Matthew Peña
@mipena.bsky.social
Dad, Director of the Rice Alliance Clean Energy Accelerator, Little League Pee Wee pitcher
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... why he had no problems throwing a ridiculous amount of money at Insta/WhatsApp and the boondoggle of VR. CANNOT MISS THE NEXT WAVE. The lesson from The Innovator's Dilemma is that missing the next big wave is existential. Spending $50 billion on the wrong things may not be.
November 18, 2025 at 9:26 PM
... why he had no problems throwing a ridiculous amount of money at Insta/WhatsApp and the boondoggle of VR. CANNOT MISS THE NEXT WAVE. The lesson from The Innovator's Dilemma is that missing the next big wave is existential. Spending $50 billion on the wrong things may not be.
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![Comic. Panels up to the 10-year point are grayed out. New panels since the Ten Years comic, which chronicles the first ten years of PERSON 1's journey with cancer: (1) [two people in bed] PERSON 1 (woman): One more chapter? PERSON 2 (man): Don’t we both have to get up early? PERSON 1: Nnnnnggggh PERSON 2: Sure, good point. (2) [many people wearing masks, walking while looking at graphs on their phones] (3) [birds landing on people] PERSON 2 in beanie and scarf: Hah! They like *my* seeds best. PERSON 1 in scarf holding phone with a bird sitting on it: Wait, how do I take a picture of this one? (4) [two people rowing boats with tree landscape] (5) [Person 1 carries overflowing stack of things to Person 2 in bed] PERSON 1: I brought you honey lemon tea, more pillows, a cinnamon roll, Tylenol, another blanket, a– PERSON 2: It was just Appendicitis, I’m really– PERSON 1: *It is my turn to take care of you and I am going to do it right!* (6) [Two people in car] (7) [still in car) PERSON 1: Oh my god. PERSON 2: Oh my god. (8) [car driving] PERSON 1: Pull over! PERSON 2: I am! (9) [both people get out of car] (10) [Large colored panel of aurora borealis over water with both people looking on] (11) [Person 1 sits against tree while Person 2 lies on the ground] PERSON 1: Fifteen years. No sign of the cancer. (12) I *am* having some weird symptoms. Joint pain. Fatigue. I think I’m losing my close-up vision. PERSON 2: Yeah. Me too. (13) PERSON 2: I think we’re getting old. (14) PERSON 1: I guess that’s okay. PERSON 2: It’s all I wanted.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreihwhjblp5lyiwp63ouar7ocfea7evmckytoeo7rkfuoo4gw5rnrra@jpeg)
November 26, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Ah yes, when we used to worry about the blue light from our phones.
October 8, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Ah yes, when we used to worry about the blue light from our phones.
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The Legislature passed a measure to help save the iconic watering hole and Hays County’s dwindling aquifer.
Then Greg Abbott vetoed it.
Then Greg Abbott vetoed it.
Why the Best Chance to Save One of Texas’s Most Iconic Swimming Holes Drained Away
The Legislature passed a measure to help save the iconic watering hole and Hays County’s dwindling aquifer. Then Greg Abbott vetoed it.
www.texasmonthly.com
August 1, 2025 at 4:53 PM
The Legislature passed a measure to help save the iconic watering hole and Hays County’s dwindling aquifer.
Then Greg Abbott vetoed it.
Then Greg Abbott vetoed it.
This is what happens when you have uncertainty as a biproduct of your deal making strategies. It may work on individuals, but it doesn't work for large corporations or economies.
CNN: "We came into this week and we said it was a pivotal week for the economy. And I gotta say -- indicator after indicator has turned out worse than expected. Core GDP really showed that the US economy slowed down during Q2. Yesterday's inflation report -- that heated up."
August 1, 2025 at 9:30 PM
This is what happens when you have uncertainty as a biproduct of your deal making strategies. It may work on individuals, but it doesn't work for large corporations or economies.
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A good discussion by Destin Sandlin, with Smarter Every Day, showing how hard it is to make things in the US. There's a lot going on in the world, but I think it's worthy of your attention. Fight the brain drain in the sciences and manufacturing. www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ZTG...
I Tried To Make Something In America (The Smarter Scrubber Experiment) - Smarter Every Day 308
YouTube video by SmarterEveryDay
www.youtube.com
June 9, 2025 at 5:03 PM
A good discussion by Destin Sandlin, with Smarter Every Day, showing how hard it is to make things in the US. There's a lot going on in the world, but I think it's worthy of your attention. Fight the brain drain in the sciences and manufacturing. www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ZTG...
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In San Antonio today, plainclothes ICE officers (not masked this time) arrested, handcuffed, and zip-tied a family of five (yes, ALL of them, including the little children) coming out of their immigration court hearing — which ICE had just had dismissed.
www.mysanantonio.com/news/local/a...
www.mysanantonio.com/news/local/a...
