Samantha Miller
@agronomommy.bsky.social
Agronomist, mom, international development groupie, confident in the future and inspired by big challenges.
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Interestingly, in Loper Bright vs Raimondo, the conservative majority on SCOTUS ruled just last year that the judiciary can in fact overrule regulatory decisions made by the executive branch especially when those decisions are not specified by Congress.
February 9, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Interestingly, in Loper Bright vs Raimondo, the conservative majority on SCOTUS ruled just last year that the judiciary can in fact overrule regulatory decisions made by the executive branch especially when those decisions are not specified by Congress.
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This is the most relevant article to NIH and research cuts I’ve seen.
Imagine if this was today , how many people would be saying “Why are we studying Gila Monsters and their impact on diabetes ? That’s wasted money !”
globalnews.ca/news/9793403...
Imagine if this was today , how many people would be saying “Why are we studying Gila Monsters and their impact on diabetes ? That’s wasted money !”
globalnews.ca/news/9793403...
How a Canadian scientist and a venomous lizard helped pave the way for Ozempic - National | Globalnews.ca
In 1984, Dr. Daniel Drucker, an endocrinologist from the University of Toronto, discovered a hormone that helped pave the way for popular diabetes drugs such as Ozempic.
globalnews.ca
February 9, 2025 at 9:58 PM
This is the most relevant article to NIH and research cuts I’ve seen.
Imagine if this was today , how many people would be saying “Why are we studying Gila Monsters and their impact on diabetes ? That’s wasted money !”
globalnews.ca/news/9793403...
Imagine if this was today , how many people would be saying “Why are we studying Gila Monsters and their impact on diabetes ? That’s wasted money !”
globalnews.ca/news/9793403...
I know I had a great time last night because someone had one of those stupid Southern Marsh shirts on where the brand logo is an embroidered cotton boll and I made him let me read his collar to inform him that his shirt was 100% polyester.
February 3, 2025 at 1:49 PM
I know I had a great time last night because someone had one of those stupid Southern Marsh shirts on where the brand logo is an embroidered cotton boll and I made him let me read his collar to inform him that his shirt was 100% polyester.
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If you offer an across-the-board buyout to 2 million people, the best have outside options and will take it; the worst have none and will stay.
Either (1) Elon Musk is an idiot, and he doesn't understand adverse selection or worse yet (2) he isn't, he does, and he wants the best gone.
Gift link:
Either (1) Elon Musk is an idiot, and he doesn't understand adverse selection or worse yet (2) he isn't, he does, and he wants the best gone.
Gift link:
Trump Administration Offers 2 Million Federal Workers Payouts to Resign (Gift Article)
www.nytimes.com
January 29, 2025 at 8:07 AM
If you offer an across-the-board buyout to 2 million people, the best have outside options and will take it; the worst have none and will stay.
Either (1) Elon Musk is an idiot, and he doesn't understand adverse selection or worse yet (2) he isn't, he does, and he wants the best gone.
Gift link:
Either (1) Elon Musk is an idiot, and he doesn't understand adverse selection or worse yet (2) he isn't, he does, and he wants the best gone.
Gift link:
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🧵: I am getting texts on what scientists should do in this perilous and scary moment. My advice: your biggest power is to organize through your professional societies. A few ideas -
January 23, 2025 at 9:46 PM
🧵: I am getting texts on what scientists should do in this perilous and scary moment. My advice: your biggest power is to organize through your professional societies. A few ideas -
Everyone says take a breath but really you need three.
Take three breaths.
Take three breaths.
January 24, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Everyone says take a breath but really you need three.
Take three breaths.
Take three breaths.
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The price of eggs in the US is spiking, mostly due to #H5N1 bird flu. Solving the problem requires urgent, important communications from the CDC & FDA* and rapid development of research by the NIH**
* Currently paused by Executive Order
** Grant reviews now all canceled
www.kcur.org/news/2025-01...
