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Fancy Comma, LLC

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Part marketing firm, part think tank, all about helping science sparkle ✨ Learn more at www.fancycomma.com.

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MIT OneScience was a poorly-defined Epstein project that was in development for five years, but never came to fruition due to Epstein's escalating legal troubles as a sexual predator. fancycomma.com/2026/10/10/e...

fancycomma.com5 Years of Grift: Epstein and MIT’s One ScienceMIT OneScience was an ambitious, yet poorly-defined research project taking shape starting five years prior to Epstein’s federal arrest which ultimately ended before Epstein could arrange a d…
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Ed Boyden did not win the Nobel Prize for optogenetics today. He did garner 968 mentions in the Epstein files. Here's what we know about his Epstein ties from the files 🧵

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Ed Boyden did not win the Nobel Prize for optogenetics today. He did garner 968 mentions in the Epstein files. Here's what we know about his Epstein ties from the files 🧵

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Represented MIT at the White House for the Brain Initiative while emailing with Epstein (Epstein-linked scientists were 50% of the contingent, per an MIT press release) fancycomma.com/2026/06/20/s...

fancycomma.comScience in the Epstein files: By Community Request (Part 2 — Down in my DMs)In part 2 of the “By community request” series, Sheeva talks about more science in the Epstein files as requested by the community of people following this project.
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Ed Boyden did not win the Nobel Prize for optogenetics today. He did garner 968 mentions in the Epstein files. Here's what we know about his Epstein ties from the files 🧵

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Ed Boyden did not win the Nobel Prize for optogenetics today. He did garner 968 mentions in the Epstein files. Here's what we know about his Epstein ties from the files 🧵

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Jenna Norton
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Confirmation from @maxkozlov.bsky.social and @nature.com on what I and other NIHers recently shared: NIH is banning research to inform policy. This counterproductive for anyone concerned with public health. open.substack.com/pub/27unihte...

open.substack.comNIH’s New Ban on Research to Inform Policy Undercuts its MissionBy Jenna Norton, Alexa Romberg, Sylvia Chou, Rui Carlos Pereira de Sá, and anonymous members of 27 UNIHTED
Max Kozlov@maxkozlov.bsky.social

NEW: The NIH is quietly restricting funding for research that evaluates how public policy impacts human health. According to internal documents I obtained, the agency no longer considers policymakers "mission relevant" — a massive shift for the biomedical funder. My latest for @nature.com:

nature.comNIH limits funding for research on the health effects of public policyUS biomedical agency no longer considers policymakers as ‘mission relevant’, leaving dozens of grants in limbo.
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Many House Republicans did, but Senate Republicans did not. Hence, the unconstitutional military action continues, despite your vote, sadly. It's clearly been more than 60 days by now that this has been happening...it's been like at least six months.

Senator Ed Markey@markey.senate.gov

Trump wants Congress to bankroll his illegal war with Iran with a $1.5 trillion Pentagon budget. I voted no. Not a dime more for endless war. It's time to put people before the Pentagon. youtube.com/shorts/eec81...

youtube.comIt's time to put people before the Pentagon.YouTube video by Senator Markey
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Check out Sheeva's story for @nondocmedia.bsky.social

NonDoc @nondocmedia.bsky.social

Major #depression can be hard to live with when it resists traditional treatments, but #Oklahoma researchers are eager to uncover new therapeutic options through novel brain stimulation techniques and medication combinations. nondoc.com/2026/07/06/o...

nondoc.comOklahoma researchers seek new options for treatment-resistant depressionTreatment-resistant depression makes living with the disease difficult, but Oklahoma researchers are eager to uncover new therapeutic options.

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Federation of American Scientists
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Last weekend was hot. So hot. Climate change means we've got more weekends like that in our future. It'd be better if we didn't have climate change (working on it), but there's actually a surprising amount we can do to make extreme temps more bearable and less deadly right now. ➡️ HeatAgenda.us

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Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD
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"I have enough money to do research," says Shu, laughing. Meanwhile HHS shut off the NIH grant that funded related work on gene therapy for deafness at Harvard Medical School, because “woke” or something like that Shu trained in the very same lab that HHS defunded

NPR@npr.org

Two researchers — one in Massachusetts and one in Shanghai — hoped for the same breakthrough: a gene therapy for deaf children. New Chinese investment in science propelled the one who got there first. n.pr/4weVi49

n.prHow the U.S. is losing ground to China in university researchTwo researchers — one in Massachusetts and one in Shanghai — hoped for the same breakthrough: a gene therapy for deaf children. New Chinese investment in science propelled the one who got there first.

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The New York Times
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The largest general science group in the U.S. called on Thursday for the Senate to hold a public hearing on the nomination of Jim O’Neill to head the National Science Foundation and questioned his credentials to run one of the top funders of basic research.

nyti.msScience Group Seeks Public Hearing for N.S.F. NomineeThe American Association for the Advancement of Science questioned the credentials of Jim O’Neill, tapped to lead the National Science Foundation.

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The Xylom
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Please read this important message from our Publisher and Editor @alexip718.com, who recently departed the United States after the Trump administration wrongfully denied his work permit renewal. You can support Alex's emergency relocation and next steps through the link in the statement:

newsletter.thexylom.comI Have Departed the United States on a One-Way FlightAlex is leaving the US after Trump's USCIS wrongfully denied his work permit renewal

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Jenna Norton
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Late in the afternoon on Friday (yesterday), HHS/NIH did 2 things: 1) They RIFd more employees (despite the extreme staffing shortages). 2) They sent announcements to supervisors letting them know people in their chain of command will be moved to the career/policy “at will” status. 🧵1/3

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I watched this and was underwhelmed. There are a variety of actions that can be taken, both public and anonymous, to resist changes that undermine science. Science advocacy is not one-size-fits-all; it is highly dependent on the time we have and whether we can do so freely given job constraints, etc

Union of Concerned Scientists@ucs.org

"No matter how one chooses to act, it’s never been more important to muster collective, sustained action to protect science."

science.orgLessons in resistance from Tim SnyderFederal grant cancellations, restrictions on immigration for foreign scientists, and attempts to cut the budgets of science funding agencies by 60%—the past 18 months have been tumultuous for…