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Assoc Professor @ University of Mississippi Medical Center - Psychiatric/Comparative/Evolutionary Genetics (he/him) - Personal opinions only

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Marshall Ramsey even. @mississippitoday.org

10.08.2025 16:23 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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

07.08.2025 23:56 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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

06.08.2025 16:06 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Department of Health and Human Servicesβ€”National Institutes of Healthβ€”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...

05.08.2025 17:17 β€” πŸ‘ 498    πŸ” 230    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 20

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

05.08.2025 21:51 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I cannot "like" this post.

30.07.2025 02:22 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

"Winning" is such terrible framing.

29.07.2025 01:54 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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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.

27.07.2025 17:33 β€” πŸ‘ 72    πŸ” 12    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 2

πŸ“Œ

27.07.2025 20:05 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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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.

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Effective funding line of 4% for NCI.

24.07.2025 00:07 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The 4th percentile… JFC

23.07.2025 23:45 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Heading into quals

23.07.2025 21:06 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Grad school?

23.07.2025 20:59 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Suspect Guilty GIF Alt: Suspect Guilty GIF
21.07.2025 16:41 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

πŸ“Œ

18.07.2025 00:51 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Here are the T32 curves.

15.07.2025 14:17 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 4
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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

14.07.2025 21:21 β€” πŸ‘ 161    πŸ” 104    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 3
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.

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

11.07.2025 20:04 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 2

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.

07.07.2025 21:43 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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A Nation's Story: β€œWhat to the Slave is the Fourth of July?” In July of 1852, Frederick Douglass delivered a speech titled β€œWhat 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-

β€œWhat to the slave is the Fourth of July?”

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

04.07.2025 11:36 β€” πŸ‘ 166    πŸ” 69    πŸ’¬ 9    πŸ“Œ 8
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Mural of Statue of Liberty in shame unveiled in France the day before 4th of July

04.07.2025 13:32 β€” πŸ‘ 35707    πŸ” 11143    πŸ’¬ 844    πŸ“Œ 788

Huh... The US should have led some sort of international coalition to make an agreement with Iran about that.

29.06.2025 17:21 β€” πŸ‘ 15    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

*Demonstrates that race and ethnicity are not genetically determined... It isn't as if people had a "real" genetic race that they were ignorant of or lying about.

28.06.2025 20:06 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

"Do you really want a neighborhood where people piss on your stoop every night?" - Benjamin Coffin III

25.06.2025 21:02 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

What if I did Gwen Stefani's Rich Girl for karaoke a couple of times in my 20s?

20.06.2025 20:09 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts | Grants & Funding

First NIH RFAs released since the inauguration. A very slim sliver of positivity, even if it is just reissues of ones that were cancelled to eliminate DEI language.

13.06.2025 19:08 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

πŸ“Œ

13.06.2025 15:49 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Or that the inverse is true for North Dakota?

11.06.2025 19:43 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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