Lauren Hall
@laurenh-paleo.bsky.social
Ph.D. student at OSU // Studying FEA in rodent chewing
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Cuts have consequences, illustrated. As seen on TV 📺
June 3, 2025 at 12:45 AM
Cuts have consequences, illustrated. As seen on TV 📺
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We need an immediate law thru Congress (I know, I know… pressure them!) that immigrants can ONLY be deported to either:
1) The country of their nationality.
Or, 2) The last country they were in prior to entering the USA.
The less complicated this law, the better.
1) The country of their nationality.
Or, 2) The last country they were in prior to entering the USA.
The less complicated this law, the better.
May 7, 2025 at 9:52 PM
We need an immediate law thru Congress (I know, I know… pressure them!) that immigrants can ONLY be deported to either:
1) The country of their nationality.
Or, 2) The last country they were in prior to entering the USA.
The less complicated this law, the better.
1) The country of their nationality.
Or, 2) The last country they were in prior to entering the USA.
The less complicated this law, the better.
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Freezing *ALL* science funding?
What a way to make a country great.
This seems a precursor to something bigger. Total elimination of the NSF and public funding of science? Like with international aid (USAID)?
🚨Speak up, we can't allow this to happen.
What a way to make a country great.
This seems a precursor to something bigger. Total elimination of the NSF and public funding of science? Like with international aid (USAID)?
🚨Speak up, we can't allow this to happen.
BREAKING: NSF has frozen all grant funding, as of yesterday. It's unclear when they will resume funding awards, or why the pause has been put in place. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Exclusive: NSF stops awarding new grants and funding existing ones
US science funder also plans to screen grant applications for compliance with ‘agency priorities’.
www.nature.com
May 2, 2025 at 8:05 AM
Freezing *ALL* science funding?
What a way to make a country great.
This seems a precursor to something bigger. Total elimination of the NSF and public funding of science? Like with international aid (USAID)?
🚨Speak up, we can't allow this to happen.
What a way to make a country great.
This seems a precursor to something bigger. Total elimination of the NSF and public funding of science? Like with international aid (USAID)?
🚨Speak up, we can't allow this to happen.
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🚨 Over 70 graduate programs in the biological and biomedical sciences have frozen or slashed admissions.
The consequences are profound—how many brilliant minds are being shut out of research entirely? How much future discovery is being lost before it even begins?
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
The consequences are profound—how many brilliant minds are being shut out of research entirely? How much future discovery is being lost before it even begins?
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
Graduate Reductions Across Biomedical Sciences (2025)
docs.google.com
March 28, 2025 at 6:57 PM
🚨 Over 70 graduate programs in the biological and biomedical sciences have frozen or slashed admissions.
The consequences are profound—how many brilliant minds are being shut out of research entirely? How much future discovery is being lost before it even begins?
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
The consequences are profound—how many brilliant minds are being shut out of research entirely? How much future discovery is being lost before it even begins?
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
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RFK is a eugenics freak first and foremost and everything falls downstream from that. he *wants* excess deaths. he thinks that only the "fit" should survive.
These motherfuckers are going to kill children. I've been saying it for a year, but RFK Jr might as well be a serial murderer.
Watch: they'll start vaccine *bans* within a year.
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/27/h...
Watch: they'll start vaccine *bans* within a year.
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/27/h...
RFK Jr. Turns to a Discredited Vaccine Researcher for Autism Study (Gift Article)
David Geier has been hired as a senior data analyst at H.H.S. According to several people, he will examine any potential links between vaccines and autism that were debunked long ago.
www.nytimes.com
March 28, 2025 at 1:29 PM
RFK is a eugenics freak first and foremost and everything falls downstream from that. he *wants* excess deaths. he thinks that only the "fit" should survive.
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Government abductions are unconstitutional.
Denying anyone the right to due process in America is unconstitutional.
If you’ve rationalized your silence or support for any of it because it’s happening to those you disagree with, give it a minute…
They’ll get to you soon enough.
Denying anyone the right to due process in America is unconstitutional.
If you’ve rationalized your silence or support for any of it because it’s happening to those you disagree with, give it a minute…
They’ll get to you soon enough.
March 27, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Government abductions are unconstitutional.
Denying anyone the right to due process in America is unconstitutional.
If you’ve rationalized your silence or support for any of it because it’s happening to those you disagree with, give it a minute…
They’ll get to you soon enough.
