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Tom Maynard @tmaynard.bsky.social · 13d

Rectum? Hell, damn near killed him!

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Tom Maynard @tmaynard.bsky.social · Aug 15

Even worse: Watch a video, with the sound on? What kind of madness is this!

Tom Maynard @tmaynard.bsky.social · Aug 12

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Tom Maynard @tmaynard.bsky.social · Aug 7

a group of people sitting in front of a screen that says tbs hd on it

ALT: a group of people sitting in front of a screen that says tbs hd on it

media.tenor.com

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Tom Maynard @tmaynard.bsky.social · Apr 23

a man in a car with the words " not everybody knows how to do everything " above him

ALT: a man in a car with the words " not everybody knows how to do everything " above him

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · Apr 17

theonion.com/show-me-wher...

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Tom Maynard @tmaynard.bsky.social · Apr 2

The enshittification of America. We can't have good things because some crayon eating "consultant" will figure out how to destroy it to make a quick buck.

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Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · Mar 28

Report: US scientists lost $3 billion in NIH grants since Trump took office

Scientist warn pipeline of lifesaving discoveries and younger scientists is drying up.

arstechnica.com

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Joe Allen @joeallenjoe.bsky.social · Mar 12

In fiscal year 2024, the report found, NIH awarded more than $36.9 billion to researchers, supporting more than 408,000 jobs and generating over $94.5 billion in new economic activity nationwide.

news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...

NIH funding delivers exponential economic returns — Harvard Gazette

Report finds all 50 states reap gains in patient health, job creation, research resources, business development.

news.harvard.edu

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RiotGrlErin @riotgrlerin.bsky.social · Mar 3

the muppets crashing the red carpet at the 2025 oscars: thread

Beaker photobombing H.E.R on the oscars red carpet.

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Tom Maynard @tmaynard.bsky.social · Feb 27

It's not like you can predict how a new pandemic disease is going to hit the population. The 1918 "spanish flu" was particularly lethal to segments that are generally the healthiest (e.g. healthy 20-40 year olds) because it often caused a lethal immune response (cytokine storm).

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Tom Maynard @tmaynard.bsky.social · Feb 25

Just like the movie "Airplane!"

a man in a suit and tie is holding a hose and says just kidding

Alt: Scene from the movie "Airplane!", where a man in a suit and tie unplugs a cord that powers the runway lights, then says "just kidding!"

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · Feb 22

I have been trying to find the time to move away from the polical hellscape we find ourselves in to finish and share a bluetorial about science.

This helps me remember what this is all about.

Ironically, it is about the treatment of pain.

the word irony is written on a white background

ALT: the word irony is written on a white background

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · Feb 10

Three reasons why the National Institutes of Health budget cuts matter
#1: This will hurt medical & scientific research, the hospitals that people use, and private industry that relies on medical innovations created on campus. Other countries can't believe why the US would give up its status here.

First, the cuts will especially damage medical research, care, and training. Medical schools and centers are among the largest recipients of these funds. Americans rely on these schools for their health care, with teaching hospitals providing the highest quality of care. Medical centers and schools are also where the vast majority of clinical trials for new medical treatments happen. Notably, private health care entities, including the pharmaceutical industry, are deeply reliant on the biomedical and health research produced at universities across the country. Isabella Eckerle, the Director of the Geneva Centre for Emerging Viral Diseases, said on Bluesky: “I feel so, so sorry for my colleagues in the US. How can someone destroy the decades-long lighthouse of science in less than 2 weeks? The US used to be the place to go to do great science and/or learn state-of-the-art medicine. It’s just pure madness.”

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Matt Barber @biobarber.bsky.social · Feb 8

Executive wants to frame the NIH indirects cut as $4B in savings.

But given that NIH returns $2.5 on every $1 investment, this would actually cost US economy a net $6 BILLION (per year!). Not to mention the human costs of wrecking education and research sectors and the communities they serve.

Direct Economic Contributions

NIH directly supports the economy through investments in research institutions and job formation.

www.nih.gov

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Prof Jeffrey S Morris @jsm2334.bsky.social · Jan 28

There is a lot of talk about claims about vaccinations increasing autism in the news lately, with a focus on MMR vaccines, but ignore existing work looking into the question.

See this paper by Anders Hviid and his group for example …

proceedings.mlr.press/v238/katta24a/…

https://proceedings.mlr.press/v238/katta24a/…

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Tom Maynard @tmaynard.bsky.social · Jan 20

youtu.be/39hxtxyElgs

Steve Martin-Steamroller

YouTube video by Kehlog Albran

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