jillzee
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“Its a nightmare”
As universities are facing losses of millions of dollars, academic jobs at all levels are threatened. Scientists are feeling the pressure to leave the country. Academic research will VERY soon start to experience a brain drain.
🧪 🔗 www.science.org/content/arti...
As universities are facing losses of millions of dollars, academic jobs at all levels are threatened. Scientists are feeling the pressure to leave the country. Academic research will VERY soon start to experience a brain drain.
🧪 🔗 www.science.org/content/arti...
‘It’s a nightmare.’ U.S. funding cuts threaten academic science jobs at all levels
“There is a lot of pressure to essentially leave the country or not pursue research,” one Ph.D. student says
www.science.org
July 11, 2025 at 9:09 PM
“Its a nightmare”
As universities are facing losses of millions of dollars, academic jobs at all levels are threatened. Scientists are feeling the pressure to leave the country. Academic research will VERY soon start to experience a brain drain.
🧪 🔗 www.science.org/content/arti...
As universities are facing losses of millions of dollars, academic jobs at all levels are threatened. Scientists are feeling the pressure to leave the country. Academic research will VERY soon start to experience a brain drain.
🧪 🔗 www.science.org/content/arti...
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Your regular reminder that most people in this country can't afford to move to another state and the inclination to say they're getting what they voted for in the devastation of a hurricane or flood or whatever the hell is a failure of common sense and empathy on multiple levels.
July 5, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Your regular reminder that most people in this country can't afford to move to another state and the inclination to say they're getting what they voted for in the devastation of a hurricane or flood or whatever the hell is a failure of common sense and empathy on multiple levels.
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Your quarterly reminder to read this essay from 1941, called "Who Goes Nazi?"
You might recognize some people from your life within the piece.
harpers.org/archive/1941...
You might recognize some people from your life within the piece.
harpers.org/archive/1941...
Who Goes Nazi?, by Dorothy Thompson
harpers.org
July 1, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Your quarterly reminder to read this essay from 1941, called "Who Goes Nazi?"
You might recognize some people from your life within the piece.
harpers.org/archive/1941...
You might recognize some people from your life within the piece.
harpers.org/archive/1941...
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NASA is being told to cancel 19 *active* missions to save $6B, which looks to be less than the ICE *hiring/retention* budget going forward.
I need people to let that sentence sink into their bones for a minute.
I need people to let that sentence sink into their bones for a minute.
If the GOP reconciliation bill passes, ICE gets through FY2029:
- $45 billion for detention, on top of the current annual budget of $3.4 billion
- $14.4 billion for transportation and removal, on top of the current annual budget of $750 million
- $8 billion for hiring/retention
- Billions more.
- $45 billion for detention, on top of the current annual budget of $3.4 billion
- $14.4 billion for transportation and removal, on top of the current annual budget of $750 million
- $8 billion for hiring/retention
- Billions more.
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June 29, 2025 at 4:17 PM
NASA is being told to cancel 19 *active* missions to save $6B, which looks to be less than the ICE *hiring/retention* budget going forward.
I need people to let that sentence sink into their bones for a minute.
I need people to let that sentence sink into their bones for a minute.
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Need to start making some new time blocks in my schedule for Being Sad About the Careless Destruction of US Scientific Research
June 25, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Need to start making some new time blocks in my schedule for Being Sad About the Careless Destruction of US Scientific Research
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So…
People seem to think that we’re just done now? We bombed the shit out of three nuclear sites in a country we weren’t at war with, and that’s just… it?
Oh, my sweet summer children.
People seem to think that we’re just done now? We bombed the shit out of three nuclear sites in a country we weren’t at war with, and that’s just… it?
Oh, my sweet summer children.
June 22, 2025 at 12:38 AM
So…
People seem to think that we’re just done now? We bombed the shit out of three nuclear sites in a country we weren’t at war with, and that’s just… it?
Oh, my sweet summer children.
People seem to think that we’re just done now? We bombed the shit out of three nuclear sites in a country we weren’t at war with, and that’s just… it?
Oh, my sweet summer children.
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Toomaj, the famous Iranian rapper and freedom fighter who has been one of the biggest targets of the Islamic regime, has posted this statement.
