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Time to try all those rhubarb recipes
May 4, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Time to try all those rhubarb recipes
Those two huge purple spikes abs when they happen
We've reached the point where any empirical reporting on the US economic policy just feels like trolling.
May 4, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Those two huge purple spikes abs when they happen
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“Yes, ALL childhood vaccines have been tested against placebos, and most have been tested against inert placebos (when they aren't, there's a very good reason why).”
theunbiasedscipod.substack.com/p/all-childh...
theunbiasedscipod.substack.com/p/all-childh...
All Childhood Vaccines Were Tested Against Placebos - Here's the Evidence
Most Used Inert (Saline) Controls. When They Didn't, Science and Ethics Tell Us Why
theunbiasedscipod.substack.com
May 2, 2025 at 3:47 PM
“Yes, ALL childhood vaccines have been tested against placebos, and most have been tested against inert placebos (when they aren't, there's a very good reason why).”
theunbiasedscipod.substack.com/p/all-childh...
theunbiasedscipod.substack.com/p/all-childh...
So much that is good is being cut
The proposed Trump budget is brutal, unless you’re the military or Homeland Security.
Here’s what gets cut:
- State Department: -84%
- National Science Foundation: -56%
- EPA: -54%
- HUD (housing): -44%
- Labor: -35%
- Interior: -30%
- Health & Human Services: -26%
- NASA: -24%
- Education: -15%
Here’s what gets cut:
- State Department: -84%
- National Science Foundation: -56%
- EPA: -54%
- HUD (housing): -44%
- Labor: -35%
- Interior: -30%
- Health & Human Services: -26%
- NASA: -24%
- Education: -15%
May 3, 2025 at 2:08 PM
So much that is good is being cut
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Francis Collins: “Reckless decisions will disrupt a noble institution with a stunningly positive track record, drive young scientists to leave the country, and damage the future health of the nation." www.science.org/content/arti...
NIH insiders: Trump is ‘dismantling and destroying everything’
After just 100 days, agency scientists say U.S. health institutes are demoralized and have lost essential staff and funding
www.science.org
May 1, 2025 at 2:24 AM
Francis Collins: “Reckless decisions will disrupt a noble institution with a stunningly positive track record, drive young scientists to leave the country, and damage the future health of the nation." www.science.org/content/arti...
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It’s chilling how low he can go!
April 30, 2025 at 6:55 PM
It’s chilling how low he can go!
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New at Can We Still Govern: An anonymous NIH employee maps out the GOP budget gameplan to permanently gut our most important science agency.
Impoundment, delay and red tape will create artificial "savings" that become the new benchmark for NIH budgets.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-nih-bu...
Impoundment, delay and red tape will create artificial "savings" that become the new benchmark for NIH budgets.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-nih-bu...
The NIH budget is on a fast track to disaster
An NIH insider explains what Republicans are likely to do next, and what we can do
donmoynihan.substack.com
April 28, 2025 at 12:50 PM
New at Can We Still Govern: An anonymous NIH employee maps out the GOP budget gameplan to permanently gut our most important science agency.
Impoundment, delay and red tape will create artificial "savings" that become the new benchmark for NIH budgets.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-nih-bu...
Impoundment, delay and red tape will create artificial "savings" that become the new benchmark for NIH budgets.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-nih-bu...
So many people are being hurt by these actions.
This is going to hurt a lot of people this summer, next winter, next summer ...
"A study published in The Economic Journal last year found that roughly 17 percent of U.S. households spend more than one-tenth of their income on energy."
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/02/c...
"A study published in The Economic Journal last year found that roughly 17 percent of U.S. households spend more than one-tenth of their income on energy."
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/02/c...
Entire Staff Is Fired at LIHEAP
The move threatens to paralyze the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program, which helps to offset high utility bills for roughly 6.2 million people nationwide.
www.nytimes.com
April 3, 2025 at 1:11 PM
So many people are being hurt by these actions.
I knew tnese people. I loved these people. And they are why I rarely watch smart-people comedies that mostly laugh at them rather than with them even if claiming to do otherwise.
Godspeed Val. Thank you for Chris Knight, Doc Hoilday and Madmartigan, Tom Kazansky, Ray Levoi, and so many others.
Godspeed Val. Thank you for Chris Knight, Doc Hoilday and Madmartigan, Tom Kazansky, Ray Levoi, and so many others.
April 3, 2025 at 1:09 PM
I knew tnese people. I loved these people. And they are why I rarely watch smart-people comedies that mostly laugh at them rather than with them even if claiming to do otherwise.
Godspeed Val. Thank you for Chris Knight, Doc Hoilday and Madmartigan, Tom Kazansky, Ray Levoi, and so many others.
Godspeed Val. Thank you for Chris Knight, Doc Hoilday and Madmartigan, Tom Kazansky, Ray Levoi, and so many others.
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"If America hasn't broken your heart, you don't love her enough." - @booker.senate.gov 😭😭😭
I feel this part of Senator Booker's speech in my gut.
