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Dispatches from the Lowest Ethereal Plane of Academia. My Wu Tang name is The Respected Magician. I also know what Soylent Green is made of...
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NIH cancels participation in Safe to Sleep campaign that decreased infant deaths 7/10
www.statnews.com/2025/04/30/n...
NIH cancels participation in Safe to Sleep campaign that decreased infant deaths
NIH has cancelled its participation in Safe to Sleep, a 30-year campaign to prevent babies from dying in their sleep
www.statnews.com
May 1, 2025 at 11:50 PM
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NIH is freezing funds for research abroad, threatening thousands of projects. 9/10
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Exclusive: NIH to suspend funds for research abroad as it overhauls policy
Move by US biomedical agency threatens thousands of projects on infectious diseases, cancer and more.
www.nature.com
May 1, 2025 at 11:50 PM
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Nature reports that the National Science Foundation has stopped awarding new grants and allotting funds to existing ones. All of them. @colincarlson.bsky.social says that unless the freeze is lifted, it “is going to destroy people's labs.” 2/10
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Exclusive: NSF stops awarding new grants and funding existing ones
US science funder also plans to screen grant applications for compliance with ‘agency priorities’.
www.nature.com
May 1, 2025 at 11:50 PM
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My heart goes out to all of the good folks within NIH who are dealing with shit more directly.

I am so sorry that you, your colleagues, and the institution that you love are being treated with such disrespect.

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two dogs are sitting next to each other on a window sill and one of them is looking at the other .
ALT: two dogs are sitting next to each other on a window sill and one of them is looking at the other .
media.tenor.com
April 2, 2025 at 12:25 AM
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Female colugos glide to forage, but males travel greater distances to not only feed but to defend territories and search for mates. Moms carry their baby during gliding, and as the baby gets bigger, gliding distances get shorter (Byrnes et al. 2011) #2025MMM
March 25, 2025 at 12:15 AM
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I’m really sorry.
March 23, 2025 at 1:50 AM