Toomaj has been out of prison for the past few years and has sacrificed a great deal fighting for freedom.
Toomaj has been out of prison for the past few years and has sacrificed a great deal fighting for freedom.
June 17, 2025 at 4:38 AM
Toomaj, the famous Iranian rapper and freedom fighter who has been one of the biggest targets of the Islamic regime, has posted this statement.
Toomaj has been out of prison for the past few years and has sacrificed a great deal fighting for freedom.
Toomaj has been out of prison for the past few years and has sacrificed a great deal fighting for freedom.
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There is no rational reason for RFK Jr. to remove every single member of the Advisory Committee for Immunization Practices (ACIP).
He is doing it so that his efforts spread vaccine disinformation to the American public can continue unfettered by pesky things like FACTS.
RFK Jr. must be removed.
He is doing it so that his efforts spread vaccine disinformation to the American public can continue unfettered by pesky things like FACTS.
RFK Jr. must be removed.
June 9, 2025 at 9:15 PM
There is no rational reason for RFK Jr. to remove every single member of the Advisory Committee for Immunization Practices (ACIP).
He is doing it so that his efforts spread vaccine disinformation to the American public can continue unfettered by pesky things like FACTS.
RFK Jr. must be removed.
He is doing it so that his efforts spread vaccine disinformation to the American public can continue unfettered by pesky things like FACTS.
RFK Jr. must be removed.
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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 4:43 AM
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.
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Oh
RFK Jr. ordered the NIH’s Integrated Research Facility in Frederick to stop all research on serious infectious diseases yesterday at 5:00 PM.
They study pathogens like Ebola there. You may be familiar with it from The Hot Zone.
www.wired.com/story/hhs-ni...
They study pathogens like Ebola there. You may be familiar with it from The Hot Zone.
www.wired.com/story/hhs-ni...
RFK Jr.'s HHS Orders Lab Studying Deadly Infectious Diseases to Stop Research
NIAID's Integrated Research Facility is one of the few federal facilities charged with studying Ebola. Tuesday afternoon, all of its work was put on indefinite pause by Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s departm...
www.wired.com
May 1, 2025 at 12:36 AM
Oh
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If I wanted to destroy what is good about the the US, diminish its prestige and import in the world, and increase the suffering of all people, these are the types of things I would do.
April 29, 2025 at 8:05 PM
If I wanted to destroy what is good about the the US, diminish its prestige and import in the world, and increase the suffering of all people, these are the types of things I would do.
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What the fuck
April 10, 2025 at 4:51 PM
What the fuck
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Let me get this straight: we can't "afford" to track disease, research cures or make sure food and drugs are safe, but we can afford to spend $4.5 trillion on tax breaks that mostly go to the rich?
WASHINGTON (AP) - Layoffs have begun at US health agencies charged with tracking disease, conducting research, regulating food and drugs.
April 1, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Let me get this straight: we can't "afford" to track disease, research cures or make sure food and drugs are safe, but we can afford to spend $4.5 trillion on tax breaks that mostly go to the rich?
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Russia has no right to demand “ironclad” guarantees of anything, as the aggressor.
Ukraine as a sovereign nation can make alliances as it pleases. Russia has attacked Ukraine to strip it of its sovereignty. Russia is now trying to get the US to do something to Ukraine it cannot do itself.
Russia will seek ‘ironclad’ guarantees in any peace deal on Ukraine that NATO nations will exclude Kyiv from membership and that Ukraine will remain neutral, a Russian deputy foreign minister said reut.rs/4iw1lKV
March 18, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Russia has no right to demand “ironclad” guarantees of anything, as the aggressor.
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The context of the Rwandan Genocide was that the Tutsi-led Rwandan Patriotic Front had attacked Rwanda from Uganda, and four years into that war the Hutu supremacist government of Rwanda decided to eliminate the Tutsi population. Rwandan Genocide Denial is based on "they were provoked"
March 16, 2025 at 5:41 PM
The context of the Rwandan Genocide was that the Tutsi-led Rwandan Patriotic Front had attacked Rwanda from Uganda, and four years into that war the Hutu supremacist government of Rwanda decided to eliminate the Tutsi population. Rwandan Genocide Denial is based on "they were provoked"
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I am filled with contempt for the people who think this is an acceptable way for America to treat an ally. They deserve a ignorant, thuggish government, but regrettably they have inflicted it on all of us.
