@prayingforrain.bsky.social
Hey man of science with your perfect rules of measure, can you improve this place with the data that you gather?
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My ballot was counted this year, but in a previous election is was rejected and I had to fix it — just took a couple of minutes. Make sure yours was counted Seattle! info.kingcounty.gov/kcelections/...
November 6, 2025 at 10:16 PM
My ballot was counted this year, but in a previous election is was rejected and I had to fix it — just took a couple of minutes. Make sure yours was counted Seattle! info.kingcounty.gov/kcelections/...
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The new SPOG contract will make Seattle cops some of the country’s highest paid.
Among the biggest beneficiaries will be the mayor’s protection detail, who made more than Bruce himself last year.
Among the biggest beneficiaries will be the mayor’s protection detail, who made more than Bruce himself last year.
October 28, 2025 at 6:06 PM
The new SPOG contract will make Seattle cops some of the country’s highest paid.
Among the biggest beneficiaries will be the mayor’s protection detail, who made more than Bruce himself last year.
Among the biggest beneficiaries will be the mayor’s protection detail, who made more than Bruce himself last year.
Oh, the irony of ending up on a Link with delayed service problems on the way to SeaTac with this book in my bag...
October 24, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Oh, the irony of ending up on a Link with delayed service problems on the way to SeaTac with this book in my bag...
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Updating my LEGO White House
October 23, 2025 at 2:51 AM
Updating my LEGO White House
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After two years of public process to discuss potential improvements to Lake Washington Boulevard, the city has tabled the second half of the safety measures it had planned to install on the street this year.
Seattle tables safety plan for Lake Washington Boulevard after Mayor's Office weighs in
After two years of public process to discuss potential improvements to Lake Washington Boulevard, the city has tabled the second half of the safety measures it had planned to install on the street thi...
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September 15, 2025 at 3:15 PM
After two years of public process to discuss potential improvements to Lake Washington Boulevard, the city has tabled the second half of the safety measures it had planned to install on the street this year.
This is the way
The Seattle City Council is about to start taking votes on the 20-year Comprehensive Plan which will determine how housing in Seattle is built.
I biked around Seattle to talk to people about what we need to do to build more housing, and make our communities more walkable, and livable.
I biked around Seattle to talk to people about what we need to do to build more housing, and make our communities more walkable, and livable.
August 26, 2025 at 3:37 PM
This is the way
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This is unacceptable. We can do better.
You may remember: this is the same intersection, immediately adjacent to the Mt Baker kids swim beach, where a car careened off the road and exploded into the beach.
SDOT proposed adding stop signs here to help calm traffic, but the Mayor’s office killed the idea because car advocates complained.
SDOT proposed adding stop signs here to help calm traffic, but the Mayor’s office killed the idea because car advocates complained.
Personally I think our Park Boulevards should not be designed allow cars to speed so fast they careen off them into popular children swim beaches, exploding into a burnt out husk, and polluting the water 🤷🏼♂️
June 16, 2025 at 12:22 AM
This is unacceptable. We can do better.
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Everything that’s happened over the past six months has been a response to an imaginary crisis. There is no immigrant invasion. No trade crisis. No scientific or governance crisis. Just people completely high off their own supply trying to fundamentally reorder society. None of this had to happen.
June 9, 2025 at 12:39 AM
Everything that’s happened over the past six months has been a response to an imaginary crisis. There is no immigrant invasion. No trade crisis. No scientific or governance crisis. Just people completely high off their own supply trying to fundamentally reorder society. None of this had to happen.
For a supposed "job creating" administration, these cuts will have devastating effects on the science job market.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Every $1 spent on NIH funding returns nearly $3 to the economy - an almost 200% return on investment💰.
Also 99% of drugs developed 2010-2019 were funded by NIH ‼️🤯
Cutting NIH funding not only hurts the economy but will hurt families and patients 😔💔
Every $1 spent on NIH funding returns nearly $3 to the economy - an almost 200% return on investment💰.
Also 99% of drugs developed 2010-2019 were funded by NIH ‼️🤯
Cutting NIH funding not only hurts the economy but will hurt families and patients 😔💔
NIH indirect cost cuts will affect the economy and employment - Nature Human Behaviour
Nature Human Behaviour - NIH indirect cost cuts will affect the economy and employment
www.nature.com
June 4, 2025 at 1:34 AM
For a supposed "job creating" administration, these cuts will have devastating effects on the science job market.
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The perfect bird feeder doesn't exi--
June 3, 2025 at 11:08 AM
The perfect bird feeder doesn't exi--
So so frustrating. What are we doing?!?!?
There are 2 previous historical cases of countries destroying their science and universities, crippling them for decades: Lysenkoism in the USSR and Nazi Germany. The Trump administration will be the 3rd.
It's not just budgets but research, institutions, expertise, and training the next generation.
It's not just budgets but research, institutions, expertise, and training the next generation.
May 31, 2025 at 3:47 PM
So so frustrating. What are we doing?!?!?
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To be earnest for a moment, it is just *incredibly* irresponsible & destructive for the Secretary of Transportation to talk like this.
Duffy: "If you're liberal, they want you to take public transportation ... the problem is that it's dirty. You have criminals. It's homeless shelters. It's insane asylums. It's a work ground for the criminal element of the city to prey upon the good people."
May 28, 2025 at 10:31 PM
To be earnest for a moment, it is just *incredibly* irresponsible & destructive for the Secretary of Transportation to talk like this.
