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Investor in startups, Tech and Gadget Geek, Scientist, Health Tech, Climate Tech, Data Sovereignty/CyberSec, Dad x2 🚴. ⚽️. 🧬
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acyn.bsky.social
Gupta: These are the most credentialed radiologists in the country. No one is aware of any type of screening guideline that says as you age you should get an MRI of the heart and abdomen.
December 2, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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matthewfacciani.bsky.social
"earlier this year, the Trump administration quietly dismantled the external peer review procedure that assured that CDC-funded extramural research reflected the “most meritorious ideas and projects,” and maintained public accountability."
insidemedicine.substack.com/p/exclusive-...
Exclusive: The Trump administration dismantled the CDC’s peer review system. Staffers scrambled to salvage it.
The CDC sends hundreds of millions of dollars to outside researchers each year. Would the Trump administration let that happen in 2025?
insidemedicine.substack.com
November 3, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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matthewfacciani.bsky.social
New research finds that anti-vaccine networks on Facebook were smaller but more tightly coordinated, spreading emotionally charged misinformation faster, while pro-vaccine networks were larger and more institutional, sharing accurate info but with less engagement.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
The spread of pro- and anti-vaccine views by coordinated communities on facebook during COVID-19 pandemic - Journal of Computational Social Science
The widespread dissemination of problematic vaccine-related content during the COVID-19 pandemic has posed serious challenges to public health and eroded institutional trust. This study investigates t...
link.springer.com
October 21, 2025 at 8:32 PM
adam-lipman.bsky.social
This is exactly the type of thing that will have lasting effect on our global innovation leadership capabilities.
gtconway.bsky.social George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · Oct 10
"The University of Zurich said the married couple, who currently work at MIT, would join its economics faculty …. [They] will be moving … at a time when experts are warning that Trump's cuts to research funding and attacks on … freedoms could lead to a brain drain …."

www.lemonde.fr/en/economy/a...
October 10, 2025 at 11:21 PM
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October 4, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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marcelias.bsky.social
The Texas redistricting hearing started on Wednesday in El Paso. Democracy Docket is covering it every day like it is the most important case for free and for elections in the country -- because it is. Legacy media is no where to be found.

Support the DD team to make it possible. hubs.ly/Q03M8rql0
October 4, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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gtconway.bsky.social
September 26, 2025 at 1:46 AM
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kairyssdal.bsky.social
And yet in public, on the record…crickets.
September 20, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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laurasell.bsky.social
"More professors in the United States have been fired for controversial views in the past week than any other week in all of American history."
www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...
Censorship Is the Authoritarian’s Dream
The right to free expression must include the right to say horrible and evil things.
www.insidehighered.com
September 19, 2025 at 10:24 AM
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gtconway.bsky.social
August 30, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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drandrealove.bsky.social
Hi, immunologist here:

(a scientist who studies immune & inflammatory processes)

RFK Jr is talking absolute bullshit when he says he can “see in kids faces that they have inflammation”

That’s NOT how immunology works.

He is an anti-science profiteer.
Start calling him such.
August 28, 2025 at 8:59 PM
adam-lipman.bsky.social
This is super disturbing
annabower.bsky.social Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · Aug 12
Weirdly this doesn't mention that the woman Trump put in charge of reviewing the Smithsonian is his Florida criminal defense attorney who didn't like some of the museum's exhibits when she visited after the inauguration so she convinced Trump to sign an executive order putting her in charge
August 13, 2025 at 1:54 AM
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justinwolfers.bsky.social
It might give you a sense of the White House's own fears that the letters were dated yesterday, but they waited until Saturday morning -- when the markets are closed -- to actually release them.
July 12, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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adambonica.bsky.social
The Supreme Court’s “shadow docket” has cast very different shadows depending on which party holds the White House.

When lower courts blocked Trump admin policies, SCOTUS intervened on an emergency basis to lift those orders in 77% of cases.

