A male dog-day cicada seen from close up, sitting on the arm of a wooden bench at the University of Chicago
Dashing gent βοΈ my favorite bug looking sharp on campus this morning
01.08.2025 15:28 β π 390 π 82 π¬ 15 π 2
Weakest 3 months of job growth since 2020.
01.08.2025 14:43 β π 19275 π 7228 π¬ 1335 π 584
Some good news. The senate committee rejected the 40% budget cut for NIH and instead endorsed a $400 million budget increase. Science for the win.
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www.statnews.com/2025/07/31/n...
31.07.2025 23:36 β π 318 π 67 π¬ 6 π 10
Wall Street Journal headline and deck: "New York Shooting Puts Mamdani on the Spot Over Policing Views: The killing of four people in a Midtown office building rattled a city where mass attacks are rare and violent crime has declined."
It's really weird to demand accountability from a NYC mayoral candidate for a deadly NYC shooting rather than the current NYC mayor, an ex-cop who campaigned on a "tough on crime" platform and promptly got indicted for crimes
31.07.2025 16:53 β π 30318 π 7542 π¬ 741 π 422
Yes, we at #NIH are barely holding it together.
That said, we are resolute. We chose this career to help others.
We didn't go into science for the money.
We did it to help humans: to advance human knowledge, to improve human health, and to make a fairer world built on ideas. 1/
30.07.2025 17:08 β π 162 π 42 π¬ 2 π 0
Electroreception in treehoppers: How extreme morphologies can increase electrical sensitivity | PNAS
The link between form and function of an organism’s morphology is usually apparent
or intuitive. However, some clades of organisms show remarkable ...
Why do treehoppers look so weird?! Our latest paper, out this week in @pnas.org, suggests a perhaps unexpected reason - static electricity β‘ We show that treehoppers can detect the electrostatic cues of predators and that their crazy shapes may boost their electrosensitivity! doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
24.07.2025 11:41 β π 411 π 166 π¬ 13 π 38
DOGE Developed Error-Prone AI Tool to βMunchβ Veterans Affairs Contracts
We obtained records showing how a Department of Government Efficiency staffer with no medical experience used artificial intelligence to identify which VA contracts to kill. βAI is absolutely theβ¦
A ex-DOGE staffer developed an AI tool that hallucinated the size of Veterans Affairs contracts.
For example, it concluded that more than a thousand deals were each worth $34 million, when in fact some were for as little as $35,000.
(Published June)
30.07.2025 01:30 β π 562 π 246 π¬ 17 π 13
Anti intellectualism goes hand in hand with fascism.
29.07.2025 14:37 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Political scientist specializing in constitutional rights: βWe are [past] a constitutional crisisβ¦ we are in failure.β
Every US scientist must get comfortable with this: the system is currently failing. The US science system is breaking apart. 1/
28.07.2025 13:00 β π 201 π 66 π¬ 3 π 1
Why Americans Must Speak Out Against Israel's Genocide in Gaza, with Qasim Rashid
A recording from Qasim Rashid, Esq. and THE LEFT HOOK with Wajahat Ali's live video
A candid and raw conversation with @wajali.bsky.social on why we MUST speak up about the genocide in Gaza.
Wajahat and I share the impact speaking up has had on our personal lives, and how that pales in comparison to the suffering of people in Palestine.
www.qasimrashid.com/p/why-americ...
28.07.2025 15:44 β π 121 π 36 π¬ 2 π 0
RFK Jr. to Oust Advisory Panel on Cancer Screenings, HIV Prevention Drugs
The task force determines which preventive services insurers must cover at no cost to patients
The US Preventive Services Task Force issues guidelines for screening cancer, heart disease, diabetes, obesity, depression and more.
RFK Jr claims he'll make America healthy, but in reality he wants to fire the experts that prevent people from getting sick because he thinks that they're "too woke."
28.07.2025 21:08 β π 518 π 168 π¬ 23 π 9
DHS has arrested two medical personnel at a surgical center in California for demanding that the officers trespassing in their building identify themselves & provide a warrant, accusing them of another.... wait for it... ASSAULT. The case shows how DHS lies relentlessly to violate the Constitution
27.07.2025 13:55 β π 7919 π 3595 π¬ 305 π 402
When you strip away humanity
26.07.2025 11:31 β π 19278 π 8081 π¬ 532 π 959
Sounds a lot like a new human trafficking operation
25.07.2025 09:55 β π 2 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
Childrenβs Tumor Foundation is facing cuts to NF research headed by Gabe Groisman, a MAGA stooge and Zionist.
24.07.2025 20:21 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
The situation at the NIH and for all biomedical and cancer cure research in the United States is MUCH MUCH WORSE than you realize.
27.03.2025 23:46 β π 4401 π 1935 π¬ 118 π 60
The National Cancer Institute faces steep budget cuts and a staff exodus
Current and former employees report that morale has "tanked" as the administration hollows out the agency, with many scientists leaving in frustration. The cuts are already impacting basic operations ...
"The National Cancer Institute is being targeted by the Trump administrationβs downsizing. Current and former employees report that morale has βtankedβ as the administration hollows out the agency, with many scientists leaving in frustration."
Seems bad for Americans.
24.07.2025 16:03 β π 97 π 48 π¬ 5 π 16
Alsoβ¦ look into the literacy rate of America, particularly in states like Florida. Itβs eye opening.
24.07.2025 18:49 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
A lot of white Americans in the lower or middle class are attracted to the bigotry since they want to feel better than someone else. In their minds they are just βtemporarily embarrassed millionaires.β Some are also just angry people that like to see others misfortune even if they get hit too.
24.07.2025 18:48 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
Wow. @repsummerlee.bsky.social reveals that Nancy Mace tried to amend the Epstein file release motion to add the word "credible" to it (only compelling the release of "credible" files).
"But we're like, 'Well, legally, who decides what is credible? Whose standards are we going to implement here?'"
24.07.2025 03:58 β π 7931 π 2162 π¬ 241 π 92
βthe party being led by jeffrey epsteins best friend wants to repeatedly examine your childs genitalsβ is a true statement
23.07.2025 13:28 β π 17426 π 4999 π¬ 178 π 133
It's become clear that this administration is just a protracted war on anybody who's read a book without pictures in it. It's a miracle we're all still getting up and going to work every morning. The psychological drain is the point, and I'm increasingly grateful to the people who are still decent.
21.07.2025 01:37 β π 40784 π 7124 π¬ 810 π 325
WSJ just published this fascist OpEd by a man who has openly advocated for the ethnic cleansing Palestinians. It reinforces the sad fact that anti-Muslim violence & bigotry is not just tolerated in Americaβit is celebrated.
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19.07.2025 20:47 β π 235 π 57 π¬ 9 π 5
I feel like media is wholly ignoring this major story.
A reminder that under the previous Trump administration there were at least 5000 documented cases of ICE and Border Patrol sexually abusing migrant children.
5000 documented cases.
Itβs no wonder MAGAs are blocking the Epstein list.
1/2
21.07.2025 03:37 β π 1159 π 521 π¬ 31 π 23
Your mind ain't subtle. It ain't fertile. It don't teem. You ain't scheming. You ain't cunning. You don't got designs like that. The plots you're hatching aren't worth brooding over. The twisted web you weave won't hurt a fly. You couldn't manipulate your way out of a cardboard box.
18.07.2025 14:41 β π 34 π 8 π¬ 1 π 2
Eyebrows guy
19.07.2025 01:48 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Anyways.
16.07.2025 06:47 β π 198 π 43 π¬ 1 π 2
*Age of Empires II Barracks sound*
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