Andy Moss

one of the most memorable experiences I had in college was asking my organic chemistry professor a question and him saying "I don't know - let's find out!" and then talking me through a lab experiment.

How Scientific Empires End And what it means for America

The rapid decline of American science has few precedents in history, writes @rossandersen.bsky.social. We are witnessing an unparalleled act of self-sabotage:

DHS Is Considering Reality Show Where Immigrants Compete for Citizenship “This isn’t ‘The Hunger Games’ for immigrants,” says the producer behind the pitch.

Is The Onion publishing under a pseudonym of WSJ or is the WSJ publishing stories that should be in The Onion?? 🤦‍♂️

My folks are not on X, and neither am I (bc it’s a cesspool and owned by a terrible person). So how will my parents, in-laws, etc know what’s going on or learn of changes???

Whitewashing American history The Trump Presidency as a project of erasure

After I published this piece I went on PBS to explain what was happening. Clear and simple explanations about the details of what the Trump administration do matter, because most people are appalled by what is happening.
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75% of US scientists who answered Nature poll consider leaving More than 1,600 readers answered our poll; many said they were looking for jobs in Europe and Canada.

The destruction of American science continues apace. Early career people are the most likely to be seeking to leave. One of my about-to-graduate PhDs is seriously considering a job offer in Germany, even though it would involve lower pay. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Also worth noting that Welch only deployed that famous line because McCarthy broke an agreement not to publicly smear an employee of that same big law firm (Hale and Dorr).

If Welch hadn’t stood up for his junior colleague, we wouldn’t have that turning point for McCarthyism.

I question the comparison to Trump. Over the past several years corporate media bent over backwards to normalize him while good journalists were screaming from the rafters about what was happening. This time around the media didn’t miss the rise of a tyrant, its willful ignorance at best.

Dozens of Clinical Trials Have Been Frozen in Response to Trump’s USAID Order The stop-work order on U.S.A.I.D.-funded research has left thousands of people with experimental drugs and devices in their bodies, with no access to monitoring or care.

This is evil.

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So weird how the media's fixation on grocery prices generally, and egg prices specifically, magically disappeared on January 20, 2025. 🤔

Jericho Project CEO Tori Lyon Advocates for "City of Yes" /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Tori Lyon, CEO of Jericho Project, a 41-year-old nonprofit ending homelessness in New York City, urges the New York City Council to pass...

“There are nearly 133,000 people in New York City shelters, but the cost of housing is making the city unaffordable for what used to be called middle-income families…”

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Your Consciousness Can Connect With the Whole Universe — Popular Mechanics This latest clue about the architecture of consciousness supports a Nobel Prize winner’s theory about how quantum physics works in your brain. ARECENT GROUNDBREAKING experiment in which anesthesia was...

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Your Consciousness Can Connect With the Whole Universe - Popular Mechanics

One in Six Children in Migrant Shelters With Time Limits Have Left the City School System At a City Council hearing, migrants testified that disruption is a constant for families and kids subject to 60-day caps on stays.

About 1,000 children of the 7,600 kids living in migrant shelters whose families got notices to leave city shelters since the end of June — have left the public school system, representatives of the city’s Office of Asylum Seekers disclosed at a City Council hearing Tuesday.

Will Rogers rings as true today as when he observed life nearly 100 yrs ago

A Lab Just 3D-Printed a Neural Network of Living Brain Cells Mini-brains that work and grow like their full-size counterparts could offer an alternative to animal testing and advance the quest for personalized medicine.

Fascinating and scary use of 3D printing. Printing live neural networks created from brain cells that potentially ends up with a consciousness. Article has no mention or discussion of any moral or ethical considerations in creating a consciousness.

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For Bluesky to thrive, it needs sex workers and Black Twitter If Bluesky wants to be a genuine rival to Twitter, it needs to protect sex workers and its Black community.

Our first skeet is the way Jack Dorsey probably intended it — with unsolicited advice and an external link to our reporting. Since Bluesky is in its early days, @morgansung.bsky.social’s advice is vital if it’s going to thrive: protect the marginalized communities that shape this platform’s culture

Network Inequality The way we build and grow social networks and apps can amplify and exacerbate the existing inequities in society. But it doesn’t have to be…

The way we build & grow social networks and apps can amplify and exacerbate the existing inequities in society. But it doesn’t have to be that way. (This piece is from 7 years ago; it’s about how networks are shaped by who gets access.) https://medium.com/humane-tech/network-inequality-3309fb1aac59

Our little Bluesky had an amazing weekend. How should it capitalize on that? I have four suggestions in my free column this week: https://www.platformer.news/p/blueskys-big-moment

After the twit exodus it’s been fascinating watching people publicly try on different experiences searching for the right blend/balance of culture, conduct & capability. It’s like a massive online charrette to include the most broad and diverse perspectives.