For the Biden administration, that number was 0%.
Infographic titled “One Court, Two Standards” compares how the Supreme Court used emergency powers to rule on lower-court injunctions against the Biden and Trump administrations. Two panels show: • Biden Administration: Lower courts blocked policies in 21 cases. All 21 cases are represented by red squares, indicating that 0% of injunctions/TROs were lifted by SCOTUS. • Trump Administration: Lower courts blocked policies in 86 cases. 66 green squares and 20 red squares show that 77% of injunctions/TROs were lifted by SCOTUS. Key takeaway box below reads: “Using its ‘shadow docket,’ the Supreme Court granted emergency relief to lift 77% of lower-court injunctions against the Trump administration. It lifted 0% of those against the Biden administration.” Sources and notes below include: CourtListener data through July 7, 2025; analysis by Adam Bonica.
July 9, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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scalzi.com
The American Academy of Pediatricians bluntly telling us the current CDC can't be trusted, and of course they are absolutely correct

publications.aap.org/aapnews/news...
AAP will continue to publish its own vaccine recommendations after CDC advisers sow distrust
The CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices plans to form a work group to review child and adolescent immunization schedules despite them undergoing constant review in real time.
publications.aap.org
June 26, 2025 at 12:35 PM
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carlzimmer.com
“As a physician and scientist who has devoted my entire career to vaccines and preventing and treating infections, this meeting has been devastating to watch.” ACIP votes to stop recommending some vaccines, even though they're safe and effective. nyti.ms/3ZT1pxg
RFK Jr.’s New Advisers Rescind Recommendations for Some Flu Vaccines
Panelists pulled back some endorsements for certain vaccines containing a preservative that critics have falsely linked to autism.
nyti.ms
June 26, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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danielhurdiss.bsky.social
Latest preprint from the lab, many years in the making!

By combining #cryoEM with #AlphaFold3 modelling, we propose that norovirus NS3 forms a transmembrane RNA translocase.

This could have big implications for our understanding of viral replication & assembly (🧵)

