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Average SNAP benefit per person is less than $200.
Elon has received over $38 billion of our tax payer dollars.
But go on about soda Karen.
Elon has received over $38 billion of our tax payer dollars.
But go on about soda Karen.
November 7, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Average SNAP benefit per person is less than $200.
Elon has received over $38 billion of our tax payer dollars.
But go on about soda Karen.
Elon has received over $38 billion of our tax payer dollars.
But go on about soda Karen.
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Some spending rules:
Randomly pick up the tab for your friends on a night out
Vacations give you more memories than the balance of your portfolio
Certain material possessions can make you happier
Save & invest up front so you can spend guilt free
awealthofcommonsense.com/2025/10/bens...
Randomly pick up the tab for your friends on a night out
Vacations give you more memories than the balance of your portfolio
Certain material possessions can make you happier
Save & invest up front so you can spend guilt free
awealthofcommonsense.com/2025/10/bens...
October 7, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Some spending rules:
Randomly pick up the tab for your friends on a night out
Vacations give you more memories than the balance of your portfolio
Certain material possessions can make you happier
Save & invest up front so you can spend guilt free
awealthofcommonsense.com/2025/10/bens...
Randomly pick up the tab for your friends on a night out
Vacations give you more memories than the balance of your portfolio
Certain material possessions can make you happier
Save & invest up front so you can spend guilt free
awealthofcommonsense.com/2025/10/bens...
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In Episode 4 of “The AI Revolution in Medicine, Revisited,” guests Laura Adams, Vardit Ravitsky, and Dr. Roxana Daneshjou explore how to responsibly implement AI in medicine, from governance and fairness to reshaping patient relationships: msft.it/6015SR2ix
May 1, 2025 at 4:32 PM
In Episode 4 of “The AI Revolution in Medicine, Revisited,” guests Laura Adams, Vardit Ravitsky, and Dr. Roxana Daneshjou explore how to responsibly implement AI in medicine, from governance and fairness to reshaping patient relationships: msft.it/6015SR2ix
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It is with extreme sadness that we announce that ASE Past President, beloved mentor and volunteer, Roberto M. Lang, MD, FASE, University of Chicago, passed away after a brief illness.
Read our full statement: bit.ly/4e54xMq
Read our full statement: bit.ly/4e54xMq
June 11, 2025 at 9:18 PM
It is with extreme sadness that we announce that ASE Past President, beloved mentor and volunteer, Roberto M. Lang, MD, FASE, University of Chicago, passed away after a brief illness.
Read our full statement: bit.ly/4e54xMq
Read our full statement: bit.ly/4e54xMq
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Financial advice that doesn't work anymore:
Just ignore the noise
Just wait for the fat pitch
Put 20% down on your first house
Pay off your mortgage early
You need 12 months of living expenses in an emergency fund
awealthofcommonsense.com/2025/05/fina...
Just ignore the noise
Just wait for the fat pitch
Put 20% down on your first house
Pay off your mortgage early
You need 12 months of living expenses in an emergency fund
awealthofcommonsense.com/2025/05/fina...
Financial Advice That Doesn't Work Anymore - A Wealth of Common Sense
Good advice vs. effective advice.
awealthofcommonsense.com
May 14, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Financial advice that doesn't work anymore:
Just ignore the noise
Just wait for the fat pitch
Put 20% down on your first house
Pay off your mortgage early
You need 12 months of living expenses in an emergency fund
awealthofcommonsense.com/2025/05/fina...
Just ignore the noise
Just wait for the fat pitch
Put 20% down on your first house
Pay off your mortgage early
You need 12 months of living expenses in an emergency fund
awealthofcommonsense.com/2025/05/fina...
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… and Molly is not alone. More than $2.6B of ongoing research has been canceled (with much more this week, at Harvard).
With each cancellation: We are losing so much knowledge. Losing the next generation of scientists. Losing our ability to protect our health, both now & for the future. 🧪🩺😷
With each cancellation: We are losing so much knowledge. Losing the next generation of scientists. Losing our ability to protect our health, both now & for the future. 🧪🩺😷
All 4 of my NIH research grants are terminated. These were grants on MDR-TB treatment & strategies for supporting adolescents living w/ HIV. This is a massive waste of resources. I am heartbroken for my Harvard team, my partners in Peru, the next generation of scientists & our country. Shame.
