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This perfectly encapsulates how I feel living in the US. The republican party is an insane death cult, the democratic party is 3 corporations in a trench coat, and the "socialists" are just the completely normal left-wing capitalists you'd find in any of 2 dozen European nations.
Europeans recognize Zohran Mamdani’s supposedly radical policies as ‘normal’
Critics of New York City’s mayor-elect have said his pledges of free bus service and universal childcare are unrealistic, but in Europe it’s a given
www.theguardian.com
November 8, 2025 at 5:18 AM
This perfectly encapsulates how I feel living in the US. The republican party is an insane death cult, the democratic party is 3 corporations in a trench coat, and the "socialists" are just the completely normal left-wing capitalists you'd find in any of 2 dozen European nations.
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Some journals are claiming that you need to pay big $$ for gold open access to comply with NIH's new public access policy. FYI that is total bs. You can comply by depositing the Accepted Manuscript into PubMed Central on the Date of Publication without embargo. Pass it on.
July 26, 2025 at 12:52 AM
Some journals are claiming that you need to pay big $$ for gold open access to comply with NIH's new public access policy. FYI that is total bs. You can comply by depositing the Accepted Manuscript into PubMed Central on the Date of Publication without embargo. Pass it on.
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Marjorie Taylor Greene doesn't want you to know the name of her opponent but will try every desperate attempt to save her seat.
My name is Shawn Harris. I am a Democrat, husband, father, Retired Brigadier General, farmer, and I'm running against MTG. Can you spread the word?
My name is Shawn Harris. I am a Democrat, husband, father, Retired Brigadier General, farmer, and I'm running against MTG. Can you spread the word?
June 30, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Marjorie Taylor Greene doesn't want you to know the name of her opponent but will try every desperate attempt to save her seat.
My name is Shawn Harris. I am a Democrat, husband, father, Retired Brigadier General, farmer, and I'm running against MTG. Can you spread the word?
My name is Shawn Harris. I am a Democrat, husband, father, Retired Brigadier General, farmer, and I'm running against MTG. Can you spread the word?
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🚨 A new rule would let career scientists like NSF/NIH program officers be replaced by political appointees
Already 14,000+ public comments, deadline is Friday
📣 Comments can be short. Courts consider them—and scientists with NSF/NIH experience are especially impactful
Speak up! shorturl.at/WKuBj
Already 14,000+ public comments, deadline is Friday
📣 Comments can be short. Courts consider them—and scientists with NSF/NIH experience are especially impactful
Speak up! shorturl.at/WKuBj
May 21, 2025 at 5:39 PM
🚨 A new rule would let career scientists like NSF/NIH program officers be replaced by political appointees
Already 14,000+ public comments, deadline is Friday
📣 Comments can be short. Courts consider them—and scientists with NSF/NIH experience are especially impactful
Speak up! shorturl.at/WKuBj
Already 14,000+ public comments, deadline is Friday
📣 Comments can be short. Courts consider them—and scientists with NSF/NIH experience are especially impactful
Speak up! shorturl.at/WKuBj
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people need to internalize, very quickly, that federal research grants are a hypercompetitive contracting process not charity, and that what Uncle Sam gets in return for that money is American dominance in the future
May 18, 2025 at 3:31 AM
people need to internalize, very quickly, that federal research grants are a hypercompetitive contracting process not charity, and that what Uncle Sam gets in return for that money is American dominance in the future
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For the first time, a person has been given a gene-editing treatment to correct their specific mutation - the treatment won't work for anyone else #CRISPR 🧪
The challenge now is making such treatments affordable to the millions who need them
www.newscientist.com/article/2480...
The challenge now is making such treatments affordable to the millions who need them
www.newscientist.com/article/2480...
Baby with rare disease given world-first personal CRISPR gene therapy
An infant with a severe genetic condition has shown signs of improvement after receiving a gene-editing treatment tailored to his specific mutation
www.newscientist.com
May 16, 2025 at 9:50 AM
For the first time, a person has been given a gene-editing treatment to correct their specific mutation - the treatment won't work for anyone else #CRISPR 🧪
The challenge now is making such treatments affordable to the millions who need them
www.newscientist.com/article/2480...
