KC_CloggingProf
@cloggingprof.bsky.social
clogger (dance), Appalachian, science believer, faculty career coach, professor, culture changer, NOT a thought/cult leader
#NIH took down this notice. It wasn't even up long enough to get into the Wayback machine. You can still, for the moment, see it listed in the notices search page. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
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June 12, 2025 at 6:23 PM
AAAACCKKK!!!
Current and former Meta employees fear the new automation push comes at the cost of allowing AI to make tricky determinations about how Meta's apps could lead to real world harm.
Meta plans to replace humans with AI to assess privacy and societal risks
Current and former Meta employees fear the new automation push comes at the cost of allowing AI to make tricky determinations about how Meta's apps could lead to real world harm.
n.pr
May 31, 2025 at 5:28 PM
AAAACCKKK!!!
Yey!!!
Elon Musk is leaving the Department of Government Efficiency effort. His 130 day tenure was marked by legal setbacks, overstated savings claims and little evidence DOGE made things more efficient.
Elon Musk is leaving the federal government. What's next for DOGE?
Elon Musk is leaving the Department of Government Efficiency effort. His 130 day tenure was marked by legal setbacks, overstated savings claims and little evidence DOGE made things more efficient.
n.pr
May 30, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Yey!!!
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HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s "Make America Healthy Again" report cited hundreds of studies, but a closer look by the news organization NOTUS found that some of those studies did not exist.
White House acknowledges problems in RFK Jr.'s 'Make America Healthy Again' report
HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s "Make America Healthy Again" report cited hundreds of studies, but a closer look by the news organization NOTUS found that some of those studies did not exist.
n.pr
May 30, 2025 at 10:11 AM
HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s "Make America Healthy Again" report cited hundreds of studies, but a closer look by the news organization NOTUS found that some of those studies did not exist.
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“The skewed conservative interpretation of Orwell holds that freedom means the freedom to spread lies about topics like the 2020 election, COVID, vaccines or anything else. It depicts any effort to challenge falsehoods as an attack on this supposed freedom…”
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In honor of George Orwell, who inspired this effort, it’s called The Orwell Test. It consists of three questions that should be applied to any piece of information in order to determine whether it is lying propaganda.
www.theframelab.org/the-orwell-t...
www.theframelab.org/the-orwell-t...
The Orwell Test
Three questions to protect facts and freedom amid rising disinformation and propaganda
www.theframelab.org
May 29, 2025 at 4:56 AM
“The skewed conservative interpretation of Orwell holds that freedom means the freedom to spread lies about topics like the 2020 election, COVID, vaccines or anything else. It depicts any effort to challenge falsehoods as an attack on this supposed freedom…”
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From last week’s NIH town hall:
‘Bhattacharya said, “the other kind of studies [on redlining that] I want to distinguish is something like ‘structural racism causes poor health in minority populations.’ ”
“What do you think redlining is?” the audience member said.
Thank NIH ppl for standing up. 💪
‘Bhattacharya said, “the other kind of studies [on redlining that] I want to distinguish is something like ‘structural racism causes poor health in minority populations.’ ”
“What do you think redlining is?” the audience member said.
Thank NIH ppl for standing up. 💪
NIH staff stage walkout during director’s town hall as tensions persist over research cuts, ideology | CNN
Twenty-seven minutes into a town hall with staff last week, US National Institutes of Health Director Dr. Jay Bhattacharya acknowledged that he was going to get into uncomfortable territory.
edition.cnn.com
May 28, 2025 at 12:26 PM
From last week’s NIH town hall:
‘Bhattacharya said, “the other kind of studies [on redlining that] I want to distinguish is something like ‘structural racism causes poor health in minority populations.’ ”
“What do you think redlining is?” the audience member said.
Thank NIH ppl for standing up. 💪
‘Bhattacharya said, “the other kind of studies [on redlining that] I want to distinguish is something like ‘structural racism causes poor health in minority populations.’ ”
“What do you think redlining is?” the audience member said.
Thank NIH ppl for standing up. 💪
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Senate Bill 10 now goes back to the Senate for concurrence before advancing to Gov. Greg Abbott, who is expected to sign it into law. via @houstonpublicmedia.bsky.social
Texas House passes Senate bill requiring display of the Ten Commandments in all public-school classrooms | Houston Public Media
Senate Bill 10 now goes back to the Senate for concurrence before advancing to Gov. Greg Abbott, who is expected to sign it into law.
www.houstonpublicmedia.org
May 25, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Senate Bill 10 now goes back to the Senate for concurrence before advancing to Gov. Greg Abbott, who is expected to sign it into law. via @houstonpublicmedia.bsky.social
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All of NIH funding to Northwestern University is frozen. This pause includes noncompeting approved funding, new and competing grants with fundable scores. No reimbursements for money already spent have been received since March. This situation is rarely reported so please Please get the word out!
