America is sleepwalking into autocracy and fascism, and everone thinks someone else is gonna stop this.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Unfortunately I will. Morons.
This is what I have been saying SOO many times to people. ”Colors” don’t really exist, just electomagnetic spectra or different wavelengts absorbed by the photoreceptors and interpreted by the brain.💪
The Trump Administration Is Lying to Our Faces. Congress Must Act. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/25/o...
@davenportauthor.bsky.social this crazy.
5 Years After Jan. 6, Lawlessness Has Triumphed www.nytimes.com/2025/12/31/o...
One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
Someone asked me the other day*:
How do we replace all the science that’s being lost across the US as NIH, NSF etc are being lawlessly destroyed?
The answer is: we cannot. It is impossible.
The task now is to defend #NIH and public funding for medical research.
1/ 🧪 #neuroscience
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Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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RIP Ace Frehley🚀🪐🛸
Robert De Niro: “Now we have a would-be king — King Donald the First. Fuck that. I’m Robert De Niro and I’m asking you to stand up and be counted in the nationwide No Kings protest on October 18th”
👉👉 nokings.org
Teresa Puthussery, a UC Berkeley vision scientist whose insights into the retina could one day help those with vision loss regain their sight, has been named a 2025 MacArthur “genius” Fellow. news.berkeley.edu/2025/10/08/v...
This is a must watch. Here is an interview of Francis Collins, former director of the NIH w/ Stephen Colbert. He ran the NIH for 12 years.
"Medical miracles don't happen overnight. You have to invest in them. "Our investments are in trouble."
The brain drain is here.
🧪 youtu.be/lW9c6t4potU?...
This is just exhausting…😔
Canada Excellence Research Chair opportunity to recruit top international scientists to Canada.
Come join us in Nova Scotia at Dalhousie University !
Reach out if you have questions.
www.dal.ca/research-and...
@dalhousie.bsky.social
Yes.
Will be in SLC Friday, dinner?
I am so done with 2025. Last year with 2 heart surgeries was better, FFS.
”Almost 90% of Finns go every week to a sauna, an activity considered good for both physical and mental health”😎
Other countries are fully targeting US academics with social media ads now, basically of the form "we still have inclusive liberal democracy and academic freedom here"
#Europe must stand strong, for #Ukraine and for #democracy.
We can defend ourselves, unite, and counter #Russia’s threat.
Because #peace and #freedom are worth protecting.
@villeniinisto.vihreat.fi
Yes!
Dear universities, scientists, lawyers, farmers, workers, artists, doctors...
Being silent won't protect you.
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