Dr. Denica Bozhinova

Okay *cracks knuckles*. Here’s a non-exhaustive list of things I’m doing.

1. Suing DoJ for Epstein training videos
2. Suing DOGE for documents
4. FOIA request for DHS OHC memo authorizing warrantless home entry
5. FOIA for kids’ letters confiscated by ICE at Dilley
6. FOIA for USAID docs 1/

NSF officials break silence on how AI and quantum now drive agency grantmaking Leaders acknowledge White House role in controversial moves

The National Science Foundation is systematically being converted to the National AI and Quantum Research Foundation.

“I see it as the administration exerting political control over what has traditionally been NSF’s ability to fund the best science.”

This is amazing.

www.getyourfuckingmoneyback.com

Private money cannot replace public funding of science Who should pay for American science? In the current political climate, many are looking to the private sector to compensate for cuts in public funding. At the Harvard School of Public Health—particula...

My latest:

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Next column will address needed guardrails for private funding of science, esp. in light of #Epstein/ #Summers etc.

Private money cannot replace public funding of science Who should pay for American science? In the current political climate, many are looking to the private sector to compensate for cuts in public funding. At the Harvard School of Public Health—particula...

"Private money cannot replace public funding of science"
Thank you @naomioreskes.bsky.social
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
🧪 🌊 ⚒️ #scipol

Private money cannot replace public funding of science Who should pay for American science? In the current political climate, many are looking to the private sector to compensate for cuts in public funding. At the Harvard School of Public Health—particula...

"Businesses are not charities, so corporate research is profit-driven, and the largest profits are not necessarily to be made by addressing the largest societal needs...In contrast, publicly funded science can be explicitly focused on public needs."

Exactly right, from @naomioreskes.bsky.social

"I am an elder millenial, I know how to sail the high seas" is my favorite explanation on the subject.

Novartis settles with Henrietta Lacks' estate over use of her 'stolen' cells to advance medicine Novartis has settled a lawsuit by the estate of Henrietta Lacks that alleged the pharmaceutical giant unjustly profited off her cells, which were taken from her tumor without her knowledge in 1951 and...

Justice sure took a long while…

apnews.com/article/henr...

Fairly certain this is because it doesn't assume how to do word wrap so just place enter wherever you reach the screen width. However this will cause obvious issues if whoever is reading this has a screen of different (smaller) width.

The "using a forklift at the gym to lift weights" analogy works pretty well here

An abstract artwork of a hummingbird, created using watercolour paints of A5 watercolour paper.

In Aztec culture, hummingbirds were linked to the sun, fire, and the war god Huitzilopochtli, with fallen warriors believed to return as hummingbirds.

Today's little watercolour doodle for #BirdOfTheDay.
Thank you and have a good day.

#Birds #Folklore #AztecMythology

Stardew valley... I need to go back to it, my state of mind was so much better while playing it.

At some point in our adult development we learn to see the difference between sex, intimacy and family planning. That is ... unless some religious branch of the culture doesn't try to continuously conflate the three in order to regulate and control.

a chef in a kitchen with the words borg written on the bottom ALT: a chef in a kitchen with the words borg written on the bottom

Sir.. I offer alternative.

The chef, the dishwasher, the booze-bringerer and the storyteller.

I'm not entirely sure how they did it, but they've completely cleared the streets around my office in Midtown #NYC.

They paid a lot of people good wages to do the job effectively, thank you for coming to my socialism talk

I would add Imperialism to the list.

BREAKING

Former ICE agent:

On my first day training new cadets, I received secretive orders to teach them to violate the Constitution by entering homes without a judicial warrant.

Minneapolis isn't an especially sweary place but there are so many houses that have homemade "FUCK ICE" signs and I've had multiple conversations with parents about how we're okay with our kids using that word in this context because sometimes it IS okay to swear and this is one of those times.

Skärpta krav i sfi Vi arbetar för att alla barn och elever ska få en utbildning som är likvärdig och av god kvalitet i en trygg miljö.

I am still checking if some of this affects my komvux SAS course, but they list the new conditions here www.skolverket.se/styrning-och...

Correction, I think it is that your participation in SFI can only last for 3 years since you signed up for it. If you haven't applied, you might still be eligible. If there are special circumstances that merit extension, up to 6 x 6 month ones can be granted based on the principal of the school.

It is a very difficult mindset to switch from "not good enough" to "trying to be better" but it can have such a huge impact. You can always try to be better, that doesn't mean you are not good enough.

Ms. McQuade Made This Insightful
Statement on Lawrence O'Donnell's Show,In 2020........

Не пише минимална, а приемлива, което всяка една от тия банки е готова да спори че тия са приемливи такси. Не знам как само в България като превеждам пари от евро сметка в евро сметка плащам такси а в други страни в Европа дори международен такъв трамсфер е безплатен. 0.55 евро на превод, безумие.

Once again, the man who did not miss did not miss this.

Any color can suit the nails, question is what are you in mood or will bring you joy to watch it every time you flex your fingers for the next week ;)

Don't congratulate John Roberts or the Supreme Court.

Congratulate Rick Woldenberg, the Chicago-area leader of Learning Resources, an educadtional toy company that had the courage to sue the president of the United States to save his family business.

As well as everyone else who stepped up.

Cartoon by Mike Luckovich.