nate s jacobs
@natesjacobs.bsky.social
surfer, dad, (former) neuroscientist, research technologist, entrepreneur, open science advocate, sometimes writer.
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The media needs to stop writing headlines like “The CDC changes course on vaccines and autism” and “The CDC defends measles response”.
NONE of this is coming from legitimate scientists at the CDC.
ALL of it is coming from RFK Jr.
Every such headline is causing further harm to public health.
NONE of this is coming from legitimate scientists at the CDC.
ALL of it is coming from RFK Jr.
Every such headline is causing further harm to public health.
December 17, 2025 at 1:49 AM
The media needs to stop writing headlines like “The CDC changes course on vaccines and autism” and “The CDC defends measles response”.
NONE of this is coming from legitimate scientists at the CDC.
ALL of it is coming from RFK Jr.
Every such headline is causing further harm to public health.
NONE of this is coming from legitimate scientists at the CDC.
ALL of it is coming from RFK Jr.
Every such headline is causing further harm to public health.
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This is an intellectual war crime.
NCAR is one of the nation's, and the world's, pre-eminent research institutions.
www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...
NCAR is one of the nation's, and the world's, pre-eminent research institutions.
www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...
Trump moves to dismantle major US climate research center in Colorado
The Trump administration is breaking up the National Center for Atmospheric Research, taking aim at one of the world's leading climate research labs.
www.usatoday.com
December 17, 2025 at 3:34 AM
This is an intellectual war crime.
NCAR is one of the nation's, and the world's, pre-eminent research institutions.
www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...
NCAR is one of the nation's, and the world's, pre-eminent research institutions.
www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...
Lots of life changes over here. And beautiful King Tide sunsets!!!
November 9, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Lots of life changes over here. And beautiful King Tide sunsets!!!
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Richest nation in human history
November 7, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Richest nation in human history
Damn we’re all going to have an epic battle for that package 😂
September 16, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Damn we’re all going to have an epic battle for that package 😂
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People are less likely to believe conspiracy theories when they get clear, simple, and early information from trusted sources. Using tools like “prebunking” and reaching people where they are (like on social media) can help build trust and reduce misinformation.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Conspiracy belief and the willful ignorance of information
The idea that conspiracy believers are prone to willful ignorance is widespread, yet many seemingly supporting studies lack designs suited to test thi…
www.sciencedirect.com
September 11, 2025 at 6:52 PM
People are less likely to believe conspiracy theories when they get clear, simple, and early information from trusted sources. Using tools like “prebunking” and reaching people where they are (like on social media) can help build trust and reduce misinformation.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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The takeaway:
👉 Accommodating the radical right on immigration doesn’t win back voters.
👉 It alienates the progressive base.
👉 And it raises the salience of the very issue the radical right owns.
In short: it’s electoral self-harm.
👉 Accommodating the radical right on immigration doesn’t win back voters.
👉 It alienates the progressive base.
👉 And it raises the salience of the very issue the radical right owns.
In short: it’s electoral self-harm.
September 5, 2025 at 6:50 AM
The takeaway:
👉 Accommodating the radical right on immigration doesn’t win back voters.
👉 It alienates the progressive base.
👉 And it raises the salience of the very issue the radical right owns.
In short: it’s electoral self-harm.
👉 Accommodating the radical right on immigration doesn’t win back voters.
👉 It alienates the progressive base.
👉 And it raises the salience of the very issue the radical right owns.
In short: it’s electoral self-harm.
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Concern over low birth rates was what the theocracy in Margaret Atwood’s Handmaid’s Tale used to come to power.
September 2, 2025 at 1:56 AM
Concern over low birth rates was what the theocracy in Margaret Atwood’s Handmaid’s Tale used to come to power.
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I only have like 2 shirts with writing on them, but I want this.
July 20, 2025 at 11:52 AM
I only have like 2 shirts with writing on them, but I want this.
Whatever you do, don’t sneeze while you’re holding coffee
July 20, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Whatever you do, don’t sneeze while you’re holding coffee
Am watching Napoleon Dynamite right now. That’s all. Happy Thursday and happy whiskey lemonades
July 11, 2025 at 5:59 AM
Am watching Napoleon Dynamite right now. That’s all. Happy Thursday and happy whiskey lemonades
Never fear, you just blame the bad stuff on the spending part and credit the good stuff to the tax break part!
The GOP blew past debt warnings as they pushed the megabill forward. The markets have noticed.
Wall Street’s debt warnings went unheeded as GOP pushed megabill forward
Treasury bond yields have crept up as market watchers openly wonder if either party is capable of improving the nation's fiscal trajectory.
www.politico.com
July 10, 2025 at 1:38 AM
Never fear, you just blame the bad stuff on the spending part and credit the good stuff to the tax break part!
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Yes. This is in fact what each VP did.
July 4, 2025 at 9:51 AM
Yes. This is in fact what each VP did.
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Wishing everyone a happy Fourth of July!
249 years since we declared independence from a king, the work of living up to our founding promise is more important than ever - and it calls on each of us to do what we can for our country.
249 years since we declared independence from a king, the work of living up to our founding promise is more important than ever - and it calls on each of us to do what we can for our country.
