Alissa Gordon

Few things underscore how important childcare centers and childcare providers are, and how they should be paid a living wage, than a nearly 2-week break with a 4 year old.

i think this is key. taking the deal would amount to taking the blame. it would turn a clear political victory into an unambiguous defeat.

Don’t vote for this bill.

National WIC Association Condemns Trump’s Proposed Cuts to WIC’s Fruit and Vegetable Benefits By cutting WIC’s Cash Value Benefits (CVB) for fruits and vegetables by two-thirds and reducing overall program funding, the proposal directly removes healthy food from the hands of low-income moms an...

🗣️President Trump’s proposed FY26 budget would roll back WIC's fruit and vegetable benefits to pre-2021 levels, before USDA’s science-based increase.

Breastfeeding moms would drop from $54 → $13
Young kids: $27 → $10

These cuts jeopardize early nutrition. Read the full NWA statement:

They were at Wellesley Collece during the day yesterday as well standing with the striking union there (non-tenure track faculty).

People/organizations with means and a vision for the future of biomedical science - we need an “Arc Institute” equivalent in the DMV area to sponge up all the incredible talent, opportunity of a lifetime for a visionary entrepreneur, I will help! @mcuban.bsky.social

I want to go to there.

This was an insane team effort between Arc and Nvidia that convened machine learning and computational biology researchers across Stanford, UC Berkeley, and UCSF. Especially grateful to Jensen Huang for his belief and support of this vision and labor of love, and the entire Evo 2 team below

AI provides a universal framework that leverages data and compute at scale to uncover higher-order patterns

Today, @arcinstitute.org in collaboration with Nvidia releases Evo 2—a fully open source biological foundation model trained on genomes spanning the entire tree of life.

Did this make me laugh out loud? You bet it did!

BREAKING: 22 states sue NIH over Trump administration's new 15% cap on overhead for federal research grants. Suit filed federal court in Boston contends lifesaving research 'will grind to a halt' under the policy. Doc: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

vance is lying and knows he’s lying but even if he weren’t, “separation of powers means the president is an elected despot” may be true in some other political system but it has never been true in the american political system

How a Canadian scientist and a venomous lizard helped pave the way for Ozempic - National | Globalnews.ca In 1984, Dr. Daniel Drucker, an endocrinologist from the University of Toronto, discovered a hormone that helped pave the way for popular diabetes drugs such as Ozempic.

This is the most relevant article to NIH and research cuts I’ve seen.

Imagine if this was today , how many people would be saying “Why are we studying Gila Monsters and their impact on diabetes ? That’s wasted money !”

globalnews.ca/news/9793403...

1. Today the NIH director issued a new directive slashing overhead rates to 15%.

I want to provide some context on what that means and why it matters.

grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

Someone might consider reminding Texas senators and congresspersons how much money the MD Anderson Cancer Center got from the NIH last year, and that their overhead rate is 62%. @mdanderson.bsky.social

I was there and it was freezing but it was worth it!

My three year old has finally realized she can climb out of her crib. Guess it’s time to find the conversion kit for her crib.😭

So excited to announce NVIDIA’s collaboration with @arcinstitute.org today!

Return-work-mandates are an invisible pay cut

Great column from @crampell.bsky.social

www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

As an adult I get to fix both my parent’s computer AND my kid’s! 🤦🏼‍♀️ #sandwichgeneration

Two layered rocks with significant portions removed by wind erosion. NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/Kevin M. Gill

Rocks near the Mars Curiosity Rover this weekend on Sol 4379. Over eons of wind erosion and other processes, the softer layers were removed, leaving this.

Finally hopping on the Bluesky train.