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Our National Parks create 17x more economic activity than what we pay for it. You have to be economically illiterate to support cutting its budget. 🌲🌲🌲

Department of Government Efficiency’s website quietly removed nearly one billion dollars in what it claims to have “saved” through canceled contracts, grants or leases this past week.

Good luck out there, y'all. 🧪 www.science.org/content/arti...

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Imperfect wound healing accelerates chronic diseases as we age. Tissue repair degrades with accumulated damage and mutations! #AgingBiology PMID:39636982, Science 2024, @ScienceMagazine https://doi.org/10.1126/science.adp2974 #Medsky #Pharmsky #RNA #ASHG #ESHG 🧪

The MICrONS Consortium @bcmfromthelabs.bsky.social @alleninstitute.bsky.social @princetonneuro.bsky.social just released the wiring diagram of mouse (Mus musculus) visual cortices! This is the most detailed functional map of mammalian brain tissue ever made! 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🦠📈 Invasive strep A infections on the rise A new study reports that cases of serious group A Streptococcus (GAS) infections more than doubled in 10 US states between 2013 and 2022, with growing antibiotic resistance. 🔗 doi.org/10.1001/jama... #InfectiousDisease #Epidemiology #SciComm 🧪

We’re accelerating our descent to a banana republic. We’re also ceding leadership/talent in science to other countries. It’ll be them that’ll benefit from the innovations, new discoveries & entrepreneurship that emerges. We’ve replaced our shining beacon of light atop the hill w/ the Eye of Sauron.🧪

“This [would be] an extinction-level event for NASA science,” says Casey Dreier (Planetary Society), and I agree. 🔭 🧪 🛰️ NASA SMD $7.3b -> $3.9b Astrophysics $1.5b -> $0.5b, no telescopes except HST & JWST Planetary $2.7b -> $1.9b, no Mars sample return Earth Science $2.2b -> $1.0b

These days we're busy sequencing the DNA of thousands of fungi species held within our Fungarium collection - transforming our knowledge of this important kingdom of life even further! 🧬🧪🍄 You can find more about that right here 👇 www.kew.org/science/our-...

With the proliferation of molecular methods in recent decades, we can now use DNA to explore how species relate to one another 🧬 Phylogenetics have helped to prove fungi are a distinct kingdom of life, distantly related to plants, and separated from animals by up to 1.5 billion years! 🍄

Only 60 years ago we still thought fungi to be weird types of plants 🍄🤔🌱 With shared characteristics such as immobility, having a cell wall and growing out of substrates like soil, it was easy for early natural historians to group these two hugely diverse groups together. So how were they split? 🧵👇

The Lac Operon showed us that gene expression can be regulated 🧬 🧪 #histsci

“Disappointingly stupid and illogical,” is how one CEO described the tariffs in the CNBC CEO Council survey.

TOMORROW: Join thousands of Americans at rallies nationwide opposing Trump's corruption & incompetence. Find a rally: sua.fm/7lq037 -Stand Up America STOP2Quit

Hard to watch the greatest science enterprise in the world starved. 🧪 www.science.org/content/arti...

🧪"Both studies “provide strong support for the hypothesis that shingles vaccination reduces dementia risk, with the newer recombinant vaccine offering superior protection,". www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Accidentally adding a journalist to a war planning chat is one thing, but why s**t on the guy?

"Benny is just flailing because he can't accept reality right now. And he knows full well that if the tables were turned, he would be going on a scorched earth tirade about how all of these people should resign or, worse, be prosecuted criminally... Are you that much of a partisan hack?"

The huge security issue that this brings to light is hard to overstate. The best way to put it is that OPSEC is non existent. It's gone, evaporated when these people were installed in to their positions.

We will not be distracted. We will not be discouraged. We’ve got our eyes on the prize. And we will build the prosperous, free nation for all that we deserve. The time to organize is now. OcasioCortez.com

BREAKING NEWS: Susan Crawford, who is running against Elon's puppet Brad Schimmel in the Wisconsin Supreme Court election, has now pulled to the lead in the last two polls, and MAGA is freaking out.

BAIER: “Senator Duckworth, your statement was pretty pointed — you said Hegseth is an ‘effing’ liar.”

Golden Aragoke Ginrin koi fish Looks unreal!

That a general defends the actions of those involved is an insult to all military personnel. He should at very least be outraged that this fuck up could have put his personnel in harm's way.

Since none of these Cabinet Members is able to identify CLASSIFIED INFORMATION by their own admission, how are they fit to serve in these positions?

Krishnamoorthi presents receipts from the Signal chat showing that classified info was clearly disclosed by Hegseth and calls for his resignation

Colorado Rep. Jason Crow calls for Pete Hegseth’s resignation 👇👇👇👇👇

What was shared by Pete Hegseth in the Signal group chat is classified information by any definition. His failure to take accountability continues to diminish his credibility. It is time for Secretary Hegseth to do the honorable thing and resign.

Carlos has labored under a UFW contract for 35 years. "I want to thank César Chávez for everything he did for us, like water, shade, breaks and cold water. Thank you César Chávez for everything we have. I have many benefits thanks to César Chávez and I thank him." #WeFeedYou

Texas Congressman Greg Casar says maybe today’s hearing should really be about how Trump’s State Department took steps to give Tesla a $400 million contract