July 4, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Wishing everyone a happy Fourth of July!
249 years since we declared independence from a king, the work of living up to our founding promise is more important than ever - and it calls on each of us to do what we can for our country.
249 years since we declared independence from a king, the work of living up to our founding promise is more important than ever - and it calls on each of us to do what we can for our country.
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Joseph Carens, a poli sci prof at Toronto, said that national borders are like feudalism — if you happen to be born into the manor (ie hold a ‘good’ citizenship) the system seems right and proper to you, but there’s nothing you can say to the serf in the field to justify *their* lack of opportunity,
June 27, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Joseph Carens, a poli sci prof at Toronto, said that national borders are like feudalism — if you happen to be born into the manor (ie hold a ‘good’ citizenship) the system seems right and proper to you, but there’s nothing you can say to the serf in the field to justify *their* lack of opportunity,
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KTLA - Narciso Barranco, a father to three sons who are all US Marines, pepper-sprayed and punched in the face by alleged federal immigration officers while he was working as a landscaper at an IHOP. He was then forced into the back of an unmarked car in Santa Ana.
Masked men in U.S. Border Patrol vests take Santa Ana father after repeatedly hitting him
In a graphic video that has since gone viral on social media, about seven or more masked men wearing U.S. Border Patrol vests are seen violently detaining a Santa Ana father before forcing him into…
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June 23, 2025 at 12:13 AM
KTLA - Narciso Barranco, a father to three sons who are all US Marines, pepper-sprayed and punched in the face by alleged federal immigration officers while he was working as a landscaper at an IHOP. He was then forced into the back of an unmarked car in Santa Ana.
Can someone please put Trump in the simulator already? He can have all the ketchup and well done steak and underage blow jobs and big red buttons and phalic missiles he wants in there
June 17, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Can someone please put Trump in the simulator already? He can have all the ketchup and well done steak and underage blow jobs and big red buttons and phalic missiles he wants in there
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I'm sorry but the largest protest of my lifetime is not the 7th or 8th biggest news story in the country behind "what does Gen Z want from Instagram?" This shit is humiliating. Rearrange your layout to meet this moment. Omitting the thing happening in every American city is malpractice.
June 14, 2025 at 9:42 PM
I'm sorry but the largest protest of my lifetime is not the 7th or 8th biggest news story in the country behind "what does Gen Z want from Instagram?" This shit is humiliating. Rearrange your layout to meet this moment. Omitting the thing happening in every American city is malpractice.
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This is part of why we need contingency plans. “The NIH isn’t going to fund this research for a while so stop doing it” is extremely short-sighted and harmful. We need people to have more vision than that.
I worry that not enough of a big deal is being made about how long-term the devastation of these budget cuts to our scientific and health agencies will be, beyond the absolute ruin they will cause in the acute period.
June 4, 2025 at 2:28 AM
This is part of why we need contingency plans. “The NIH isn’t going to fund this research for a while so stop doing it” is extremely short-sighted and harmful. We need people to have more vision than that.
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how it started / how it's going
June 2, 2025 at 3:46 AM
how it started / how it's going
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The Tr*mp administration’s interference with publishing scientific research/opinions and the appointment of someone with no scientific knowledge or expertise to make public health decisions should remind us all of Lysenko, whose incompetence and pseudoscience led to millions of deaths.
I’m no historian, but this all seems pretty relevant… #greenscreen #science #research #nejm #jama #lancet #nih #nsf #va #veteranshealth
TikTok video by Dr. Arghavan Salles
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June 2, 2025 at 10:54 PM
The Tr*mp administration’s interference with publishing scientific research/opinions and the appointment of someone with no scientific knowledge or expertise to make public health decisions should remind us all of Lysenko, whose incompetence and pseudoscience led to millions of deaths.
So… am watching last of us. And I know it’s a zombie movie but as a surfer the scene where Ellie gets hit by a wave in Seattle and survives for more than 5 min in that water, it’s just so much more unbelievable than the zombies. It really is a black mark on the series 😂😂
May 26, 2025 at 6:10 AM
So… am watching last of us. And I know it’s a zombie movie but as a surfer the scene where Ellie gets hit by a wave in Seattle and survives for more than 5 min in that water, it’s just so much more unbelievable than the zombies. It really is a black mark on the series 😂😂
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“Without sufficient funding, research progress stalls, new prevention or treatments with be delayed or absent, young scientists will leave the field or move abroad, and promising breakthroughs will remain trapped in the lab instead of reaching the people who need them most”
The Fight for Science
Thoughts and Actions to Take From My Visit to Capitol Hill
fromthescienceclass.substack.com
May 20, 2025 at 2:45 AM
“Without sufficient funding, research progress stalls, new prevention or treatments with be delayed or absent, young scientists will leave the field or move abroad, and promising breakthroughs will remain trapped in the lab instead of reaching the people who need them most”
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I was just hearing about this and searching for news on postdoc funding awards. If you know more, please share.
Having a hard time processing this. HHMI is pausing all competitions. Very demoralizing for early career scientists like me @hhmi.org
May 16, 2025 at 4:08 PM
I was just hearing about this and searching for news on postdoc funding awards. If you know more, please share.