@timtrosea.bsky.social
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NHANES runs mobile clinics that travel the country measuring height, weight, & blood pressure while collecting blood and urine samples. These samples are our only national source for tracking everything from blood sugar to hormones, heavy metals, and more.
The entire operation has been eliminated.
The entire operation has been eliminated.
Everyone across biomedicine should be very loud about this so this team's RIF status gets reversed. Nhanes has been key for tracking obesity & diabetes rates, identifying high blood lead levels in kids in the 70s, tracking progress on cholesterol lowering, guiding nutrient fortification programs etc
October 14, 2025 at 9:20 PM
NHANES runs mobile clinics that travel the country measuring height, weight, & blood pressure while collecting blood and urine samples. These samples are our only national source for tracking everything from blood sugar to hormones, heavy metals, and more.
The entire operation has been eliminated.
The entire operation has been eliminated.
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Motherfuckers. And I don't even like Comey.
BREAKING on MSNBC:
Former FBI Director James Comey is expected to be indicted in the coming days in the Eastern District of Virginia, where a prosecutor who opposed bringing the case was recently fired, three sources familiar with the matter told MSNBC.
Former FBI Director James Comey is expected to be indicted in the coming days in the Eastern District of Virginia, where a prosecutor who opposed bringing the case was recently fired, three sources familiar with the matter told MSNBC.
September 24, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Motherfuckers. And I don't even like Comey.
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The Nation pulls NO punches, from @espiers.bsky.social
"There's no requirement to take part in this whitewashing campaign. Refusing to join in doesn’t make anyone a bad person. It’s a choice to write an obituary that begins “Joseph Goebbels was a gifted marketer and loving father to six children.”
"There's no requirement to take part in this whitewashing campaign. Refusing to join in doesn’t make anyone a bad person. It’s a choice to write an obituary that begins “Joseph Goebbels was a gifted marketer and loving father to six children.”
Charlie Kirk’s Legacy Deserves No Mourning
The white Christian nationalist provocateur wasn’t a promoter of civil discourse. He preached hate, bigotry, and division
www.thenation.com
September 13, 2025 at 2:39 AM
The Nation pulls NO punches, from @espiers.bsky.social
"There's no requirement to take part in this whitewashing campaign. Refusing to join in doesn’t make anyone a bad person. It’s a choice to write an obituary that begins “Joseph Goebbels was a gifted marketer and loving father to six children.”
"There's no requirement to take part in this whitewashing campaign. Refusing to join in doesn’t make anyone a bad person. It’s a choice to write an obituary that begins “Joseph Goebbels was a gifted marketer and loving father to six children.”
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Voters overwhelmingly said yes to Sound Transit 3 in 2016. The mission is clear: build the damn trains.
Cost challenges are real, but we need to keep projects moving. The longer we wait, the more it costs.
Sound Transit & this region have overcome challenges in the past. We’ll do it again.
Cost challenges are real, but we need to keep projects moving. The longer we wait, the more it costs.
Sound Transit & this region have overcome challenges in the past. We’ll do it again.
HAPPENING NOW: the Sound Transit board is getting new details of the full long-term financial deficit impacting the agency over the long term.
CEO Dow Constantine just told board members that the agency faces a 20-25% funding shortfall through 2046, a gap that translates to $30-$40 billion dollars.
CEO Dow Constantine just told board members that the agency faces a 20-25% funding shortfall through 2046, a gap that translates to $30-$40 billion dollars.
August 28, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Voters overwhelmingly said yes to Sound Transit 3 in 2016. The mission is clear: build the damn trains.
Cost challenges are real, but we need to keep projects moving. The longer we wait, the more it costs.
Sound Transit & this region have overcome challenges in the past. We’ll do it again.
Cost challenges are real, but we need to keep projects moving. The longer we wait, the more it costs.
Sound Transit & this region have overcome challenges in the past. We’ll do it again.
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The public supports this. Light rail is highly popular politically -- it polls better than almost anything else, including a return of the Sonics. So that's not the challenge. No, the challenge is political. We need our local electeds, but in particular our state leaders, to step up and help.
