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Saliva y miel| Bióloga Boricua| ESP+ENG| May the force be with you
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Poseidón y su sirena
April 27, 2025 at 3:15 AM
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Éstas son las experiencias que hay que escuchar cuando se habla de este tema: simple y sencillamente gente que ha vivido la experiencia, no gente que le teme o la imagina www.elnuevodia.com/noticias/gob...
“La niñez trans existe”: madres piden a Jenniffer González que vete medida que prohibiría tratamientos de afirmación de género
El Proyecto del Senado 350 fue aprobado –en ambos cuerpos– sin vistas públicas y, ante la posibilidad de que la gobernadora lo convierta en ley, familias piden empatía y respeto hacia sus hijos, que p...
www.elnuevodia.com
April 10, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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If the Smithsonian stands up, this could be a turning point in Trump's assault on the cultural infrastructure of America. www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...
Column | The Smithsonian could be the beginning of Trump’s plan to edit history. Or the end.
The president may not like how the museum and research institution tells the American story — but Americans do.
www.washingtonpost.com
April 10, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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Exclusive: Researchers at the US National Institutes of Health were told they can't attend scientific conferences and meetings without official permission, even if they pay their way and go during time off, current and former NIH scientists told Reuters reut.rs/4j7rFLT
Exclusive: US NIH scientists barred from attending conferences on their own time and dime
Researchers at the U.S. National Institutes of Health have been told they cannot attend scientific conferences and meetings without official permission, even if they pay their own way and go during time off, three current and former NIH scientists told Reuters.
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April 10, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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This @insidehighered.com website is tracking visa revocations of students across the US, >600 at >100 colleges as of today, April 10. www.insidehighered.com/news/global/...
April 10, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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I've already had two federal grants terminated and face a 33% pay cut due to future terminations. It's painful, but not as painful as the conversations I'm having every day with brilliant trainees in graduate school and postdoctoral positions who see little future for themselves in US science.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/03/o...

Really important piece to share widely. Too many Americans don’t know how severe a threat this Administration poses to our scientific infrastructure, global leadership, and health security
Opinion | The Uncertain Fate of the Young American Scientist (Gift Article)
Young researchers are choosing between staying in science and staying in the United States.
www.nytimes.com
April 5, 2025 at 1:09 AM
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Elementary school principals going where university presidents fear to tread...
April 5, 2025 at 12:11 AM
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Please share!!! This is getting ridiculous—they just can’t accept a loss. Please help spread the word to North Carolina. The North Carolina Court of Appeals ruled in a 2-1 decision that over 60,000 votes cast in last year’s closely contested state Supreme Court race must be verified and recounted.
April 5, 2025 at 2:44 AM
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Donald Trump says he is ‘not joking’ over possible third term – US politics live
Donald Trump says he is ‘not joking’ over possible third term – US politics live
President tells NBC ‘there are methods’ in securing a third term despite constitutional barriers Immigration remains a strength for Donald Trump, but his handling of tariffs is getting more negative feedback, according to a poll from the Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research. About half of US adults approve of Trump’s approach to immigration, the survey shows, but only about 4 in 10 have a positive view of the way he’s handling the economy and trade negotiations. The poll indicates that many Americans are still on board with Trump’s efforts to ramp up deportations and restrict immigration. But it also suggests that the Republican president’s threats to impose tariffs — which have been accompanied by tumbling consumer confidence and wild stock market swings — might be erasing his advantage on another issue that he made central to his winning 2024 campaign. The economy was a drag on then-President Joe Biden, who saw the share of Americans who approved of his handling of the economy fall to a low of roughly 3 in 10 in 2023. Trump drew considerable strength in November from voters who prioritized the economy, but just before he took office in January, an AP-NORC poll found that few Americans had high confidence that he’d make progress on lowering prices in his first year. Views of Trump’s job performance overall are more negative than positive, the survey found. About 4 in 10 US adults approve of the way Trump is handling his job as president, and more than half disapprove. Wall Street is set to join the global sell-off when trading begins in around two hours. Hopes that this week’s reciprocal tariffs would not be as harsh as feared were dashed over the weekend after US President Trump doubled down on his pursuit of using import levies to ‘make America great again’. With just a couple of days to go until the White House outlines the details of the reciprocal tariffs – the broadest set of restrictions yet to be unveiled by the Trump administration – there is a growing sense of panic in the markets about the scale and implications of the April 2 announcement. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
March 31, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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Durante los últimos dos años, la mayoría de cadáveres nos reclamados en el Instituto de Ciencias Forenses son de adultos mayores, otra desgarradora manifestación del abandono de este sector de la población. Mi reportaje especial de hoy www.elnuevodia.com/noticias/loc...
Muertos a los que nadie llora: la mayoría de los cadáveres sin reclamar que son cremados son adultos mayores
El 52% de los casi 400 cuerpos de los que el ICF dispuso entre 2023 y 2024 eran personas de más de 65 años
www.elnuevodia.com
March 31, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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No Esencia!!!!
February 27, 2025 at 11:55 PM
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After ICE came knocking at her door, a Fulbright scholar at Columbia University fled to Canada. “The atmosphere seemed so volatile and dangerous. So I just made a quick decision.”
How a Columbia Student Fled to Canada After ICE Came Looking for Her
Ranjani Srinivasan’s student visa was revoked by U.S. immigration authorities. That was just the start of her odyssey.
www.nytimes.com
March 15, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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The Trump administration delivered an ultimatum to leaders of Columbia University: Make a series of major changes or lose out on billions in federal aid.
Turmoil rocks Columbia University as Trump administration demands changes — or else
The Trump administration delivered an ultimatum to leaders of Columbia University: Make a series of major changes or lose out on billions in federal aid.
www.npr.org
March 15, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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Microplastics are floating in the air around us, surging through rivers and streams and burrowing deep into soils.

