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Biostatistician. Trying my best not to be online.

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Q @adsl23.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
They’ve never been humbled by biology
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Noam Ross @noamross.net · 07/10/2026
Trump announced $100M to train U.S. citizen scientists only. www.bloomberg.com/news/article... These are not new funds. NSF underspent its education funds by $100M this past year. Of course, it pales in comparison to the $560M lost due to terminated NSF education grants: grantwitness.org/nsf 🧪
Trump Makes $100 Million Push to Train American Scientists

By Liam Knox
October 7, 2026 at 7:00 PM UTC

The Trump administration is injecting more than $100 million into education programs for American researchers in STEM fields, as federal policies stanch the flow of foreign scientists to the US and policymakers focus on an AI arms race with China.
The initiative, which President Donald Trump is set to announce at a White House summit on Thursday, aims to increase the number of highly trained scientific researchers who are American citizens through fellowships for PhD programs in science and engineering disciplines, according to a White House official.
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Disco Elysium Quotes @discoelysiumbot.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
YOU - By the way, I'm a fascist. THE DESERTER - You're not. You're part of the meat shield surrounding the *real* fascists, while they rape children. That's what *you* are.
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Q @adsl23.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
This tweet applies to {emmeans} 😭
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caroline cash @cashbrowns.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Nancy 9/7/26 … Happy Labor Day 🛠️
8 Hours for Work, 8 Hours for Rest, 8 Hours for What We Will. Based on a screenprint by Ricardo Levins Morales after the organizing work done by Robert Owen.
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Daniel Ahmad @zhugeex.com · 04/09/2026
It takes you 20 paragraphs to get to the part of the article where they admit that Mamdani isn't paying the influencers and the reason they are posting videos of the stuff Mamdani is doing is because people are interested in watching it.
The mayor’s office says that it does not pay the influencers. Still, their proximity and access to a figure as popular as Mr. Mamdani can help increase their own social media following and, by extension, potentially put them in a position to attract paid content sponsorships from commercial brands. Some influencers said that when they feature Mr. Mamdani, the videos get more likes and viewers watch longer.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
But if traditional media don't cover Mamdani's good government work, it reduces the chances he will get a political return on this, and so he is incentivized to move away from it. If you are a Mayor not getting coverage for good government work from old media, of course you reach out to influencers!
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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Dependency is the goal.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
A succinct verdict on the persecution of the poor young academic who just died by suicide. Plagiarism is common. Persecution of the kind he endured is uncommon, aka selectively applied. The reason why he was targeted seems as clear as it is ugly.
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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
he'd love to turn this into a little run on the right-wing podcast circuit and a more impressive career. but all he really did was hit "post" on someone else's information.
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MagnoliaBouton @magnoliabouton.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
NIH plans to block international researchers on visas from accessing key funding avenue: the K99/R00. Devastating news for the international research training community, who strongly contribute to US biomedical research. All will feel this great loss! www.statnews.com/2026/08/07/n...
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NIH plans to block international researchers on visas from accessing key funding avenue
The NIH plans to close the door on one of the few pathways available to international students on visas to forge a career in biomedical research in the U.S.
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Julia Raifman, ScD @juliaraifman.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
The health, social, & economic disruptions of the pandemic were challenging for each of us & our shared society Grateful to all who did their best to help us through this historic period May we one day have more constructive reflection on what we may learn to strengthen our collective way forward
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'I still have nightmares every night' — health workers struggle with PTSD symptoms as coronavirus takes toll
Health care workers are fighting a new battle regarding their mental health and well-being due to Covid-19, as deaths have recently topped 120,000 people.
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Flo Débarre @flodebarre.eurosky.social · 28/07/2026
"Neither HHS nor Paul’s committee alerted Fauci ahead of time that they had obtained his diary and that they planned to publish it in full, according to a person familiar with the matter." This is so vile
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Diary entries, a subpoena and an anticipated clash: Dr. Anthony Fauci and Rand Paul’s long-running battle returns to the Hill | CNN Politics
Even before the US enacted a national shutdown due to the Covid-19 pandemic, Dr. Anthony Fauci pondered whether he might have testified before Congress more than any other official.