Great thread. As a scientist at an academic institution, it's hard to come to terms with people who would support a party that is currently actively attempting to put them out of their job.
The conservative movement has turned against reality on every scientific issue of our time, from gun violence to climate change to epidemiology.
If campuses are ideologically homogenous, it's not because academia has ostracized conservatives. It's because conservatives have ostracized academia.
If campuses are ideologically homogenous, it's not because academia has ostracized conservatives. It's because conservatives have ostracized academia.
April 22, 2025 at 2:38 AM
Great thread. As a scientist at an academic institution, it's hard to come to terms with people who would support a party that is currently actively attempting to put them out of their job.
Just absolutely ridiculous. What a waste of time.
During COVID, mRNA vaccines saved millions of lives worldwide.
Today, Minnesota republicans proposed a bill stating that "whoever knowingly manufactures, acquires, possesses, or makes readily available to another mRNA injections or products" can be sentenced to 20 years in prison.
Today, Minnesota republicans proposed a bill stating that "whoever knowingly manufactures, acquires, possesses, or makes readily available to another mRNA injections or products" can be sentenced to 20 years in prison.
This morning Minnesota Republicans introduced a bill banning mRNA vaccines and labeling them "weapons of mass destruction." It would make manufacturing, possessing or administering them a crime punishable by up to 20 years in prison. www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/bill.p...
April 21, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Just absolutely ridiculous. What a waste of time.
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Sources have shared 2 important pieces of information about NIH grant payments (although I am trying to get further confirmation).
Hang on...
(1) ALL payments to Columbia, Brown, Northwestern, Cornell, Weill-Cornell, Harvard are frozen.
1/3
Hang on...
(1) ALL payments to Columbia, Brown, Northwestern, Cornell, Weill-Cornell, Harvard are frozen.
1/3
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ALT: a close up of a red light that looks like a heart on make a gif .
media.tenor.com
April 18, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Sources have shared 2 important pieces of information about NIH grant payments (although I am trying to get further confirmation).
Hang on...
(1) ALL payments to Columbia, Brown, Northwestern, Cornell, Weill-Cornell, Harvard are frozen.
1/3
Hang on...
(1) ALL payments to Columbia, Brown, Northwestern, Cornell, Weill-Cornell, Harvard are frozen.
1/3
We truly live in ridiculous times.
thinking about the amount of context necessary to explain to someone from 2010 what people are protesting with signs reading "cheap eggs not measles" or "tax the rich, not the penguins"
April 5, 2025 at 11:31 PM
We truly live in ridiculous times.
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Resignation letter from FDA’s Peter Marks (he was director of its Center for Biological Evaluation and Research)
March 29, 2025 at 2:09 AM
Resignation letter from FDA’s Peter Marks (he was director of its Center for Biological Evaluation and Research)
The trickle-down effects of the current NIH funding mess are going to have significant, long-term repercussions, in addition to the immediate ones. As if people in their 20s didn't already have enough disadvantages.
UMASS IS RESCINDING ALL GRAD POSITIONS FOR THIS YEAR
March 12, 2025 at 10:34 PM
The trickle-down effects of the current NIH funding mess are going to have significant, long-term repercussions, in addition to the immediate ones. As if people in their 20s didn't already have enough disadvantages.
Any scientist working in the USA has almost certainly been supported by the NIH at one point. The backbone of biomedical research.
Francis Collins, the NIH Director for 12 years, led the Human Genome Project and other NIH efforts for 32 years, resigned today. Key words from his resignation letter
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/01/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/01/u...
March 1, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Any scientist working in the USA has almost certainly been supported by the NIH at one point. The backbone of biomedical research.
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Francis Collins, the NIH Director for 12 years, led the Human Genome Project and other NIH efforts for 32 years, resigned today. Key words from his resignation letter
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/01/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/01/u...
March 1, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Francis Collins, the NIH Director for 12 years, led the Human Genome Project and other NIH efforts for 32 years, resigned today. Key words from his resignation letter
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/01/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/01/u...
There was one on Stone Way in the 2000s, and it always made me smile when climbing up the hill.
This was all around Seattle in the late 90s and it’s still extremely funny
February 28, 2025 at 7:03 PM
There was one on Stone Way in the 2000s, and it always made me smile when climbing up the hill.
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Today's @usatoday.com front page
First US death from measles in 10 years
First child to die from measles in 22 years in the US
All of this fully preventable
First US death from measles in 10 years
First child to die from measles in 22 years in the US
All of this fully preventable
February 27, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Today's @usatoday.com front page
First US death from measles in 10 years
First child to die from measles in 22 years in the US
All of this fully preventable
First US death from measles in 10 years
First child to die from measles in 22 years in the US
All of this fully preventable
Holy cow. Washington ranks as the 2nd most regressively taxed state in the USA!
(I'm guessing because we have no state income tax?)
itep.org/whopays-7th-...
(I'm guessing because we have no state income tax?)
itep.org/whopays-7th-...
Who Pays? 7th Edition
Who Pays? is the only distributional analysis of tax systems in all 50 states and the District of Columbia. This comprehensive 7th edition of the report assesses the progressivity and regressivity of ...
itep.org
February 24, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Holy cow. Washington ranks as the 2nd most regressively taxed state in the USA!
(I'm guessing because we have no state income tax?)
itep.org/whopays-7th-...
(I'm guessing because we have no state income tax?)
itep.org/whopays-7th-...
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