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Pregnant women are also the ideal targets because they're so anxious not to do anything that has a chance, however small, of hurting their baby. There's a whole industrial complex aimed at making them more anxious that Trump is tapping into.

Makes you think that perhaps DOGE didn’t really know what they were doing.

Maybe the exercise was never really about government efficiency at all?

Um, why?

It's incredibly weird that folks have convinced themselves that the Covid vaccines - which had an ~82^% take up rate - were unpopular.

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Hey #Boston, please don't vote for this MAGA asshole next Tuesday.
And while we're on the subject, please don't vote for the other entitled white male asshole who's running either.
Thanks.
#politics #USPol #MAPol #BosPoli #BostonMA

For 58€ a month I can ride on almost any public transport anywhere in Germany. Within a 15 minute walk from my house I can access 4 S Bahn lines, 3 UBahn lines, regional trains (I honestly don’t even know how many of those), 3 tram lines and at least 4 city bus lines (probably more).

Tell the Supreme Court: No Stay. Hands off NIH The Supreme Court is poised to allow Trump to illegally terminate NIH grants. Let's speak out. There is not much time.

Trump asked SCOTUS to “stay” Judge Young’s order to reinstate NIH grants. A stay would:

- mean NIH staff pulled onto re-terminations, slowing all grant awards
- justify Trump terminations of other NIH grants.

Tell SCOTUS: No stay!

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Dear Dr. Bhattacharya: As a follow-up to my earlier email, I am having trouble reconciling your statement in the cover letter sent to NIH staff. You said: “I have advocated for academic freedom throughout my career, with a particular public focus in the last five years. My position has not changed; scientists must be allowed to pursue their ideas free of censorship or control by others. They must be able to express their scientific opinions and challenge scientific dogma. This does not mean everything scientists want to do can or will be funded, but rather that they will be free to propose and discuss these ideas freely in public scientific debate.”

A second Bhattacharya email for today.

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My sister department EEB is hiring an animal evo-devo assistant prof! I'm the plant evo-devo person on the SC and happy to answer any questions! (spoiler alert: This is a GREAT place to be and with fantastic colleagues & support!!!!) @socdevbio.bsky.social
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The FDA Let Substandard Factories Ship These Medications to the U.S. ProPublica identified more than 150 products that were exempted from import bans since 2013. Our list provides the names of the drugs or ingredients and their manufacturers, many of which are no longe...

NEW: In June, ProPublica reported that the FDA has given more than 20 foreign factories a special pass to send drugs to the U.S. even though they were made at plants the agency had banned.

Today, we’re publishing a list of those exempted drugs.

Honk if you’ve got the Morbs Bumper Sticker -this is a listing for a weather resistant, vinyl bumper sticker with a matte finish look to it  -measures 7.5 inches at the longest side and 3.75” high -last pic shows other bumper stickers in the sh...

LMGTFY: www.thesilverspiderprintshop.com/products/hon...

Tell Congress: Gaza aid must flow freely and safely The intentional starvation of Palestinians in Gaza is so cruel and dire that even Donald Trump has said it must stop, but words are meaningless without action. The Trump administration has the power t...

Trump acknowledges widespread starvation in Gaza but hasn’t acted to address it. Members of Congress must force the issue with demands to lift aid restrictions and let trusted third parties distribute food. Tell your elected officials to call for an end to Netanyahu’s intentional starvation of Gaza.

Question for Mike Flood: With $450 million being allocated to Alligator Alcatraz, and ICE burning through $8.4 million a day to illegally detain people—How much does it cost for fascism? How much do the tax payers have to pay for a fascist country?

I’m going live on Instagram at 1:30pm ET with TX State Rep. @ginaforaustin.bsky.social to talk about how we can push back against Republicans' obvious plan to disempower voters.

Share any questions for her in the comments below.

If you are an American scientist and ESPECIALLY if you work at UCSF, you should be doing everything you can to hold Vinay Prasad accountable for the damage he did to American public health.

No, UCSF, do NOT hire him back.