Agents zip-tie kids in new immigration crackdown in Texas
At least three children were taken into custody and zip-tied at the San Antonio Immigration Court.
www.mysanantonio.com
May 30, 2025 at 1:20 AM
In San Antonio today, plainclothes ICE officers (not masked this time) arrested, handcuffed, and zip-tied a family of five (yes, ALL of them, including the little children) coming out of their immigration court hearing — which ICE had just had dismissed.
www.mysanantonio.com/news/local/a...
www.mysanantonio.com/news/local/a...
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Massively cutting Medicaid and SNAP isn’t the only way to find savings. We could just forgo tax cuts for Americans making over $500K instead.
My @morningjoe-msnbc.bsky.social Chart
My @morningjoe-msnbc.bsky.social Chart
May 22, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Massively cutting Medicaid and SNAP isn’t the only way to find savings. We could just forgo tax cuts for Americans making over $500K instead.
My @morningjoe-msnbc.bsky.social Chart
My @morningjoe-msnbc.bsky.social Chart
Really highlights their priorities...
May 23, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Really highlights their priorities...
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Global average temperatures are spiking, rising faster than climate models seem able to explain, and in a sane world, every country would be united in a full-scale effort to figure this out & respond. Instead the US is dismantling its scientific infrastructure.
The World’s Most Urgent Scientific Question
https://wmo.int/news/media-centre/wmo-confirms-2024-warmest-year-record-about-155degc-above-pre-industrial-level
There is no question more urgent than the one indicated by that red arrow in the graph...
app.wedonthavetime.org
May 19, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Global average temperatures are spiking, rising faster than climate models seem able to explain, and in a sane world, every country would be united in a full-scale effort to figure this out & respond. Instead the US is dismantling its scientific infrastructure.
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NSF grant terminations are disproportionately affecting underrepresented scientists. 58% of canceled grants have women PIs, despite making up only 34% of awards. 17% of canceled grants have Black PIs (versus 4% of the pool). Hispanic and disabled PIs are twice as likely to have NSF grants canceled.
Trump officials take steps toward a radically different NSF
Efforts to shrink staff, budget, and focus have alarmed members of Congress
www.science.org
May 14, 2025 at 3:31 PM
NSF grant terminations are disproportionately affecting underrepresented scientists. 58% of canceled grants have women PIs, despite making up only 34% of awards. 17% of canceled grants have Black PIs (versus 4% of the pool). Hispanic and disabled PIs are twice as likely to have NSF grants canceled.
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NEW: Per multiple sources, the National Cancer Institute’s Board of Scientific Advisors has been entirely disbanded.
April 29, 2025 at 3:00 AM
NEW: Per multiple sources, the National Cancer Institute’s Board of Scientific Advisors has been entirely disbanded.
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Pope Francis’ favorite painting was Caravaggio’s “Calling of St. Matthew,” which hangs in a chapel near where he would stay in Rome before he became pope. See the painting up close, with descriptions from the art critic Jason Farago. (gift link) www.nytimes.com/inte...
Piercing the Shadows of the Pope’s Favorite Painting
Caravaggio was an artist of rare directness, whose naturalistic pictures brought the heavens down to earth. Our critic Jason Farago shows you what Francis may have seen in them.
www.nytimes.com
April 27, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Pope Francis’ favorite painting was Caravaggio’s “Calling of St. Matthew,” which hangs in a chapel near where he would stay in Rome before he became pope. See the painting up close, with descriptions from the art critic Jason Farago. (gift link) www.nytimes.com/inte...
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@erictopol.bsky.social single handedly giving me something to be hopeful about each day.
It has taken decades to get to this point, but stem cells for Parkinson's disease showing promise in 2 clinical trials
nature.com/articles/d41...
nature.com/articles/s41...
nature.com/articles/s41...
nature.com/articles/d41...
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nature.com/articles/s41...
Clinical trials test the safety of stem-cell therapy for Parkinson’s disease
Transplanting dopamine-releasing neurons into the brain is a promising regenerative therapy for Parkinson’s disease. Two clinical trials show that it is safe, but more evidence is needed to prove its ...
nature.com
April 17, 2025 at 2:25 PM
@erictopol.bsky.social single handedly giving me something to be hopeful about each day.
