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Education Department employees have been placed on leave for attending diversity training. Meanwhile, Republicans have introduced a bill to eliminate the Department of Education.
February 3, 2025 at 3:29 AM
Education Department employees have been placed on leave for attending diversity training. Meanwhile, Republicans have introduced a bill to eliminate the Department of Education.
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Forced Resignations Are Illegal – 5 CFR § 715.202 states that federal resignations must be voluntary. An email implying "uncertainty of your position" while pushing resignation deadlines could be considered coercion.
February 3, 2025 at 3:30 AM
Forced Resignations Are Illegal – 5 CFR § 715.202 states that federal resignations must be voluntary. An email implying "uncertainty of your position" while pushing resignation deadlines could be considered coercion.
Oh for fuck’s sake…
FDA purges material on clinical trial diversity from its site, showing stakes of Trump DEI ban
From me and @lizzylawrence.bsky.social
www.statnews.com/2025/01/23/f...
From me and @lizzylawrence.bsky.social
www.statnews.com/2025/01/23/f...
FDA purges material on clinical trial diversity from its site, showing stakes of Trump DEI ban
Following the Trump administration's DEI ban, the FDA's move to scrub webpages has ensnared many pages focused on ensuring diversity in drug trials.
www.statnews.com
January 24, 2025 at 6:44 AM
Oh for fuck’s sake…
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The folks obsessively posting about egg prices for the past few years have gone strangely quiet just as egg prices hit an all-time high.
January 23, 2025 at 8:08 PM
The folks obsessively posting about egg prices for the past few years have gone strangely quiet just as egg prices hit an all-time high.
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Just a reminder for undergraduate students interested in PAID research for the summer
I started gathering a list for REUs/Summer research opportunities for undergraduate students in Ecology/Conservation/Evolutionary Biology. Feel share to share with any undergraduate students who may be interested in participating in *PAID* research.
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
REUs/Summer Research 2024 List (Ecology and Evolution)
docs.google.com
December 16, 2024 at 5:17 PM
Just a reminder for undergraduate students interested in PAID research for the summer
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Conspiracy theories and cosying up to dictators: why intelligence experts are spooked by Tulsi Gabbard
Conspiracy theories and cosying up to dictators: why intelligence experts are spooked by Tulsi Gabbard
Trump’s pick for director of national intelligence has long been regarded as dangerous for her Syria contacts and stance on Ukraine
In 2018, a Syrian dissident codenamed Caesar was set to testify before the House foreign affairs committee about the…
www.theguardian.com
December 5, 2024 at 7:47 AM
Conspiracy theories and cosying up to dictators: why intelligence experts are spooked by Tulsi Gabbard
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It's up!!!! My Explainer video for BlueSky beginners.
I cover how to find your Twitter followers, Starter Packs, Feeds, Lists, some handy-dandy tools, and BlueSky etiquette.
Please watch and/or share with any newbies you know. I think it's helpful.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_V2...
I cover how to find your Twitter followers, Starter Packs, Feeds, Lists, some handy-dandy tools, and BlueSky etiquette.
Please watch and/or share with any newbies you know. I think it's helpful.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_V2...
BlueSky for Beginners
YouTube video by Machine Pun Kelly
www.youtube.com
November 15, 2024 at 1:18 AM
It's up!!!! My Explainer video for BlueSky beginners.
I cover how to find your Twitter followers, Starter Packs, Feeds, Lists, some handy-dandy tools, and BlueSky etiquette.
Please watch and/or share with any newbies you know. I think it's helpful.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_V2...
I cover how to find your Twitter followers, Starter Packs, Feeds, Lists, some handy-dandy tools, and BlueSky etiquette.
Please watch and/or share with any newbies you know. I think it's helpful.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_V2...
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Private insurance companies do not “reduce waste” or contribute anything to the practice of medicine. (Seriously, please show me any evidence that they ever have!) They only extract value from patients and healthcare providers so that they can profit without adding anything.
Eliminate the middlemen
Eliminate the middlemen
November 20, 2024 at 10:06 PM
Private insurance companies do not “reduce waste” or contribute anything to the practice of medicine. (Seriously, please show me any evidence that they ever have!) They only extract value from patients and healthcare providers so that they can profit without adding anything.
Eliminate the middlemen
Eliminate the middlemen
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When insulin was first patented in 1923, the discoverers declined to put their names on it as they felt that insulin belonged to the public.
101 years later, insulin is inaccessible to thousands of Americans because of price gouging by near-monopoly private insurance corporations and their PBMs.
