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Is this class action? If not, how do we get added to the lawsuit?

To be fair, they also hate children.

Maybe it was just supposed to be a publicity stunt, like Trump's shooting.

AP keeps using that term and we have no idea about the motivation of the shooter or he s political alliance. Meanwhile they say of Hortman that she was "killed" or "shot" we we do know that was politically motivated.

@apnews.com Can you clarify why Charlie Kirk's murder is being referred to as an assassination in your paper while the murder of the Minnesota lawmakers has not been?

Hearing the same: that Schnabel was walked off the NIH campus yesterday. If so, that will be a positive step.

Schnabel seemed to have more power at NIH than Jay Bhattacharya—whose work so far seems to involve (?) making podcasts and appearing on Fox and Bari Weiss to push far-right talking points.

Here are the T32 curves.

As we see at NIH as Trump and President Vought kill cancer research, Trump is pro-cancer. He likes cancer. He is ok with you getting cancer, as long as he can profit from it.

Speak out!

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This guy, who stole from former employers and sold their data and is associated with criminal hacking groups (and whose grandfather was a KGB member), is now at embedded at SSA. www.jacobsilverman.com/p/prominent-...

Lyn Redwood, a former leader of Children's Health Defense, an anti-vaccine group that lists US Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as a founder, is scheduled to give the presentation Thursday at a meeting of the CDC's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices. The slides, posted online Tuesday, cite a 2008 study in the journal Neurotoxicology by "Berman RE, et al," called "Low-level neonatal thimerosal exposure: Long-term consequences in the brain." The presentation claimed that results from a study in newborn rats suggest long-term "neuroimmune effects" from the vaccine preservative.

The citation appears to refer to Dr. Robert F. Berman, a professor emeritus at the University of California Davis, whose research has focused on brain injury and neurodevelopmental disorders. However, "I don't have a publication in Neurotoxicology by that title," Berman told CNN. "The reference in the slide set, as far as I know - at least with me as a coauthor - does not exist." Berman did publish a paper with a similar title in 2008, but it was in a different journal and involved different animals. It also came to dramatically different conclusions.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is hiring Lyn Redwood, a nurse and the former head of a group critics have denounced as anti-vaccine, to work in its vaccine safety office, multiple CDC officials tell CBS News.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is hiring Lyn Redwood, a nurse and the former head of a group critics have denounced as anti-vaccine, to work in its vaccine safety office, multiple CDC officials tell CBS News. Redwood was the president of the group now called Children's Health Defense, which lists as its founder Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who now oversees the CDC as secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services. Children's Health Defense has sued to curb vaccine requirements, petitioned federal agencies to revoke vaccine authorizations and spread misinformation about vaccines. Kennedy was listed as the group's founder and chairman before becoming the nation's top health official in the second Trump administration.

A Children’s Health Defense crony who just presented a loony deck on thimerosal in vaccines *with fake citations* has…been hired to study vaccine safety at the CDC.

Lysenkoism. Incompetents failing up. And yes: this is how much of a zealot RFK Jr is.

(CNN reported on the deck. CBS on the hiring.)

Gold Standard Science

There was not regularly soda in my house or if there was, it was only caffeine free diet coke, which was disgusting. Maybe Squirt, if my dad had a friend visit who drank gin. It was considered a luxury at home, but I was allowed to drink soda at restaurants.

I'm really staring to believe that Trumpism is a death cult.

LAPD fired rubber bullets at Australian journalist @laurentomasi.bsky.social

19-Year-Old Doge Staffer “Big Balls” Once Helped Cybercrime Ring Perhaps the most well-known member of DOGE was involved with a cybercrime gang.

Reminder that big balls' dad owns lesser evil snacks, if you want to protest with $. Is the name in comparison to his son?

Also, this guy is a major security risk as he is a known cybercriminal newrepublic.com/post/193201/...

It's all theatre. Put on a show whenever it suits for whatever purpose it suits. If you knocked on him, you'd hear a echo from the nothingness inside.

The friends he made were the people he fired from the VA suicide hotline along the way. #DOGE

Anyone that has been around a lab knows that the trainees really drive the research, while most professors just sort of guide the ship. Most innovation comes from our trainees.