Denying anyone the right to due process in America is unconstitutional.
If you’ve rationalized your silence or support for any of it because it’s happening to those you disagree with, give it a minute…
They’ll get to you soon enough.
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If you think what happened to Rumeysa Ozturk can't happen to you because you're a citizen and she's not, you are sorely mistaken. Ozturk was snatched off the street not for being a national security threat but for having a wrong opinion. If we don't put a stop to this, it's coming for all of us.
March 27, 2025 at 1:14 PM
If you think what happened to Rumeysa Ozturk can't happen to you because you're a citizen and she's not, you are sorely mistaken. Ozturk was snatched off the street not for being a national security threat but for having a wrong opinion. If we don't put a stop to this, it's coming for all of us.
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Here is a gift link. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
Here Are the Attack Plans That Trump’s Advisers Shared on Signal
The administration has downplayed the importance of the text messages inadvertently sent to The Atlantic’s editor in chief.
www.theatlantic.com
March 26, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Here is a gift link. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
Texas trying to pass a bill requiring proof of citizenship to cast a ballot is exactly what I would expect for a state that has stood in the way of my ability to vote by mail.
I voted in the 2016 presidental election in person in Texas. 2020 and 2024 by mail and they invalidated both those votes.
I voted in the 2016 presidental election in person in Texas. 2020 and 2024 by mail and they invalidated both those votes.
The Texas Legislature is considering a bill that would require all new and existing voters to provide documented proof of citizenship to cast a ballot. Voters who do not submit DPOC would be able to vote for the House and Senate, but not the president.
Texas Senate majority unveils bill requiring voters to prove their citizenship
All 20 GOP senators signed on to Senate Bill 16, which would apply to currently registered voters, and restrict some to only congressional elections.
www.texastribune.org
March 21, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Texas trying to pass a bill requiring proof of citizenship to cast a ballot is exactly what I would expect for a state that has stood in the way of my ability to vote by mail.
I voted in the 2016 presidental election in person in Texas. 2020 and 2024 by mail and they invalidated both those votes.
I voted in the 2016 presidental election in person in Texas. 2020 and 2024 by mail and they invalidated both those votes.
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I honestly don't know the answer to my question. In how many cases has the government maintained that DOGE is not an agency. Have they maintained in any case that it is? Have they refused to say in some cases? This particular bit of Hollander's opinion is crucial: they can't have it both ways.
Judge Hollander: Govt maintains DOGE is not an agency. If that's true, she goes on, then DOGErs cannot be detailed to agencies:
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
March 21, 2025 at 1:17 PM
I honestly don't know the answer to my question. In how many cases has the government maintained that DOGE is not an agency. Have they maintained in any case that it is? Have they refused to say in some cases? This particular bit of Hollander's opinion is crucial: they can't have it both ways.
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We are living in very dangerous, unusual times.
Today, the White House ignored a ruling by a Federal District Court because we have President who is an ignorant buffoon with no respect for the law or the Constitution.
THIS IS AN EMERGENCY!
Today, the White House ignored a ruling by a Federal District Court because we have President who is an ignorant buffoon with no respect for the law or the Constitution.
THIS IS AN EMERGENCY!
March 17, 2025 at 12:38 AM
We are living in very dangerous, unusual times.
Today, the White House ignored a ruling by a Federal District Court because we have President who is an ignorant buffoon with no respect for the law or the Constitution.
THIS IS AN EMERGENCY!
Today, the White House ignored a ruling by a Federal District Court because we have President who is an ignorant buffoon with no respect for the law or the Constitution.
THIS IS AN EMERGENCY!
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If you let the executive deport people to a foreign gulag just by pronouncing the word “terrorism,” then expect to be called a “terrorist” soon yourself.
March 17, 2025 at 3:21 AM
If you let the executive deport people to a foreign gulag just by pronouncing the word “terrorism,” then expect to be called a “terrorist” soon yourself.
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Imagine this: On the evening of March 8, you and your spouse unlock the door to your apartment building. As you step inside, two men—not in uniform—push their way in behind you. They tell you your visa has been revoked and that they are there to deport you.
March 12, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Imagine this: On the evening of March 8, you and your spouse unlock the door to your apartment building. As you step inside, two men—not in uniform—push their way in behind you. They tell you your visa has been revoked and that they are there to deport you.
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NEW: White House says the arrest and deportation of student activist & legal US resident, Mahmoud Khalil, is a blueprint for more.
