Karen Fleming

Turns out Representative tradwife is not so fun

My quote of the day

There are a lot of things that people go through, and maybe they don't know how to get through it, and maybe you do, and if you have some sort of knowledge or power, share with the world.

Sabrina Carpenter

All I want for Christmas is for the worst people in the world to experience some consequences

My quote of the day

We can disagree and still love each other unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist.

James Baldwin

The U.S. Is Funding Fewer Grants in Every Area of Science and Medicine (Gift Article) A quiet policy change means the government is making fewer bets on long-term science.

New York Times article on science funding with some depressing but familiar curves with interactive graphics.

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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@jenna-m-norton.bsky.social has more integrity and spine than the entire HHS "leadership"

#AtAnchor #ChesapeakeBay

This is not a fight about tax credits.

This is a fight over your ability to go to a pharmacy and afford your insulin.

We have the chance to protect the health care of millions of Americans. We need to take it.

Good morning.

The government is shut down because Trump wants to act like a king and steal from you.

Democrats have no obligation to support a budget that funds the destruction of our democracy - and DOUBLES health premiums to fund a tax cut for billionaires.

Gorgeous landing tonight. I ❤️ Southwest.

Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell could not have sold children for sex without rich perverts buying children for sex. I feel like more people should mention that.

1) pic of Melissa and Mark Hortman 2) pic of Melissa Hortman and dog Gilbert

Remembering MN house speaker Melissa Hortman, her husband Mark and their beloved dog Gilbert. Murdered in June at their home by a rightwing Trump-voting evangelist, who also shot another MN lawmaker and his wife at THEIR home, 9 and 8 times, respectively (miraculously, they survived).

Does anyone else think he will bestow the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Giuliani at the Four Seasons? It is after all special place for them.

If you wait long enough to cook dinner, everyone will eat cereal.

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It bears repeating that nearly the entire US enterprise in science and technology has been irreversibly gutted. This is shocking.

All this loss has occurred without any real benefit to the average US citizen. Except we now have the biggest, best funded secret police force perhaps ever.

Yay for us!

Opinion | AMA president: NIH is wrong to pivot from mRNA vaccines Trump once oversaw historic mRNA vaccine development. Why is he abandoning it?

My Letter to the Editor in the Washington Post is online

[Gift Link]

wapo.st/415HpYM

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#AtAnchor #ChesapeakeBay

Imagine being a science professor and thinking the threat to the university is coming from humanities disciplines rather than fascists.

A book cover with a strand of RNA on a pink background, with the title, authors name, and publisher.

I did a thing. I wrote a textbook about #RNA. I wrote it so that those without formal science training could understand what RNA is and how it is used in medicine. It releases in the US and Europe on September 8th. www.worldscientific.com/worldscibook...

Dear SDB Members, NIH is planning to cap APC (Article Processing Charges) from grant funds for publications, starting in January 2026. https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-25-138.html Proposed Policy Options for Keeping Publication Costs Reasonable: Option 1: Disallow all publication costs. Option 2: Set a $2,000 limit on allowable costs per publication. Option 3: Set a $2,000 limit on allowable costs per publication and allow up to $3,000 when peer reviewers are compensated. Option 4: Set an 0.8% limit on the total amount of an award that can be spent on publication costs, up to $20,000. For example, $250,000 direct cost grant = $2,000 per year for publications. Option 5: Set a $6,000 limit on both the per publication cost and the total amount of an award (0.8% up to $20k) that can be spent on publications. The NIH is requesting comments by Sept 15. It is also possible to contribute comments that are not about any of the 5 options. Comments should be submitted electronically to the following webpage: https://osp.od.nih.gov/comment-form-maximizing-research-funds-by-limiting-allowable-publishing-costs/. Responses are voluntary and may be submitted anonymously. The SDB encourages you to submit your opinions on this important issue. Best, Richard Behringer President, SDB

NIH is considering changes in supporting publication costs--some ideas are quite radical and would endanger our ability to publish at all. I don't love the cots from the big for-profits but it does cost$ to run a journal. Please repost. Comment at:
osp.od.nih.gov/comment-form....

The rest of the world, fortunately, will not ignore the huge potential of RNA vaccines. The result will be loss of leadership in the US and delay of benefits to Americans. The promise of personalized anti-cancer vaccines alone is incredible. #OwnGoal

Trump Administration Live Updates: R.F.K. Jr. Cancels mRNA Vaccine Contracts

“This is a bad day for science,” said Scott Hensley, an immunologist at the University of Pennsylvania who has been working to develop an mRNA vaccine against flu…With this move, the department is “undermining our ability to rapidly counter future biological threats,” said Rick Bright, a flu expert”

RFK Jr and HHS just ended all US supported mRNA vaccine development
www.hhs.gov/press-room/h...

Extra kudos and thanks to all the staff at NIH and NSF and other federal funding agencies for working extra hard in very small windows of opportunity to get grants reviewed and funds released before the attention-addled federal policies change again (on an hourly basis).

#AtAnchor #ChesapeakeBay

Ah yes, exculpatory passive voice strikes again

Sunset

#AtAnchor #ChesapekeBay

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I'll say it over and over.

I do not believe in gate keeping.

I do not believe in pulling up the ladder.

I believe in kicking the wall down like the Kool-Aid man, and making room as I go for those who come next.

Just because it was hard for me, doesn't mean it has to be hard for anyone else.

Juneteenth calls us to understand the realities of our past, celebrate the resilience and achievements of Black Americans, and align the course of our country toward its founding creed of liberty and justice for all. Wishing everyone a meaningful Juneteenth!