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Huge shout out to all of you scientists out there who are continuing to science in stressful times!!! 💪🏼🎊🧪🧑‍🔬👩🏻‍🔬👨‍🔬👩🏽‍🔬👨🏿‍🔬

Pictured: awesome postdoc @elizabethcrummy.bsky.social presenting super interesting data at lab meeting today re: neural circuits underlying active avoidance
February 19, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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🧠💬 Can regulating emotions in a few people shift an entire group’s mindset?

A new study finds emotion regulation contagion can reduce negative intergroup emotions.

When 40% of a group used cognitive reappraisal, even untreated members showed change.

🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#SciComm 🧪
Emotion regulation contagion drives reduction in negative intergroup emotions - Nature Communications
Here the authors show that an emotion regulation intervention for reducing negative intergroup emotions in conflicts can decrease negative emotions not only in treated participants but also in nontrea...
www.nature.com
February 7, 2025 at 11:43 AM
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Pretty damn spot-on, don’t you think?
December 14, 2024 at 9:10 PM
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My message to Tennessee
December 15, 2024 at 12:02 PM
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Land doesn’t vote. Stop pretending it does.
December 14, 2024 at 9:08 PM
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Religion was fabricated to control the masses and answer questions for which they had no answers.

Now it’s simply a justification for hatred, division, and violence.
December 14, 2024 at 2:02 PM
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December 11, 2024 at 12:36 PM
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When gas prices spike, food prices spike and the economy collapses they will STILL only care about their bigotry. There will never be an, "Oh I screwed up," moment.
November 25, 2024 at 10:17 AM
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Truth. #LedZeppelin 🎸🎸
November 25, 2024 at 1:55 PM
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Tammy Duckworth on Tulsi Gabbard: "I think she's compromised ... Russian controlled media called her a Russian asset."
November 24, 2024 at 2:29 PM
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Someone called this mass exodus from Twitter ‘the fall of the Broman Empire’ and I died laughing. 💀
November 23, 2024 at 6:42 PM
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They're such whiny victims, even when they have all the power they still complain about being supposedly victimized, so now they're trying to rig the rules of broadcast TV to protect themselves, and promote themselves, further.

Brian Lowry for Zeteo:
Protecting Trump's Thin Skin: The New GOP Push to Regulate Network Television in the US
Trump wants to make Brendan Carr, who wrote for Project 2025, the head of his FCC – and Carr wants to go after NBC and the other big broadcasters.
zeteo.com
November 23, 2024 at 5:42 PM
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2014: the movie Idiocracy is basically a documentary

2024: the movie Idiocracy is a beautiful and aspirational look at a future brighter than our own. a tantalizing glimpse into a better world that has already slipped from our fingertips.
November 23, 2024 at 4:07 AM
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Wasn’t there some woman from California who was running for something who told us this was going to happen
President-elect Trump and his allies disavowed the conservative Project 2025 during the election.

Now, his transition team is turning to Project 2025 to help staff the next administration, sources tell @nbcnews.com.
Trump's transition team turns to Project 2025 after disavowing it during the campaign
Transition officials have used Project 2025's extensive personnel database for potential candidates to hire for the incoming administration, a person familiar the plans said.
www.nbcnews.com
November 23, 2024 at 6:22 PM
November 23, 2024 at 11:38 PM
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Trump is telling us that he’s going to fire hundreds of thousands, deport tens of millions, kick tens of millions off their healthcare & cut hundreds of millions in social programs and Ma and Pa MAGA STILL believe all of this shit is going to help them in some fucking way.

Narrator: it’s not.
November 23, 2024 at 1:06 AM
She is a horrible pick and a huge risk
November 23, 2024 at 4:42 PM
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I’m old enough to remember there was some lady (I think she was like Black and Indian or something) who told us he was gonna do this and it would be bad
November 23, 2024 at 1:22 PM
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One Pam Bondi story that stuck with me was the time she convinced the governor to reschedule an execution so she could attend a campaign fundraiser
November 22, 2024 at 12:15 AM
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Incredible that the US government does more to protect Netanyahu from the consequences of his crimes than it does protecting the US people from Trump or his crimes.
November 22, 2024 at 2:56 AM
It's never been, and never will be, "just politics". We have every right to reject them as the cancer that they are.
November 22, 2024 at 12:29 PM
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A reminder today, as US politicians including the President fall over one another to attack the ICC over arrest warrants and defend Netanyahu…
November 21, 2024 at 2:19 PM
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Scientists mapped 1.6M gut cells, creating the largest atlas of its kind. This resource links specific cells to inflammation in IBD and cancer, offering new treatment insights. The freely available tool enables global research collaboration for medical breakthroughs.
www.sciencedaily.com...
Mapping 1.6 million gut cells to find new ways treat disease
By combining 25 datasets, researchers have created the largest cohesive cell atlas of the human gut and uncovered a new way that stomach cells may play a role in Inflammatory Bowel Disease.
www.sciencedaily.com
November 22, 2024 at 2:45 AM
I cannot believe people are sharing their private medical information with this "mad scientist!"
fortune.com/2024/11/20/e...
Elon Musk asked people to upload their medical data to X so his AI company could learn to interpret MRIs and CT scans
Health care experts are worried about Grok’s potential to breach patient privacy.
fortune.com
November 21, 2024 at 3:31 PM
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If Marjorie Taylor Greene and Matt Gaetz’s PPP loans can be canceled, we can cancel student debt.
May 15, 2023 at 5:40 PM