Old professors like me will be able to survive these cuts, but our young scientists and our future will be destroyed.

URGENT: FlyBase has lost practically all its funding overnight; even user fees are tied up in denied grant funding. 🤬🤯

Any lab using @flybase.bsky.social please donate using the link in post below.

This incredible community, on whose backs our #Drosophila labs depend, can't be left out to dry.

My SF-50 claims that I have received my SF-8 and SF-2819. I have not. When I ask when I can expect to receive a final copy of my SF-50, I get no adequate answer and no date.

Got a digital copy of my SF-50 today. It cites that I was fired for a policy that goes into effect 7/28/25 (5 CFR 11.5(d)). My termination date was (backdated) to 5/8/25. I was fired for a policy that is still not yet in effect and backdated to not be included in the 5/9/25 RIF court ruling.

DOGE Days My experience joining the United States DOGE Service as a software engineer, and what I learned along the way.

As if he was not a brown shirt or didn't ruin countless lives, Sahil Lavingia bemoans how DOGE (supposedly undeservingly) got all the heat for firings while working hard to implement the illegal RIFs. Being the hand but not the brain still makes you responsible. sahillavingia.com/doge

There is one place, however, where Musk, with the help of his minions, achieved his goals. He did indeed shred U.S.A.I.D. Though a rump operation is now operating inside the State Department, the administration says that it has terminated more than 80 percent of U.S.A.I.D. grants. Brooke Nichols, an associate professor of global health at Boston University, has estimated that these cuts have already resulted in about 300,000 deaths, most of them of children, and will most likely lead to significantly more by the end of the year. That is what Musk’s foray into politics accomplished.

Musk should be asked about this in every interview he does now and forever. To ignore it is a dereliction of duty.

www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...

I just left a comment.

If you are concerned that RFK Jr.'s FDA chief Marty Makary is limiting the Novavax COVID booster to those over 65 or with underlying conditions, and may do the same for Pfizer/Moderna as well, consider leaving a comment as well.

US planning to deport migrants to Libya despite ‘hellish’ conditions – reports Libya’s provisional government has denied claims flight could happen as soon as this week

All 278 people illegally sent to CECOT prison remain there, despite court orders.

Meanwhile, the Trump administration is eyeing another inhumane prison system to further its campaign of white supremacist terror.

Ugh, I mean undo.

Also, if this is not a RIF, then what is it? What legal process can Wilkinson or the lawyer for DOGE point to for how the process was carried out? (there is no legal process, because it was an illegal act) @altnih4science.bsky.social @altnps.bsky.social @altcdc.altgov.info @altniosh.bsky.social

On a Nature news article reporting that NIH planned to suspend subawards for foreign collaborations: “No, that’s false. There’s going to be a policy on tracking subawards. The NIH and the government should be able to see where the money’s going.” “I’m really uncomfortable with this conversation, because you’re like, actually spreading rumors that you don’t know anything about. … Nature also is spreading rumors. Halt foreign collaborations, that’s not true.” “We’re working on the policy, Jocelyn. You shouldn’t be reporting rumors. I know there’s leaks all over here, but the leaks don’t actually reflect what’s happening. Don’t write about rumors. It actually makes the things that you and I care about worse. Like it spreads panic.” Later that day, NIH released a policy that halted future subawards to foreign scientists and said they will need to apply directly for money under a system still in development.

With NIH director Jayanta Bhattacharya dismissing my reporting as "false" and "spreading rumors" hours before releasing a policy that confirmed said "rumors," I feel compelled to respond.

Here's an inside look into how this story was reported. It was a weird one. 🧵

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

bumping this for the night shift. i beg of you to get everyone you know with a canceled grant into tomorrow's webinar about how to appeal. storm the goddamn battlements and demand your fucking money. if you need help figuring out how to lie to the fascists I've got Zoom office hours at 5 PST

NIH director Jayanta Bhattacharya was supposed to have a town hall with staff tomorrow.

It's been postponed due to "items added" to his schedule "outside his control."

A number of staff — particularly research fellows and other early-career folks — were planning to stage a walk-out.