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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 15h

The Daily’s credulous/willfully ignorant/deliberately misleading portrait of Vought matters because it is indicative of a much broader tendency to normalize the assault on the constitutional order - to sanitize those who are responsible for it and the extremist ideas that are animating them.

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Amy Maxmen, PhD @amymaxmen.bsky.social · 1d

The Trump admin is in the midst of laying off 1,100-1,200 HHS staff. The CDC's outbreak responders, gone. The office producing CDC's weekly journal MMWR is gone. CDC staff securing sensitive data, gone. Worker safety, gone. Immunization group, gone.

Instead, Congress watches RFK "make the proof"

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

RFK Jr on Tylenol and autism: "It is not proof. We're doing the studies to make the proof."

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Lindsay De Biase @debiaselm.bsky.social · 1d

www.the-scientist.com/nih-leadersh... Great article by NIH postdoctoral fellow Ian Morgan. Discusses the plight of both intramural (in labs at the NIH campus) and extramural students / postdocs. The degree of Bhattacharya’s indifference to the pain impacting intramural postdocs is shocking.

NIH Leadership Is Failing Early Career Researchers

Halted training programs, funding chaos, and hiring freezes jeopardize advancement options for early career researchers.

www.the-scientist.com

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Magdalena Skipper @magdalenaskipper.bsky.social · 3d

Less than 70% of science Nobel prize winners awarded this century hail from the country in which they were awarded their prize.
“Mobility benefits everyone. Each newcomer brings fresh ideas, new techniques & different ways of looking at old problems”
🧪 #academicSky
www.nature.com/articles/d41...

More than 30% of this century’s science Nobel prizewinners immigrated: see their journeys

The most common destination for eventual Nobel laureates in physics, chemistry and medicine since 2000 is the United States, Nature has found.

www.nature.com

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Lindsay De Biase @debiaselm.bsky.social · 2d

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne... “Free access to information is a pillar that upholds the edifice of our societies, and for this reason, we are called to defend and guarantee it”

“transparency of sources of ownership, accountability, quality and objectivity”

- The Pope

You won’t believe what degrading practice the pope just condemned

Communication must be freed from clickbait and misguided thinking, head of Catholic church tells journalists

www.theguardian.com

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Lindsay De Biase @debiaselm.bsky.social · 5d

Completely agree and love the weaver analogy. Astronomy, public health, environmental sciences, materials sciences, social sciences, computational sciences, biomedical research, ecology etc - we have to stay unified in defending science and communicating what it offers humanity.

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Lindsay De Biase @debiaselm.bsky.social · 7d

“Klein’s musings about redrawing the line are, more importantly, a manifestation of a pervasive tendency in American elite circles to accommodate rather than fight back, to acquiesce rather than stand firm.” Not good.

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Eddie Smith @eddsmitty.bsky.social · 7d

⚠️WOKE CONTENT⚠️

🧵 Bessie Stringfield, was born Bessie Beatrice White on February 9, 1911 (some records list March 5), in Edenton, North Carolina, to Maggie Cherry and James White. (cont)

#ProudBlue
#ResistanceRoots
#USDemocracy
#Voices4Victory

allthatsinteresting.com/bessie-strin...

She Was The First Black Woman To Bike Across America — And She Did It At The Height Of Jim Crow

“Colored people couldn’t stop at hotels or motels back then. But it never bothered me.”

allthatsinteresting.com

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Lindsay De Biase @debiaselm.bsky.social · 7d

Hey folks in CA - I heard NPR interview of Steve Hilton like 6mo ago and started following on X out of curiosity. WOW - very scary. Sounded reasonable on NPR but super inflammatory and mis-information spreading on X. Polls show he is pretty close behind Porter. How worried should we be about this?

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Jacob Aron @jjaron.bsky.social · 9d

Really cool story - bird species from across the world make the same sound to warn against cuckoos, and they can even understand each other. Feeds into ideas Darwin had about the origin of language! www.newscientist.com/article/2498...

20 bird species can understand each other’s anti-cuckoo call

Several species of birds from different continents use and understand similar alarm calls when they see an invader that might lay an egg in their nest – this shared call hints at the origin of languag...

www.newscientist.com

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Lindsay De Biase @debiaselm.bsky.social · 9d

bsky.app/profile/cele... Preview of what would likely happen to Universities that accept the government compact

Celeste Headlee @celesteheadlee.bsky.social · 9d

DeSantis gave it a right-wing overhaul in 2023. Since then, ~40% of the faculty has resigned. It spends more than 10x per student what the other schools do & ranking fell from 76th to 135th.

www.insidehighered.com/news/governa...

Spending Soars, Rankings Fall at New College of Florida

Student outcomes and rankings are slipping at the liberal arts college while spending is up. Critics believe the college is at risk of implosion, and some are calling for privatization.

www.insidehighered.com

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 10d

“.. no modern American president has positioned his family to make so much money while in the White House. Already, since the early days of his reelection campaign, he’s more than doubled his net worth to about $5.4 billion.”