101 years later, insulin is inaccessible to thousands of Americans because of price gouging by near-monopoly private insurance corporations and their PBMs.
BREAKING: CVS Health, UnitedHealth Group and Cigna are suing the Federal Trade Commission, claiming that the agency going after drug middlemen over high insulin prices is unconstitutional.
November 20, 2024 at 10:03 PM
When insulin was first patented in 1923, the discoverers declined to put their names on it as they felt that insulin belonged to the public.
101 years later, insulin is inaccessible to thousands of Americans because of price gouging by near-monopoly private insurance corporations and their PBMs.
101 years later, insulin is inaccessible to thousands of Americans because of price gouging by near-monopoly private insurance corporations and their PBMs.
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FACT: If the House Ethics report exonerated Matt Gaetz, it would have been released by Republicans long ago.
FACT: So the public is entitled to draw a negative/adverse legal inference from such withholding of the document.
FACT: Therefore, it can be evidence of Matt Gaetz's guilt.
FACT: So the public is entitled to draw a negative/adverse legal inference from such withholding of the document.
FACT: Therefore, it can be evidence of Matt Gaetz's guilt.
November 20, 2024 at 10:07 PM
FACT: If the House Ethics report exonerated Matt Gaetz, it would have been released by Republicans long ago.
FACT: So the public is entitled to draw a negative/adverse legal inference from such withholding of the document.
FACT: Therefore, it can be evidence of Matt Gaetz's guilt.
FACT: So the public is entitled to draw a negative/adverse legal inference from such withholding of the document.
FACT: Therefore, it can be evidence of Matt Gaetz's guilt.
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Can we stop ignoring the science?
-People who get #COVID while pregnant have increased risk of pre-eclampsia.
- There is no evidence of increase in adverse neonatal events in babies born to vaccinated moms.
-Maternal immune activation caused by COVID can PROFOUNDLY impact fetal brain development.
-People who get #COVID while pregnant have increased risk of pre-eclampsia.
- There is no evidence of increase in adverse neonatal events in babies born to vaccinated moms.
-Maternal immune activation caused by COVID can PROFOUNDLY impact fetal brain development.
November 20, 2024 at 6:15 PM
Can we stop ignoring the science?
-People who get #COVID while pregnant have increased risk of pre-eclampsia.
- There is no evidence of increase in adverse neonatal events in babies born to vaccinated moms.
-Maternal immune activation caused by COVID can PROFOUNDLY impact fetal brain development.
-People who get #COVID while pregnant have increased risk of pre-eclampsia.
- There is no evidence of increase in adverse neonatal events in babies born to vaccinated moms.
-Maternal immune activation caused by COVID can PROFOUNDLY impact fetal brain development.
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Rep. Jasmine Crockett: "There has been no oppression for the white man in this country ... it is white men on this side of the aisle telling us, people of color on this side of the aisle, that y'all are the ones being oppressed."
November 20, 2024 at 6:35 PM
Rep. Jasmine Crockett: "There has been no oppression for the white man in this country ... it is white men on this side of the aisle telling us, people of color on this side of the aisle, that y'all are the ones being oppressed."
Literally legislating the bathroom habits of one individual… republicans are so fucking obsessed with other people’s genitals. Fuckin weirdos
House Speaker Mike Johnson said Wednesday that transgender individuals would not be allowed into restroom facilities in the Capitol and House office buildings that do not correspond with their sex assigned at birth.
Speaker Johnson restricts use of Capitol bathrooms by transgender people
The rule change is announced about two weeks after Democrat Sarah McBride of Delaware became the first openly transgender individual elected to Congress.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 20, 2024 at 9:45 PM
Literally legislating the bathroom habits of one individual… republicans are so fucking obsessed with other people’s genitals. Fuckin weirdos
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A thread on NIH Reorganization and the Scientific Management Review Board (SMRB)
Disclosure: I was involved with the SMRB since its inception and have very strong feelings about how it was used, misused, and abandoned. My passion on these issues will undoubtably show through.
1/n
Disclosure: I was involved with the SMRB since its inception and have very strong feelings about how it was used, misused, and abandoned. My passion on these issues will undoubtably show through.
1/n
November 20, 2024 at 12:39 PM
A thread on NIH Reorganization and the Scientific Management Review Board (SMRB)
Disclosure: I was involved with the SMRB since its inception and have very strong feelings about how it was used, misused, and abandoned. My passion on these issues will undoubtably show through.