I feel this part of Senator Booker's speech in my gut.
April 1, 2025 at 6:20 PM
"If America hasn't broken your heart, you don't love her enough." - @booker.senate.gov 😭😭😭
I feel this part of Senator Booker's speech in my gut.
I feel this part of Senator Booker's speech in my gut.
Wow.
April 2, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Wow.
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Americans are going hungry under Trump. Food banks across the country — already strained by deep cuts to locally grown food programs — the U.S. Department of Agriculture is canceling $500 million in expected food deliveries, further disrupting aid as demand continues to grow.
March 22, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Americans are going hungry under Trump. Food banks across the country — already strained by deep cuts to locally grown food programs — the U.S. Department of Agriculture is canceling $500 million in expected food deliveries, further disrupting aid as demand continues to grow.
We are losing a generation
these people are literally trying to destroy america’s future
Meet Gracie Himes, age 20.
Her goal: Fight cancer by developing new medicines.
On March 3, her dreams were shattered when Trump admin cuts hit West Virginia University, which rescinded her PhD program offer.
www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...
Her goal: Fight cancer by developing new medicines.
On March 3, her dreams were shattered when Trump admin cuts hit West Virginia University, which rescinded her PhD program offer.
www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...
March 15, 2025 at 6:02 AM
We are losing a generation
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Of the 4000 researchers at NIH, only 20% are tenured. They’re going to fire all the rest as their contracts come up for renewal, absolutely decimating research at the NIH. This is catastrophic, not just for Americans, but for the whole world.
www.science.org/content/arti...
www.science.org/content/arti...
NIH ban on renewing senior scientists adds to assaults on its in-house research
Policy follows firings of tenure-track scientists and suspension of training programs
www.science.org
February 28, 2025 at 6:19 AM
Of the 4000 researchers at NIH, only 20% are tenured. They’re going to fire all the rest as their contracts come up for renewal, absolutely decimating research at the NIH. This is catastrophic, not just for Americans, but for the whole world.
www.science.org/content/arti...
www.science.org/content/arti...
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What did astronomers use before there were telescopes?
Astronomical Instrumentation Before the Telescope - Astronomiae Instauratae Mechanica
YouTube video by Astronomy Before the Telescope
www.youtube.com
February 4, 2025 at 1:50 PM
What did astronomers use before there were telescopes?
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"The U.S. willingness to ignore its treaty obligations, even with friends, won’t make other countries eager to do deals." @wsj.com
Opinion | The Dumbest Trade War in History
Trump will impose 25% tariffs on Canada and Mexico for no good reason.
www.wsj.com
February 2, 2025 at 9:27 AM
"The U.S. willingness to ignore its treaty obligations, even with friends, won’t make other countries eager to do deals." @wsj.com
Repeat the data collection yourself if your must, especially if there is more than one way to logically get to the answer, or double and triple check all of your materials and methods, but never just throw out the data.
Removing datasets because you disagree with the fundamental underpinnings of the research is unethical. Period.
February 1, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Repeat the data collection yourself if your must, especially if there is more than one way to logically get to the answer, or double and triple check all of your materials and methods, but never just throw out the data.
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Guys when Chris Rufo and Trump say "We're destroying DEI, we're salting the earth underneath it" and they're talking about regulations that reach back to 1965, they're not talking about corporate diversity trainings.
They are talking about civil rights
They are talking about civil rights
January 23, 2025 at 12:27 AM
Guys when Chris Rufo and Trump say "We're destroying DEI, we're salting the earth underneath it" and they're talking about regulations that reach back to 1965, they're not talking about corporate diversity trainings.
They are talking about civil rights
They are talking about civil rights
The Chihuly museum was amazing.
January 23, 2025 at 3:18 AM
The Chihuly museum was amazing.
Sunset over Elliot Bay
January 19, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Sunset over Elliot Bay
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The popular understanding of how comets were viewed in the medieval period is that they were objects to be feared. It's not wrong, but it's also so much more...
The Flame Haired Stars: Comets Before the Telescope
YouTube video by Astronomy Before the Telescope
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January 13, 2025 at 1:41 AM
The popular understanding of how comets were viewed in the medieval period is that they were objects to be feared. It's not wrong, but it's also so much more...
Last semester, some of my students looked at the direction of the bounce. Next time I want them to look more closely at the balls themselves at the moment of collision. Sadly, my camera can only make 960 fps
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How backspin ACTUALLY works - in super slow motion
YouTube video by Steve Mould
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January 8, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Last semester, some of my students looked at the direction of the bounce. Next time I want them to look more closely at the balls themselves at the moment of collision. Sadly, my camera can only make 960 fps
youtu.be/hgcEIKHCI00?...
youtu.be/hgcEIKHCI00?...
Looking back on previous scribal work for inspiration on upcoming projects while in a break between lab prep projects. Should get back to the latter.
January 7, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Looking back on previous scribal work for inspiration on upcoming projects while in a break between lab prep projects. Should get back to the latter.