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Charles Jennings @chasjennings.bsky.social · 55m

Reposting b/c 'Like' doesn't seem like the right response when we are talking about an estimated 88 deaths per hour, as a result of Trump's cancelling aid for malaria, TB, infant diarrhea, malnutrition, etc..

Jen Rubin @jenrubin.bsky.social · 1h

how many kids did Trump kill today? Here is a tracker: www.impactcounter.com/dashboard?vi...

Impact Dashboard - Impact Counter | Impact Counter

Visualize the human impact of funding changes for aid and support organizations.

www.impactcounter.com

Charles Jennings @chasjennings.bsky.social · 23h

He will be remembered for what is surely one of the most important expts in the history of biology.

John B. Gurdon, 92, Dies; Nobelist Paved Way for Cloning of Animals

www.nytimes.com

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Charles Jennings @chasjennings.bsky.social · 19d

It did not end well for Goebbels, nor for his six young children, who he killed with cyanide before his own suicide.

Charlie Sykes @sykescharlie.bsky.social · 19d

Posting this for no particular reason -->

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Charles Jennings @chasjennings.bsky.social · 19d

Ain't seen nothing yet - wait until those healthcare cuts kick in.

Charles Jennings @chasjennings.bsky.social · 19d

I could not have had a career in the US if this had been in effect when I transitioned to H1-B. (I'm from the UK and am now a US citizen, and have spent most of my professional career here, working in biomedical research.) It's hard to imagine a better way to deter future talent from coming here.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19d

Trump signs an EO on H-1Bs raising "the fee that companies pay to sponsor H1-B applicants to $100,000"

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Charles Jennings @chasjennings.bsky.social · 24d

I like it that my Garmin dashboard makes my training hike today at Blue Hills look like a traverse of the Karakoram range.

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Charles Jennings @chasjennings.bsky.social · 26d

I have an urge to start spouting about the Kirk assassination and what it means for the state of the US, but a voice inside my head is saying STFU, and that seems like wise advice, until we know more and have time to digest the awfulness and possible consequences.

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 27d

The Trump administration spent $167,000 to destroy $9.7 million worth of birth control and other contraceptives that were supposed to go to low-income countries. Imagine hating helping so much that you’d actually spend money just to make sure others don’t get help.

Unconscionable: US plan to destroy $9.7 million of contraceptives

MSF condemns the decision to destroy these critical medical supplies, which will have devastating consequences for the communities where we work.

www.doctorswithoutborders.org

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Charles Jennings @chasjennings.bsky.social · 27d

A classic Boston story!

Storrowing; truck strikes North Harvard Street overpass, police say - The Boston Globe

A tow truck arrived to remove the mangled section, and crews used a leaf blower and brooms to clear debris, according a Globe photographer on the scene.

www.bostonglobe.com

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Charles Jennings @chasjennings.bsky.social · 29d

It feeds speculation as to why WaPo is unable to draw the obvious conclusion. Why does it allow Trump the priviledge of the ‘beyond a reasonable doubt’ criterion, rather than the balance of probabilities that most readers want? Of course we know the answer—WaPo is not the newspaper it once was.

Charles Jennings @chasjennings.bsky.social · Sep 9

The latest Nature index of global research output is striking. Among top institutions, almost all those that grew from 2023-24 are in China, and those that are declining are in the US and Europe. And that’s even before Trump...

2025 Research Leaders: Leading institutions | Nature Index

The Nature Index tracks the affiliations of high-quality scientific articles. Updated monthly, the Nature Index presents research outputs by institution and country. Use the Nature Index to interrogat...

www.nature.com

Charles Jennings @chasjennings.bsky.social · Sep 9

This New Yorker cover deserves to be reposted at regular intervals.

Willoughby @willoughby12.bsky.social · Jun 28

I would love to believe you but I do not. SCOTUS will not protect us, our country, or our Constitution.

The New Yorker magazine cover of SCOTUS where trump is in place of each republican judge.

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Charles Jennings @chasjennings.bsky.social · Sep 8

RIP - he was a giant even among Nobels!

David Baltimore, Nobel-Winning Molecular Biologist, Dies at 87

www.nytimes.com

Charles Jennings @chasjennings.bsky.social · Sep 6

Excellent discussion from Krugman, Mann and Hotez about the triple threat to humanity: climate change, pandemics, and the rise of a well-funded anti-science movement that spreads disinformation and prevents our political system from responding to the other two threats.