The challenge now is making such treatments affordable to the millions who need them
www.newscientist.com/article/2480...
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The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of starstuff.
- Carl Sagan, Cosmos
- Carl Sagan, Cosmos
May 11, 2025 at 6:24 PM
The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of starstuff.
- Carl Sagan, Cosmos
- Carl Sagan, Cosmos
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FYI: The Spencer Foundation, Kapor Foundation, The William T. Grant Foundation, and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation have collaborated to offer $25K rapid response grants.
"This rapid response bridge funding opportunity is for scholars and teams whose grants have recently been cancelled by NSF."
"This rapid response bridge funding opportunity is for scholars and teams whose grants have recently been cancelled by NSF."
Rapid Response Bridge Funding Program
In the face of recent abrupt shifts in federal funding for education research, including large-scale terminations of National Science Foundation (NSF) research grant awards, we have developed a rap...
www.spencer.org
May 2, 2025 at 9:16 PM
FYI: The Spencer Foundation, Kapor Foundation, The William T. Grant Foundation, and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation have collaborated to offer $25K rapid response grants.
"This rapid response bridge funding opportunity is for scholars and teams whose grants have recently been cancelled by NSF."
"This rapid response bridge funding opportunity is for scholars and teams whose grants have recently been cancelled by NSF."
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SaveNSF is a coalition of concerned scientists and allies who are working to save funding for scientific grants through the NSF.
The mission is to support and advocate for the continuation of vital research and innovation.
Join: www.savensf.com
The mission is to support and advocate for the continuation of vital research and innovation.
Join: www.savensf.com
Home | Savensf
www.savensf.com
May 3, 2025 at 1:03 AM
SaveNSF is a coalition of concerned scientists and allies who are working to save funding for scientific grants through the NSF.
The mission is to support and advocate for the continuation of vital research and innovation.
Join: www.savensf.com
The mission is to support and advocate for the continuation of vital research and innovation.
Join: www.savensf.com
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The Human Genome Project cost taxpayers $3 Billion.
Two decades on, it has generated a staggering return on investment of $1 Trillion, with benefits in medicine, agriculture, energy, the environment, & more.
If you want to boost the economy, funding science is one of the best things you could do.
Two decades on, it has generated a staggering return on investment of $1 Trillion, with benefits in medicine, agriculture, energy, the environment, & more.
If you want to boost the economy, funding science is one of the best things you could do.
May 2, 2025 at 7:00 PM
The Human Genome Project cost taxpayers $3 Billion.
Two decades on, it has generated a staggering return on investment of $1 Trillion, with benefits in medicine, agriculture, energy, the environment, & more.
If you want to boost the economy, funding science is one of the best things you could do.
Two decades on, it has generated a staggering return on investment of $1 Trillion, with benefits in medicine, agriculture, energy, the environment, & more.
If you want to boost the economy, funding science is one of the best things you could do.
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My quote of the day
Faith and science can be united in charity if science is put at the service of the men and women of our time, and not distorted to their detriment or even destruction.
Pope Francis, June 2024
Faith and science can be united in charity if science is put at the service of the men and women of our time, and not distorted to their detriment or even destruction.
Pope Francis, June 2024
April 21, 2025 at 10:04 AM
My quote of the day
Faith and science can be united in charity if science is put at the service of the men and women of our time, and not distorted to their detriment or even destruction.
Pope Francis, June 2024
Faith and science can be united in charity if science is put at the service of the men and women of our time, and not distorted to their detriment or even destruction.
Pope Francis, June 2024
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Happy to walk anyone through this. Our grants are proposed work. We often budget for things like salaries, student tuition, and equipment and consumables (in my field). We work on tight margins - we're often asked to "trim" or modify budgets because program officers try to spread the money.
