Trudy G. Oliver

Today, as we recognize and celebrate Juneteenth, the AACR highlights the importance of research to understand and address the many factors that contribute to cancer health disparities, from biological to socioeconomic drivers of inequitable outcomes. cancerprogressreport.aacr.org/disparities/

A T-shirt with the Iowa logo, stating we are all going to die.

Raygun is on it 😂

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The White House Gutted Science Funding. Now It Wants to ‘Correct’ Research.

I am not sure, crisis of trust, sure, also crisis of ignorance, crisis of education, crisis of magical thinking….
How many neurons rubbing together does it take to understand a dewormer doesn’t cure all human ailments? 🤷🏻‍♀️ 

Mostly just worms.

www.nytimes.com/2025/06/03/c...

But get her talking about an embryo in a dish, and let’s see where her cutesie sarcasm goes.

The language is really poor and imprecise at times in this article. The test wasn’t exercise vs a drug. It was exercise vs nothing new.
Of course, exercise is better than nothing.
It doesn’t mean drugs don’t have a place.

There is one place, however, where Musk, with the help of his minions, achieved his goals. He did indeed shred U.S.A.I.D. Though a rump operation is now operating inside the State Department, the administration says that it has terminated more than 80 percent of U.S.A.I.D. grants. Brooke Nichols, an associate professor of global health at Boston University, has estimated that these cuts have already resulted in about 300,000 deaths, most of them of children, and will most likely lead to significantly more by the end of the year. That is what Musk’s foray into politics accomplished.

Musk should be asked about this in every interview he does now and forever. To ignore it is a dereliction of duty.

www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...

June 14, we protest nationwide.

Join us and millions of others showing up to protest Trump's regime on the day of his military parade & birthday.

We don't have kings and wannabe dictators in America. We're a country of, by, and for the people.

See you in the streets.

Learn more at nokings.org.

There are 7,591 words in the U.S. Constitution.

Not one is "bible", "Jesus", "Judeo", "Christian" or "God".

Separation of church and state guarantees ALL Americans the right to practice ANY religion. Or none.

Which part of "religious freedom" is not as clear as a church bell?

IMHO one reason being a professor is stressful (and professors are constantly late and absent-minded) is that it's not just one job, it's three or four jobs in a trenchcoat.

Plowed away the past few days catching up on research stuff and now I'm even more behind on email and admin 😢

It never ends

YouTube video by Sen. Adam Schiff A Message to Scientists

Science is under attack. The NIH, the NSF, and our research universities.

So today, I have a message for America's scientists:

youtu.be/MeoZDPy5cIY?...

It is really important for everyone to provide a comment against having politically appointment people review and recommend grants at NIH, NSF, DOE, etc. Please, please take a few moment to #RT and to send in a comment opposing Schedule F.

No kings, masters, overlords or any of that bullshit. Time to take the country back.

News headline that Trump cuts 1000 research grants and billions to Harvard

#MAGA, you know when someone cuts in front of you a little too close in traffic, so you follow them home and burn their house down with pets and children inside. That’s today’s Christian Right leading way!

This Is Embarrassing And Disturbing…
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Canada, Germany, England, Denmark, Netherlands, and France all have travel advisory warnings for visiting America.

Let that sink in.

Says the dude who imported WIFE and JET from “FOREIGN LANDS”

Just call it the Self-Inflicted Wound Era, when we took a bunch of stuff that was working largely fine (vaccines, weather monitoring, friendly relations with like 175 countries, cancer research, renewable energy credits, the FAA, global trade, etc etc) and just broke them for giggles

Two ginger girl kittens on a cat tower

Weighing in at 3 lbs each, meet the newest family members #Basal and #Tuft

Two very important cell types for #sclc
:)

#cats #kittens

Graphic illustrating the impact of the plan on people with different incomes

Looks like even our family will have our taxes increased by Trump--we're wealthy but not among the super wealthy

@clmazin One of the hallmarks of the dangerously stupid is the consistent belief they've found great solutions that experts somehow missed.

Never take seriously those who ridicule low income people for having a smartphone or laptop.

“If they’re so poor how did they buy an iPhone???”

Because they’re trying to escape poverty, not the 1700s, genius. If you think basic tech access is unnecessary or a luxury, survive a month without it.

Explaining Trump’s latest move against Harvard — Apple News Today Plus, the status of police reform nearly five years after George Floyd’s murder, the Trump crypto-coin holders getting exclusive access to the president, and why the penny is going away.

File in “More 1930’s stuff”

Explaining Trump’s latest move against Harvard - Apple News Today

apple.news/AW4q-z9q-Tfi...

I also got this email today.
So while budgets are cut, supplies costs are going up. Thanks!

1) What the fuck!? 2) Seriously, what the actual fuck. And 3) She has a doctorate in education, which makes her about as able to psychically detect cancer as Don Jr is able to maintain a relationship.

say it again:

4 million people work in higher ed, the largest employer in 10 states, second largest employer in 10 more, and in 60 of the 100 biggest cities

ROI for NIH and NSF for local economies is conservatively 4x, often close to 10x

demolishing higher education is economic sabotage

Keeping a brain-dead woman alive against her family’s wishes is peak GOP ghoulishness

They wish we were all brain dead. It would make things so much easier to impose their policies on us

The GOP’s one weird trick

The consolidation of review at NIH is really driven by the Trump/Republican desire to control NIH grantmaking from the top.

Here’s an example of the chaos that’s happening now. It will get worse unless CSR and review are walled off from political interference.