Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk say human population not nearly big enough: ‘If we had a trillion humans, we would have at any given time a thousand Mozarts’ “I think in a lot of these endeavors we're very like-minded,” Bezos said of himself and Musk regarding getting humans into space.

I don’t know why this incenses me as much as it does, but it does:

we very likely have a thousand plus Mozarts *right now*. But they make non-Western art in economically destitute conditions so they have to do other work to pay bills; if you cared, UBI’d be more important to you than going to space

I think dumbing things down for the general pop is responsible for the situation we're in. e.g. all official medical info on the internet is so bland and basic that people fall prey to quacks who provide them with seemingly more information.

Treasured Public Lands on the Auction Block in Trump's 'Big Beautiful Bill' A Senate provision in Donald Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill puts millions of acres of recreation lands up for sale to the highest bidder.

250 million acres is just a mind boggling quantity of land www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

A diagram done in Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator, showing the typical step-pool-step structure of smaller freshwater streams and rivers in the eastern U.S.

The structure of smaller streams and rivers. For a forthcoming book Streams: An Illustrated Guide, to be published by Yale University Press in 2026.

🧪🌿🌎🪶 #sciart #wildlife #scicomm #sciviz #wildlifeart #illustration #natureart #visualscicomm #sciviz #scicomm #streams #freshwater

It's not exactly that companies have to pay taxes for engineers - they can't write off engineer salaries as expenses, resulting in taxes on phantom profits.

This mostly hurts smaller companies who are just breaking even, but yes is also responsible for the firings/slow hires at the big corps.

Project 2025 visualized as thousands of small nodes, labeled and colored by category, such as one seemingly for space operations & policy, or another for abortions, Title IX, & gender. There are at least two dozen clusters visible from this screenshot. The overall shape is a blob with clear pinched structures.

The 900+ pages of #Project2025 are daunting, and that's on purpose. So imagine collecting all those sentences and exploring them as different colored islands.

The Weather & Climate Livestream Join us starting May 28th, as meteorologists and climate scientists from across the US share their research and answer your questions.

Hi friends - In the face of unprecedented cuts to the basic research science funding, climate scientists are staging an 100-hour live stream of why science matters. There will be many talks on all sorts of things (I'm Saturday at 12:30 PT). Please share widely! wcstreamathon.netlify.app. 🌊🧪

"Every day, more and more of the national income produced by legitimate work and businesses disappears into the maw of innumerable scams and grifts, from phishing emails to scam texts and calls to phone hacks to crypto rug pulls to MLMs." prospect.org/culture/book...

A new #openscience fruit fly resource from @hhmijanelia.bsky.social reveals nerve circuits that control flight and courtship.

Read more here: hhmi.news/3H3ohn8

I showed my wife the graphic (which I fele is distressingly effective) and she made it worse...

"It looks like an apoptotic cell"

2/2

Their writing style is obscene - they think they're soooo smart

A Path Forward to Save American Bio-Medical Research Over the past four months I’ve spoken to dozens of biomedical researchers...

A Path Forward to Save American Bio-Medical Research talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/a-pat...

It should. There have been delays (payments are supposed to come through next day but it's been up to a week sometimes), but if the main award has an NOA and an active PMS account, the payments should go through.

“Elmo is open to full-time or freelance roles.”

NIH moving to ban all future grants to universities with DEI programs or Israel boycotts, document suggests NIH appears to be preparing to prohibit the awarding of new grants to institutions that have DEI programs or boycott Israeli companies

New STAT story about the possible new NIH grants terms and conditions

www.statnews.com/2025/04/21/t...

We cannot let the Wayback Machine get deep-sixed, as it may be the only place we can find some govt docs/sites that this regime alters or "disappears." NPR article: is.gd/BsVRpI

Donate: archive.org/donate
FAQ: help.archive.org/help/categor...

(The Internet Archive is a US 501c3 non-profit org.)

ICE advertisement saying: If it crosses the US border illegally, it's our job to stop it. People. Money. Products. Ideas.

Ideas

Not even just once, several times.

Doctor Behind Award-Winning Parkinson’s Research Among Scientists Purged From NIH Leading scientists at the National Institutes of Health, the US’s leading medical research agency, were swept up Tuesday in the Trump administration's latest firing blitz.

NEW: The doctor behind breakthrough Parkinson’s research was among the scientists purged from the National Institutes of Health, the US’s leading medical research agency. www.wired.com/story/doctor...

It's getting a lot of attn today. But even before today most of the country had very little idea of what has happened at NIH or through it the entire ecosystem of biomedical research in the US. Simply put, Musk, Kennedy & Trump exploded a bomb right in the middle of cancer cure research in the US.

Just in NIH grants, It looks like beautiful Iowa City, home of the U of Iowa, will lose $71m in funding. That's almost $1k per resident. And that's before all the other cuts to SSA, FDA, etc.

Anyone in Iowa City that can offer more insight?
scienceimpacts.org
H/T to Prathima !

I honestly had no idea that so many people were such cowards.

From my perspective, this document shows such profound misunderstandings of NIH and science I really don't know what to say

It is a collection of bad ideas strung together around irritation around the response to the Covid pandemic (which NIH actually had little to do with)

Overall Impact Score: 9

Bioscience Funding Confusion Threatens U.S. Innovation ‘With the current turmoil, China could surpass the U.S. in the near future,’ Nobel Prize winner David Baker warns.

"The unpredictability is particularly damaging for graduate students and postdoctoral researchers who are at critical early stages of their careers, likely driving many away from careers in science, according to Baker."

@standupforscience.bsky.social #standupforscience

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Bioscience Funding Confusion Threatens U.S. Innovation ‘With the current turmoil, China could surpass the U.S. in the near future,’ Nobel Prize winner David Baker warns.

‘With the current turmoil, China could surpass the U.S. in the near future,’ Nobel Prize winner David Baker warns
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NIH Cuts Create a Lost Generation of Scientists Trump administration attacks on the National Institutes of Health mean biomedical research will become less ambitious, less competitive and result in fewer breakthroughs.

🧪 The attack on science could have a generational effect. We risk losing a wave of early-career researchers to these cuts. And biomedical science in the US will be less ambitious, less competitive & lead to fewer breakthroughs. So much is at stake. My latest for @opinion.bloomberg.com (🎁 link):