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Q @adsl23.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
senior male academics, realizing it’s now their time to ask a question (actually more or a comment)
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Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · 17/07/2026
We need 2-3 more writers with a science-y backgrounds to help us turn news chaos into orderly information on @unbreaking.org's infectious disease control, food safety, and medical research funding pages. The commitment is a few hours every couple of weeks. Is this you? 🌱 unbreaking.org/how-to-help/
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How to help — Unbreaking
Documenting damage and resistance. Unflooding the zone.
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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 16/07/2026
This is shitty on a bunch of levels but friendly reminder we depend on Canada and vice versa to help fight fires. This kind of rhetoric isn't helping anything.
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Q @adsl23.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
I don't know what it says about me but I watched all three and cried only with Pom Poko
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Q @adsl23.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Semi-related, but the best animated movie about the environment would be Pom Poko (1994). Come for the tanuki testicle jokes, stay for the absolutely devastating existential dread.
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Megan O'Matz @megomatz.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Public money is fueling a huge growth in private schools. There's no real tracking or monitoring so @propublica.org embarked on a count, finding new schools in barns, addiction treatment centers, co-working spaces, churches & a family fun center. www.propublica.org/article/priv...
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Public Money Is Fueling an Explosion of Private Schools. States Often Don’t Care How They’re Run.
As private schools proliferate, states are choosing a hands-off approach to regulating them. The backgrounds of school founders — sometimes with criminal histories — often don’t matter
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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Cyclospora can have a glass of wine while it’s pregnant, as a treat
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 14/07/2026
shoutout the chucklefuck pundit who insisted once that “environmental racism” was a nonsense term
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EMILY WILSON @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
7. It may be helpful to think of traditional forms familiar to us: folk tales, fairy tales, ballads. Phrases like "over the hills and far away", or "For the sake of auld lang syne", or "Once upon a time" aren't modern, they're traditional, magical, not chatty - but they're not High Literary.
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Bethany Brookshire @beebrookshire.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Good morning. Today is the LAST DAY to comment on the proposed OMB rule that will, honestly, destroy science in the US. And it will do FAR MORE THAN THAT. www.theverge.com/science/9576...
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The war against ‘woke’ could end US science as we know it
‘Everyone will be affected, not just scientists. Every community in the country.’
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Q @adsl23.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
I personally use Nobara, whose auto-patching broke once in the past two years I’ve been using (had to go on the Discord for help), but other more stable distros are easier to use AND they have bundled Nvidia drivers (a big issue in Linux Gaming)
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Q @adsl23.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Linux Gaming is also pretty good these days as well, especially through Steam. It’s not 100% plug and play, but for every 10 games (not req. root anti-cheat), 8 would work OOTB, 1 would require changing proton version, and 1 would require a bit more workarounds that might be patched in later.
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Karen James @kejames.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
This morning in Biddeford, Maine, ICE agents fatally shot a Colombian man who was authorized to work in the U.S. and had an SSN. He may have been ordered to leave the country, but even if so, the penalty for not complying is NOT DEATH. It’s not even a criminal offense; it’s a civil one.
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 12/07/2026
Elon Musk’s cuts to U.S.A.I.D. led to some 700,000 deaths, Atul Gawande says. www.newyorker.com/news/the-new...
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The Human Cost of DOGE’s War on U.S.A.I.D.
Elon Musk, Donald Trump, and the “public man-made death” that they’ve caused.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
This is a really good explainer about the mortality estimates around USAID. One big point is that dismantling USAID also dismantled one of the main sources of mortality data in some of these regions. Early indicators of mortality are very worrying.
I met with, first of all, a woman named Angelina David, who is the clinical manager in Panyijiar for the International Rescue Committee clinics. She was overseeing the clinics that were shut down and could tell me exactly what happened. It was a complete shutdown, and a scramble, because there were medicines and other things on the shelves they didn’t want looted, so they had to get out to these places—and they’re very far away. You have to travel, in some cases, seven or eight hours in order to get to the extent of what’s there.

