Jay Schuur, MD

The books arrived!

The new books arrived, looking great! @michaelemann.bsky.social @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social @publicaffairs1796.bsky.social

On Wednesday, Jensen Huang, Nvidia’s chief executive, met with President Trump at the White House and agreed to give the federal government a 15 percent cut, essentially making the federal government a partner in Nvidia’s business in China, said the people familiar with the deal. The Commerce Department began granting licenses for A.I. chip sales two days later, these people said.

State capitalism? Unconstitutional export taxes? A straight up shakedown?

Whatever you call it, Ronald Reagan is rolling over in his fucking grave.

U.S. Government to Take Cut of Nvidia and AMD A.I. Chip Sales to China

the art of the shakedown

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/10/t...

ChatGPT - New chat Shared via ChatGPT

an example prompt to help craft a response to the extremely flawed new DOE draft "A Critical Review of Impacts of Greenhouse Gas Emissions on the U.S. Climate"
chatgpt.com/share/68991b...

if you care about climate - this is worth 10 minutes of your time. p.s. AI is very good at drafting comments to federal regulations changes, with the right prompts.

#CostaRica is a remarkably beautiful place. Thanks for an amazing family vacation. Pura Vida!

#climatecrisis

The Trump admin is moving from denying climate change to rewriting it. Energy Secretary Chris Wright, a longtime oil industry executive, announced plans to “update” past National Climate Assessments, the gold-standard, peer-reviewed reports that lay out the risks of the climate crisis in detail.

marathon plus. know a few people who took on multicontinent tours w great success. heavier and chunkier than some other tires, but good if you need durability

fascism is an attack on reality

scwalbe marathon

is this Venezuela or the U.S.???
The idea that a republican administration is threatening to seize private assets without legal process and fair compensation is both crazy and dangerous.

The death of U.S. scientific and medical leadership, and another step towards totalitarianism.

Does anyone believe for a moment that France will be letting in all American agricultural products with zero tariff? Queue the lories dumping artichokes across the roads.
Cc @justinwolfers.bsky.social

Letter to Representative Lofgren - Appeal to Defend Civil Service Protections and the Mission of the NSF

Heard from #AHRQ that the entire grants staff has been let go! They are unable to issue funds for grants already funded, let alone fund new grants. This is outrageous and will make Americans poorer and sicker. Why? A brief thread about just some recent AHRQ-funded research: #MedSky #HealthPolicy

35 years old, this foul Cambridge dump has become an urban jewel - The Boston Globe Danehy Park is considered to be an extraordinary urban planning success story, the type of neighborhood anchor that residents couldn’t now imagine living without.

Amen for Danehy Park!
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/07/06/m...

Great read👇👇👇

YouTube video by NPR Music Gillian Welch & David Rawlings: Tiny Desk Concert

youtu.be/lfGdjdxxOuU?...

As reported by other colleagues today, confirmation of the regime’s *proposed* NOAA budget, with over 200 scientists to be fired & numerous labs shut, including Miami’s AOML & Hurricane Research Division, and all CO2 monitoring stations. Another regressive act with deadly and costly implications.

This comparsion in the NYTimes today is pretty stark. China is racing ahead to be a high-tech exporter of 21st century technologies, while the US is doubling down on being a petro-state exporting the technologies of the 19th century: www.nytimes.com/inte...

GOP Declares Tax-Cut Extensions ‘Free’ to Obscure Megabill’s Cost Senate Republicans are deploying an unprecedented maneuver to continue 2017 tax cuts as budget experts and Democrats cry foul.

Abracadabra economics! 🪄“Republicans are waving a $3.8 trillion magic wand over their tax-and-spending megabill, declaring that their extensions of expiring tax cuts have no effect on the federal budget”
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

The dismantling of the research apparatus that made America the science and tech giant it's been over the past century is the greatest own-goal in history. We haven't even begun to calculate or feel the losses

Parts of New England may see the hottest day on record Tuesday, including Boston area - The Boston Globe Boston could come close to shattering the record for its hottest day ever — 104 degrees, set in 1911.

we are in a climate emergency...don't get distracted!
"Parts of New England may see the hottest day on record Tuesday, including Boston area"
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/06/23/m...

2. The National Science Foundation's 15% Indirect Cost Rate and the Policy Notice: Implementation of Standard 15% Indirect Cost Rate, NSF 25-034 are VACATED. 3. The court DECLARES that the National Science Foundation's 15% Indirect Cost Rate and the Policy Notice: Implementation of Standard 15% Indirect Cost Rate, NSF 25-034 are invalid, arbitrary and capricious, and contrary to law. IT IS SO ORDERED. June 20, 2025 /s/Indira Talwani United States District Judge

I was having lunch with an NSF program manager when her cell phone lit up, all with messages about the overhead rate.

We won! The United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts said NSF can't reduce the overhead rate to 15% for universities! 🥳

cases.justia.com/federal/dist...

If you were too young in 2003 here is what Bush told the American people:

1) The Iraq War won’t cost a lot of money
3) We won’t need a lot of troops
4) We’ll bring peace and freedom to Iraq
5) We’ll find WMDs
6) We’ll be welcomed as liberators
7) It will be easy
8) It won’t take long

All lies.

Five things to remember about war:

Article I, Section 8, Clause 11:
[The Congress shall have Power . . . ] To declare War, grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal, and make Rules concerning Captures on Land and Water;

Trump Travel Restrictions Bar Residents Needed at U.S. Hospitals

Trump Travel Restrictions Bar Resident Physicians Needed at U.S. Hospitals www.nytimes.com/2025/06/18/h...

FDA Approves Powerful Twice-Yearly Treatment to Prevent HIV Gilead’s Yeztugo will offer an alternative to treatments such as daily pills and every-other-month injections.

Lenacapavir is a revolutionary medicine with potential to save millions of lives & cut spread of HIV.
A 2x yearly shot can prevent INFECTION.
Yet the illegal dismantling of USAID cut the funding to provide this medicine to millions across the world.
Where is our morality?
www.wsj.com/health/pharm...