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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1d

About 1 in 3 US Nobel prize winners are immigrants.
About 1 in 4 were government employees at some point.
About 44% of all Nobel prize winners were educated in US higher education.
As Trump demands a Nobel prize, he is destroying the means by which America came to dominate the prizes.

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Boston Tom Levenson @tomlevenson.bsky.social · 1d

Two things of note in today's announcement of the 2025 Nobel physics prize (besides the work being honored).

1: The US institutional dominance of the prize continues.
2: 2 of the three laureates are immigrants, drawn here decades ago by the then-unmatched opportunities for science here...

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Nobel Prize in Physics Is Awarded for Work in Quantum Mechanics

www.nytimes.com

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Hannah Pumpkins 🎃 🍂 @hannahposts.bsky.social · 20d

The idea that the combined MMR is dangerous but separately the vaccines are fine was created out of whole cloth by Andrew Wakefield, a disgraced former doctor who had a patent on a non-combined version of the MMR. We've known his research was bunk for almost 30 years.

Kristin, but Haunted @hrm-kristin-i.gay · 20d

We are ruled by malicious conspiracy theorists

CNN headline

BREAKING NEWS
CDC advisers vote to recommend against combined measles, mumps, rubella and chickenpox vaccine for young children

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Miranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social · Aug 23

pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

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Tricia Starks @tricia-starks.bsky.social · Jul 27

Russia’s body-intensive assaults part of est. 1m in losses —
first a tank, then a sacrificial vehicle to draw fire and reveal defensive positions, and “Lastly, small groups of infantry are sent on one-way missions to infiltrate forest belts. ‘They clear minefields with their own bodies.’”

‘That idiot Putin wants to take it all’: Russia’s kamikaze tactics fuel a slow advance in Ukraine

Latest wave of displaced citizens curse ‘imperial ambition’ that has led to an estimated one million Russian casualties

www.theguardian.com

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Tricia Starks @tricia-starks.bsky.social · Jul 27

Hmmm.

Russia Cancels Annual Navy Parade in St. Petersburg - The Moscow Times

St.

www.themoscowtimes.com

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Tricia Starks @tricia-starks.bsky.social · Jul 24

@themoscowtimes.com put together a list of reasons not to stand too close to windows in Russia.

Death by Falling: A Timeline of Cases Across Russia and Abroad - The Moscow Times

A growing number of Russian officials, business executives and public figures have died under strange or violent circumstances since the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. Many were said to have fallen from windows and balconies.

www.themoscowtimes.com

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RutgersAAUP-AFT @ruaaup-aft.bsky.social · Jul 23

The @aaup.org Center for the Defense
of Academic Freedom has curated
practical resources for those facing
threats to their academic freedom,
including how to find organizations
that offer legal support.
Please feel free to reach out to
[email protected] with questions or concerns

www.aaup.org

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Bruno J. Navarro @brunojnavarro.bsky.social · Jul 19

“They’re very clear about what they want and what they thought was missing in 2024: They want leaders who will fight for everyone. … They’re very health care-oriented. … They have a clear economic agenda around affordability and making the wealthy pay what they owe in taxes.”

Democrat voters who sat out last election want candidates further to the left: poll

‘The conventional wisdom is really wrong on these voters,’ one pollster found

www.independent.co.uk

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Chris Baraniuk @chrisbaraniuk.com · Jul 17

Just look at this school - called "The Frog" (!) in the Netherlands. That green facade generates electricity. Those are solar panels!

(Photo: Solarix.)

A photo of a school building taken on a sunny day with a blue sky above. The building is a striking, light green colour, with rectangular facade panels covering the entirety of its walls. Bright green railings are visible in the foreground leading to one of the entrances.

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jenny_tightpants🪑 @jtp.bsky.social · Jul 13

headline: "democrats lost voters on transgender rights."
the article:

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Tricia Starks @tricia-starks.bsky.social · Jul 9

New research on the dangers of vaping - “common sense tells you — your mom would tell you — that a superheated chemical inhaling right into your lungs isn’t going to be good”

Just How Harmful Is Vaping? More Evidence Is Emerging.

www.nytimes.com

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Tricia Starks @tricia-starks.bsky.social · Jul 7

According to demographer Alexei Raksha, data from one region showed “life expectancy for men dropping from 66 years in 2024 to 61 in mid-2025, while life expectancy for women held steady at 75.”

