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neurochicano.bsky.social
If you’re a trainee and submitting an abstract to the Society for Neuroscience Conference, apply for the Trainee Professional Development Award (TPDA). 🧪

www.sfn.org/meetings/mee...
Trainee Professional Development Award
www.sfn.org
May 14, 2025 at 11:44 PM
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jojofromjerz.bsky.social
If the Biden administration had started arresting judges, Republicans would have lost their fucking minds.
April 25, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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reichlinmelnick.bsky.social
Incredible scoop! Career officials inside the Trump administration first viewed the case of Mr. Abrego like any normal case of a wrongful deportation — they began looking for ways to bring him back, as happens normally when ICE makes mistakes.

Then the White House got involved, and blew it up.
Late last month, three days after Abrego Garcia’s family filed its lawsuit over his deportation, government attorneys began discussing how to undo the mistake and bring him back. In their conversations, officials went so far as to float the idea of having the U.S. ambassador to El Salvador make a personal appeal to the country’s president for Abrego Garcia’s return. But first, the State Department’s legal team wanted more information from DHS about his alleged role in the MS-13 gang. The thin evidence supplied in response was met with skepticism from the State Department lawyers. Abrego Garcia, who came to the United States illegally when he was 16 years old, was one of 23 Salvadorans deported on March 15. But his name had not appeared on an internal list of 10 gang members sought by President Nayib Bukele. Attorneys at DHS had other concerns. They were aware that, six years ago, a judge had granted Abrego Garcia protected status over fears that he could be targeted for violence should he be returned to El Salvador. That protection was still in effect and had been violated by the March 15 deportation. They wanted to know if U.S. diplomats could ask the Salvadoran government to keep him separated from Barrio 18 gang members who had threatened him in the past and might harm him.
April 25, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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kinesinmotors.bsky.social
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davidimiller.bsky.social Dr. David Miller 🏳️‍🌈 @davidimiller.bsky.social · Apr 16
🧪 Today, NSF disbanded its advisory committees of external experts, leaving only the ones mandated by law.

This is a move towards using less input from the broader scientific community to drive NSF's strategic direction.

www.nsf.gov/executive-or...
What is the status of NSF's advisory committees? Consistent with the President's February 19, 2025, executive order, Commencing the Reduction of the Federal Bureaucracy, the following federal advisory committees are disestablished as of April 15, 2025: Advisory Committee for Biological Sciences Advisory Committee for Business and Operations Advisory Committee for Computer and Information Science and Engineering Advisory Committee for Cyberinfrastructure Advisory Committee for Engineering Advisory Committee for Environmental Research and Education Advisory Committee for Geosciences Advisory Committee for Integrative Activities Advisory Committee for International Science and Engineering Advisory Committee for Mathematical and Physical Sciences Advisory Committee for Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences Advisory Committee for STEM Education The following advisory committees are required in statute and will therefore continue to meet and provide advice to the NSF under the Federal Advisory Committee Act (FACA): Alan T. Waterman Award Committee President's Committee on the National Medal of Science Advisory Committee for Astronomy and Astrophysics Advisory Committee for Technology, Innovation and Partnerships Committee for Equal Opportunity in Science and Engineering (CEOSE)
April 16, 2025 at 1:44 AM
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faineg.bsky.social
Huell Howser always helps me find the will to go on
johnargh.bsky.social John Argh @johnargh.bsky.social · Apr 7
I would much rather lie awake at night thinking about huell howser losing it at an avocado eating dog.
Huell Howser, Avocados and a Dog that Eats Avocados
YouTube video by Christopher Fleeger
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April 7, 2025 at 3:52 AM
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restingdinoface.bsky.social
Amphicyon ingens, not a bear, not a dog, but a bear dog. The extinct carnivoran had powerful jaws - check out the sagittal crest atop the skull for jaw-closure muscle attachments - and tracks made by such a beast have been found in the 19-13 million year old layers of CA’s Barstow Formation. 🧪
A low-angle view of the bear dog Amphicyon in a museum, a stoutly-built quadrupled with a heavy, wolf-like skull.
March 31, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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kevinmkruse.bsky.social
This segment from @maryannefranks.bsky.social is an incredibly tight argument that captures the breadth of the Trump assault on free speech perfectly and in less than a minute.

Spread it far and wide.
judiciarydems.senate.gov Senate Judiciary Democrats 🇺🇸 @judiciarydems.senate.gov · Mar 25
WOW. Watch a constitutional law expert completely DEBUNK Republicans’ censorship crusade, while articulating exactly how Donald Trump is threatening freedom of speech. 🔥
March 26, 2025 at 12:25 AM
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thebulwark.com
Even the xenophobic "we want the right kind of immigrants" stuff is quaint now. Now we're doing things like detaining Germans and Canadians over minor visa issues.
The Faces of Trump’s Anti-Immigrant Crusade
The government deported a 10-year-old American citizen with brain cancer.
www.thebulwark.com
March 20, 2025 at 3:59 AM
truncatedtantrum.bsky.social
Would way, way way more powerful to suggest that a country that’s turned away from an eighty-year old totalitarian past deserves it > we ‘murcans do.
briantylercohen.bsky.social Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · Mar 17
A top French politician is calling for the Statue of Liberty to be returned to France now that Trump is siding with dictators like Putin.

“We gave it to you as a gift, but apparently you despise it. So it will be just fine here at home.”
Give back the Statue of Liberty, French MEP tells US
French Socialist MEP says Washington’s embrace of dictators negates the values that led France to bestow the iconic statue some 140 years ago.
www.politico.eu
March 17, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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harryshannon.bsky.social
March 16, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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oeishik.bsky.social
This makes me so angry. youtu.be/yVK75OHqDXo
March 16, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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altnih4science.bsky.social
Drop everything you’re doing and read this piece. It’s that good and that important.

