Kimlikestacos
@kimlikestacos.bsky.social
Neuroscientist, Addictions Researcher, Associate Professor, Recovery Advocate, Pharmacology Enthusiast, Storyteller, Hammock Connoisseur.
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WELCOME SAGITTARIUS SEASON! HYPERBOLE! ENTHUSIASM! AGGRESSIVE GENEROSITY! OPTIMISTICALLY OVEREXTEND YOURSELF! KNOW IT ALL! TMI! PDA! UNHINGED AS AN ATTACHMENT STYLE! BRUTAL HONESTY AS A LOVE LANGUAGE! LIFE IS SHORT! REGRET IS FOR PEOPLE WHO ARE DEAD INSIDE! F ICE! EAT THE OLIGARCHY! FREE PALESTINE!
November 22, 2025 at 6:48 PM
WELCOME SAGITTARIUS SEASON! HYPERBOLE! ENTHUSIASM! AGGRESSIVE GENEROSITY! OPTIMISTICALLY OVEREXTEND YOURSELF! KNOW IT ALL! TMI! PDA! UNHINGED AS AN ATTACHMENT STYLE! BRUTAL HONESTY AS A LOVE LANGUAGE! LIFE IS SHORT! REGRET IS FOR PEOPLE WHO ARE DEAD INSIDE! F ICE! EAT THE OLIGARCHY! FREE PALESTINE!
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Science isn’t static. Our last Ode to #NationalFoodDay is a great example of this. We used to tell parents to avoid peanuts. Then new research showed early exposure prevents allergy, which has likely saved thousands of kids from developing peanut allergies. 🥜💡
www.npr.org/2025/10/21/n...
www.npr.org/2025/10/21/n...
Reversing peanut advice prevented tens of thousands of allergy cases, researchers say
A decade ago, research said giving young children peanut products can prevent allergies. A new study says that, 10 years later, tens of thousands of U.S. children have avoided allergies as a result.
www.npr.org
October 24, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Science isn’t static. Our last Ode to #NationalFoodDay is a great example of this. We used to tell parents to avoid peanuts. Then new research showed early exposure prevents allergy, which has likely saved thousands of kids from developing peanut allergies. 🥜💡
www.npr.org/2025/10/21/n...
www.npr.org/2025/10/21/n...
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Pete Hegseth practices day drinking the right way.
by Ezra Klein
by Ezra Klein
October 7, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Pete Hegseth practices day drinking the right way.
by Ezra Klein
by Ezra Klein
This shit is so fucking seasonal.
"Guess what season it is—fucking fall. There’s a nip in the air, and my house is full of mutant fucking squash."
It’s Decorative Gourd Season, Motherfuckers
First published on October 9, 2009, this classic by Colin Nissan is our most-read article of all time. We’re celebrating the 16th anniversary of th...
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September 27, 2025 at 12:55 AM
This shit is so fucking seasonal.
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Carl if you wanted us to believe in science maybe you shouldn’t have predicted the future LIKE A WITCH
September 8, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Carl if you wanted us to believe in science maybe you shouldn’t have predicted the future LIKE A WITCH
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it feels really insane to realize that this next year is like. the last year a lot of American universities will exist
August 5, 2025 at 1:46 AM
it feels really insane to realize that this next year is like. the last year a lot of American universities will exist
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WELCOME LEO SEASON! DRAMA AS A DEFENSE! LIGHTING! ANGLES! PULL FOCUS AS AN EXTREME SPORT! YOU DON’T HAVE TO LIKE ME BUT YOU WILL ADORE ME! SPOTLIGHTS AS ACCESSORIES! WE WOULDN’T EVEN NEED FILES IF WE JUST BELIEVED WOMEN! ABOLISH ICE AND THE PATRIARCHY! LIFE IS SHORT! MERCURY IS RETROGRADE! HAVE FUN!
July 22, 2025 at 2:42 PM
WELCOME LEO SEASON! DRAMA AS A DEFENSE! LIGHTING! ANGLES! PULL FOCUS AS AN EXTREME SPORT! YOU DON’T HAVE TO LIKE ME BUT YOU WILL ADORE ME! SPOTLIGHTS AS ACCESSORIES! WE WOULDN’T EVEN NEED FILES IF WE JUST BELIEVED WOMEN! ABOLISH ICE AND THE PATRIARCHY! LIFE IS SHORT! MERCURY IS RETROGRADE! HAVE FUN!
