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15.06.2025 02:41 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

good luck to anyone dealing with this clown show www.nytimes.com/2025/04/18/b...

19.04.2025 10:15 — 👍 433    🔁 90    💬 24    📌 10

‘Show Me Where You Make Autism!’ Shouts RFK Jr., Storming Sour Patch Kids Factory EAST HANOVER, NJ—As part of the health secretary’s highly publicized pledge to determine the cause of the disorder in the next five months, a wild-eyed Robert F. Kennedy Jr. reportedly shouted “Show me where autism is made!” Thursday while storming the Sour Patch Kid factory. “Attention Sour Patch Factory people: Give me the autism and no […]

‘Show Me Where You Make Autism!’ Shouts RFK Jr., Storming Sour Patch Kids Factory theonion.com/show-me...

17.04.2025 21:00 — 👍 15733    🔁 2597    💬 273    📌 133

Cartoon by Ben Sargent depicting happiness seeing morning sunlight before 8am after permanent DST's repeal in 1974.

The permanent Daylight Saving Time trial in 1974 was a deadly mistake. This cartoon, published on October 25, 1974, expresses relief seeing morning sunlight before 8am when the country went back to Standard Time.

02.04.2025 17:59 — 👍 5    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0

UMass biomedical scientist freezes pediatric brain cancer research due to federal funding problems UMass Chan Medical School biomedical engineer and professor Rachael Sirianni leads a lab that researches new technologies to help treat brain tumors in children. Delays in federal grants have led her ...

Hear our interview with @docsirianni.bsky.social of @umasschan.bsky.social on why she shut down some of her lab's research. She says federal cuts are "destroying" what's made the U.S. a global leader in science, medicine and tech, "without any rhyme or reason or logic."
www.wbur.org/news/2025/03...

28.03.2025 01:24 — 👍 12    🔁 13    💬 2    📌 4

If you think what happened to Rumeysa Ozturk can't happen to you because you're a citizen and she's not, you are sorely mistaken. Ozturk was snatched off the street not for being a national security threat but for having a wrong opinion. If we don't put a stop to this, it's coming for all of us.

27.03.2025 13:14 — 👍 36534    🔁 11175    💬 776    📌 534

Rumeysa Ozturk, a Tufts Student, Is Detained by ICE The university was told that the student’s visa had been terminated, its president said in a late-night email to students and faculty members.

www.nytimes.com/2025/03/26/u...

27.03.2025 00:28 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Age-Related Changes in Sleep and Its Implications for Cognitive Decline in Aging Persons With Schizophrenia: A Critical Review AbstractBackground and Hypothesis. Cognitive impairment is a core feature of schizophrenia that worsens with aging and interferes with quality of life. Rec

Sometimes you are lucky enough to meet an amazing scientist who becomes a collaborator and friend. So happy to see our first paper together published. @bengibaran.bsky.social #ucsd #uiowa academic.oup.com/schizophreni...

15.03.2025 16:24 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Fearing Retribution, Trump Critics Muzzle Themselves People say they are intimidated by online attacks from the president, concerned about harm to their businesses or worried about the safety of their families.

Finally some conversation about the deafening silence in the US….
Welcome to Authoritarianism 101 www.nytimes.com/2025/03/06/u...

07.03.2025 01:22 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Help us snowball sample this study about how academics in the U.S. react to the executive orders!

14.02.2025 12:01 — 👍 12    🔁 19    💬 0    📌 0

Important and informative new Unexplainable podcast episode (nhassenfeld.bsky.social) entitled “Is science in danger?” It lays out the threats but also provides helpful counterarguments to the nonsense out there. Everyone concerned for the state of US science should listen and share.

12.02.2025 15:13 — 👍 5    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0