“We’re in the midst of an authoritarian takeover of the US gov’t… [but it’s] not yet an
accomplished fact.”

-@joshtpm.bsky.social
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Observe, Orient, Decide, and Act: Notes on Preserving the American Republic
A short time ago former US Attorney Barb McQuade posted this passage...
talkingpointsmemo.com
March 16, 2025 at 3:12 AM
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neurochicano.bsky.social
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joann-trejo.bsky.social JoAnn Trejo @joann-trejo.bsky.social · Mar 16
You got 5 min to really understand the real costs of scientific research - check out this video

www.youtube.com/watch?v=GzNc...
Understanding the Real Costs of Research
YouTube video by AAMCtoday
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March 16, 2025 at 3:33 AM
truncatedtantrum.bsky.social
It’s not been five long years since his band’s last album, has it?
March 14, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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erikgunderson.bsky.social
it's the war on ersatz drugs
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Mar 14
Pam Bondi waves around a package of (what she says are fake) drugs
March 14, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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evangowan.bsky.social
John Moore has been one of the main people investigating geoengineering solutions to slowing glacial retreat. It is interesting to see this paper from his group that says that geoengineering will not work to slow the retreat of Sermeq Kujalleq glacier (Jakobshavn Isbræ). 🧪⚒️🌊 doi.org/10.1038/s432...
Active ice sheet conservation cannot stop the retreat of Sermeq Kujalleq glacier, Greenland - Communications Earth & Environment
Asynchronously coupled ice sheet and fjord modelling suggests that raising the natural sill in Jakobshaven fjord with an artificial barrier could cool the fjord water but not by enough to offset atmos...
doi.org
March 13, 2025 at 2:47 AM
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samillingworth.com
🌊 Jellyfish blooms and antibiotic resistance

New research finds that decaying jellyfish blooms create hotspots for antibiotic-resistant bacteria in the ocean, potentially spreading resistance to harmful microbes.

🔗 doi.org/10.1128/msys...

#SciComm 🧪 #Oceans #AMR
Jellyfish blooms—an overlooked hotspot and potential vector for the transmission of antimicrobial resistance in marine environments | mSystems
Jellyfish blooms are, in the context of human health, often seen as mainly problematic for oceanic bathing. Here we demonstrate that they may also play a critical role as marine environmental hotspots...
doi.org
March 9, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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ichnologist.bsky.social
This post about the ecological consequences of hippo poop reminds me of a favorite example of #scicomm I show in my Environmental Communication class that simple ≠ simplistic, courtesy of @edyong209.bsky.social. 🧪🦛💩
Ed Yong standing on stage at the Jimmy Carter Library in Atlanta, Georgia with a microphone in his right hand, his left hand is at the same level and with an upraised finger (index, of course). On a screen behind him on stage is a projected slide that shows the title of a research article, "Organic matter loading by hippopotami causes subsidy overload resulting in downstream hypoxia and fish kills," and a screenshot below this of the title for Yong's report on the article, titled "Hippos Poop So Much That Sometimes All the Fish Die," accompanied by the eyes-and-ears-only photo of a submerged hippo that was probably pooping when the photo was taken.
March 12, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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patrlynch1.bsky.social
Saw-whet Owl (Aegolius acadicus), Photoshop illustration. From my book A Field Guide to Long Island Sound, Yale Univ. Press, a.co/d/ffZ6GFP #sciart 🧪 #wildlife #dailyart #scicomm #sciviz #wildlifeart #scientificillustration #natureart #visualscicomm #sciviz #scicomm #lis #longislandsound #owls
Illustration of a perched Saw-whet Owl.
March 12, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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velvetundergrd.bsky.social velvetundergrd.bsky.social @velvetundergrd.bsky.social · Mar 9
D's must expose to those trapped in Maga America news silos they are being used by both Bannon and Musk. D's need to reach those regular folks locked into positions NOT by issues but by media and team inertia. MANY ISSUES cross party lines. MUST BREAK THIS FEVER

www.nytimes.com/2025/03/09/u...
The Populist vs. the Billionaire: Bannon, Musk and the Battle Within MAGA
President Trump has made clear he wants to keep both men and their allies within his movement, but the tensions are growing.
www.nytimes.com
March 9, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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chloecumming.bsky.social
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Christina Malman - Wikipedia
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March 4, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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aaronparnas.bsky.social
BREAKING: The far-right just suffered a stunning loss in Romania as the far-right, Russian backed candidate was barred from running in May's election. Elon Musk denounced the decision. open.substack.com/pub/aaronpar...
BREAKING: Far-Right Suffers Significant Loss In Romania
The far-right Presidential candidate has been barred from running
open.substack.com
March 9, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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wajali.bsky.social
It's a cult.

apnews.com/article/trum...
Thrust into unemployment, axed federal workers face relatives who celebrate their firing
Scrambling to replace their health insurance and to find new work, some fired federal workers are running into another unexpected unpleasantry: Relatives cheering their job loss.
apnews.com
March 8, 2025 at 4:40 AM
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thebulwark.com
One more time, from the archives: "With every meter of territory they liberate, Ukrainian soldiers win the war NATO was created to fight. Ukrainian heroes fight and die daily to defend NATO’s peace....Ukraine offers NATO the greatest deal ever presented in military history."
Ukraine Needs NATO—and NATO Needs Ukraine, Too
Arguments against admitting Ukraine into the alliance aren’t convincing.
www.thebulwark.com
March 8, 2025 at 4:59 AM
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beebrookshire.bsky.social
At @standupforscience.bsky.social and the signs are statistically significantly excellent
A person in a mask holding a painting that says “hands off my transgenic mice”
March 7, 2025 at 6:51 PM