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Supporting democracy defenders. 🇺🇦 💙 And nerdy academics. Preferably both simultaneously.
#DueProcess #speechscience #science #BoolaBoola #✌🏻#vaccineswork

The people who ban books are NEVER the 'good guys.'
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irahyman.bsky.social
Assistant Professor in Cognitive Psychology, Tenure-Track Position at Western Washington University.

This is an assistant professor position in applied cognitive psychology.

Short 🧵 about this position. 1/?

Here is the link with details and for applying: hr.wwu.edu/careers-facu...
Assistant Professor in Cognitive Psychology, Tenure-Track Position The Department of Psychology at Western Washington University seeks applicants for a tenure track Assistant Professor position with expertise in applied cognitive psychology to begin September 16, 2026. This is an assistant professor position in applied cognitive psychology. The position is open with respect to area of expertise. Possible applied topics in cognitive psychology might include, but are not limited to: culture and cognition, memory, human-computer interaction, eyewitness memory, learning and education, aging, embodied cognition, social cognition, and judgment and decision-making concerning current social issues. We are seeking candidates who have experience with equitable and inclusive teaching, mentorship, and research practices and share a strong commitment to promoting the success of students from historically underrepresented groups. The candidate will have teaching experience commensurate with their career level. They will be required to teach courses at the undergraduate level in cognitive psychology and research methods and statistics. The candidate should also be prepared to teach a cognitive course in a master’s level program. Responsibilities also include establishing and maintaining an active research program that involves undergraduate and graduate students, as well as service activities as appropriate. Review of files will begin on February 18th, 2026. More information at: https://hr.wwu.edu/careers-faculty?job=502873
January 28, 2026 at 6:39 PM
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erictopol.bsky.social
Selective silencing of the CDC:
~50% of surveillance databases have halted updates
—87% of these were vaccine related
www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/...
editorial www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/...
January 26, 2026 at 10:16 PM
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charlesornstein.bsky.social
No data, no problem?

Dozens of CDC databases are not being updated — most related to vaccines, study finds
Dozens of CDC databases are not being updated — most related to vaccines, study finds
The agency plays a key role in tracking disease spread and vaccination rates. Last year, it seemed to back away from some of that work, according to new research.
www.nbcnews.com
January 27, 2026 at 10:19 AM
lingprof.bsky.social
A step toward leveling the international playing field where many countries’ governments (and their militaries) support their Olympians.
wsj.com The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 4d
A $100 million gift from financier Ross Stevens will give American Olympians what many have never had: a retirement nest egg. on.wsj.com/4aid6TB
January 28, 2026 at 10:11 PM
lingprof.bsky.social
RFK Jr (aka worm-brain) has so poisoned the US marketplace that Moderna is curtailing vaccine development. Imagine the next pandemic…
sheencr.bsky.social Prof Sheena Cruickshank @sheencr.bsky.social · 4d
Moderna have announced that they won't run new phase three trials now with massive impacts for new vaccine development- why- its because of RFK Jr and his anti-vaccine campaigns and cancelling mRNA vaccine research which affect the sales the company can then make 🧪🧵 #PublicHealth
Moderna Won’t Run Phase III Vaccine Trials as Skepticism Grows in US: Bloomberg
Growing opposition to vaccines in the U.S., driven by recent government policy changes, makes it difficult to see a return on investment in vaccine development, Moderna CEO Stéphane Bancel said this w...
www.biospace.com
January 28, 2026 at 8:46 PM
lingprof.bsky.social
Governor Abbott halts H-1B visas at all public universities and agencies www.cnbc.com/2026/01/27/t...
Texas governor halts new H-1B visa petitions by state agencies, public universities
H-1B visas allow skilled foreign professionals in specialized occupations — mainly in science, technology, engineering and mathematics — to work in the U.S.
www.cnbc.com
January 28, 2026 at 12:23 AM
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thesgem.bsky.social
The American Medical Association officially endorses the American Academy of Pediatrics' 2026 childhood vaccination schedule.
www.aap.org/en/news-room...
January 26, 2026 at 10:02 PM
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bettycjung.bsky.social
"If more people understood more about how fascinating, beautiful, terrifying, and dangerous viruses are, maybe they would understand why it’s so important to keep studying them and learning how to stop them from spreading and causing disease."
@angierasmussen.bsky.social
January 27, 2026 at 4:22 AM
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crof.bsky.social
Dr. @angierasmussen.bsky.social: Measles Isn't the Only Pathogen We Should Eliminate (Again) open.substack.com/pub/rasmusse...
Measles Isn't the Only Pathogen We Should Eliminate (Again)
If the cost of doing business were getting two doses of the MMR instead of massive preventable disease epidemics, America would be a lot more profitable
open.substack.com
January 24, 2026 at 1:05 AM
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onestpress.onestnetwork.com
The Afghan minister of education confirms that access to schools for women in the country is permanently banned
January 26, 2026 at 4:09 PM
lingprof.bsky.social
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January 25, 2026 at 4:41 PM
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I have turned off autoplay for my account, and you should too: bsky.app/profile/dran...
drandrewthaler.bsky.social Andrew D Thaler @drandrewthaler.bsky.social · 7d
Settings > Content and Media > Autoplay Video and GIFs

