Frank Fusco
Frank Fusco
@fusco.bsky.social
CEO @ Silicon Society Building siliconsociety.org to fix tech 💻 Formerly EdTech 🎒 Co-built EcoSoap Bank ♻️
2.6K followers6.6K following1.2K posts
Image credit: Deborah Lupton / betterimagesofai.org / creativecommons.org/licenses/by/...
@pbsnews.org, the first mention of what happened to @padilla.senate.gov came 13 minutes into the NewsHour tonight. It should’ve been the top story.
We. Need. Basic. Research.
The Human Genome Project cost taxpayers $3 Billion. Two decades on, it has generated a staggering return on investment of $1 Trillion, with benefits in medicine, agriculture, energy, the environment, & more. If you want to boost the economy, funding science is one of the best things you could do.
You know what we do when this happens? We give them away for free
It was never just about schools, it was never just about libraries, and it isn't actually about the books. It's about finding a way to banish entire people, entire ideas, out of society, back into the closet or worse. www.chron.com/politics/art...
Frank Fusco reposted
Our country is now run by the “You should’ve filed a ticket” people. Which is deeply ironic
#BREAKING: 5-4 Court, with Barrett joining the three Dem. appointees in dissent *vacates* Chief Judge Boasberg’s temporary restraining orders in the Alien Enemy Act cases. Judicial review must be available, Court holds, but has to come through habeas petitions: www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
Frank Fusco reposted
Masking discourse is on again and I’ll just say if you see people masking when few others are it’s likely because they’ve determined that for them, in that setting, the benefit of not catching (or spreading) whatever’s going around is worth the cost of masking. It’s rarely more complicated than that
Want to have an impact? Show this to someone in your life who supports the current regime.
This is horrible to post, but I may as well post it. We are essentially shutting down research operations in my group, which is focused on treatments for pediatric brain cancer. I’m a well funded investigator, and there’s no choice. Science can’t function without the stability of NIH
It’s obvious that many right-wing commentators simply have no idea what they’re talking about when they attempt to characterize “woke leftism” at universities, but at least some must know better and spout nonsense anyway.
I actually *majored* in liberal arts, and I believe China is one of the most significant threats the free world faces today. I formed that opinion by reading literature taught by liberal arts professors.
Higher ed in the US has been calcified by an administrative-industrial complex that has systematically dismantled its own societal mandate, and ironically, it’s now being punished for it
Columbia's Provost evidently sent this message to faculty forbidding them from moving classes offline or canceling them amid ICE activity on campus.