@profgalloway.com, if you run for president, your slogan can be "the ugly truth" because of your tendencies for being unfiltered and self-deprecating. @jessicatarlov.bsky.social #ragingmoderates
April 9, 2025 at 10:10 PM
@profgalloway.com, if you run for president, your slogan can be "the ugly truth" because of your tendencies for being unfiltered and self-deprecating. @jessicatarlov.bsky.social #ragingmoderates
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BREAKING: Trump admin says it mistakenly deported a Maryland father who had *withholding of removal* back to El Salvador on March 15. Govt told court Monday it won't bring Kilmar Abrego Garcia back. "What.The.Fuck..." one govt attorney told me. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc... @theatlantic.com
An ‘Administrative Error’ Sends a Maryland Father to a Salvadoran Prison
The Trump administration says it mistakenly deported an immigrant with protected status but that courts are powerless to order his return.
www.theatlantic.com
April 1, 2025 at 2:25 AM
BREAKING: Trump admin says it mistakenly deported a Maryland father who had *withholding of removal* back to El Salvador on March 15. Govt told court Monday it won't bring Kilmar Abrego Garcia back. "What.The.Fuck..." one govt attorney told me. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc... @theatlantic.com
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Texas measles outbreak now at 400 cases and 41 hospitalizations.
It was at 327 cases 3 days ago. Unclear how many of the hospitalizations are due to Vitamin A liver toxicity, as promoted by RFK Jr. The number of actual cases surely exceeds 1,000 at this point
www.dshs.texas.gov/news-alerts/...
It was at 327 cases 3 days ago. Unclear how many of the hospitalizations are due to Vitamin A liver toxicity, as promoted by RFK Jr. The number of actual cases surely exceeds 1,000 at this point
www.dshs.texas.gov/news-alerts/...
Measles Outbreak – March 28, 2025 | Texas DSHS
www.dshs.texas.gov
March 28, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Texas measles outbreak now at 400 cases and 41 hospitalizations.
It was at 327 cases 3 days ago. Unclear how many of the hospitalizations are due to Vitamin A liver toxicity, as promoted by RFK Jr. The number of actual cases surely exceeds 1,000 at this point
www.dshs.texas.gov/news-alerts/...
It was at 327 cases 3 days ago. Unclear how many of the hospitalizations are due to Vitamin A liver toxicity, as promoted by RFK Jr. The number of actual cases surely exceeds 1,000 at this point
www.dshs.texas.gov/news-alerts/...
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Unidentified men grabbing someone off the street and putting her in a car because she wrote an op-Ed. This as flatly authoritarian as anything we’ve seen in this country in a very long time.
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
They're not even uniformed officers. Just secret police thugs in hoodies and masks.
From WCVB: youtu.be/PuFIs7OkzYY
March 26, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Unidentified men grabbing someone off the street and putting her in a car because she wrote an op-Ed. This as flatly authoritarian as anything we’ve seen in this country in a very long time.
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A longer version of the Tufts announcement about the abduction of an international graduate student by federal authorities, circulating on Twitter and Reddit.
March 26, 2025 at 5:00 AM
A longer version of the Tufts announcement about the abduction of an international graduate student by federal authorities, circulating on Twitter and Reddit.
Texans, I'm calling a code red.
I have Norwegian students visiting Houston, and they unanimously think Sonic has a better burger than Whataburger.
I have Norwegian students visiting Houston, and they unanimously think Sonic has a better burger than Whataburger.
March 23, 2025 at 12:42 AM
Texans, I'm calling a code red.
I have Norwegian students visiting Houston, and they unanimously think Sonic has a better burger than Whataburger.
I have Norwegian students visiting Houston, and they unanimously think Sonic has a better burger than Whataburger.
This is the correct type of messaging. You didn't vote for this.
Termination notices going out this afternoon to more than 300 employees of the National Cancer Institute. Access likely ends today. Four weeks paid leave and that’s it.
Strong power move for Team Cancer.
Strong power move for Team Cancer.
February 14, 2025 at 8:50 PM
This is the correct type of messaging. You didn't vote for this.
@summoningsalt.bsky.social also has the best speedrunning videos on YouTube. Congrats, champ!
February 9, 2025 at 10:52 PM
@summoningsalt.bsky.social also has the best speedrunning videos on YouTube. Congrats, champ!
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1. Today the NIH director issued a new directive slashing overhead rates to 15%.
I want to provide some context on what that means and why it matters.
grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
I want to provide some context on what that means and why it matters.
grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
NOT-OD-25-068: Supplemental Guidance to the 2024 NIH Grants Policy Statement: Indirect Cost Rates
NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: Supplemental Guidance to the 2024 NIH Grants Policy Statement: Indirect Cost Rates NOT-OD-25-068. OD
grants.nih.gov
February 8, 2025 at 12:18 AM
1. Today the NIH director issued a new directive slashing overhead rates to 15%.
I want to provide some context on what that means and why it matters.
grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
I want to provide some context on what that means and why it matters.
grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...