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Labor Day Is a Government Scam Even if the holiday wasn’t always intended to be a rip-off, it sure is now.

Enjoy the day off (if you’re lucky enough to have one) but don’t forget: www.teenvogue.com/story/histor...

2 bits of data from new Economist/YouGov poll.....

13% support for cutting research funding to universities. 24% among Republicans. Polling on this continues to be catastrophic for the Rs, suggests Dems should be learning far harder into standing up for science and our universities. 1/

New Music from Anti-Fascist Folk Singer Woody Guthrie Released With this reveal of 22 previously unheard songs, the Guthrie family hopes the radical messages in “Woody At Home” will inspire the next generation of protest songwriters.

"The rise of fascism in the United States convinced the Guthrie family and their associates that the music scene needed a dose of Guthrie’s anti-authoritarian, anti-racist, Nazi-punching ethos." #woodyguthrie #folkmusic #antifascist

This is such an important point. The VAST majority of funding for research comes from NIH. Stand Up To Cancer just had their telethon. In 2023 they raised an impressive $60 million for cancer research. But the NCI (at NIH) had a budget of $7.2 billion that year. Charities cannot compete.

New Music from Anti-Fascist Folk Singer Woody Guthrie Released With this reveal of 22 previously unheard songs, the Guthrie family hopes the radical messages in “Woody At Home” will inspire the next generation of protest songwriters.

The tapes were recorded in the living room of Guthrie’s Brooklyn apartment between 1951 and 1952, on a portable tape recorder...

@caroleine.bsky.social writes that the Guthrie family hopes to inspire the next generation of protest songwriters.

inthesetimes.com/article/new-...

"Efficient"

I had to pay back $0.31 because I tipped 20% on the bill AFTER tax instead of before tax.

Marshall Ramsey even. @mississippitoday.org

It's not like she wanted a wedding cake...

constitution.congress.gov/constitution/ has deleted sections 9 (habeas corpus) and 10 from Article 1.

Department of Health and Human Services—National Institutes of Health—Application of Impoundment Control Act to Availability of Funds for Grants Congress appropriated amounts to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to carry out various research objectives for fiscal year 2025. In accordance...

BREAKING: Watchdog government agency finds the NIH and the Trump administration have illegally withheld funds in violation of the Impoundment Control Act, and rips into HHS for failing to justify its slow-walking of funds.

www.gao.gov/products/b-3...

Reviewer 2:
APPROACH - 6
Has not completed Aim 1 yet and barely started on Aim 3

I cannot "like" this post.

"Winning" is such terrible framing.

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Concatenating primate brains based solely on their size provides a 1st striking illustration of the importance of mechanical morphogenesis: despite jumping across far branches of the phylogenetic tree, the sequence is largely continuous, hinting at a common underlying organising principle.

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Venezuelan Team Bound For Little League Senior World Series In U.S. Denied Visas - World Baseball Network A team of 15- and 16-year-old baseball players from Venezuela won't get the chance to compete at a tournament in South Carolina after they were denied visas to enter the United States, according to mu...

Bodes well for the 2026 World Cup.

Effective funding line of 4% for NCI.

The 4th percentile… JFC

Heading into quals

Grad school?

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Here are the T32 curves.

Grant terminations have grabbed the headlines and have seen legal action, but even more damaging to the US research enterprise has been the massive decrease in number of research grants issued by federal agencies

NIH has seen a decrease of 57% in the number of awards & 63% in value compared to FY24

Graph showing the number of new, competing, and non-competing T32 grants over the past seven years. 2025 is at roughly 1/3rd previous years.

Updating @jeremymberg.bsky.social

Wonderful and powerful way to give back the community. @tennessee-titans.bsky.social‬ and @msstate.bsky.social‬ defensive tackle Jeffery Simmons doing good work off the field.

A Nation's Story: “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?” In July of 1852, Frederick Douglass delivered a speech titled “What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?,” a call for the promise of liberty be applied equally to all Americans. Douglass’s speech empha...

Great day to read Frederick Douglass’ brilliant speech-

“What to the slave is the Fourth of July?”

nmaahc.si.edu/explore/stor...

Mural of Statue of Liberty in shame unveiled in France the day before 4th of July