Bitter Scientist

We already know that overselling findings and “story over substance” are a threat to scientific knowledge production.

I’m extremely worried that the massive restructuring of science funding will reproduce the same hype-dependent dynamic for research.

the one thing i genuinely did not anticipate from this administration was its vicious, know nothing hostility to any and everything that might even be adjacent to science and scientific research. they genuinely one to destroy the entirety of the nation’s research capacity. and for what, exactly?

trump is first and foremost a vehicle for delusional extremists — most of whom are total mediocrities — to impose their ideologies on the country, with vought as a paradigmatic example

I will be more blunt: many of these essayists are “aggrieved” because they were, in some ways, held accountable for their racist and/or misogynistic views or behavior and incorrectly blame “science” and not progress. It’s not a lack of curiosity that fuels this book, it’s resentment

when RFK says he wants to “end chronic disease,” what people hear is “he wants to cure us” but what he means is “i want to cull the weak”

How Liberalism Sabotages Itself Our intentional blindness to bad faith is a loophole fascists use to gain respectability and power.

Good intervention from @brianbeutler.bsky.social demonstrating that liberals need to internalize and act on the idea that right wing bad faith actors "view liberal freedoms as loopholes to exploit in their pursuit of power."
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This column on U.S. concentration camps is the one I hoped I’d never write | Will Bunch Andrea Pitzer literally wrote the book on concentration camps. I talked to her about how they came to America.

Epstein matters, but there's a much greater story of American moral depravity that ought to be leading the news

America is building an archipelago of squalid concentration camps. No one knows where this will end. The time to scream 'Never again'? Now!

My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/us-c...

"Lesser Schools" and My Experience as a Black Texas Ex | Washington Monthly Fisher v. The University of Texas at Austin is in the Supreme Court again. The lawsuit centers on whether or not “less qualified” students were admitted to The University of Texas at Austin, at the ex...

"It’s just that, a court case requiring a little more decorum than a drunken undergrad, they simply can’t yell “get out the way nigger”."

I wrote this ten years ago, and I hate that it still reads like a banger cause nobody fucking listens.

If the Supreme Court allows #NIH to terminate ongoing grants because it changed its mind on priorities, it will be the end of NIH and the end of the US as a leader in biomedical science. Period.

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LHSC names 5 former executives in $60M fraud lawsuits LHSC contends a former executive masterminded a "fraudulent scheme" and he and others used funds they obtained to buy properties

Almost every major university financial fraud is done by administrators...yet note the difference between the comically instrusive surveillance and accountability for faculty over every dollar vs the complete lack of oversight for management spending (or stealing).

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As Universities Cede to Fascism, Faculty Must Refuse to Follow Once upon a time, universities sought to be spaces where critical thought was championed, diversity was celebrated, and academic freedom was valued. Since the Civil Rights Movement, many universiti…

In my latest blog post I lay out some things we as faculty can do to ensure that higher education remains an incubator that prepares future generations for a multiracial democracy as opposed to an incubator for Trump's fascist agenda. Check it out!
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it's never been about antisemitism

more evidence for “a bunch of AI cultists dismantled large parts of the federal government because they believed that their LLMs were intelligent and could do the work better” thesis

Quote by Agustín Fuentes from Princeton University stating, "To do better science ... the scientific community needs to build an environment that welcomes and supports all." The text is white on a black background.

"To retreat from [diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts] is to close the door to possibilities for better science and a better future. This is not the time to step back. It’s unquestionably the time to step forward," writes Agustín Fuentes in a new #ScienceExpertVoices article. scim.ag/4kS8ZQi

THIS: “I’m not sure how useful it is to talk about maximising or optimising the productivity of science, given the immense diversity and complexity of its processes, outputs and impacts.”

US disregards scientific consensus on race

"The artists, historians, scientists, and sociologists who have detailed the dynamics of [scientific racism] are not the ones distorting the truth. It is the US president, in attempting to silence these scholars by executive fiat, who is perpetrating a 'divisive, race-centered ideology.'”

For MAGA, Ignorance is Strength Research cuts aren’t about shrinking government, they’re about killing science

"two first-rate economists, David Cutler and Ed Glaeser, have made a stab at estimating the impact of cuts at NIH. Their analysis suggests that these cuts might save $500 billion in federal spending over the next 25 years — while imposing more than $8 trillion in losses."

Women, minorities fired in purge of NIH science review boards Scientists, with expertise in fields that include mental health, cancer and infectious disease, typically serve five-year terms and were not given a reason for their dismissal.

it's another purge: www.washingtonpost.com/science/2025...

"Nature has learnt that, as a result, some staff members are screening candidates’ social-media presences to check whether they have expressed negative views about the Trump administration or been involved in diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) efforts...at their institutions." 🧪

MechaHitler is pro-white and Asian Jew, so it’s fine, guys

“Earlier today, Grok showed me how to tell if someone is a “good scientist,” just from their demographics.”

I’m assuming MechaHitler didn’t mean Black Jewish scientists like me 😬😬😬😬😬 🧪

Marc Andreessen Is a Traitor It is the tech oligarchs, not young radicals, who have turned against the system that made them.

“They have betrayed the society that enriched them, and have put us at serious risk of authoritarianism, ethnic cleansing, lawlessness, and stagnation. They have betrayed the values that made that society great, values which they apparently only ever held superficially”

Have we learned NOTHING!!

The basic fallacy in chasing votes by being "tough on immigration" is that the modal American's position on the issue is "Deport the Bad ones and keep the Good ones," and they alone know who is which, and that simply does not translate into workable policy. So this kind of gestapo stuff (1/2)

I almost can't believe that Elon Musk's AI called for the extermination of the Jewish people yesterday, and today not a single Congressional Democrat announced they were leaving his media network.

A party that often claims to act against antisemitism didn't do jack shit about straight up Nazism.

I find it both infuriating and sad that the worm community platforms an abuser and bully. Considering the worm community prides itself on being supportive and inclusive, giving space to such a person seems antithetical to those values. #worm25 #StopAcademicBullying

Open Letter in Support of Science — STAND UP FOR SCIENCE

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Go to the link and add your signature.

Gary Struhl and Iva Greenwald

Congrats to @columbiauniversity.bsky.social scientists Gary Struhl & Iva Greenwald for winning the @gairdnerawards.bsky.social Award for their research yielding critical insights on how cells communicate with their neighbors during development. Read:
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/5 Put another way, this is on Americans, not just the people who lead them. A truly “freedom-loving” people would not endure this and would not have developed a political culture so encrusted with servile deference to authority that permits it. A free people would find it revolting.

Read the Letter Researchers at academic institutions nationwide say that U.S. science is being dismantled.

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

If your university participated in the lawsuit that produced an injunction against the changes to F&A costs, you should be asking them what they are doing to challenge the weaponization of federal funding to install ideological control over institutions of higher education.