The final line here is chilling. The White House specifically says Khalil was not breaking the law.
No evidence, no due process, no crime. He was just disappeared.
The final line here is chilling. The White House specifically says Khalil was not breaking the law.
No evidence, no due process, no crime. He was just disappeared.
March 11, 2025 at 4:17 PM
NEW: White House says the arrest and deportation of student activist & legal US resident, Mahmoud Khalil, is a blueprint for more.
The final line here is chilling. The White House specifically says Khalil was not breaking the law.
No evidence, no due process, no crime. He was just disappeared.
The final line here is chilling. The White House specifically says Khalil was not breaking the law.
No evidence, no due process, no crime. He was just disappeared.
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Trudeau: "I want to speak first directly to the American people. We don't want this. We want to work with you as a friend and ally. We don't want to see you hurt either. But your government has chosen to do this to you. As of this morning, markets are down and inflation is set to rise dramatically."
March 4, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Trudeau: "I want to speak first directly to the American people. We don't want this. We want to work with you as a friend and ally. We don't want to see you hurt either. But your government has chosen to do this to you. As of this morning, markets are down and inflation is set to rise dramatically."
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Today the Royal Society will meet to discuss “Fellows’ behaviour”. Without doubt the fellow they will primarily be discussing is Elon Musk.
The behaviour may range from his public dissemination of unfounded conspiracy theories to his attacks on the science
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The behaviour may range from his public dissemination of unfounded conspiracy theories to his attacks on the science
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March 3, 2025 at 8:21 AM
Today the Royal Society will meet to discuss “Fellows’ behaviour”. Without doubt the fellow they will primarily be discussing is Elon Musk.
The behaviour may range from his public dissemination of unfounded conspiracy theories to his attacks on the science
🧵
1/38
The behaviour may range from his public dissemination of unfounded conspiracy theories to his attacks on the science
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i've failed to articulate for weeks now the near universal failure of the us press to truly understand, and crucially express back to the american people, what these events mean to europeans — how for us this may be abstract democracy-signaling (no small fault of the press) but for them existential
March 2, 2025 at 7:44 AM
i've failed to articulate for weeks now the near universal failure of the us press to truly understand, and crucially express back to the american people, what these events mean to europeans — how for us this may be abstract democracy-signaling (no small fault of the press) but for them existential
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It Was an Ambush
Friday marked one of the grimmest days in the history of American diplomacy.
By Tom Nichols
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
Friday marked one of the grimmest days in the history of American diplomacy.
By Tom Nichols
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
It Was an Ambush
Friday marked one of the grimmest days in the history of American diplomacy.
www.theatlantic.com
March 1, 2025 at 3:52 PM
It Was an Ambush
Friday marked one of the grimmest days in the history of American diplomacy.
By Tom Nichols
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
Friday marked one of the grimmest days in the history of American diplomacy.
By Tom Nichols
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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Huh, turns out you can't have private UNIDENTIFIED security assault and kidnap people because you don't like what they say at city hall
Weird.
Weird.
Coeur d’Alene prosecutors dismiss citation against woman dragged from town hall, city revokes security company’s business license
City prosecutors will dismiss a misdemeanor battery citation issued to the Post Falls woman who plainclothes private security guards dragged out of a legislative town hall Saturday and the city of Coe...
cdapress.com
February 25, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Huh, turns out you can't have private UNIDENTIFIED security assault and kidnap people because you don't like what they say at city hall
Weird.
Weird.
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@chrismurphyct.bsky.social
This is a five-alarm fire.
This is a five-alarm fire.
February 23, 2025 at 1:55 PM
@chrismurphyct.bsky.social
This is a five-alarm fire.
This is a five-alarm fire.
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I think some people hear “grants” and think that without them, scientists and government workers just have less stuff to play with at work. But grants fund salaries for students, academics, researchers, and people who work in all areas of public service.
“Pausing” grants means people don’t eat.
“Pausing” grants means people don’t eat.
White House pauses all federal grants, sparking confusion
The Trump administration has put a hold on all federal financial grants and loans, affecting tens of billions of dollars in payments.
www.washingtonpost.com
January 28, 2025 at 3:03 AM
I think some people hear “grants” and think that without them, scientists and government workers just have less stuff to play with at work. But grants fund salaries for students, academics, researchers, and people who work in all areas of public service.
“Pausing” grants means people don’t eat.
“Pausing” grants means people don’t eat.