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Congrats on the AW Campbell award for outstanding postdoctoral achievement @jchrispang.bsky.social
December 3, 2025 at 5:04 AM
Congrats on the AW Campbell award for outstanding postdoctoral achievement @jchrispang.bsky.social
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This is what American congress should be doing if they weren't just shells for corporate fascism.
July 23, 2025 at 2:16 PM
This is what American congress should be doing if they weren't just shells for corporate fascism.
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Per @pabloreports.bsky.social, the man's name is Narisco Barranco, a California landscaper.
Mr Barranco was beaten by masked ICE agents in civilian clothes.
His oldest son is a Marine who served in Afghanistan.
His two younger sons are currently active duty
Marines.
Mr Barranco was beaten by masked ICE agents in civilian clothes.
His oldest son is a Marine who served in Afghanistan.
His two younger sons are currently active duty
Marines.
June 23, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Per @pabloreports.bsky.social, the man's name is Narisco Barranco, a California landscaper.
Mr Barranco was beaten by masked ICE agents in civilian clothes.
His oldest son is a Marine who served in Afghanistan.
His two younger sons are currently active duty
Marines.
Mr Barranco was beaten by masked ICE agents in civilian clothes.
His oldest son is a Marine who served in Afghanistan.
His two younger sons are currently active duty
Marines.
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So no fluoride, but forever chemicals are fine.
The Environmental Protection Agency delays putting limits on PFAS in drinking water.
www.npr.org/sections/sho...
www.npr.org/sections/sho...
The Environmental Protection Agency delays limits on PFAS in drinking water
Federal rules to reduce the levels of "forever chemicals" in drinking water are getting delayed.
www.npr.org
May 16, 2025 at 9:51 AM
So no fluoride, but forever chemicals are fine.
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The Health Secretary is promoting quack doctors in the midst of a measles outbreak and literally nothing was more predictable.
April 7, 2025 at 1:11 AM
The Health Secretary is promoting quack doctors in the midst of a measles outbreak and literally nothing was more predictable.
This is insane
Dr. Richard Youle was fired today. He is an eminent scientist who has done important work on brain diseases like dementia and Parkinson’s.
Musk and Trump are stopping NIH research into cures, for diseases from cancer to Alzheimer’s. Americans did not vote for this.
Musk and Trump are stopping NIH research into cures, for diseases from cancer to Alzheimer’s. Americans did not vote for this.
NEW: The doctor behind breakthrough Parkinson’s research was among the scientists purged from the National Institutes of Health, the US’s leading medical research agency. www.wired.com/story/doctor...
April 2, 2025 at 10:37 AM
This is insane
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Maybe you should have stayed in your lane and just dribbled
#BoycottTesla
#BoycottTesla
March 30, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Maybe you should have stayed in your lane and just dribbled
#BoycottTesla
#BoycottTesla
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"What do you want to stop? Do you want to stop doing Ebola? Do you want to stop doing emergency medical teams responding to major disasters in the world? Would you like to stop intelligence gathering so that we know what the next epidemic or pandemic will be?"
healthpolicy-watch.news/grim-global-...
healthpolicy-watch.news/grim-global-...
Grim Global Impact Of US Funds Withdrawal; WHO Mulls 'Terrible Choices' - Health Policy Watch
Meanwhile, the WHO is mulling “terrible choices” as it tries to trim 25% of its budget in the wake of the US withdrawal from the body.
healthpolicy-watch.news
March 18, 2025 at 10:31 AM
"What do you want to stop? Do you want to stop doing Ebola? Do you want to stop doing emergency medical teams responding to major disasters in the world? Would you like to stop intelligence gathering so that we know what the next epidemic or pandemic will be?"
healthpolicy-watch.news/grim-global-...
healthpolicy-watch.news/grim-global-...
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This is a very good point.
Do our university presidents have the courage to do this?
Faculty should push them.