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Researchers in the United States are filing appeals, seeking court remedies, turning to philanthropy and starting GoFundMe campaigns
go.nature.com/4m48yDu
go.nature.com/4m48yDu
How your research can survive a US federal grant termination
Researchers in the United States are filing appeals, seeking court remedies, turning to philanthropy and starting GoFundMe campaigns.
go.nature.com
July 21, 2025 at 8:44 AM
Researchers in the United States are filing appeals, seeking court remedies, turning to philanthropy and starting GoFundMe campaigns
go.nature.com/4m48yDu
go.nature.com/4m48yDu
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There’s so much to breakdown in this newly dropped manifesto against higher education by Chris Rufo and signed by all the usual suspects affiliated with the Manhattan Institute. It warrants attention since it’s targeted at university grants. manhattan.institute/article/the-...
The Manhattan Statement on Higher Education
America’s colleges and universities have long been the bright lights of our civilization. For nearly four centuries, they have pioneered new fields of knowledge, brought the arts and sciences to new h...
manhattan.institute
July 16, 2025 at 6:14 PM
There’s so much to breakdown in this newly dropped manifesto against higher education by Chris Rufo and signed by all the usual suspects affiliated with the Manhattan Institute. It warrants attention since it’s targeted at university grants. manhattan.institute/article/the-...
There is a special kind of base indignity to making an ‘open to work’ post on LinkedIn.
July 12, 2025 at 8:11 PM
There is a special kind of base indignity to making an ‘open to work’ post on LinkedIn.
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"The new Administration began weaponizing what should not be weaponized – - the health of all Americans through its abuse of HHS and the NIH systems, creating chaos and promoting an unreasonable and unreasoned agenda of blacklisting certain topics."
The full ruling explaining why NIH grant cuts are illegal came out today.
It's just as blistering as the judge's oral remarks. And it uncovers fresh details in DOGE's role orchestrating the cuts — and on the cuts at Columbia.
Here are my top highlights from the 103-page ruling. 🧵
It's just as blistering as the judge's oral remarks. And it uncovers fresh details in DOGE's role orchestrating the cuts — and on the cuts at Columbia.
Here are my top highlights from the 103-page ruling. 🧵
After ruling the NIH grant cuts were illegal yesterday, Judge Young, a Reagan appointee on the bench since 1985, ended the hearing with a blistering 15-minute speech.
I've cleaned up my notes — here are his remarks in full. 🧵
I've cleaned up my notes — here are his remarks in full. 🧵
July 3, 2025 at 2:43 AM
"The new Administration began weaponizing what should not be weaponized – - the health of all Americans through its abuse of HHS and the NIH systems, creating chaos and promoting an unreasonable and unreasoned agenda of blacklisting certain topics."
What does a recovered brain look like? (And is mine broken forever?)
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What's a Recovered Brain?
I think my brain is broken and it might be forever.
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July 2, 2025 at 8:21 PM
What does a recovered brain look like? (And is mine broken forever?)
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Stockpiling all this mint to plant in the gardens of my enemies
June 30, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Stockpiling all this mint to plant in the gardens of my enemies
Mosquitos are the cops of the insect world
June 13, 2025 at 1:47 AM
Mosquitos are the cops of the insect world
I guess I'm writing about life in science again, only everything is awful. 🧪
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A stream of consciousness essay of academic despair and pending unemployment
The academy is crumbling and I don't want to live in my car.
substack.com
June 7, 2025 at 3:27 AM
I guess I'm writing about life in science again, only everything is awful. 🧪
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"I was never a Sauron fan. Did I facilitate Sauron's rise to power by donating most of Isengard’s resources to his reconquest campaign and persuading my legions of Uruk-hai followers to support him? Sure, but that doesn’t mean I agreed with him on everything."
I, Saruman, Have Ended My Alliance with the Dark Lord Sauron
“Last year, two mercurial billionaires formed a partnership and vowed to drive the country in a new direction. Donald Trump had the political power...
