth and the 'microbial baptism' obgyn.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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Scoop: DOGE now controls how grant opportunities get posted across government. DOGE engineer removed users’ permissions to post to Grants-dot-gov without telling them. Now requests flow thru DOGE-controlled mailbox. with @carolynyjohnson.bsky.social + @hannahnatanson.bsky.social

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Most scientists wouldn't have a hard time saying "Large Language Models don't really know anything" but we'd have a harder time swallowing the same pill about that fancy multi-omic study we just commissioned for $$$. It might not really capture anything of importance. Here's the analogy

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Say you're grant writing. What's the statute of limitations on calling a technique "novel"? Never used before? Recently developed in the past few years? Never used before in this context?

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Hey @openbehavior.bsky.social do you know of any open source approaches to measuring blood pressure in rodents? I can't seem to find any

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New Substack! It's about whether higher education is suppressing the birth rate, as a recent Heritage Foundation report claims. When you dig into the data, it's clear that their arguments don't stand up. Defunding education won't fix the baby bust. darbysaxbe.substack.com/p/is-too-muc...

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NBC News: A federal judge just issued a final judgement and permanent injunction against the Trump admin — ruling that the National Institutes of Health must continue funding research grants at their original, full amounts. @msnbc.com

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I just heard that the NIH postbac program, the IRTA, has been discontinued indefinitely. Heartbreaking if true. That was how I got my start in science many years ago

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I do not like when the nerds who post graphs on here are all going "oof" and "jesus christ" at the same time

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Donald Trump has committed the most profound, harmful and unnecessary economic error in the modern era. Almost everything he said—on history, economics and the technicalities of trade—was utterly deluded econ.st/3YbbFjq

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Because what I need to feel less anxious about the funding climate is to drink coffee at 8pm

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Neural rhythms: delta (1.5–4 Hz), theta (4–8, 10 Hz), alpha (8, 10–12 Hz), beta (15–30 Hz), gamma (30–80 Hz) Electrophysiology, the pastime of madmen, laughs at your "alphabetical" order

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This show makes no sense! Why would anyone try to do this??

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Happy Unexpectedly Get Fed an Hour Early Day to all the dogs I know!

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Stand Up for Science y’all

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1. EXCLUSIVE Popular Information has obtained an email, sent yesterday by a Trump administration official, explicitly instructing CFPB employees not to carry out activities REQUIRED BY LAW. This directly contradicts what administration lawyers told a federal court.

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We are experiencing an assault on science unparalleled by anything I’ve seen in my life. It’s not one issue or another anymore, the entire institution is under attack by the most powerful individuals in the country. This Friday, where will you be? standupforscience2025.org

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eRA Commons, PubMed, and NIH.gov are all offline right now 🫥🫥🫥

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If you had mentally filed Stand Up for Science as "sometime in the future", please be aware that it's in a week and a half, so get your act together and figure out where the nearest one is happening. They are doing a massive organizational job on a very tight schedule.

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The tell that all the talk about annexing Canada, Panama, Greenland, or Gaza is just bluster and not real is that Trump hasn’t mentioned invading Cuba once. If he wanted to actually BE expansionist rather than just LOOK expansionist, there’s an obvious low hanging fruit.

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Pitt to pause PhD admissions, following Vanderbilt and USC, because of uncertainty of NIH funding to academic universities. Who will teach and train US scientists for pharma and biotech? Should we import them from countries that do? www.wesa.fm/health-scien...

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New favorite office art: my brain, 3-D printed from an MRI scan

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Does Peer Review Penalize Scientific Risk Taking? Evidence from NIH Grant Renewals www.nber.org/papers/w33495

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