Cheng H. Lee

I’ll say it again: It was a huge mistake for Congress to abolish itself.

I don’t know what’s going on with my job yet but I’m an NIH funded scientist and I’ve been waiting for the other shoe to drop.

Here’s my LinkedIn. I’m a human geneticist and computational biologist. I very much want to stay in Seattle for family reasons. Please repost

www.linkedin.com/in/nparmalee

BECAUSE WE HAVE A VACCINE. AND, UNTIL RECENTLY, ALMOST EVERYONE TOOK IT.

Remarkably, nowhere in the article does the word "vaccine" appear.

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/05/w...

Americorps, a notoriously wasteful program /s

“bullies” is one hell of a silly way to misspell “collaborator” or “spineless concessionist”.

If Chuck Schumer enjoys a single day in NYC for the rest of his life without being told to go fuck himself at least once, then NYC will have utterly failed as a society.

This👇 Calling these attacks “budget cuts” is like cutting off your leg and saying you’re trying to lose weight.

If you have connections with universities, foundations, or other groups that might be interested in partnering reach out to @sciencewriters.org and @sciencewriting.bsky.social. We are committed to making this conference happen!

I am once again asking when corporate America is going to notice that this administration is not good for business, even if they do tax cuts and deregulation

I swear he answered “tariffs” to every exam question after learning the word, bribed his way to graduating from Wharton, and as a result, now thinks he’s the world’s greatest economic genius.

A tweet from Elon Musk. No one has died as result of a brief pause to do a sanity check on foreign aid funding. No one. Nor are these funding resumption actions due to pressure from K-Mart (I’m not promoting him to Target yet) Favs or some legacy news journalist. I give zero fucks what the legacy press says and have made that abundantly clear. There are two parts to resuming funding: 1. Releasing the pause on the contracts. That was done ~2 weeks ago regarding Ebola/diseases and foodstuffs, which were part of a large block of paused contracts. What I said at the cabinet meeting was accurate. 2. The money itself getting processed through various State, Treasury and Fed accounts and then ultimately getting to the recipient’s bank account. This takes a few weeks. 5:41 PM · Mar 3, 2025 · 25.9K Views

This tweet from Elon Musk is, of course, false. The first known victim of DOGE died around February 2 after the refugee hospital that was giving her oxygen shut down.

But the tweet will be useful as there's abundant proof he's lying (or ill-informed) about Ebola & restarting payments.

Oh, goodie. The same chucklefucks who left their website and database open to writes from anyone are now responsible for our nation's cybersecurity.

If the block on the Federal Register isn’t removed in the next few months, I fear a majority of labs will close within a year. This small procedural wrench has the power to kill US science indefinitely, losing an entire generation of discovery and innovation.

Firings are happening right now at the National Science Foundation. Essential staff are being cut.

This isn’t about the budget. If it was, they’d be going after the military (17%) or state appropriations (38%). NSF is 0.7% of the federal budget. All federal employees make up only 4% of the budget.

"If you bought Marketside Broccoli Florets (12oz) from Walmart, check for these details:

Best If Used By: December 10, 2024
UPC Code: 6 81131 37727 5
Distributed In: Over 20 states, including California, Texas, Florida, and Illinois
If you have this product in your freezer, do not eat it."

As digital privacy advocates have explained for years, every back door you create for yourself is a front door for an attacker.

There's no chance code cooked up in a week by Musk acolytes is secure. The question is when, not if, the Treasury will be compromised by hostiles beyond Musk himself.

A screenshot of a white page of text topped by a blue banner showing the logo of the CDC contains the most recent content of the journal MMWR, dating to 16 Jan. The content can be found at: https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/index.html

For the second week in a row, the CDC's crucial Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report — THE first-line bulletin for outbreaks and chronic disease developments — has not been published. This screenshot shows that its last edition was the Thursday before the inauguration. www.cdc.gov/mmwr/index.h...

And I wouldn’t be surprised if he slapped tariffs on ASML because of Greenland (not realizing The Netherlands and Denmark are different countries).

Big Tech about to discover that no amount of ring kissing will save them from being royally fucked over. www.pcmag.com/news/trump-t...

This is a part of their “professors are the enemy” bullshit, but the cost of these freezes will extend well beyond them.

Their students working there, the patients in clinical trials, the businesses who supply these labs, and down the line regular people who reap the benefit will all feel it too.

Rhode Island folks: please light up the lines to tell Whitehouse this is not what you voted for, and that Kennedy would be a terrible choice.

Hint to Dems: "they are going to kill you" counts as a kitchen table issue to voters

A win’s a win. And joy in your life brings joy to mine. Which we both need right now.

Egg prices are soaring again. Here’s why and what to expect Bird flu has killed millions of hens in recent weeks, shrinking the supply of eggs and hiking up prices at grocery stores.

The price of eggs in the US is spiking, mostly due to #H5N1 bird flu. Solving the problem requires urgent, important communications from the CDC & FDA* and rapid development of research by the NIH**

* Currently paused by Executive Order
** Grant reviews now all canceled
www.kcur.org/news/2025-01...

Looks like my first calls will be about the NIH study section situation, I will be calling my rep and both senators shortly

Science folks - DO THIS even if you aren't in academia. The folks representing San Diego, San Francisco, and Boston in particular should get absolutely swarmed with calls

Hello. This is a PSA.

Do not buy memecoins.

You're welcome

A map of the South China Sea and surrounding countries, which are marked as ASEAN members. There's a circle on the sea with the label, "Fight with China."

I made a little picture to help explain to the MAGAts why Pete Hegseth's utter ignorance about ASEAN actually matters, especially for a guy who says he wants to roll back Chinese influence.