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Tanya Lewis @tanyalewis.bsky.social · 8d

After yrs of disappointment scientists have made a genuine advance in treating Huntington's. The new gene therapy slowed disease progression by 75%. But it's still experimental and will likely be $$, @parshallison.bsky.social reports for @sciam.bsky.social: www.scientificamerican.com/article/firs...

How Scientists Finally Found a Treatment that Slows Huntington’s Disease

After years of heartbreak, researchers have found an experimental treatment that can slow the progression of Huntington’s disease, according to early results from a small clinical trial

www.scientificamerican.com

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Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪 @altnih4science.bsky.social · 10h

Another good sign.

Alex Wayne @aawayne.bsky.social · 20h

“Oklahomans would lose their mind if Pritzker in Illinois sent troops down to Oklahoma during the Biden administration.”

The Republican chair of the National Governors Association breaks with Trump.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/u...

Oklahoma’s Republican Governor Criticizes National Guard Deployment in Chicago

www.nytimes.com

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Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪 @altnih4science.bsky.social · 10h

Yeah, Ingrassia is a terrible person who should be shunned in society.

But the fact Republicans are standing up to Trump on ANYONE is a sign Trump’s grip is weakening.

Fight more! it is working.

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Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪 @altnih4science.bsky.social · 10h

“Ingrassia’s nomination is already on the rocks after Republican senators raised concerns about his background and amount of experience, as well as possible antisemitism…”

This is a huge deal that Republican Senators are starting to stand up to Trump.

Key Trump nominee accused of sexual harassment

Paul Ingrassia has been investigated for allegedly harassing a lower-ranking colleague, according to administration officials. Fearing retaliation, the woman later withdrew a complaint, and Ingrassia ...

www.politico.com

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Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪 @altnih4science.bsky.social · 16h

Lawless

Sarah Szalavitz💡 @dearsarah.bsky.social · 1d

Rutgers Professor @mark-bray.bsky.social, who studies & writes about Antifascism,Tries to Flee to Spain After Death Threats

By the time he & his family reached the gate, their tickets were cancelled.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/n... flagrantly & appallingly lawless. Hope he & his family are ok.

Rutgers Expert on Antifa Tries to Flee to Spain After Death Threats

www.nytimes.com

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Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪 @altnih4science.bsky.social · 19h

As this article says clearly, true-biology research (working with animals), is a political wedge issue. Trump and RFK have embraced it because it is politically advantageous to them.

They don’t care about cures, they care about politics.

Animal welfare is now part of RFK Jr.’s MAHA agenda

The health secretary has made phasing out animal testing part of his Make America Healthy Again plan.

www.politico.com

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Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪 @altnih4science.bsky.social · 19h

As this article says clearly, true-biology research (working with animals), is a political wedge issue. Trump and RFK have embraced it because it is politically advantageous to them.

They don’t care about cures, they care about politics.

Animal welfare is now part of RFK Jr.’s MAHA agenda

The health secretary has made phasing out animal testing part of his Make America Healthy Again plan.

www.politico.com

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Chemjobber @chemjobber.bsky.social · 21h

I don't have much intelligent things to say about MOFs other than "wow neat!" Also, there is an edible MOF paper: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

#chemsky ⚗️🧪

Metal–Organic Frameworks from Edible Natural Products

Let them eat MOFs: Take a spoonful of sugar (γ-cyclodextrin to be precise), a pinch of salt (most alkali metal salts will suffice), and a swig of alcohol (Everclear fits the bill), and you have a rob...

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪 @altnih4science.bsky.social · 21h

Sign of weakness.

But if we want to take advantage of the weakness we must fight.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21h

Trump: "We'll be making cuts that will be permanent. And we're only going to cut Democrat programs. I hate to tell you."

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Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD @prasad.bsky.social · 2d

grateful to hear him say this out loud — too few institutions have this decency and courage

AFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 2d

"It is going to be disastrous if this continues"

Nobel Prize physics laureate John Clarke says Trump cuts will 'cripple' US scientific research

u.afp.com/SmAy

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Arghavan Salles, MD, PhD @arghavansallesmd.medsky.social · 2d

A reminder: 40% of US Nobel prize winners since 2000 have been immigrants.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 3d

Nobel prize in physics awarded to three scientists for work on quantum mechanics

Trio led experiments demonstrating that bizarre properties of quantum world can translate into measurable effects in the everyday The Nobel prize in physics 2025 has been awarded to British, French and American scientists for their work on quantum mechanics. John Clarke, a British physicist based at the University of California at Berkeley, Michel Devoret, a French physicist based at Yale University, and John Martinis, of the University of California Santa Barbara, share the 11m Swedish kronor (about £871,400) prize announced by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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Science and Freedom Alliance - SAFA @safa-science.bsky.social · 2d

Russell Vought is doing a form of Miller’s plan too on the societal front.

Vought clearly believes that if they can distract voters long enough, he can destroy US medical research, universities, and journalism before low-info voters realize what is happening. 1/

Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 2d

Stephen Miller believes that if he supercharges the debate over Trump's abuses of power with enough propaganda, he can polarize it and force low-info voters to embrace authoritarianism. Pritzker/Newsom have accepted that this requires an information war in response.

newrepublic.com/article/2014...