August 28, 2025 at 11:14 PM
The public supports this. Light rail is highly popular politically -- it polls better than almost anything else, including a return of the Sonics. So that's not the challenge. No, the challenge is political. We need our local electeds, but in particular our state leaders, to step up and help.
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These idiot white-supremacists have always been part of the national mix, as @hcrichardson.bsky.social has written about eloquently.
But the rest of us have fought against them, and beaten them.
We have to do that again.
They are what America can sink to. We are what America hopes for.
But the rest of us have fought against them, and beaten them.
We have to do that again.
They are what America can sink to. We are what America hopes for.
I think it’s high time we take back the national narrative. For centuries Americans of all races, genders, religions, and abilities have worked to create a more perfect union, and we should shout from the rooftops that WE are America. Not these idiot white supremacist authoritarians.
August 18, 2025 at 6:51 PM
These idiot white-supremacists have always been part of the national mix, as @hcrichardson.bsky.social has written about eloquently.
But the rest of us have fought against them, and beaten them.
We have to do that again.
They are what America can sink to. We are what America hopes for.
But the rest of us have fought against them, and beaten them.
We have to do that again.
They are what America can sink to. We are what America hopes for.
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Simone Biles, continuing to prove she’s the GOAT
June 6, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Simone Biles, continuing to prove she’s the GOAT
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Just going to point out that it's Trump, not Harvard, trying to ban Israeli students from the campus.
(As well as Jewish students from Canada, the UK, France, etc.)
(As well as Jewish students from Canada, the UK, France, etc.)
June 5, 2025 at 3:46 AM
Just going to point out that it's Trump, not Harvard, trying to ban Israeli students from the campus.
(As well as Jewish students from Canada, the UK, France, etc.)
(As well as Jewish students from Canada, the UK, France, etc.)
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Health experts came out with a new analysis yesterday concluding the MAGA murder budget will lead to 51,000 preventable deaths from its health care cuts - every single year.
Trump’s “Big, Beautiful Bill” Will Lead to 51,000 Preventable Deaths Each Year
Annual cuts to Medicaid would average $70 billion — roughly the same amount the wealthy will save in tax cuts.
truthout.org
June 5, 2025 at 1:45 AM
Health experts came out with a new analysis yesterday concluding the MAGA murder budget will lead to 51,000 preventable deaths from its health care cuts - every single year.
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"Want to walk? Use a park, loser."
In my ongoing quest for a safer road, this is the county’s final conclusion: Don’t walk on the road. Absolutely wild
June 4, 2025 at 8:04 PM
"Want to walk? Use a park, loser."
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“The Harvard researcher Dr Sarah Fortune was only 2 years away from creating a vaccine that could have saved the 1.25 million people killed each year by tuberculosis. But last month, she received a letter telling her that the $60 million grant funding her research was being halted by Trump.”
We are Harvard researchers. Trump’s cuts are endangering lives
The president’s funding cuts at the university will harm cancer patients, ALS sufferers and 800 babies and toddlers, academics warn
www.thetimes.com
June 3, 2025 at 5:33 PM
“The Harvard researcher Dr Sarah Fortune was only 2 years away from creating a vaccine that could have saved the 1.25 million people killed each year by tuberculosis. But last month, she received a letter telling her that the $60 million grant funding her research was being halted by Trump.”
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Everything suffers and everyone dies, so why not strive to make our time here, together, as warm, as compassionate, as caring, as kind, as good as it possibly can be?
June 3, 2025 at 5:47 AM
Everything suffers and everyone dies, so why not strive to make our time here, together, as warm, as compassionate, as caring, as kind, as good as it possibly can be?
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HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., has expressed deep concern over the health of American children, describing them as the "sickest generation" in US history.
100 years ago, 1 in 3 kids died before reaching the age of 5.
100 years ago, 1 in 3 kids died before reaching the age of 5.
May 30, 2025 at 9:28 PM
HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., has expressed deep concern over the health of American children, describing them as the "sickest generation" in US history.
100 years ago, 1 in 3 kids died before reaching the age of 5.
100 years ago, 1 in 3 kids died before reaching the age of 5.