May 16, 2025 at 12:05 PM
… and Molly is not alone. More than $2.6B of ongoing research has been canceled (with much more this week, at Harvard).
With each cancellation: We are losing so much knowledge. Losing the next generation of scientists. Losing our ability to protect our health, both now & for the future. 🧪🩺😷
With each cancellation: We are losing so much knowledge. Losing the next generation of scientists. Losing our ability to protect our health, both now & for the future. 🧪🩺😷
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Science doesn’t PAUSE. If you don’t maintain - cell lines, reagents, genetic models - you lose - trained personnel, unique expertise, collaborators or cores - if those things get disrupted, it becomes 10x harder to build it back. Are we efficient yet? Definitely not safer or healthier
May 1, 2025 at 1:14 AM
Science doesn’t PAUSE. If you don’t maintain - cell lines, reagents, genetic models - you lose - trained personnel, unique expertise, collaborators or cores - if those things get disrupted, it becomes 10x harder to build it back. Are we efficient yet? Definitely not safer or healthier
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Things are breaking.
eRA commons was down for me most of yesterday- I am sure this is just the start. Make sure to download personal copies of all of your records from commons!
www.wired.com/story/depart...
eRA commons was down for me most of yesterday- I am sure this is just the start. Make sure to download personal copies of all of your records from commons!
www.wired.com/story/depart...
HHS Systems Are in Danger of Collapsing, Workers Say
The purging of IT and cybersecurity staff at the Department of Health and Human Services could threaten the systems used by the agency’s staff and the safety of critical health data.
www.wired.com
April 20, 2025 at 12:04 AM
Things are breaking.
eRA commons was down for me most of yesterday- I am sure this is just the start. Make sure to download personal copies of all of your records from commons!
www.wired.com/story/depart...
eRA commons was down for me most of yesterday- I am sure this is just the start. Make sure to download personal copies of all of your records from commons!
www.wired.com/story/depart...
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In the late-19th century 50% of the labor force was in farming
Now it's <2%
Most of those jobs then went into manufacturing
That's now at 2%
We're a service-based economy now
AI and robotics are going to make that even more apparent in the years ahead
awealthofcommonsense.com/2025/04/the-...
Now it's <2%
Most of those jobs then went into manufacturing
That's now at 2%
We're a service-based economy now
AI and robotics are going to make that even more apparent in the years ahead
awealthofcommonsense.com/2025/04/the-...
April 19, 2025 at 2:47 PM
In the late-19th century 50% of the labor force was in farming
Now it's <2%
Most of those jobs then went into manufacturing
That's now at 2%
We're a service-based economy now
AI and robotics are going to make that even more apparent in the years ahead
awealthofcommonsense.com/2025/04/the-...
Now it's <2%
Most of those jobs then went into manufacturing
That's now at 2%
We're a service-based economy now
AI and robotics are going to make that even more apparent in the years ahead
awealthofcommonsense.com/2025/04/the-...
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So.... we're no longer ensuring that our food safety laboratories, can actually do what they're supposed to do:
"The Food and Drug Administration is suspending a quality control program for its food testing laboratories as a result of staff cuts"
www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...
"The Food and Drug Administration is suspending a quality control program for its food testing laboratories as a result of staff cuts"
www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...
US FDA suspends food safety quality checks after staff cuts
The Food and Drug Administration is suspending a quality control program for its food testing laboratories as a result of staff cuts at the Department of Health and Human Services, according to an internal email seen by Reuters.
www.reuters.com
April 18, 2025 at 6:07 PM
So.... we're no longer ensuring that our food safety laboratories, can actually do what they're supposed to do:
"The Food and Drug Administration is suspending a quality control program for its food testing laboratories as a result of staff cuts"
www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...
"The Food and Drug Administration is suspending a quality control program for its food testing laboratories as a result of staff cuts"
www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...