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
June 18, 2025 at 6:32 AM
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kairyssdal.bsky.social
Not great, Bob!
hansilowang.bsky.social Hansi Lo Wang (he/him) @hansilowang.bsky.social · Jun 12
NEW: The U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis says that "due to resource constraints," it plans to stop releasing new data tables on new foreign direct investment in the U.S., including statistics on the total sales, net income and balance sheets of new affiliates
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BEA Announcement: Changes to the New FDI News Release and Related Data Tables SUITLAND, Md. – The U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis’ ongoing modernization and streamlining of news release packages will include changes in the presentation of tables in the July 11 release, "New Foreign Direct Investment in the United States, 2024." Data previously published as tables within the annual news release on new foreign direct investment (FDI) in the United States will continue to be updated and available simultaneously with the release in BEA’s online Interactive Data. However, tables will no longer be included in the body of the news release. This will reduce duplication, increase efficiency, and point data users directly to our most complete and flexible data tables, via links in the release. These customizable tables include full time series and can be downloaded as PDFs, in Excel, or in CSV format. Additionally, some data tables previously produced alongside the news release will be discontinued on July 11 due to resource constraints. The new FDI in the United States tables to be discontinued, currently available in the Interactive Data, cover: Total sales of new affiliates Net income of new affiliates Balance sheets of new affiliates BEA will continue to publish the tables on investment expenditures and employment of new affiliates, as well as the number of investments. Discontinued tables will be archived.
June 12, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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padilla.senate.gov
If that’s what they do to a United States Senator with a question, imagine what they can do to any American that dares to speak up. We will hold this administration accountable.
June 12, 2025 at 9:15 PM
adam-lipman.bsky.social
Truly shocking. Not acceptable
kairyssdal.bsky.social Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · Jun 12
Forcibly
phillewis.bsky.social Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · Jun 12
Sen. Alex Padilla was just removed from Kristi Noem's press conference in Los Angeles (video: Bill Melugin/Fox News)
June 12, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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wired.com
Federal workers from six agencies tell WIRED that DOGE-style work is escalating in their departments as both new and familiar DOGE faces have appeared in meetings and at new offices. www.wired.com/story/doge-e...
DOGE Is Busier Than Ever—and Trump Says Elon Musk Is 'Really Not Leaving'
Federal workers from six agencies tell WIRED that DOGE-style work is escalating in their departments as both new and familiar DOGE faces have appeared in meetings and at new offices.
www.wired.com
May 30, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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nycsouthpaw.bsky.social
It’s especially galling that AG Pam Bondi personally wrote the memo approving the gift of the Qatari airplane. Her last job was as a lobbyist for Qatar! efile.fara.gov/docs/6415-Ex...
Received by NSD/FARA Registration Unit 07/23/2019 2:45:32 PM 062719 CONSULTING SERVICES AGREEMENT AMENDMENT ONE THIS AMENDMENT ONE shall amend that certain Consulting Services Agreement dated June 28, 2018 by and between the Embassy of the State of Qatar (Embassy') and Ballard Partners ("Consultant"). In consideration of the mutual promises set forth herein, the Embassy and Consultant agree to amend the Consulting Services Agreement, as follows: The Term of the Agreement shall commence on July 1. 2019 (the "Effective Date"), ar all expire on COB June 30, 2020, unless earlier terminated in accordance with t! Agreement. 2. Appendix A is amended by adding the following: "Additionally, the Consultant shall provide consulting and advocacy services regarding matters involving anti-human trafficking The following Consultant personnel shall be designated "Key Personnel": Ms. Pam Bondi and Mr. James Rubin. Key Personnel shall be personally and substantially engaged in the delivery of the Services." 3. Appendix B is amended to modify the consulting fee to US $ 115.000 per month. Except as expressly stated herein. nothing in this Amendment One shall alter or amend the terms of the Consulting Services Agreement. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, Embassy and Consultant have executed this Agreement by their duly authorized representatives. By Embassy By: BBI Consultant Date: July 17, 2019 .."''"
May 11, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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joshuasweitz.bsky.social
The NSF has an 'explanation' for terminating the Division for Equity in Excellence in STEM.

It is a performative, non-answer.

www.nsf.gov/updates-on-p...
May 9, 2025 at 11:26 PM
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nycsouthpaw.bsky.social
The 2nd circuit panel reached the right result for Özturk. Their recitation of the chilling facts is worth reading. ww3.ca2.uscourts.gov/decisions/is...
On March 21, 2025, the U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Consular Affairs approved revocation of Öztürk's F-1 visa. Ozturk, 2025 WL 1145250, at *2. The approval was, apparently, based solely on the assessment by DHS and ICE that Öztürk's co-authorship of the op-ed a year earlier demonstrated her involvement in organizations that "may undermine U.S. foreign policy." Id. at *17. Öztürk was not informed that DHS and ICE were considering seeking her visa revocation, nor that such a determination was made. The Armstrong Memo stated that "[d]ue to ongoing ICE operational security, this revocation will be silent; the Department of State will not notify the subject of the revocation." Id. at *3 (emphasis added). Four days later, six heavily armed, plainclothes officers, some masked, arrested Öztürk without warning on the street near her residence and drove her away in an unmarked vehicle, crossing state lines and transporting her first to New Hampshire, then to Vermont, and the next day, flying her to a correctional facility in Basile, Louisiana, where she remains in custody.
May 7, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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NEW: There’s the quid pro quo www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
U.S. pushes nations facing tariffs to approve Musk’s Starlink, cables show
Some countries have turned to the satellite internet firm in preparation for trade talks, State Department staffers wrote. The U.S. has a strategic interest in countering Chinese internet providers, b...
www.washingtonpost.com
May 7, 2025 at 10:12 PM