Bitter Scientist
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Bullying leaves scars you can’t
always see. It steals confidence,
joy, and the simple belief that you’re
enough. I’ve lived it, and I know how
heavy it can feel. But I’ve also learned
this: being kind to yourself and
others has the power to heal.
always see. It steals confidence,
joy, and the simple belief that you’re
enough. I’ve lived it, and I know how
heavy it can feel. But I’ve also learned
this: being kind to yourself and
others has the power to heal.
November 10, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Bullying leaves scars you can’t
always see. It steals confidence,
joy, and the simple belief that you’re
enough. I’ve lived it, and I know how
heavy it can feel. But I’ve also learned
this: being kind to yourself and
others has the power to heal.
always see. It steals confidence,
joy, and the simple belief that you’re
enough. I’ve lived it, and I know how
heavy it can feel. But I’ve also learned
this: being kind to yourself and
others has the power to heal.
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If you are a scientist and not out in the street Saturday, you are
jeopardizing your own future. Join us! We have power when we band together
jeopardizing your own future. Join us! We have power when we band together
And if this bothers you as much as it bothers me, please find the nearest #NoKings protest and join in solidarity.
We are meant to have checks on the power of the president and if Congress and the Court won't do it, the people must: www.nokings.org
We are meant to have checks on the power of the president and if Congress and the Court won't do it, the people must: www.nokings.org
October 16, 2025 at 6:07 PM
If you are a scientist and not out in the street Saturday, you are
jeopardizing your own future. Join us! We have power when we band together
jeopardizing your own future. Join us! We have power when we band together
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"...the scientific system was never designed for equity..."
www.nature.com
September 18, 2025 at 3:45 PM
"...the scientific system was never designed for equity..."
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The Nation pulls NO punches, from @espiers.bsky.social
"There's no requirement to take part in this whitewashing campaign. Refusing to join in doesn’t make anyone a bad person. It’s a choice to write an obituary that begins “Joseph Goebbels was a gifted marketer and loving father to six children.”
"There's no requirement to take part in this whitewashing campaign. Refusing to join in doesn’t make anyone a bad person. It’s a choice to write an obituary that begins “Joseph Goebbels was a gifted marketer and loving father to six children.”
Charlie Kirk’s Legacy Deserves No Mourning
The white Christian nationalist provocateur wasn’t a promoter of civil discourse. He preached hate, bigotry, and division
www.thenation.com
September 13, 2025 at 2:39 AM
The Nation pulls NO punches, from @espiers.bsky.social
"There's no requirement to take part in this whitewashing campaign. Refusing to join in doesn’t make anyone a bad person. It’s a choice to write an obituary that begins “Joseph Goebbels was a gifted marketer and loving father to six children.”
"There's no requirement to take part in this whitewashing campaign. Refusing to join in doesn’t make anyone a bad person. It’s a choice to write an obituary that begins “Joseph Goebbels was a gifted marketer and loving father to six children.”
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"The sad truth is that white supremacy is not a deal breaker for many white liberals."
'No Humans Involved': Ezra Klein and the Logic of White Liberal Sympathy
The Charlie Kirk Debate — A Requiem for America’s Beloved Preachers of Hate.
wordsbybibbs.substack.com
September 12, 2025 at 4:14 PM
"The sad truth is that white supremacy is not a deal breaker for many white liberals."
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When intelligent public thinkers, such as Ezra Klein, valorize “Kirk as an example of, “practicing politics in exactly the right way,” . . .we are reminded that the blind spot many white liberals have when it comes to overlooking racism can never be overstated.”
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'No Humans Involved': Ezra Klein and the Logic of White Liberal Sympathy
The Charlie Kirk Debate — A Requiem for America’s Beloved Preachers of Hate.
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September 12, 2025 at 1:41 PM
When intelligent public thinkers, such as Ezra Klein, valorize “Kirk as an example of, “practicing politics in exactly the right way,” . . .we are reminded that the blind spot many white liberals have when it comes to overlooking racism can never be overstated.”
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"Science is under siege from weaponised disinformation – posing a threat to human civilisation" | My oped in the @theguardian.com with @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social on our new book #ScienceUnderSiege: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Science is under siege from weaponised disinformation – posing a threat to human civilisation | Michael Mann and Peter Hotez
From Covid misinformation to climate denialism, understanding the divergent paths of Australia and the US can help us fight the powerful forces that threaten our world
www.theguardian.com
September 8, 2025 at 3:23 PM
"Science is under siege from weaponised disinformation – posing a threat to human civilisation" | My oped in the @theguardian.com with @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social on our new book #ScienceUnderSiege: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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John Oliver: "While get the appeal of thinking just one more concession, one more payoff might safeguard your independence or let you live to fight another day, it's worth asking at what point have you compromised so much that
the thing you're supposed to be defending is gone."
the thing you're supposed to be defending is gone."
Trump vs. Higher Education: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
YouTube video by LastWeekTonight
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September 9, 2025 at 12:45 AM
John Oliver: "While get the appeal of thinking just one more concession, one more payoff might safeguard your independence or let you live to fight another day, it's worth asking at what point have you compromised so much that
the thing you're supposed to be defending is gone."
the thing you're supposed to be defending is gone."
