Ganesh Sriram

Maddow: If you don't have Bluesky yet, I recommend it. It is a social media network that doesn't make me want to stab myself in the eye with a rusty fork

‘bout time!

How a Canadian scientist and a venomous lizard helped pave the way for Ozempic - National | Globalnews.ca In 1984, Dr. Daniel Drucker, an endocrinologist from the University of Toronto, discovered a hormone that helped pave the way for popular diabetes drugs such as Ozempic.

This is the most relevant article to NIH and research cuts I’ve seen.

Imagine if this was today , how many people would be saying “Why are we studying Gila Monsters and their impact on diabetes ? That’s wasted money !”

globalnews.ca/news/9793403...

On changes to #NIH indirect rates, there is a law in place that prohibits NIH from making such changes without the approval of Congress. See Division D, Title II Section 224 of The Further Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2024 (Public Law No: 118-47) grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

Mychal smiles in his “The Library is for Everyone” shirt from Out of Print clothing

UNSTOPPABLE JOHN: How John Lewis Got His Library Card-and Helped Change History BY NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR PAT ZIETLOW MILLER, ILLUSTRATED BY JERRY JORDAN

When Congressman John Lewis was a child, he tried to get a library card. He was turned away & told “The Library is not for coloureds” 💔

He’s a civil rights icon, lover of books, recipient of the National Book Award for Young People’s Literature.

“The Library IS for Everyone” 💚
#BlackHistoryMonth

Going a bit beyond the 3 sisters, sabudana khichdi and olan (from Kerala) are also American food.

An upma that’s beyond comparison is called nirupama. 😂

Handwriting leads to widespread brain connectivity - typing does not.

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Long a ‘Crown Jewel’ of Government, N.I.H. Is Now a Target

Research supported by NIH has led more than 100 Nobel Prizes and has supported more than 99% of drugs approved by federal regulators from 2010 to 2019.
But come January, NIH may face a wrecking ball
nytimes.com/2024/12/01/h...

“NIH produces an astounding return on investment to the American taxpayer. In Fiscal Year 2022, NIH research funding supported 568,585 jobs and generated $96.84 billion in economic activity — that’s $2.64 of economic activity for every $1 of research funding.”
www.researchamerica.org/2023-oped-us...

An EXTREMELY fundamental blind spot people have about NYC's homeless "problem" is that it's generally not NYC that makes these people homeless. It is where they come after becoming homeless elsewhere. Every homeless person I've got to know is from outside NYC.

NYC is relatively nice to them.

Spending a month on Bluesky has created a whole new model of a fight we need to be having right now. Not liberal vs. conservative or whatever, but respect vs manipulation.

I am tired of being manipulated everywhere I go. That’s why I like it here, I feel like I’m in charge for once.

BREAKING: Bluesky just topped 23,000,000 users. What a beautiful and civil social media platform this is. Let's keep it going.

Have something? Post it on Bluesky.

See something? Post it on Bluesky.

Hear something? Post it on Bluesky.

Say something? Post it on Bluesky.

This starter pack is in honor of Assistant Professor Antentor Hinton Jr (AJ) at Vanderbilt School of Medicine - Basic Sciences. AJ curated the first 100 Inspiring Black Scientists in America list and in collaboration with the Community of Scholars expanded this list to the 1000.

go.bsky.app/DsJrwR

Ask them their body temperature. Hardly anyone will know what it is in Celsius.

Done!

A starter pack of chemical engineering academics on this app: go.bsky.app/6qe4SBg

Here it is. I could find ~17 senators on this app after searching for all of them. Hopefully more senators show up here soon.

go.bsky.app/AaPgtCe

A starter pack of US senators on this app: go.bsky.app/AaPgtCe

Any plans to restoring the filibuster for supreme court appointments? Remember, it’s the republicans who terminated this.

Thanks. I’ll work on it. Should I include Murkowski? She sometimes votes with dems so it may be useful to follow her.

I can create one, but the app includes me in the starter pack and I’m unable to remove myself. Wish there was a way around!

Alsobrooks, Van Hollen and Cardin. I think it will be good to get the entire D caucus, including retiring senators.

Bluesky feels like I took a Time Machine back to 2009 when I was still like “Hey this social media thing is going to make the world a better place.”

That comic timing is impeccable! youtube.com/clip/Ugkxkwg...

… and retweet could be refract.

How about scatter?

I feel like quoting Sen. Bentsen!

Post a picture you took (no description) to bring some zen to the timeline.