@bloomberg.com
www.bloomberg.com/features/202...

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Lindsay De Biase @debiaselm.bsky.social · 9d

www.reuters.com/world/white-...

“$2.1 billion for major Chicago subway project’ "have been put on hold to ensure funding is not flowing via race-based contracting’”

DOE “said it would cancel nearly $8 billion for …energy projects in 16 Democratic-led states, including California and New York.”

White House freezes $2.1 billion in Chicago projects, Vought says

The U.S. federal government has put $2.1 billion in Chicago infrastructure projects on hold, Office of Management and Budget Director Russ Vought said on Friday, in another jab at a Democrat-led city during the U.S. government shutdown.

www.reuters.com

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Lindsay De Biase @debiaselm.bsky.social · 9d

Compact requires

“universities to have policies prohibiting ‘all university employees, in their capacity as university representatives,’ to abstain from ‘actions or speech relating to societal and political events except in cases in which external events have a direct impact upon the university.”

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 10d

Nope. Not even close...

See "Hatch Act of 1939, An Act to Prevent Pernicious Political Activities" for more information.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hatch_Act

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 10d

My quote of the day

Jane Goodall

The part that always shocked me was the inter-community violence among the chimps: the patrols and the vicious attacks on strangers that lead to death. It's an unfortunate parallel to human behavior - they have a dark side just as we do. We have less excuse, because we can deliberate, so I believe only we are capable of true calculated evil.

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Lindsay De Biase @debiaselm.bsky.social · 10d

www.washingtonpost.com/politics/int... Although somewhat encouragingly

“The Post’s poll finds significantly more Americans blame President Donald Trump and congressional Republicans for the shutdown than Democrats, though many say they are not sure.”

We asked 1,000 Americans who is to blame for the shutdown. Here’s what they said.

More Americans blame Trump and Republicans than Democrats for shutdown, poll finds.

www.washingtonpost.com

Lindsay De Biase @debiaselm.bsky.social · 10d

Unbelievable.

Lindsay De Biase @debiaselm.bsky.social · 10d

pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC... Not that Vance cares about the scientific data…but longer ER wait times is a global phenomenon. Waiting for results from new high tech diagnostic tests and insufficient # of hospital beds (for those who need them) contribute to ER crowding and slow throughput.

Overcrowding in Emergency Department: Causes, Consequences, and Solutions—A Narrative Review

Overcrowding in Emergency Departments (EDs) is a phenomenon that is now widespread globally and causes a significant negative impact that goes on to affect the entire hospital. This contributes to a n...

pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

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Lindsay De Biase @debiaselm.bsky.social · 11d

open.substack.com/pub/karenatt...
“this fight is about America’s democracy and the First Amendment. It is about global journalistic freedom. It is about the human right to speak the truth about power, even when it is uncomfortable”

Speaking as a scientist - our access to unbiased info matters!

The Washington Post Accused Me of “Gross Misconduct.” Here's My Response.

This fight isn’t just about my job — it’s about who gets punished for telling the truth, and who gets protected for spreading hate and violence.

open.substack.com

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The Parkinson's Foundation @parkinsondotorg.bsky.social · 13d

50% of people with Parkinson’s disease experience a form of depression. 🧠

Today for Suicide Prevention Month, learn about managing depression within PD: Parkinson.org/understanding-parkinsons/non-movement-symptoms/depression

Depression

Research estimates that at least 50% of people with Parkinson's disease will experience some form of depression.

Parkinson.org

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The People's Fabric @peoplesfabric.com · 14d

Reportedly some ICE detainees are held for days, even up to a week. Our room stank of sweat & pepper ball powder after just a few hours. Their room appeared dirty, filled with men dressed for labor, trying to get comfortable to sleep in chairs or on the cold floor in the cinder block room.

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Unbiased Science @unbiasedscipod.bsky.social · 18d

🧰 If someone asks why we needed mRNA when other vaccines worked fine, here’s what you can say: We didn’t need it for diseases we’d already conquered. We needed it for the battles we couldn’t win with our old tools.

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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · Sep 11

I know there is a lot going on but this went online last night and I am very proud it’s real. If you might be excited to find out how at every turn this nation could have prevented our current political moment by listening to Black people you can even preorder it before we get to designing the cover

A Second Sight

Since the nation’s founding, Black Americans have had a unique perspective on the U.S. experience—a “second sight”—that reveals the truth about the nation t...

www.harpercollins.com

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Ainissa Ramirez, PhD @ainissaramirez.bsky.social · 17d

#tbt 2012, giving my #TedTalk, "Save Our Science:
How to Inspire a New Generation of Scientists," where I called for a recommitment to improve #stemeducation for children in our schools and throughout our society.

#STEM #STEMforkids #BlackinSTEM #WomeninSTEM 🧪

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