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The media needs to stop writing headlines like “The CDC changes course on vaccines and autism” and “The CDC defends measles response”. NONE of this is coming from legitimate scientists at the CDC. ALL of it is coming from RFK Jr. Every such headline is causing further harm to public health.

This is an intellectual war crime. NCAR is one of the nation's, and the world's, pre-eminent research institutions. www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

Lots of life changes over here. And beautiful King Tide sunsets!!!

Richest nation in human history

Damn we’re all going to have an epic battle for that package 😂

People are less likely to believe conspiracy theories when they get clear, simple, and early information from trusted sources. Using tools like “prebunking” and reaching people where they are (like on social media) can help build trust and reduce misinformation. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The takeaway: 👉 Accommodating the radical right on immigration doesn’t win back voters. 👉 It alienates the progressive base. 👉 And it raises the salience of the very issue the radical right owns. In short: it’s electoral self-harm.

Concern over low birth rates was what the theocracy in Margaret Atwood’s Handmaid’s Tale used to come to power.

Whatever you do, don’t sneeze while you’re holding coffee

Am watching Napoleon Dynamite right now. That’s all. Happy Thursday and happy whiskey lemonades

Never fear, you just blame the bad stuff on the spending part and credit the good stuff to the tax break part!

Yes. This is in fact what each VP did.

Wishing everyone a happy Fourth of July! 249 years since we declared independence from a king, the work of living up to our founding promise is more important than ever - and it calls on each of us to do what we can for our country.

Joseph Carens, a poli sci prof at Toronto, said that national borders are like feudalism — if you happen to be born into the manor (ie hold a ‘good’ citizenship) the system seems right and proper to you, but there’s nothing you can say to the serf in the field to justify *their* lack of opportunity,

KTLA - Narciso Barranco, a father to three sons who are all US Marines, pepper-sprayed and punched in the face by alleged federal immigration officers while he was working as a landscaper at an IHOP. He was then forced into the back of an unmarked car in Santa Ana.

Can someone please put Trump in the simulator already? He can have all the ketchup and well done steak and underage blow jobs and big red buttons and phalic missiles he wants in there

I'm sorry but the largest protest of my lifetime is not the 7th or 8th biggest news story in the country behind "what does Gen Z want from Instagram?" This shit is humiliating. Rearrange your layout to meet this moment. Omitting the thing happening in every American city is malpractice.

This is part of why we need contingency plans. “The NIH isn’t going to fund this research for a while so stop doing it” is extremely short-sighted and harmful. We need people to have more vision than that.

how it started / how it's going

The Tr*mp administration’s interference with publishing scientific research/opinions and the appointment of someone with no scientific knowledge or expertise to make public health decisions should remind us all of Lysenko, whose incompetence and pseudoscience led to millions of deaths.

So… am watching last of us. And I know it’s a zombie movie but as a surfer the scene where Ellie gets hit by a wave in Seattle and survives for more than 5 min in that water, it’s just so much more unbelievable than the zombies. It really is a black mark on the series 😂😂

“Without sufficient funding, research progress stalls, new prevention or treatments with be delayed or absent, young scientists will leave the field or move abroad, and promising breakthroughs will remain trapped in the lab instead of reaching the people who need them most”

I was just hearing about this and searching for news on postdoc funding awards. If you know more, please share.

They really are screaming it from the mountain tops…

Chicago is on to something.

I’m trying to organize support for cross campus solidarity initiatives to create a more united front against federal overreach into Unis. Is anyone else working on this? ampa-9d9f4.web.app

It's tough to refer to someone as a criminal if you've given them no due process to determine whether they're a criminal. Like if you get arrested and get a trial and are convicted of 34 felony counts. That's due process. You can call that guy a criminal.

Salt Lake City, Utah, and Boise, Idaho, adopted official Pride flags on Tuesday in response to state laws barring the display of any nonofficial flags at schools and government buildings.

There is no way this is real!!

No new episodes for a couple weeks so I’m retweeting some things we’ve done recently

Trump says that any American who shows “dissension” against MAGA should be “immediately ejected” from their member of Congress’ town halls. This is fascism.

Medical journals complain of 'harassment' from Justice Department Multiple scientific publications have received letters from the Trump administration questioning their editorial practices and standards. @evanbush.bsky.social at @nbcnews.com www.nbcnews.com/science/scie...

Plenty of politicians on both sides of the aisle feel threatened by rising class consciousness.

URGENT ACTION FOR NSF GRANTEES. For current & recent (since 2020) awards, archive your award history this afternoon/tonight. Screenshot/download/print your work in research.gov & alert your partners. We have credible threats to integrity of awards tracking systems (via @jeremymberg.bsky.social)

Good for @theatlantic.com — this reeks of desperation for Trump and also keeps this amazing story alive. More pressure on Hegseth obvi. www.politico.com/news/2025/04...

"the NIH told them their nearly $36-million grant, awarded during the first Trump administration, had been terminated: the work “no longer effectuates agency priorities” because of its basis in “artificial and non-scientific categories” www.scientificamerican.com/article/life...

Very excited about this! I think I can shelve the project I was just starting to get off the ground … ampa-9d9f4.web.app

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For any scientists looking for a great resurrection story for their kids! radiolab.org/podcast/resu...

Harvard stood up to the bully — and the bully blinked

Another insane aspect of this case is he proved his citizenship in court yet the judge said he was powerless to release him immediately without the feds permission. This is not America, this is straight out of Hitler’s playbook.

Dear senators who think you can’t do anything, Today, Senator Van Hollen - through diplomatic pressure - got a meeting with Abrego Garcia in El Salvador. So that thing you’re thinking about doing? DO IT. ~ All of Us

Skipped the paperwork. Ignored the court order. Broke the law. Ignored the constitution. This ain’t immigration policy. This is straight-up defiance of the rule of law.

truly don’t understand why more dems aren’t being as outspoken as AOC when there’s clearly such huge appetite for it. it’s one of those rare times when it’s not just the right thing to do morally and ethically, it’s also super smart politically.