Science Under Siege: A Talk With Peter Hotez and Michael Mann

Lysenko comes to America

open.substack.com

Charles Jennings @chasjennings.bsky.social · Sep 5

Hmm...for that price it should have its own gravity generator in the center, rather than relying on Earth's gravitational field.

Charles Jennings @chasjennings.bsky.social · Sep 4

"Polio is Freedom" - great slogan for MAHA.

Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · Sep 3

because polio is freedom

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Sep 3

Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo on ending all vaccine mandates: "Every last one of them is wrong and drips with disdain and slavery."

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Charles Jennings @chasjennings.bsky.social · Sep 4

Judge: "...a review of the administrative record makes it difficult to conclude anything other than that [the government] used antisemitism as a smokescreen for a targeted, ideologically-motivated assault on this country’s premier universities”

Federal judge rules that Trump administration unlawfully cut nearly $3 billion of Harvard’s research funding - The Boston Globe

The decision found that the Trump administration violated federal laws and Harvard’s First Amendment rights in canceling the grants. The Trump administration is likely to appeal.

www.bostonglobe.com

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Charles Jennings @chasjennings.bsky.social · Sep 3

I hope that Pamela’s movie happens, and that Ben’s story can help to raise awareness and combat prejudice in the world of science and beyond.

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Charles Jennings @chasjennings.bsky.social · Sep 3

It’s currently estimated that 2.1 million US adults identify as transgender, with higher rates in younger groups. But the Trump administration has recently directed the CDC to stop collecting data on gender identity, which will make it much more difficult to track these numbers in future.

We’ve been tracking the number of Americans who identify as transgender – soon, there will be no reliable way to measure them

The federal government has erased gender identity questions from federal surveys. Researchers say it will cost them at least a decade’s worth of data.

theconversation.com

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Charles Jennings @chasjennings.bsky.social · Sep 3

And for more, see Ben’s book “The Autobiography of a Transgender Scientist,’ written toward the end of his life and published posthumously.

The Autobiography of a Transgender Scientist

Ben Barres was known for his groundbreaking scientific work and for his groundbreaking advocacy for gender equality in science. In this book, completed short...

mitpress.mit.edu

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Charles Jennings @chasjennings.bsky.social · Sep 3

Many of us remember Ben well, including his enthusiasm for research and outspoken support for gender equality in science. Both are on display in this lecture, given at the Broad Institute a few months before his death in 2017 from pancreatic cancer. I was in the audience—it was a remarkable event.

Ben Barres: What do reactive astrocytes do?

YouTube video by Broad Institute

www.youtube.com

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Charles Jennings @chasjennings.bsky.social · Sep 3

Pamela is an Emmy-nominated director and producer, whose movie about pioneering director Alice Guy-Blaché won many awards. She is committed to telling Ben’s story, and her project has support from prominent scientists, including Nancy Hopkins, Marc Tessier-Lavigne, Tom Curran and many others.

Pamela B. Green - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

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Charles Jennings @chasjennings.bsky.social · Sep 3

Filmmaker Pamela Green is planning a movie about the late Ben Barres, transgender neuroscientist, world expert on glial cells, and an inspirational advocate for women and minorities in science. Pamela is seeking funds to finish her research and script – see fundraising trailer below.

AskTheQuestionMovie.com – An inspiring portrait of a rebel scientist with boundless curiosity, who, despit

askthequestionmovie.com

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Charles Jennings @chasjennings.bsky.social · Sep 2

A blunt warning from nine past CDC directors, who served under every president since Jimmy Carter.

Opinion | We Ran the C.D.C.: Kennedy Is Endangering Every American’s Health

www.nytimes.com

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Charles Jennings @chasjennings.bsky.social · Sep 1

True - but the geometry metaphor will need to be translated into language that is persuasive to the swing voters who will determine the outcome of the 2026 midterms.

Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · Aug 31

As a friend recently put it: the venn diagram of people who assured us the gun violence was worth it because we need the guns to protect ourselves against a tyrannical federal government and the people cheering on Trump as he deploys the military to take over American cities is a circle

Republicans Against Trumpism @rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social · Aug 31

Q: Would you welcome federal resources going into a part of South Carolina with a high crime rate?

Nancy Mace: I hear that DC is safer than it's ever been…I look forward to watching the videos of soldiers entering Chicago