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Experts reviewing RFKJr's magnum opus MAHA health report conclude that the whole document was faked by someone using Chatbot AI, and was probably never even proof read. They're not just fraudsters, they're very lazy, too. www.the-independent.com/news/world/a...
Experts say AI was used to create MAHA report and cited false studies
Experts found evidence that scientific citations in the MAHA report were generated by AI, which experts slammed as ‘sloppy’ and ‘shoddy’
www.the-independent.com
May 31, 2025 at 11:32 AM
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Wow, look at this: the carbon intensity of UK electricity is currently only 32g/kWh and 86.5% of our electricity right now is coming from renewables.
Come on world, this IS possible!
And it will only get better (meaning: cleaner, healthier, less intrusive) 🎉
(graphic from grid.iamkate.com )
Come on world, this IS possible!
And it will only get better (meaning: cleaner, healthier, less intrusive) 🎉
(graphic from grid.iamkate.com )
May 26, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Wow, look at this: the carbon intensity of UK electricity is currently only 32g/kWh and 86.5% of our electricity right now is coming from renewables.
Come on world, this IS possible!
And it will only get better (meaning: cleaner, healthier, less intrusive) 🎉
(graphic from grid.iamkate.com )
Come on world, this IS possible!
And it will only get better (meaning: cleaner, healthier, less intrusive) 🎉
(graphic from grid.iamkate.com )
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Faculty here are doing their research and speaking out. Here's one resource: a compendium of many ways federally-funded research has made all of our lives better.
publicusaresearchbenefits.com
publicusaresearchbenefits.com
May 24, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Faculty here are doing their research and speaking out. Here's one resource: a compendium of many ways federally-funded research has made all of our lives better.
publicusaresearchbenefits.com
publicusaresearchbenefits.com
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PLEASE DO THIS
New from me: Everything feels overwhelming. But here is a tangible thing you can do: write a comment to oppose Trump's plan to convert 50,000 career civil servants into political appointees. Deadline is May 23. Please share!
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/here-is-a-...
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/here-is-a-...
Here is a specific thing you can do to fight Trump's politicization of public services
Plus: what I wrote in Science about the revised Schedule F
donmoynihan.substack.com
May 9, 2025 at 12:41 PM
PLEASE DO THIS
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I am so heartened to this seriously AWESOME #SaveNSF website go up today!!!!
Has a take action toolkit with:
1. Press outreach templates
2. Social media toolkit
3. Elected official outreach
4. Talking points
Check it out and share widely!!!! Likely more to come.
www.savensf.com
Has a take action toolkit with:
1. Press outreach templates
2. Social media toolkit
3. Elected official outreach
4. Talking points
Check it out and share widely!!!! Likely more to come.
www.savensf.com
May 2, 2025 at 10:08 PM
I am so heartened to this seriously AWESOME #SaveNSF website go up today!!!!
Has a take action toolkit with:
1. Press outreach templates
2. Social media toolkit
3. Elected official outreach
4. Talking points
Check it out and share widely!!!! Likely more to come.
www.savensf.com
Has a take action toolkit with:
1. Press outreach templates
2. Social media toolkit
3. Elected official outreach
4. Talking points
Check it out and share widely!!!! Likely more to come.
www.savensf.com
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This can't be said enough. The narrative is quickly becoming but universities need fed funds, when it should be that the fed govt needs universities. NCI/NIGMS funding to Harvard/MIT supported research that led to the discovery of Herceptin, a cancer drug that has saved 3 million lives to date! 🧪
The trope that universities are "dependent" on the federal government fundamentally misunderstands how vital this partnership has been for the US. The private sector can't replace it. If we kill it, we're all worse off. From @donmoyn.bsky.social and me: donmoynihan.substack.com/p/are-univer...
April 24, 2025 at 4:36 PM
This can't be said enough. The narrative is quickly becoming but universities need fed funds, when it should be that the fed govt needs universities. NCI/NIGMS funding to Harvard/MIT supported research that led to the discovery of Herceptin, a cancer drug that has saved 3 million lives to date! 🧪
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Please share this I want everybody know they have a lifeline
January 22, 2025 at 12:33 AM
Please share this I want everybody know they have a lifeline