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“The idea that campus activists would be suspended en masse for protest activity would have been unthinkable back in 1985 when Columbia divested from apartheid South Africa after years of student protest and pressure. But these are very different times…”
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Columbia punished our kids for protesting against the genocide in Gaza. We condemn the university’s cowardice
We are the parents of students who faced disciplinary actions for pro-Palestine activism. The struggle for liberation will not end with suspensions and expulsions
www.theguardian.com
September 3, 2025 at 12:19 AM
“The idea that campus activists would be suspended en masse for protest activity would have been unthinkable back in 1985 when Columbia divested from apartheid South Africa after years of student protest and pressure. But these are very different times…”
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Science Makes the U.S. a Great Nation: History tells us what happens when great nations attack science www.scientificamerican.com/article/scie...
Science Makes the U.S. a Great Nation
History tells us what happens when great nations attack science
www.scientificamerican.com
July 9, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Science Makes the U.S. a Great Nation: History tells us what happens when great nations attack science www.scientificamerican.com/article/scie...
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The Trump administration, seemingly determined to hobble the NIH, continues to devise new and insidious ways to politicize what has long been considered the crown jewel of US research.
My latest for @opinion.bloomberg.com (🎁 link):
My latest for @opinion.bloomberg.com (🎁 link):
Politicizing Scientific Research Comes With a Hefty Price
More oversight at the National Institutes of Health is slowing down innovation that could meaningfully improve people’s lives.
www.bloomberg.com
August 20, 2025 at 11:56 AM
The Trump administration, seemingly determined to hobble the NIH, continues to devise new and insidious ways to politicize what has long been considered the crown jewel of US research.
My latest for @opinion.bloomberg.com (🎁 link):
My latest for @opinion.bloomberg.com (🎁 link):
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Привет, товарищи! It’s another glorious day in which Trump’s America is increasingly indistinguishable from Stalinist Russia, so I thought an armchair comparative analysis was in order.
Specifically about Jay Bhattacharya's twin from times past, Trofim Lysenko.
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Specifically about Jay Bhattacharya's twin from times past, Trofim Lysenko.
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Bhattacharya is the New Lysenko
Starving the NIH through ineptitude, bitterness, and thirst for revenge
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August 18, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Привет, товарищи! It’s another glorious day in which Trump’s America is increasingly indistinguishable from Stalinist Russia, so I thought an armchair comparative analysis was in order.
Specifically about Jay Bhattacharya's twin from times past, Trofim Lysenko.
open.substack.com/pub/rasmusse...
Specifically about Jay Bhattacharya's twin from times past, Trofim Lysenko.
open.substack.com/pub/rasmusse...
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‘URM faculty received 7% more negative votes & were 44% less likely to receive unanimous votes from P&T committees. A double standard in how scholarly productivity is rewarded is also observed, with below-average h-indexes being judged more harshly for URM faculty than for non-URM faculty.’
Underrepresented minority faculty in the USA face a double standard in promotion and tenure decisions - Nature Human Behaviour
Masters-Waage et al. report that underrepresented minority (URM) faculty in the USA face barriers in the promotion and tenure process, receiving more negative votes and fewer unanimous positive decisi...
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August 15, 2025 at 1:48 AM
‘URM faculty received 7% more negative votes & were 44% less likely to receive unanimous votes from P&T committees. A double standard in how scholarly productivity is rewarded is also observed, with below-average h-indexes being judged more harshly for URM faculty than for non-URM faculty.’
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i will never not be amused by how the conservative world is governed by the kind of “affirmative action” they say happens in mainstream institutions. totally unqualified dipshits are handed the keys to institutions because they say the right thing and have the right look.
An "economist" so dumb I had to explain to him how the import price index works last month will now lead the BLS, kill me
August 11, 2025 at 11:29 PM
i will never not be amused by how the conservative world is governed by the kind of “affirmative action” they say happens in mainstream institutions. totally unqualified dipshits are handed the keys to institutions because they say the right thing and have the right look.
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This Executive Order is a gross overreach of Presidential power and undermines democracy. It steals from taxpayers, will destroy science and the economy, and ultimately, America.
Congress must act now.
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Congress must act now.
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Federal Grantmaking Gets a Christofascist Glow-Up
Read my zero star review of the new Executive Order
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August 8, 2025 at 2:16 PM
This Executive Order is a gross overreach of Presidential power and undermines democracy. It steals from taxpayers, will destroy science and the economy, and ultimately, America.
Congress must act now.
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Congress must act now.
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Didn’t want to believe this was true. It’s true.
August 7, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Didn’t want to believe this was true. It’s true.
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I don't know whether to be more offended by the illegality, the sheer gall, the stupidity, or the amateurish presentation. I'm going to go with the stupidity.
August 7, 2025 at 8:48 PM
I don't know whether to be more offended by the illegality, the sheer gall, the stupidity, or the amateurish presentation. I'm going to go with the stupidity.