Trump: "To be honest with you, Canada only works as a state. We don't need anything they have. As a state it would be one of the great states. This would be the most incredible country visually. If you look at a map, they drew an artificial line right through it."
March 13, 2025 at 6:00 PM
I am filled with contempt for the people who think this is an acceptable way for America to treat an ally. They deserve a ignorant, thuggish government, but regrettably they have inflicted it on all of us.
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I need y'all to sit with this headline and understand what is being done to our community. They're trying to criminalize our very existence.
This is a campaign of eradication.
www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/rcna...
This is a campaign of eradication.
www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/rcna...
March 10, 2025 at 7:32 PM
I need y'all to sit with this headline and understand what is being done to our community. They're trying to criminalize our very existence.
This is a campaign of eradication.
www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/rcna...
This is a campaign of eradication.
www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/rcna...
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NIH to ax grants on vaccine hesitancy, mRNA vaccines. www.science.org/content/arti...
NIH to ax grants on vaccine hesitancy, mRNA vaccines
Move reflects vaccine skepticism of health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
www.science.org
March 10, 2025 at 11:26 PM
NIH to ax grants on vaccine hesitancy, mRNA vaccines. www.science.org/content/arti...
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They’re gutting cancer vaccine grants. Truly evil
NIH to ax grants on vaccine hesitancy, mRNA vaccines. www.science.org/content/arti...
NIH to ax grants on vaccine hesitancy, mRNA vaccines
Move reflects vaccine skepticism of health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
www.science.org
March 10, 2025 at 11:52 PM
They’re gutting cancer vaccine grants. Truly evil
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Yes. If DHS can barge in, say your visa was revoked, be told you have a green card, say it's revoked too, and then disappear you so that neither your lawyer nor your family can find you, then all the guardrails are gone. There is no policy, practice, or law protecting anyone.
re the previous repost: if they can disappear permanent residents they can disappear citizens
March 9, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Yes. If DHS can barge in, say your visa was revoked, be told you have a green card, say it's revoked too, and then disappear you so that neither your lawyer nor your family can find you, then all the guardrails are gone. There is no policy, practice, or law protecting anyone.
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UPDATE — Secretary of State Marco Rubio has now commented on the Trump admin’s detaining & attempted green card revocation of a Columbia Gaza encampment student negotiator:
“We will be revoking the visas and/or green cards of Hamas supporters in America so they can be deported.”
“We will be revoking the visas and/or green cards of Hamas supporters in America so they can be deported.”
NEWS: Last night, the Department of Homeland Security detained a Palestinian who helped lead the Columbia encampment.
Agents told him his visa was revoked. He said he had a green card. They were confused—then said that was revoked too.
His attorney demanded a warrant. Agents hung up instead.
Agents told him his visa was revoked. He said he had a green card. They were confused—then said that was revoked too.
His attorney demanded a warrant. Agents hung up instead.
BREAKING: DHS Detains Palestinian Student from Columbia Encampment, Says Advocates
Agents told him his student visa was revoked. But he had a green card. Agents then said that was revoked too.
zeteo.com
March 9, 2025 at 10:44 PM
UPDATE — Secretary of State Marco Rubio has now commented on the Trump admin’s detaining & attempted green card revocation of a Columbia Gaza encampment student negotiator:
“We will be revoking the visas and/or green cards of Hamas supporters in America so they can be deported.”
“We will be revoking the visas and/or green cards of Hamas supporters in America so they can be deported.”
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If anyone is looking for a lab technician/manager with nucleic acid isolation, library prep, and sequencing analysis experience preferably in the DMV, my former biologist is looking for a job. She was unfortunately terminated in Feb as part of the probationary employee firings. DM me for her info
March 9, 2025 at 10:14 PM
If anyone is looking for a lab technician/manager with nucleic acid isolation, library prep, and sequencing analysis experience preferably in the DMV, my former biologist is looking for a job. She was unfortunately terminated in Feb as part of the probationary employee firings. DM me for her info