And now, a new study suggests that all those tiny pieces of plastics are also disrupting the growth of plants.
Microplastics could be reducing photosynthesis, study finds
It’s a new sign of how the tiny plastic particles are affecting the natural world.
www.washingtonpost.com
March 13, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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Musk is actively working to discredit our movement. We raised legitimate concerns about the threat of SSA phone line cancellations—yet now they’re dismissing it as misinformation. This follows a clear pattern of deception.
March 13, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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The deputy director of a left-leaning project at Yale Law School was put on leave over allegations that she's linked to a group the U.S. government says funds terrorists — a claim that surfaced three days ago on a news site that's powered at least in part by A.I., and one she denies.
Yale Scholar Banned After A.I. News Site Accuses Her of Terrorist Link
The deputy director of a liberal project at Yale Law School was put on leave over allegations that she is linked to Samidoun, a group the U.S. government has said funds terrorists.
www.nytimes.com
March 12, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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El abogado Rolando Emmanueli, uno de los proponentes de la independencia por orden ejecutiva, explica aquí sus razones y cómo el cree que esto podría ocurrir www.periodicolaperla.com/perspectiva/...
La hora del Plan B: Trump y una orden ejecutiva de descolonización
La reciente noticia publicada en el periódico inglés Daily Mail sobre la posibilidad de que Donald Trump considere firmar una orden ejecutiva para conceder la independencia a Puerto Rico ha causado un...
www.periodicolaperla.com
March 8, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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USDA has eliminated two food safety advisory committees for microbiological contamination and meat inspection. Most recently, they had been reviewing regulatory approaches in response to the fatal Listeria outbreak from Boar’s Head meats and fatal Cronobacter contamination in powdered infant formula
USDA eliminates two food safety advisory committees
The U.S. Department of Agriculture has eliminated two committees that advise it on food safety, the agency said on Friday, raising concerns about government oversight of the food supply as the Trump administration seeks to downsize the federal bureaucracy and slash costs.
www.reuters.com
March 8, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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ABC News has now fully taken down the old 538 website, including all interactive projects since 2014. Aside from erasing history this prevents access to publicly released data, including raw polls, averages, model estimates & story dta. Totally unacceptable for a company (allegedly) doing journalism
March 8, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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Can you #FindThatLizard (reveal at the end of the thread)
Ps bonus points if you can tell me who that is in the 2nd to last post! 🦎

#science #game #scicomm
March 9, 2025 at 1:00 AM
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I often think about something my dad wrote during a time of budget cuts and crisis. He was about as hard-nosed a reductionist science guy as they come.

Anyway, I hope uni leaders decide knowledge, progress, the liberal arts, and democracy are worthy of full-throated defense in the public sphere.
March 8, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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Thousands “Stand Up for Science” Across the Country

Including Nobel laureates, climate researchers, and parents of kids saved by groundbreaking drugs.

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Thousands “Stand Up for Science” across the country
Including Nobel laureates, climate researchers, and parents of kids saved by groundbreaking drugs.
www.motherjones.com
March 9, 2025 at 2:36 AM
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🔴 El Gobierno aumentará un 50% el número de jueces especializados en violencia contra la mujer buff.ly/54Iso6s
8M: las manifestaciones del día internacional de la mujer, en directo | El Gobierno aumentará un 50% el número de jueces especializados en violencia contra la mujer
El feminismo marcha contra la oleada global de la extrema derecha y para reivindicar el fin de la violencia contra las mujeres o el freno | Las protestas se dividen por cuarto año consecutivo en una v...
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March 8, 2025 at 9:54 AM
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NEW: In every way, shape, form, actions being taken say ‘don’t go into science,’ Donna Ginther told me as NIH forced to cancel programs to train future researchers. More than 1,000 students, including one who emailed 60 PIs, now scrambling to find positions. www.statnews.com/2025/03/05/t...
Cancellation of NIH summer internships disrupts ‘vital’ training program for U.S. scientists
The NIH cancelled an internship program that gave more than 1,000 college students hands-on research training each summer
www.statnews.com
March 5, 2025 at 12:20 PM
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🧪🚨 NSF's Directorate for STEM Education (EDU) has halted making nearly all new awards since inauguration day.

Among *many* other things, EDU runs the Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP).

We need to protect the education & training of the next gen of scientists #StandUpForScience

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March 3, 2025 at 1:55 PM