May 23, 2025 at 5:56 PM
All of NIH funding to Northwestern University is frozen. This pause includes noncompeting approved funding, new and competing grants with fundable scores. No reimbursements for money already spent have been received since March. This situation is rarely reported so please Please get the word out!
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NPR has identified nearly 40 small, independent entities – both inside and outside the federal government's control – that a team of young DOGE staffers has tried to access in recent weeks.
How DOGE has tried to embed beyond the executive branch
NPR has identified nearly 40 small, independent entities – both inside and outside the federal government's control – that a team of young DOGE staffers has tried to access in recent weeks.
www.npr.org
May 17, 2025 at 2:16 PM
NPR has identified nearly 40 small, independent entities – both inside and outside the federal government's control – that a team of young DOGE staffers has tried to access in recent weeks.
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Congratulations to our new Ph.D. graduates: Conor Duffy, Catherine Wall, Ashlynn Bell, and Sarah Morton!
May 11, 2025 at 1:40 AM
Congratulations to our new Ph.D. graduates: Conor Duffy, Catherine Wall, Ashlynn Bell, and Sarah Morton!
Someone said it
There is no law against a lot of what’s happening because it never occurred to anyone that someone might want to do it.
May 7, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Someone said it
None of this will matter as long as editors and boards maintain integrity.
Ed Martin, the acting US attorney for DC, has harassed medical journals with letters accusing them of acting as “partisans” in scientific debates.
Those letters may have been inspired—even directed—by RFK Jr. @dfriedman.bsky.social reports:
Those letters may have been inspired—even directed—by RFK Jr. @dfriedman.bsky.social reports:
RFK Jr. may have inspired acting US Attorney’s harassment of medical journals
Ed Martin's nomination may be DOA, but MAHA lives on.
www.motherjones.com
May 7, 2025 at 6:56 PM
None of this will matter as long as editors and boards maintain integrity.
Love this!
My latest piece in the Detroit Free Press, taking on myths and misconceptions about DEI 👇
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DEI isn't about hiring quotas. It's about opportunity. | Opinion
Detractors reduce DEI to racist rhetoric and bureaucratic bloat. The vision they invoke is an unkind caricature. A distortion. A fiction.
www.freep.com
May 7, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Love this!
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Salt Lake City, Utah, and Boise, Idaho, adopted official Pride flags on Tuesday in response to state laws barring the display of any nonofficial flags at schools and government buildings.
Salt Lake City and Boise Adopt Official Pride Flags in Response to State Laws
www.nytimes.com
May 7, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Salt Lake City, Utah, and Boise, Idaho, adopted official Pride flags on Tuesday in response to state laws barring the display of any nonofficial flags at schools and government buildings.
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You and millions of other people rely on the NPR Network for trustworthy journalism.
NPR’s editorial integrity and independence are non-negotiable. It’s a promise we make to you – a promise we will fight to keep. Now, we need your support.
Donate today: n.pr/3EYClNR
NPR’s editorial integrity and independence are non-negotiable. It’s a promise we make to you – a promise we will fight to keep. Now, we need your support.
Donate today: n.pr/3EYClNR
May 5, 2025 at 8:14 PM
You and millions of other people rely on the NPR Network for trustworthy journalism.
NPR’s editorial integrity and independence are non-negotiable. It’s a promise we make to you – a promise we will fight to keep. Now, we need your support.
Donate today: n.pr/3EYClNR
NPR’s editorial integrity and independence are non-negotiable. It’s a promise we make to you – a promise we will fight to keep. Now, we need your support.
Donate today: n.pr/3EYClNR
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The Faces of Gun Violence exhibit at the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) headquarters showed the portraits of 120 people killed in gun violence in the U.S.
An exhibit honoring victims of gun violence is taken down at ATF headquarters
The Faces of Gun Violence exhibit at the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) headquarters showed the portraits of 120 people killed in gun violence in the U.S.
www.npr.org
May 5, 2025 at 10:18 AM
The Faces of Gun Violence exhibit at the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) headquarters showed the portraits of 120 people killed in gun violence in the U.S.
Are we even acknowledging this insanity??