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June 6, 2025 at 3:21 PM
"I was never a Sauron fan. Did I facilitate Sauron's rise to power by donating most of Isengard’s resources to his reconquest campaign and persuading my legions of Uruk-hai followers to support him? Sure, but that doesn’t mean I agreed with him on everything."
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The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Administration has seen its staff cut by more than a third, and it's facing deep budget cuts. Progress on overdose deaths could be lost, experts warn.
RFK Jr. is shrinking the agency that works on mental illness and addiction
The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Administration has seen its staff cut by more than a third, and it's facing deep budget cuts. Progress on overdose deaths could be lost, experts warn.
n.pr
June 6, 2025 at 6:35 PM
The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Administration has seen its staff cut by more than a third, and it's facing deep budget cuts. Progress on overdose deaths could be lost, experts warn.
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must be incredibly frustrating and disheartening to have federal funding that was promised to you for important work suddenly and arbitrarily ripped away
“In light of the President's statement about cancellation of my government contracts, @SpaceX will begin decommissioning its Dragon spacecraft immediately”
June 5, 2025 at 8:15 PM
must be incredibly frustrating and disheartening to have federal funding that was promised to you for important work suddenly and arbitrarily ripped away
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New powerful article up in the New York Times on cancelled and delayed grants
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Here Are the Nearly 2,500 Medical Research Grants Canceled or Delayed by Trump (Gift Article)
Some cuts have been starkly visible, but the country’s medical grant-making machinery has also radically transformed outside the public eye.
www.nytimes.com
June 4, 2025 at 3:01 PM
New powerful article up in the New York Times on cancelled and delayed grants
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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We really need to be talking about the impact of these cuts and freezes not just on research but on people’s material ability to live— I don’t know if most get how precarious so many in academic are financially
Staff members at the US National Science Foundation (NSF) were told on 30 April to “stop awarding all funding actions until further notice,” according to an email seen by Nature.
https://go.nature.com/44Ugf9V
https://go.nature.com/44Ugf9V
Exclusive: NSF stops awarding new grants and funding existing ones
US science funder also plans to screen grant applications for compliance with ‘agency priorities’.
go.nature.com
May 2, 2025 at 1:49 PM
We really need to be talking about the impact of these cuts and freezes not just on research but on people’s material ability to live— I don’t know if most get how precarious so many in academic are financially
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A pie graph worth keeping in mind as the NIH budget plummets jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... for 356 new FDA drugs approved
March 23, 2025 at 4:17 PM
A pie graph worth keeping in mind as the NIH budget plummets jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... for 356 new FDA drugs approved
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“We are in a different era right now where nothing is normal,” says Jennifer Zeitzer, who leads the public-affairs office at the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology in Rockville, Maryland.
https://go.nature.com/3FwNghZ
https://go.nature.com/3FwNghZ
What’s in store for US science as funding bill averts government shutdown
Spending on research, including at the NIH, will see modest cuts this year. But the threat of big reductions in future remain.
go.nature.com
March 17, 2025 at 9:23 PM
“We are in a different era right now where nothing is normal,” says Jennifer Zeitzer, who leads the public-affairs office at the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology in Rockville, Maryland.
https://go.nature.com/3FwNghZ
https://go.nature.com/3FwNghZ
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Per a source (and similar post on Reddit, fwiw), NIH RIF plan may centralize and cut the number of institutes and centers by around half.
“This is the end of NIH as we know it.”
“This is the end of NIH as we know it.”
March 14, 2025 at 11:28 AM
Per a source (and similar post on Reddit, fwiw), NIH RIF plan may centralize and cut the number of institutes and centers by around half.
“This is the end of NIH as we know it.”
“This is the end of NIH as we know it.”
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🧵 IN SHOCKING MOVE, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY FIRES UNION PRESIDENT ONE DAY BEFORE CONTRACT NEGOTIATIONS BEGIN, IN FURTHER CRACKDOWN ON FREE SPEECH
March 14, 2025 at 12:17 AM
🧵 IN SHOCKING MOVE, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY FIRES UNION PRESIDENT ONE DAY BEFORE CONTRACT NEGOTIATIONS BEGIN, IN FURTHER CRACKDOWN ON FREE SPEECH