Turn it off, now.
January 24, 2026 at 7:01 PM
lingprof.bsky.social
Woot! Woot!
January 24, 2026 at 3:18 PM
lingprof.bsky.social
Crazy shit
nytimes.com The New York Times @nytimes.com · 8d
Breaking News: Rejecting decades of science, the chair of the federal panel that recommends vaccines for Americans said that shots against polio and measles — and perhaps all diseases — should be optional. The vaccines are credited with preventing disability and millions of deaths worldwide.
Vaccine Panel Chair Says Polio and Other Shots Should Be Optional, Rejecting Decades of Science
Dr. Kirk Milhoan, a pediatric cardiologist who leads the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, said a person’s right to refuse a vaccine outweighed concerns about illness or death from infectious diseases.
nyti.ms
January 23, 2026 at 9:04 PM
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The United States has officially withdrawn from the World Health Organization.

This is a shameful move that puts both Americans and people all over the world at greater risk from disease outbreaks, which require international collaboration to contain.
United States Completes WHO Withdrawal WASHINGTON —  January 22, 2026 — The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the U.S. Department of State today announced the United States’ completion of its withdrawal from the World Health Organization (WHO) due to the organization's mishandling of the COVID-19 pandemic that arose out of Wuhan, China, its failure to adopt urgently needed reforms, and its inability to demonstrate independence from the inappropriate political influence of WHO member states.
January 23, 2026 at 1:57 AM
lingprof.bsky.social
Congratulations Matt!!
reviewerzero.bsky.social Reviewer Zero @reviewerzero.bsky.social · 9d
Huge congratulations to our committee member @mattgoldrick.bsky.social on receiving the Cognitive Science Society’s Elman Prize! Matt’s research and service have made lasting contributions to cognitive science. We’re thrilled to see his work recognized.
cognitivesciencesociety.org/elman-prize/
January 23, 2026 at 4:25 AM
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psmaldino.bsky.social
Looking through Norbert Wiener's 1950 book "The Human Use of Human Beings," just now, this 2-paragraph passage jumped out at me from the first chapter. Extremely relevant to our troubling times.
It is my thesis that the operation of the living individual and the operation of some of the newer communication machines are precisely parallel. Both of them have sensory receptors as one stage in their cycle of operation: that is, in both of them there exists a special apparatus for collecting information from the outer world at low energy levels, and for making it available in the operation of the individual or of the machine. In both cases these external messages are not taken neat, but through the internal transforming powers of the apparatus, whether it be alive or dead. The information is then turned into a new form available for the further stages of performance. In both the animal and the machine this performance is made to be effective on the outer world. In both of them, their performed action on the outer world, and not merely their intended action, is reported back to the central regulatory apparatus. This complex of behavior is ignored by the average man, and in particular does not play the role that it should in our habitual analysis of society. This is true whether we consider human beings alone, or in conjunction with types of automata which participate in a two-way relation with the world about them. In this, our view of society differs from the ideal of society which is held by many Fascists, Strong Men in Business, and Government. Similar men of ambition for power are not entirely unknown in scientific and educational institutions. Such people prefer an organization in which all orders come from above, and none return. The human beings under them have been reduced to the level of effectors for a supposedly higher nervous organism. I wish to devote this book to a protest against this inhuman use of human beings; for in my mind, any use of a human being in which less is demanded of him and less is attributed to him than his full status is a degradation and a waste. It is a degradation to a human being to chain him to an oar and use him as a source of power; but it is an almost equal degradation to assign him a purely repetitive task in a factory, which demands less than a millionth of his brain capacity. It is simpler to organize a factory or galley which uses individual human beings for a trivial fraction of their worth than it is to provide a world in which they can grow to their full stature. Those who suffer from a power complex find the mechanization of man a simple way to realize their ambitions. I say, that this easy path to power is in fact not only a rejection of everything that I consider to be of moral worth in the human race, but also a rejection of our now very tenuous opportunities for a considerable period of human survival.
January 21, 2026 at 7:25 PM
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bettycjung.bsky.social
Shingles vaccine may slow biological aging in older adults www.cidrap.umn.edu/adult-non-fl...
Shingles vaccine may slow biological aging in older adults
www.cidrap.umn.edu
January 21, 2026 at 3:40 AM
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jfischman.bsky.social
RFKjr and HHS are making it easier to sue pharma for health problems that occur after vaccination. Any vaccination. Will this stop development of new vaccines (because pharma will be sued for anything and stop developing new vaccinations). Or help people with real injuries? What do you think? 🧪
RFK Jr. is moving to remake a little-known vaccine panel. It could have big consequences
Firing the advisory panel's members could be a first step toward revamping the vaccine injury compensation system.
www.statnews.com
January 21, 2026 at 3:16 AM
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davidho.bsky.social
This is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again.