Meanwhile, the Mar-a-Lago Club in Palm Beach last night confirmed a Web site report that Epstein has been banned there. “He would use the spa to try to procure girls. But one of them, a masseuse about 18 years old, he tried to get her to do things,” a source told us. “Her father found out about it and went absolutely ape-[bleep]. Epstein’s not allowed back.” Epstein denies he is banned from Mar-a-Lago and says, in fact, he was recently invited to an event there

It turns out "the Mar-a-Lago" confessed to what was going on 18 years ago.
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Group Leader in Discovery Plant Sciences | John Innes Centre The John Innes Centre (JIC) seeks a visionary Group Leader to lead research on Discovery Plant Science.

. #Botany2025 My institution (JIC in Norwich, UK) is hiring for a tenure-track Group Leader in Discovery Plant Sciences - see more here:

www.jic.ac.uk/vacancies/gr...

Let me know if you have questions!

Covid measures pushed down deaths from influenza to remarkably low levels. The death rate is surging back--including 266 children. 90% of children who died in the 2024-2025 flu season were not fully vaccinated against the flu. www.cdc.gov/fluview/surv...

The Wadsworth Center is expanding it's research focus on #virology /vector-borne diseases!
www.asmcareerconnections.org/job/research-scientist-5-g-31/78488664/
This is a unicorn assistant prof equivalent position with 12-month hard money salary and no teaching commitments (!)
Reposts appreciated 🙏

Love this energy. But this isn’t the right read on Congressional dynamics.

What’s happening here is that Trump is weaker than he’s ever been. Britt and R Senators have been afraid of Trump activating the base against them. They are less afraid now than in the spring. Because Trump’s getting weaker.

There we are

When that surplus comes to public attention, the Democratic legal and political world is going to strongly push NIH to get the money out the door to avoid impoundment. That is the unconstitutional action where the executive branch unilaterally decides to leave money unspent. But at that point, in mid- to late-summer, Trump can throw up his hands and say that there are not enough reviewed grants, enough time, and enough remaining employees to do that spending. And that's where Republicans in Congress can come in and finalize a big NIH budget cut. Using the rescission process, which requires only a simple majority in the Senate, the Republican majorities in the Senate and House can vote to return the unspent funds. That will avoid impoundment and lop billions off the NIH budget. That new shrunken NIH budget for this year (FY25) could then be used by Republican-majority appropriators as a benchmark to set the NIH budget at this new smaller level for next year (FY26) and future years. (Good explainer on rescission if you want to dig deeper).

An NIH employee back in April mapped out the Vought plan that is playing out now. open.substack.com/pub/donmoyni...

Fiiiine, apparently half my readers enjoy an info dump, so here we go!

Grasslands Sequester Carbon Too or “Why trees are not the be-all and end-all.”

Ahem. *takes a sip of water*

Trump Hands Another Victory To Cancer’s Profiteers A hundred industrial sources of carcinogenic air toxics will now be exempt from Biden-era rules intended to reduce cancer risk around the country.

The death cult know as "The Republican Party" wants you to die, so their President took action on Friday to make it more likely you get cancer and die.

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📣 #VIRGINIA Dems need to keep control of the legislature and regain the Governor's office.

Massive turnout for the #NoKings protests won't mean ANYTHING unless people also VOTE FOR DEMOCRATS UP & DOWN THE BALLOT.

Donate today: #Blue25

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Employees’ protests against Trump science policies spread to NSF Letter to key House Democrat follows declarations by scientists at NIH, EPA, and NASA

NSF's Alexandria Declaration takes the form of a letter to Congress

Science coverage

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ChatGPT advises women to ask for lower salaries, study finds A new study has found that large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT consistently advise women to ask for lower salaries than men.

Study finds A.I. LLMs advise women to ask for lower salaries than men. When prompted w/ a user profile of same education, experience & job role, differing only by gender, ChatGPT advised the female applicant to request $280K salary; Male applicant=$400K.
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do you ever stare at the ceiling and think about how the worldwide scientific establishment did the impossible and created a COVID vaccine in under a year and the response of the general public has been to go on an unstoppable rampage to destroy science and scientists

This is a really good idea - helps to make functional sense out of microbial diversity.

This is just magnificent. Absolutely perfect.

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