A visual analysis shows the U.S. likely bombed a migrant detention center in Yemen on April 28. At least three U.S.-made GBU-39 bombs at the site of the attack, which killed 68 African migrants, according to the Houthis, a militant group that controls northern Yemen.
Video: Visual Analysis Shows U.S. Likely Bombed Yemen Migrant Detention Center
Videos and photos reveal remnants of at least three U.S.-made GBU-39 bombs at the site of an April 28 attack. The strike killed 68 African migrants, according to the Houthis, a militant group that con...
www.nytimes.com
May 4, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Are we even acknowledging this insanity??
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Could you imagine if the head of the United States healthcare system didn’t believe that HIV caused AIDS?
…And that instead they believed that AIDS is caused by recreational drugs (“poppers”) used by gay people?
Oh wait…🥴
…And that instead they believed that AIDS is caused by recreational drugs (“poppers”) used by gay people?
Oh wait…🥴
May 2, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Could you imagine if the head of the United States healthcare system didn’t believe that HIV caused AIDS?
…And that instead they believed that AIDS is caused by recreational drugs (“poppers”) used by gay people?
Oh wait…🥴
…And that instead they believed that AIDS is caused by recreational drugs (“poppers”) used by gay people?
Oh wait…🥴
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Your regular reminder that NSF grants built the internet and helped the U.S. dominate tech.
BREAKING: NSF has frozen all grant funding, as of yesterday. It's unclear when they will resume funding awards, or why the pause has been put in place. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Exclusive: NSF stops awarding new grants and funding existing ones
US science funder also plans to screen grant applications for compliance with ‘agency priorities’.
www.nature.com
May 2, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Your regular reminder that NSF grants built the internet and helped the U.S. dominate tech.
I long for these olden days.
Remember when you could just run an errand, without a phone call two days in advance asking you to confirm, a text message the day before asking you to confirm, and and endless escalating series of messages afterward demanding your participation in a customer satisfaction survey?
May 2, 2025 at 3:22 PM
I long for these olden days.
We should do that!! But I guess the group running things isn't going to declare themselves extremist.
Breaking News: Germany classified the right-wing Alternative for Germany party as an extremist group, giving intelligence officials more tools to monitor it.
Far-Right AfD Is Labeled Extremist by Germany’s Intelligence Agency
The designation is certain to inflame debates over whether the party should be banned, though some polls show it to be the most popular in the country.
www.nytimes.com
May 2, 2025 at 3:20 PM
We should do that!! But I guess the group running things isn't going to declare themselves extremist.
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“This is taxpayer-funded, state-sponsored religious indoctrination. You’ve just got to call it what it is.”
The Supreme Court is about to let religion ruin public education
Two recent cases suggest that the era of secular schools is coming to an end.
www.motherjones.com
May 1, 2025 at 9:10 PM
“This is taxpayer-funded, state-sponsored religious indoctrination. You’ve just got to call it what it is.”
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Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, the Supreme Court’s newest member, denounced on Thursday what she described as "relentless attacks" on judges, and an environment of harassment that "ultimately risks undermining our Constitution and the rule of law."
Attacks on Judges Undermine Democracy, Warns Ketanji Brown Jackson
Speaking to a judicial conference, the Supreme Court justice said attacks were designed to intimidate and influence.
www.nytimes.com
May 2, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, the Supreme Court’s newest member, denounced on Thursday what she described as "relentless attacks" on judges, and an environment of harassment that "ultimately risks undermining our Constitution and the rule of law."
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It’s not nobody pulling on their bootstraps. It’s wage theft.
Do you know how much CEO pay has skyrocketed since 1978?
100%? 500%?
Try 1,085%
Meanwhile, the $7.25/hr fed. minimum wage hasn't budged in 15 years and the tipped min. wage has been $2.13/hr since 1991.
This is what I mean when I say the system is rigged.
100%? 500%?
Try 1,085%
Meanwhile, the $7.25/hr fed. minimum wage hasn't budged in 15 years and the tipped min. wage has been $2.13/hr since 1991.
This is what I mean when I say the system is rigged.
May 1, 2025 at 10:44 PM
It’s not nobody pulling on their bootstraps. It’s wage theft.
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Other countries have watched their democracies slip away quietly, without tanks in the streets. That may be where we’re headed—or where we already are.
Is the U.S. Becoming an Autocracy?
Other countries have watched their democracies slip away gradually, without tanks in the streets. That may be where we’re headed—or where we already are.
www.newyorker.com
April 28, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Other countries have watched their democracies slip away quietly, without tanks in the streets. That may be where we’re headed—or where we already are.