www.nature.com/immersive/d4...
This line graph illustrates the percentage change in agency staff levels from the previous year for nine major U.S. federal scientific and health organizations between the fiscal years 2016 and 2025. The agencies tracked include the CDC, Department of Energy, EPA, FDA, NASA, NIH, NIST, NOAA, and NSF. For the majority of the timeline between 2016 and 2023, the agencies show relatively stable fluctuations, generally staying within a range of +5% to -5% change per year. However, there is a dramatic and uniform plummet starting in the 2024–25 period. Every agency depicted shows a sharp downward trajectory, with staffing losses ranging from approximately -15% to over -25%. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) shows the most significant decline, dropping to roughly -26%, while the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) shows the least severe but still substantial drop at approximately -15%.
January 20, 2026 at 10:53 PM
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drugmonkey.bsky.social
Considering the impact of Multi-Year Funding at NIH drugmonkey.wordpress.com/2026/01/20/c...
Considering the impact of Multi-Year Funding at NIH
Somewhere in the back of my head I have been thinking that the worst impact of NIH allocating ~50% of funds via Multi-Year Funding would be FY2026 if, and that is a huge IF, the overall budget stay…
drugmonkey.wordpress.com
January 21, 2026 at 3:36 AM
lingprof.bsky.social
Vaccines are safe and effective. Sometimes more effective than we even anticipate.
erictopol.bsky.social Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 11d
The Shingles vaccine is linked to slowing biological aging and reducing inflammation academic.oup.com/biomedgeront...
January 20, 2026 at 3:33 PM
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phillewis.bsky.social
Dr. Gladys West, the pioneering mathematician whose work laid the foundation for modern GPS technology, has died. She was 95.
Dr. Gladys West, Mathematician Whose Work Made GPS Possible, Dies at 95
ALEXANDRIA, VA — Dr. Gladys West, the pioneering mathematician whose work laid the foundation for modern GPS technology, has died. She passed away
thezebra.org
January 19, 2026 at 6:00 PM
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johnrossmd.bsky.social
Catastrophe: Florida's Department of Health is stopping coverage for antivirals to 10,000 low-income people with HIV infection, blaming impending federal cuts to the AIDS Drug Assistance Program. 12.5% of Americans with HIV live in Florida.
Thousands to lose access to HIV drugs with new cuts
An estimated 10,000 people are about to lose access to their HIV medication as the Florida Department of Health makes cuts to the AIDS Drug Assistance Program (ADAP).
www.fox13news.com
January 19, 2026 at 3:38 PM
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ljrissler.bsky.social
The National Science Foundation sign on our Eisenhower Av building is now gone.

The NSF mural in the foyer is removed and torn off in sheets.

We were supposed to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the agency in May 2025. That never happened.
NSF building on Eisenhower Av. HUD now owns. Destroying the NSF mural in the foyer. Of the Eisenhower building.
January 18, 2026 at 2:00 AM