Ok so yeah, this has quickly become the #1 misunderstanding about the canceled grants
the grants are not “subsidies” or “entitlements” to Harvard or Princeton or whatever
they aren’t going into universities’ endowments
they are competitive contracts won by these universities to do research
the grants are not “subsidies” or “entitlements” to Harvard or Princeton or whatever
they aren’t going into universities’ endowments
they are competitive contracts won by these universities to do research
There is a PR narrative quickly emerging about “entitlement” of elite universities, as if this $ is some sort of subsidy
Harvard & others must counter this quickly
The $ doesn’t flow into Harvard’s coffers - this is grant money, most of which goes to research the govt has agreed has social value
Harvard & others must counter this quickly
The $ doesn’t flow into Harvard’s coffers - this is grant money, most of which goes to research the govt has agreed has social value
April 20, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Happy to walk anyone through this. Our grants are proposed work. We often budget for things like salaries, student tuition, and equipment and consumables (in my field). We work on tight margins - we're often asked to "trim" or modify budgets because program officers try to spread the money.
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The BIO Blogs are retiring; see NSF IOS’s here: iosblog.nsfbio.com/2025/04/08/b...
Blog Retirement
With alternative methods for sharing information with the research community, we are retiring this blog. To keep up-to-date on the Division of Integrative and Organismal Systems (IOS) news, please …
iosblog.nsfbio.com
April 10, 2025 at 3:36 PM
The BIO Blogs are retiring; see NSF IOS’s here: iosblog.nsfbio.com/2025/04/08/b...
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U of Michigan @umich.edu set aside funds from central to support researchers with unexpected disruption in federal funding for up to 6 months.
Are any other institutions doing this? Seems like a good move.
#Medsky #NIH #federalfunding #researchfunding 🧪
record.umich.edu/articles/uni...
Are any other institutions doing this? Seems like a good move.
#Medsky #NIH #federalfunding #researchfunding 🧪
record.umich.edu/articles/uni...
University launches new research support program | The University Record
record.umich.edu
March 14, 2025 at 6:31 PM
U of Michigan @umich.edu set aside funds from central to support researchers with unexpected disruption in federal funding for up to 6 months.
Are any other institutions doing this? Seems like a good move.
#Medsky #NIH #federalfunding #researchfunding 🧪
record.umich.edu/articles/uni...
Are any other institutions doing this? Seems like a good move.
#Medsky #NIH #federalfunding #researchfunding 🧪
record.umich.edu/articles/uni...
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Post a meme made by you
March 10, 2025 at 6:12 AM
Post a meme made by you
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"The mythology of founders and Silicon Valley too often obscures the indispensable role of American taxpayers in the innovation economy"—my recent remarks to @bloomberg.com about the critical importance of federally funded research. www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
Trump’s Big Gamble on the Future of AI Development
The new administration rethinks public funding for research, leaving it to private companies to chart the path ahead.
www.bloomberg.com
March 8, 2025 at 8:36 AM
"The mythology of founders and Silicon Valley too often obscures the indispensable role of American taxpayers in the innovation economy"—my recent remarks to @bloomberg.com about the critical importance of federally funded research. www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
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Rule #8: Present Support of Science as a Means to Meet National and Local Goals.
www.aaas.org/news/top-ten...
www.aaas.org/news/top-ten...
Top Ten Rules For Working With Congress | American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
Scientists can help policymakers make responsible and innovative science policy; here are our tips for working with your Member of Congress.
www.aaas.org
March 8, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Rule #8: Present Support of Science as a Means to Meet National and Local Goals.
www.aaas.org/news/top-ten...
www.aaas.org/news/top-ten...
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The National Science Foundation benefits communities in every state.
March 2, 2025 at 11:02 PM
The National Science Foundation benefits communities in every state.
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2 lies I hear from the right about the federal government:
"The federal government has gotten so bloated!"
The federal government is the same size it was when Kennedy was president.
"Reagan was the last president to cut the federal government!"
There were MORE fed employees when he left office.
"The federal government has gotten so bloated!"
The federal government is the same size it was when Kennedy was president.
"Reagan was the last president to cut the federal government!"
There were MORE fed employees when he left office.
March 5, 2025 at 1:09 AM
2 lies I hear from the right about the federal government:
"The federal government has gotten so bloated!"
The federal government is the same size it was when Kennedy was president.
"Reagan was the last president to cut the federal government!"
There were MORE fed employees when he left office.
"The federal government has gotten so bloated!"
The federal government is the same size it was when Kennedy was president.
"Reagan was the last president to cut the federal government!"
There were MORE fed employees when he left office.