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Visualizing the Impacts of Federal Cuts to Medical Research & Why It Matters
New #substack on collaborative effort with @asinclair.bsky.social and our #SCIMaP team
Website: scienceimpacts.org
Read more here:
open.substack.com/pub/joshuasw...
New #substack on collaborative effort with @asinclair.bsky.social and our #SCIMaP team
Website: scienceimpacts.org
Read more here:
open.substack.com/pub/joshuasw...
Visualizing the Impacts of Federal Cuts to Medical Research & Why It Matters
Why it matters how we communicate and visualize the impacts of proposed and ongoing cuts to science and medical research nationwide.
open.substack.com
April 4, 2025 at 3:15 AM
Visualizing the Impacts of Federal Cuts to Medical Research & Why It Matters
New #substack on collaborative effort with @asinclair.bsky.social and our #SCIMaP team
Website: scienceimpacts.org
Read more here:
open.substack.com/pub/joshuasw...
New #substack on collaborative effort with @asinclair.bsky.social and our #SCIMaP team
Website: scienceimpacts.org
Read more here:
open.substack.com/pub/joshuasw...
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DECADES. This is a loss to be realized over DECADES. Many people will die - it’s not hyperbole. We are destroying our children’s futures
April 1, 2025 at 5:23 PM
DECADES. This is a loss to be realized over DECADES. Many people will die - it’s not hyperbole. We are destroying our children’s futures
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Hey Bluesky, I was interviewed about the attacks on science for NPR’s All Things Considered. Listen, below! www.wbur.org/news/2025/03...
UMass biomedical scientist freezes pediatric brain cancer research due to federal funding problems
UMass Chan Medical School biomedical engineer and professor Rachael Sirianni leads a lab that researches new technologies to help treat brain tumors in children. Delays in federal grants have led her ...
www.wbur.org
March 28, 2025 at 9:29 AM
Hey Bluesky, I was interviewed about the attacks on science for NPR’s All Things Considered. Listen, below! www.wbur.org/news/2025/03...
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They are cutting cancer research. They are cutting cancer research. They can deny it all they want, but they are cutting cancer research. These are the cuts being made the DoD CDMRP cancer funding mechanism www.fightcancer.org/sites/defaul...
March 27, 2025 at 10:11 AM
They are cutting cancer research. They are cutting cancer research. They can deny it all they want, but they are cutting cancer research. These are the cuts being made the DoD CDMRP cancer funding mechanism www.fightcancer.org/sites/defaul...
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my wife works at a nonprofit hospital and they're absolute getting fucked by these cuts, to the point where there's mass layoffs (possibly including her)
we are genuinely looking at the real potential for U.S. healthcare collapse and that's just...not mentioned in a healthcare thread? At all?
we are genuinely looking at the real potential for U.S. healthcare collapse and that's just...not mentioned in a healthcare thread? At all?
March 23, 2025 at 3:34 PM
my wife works at a nonprofit hospital and they're absolute getting fucked by these cuts, to the point where there's mass layoffs (possibly including her)
we are genuinely looking at the real potential for U.S. healthcare collapse and that's just...not mentioned in a healthcare thread? At all?
we are genuinely looking at the real potential for U.S. healthcare collapse and that's just...not mentioned in a healthcare thread? At all?
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The crush of new grant cancellations hasn't let up.
If your grant was terminated (or your app was pulled) please use this Google Form👇 to submit details for tracking purposes.
Multiple advocacy efforts are moving forward, but we must must must know more about what grants were cancelled and why.
If your grant was terminated (or your app was pulled) please use this Google Form👇 to submit details for tracking purposes.
Multiple advocacy efforts are moving forward, but we must must must know more about what grants were cancelled and why.
Cancelled NIH grant information submission form
Please use this form to submit information identifying specific NIH grants that have been cancelled for any reason after January 20, 2025.
Data from this form will be used to update the Rescinded NIH...
forms.gle
March 21, 2025 at 3:32 AM
The crush of new grant cancellations hasn't let up.
If your grant was terminated (or your app was pulled) please use this Google Form👇 to submit details for tracking purposes.
Multiple advocacy efforts are moving forward, but we must must must know more about what grants were cancelled and why.
If your grant was terminated (or your app was pulled) please use this Google Form👇 to submit details for tracking purposes.