Rosstat Stops Publishing Monthly Population Data Amid War Deaths, Demographic Crisis - The Moscow Times

Russia’s state statistics agency Rosstat has stopped publishing monthly data on births and deaths, a move that comes amid a deepening demographic crisis and ongoing troop losses in the war against Ukr...

www.themoscowtimes.com

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Tricia Starks @tricia-starks.bsky.social · Jul 5

“There is further evidence of increased activation of the prefrontal cortex and the inferior frontal gyrus when interacting with cats, which is speculated to be linked to the characteristic, hard-to-predict temperament of the animal.”

Owning dog or cat could preserve some brain functions as we age, study says

Fish or bird ownership showed no significant link to slower cognitive decline in study with implications for ageing societies

www.theguardian.com

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Rob Townsend @rbtownsend.bsky.social · Jun 26

"The technical skills are being provided by the machine, or by very competent people in other parts of the world who have really nailed the technical skills at a relatively low cost... I'm going to go back to curiosity and empathy." bit.ly/3FYOBPb

A top banker said his Wharton MBA was 'a waste of time' — but the skills from his humanities degree are needed more than ever

Bill Winters, the CEO of Standard Chartered, said the MBA he received from the University of Pennsylvanias Wharton School wasnt the best use of his time

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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · Jun 25

Here's the ultra-short read on the Mamdani logo design www.gq.com/story/zohran...

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · Jun 25

Socialism is what they called public power.

Socialism is what they called social security.

Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations.

Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people.

—Harry Truman, 1952

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Tricia Starks @tricia-starks.bsky.social · Jun 25

The Baker-Burton-Smith Prize Committee of the European History Section of the Southern Historical Association is accepting nominations up to August 1 for the Charles E. Smith Prize. The prize will be awarded at the SHA meeting November 5-8, 2025 in St. Pete Beach, Florida. Find out more here:

Call for Nominations: Baker-Burton Award | H-Net

The Baker-Burton-Smith Prize Committee of the European History Section of the Southern Historical Association is currently accepting nominations for the Charles E. Smith Prize. The submissions must be...

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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · Jun 21

“One study put that payback time at seven months — not bad considering the typical 20- to 25-year lifespan of a wind turbine.” Paramount this took 1 minute to find, please forward my showrunner fee. yaleclimateconnections.org/2021/06/what...

What's the carbon footprint of a wind turbine? » Yale Climate Connections

Wind energy is remarkably climate-friendly.

yaleclimateconnections.org

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Raywat Deonandan @deonandan.bsky.social · Jun 20

The HPV vaccine is/was on the precipice of eliminating entire classes of cancer.

This is what these ghouls want to take from us.

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Tricia Starks @tricia-starks.bsky.social · Jun 18

Oh for that you MAKE time

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Tricia Starks @tricia-starks.bsky.social · Jun 16

The disgusting moves from this administration keep rolling in….

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

‘Extremely disturbing and unethical’: new rules allow VA doctors to refuse to treat Democrats, unmarried veterans

Trump order allows VA staff to decline providing healthcare to patients based on political affiliation or marital status

www.theguardian.com

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Tricia Starks @tricia-starks.bsky.social · Jun 10

The toys of war.

“This is a protracted war, so the state and Vladimir Putin need boys, even from kindergarten, to already be preparing for the future battlefield.”

‘Plush Troops’: The Pro-War Children’s Toys Taking Over Russia’s Online Marketplaces - The Moscow Times

“In this strategy game, you lead a battalion aiming to liberate Ukraine from Nazi rule,” reads the description of Russia’s first board game about the war in Ukraine. The game, called “Special Operati...

www.themoscowtimes.com

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Tiff Weinkopff @tiffweinkopff.bsky.social · Jun 7

“universities contributed patents underpinning 50% of FDA-approved drugs…

NIH-funded basic science has contributed to the development of more than 90% of new medicines, vaccines, and devices…

75% of scientists in America were considering leaving the country.”

www.statnews.com/2025/06/06/u...

We set out to quantify U.S. academic contributions to medicines. The results stunned even us

From 2020 to 2024, universities contributed patents underpinning 50% of FDA-approved drugs. 87% of those academic breakthroughs came from American institutions.

www.statnews.com

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Tricia Starks @tricia-starks.bsky.social · Jun 8

Students from National History Day competitions, events funded by the NEH and imperiled by cuts, testify as to how history helps them understand the present.

Opinion | 13 students on what studying history taught them about the present

Progress can be undone. There’s plenty we don’t know. But change is possible.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · Jun 5

If you had told me the bitchiest moment of Pride Month would be this...

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