1/n
Disclosure: I was involved with the SMRB since its inception and have very strong feelings about how it was used, misused, and abandoned. My passion on these issues will undoubtably show through.
1/n
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It should be emphasized just how obscene the Gaetz nom is. He's unqualified, unfit, & was recently investigated for sex trafficking. He faces accusations of paying for sex & sexual misconduct w/ a minor. That there's even a chance he gets confirmed as the top law enforcement official is shameful.
November 20, 2024 at 8:18 PM
It should be emphasized just how obscene the Gaetz nom is. He's unqualified, unfit, & was recently investigated for sex trafficking. He faces accusations of paying for sex & sexual misconduct w/ a minor. That there's even a chance he gets confirmed as the top law enforcement official is shameful.
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Texas is on the verge of shoving Bible lessons in public elementary schools. (A final vote is scheduled for Friday.)
I wrote about what it'll look like when conservatives push Christian mythology on millions of children.
www.friendlyatheist.com/p/texas-is-a...
I wrote about what it'll look like when conservatives push Christian mythology on millions of children.
www.friendlyatheist.com/p/texas-is-a...
Texas is about to push Bible lessons in public elementary schools
The new state-sanctioned Bluebonnet Learning curriculum would push Christian mythology on millions of kids
www.friendlyatheist.com
November 20, 2024 at 2:25 PM
Texas is on the verge of shoving Bible lessons in public elementary schools. (A final vote is scheduled for Friday.)
I wrote about what it'll look like when conservatives push Christian mythology on millions of children.
www.friendlyatheist.com/p/texas-is-a...
I wrote about what it'll look like when conservatives push Christian mythology on millions of children.
www.friendlyatheist.com/p/texas-is-a...
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I hope Sarah McBride creates a Bluesky account so she and her staff will have a place to communicate where all the replies aren’t hostile.
Anyway, here’s her response to House Speaker Johnson’s announcement about restrooms in the Capitol:
Anyway, here’s her response to House Speaker Johnson’s announcement about restrooms in the Capitol:
November 20, 2024 at 8:44 PM
I hope Sarah McBride creates a Bluesky account so she and her staff will have a place to communicate where all the replies aren’t hostile.
Anyway, here’s her response to House Speaker Johnson’s announcement about restrooms in the Capitol:
Anyway, here’s her response to House Speaker Johnson’s announcement about restrooms in the Capitol:
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Huge thanks to @shaine.bsky.social and @kakape.bsky.social for shining some light on Blacksky in Science
"One user, Rudy Fraser, started blacksky, a collection of Black-centered feeds that uses volunteer and automated moderation to filter out racist posts"
"One user, Rudy Fraser, started blacksky, a collection of Black-centered feeds that uses volunteer and automated moderation to filter out racist posts"
Like ‘old Twitter’: The scientific community finds a new home on Bluesky
After recent changes to Elon Musk’s X, a gradual migration turns into a stampede
www.science.org
November 20, 2024 at 8:22 PM
Huge thanks to @shaine.bsky.social and @kakape.bsky.social for shining some light on Blacksky in Science
"One user, Rudy Fraser, started blacksky, a collection of Black-centered feeds that uses volunteer and automated moderation to filter out racist posts"
"One user, Rudy Fraser, started blacksky, a collection of Black-centered feeds that uses volunteer and automated moderation to filter out racist posts"
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Time to bring over a thread from when I read Case Vanderwolf’s autobiography.
Notice already strong “brain from inside out” vibes… 😉
#neuroskyence
Notice already strong “brain from inside out” vibes… 😉
#neuroskyence
November 19, 2024 at 3:40 PM
Time to bring over a thread from when I read Case Vanderwolf’s autobiography.
Notice already strong “brain from inside out” vibes… 😉
#neuroskyence
Notice already strong “brain from inside out” vibes… 😉
#neuroskyence
Lol yeah, good… she was dead wrong
Welp — Life comes at you fast: Ann Selzer, who ran that infamous poll that had Kamala winning Iowa, is retiring. www.desmoinesregister.com/story/opinio...
November 17, 2024 at 5:26 PM
Lol yeah, good… she was dead wrong
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Kids are going to die from unnecessary diseases because Republicans refuse to listen to experts.
Jeez -- Sen. Markwayne Mullin defends RFK Jr's nomination by going full anti-vaxxer and questioning whether vaccines cause autism (they don't)
November 17, 2024 at 3:36 PM
Kids are going to die from unnecessary diseases because Republicans refuse to listen to experts.