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🚨 NIH quietly reinstated a grant on gender-affirming care, hoping it'd save top officials from sitting for depositions.

It didn't work.

On 4/22, Memoli will sit for sworn testimony. Today: Michelle Bulls, who's signed many termination letters. Tomorrow: fmr extramural research chief Liza Bundesen.
April 3, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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HHS's comment about the purging of senior NIH leadership

"To address staffing needs and support the IHS in fulfilling its mission, HHS has invited certain individuals to consider positions within the IHS," a spokesperson says. 🤔
April 1, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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jesus christ they want her dead
Kseniia Petrova, a Russian scientist at Harvard Medical School, was detained at Logan Airport after returning from France and sent to an ICE detention in Louisiana, The Insider reports.

A big critic of Putin and the war in Ukraine, she may now be deported to Russia.
March 27, 2025 at 9:59 PM
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A senior NIH administrator had some stark words about the coming layoffs: "NIH will cease to function after the RIFs, it will take months to get things back online administratively."
How will the NIH fare under the HHS reorg?

Memoli touted at a meeting today that NIH will be the least affected of any agency in HHS. ~1200 RIFs will come tomorrow - mostly among HR, comms, procurement, legislative staff.

This is part of the effort to consolidate power away from individual ICs.
March 27, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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Video of the international student at Tufts being arrested by "federal authorities" in Massachusetts has been released and it's terrifying.

They're not even uniformed officers. Just secret police thugs in hoodies and masks.

From WCVB: youtu.be/PuFIs7OkzYY
March 26, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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This is what America looked like before the creation of the EPA
March 17, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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Methane (CH₄) is a potent greenhouse gas. Here are the latest monthly observations... 🧪⚒️

November 2024 - 1940.75 ppb
November 2023 - 1931.75 ppb

+ Data: gml.noaa.gov/ccgg/trends_...
+ More info on trends: www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...
March 16, 2025 at 12:34 AM
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U.S. Pedestrian and Overall Road Traffic Crash Deaths have continued to rise compared to other high income countries www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes... #VisionZero
Pedestrian and Overall Road Traffic Crash Deaths ...
This report describes traffic-related deaths rates in the ...
www.cdc.gov
March 14, 2025 at 10:22 PM
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House Dems' text chains lighting up with apoplexy.

"Complete and utter meltdown," says one member.

Members floating marching onto the Senate floor.

Others urging primaries not just for Schumer, but any Senate Dem who votes for the GOP bill.

@Axios.com www.axios.com/2025/03/14/h...
"People are furious": House Democrats have "complete meltdown" as Schumer folds on shutdown
Members have talked openly about backing primary challenges to Democratic senators who support the GOP's spending bill.
www.axios.com
March 14, 2025 at 9:24 AM
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The Neville Chamberlain of Merrick Garlands
March 14, 2025 at 10:10 AM
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Police have begun arresting activists at Trump Tower.
March 13, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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BREAKING: Jewish American activists with @jvp.bsky.social have taken over the lobby of Trump Tower in New York to demand the release of Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil, who faces deportation for protesting Israel's war on Gaza.
March 13, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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Stand Up for Science: Nationwide Protests Oppose Trump Cuts to Research from Cancer to Climate Change
Stand Up for Science: Nationwide Protests Oppose Trump Cuts to Research from Cancer to Climate Change
Scientists rallied nationwide last Friday in opposition to the Trump administration’s sweeping cuts for scientific research and mass layoffs impacting numerous agencies, including the National Institutes...
www.democracynow.org
March 10, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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I was thrilled to be with thousands in Washington Square park, proud to speak at the NYC Stand Up for Science rally today.

We must stand together, this is one fight, against fascism, across so many sectors of our society.

photos.google.com/share/AF1Qip...
New video by Stacey F
photos.google.com
March 8, 2025 at 2:11 AM
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Lots of people at the rally in New York!
Josh Dubnau from Stony Brook gave the speech the moment demands: attacks on science funding are bad, but they’re downstream of fascism, and we need to fight the fascism even when we’re not the targets
March 7, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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Privatizing the National Weather Service and breaking up NOAA is a policy in Vought and Hertiage's Project 2025 manifesto to "fully commercialize its forecasting operations” on behalf of Trump's donor Barry Myers, the CEO of AccuWeather who he tried to appoint to run it into the ground in 2017.
February 27, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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Brake pad dust can be more toxic than exhaust emissions, study says

Research shows move to electric vehicles may not be enough to enable pollution from cars to be eradicated www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Brake pad dust can be more toxic than exhaust emissions, study says
Research shows move to electric vehicles may not be enough to enable pollution from cars to be eradicated
www.theguardian.com
February 21, 2025 at 12:42 AM
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"Despair is not an option!"
-- Gretchen Goldman, President of the Union of Concerned Scientists

"Government scientists in the US must be clear-eyed and continue to serve the public."
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
‘Despair is not an option’ — how scientists can help protect federal research
Government scientists in the US must be clear-eyed and continue to serve the public.
www.nature.com
February 5, 2025 at 10:16 PM
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Two papers in Nature Climate Change suggest that exceeding 1.5 °C in 2024 may indicate that we have entered a multi-decadal period of 1.5 °C average global warming.
https://go.nature.com/4hR9GYO
https://go.nature.com/3WVdJM1
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February 10, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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Deep Dive Into Details of James Hansens’s Climate Acceleration Paper and What We Can Expect Soon…
- AMOC shutdown in few decades
- subsequent collapse of West Antarctic Ice Sheet
- few meters SLR
youtu.be/CA8CmLLugP0?...

#climate #ClimateCrisis #ClimateAction #climateActNow
Deep Dive Into Details of James Hansens’s Climate Acceleration Paper and What We Can Expect Next…
YouTube video by Paul Beckwith
youtu.be
February 9, 2025 at 12:36 AM
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My Recent Chat with Alex Smith on Radio Ecoshock; Mercury at the Poles; and DOGE inside NOAA, which runs the National Weather Service (NWS) and NHC (National Hurricane Center)
youtu.be/oKiMTPQMdTI?...

#climate #ClimateEmergency #climateTech
My Recent Chat with Alex Smith on Radio Ecoshock; Mercury at the Poles; and DOGE inside NOAA
YouTube video by Paul Beckwith
youtu.be
February 6, 2025 at 2:48 AM
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The most iconic figure in the environmental sciences is the Keeling Curve, the CO₂ record from Mauna Loa, Hawaii.

@noaa.gov had a wonderful site where you could visualize and download these data, and now it's just gone. These data belong to us and we should not let this happen!
February 5, 2025 at 11:38 AM
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We are Derailing, and Heading to Planetary Insolvency: a terrifying NEW Report by very boring actuaries in the UK youtu.be/hCFGSSPDxl4?si…#climatet#climatechangeg#weathere#financec#banksk#insurancec#risksk

Please have Musk, Zuckerberg or some other billionaire contact me, or Trump
We are Derailing, and Heading to Planetary Insolvency: NEW Report by very boring people (actuaries)
YouTube video by Paul Beckwith
https://youtu.be/hCFGSSPDxl4?si…
January 18, 2025 at 4:18 AM
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If you are not worried too much about climate change perhaps you should consider high CO2 levels.

Those high #CO2 levels in the atmosphere translate to high levels in your blood.

Acidification of your blood and body cannot be too good, I would think.
December 22, 2024 at 8:44 PM