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Brandon S. Gaut, the inaugural recipient of the Genetics Society of America Mentorship Award for 2025, shares his journey into academia that shaped his ideas on kind mentorship and fostering an inclusive environment.
Read his story in his own words in #GENETICS: buff.ly/zZBnvPm
Read his story in his own words in #GENETICS: buff.ly/zZBnvPm
August 7, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Brandon S. Gaut, the inaugural recipient of the Genetics Society of America Mentorship Award for 2025, shares his journey into academia that shaped his ideas on kind mentorship and fostering an inclusive environment.
Read his story in his own words in #GENETICS: buff.ly/zZBnvPm
Read his story in his own words in #GENETICS: buff.ly/zZBnvPm
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We already know that overselling findings and “story over substance” are a threat to scientific knowledge production.
I’m extremely worried that the massive restructuring of science funding will reproduce the same hype-dependent dynamic for research.
I’m extremely worried that the massive restructuring of science funding will reproduce the same hype-dependent dynamic for research.
August 3, 2025 at 6:12 PM
We already know that overselling findings and “story over substance” are a threat to scientific knowledge production.
I’m extremely worried that the massive restructuring of science funding will reproduce the same hype-dependent dynamic for research.
I’m extremely worried that the massive restructuring of science funding will reproduce the same hype-dependent dynamic for research.
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the one thing i genuinely did not anticipate from this administration was its vicious, know nothing hostility to any and everything that might even be adjacent to science and scientific research. they genuinely one to destroy the entirety of the nation’s research capacity. and for what, exactly?
If you think I've forgotten about the hurricane satellites, think again. The Navy is permanently unplugging them this week, on the brink of the busiest stretch of the season. There's so much more to this story, and I have the latest scoop. ⬇️
Navy Set to Unplug Critical Hurricane Satellites this Week
Abrupt termination of satellite data by U.S. Department of Defense sends forecasters scrambling for a fix on the brink of the busiest stretch of the hurricane season
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July 29, 2025 at 1:49 PM
the one thing i genuinely did not anticipate from this administration was its vicious, know nothing hostility to any and everything that might even be adjacent to science and scientific research. they genuinely one to destroy the entirety of the nation’s research capacity. and for what, exactly?
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trump is first and foremost a vehicle for delusional extremists — most of whom are total mediocrities — to impose their ideologies on the country, with vought as a paradigmatic example
TAPPER: 14 Republicans say you're risking undermining critical research by holding up NIH funding
VOUGHT: If they were a company, their stock price would in shambles. They in some respects caused the pandemic. You have an entire institute that does nothing more than DEI research at the NIH.
VOUGHT: If they were a company, their stock price would in shambles. They in some respects caused the pandemic. You have an entire institute that does nothing more than DEI research at the NIH.
July 27, 2025 at 2:29 PM
trump is first and foremost a vehicle for delusional extremists — most of whom are total mediocrities — to impose their ideologies on the country, with vought as a paradigmatic example
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I will be more blunt: many of these essayists are “aggrieved” because they were, in some ways, held accountable for their racist and/or misogynistic views or behavior and incorrectly blame “science” and not progress. It’s not a lack of curiosity that fuels this book, it’s resentment
Moving to the present, the choice by Krauss, Coyne, and this coterie of aggrieved essayists to focus exclusively on threats to science from 'The Left' is a choice, one that shows a marked lack of curiosity from a supposedly intellectually curious group.
July 26, 2025 at 4:26 PM
I will be more blunt: many of these essayists are “aggrieved” because they were, in some ways, held accountable for their racist and/or misogynistic views or behavior and incorrectly blame “science” and not progress. It’s not a lack of curiosity that fuels this book, it’s resentment
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when RFK says he wants to “end chronic disease,” what people hear is “he wants to cure us” but what he means is “i want to cull the weak”
Republicans are waging a generalized war on science, but I think many of them don’t fully grok that RFK isn’t at war with science alone or per se: he’s at war with sick people, and of the view that only the lucky should be allowed to survive into old age. They are know nothings, he is Mengele.
RFK Jr. has now officially stated that he will dismantle the United States Preventive ServicesTask Force (USPSTF).
This is an independent body of expert scientists who volunteer their time to review data and provide guidance to Americans on important things like cancer screenings.
This is an independent body of expert scientists who volunteer their time to review data and provide guidance to Americans on important things like cancer screenings.
July 26, 2025 at 1:21 AM
when RFK says he wants to “end chronic disease,” what people hear is “he wants to cure us” but what he means is “i want to cull the weak”
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Good intervention from @brianbeutler.bsky.social demonstrating that liberals need to internalize and act on the idea that right wing bad faith actors "view liberal freedoms as loopholes to exploit in their pursuit of power."
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How Liberalism Sabotages Itself
Our intentional blindness to bad faith is a loophole fascists use to gain respectability and power.
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July 25, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Good intervention from @brianbeutler.bsky.social demonstrating that liberals need to internalize and act on the idea that right wing bad faith actors "view liberal freedoms as loopholes to exploit in their pursuit of power."
www.offmessage.net/p/how-libera...
www.offmessage.net/p/how-libera...