* Currently paused by Executive Order
** Grant reviews now all canceled
www.kcur.org/news/2025-01...
Egg prices are soaring again. Here’s why and what to expect
Bird flu has killed millions of hens in recent weeks, shrinking the supply of eggs and hiking up prices at grocery stores.
www.kcur.org
January 23, 2025 at 5:18 PM
The price of eggs in the US is spiking, mostly due to #H5N1 bird flu. Solving the problem requires urgent, important communications from the CDC & FDA* and rapid development of research by the NIH**
* Currently paused by Executive Order
** Grant reviews now all canceled
www.kcur.org/news/2025-01...
* Currently paused by Executive Order
** Grant reviews now all canceled
www.kcur.org/news/2025-01...
Does anyone who knows something about planes have time to explain to me why deicing is a thing?
They can heat sidewalks and steering wheels but they can’t run a little heating wire along the edges?
Plug it into a cigarette lighter and let’s be on our way.
@airplanegeeks.bsky.social
They can heat sidewalks and steering wheels but they can’t run a little heating wire along the edges?
Plug it into a cigarette lighter and let’s be on our way.
@airplanegeeks.bsky.social
January 24, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Does anyone who knows something about planes have time to explain to me why deicing is a thing?
They can heat sidewalks and steering wheels but they can’t run a little heating wire along the edges?
Plug it into a cigarette lighter and let’s be on our way.
@airplanegeeks.bsky.social
They can heat sidewalks and steering wheels but they can’t run a little heating wire along the edges?
Plug it into a cigarette lighter and let’s be on our way.
@airplanegeeks.bsky.social
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The Department of Justice has just DELETED its four-year-old webpage on the US Capitol riot investigations.
January 23, 2025 at 3:52 PM
The Department of Justice has just DELETED its four-year-old webpage on the US Capitol riot investigations.
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1. Sabotage public institutions.
2. Claim they don’t work efficiently.
3. Eliminate them.
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That’s the playbook.
2. Claim they don’t work efficiently.
3. Eliminate them.
—
That’s the playbook.
January 23, 2025 at 4:20 PM
1. Sabotage public institutions.
2. Claim they don’t work efficiently.
3. Eliminate them.
—
That’s the playbook.
2. Claim they don’t work efficiently.
3. Eliminate them.
—
That’s the playbook.
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Fun fact: if you're buying from a creator on etsy, you can reduce their etsy selling fees from 6.5% to 2.5% by ordering via 'shopname.etsy.com' instead of 'etsy.com/shopname' or searching from the main site. It costs you the same but the creator makes more
January 22, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Fun fact: if you're buying from a creator on etsy, you can reduce their etsy selling fees from 6.5% to 2.5% by ordering via 'shopname.etsy.com' instead of 'etsy.com/shopname' or searching from the main site. It costs you the same but the creator makes more
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Devastating for scientists and their research, and everyone who benefits from that research.
I’m not sure if everyone outside academia is aware that a delay or “pause” in grant funding often means the researchers themselves are lost from the field, along with their expertise.
I’m not sure if everyone outside academia is aware that a delay or “pause” in grant funding often means the researchers themselves are lost from the field, along with their expertise.
NIH appears to have canceled/postponed all of its study sections—the independent review panels that approve federal grants for health research.
Such grants fund the work/salaries of 300k people at more than 2,500 institutions
Such grants fund the work/salaries of 300k people at more than 2,500 institutions
All NIH study sections canceled indefinitely. This will halt science and devastate research budgets in universities.
January 22, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Devastating for scientists and their research, and everyone who benefits from that research.
I’m not sure if everyone outside academia is aware that a delay or “pause” in grant funding often means the researchers themselves are lost from the field, along with their expertise.
I’m not sure if everyone outside academia is aware that a delay or “pause” in grant funding often means the researchers themselves are lost from the field, along with their expertise.
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