The time is getting short. Musk and Trump if not stopped will kill American academia. Just look at what Republicans did to New College in Florida.
Do our university presidents have the courage to do this?
Faculty should push them.
The time is getting short. Musk and Trump if not stopped will kill American academia. Just look at what Republicans did to New College in Florida.
I'm just a small-town professor. I'll never be a provost or chancellor. But here's some free advice: we're about to hold the most watched college sports event in 🇺🇸. Every college president should be all over TV, at every game, explaining why the March Madness of federal budget cuts is a huge crisis.
👇🎯 The public isn't going to understand this, unless the presidents of R1 universities around the country <loudly> & <collectively> get out into the public square & start explaining this & calling out the existential threat to the entire 🇺🇸 university system. The silence is deafening right now.
March 8, 2025 at 10:07 PM
This is a very good point.
Do our university presidents have the courage to do this?
Faculty should push them.
The time is getting short. Musk and Trump if not stopped will kill American academia. Just look at what Republicans did to New College in Florida.
Do our university presidents have the courage to do this?
Faculty should push them.
The time is getting short. Musk and Trump if not stopped will kill American academia. Just look at what Republicans did to New College in Florida.
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I'm a fiscal conservative, so why am I so down on DOGE? I had a chat with Jessica Reidl from the Manhattan Institute about DOGE as "spending cut theater." It's mainly serious about malice. It's not serious about the budget. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/05/o...
Opinion | Elon Musk and the Useless Spending-Cut Theater of DOGE
The columnist David French speaks with a fellow fiscal conservative about what the Department of Government Efficiency should actually be doing.
www.nytimes.com
March 5, 2025 at 10:33 PM
I'm a fiscal conservative, so why am I so down on DOGE? I had a chat with Jessica Reidl from the Manhattan Institute about DOGE as "spending cut theater." It's mainly serious about malice. It's not serious about the budget. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/05/o...
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Why basic research matters and defunding and firing scientists will cost us.
Many life-saving breakthroughs started as curiosity-driven science with no clear application. Yet, these discoveries once seen as obscure ended up transforming medicine.
Here’s why funding basic science is essential.
A 🧵👇
Many life-saving breakthroughs started as curiosity-driven science with no clear application. Yet, these discoveries once seen as obscure ended up transforming medicine.
Here’s why funding basic science is essential.
A 🧵👇
March 2, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Why basic research matters and defunding and firing scientists will cost us.
Many life-saving breakthroughs started as curiosity-driven science with no clear application. Yet, these discoveries once seen as obscure ended up transforming medicine.
Here’s why funding basic science is essential.
A 🧵👇
Many life-saving breakthroughs started as curiosity-driven science with no clear application. Yet, these discoveries once seen as obscure ended up transforming medicine.
Here’s why funding basic science is essential.
A 🧵👇
Horrifying
NIH people need to get up to speed on this very quickly:
RFK Jr Is. A. Liar.
He talks a good game. His speeches are good and it sounds like he cares about science. But no, he hates scientists and lies to co-opt them. Proof:
RFK Jr Is. A. Liar.
He talks a good game. His speeches are good and it sounds like he cares about science. But no, he hates scientists and lies to co-opt them. Proof:
In 1999, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., then an environmental lawyer, was named by Time magazine as a “hero of the planet” for his pioneering work to clean up America’s waterways. On his second day as secretary of the DHHS, he ended HHS funding for health and climate change.
February 20, 2025 at 6:43 AM
Horrifying
My NIH study section to review proposals was “postponed” without a new date. I was reviewing grants on clinical neuroplasticity (looking at improving treatmentment for spinal cord injury, ALS, epilepsy, and other neurological disorders).
February 19, 2025 at 8:41 PM
My NIH study section to review proposals was “postponed” without a new date. I was reviewing grants on clinical neuroplasticity (looking at improving treatmentment for spinal cord injury, ALS, epilepsy, and other neurological disorders).