Multiple advocacy efforts are moving forward, but we must must must know more about what grants were cancelled and why.
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A friend of my compared gutting of federal agencies to a wrecking a car: if you remove 30% of the parts of the car, it does not go 30% slower. It stops working.
March 20, 2025 at 12:45 AM
A friend of my compared gutting of federal agencies to a wrecking a car: if you remove 30% of the parts of the car, it does not go 30% slower. It stops working.
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Until recently, science was always a bipartisan endeavor. The value of medical research was one thing that different political parties in our country actually agreed on. I don't think *anyone* wants to see this wanton destruction of something we all worked so hard to build- anyone but Trusk, that is
"I am an NIH-funded biomedical scientist with conservative leanings. I know at least a dozen scientists who voted for Trump, largely because of frustrations with DEl and extreme wokeness that had permeated every aspect of University life.
Each of us deeply regrets their vote..."
More in thread- 1/
Each of us deeply regrets their vote..."
More in thread- 1/
March 18, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Until recently, science was always a bipartisan endeavor. The value of medical research was one thing that different political parties in our country actually agreed on. I don't think *anyone* wants to see this wanton destruction of something we all worked so hard to build- anyone but Trusk, that is
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I don't think the general public wants cancer research to go away. But that's exactly what DOGE and the EO's are doing: they are demolishing the infrastructure that enables us to do our work
My op-ed below (which is a paper covering a chunk of Appalachia in Ohio) has gotten some attention. It’s not too hard to understand - people support cancer research.
I’m a biomedical researcher who lost his wife to cancer. Finding cures is personal.
www.vindy.com/opinion/edit...
I’m a biomedical researcher who lost his wife to cancer. Finding cures is personal.
www.vindy.com/opinion/edit...
DOGE ends America’s golden age of biomedical research
Biomedical research impacts all of us. I became curious about how drugs work after my mom was diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis when I was a small boy. She received “gold shots” as treatment, which ...
www.vindy.com
March 18, 2025 at 12:09 PM
I don't think the general public wants cancer research to go away. But that's exactly what DOGE and the EO's are doing: they are demolishing the infrastructure that enables us to do our work
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The diabetes prevention program is so vital to the study of a whole host of chronic diseases. Really depressing that they would throw such a rich dataset out the window.
The Trump administration has canceled funding for an ongoing 30-year, nationwide study tracking patients with prediabetes and diabetes.
NIH cancels funding for landmark diabetes study at a time of focus on chronic disease
The Trump administration has canceled funding for an ongoing 30-year, nationwide study tracking patients with prediabetes and diabetes, researchers said.
buff.ly
March 17, 2025 at 11:00 PM
The diabetes prevention program is so vital to the study of a whole host of chronic diseases. Really depressing that they would throw such a rich dataset out the window.
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Compelling thread, click through the comments below
"There have been many funding cuts to cancer research, and it's playing out many ways. Here are a few stories from people I know. I spend time in cancer circles. I am an recliner advocate nowadays.
Brooke is 24 years old, has a baby and a toddler, and has stage 4 B-cell lymphoma..."
Brooke is 24 years old, has a baby and a toddler, and has stage 4 B-cell lymphoma..."
March 16, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Compelling thread, click through the comments below
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Valid visa and now gone. BTW, she was here to SAVE LIVES.
Doctor and Professor Is Deported to Lebanon Despite a Judge’s Order www.nytimes.com/2025/03/16/u...
Doctor and Professor Is Deported to Lebanon Despite a Judge’s Order www.nytimes.com/2025/03/16/u...
Brown University Professor and Doctor Are Deported to Lebanon Despite a Judge’s Order
Dr. Rasha Alawieh, a kidney transplant specialist and Brown University professor who had a valid visa, was expelled in apparent defiance of a court order.
www.nytimes.com
March 16, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Valid visa and now gone. BTW, she was here to SAVE LIVES.
Doctor and Professor Is Deported to Lebanon Despite a Judge’s Order www.nytimes.com/2025/03/16/u...
Doctor and Professor Is Deported to Lebanon Despite a Judge’s Order www.nytimes.com/2025/03/16/u...