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Federal Science Workforce Declines Sharply Under Trump The last year was marked by turmoil at science agencies and the administration’s stated desire to shrink the federal workforce.

Federal science workforce in 2025:

NSF down over 30%
USGS, NOAA, and NIH down 20%
DOE down 17%
NIST down 15%
NASA down 12%

By comparison, the total federal civilian workforce was down approximately 10% last year.

www.aip.org/fyi/federal-...

So is AOC’s!

This week's cover @thelancet.com

If Moderna is no longer bringing vaccine trials for Epstein-Barr virus (good evidence that EB causes Multiple Sclerosis), herpes, and shingles because of Trump appointees, I want prison time for those appointees.

This might be dooming millions to disease they don’t have to experience.

under questioning by Rand Paul, ICE officials confirm that yelling at officers is not assault and recording officers is not a crime

The Third Red Scare The Trump administration is cracking down on Americans’ freedom of speech, but the First Amendment won’t go down without a fight.

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

FDA declines to review Moderna's mRNA flu shot Under Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the Food and Drug Administration has taken an aggressive stance against mRNA technology.

I genuinely cannot believe the degree to which we are pissing away this generational breakthrough, even given the fuckmuppets who are involved www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

Well, folks, the best part of the #SuperBowl is now over. Thanks #Brandi!

‘It’s become more about politics than music’: what will Bad Bunny bring to the Super Bowl? Grammy-winning Puerto Rican star is in the center of US culture wars before leading this weekend’s half-time show

www.theguardian.com/music/2026/f...

No wonder the orange toddler is unhinged once again.

The Obamas are competent, classy, loving, Harvard and Princeton graduates, loved by many, not on the Epstein files, got the Nobel Peace Prize, and gave us a steady economy to boot.

Repost this if you agree they are AMAZING and an inspiration!

Fun fact: Trump is mentioned in the Epstein files more than Jesus is mentioned in the bible.

And that’s just the unredacted version.

Trump Deletes Racist Video of Obamas After Outcry

It’s weird to think I wouldn’t even hire the President of the
*United States of America* to clean my toilet…not even to do the dishes in my lab!

What we have become!

The last have become first, alright.

Trump Deletes Racist Video of Obamas After Outcry www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/u...

Every American needs to watch this:

TMPRSS11B promotes an acidified microenvironment and immune suppression in squamous lung cancer - PubMed Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer-related deaths worldwide. Existing therapeutic options have limited efficacy, particularly for lung squamous cell carcinoma (LUSC), underscoring the critical need for the identification of new therapeutic targets. We previously demonstrated that the Transme …

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can enrich for this #hillock-like state. We identify surface markers that can be explored as ways to target the hillock-like state, which we think will be important to fully eradicate #squamous cancers. A companion manuscript identified #Tmprss11b as a #KLF4-regulated hillock gene impacting the TME.

Like normal #hillock cells described by Jay Rajagopal's lab, #hillock-like tumor cells are slow-cycling, stress-resistant (especially to platinum and oxidative stress) and exhibit immune-suppressive signatures (especially #neutrophil recruitment). Recent studies suggest pressure on the basal state

Using mouse models, organoids and single cell transcriptomics, we identify a KRT13+ #hillock-like state present in basal lineage (#squamous) tumors that is driven by the transcription factor KLF4. Both basal and club cells can generate this state, which appears on a transcriptional continuum.

KLF4 promotes a KRT13+ hillock-like state in squamous lung cancer - PubMed Lung squamous cell carcinoma (LUSC) is basal-like subtype of lung cancer with limited treatment options. While prior studies have identified tumor-propagating cell states in squamous tumors, the broader landscape of intra-tumoral heterogeneity within LUSC remains poorly understood. Here, we employ S …

Transcriptional plasticity is a major barrier to effective cancer treatment. We know a lot about it in #SCLC but less is known for #squamous #lungcancer. Luke Izzo & Tony Reyes have made major inroads into this problem in our latest preprint:
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40161723/

It turns out that idiots can put on a suit and talk.

Both chambers of Congress have now passed the FY26 minibus with NIH provisions. The President will sign.

(1) $48.7 billion for NIH
(2) Full IDC recovery
(3) No more multi-year funding
(4) No NIH reorganization, maintaining the current IC structure.

All these people who want the freedom to get #measles should also have to pay $43,000/year to offset the wasted healthcare costs that will get passed on to the rest of us.
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Sacrificing the health of your children to own the libs and because nobody is the boss of you

We need to talk about the rise of "smol bean fascism" where you have all the guns and the immunity but the really scary people are the ones with whistles and phone cameras and they're giving you generational trauma and ptsd by filming you killing people for no reason

All you NRA 2nd Amendment shouters...are you OK with this?
If you are, then all the B.S. you've been howling about for years was just performative crap to hide your racism....