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Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪 @altnih4science.bsky.social · 2d

Russell Vought seems to be aiming to end all of US science.

Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 2d

Banning “dangerous gain-of-function” pathogen research is actually just banning pathogen research. TB causes chronic disease, the supposed cornerstone of the MAHA movement. Hard to see ending TB research on treatments as anything but another targeted attack on science in service of destroying it.

Rock Lab @rocklabtb.bsky.social · 2d

Ditto. Thanks for this Sarah. www.statnews.com/2025/10/06/g...

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Science and Freedom Alliance - SAFA @safa-science.bsky.social · 2d

This is a legitimately amazing video from @schumer.senate.gov

Please watch.

Thank you, Chuck Schumer!

youtube.com/shorts/Bl01O...

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Paul Waldman @paulwaldman.bsky.social · 2d

🧵on Bari Weiss at the Times written by one who knows

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WIRED @wired.com · 3d

The Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to pioneers of 1980s quantum mechanics, the foundation of today’s quantum tech. From quantum computers to cryptography, this research is shaping the next digital revolution. www.wired.com/frontiers-of...

How to Get Computers—Before Computers Get You

If you don’t understand how digital tech is changing, you’ll be swallowed by it. From post-quantum algorithms and thermodynamic hardware to open source architectures and apocalypse-proof programming, ...

www.wired.com

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Science and Freedom Alliance - SAFA @safa-science.bsky.social · 3d

More lawlessness from Russell Vought at OMB.

The Project 2025 effort has always been about creating fig leaf — lawless — legal arguments that should be laughed out of court.

True for the RIFs, true for this “reinterpretation” of the law that explicitly requires backpay. 1/

Scoop: White House memo says furloughed federal workers aren't entitled to backpay

A move to deny backpay to up to 750,000 furloughed workers would dramatically escalate Trump's pressure on Democrats to end the shutdown.

www.axios.com

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Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪 @altnih4science.bsky.social · 3d

Apparently we have “hyperbole trolls” on bluesky now.

In fact too much of our press is controlled by money and oligarchy and is neither independent nor very free.

This looks a lot like an AI bot, but it is
hard to tell

curious1973.bsky.social @curious1
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Why the hyperbole? Despite Trump's hostility, the US has a vibrant free press and citizens a constitutional right to speak their minds. Russia? Not so much
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Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪 @altnih4science.bsky.social · 3d

The CBS takeover by oligarchs and regime propagandists is perhaps the most dangerous and far reaching Trump move recently. And that’s saying a lot.

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Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪 @altnih4science.bsky.social · 3d

(Caldwell and Bari Weiss are propagandists cut from the same cloth.)

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Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪 @altnih4science.bsky.social · 3d

Apparently AG Sulzberger and the New York Times also wish to emulate Margarita Simonyan and Russian state media.

David Darmofal @daviddarmofal.bsky.social · 3d

Today in @nytopinion.nytimes.com

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Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪 @altnih4science.bsky.social · 3d

Bari Weiss is heading towards being the Margarita Simonyan of the US.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margari...

Margarita Simonyan - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

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Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪 @altnih4science.bsky.social · 3d

There is widespread support in Russia for Vladimir Putin, even after he impoverished the country and fed Russian teens into a war woodchipper.

Why? Because he took over the media in Russia and uses it to deceive people. That’s what’s happening here too with Ellison and Bari Weiss.

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 3d

crazy that one of the most storied institutions in american journalism is going to be run by two people with basically no experience to do it

Exclusive | CBS News taps Adam Rubenstein — once ostracized at NY Times for liking Chick-fil-A — as new deputy editor

Sources expect Rubenstein will effectively run the Free Press now that Weiss will be busy steering the editorial direction of shows like “60 Minutes,” “Face The Nation” and …

nypost.com

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Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪 @altnih4science.bsky.social · 3d

NIH director too

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Jonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social · 3d

Bari Weiss and the Free Press published rank covid disinformation and nothing else.

These are the people purging and censoring science today.

She’s not just a fraud, she’s utterly malignant and contemptible, as she lies under the guise of “free thinking.”

• Dr. Jay Bhattacharya: The Government Censored Me and Other Scientists. We Fought Back-and Won
• Dr. Jay Bhattacharya: Free Speech on Trial
• Dr. Marty Makary: Dr. Fauci's Legacy
• Drs. Tracy Hoeg and Marty Makary: U.S.
Public Health Agencies Aren't 'Following the Science,'
• Dr. Marty Makary: Officials Say, Universities' Covid Policies Defy Science and Reason,
• Drs. Vinay Prasad, Stefan Baral, Lucy McBride: Bringing Sanity to the Omicron Chaos, Talking To Three Doctors Who Have Been Islands Of Reason In A Sea Of Confusion.
• Dr. Vinay Prasad: Let Djokovic Play
• Dr. Vinay Prasad: We Have a Tripledemic.
Not of Disease, But of Fear,
• Drs. Vinay Prasad and John Mandrola: The Epidemic of #DiedSuddenly
• Dr. Vinay Prasad: How to Save Science From
Covid Politics
• Dr. Vinay Prasad: What RFK Jr. Gets Right— and What He Gets Wrong,
• Dr. Vinay Prasad: Vinay Prasad: Why Was My Talk at a Medical Conference Canceled?

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