Indirect Costs and Trump's Attack on Independent Voices.

My latest post:

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This is a list of blockbuster drugs in 2024. Guess how many can trace their origins to NIH funded research?
All of them.

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.

I’m going to run a series of posts about the NIH/NSF/etc. troubles concurrently with my usual science posts. I can’t and won’t ignore the former, but I need the latter for mental equilibrium.

Just downloaded the entire NIH Reporter database to my laptop. This is easy to do if you want to do analyses of NIH grant data or look for particular topics.

Just go to reporter.nih.gov/exporter

Yup, @jamellebouie.net has this exactly right. What these guys are celebrating/pursuing/yearning for is not masculine energy, it's *adolescent* energy. Drinking Red Bull, crushing Call of Duty, refusing to clean your room. It is indescribably pathetic. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/18/o...

What I support

Immigrant rights ✊🏼
LGBTQIA+ 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
BLM 🖤
Free Palestine 🇵🇸
Slava Ukraini 🇺🇦
Indigenous People 🫶
Women’s Rights 💖
Animal Rights 🐮
Human Rights 🫂
Pro-Choice ❤️‍🔥
Gender Identity 🤍
Mental Health Awareness 🎗
Disability Awareness 🏥
Senior Citizens
Climate Change Awareness 🍃
Love ❤️

What would Plato say about systems biology? In his Allegory of the Cave, prisoners can only see shadows on a wall and so they have a distorted reality. Also our measurements of genes, RNAs, proteins & metabolites are the shadows, not the reality of the complex biological systems.

& another easy 2 click blocklist: cheers 🥂 to this excellent bluesky feature! ❤️‍🔥

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here is a good blocklist: 💞

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👏 This hilariously accurate satire...

Opinion:
Bluesky is a dangerous echo chamber because no one wants to hear from me, specifically
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And instead of respecting my inalienable right to be debated, they just… blocked me.