I then went and visited some of those facilities, and I connected, with her help, to the subcounty chiefs—they’re called the payam administrators—who keep their own records of deaths. So one of the things I found was that their own records showed that they are measuring an over-all tenfold increase in child and adult deaths.

Wait. A tenfold increase?

Yes.
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
ChatGPT posters and flyers are polluting real life and driving me insane. Please respond to this with the worst ones you've seen irl. I'll post some in the thread www.404media.co/we-are-livin...
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We Are Living in a ‘ChatGPT Flyer Pandemic’
"Hey if this is your flyer, I’m not going, I’m not donating, I’m not sharing. Don’t ask me."
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abdullah @ashihipar.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
school boards should get those electronic boards when they have a substitute teacher
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Dara Lind @daralind.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
The eternal cycle of “it’s so over —> we’re so back —> it’s so over —> we’re so back.”
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
the mainstream media who backed cuomo for mayor really intentionally obscured what a corrupt piece of shit he is
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Grant Brisbee @grantbrisbee.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
the boys from hanson with a speech bubble
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Ursula K. Le Guin @ursulakleguin.com · 29/06/2026
We're thrilled to present the shortlist for the 2026 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction:
A bouquet of flowers next to a stack of books that includes:

Audition by Pip Adam (Coffee House Press)
Sunward by William Alexander (Saga Press)
Call and Response by Christopher Caldwell (Neon Hemlock)
Midnight Timetable by Bora Chung, translated by Anton Hur (Algonquin)
The Works of Vermin by Hiron Ennes (Tor Books)
Notes from a Regicide by Isaac Fellman (Tor Books)
Mad Sisters of Esi by Tashan Mehta (DAW Books)
One Message Remains by Premee Mohamed (Psychopomp)
Slow Gods by Claire North (Orbit)
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sara m. b. simon @sarambsimon.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
ICYMI: my new article explores the early history of u.s. electronic death registration systems. it's a story about trying to improve both data quality and ease of data entry. turns out, those goals were in tension
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Grant Stoner @supercrip1994.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
One of the most devastating stories to read. This is what happens when mega studios continue to just consume smaller studios. The amount of creativity we are losing is absolutely immeasurable
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
ICE agents are torturing a green card holder from New Hampshire, his mother says www.nhpr.org/nh-news/2025...
A New Hampshire man with a green card was detained by immigration officers at Logan Airport and is being held by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement at the Donald W. Wyatt detention facility in Central Falls, Rhode Island.

Fabian Schmidt’s family said they are unsure of why he is being held. They said he has a recently renewed green card, and no active issues in court.

Schmidt had been visiting Luxembourg and flew back to the U.S. on Friday. His partner had gone to pick him up at Logan Airport, and waited four hours before calling authorities.

“It was just said that his green card was flagged,” said Astrid Senior, his mother. She said she didn’t hear from her son directly until Tuesday, when she learned he’d been hospitalized.

Senior described Schmidt being “violently interrogated” at Logan Airport for hours, and being stripped naked, put in a cold shower by two officials, and being put back onto a chair.

She said Schmidt told her immigration agents pressured him to give up his green card. She said he was placed on a mat in a bright room with other people at the airport, with little food or water, suffered sleep deprivation, and was denied access to his medication for anxiety and depression.
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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 12/03/2025
Lets replace search with "AI" then! Totally logical if you ask me. Even more worth it when you know they're exponentially overtaking the airline industry in their carbon footprint. Study: www.cjr.org/tow_center/w...
Tweet by Gisele Navarro @ichbinGisele

"“Collectively, the AI search engines provided incorrect answers to more than 60% of queries.” ~ @CJR

Screenoshot of an image showing "Generative search tools were often confidently wrong in our study" showing baplots of different offerings like ChatGPT, Perplexity and Deepseek, and showing the percentage of wrong answers in red and right ones in green.
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Nick Seaver @nickseaver.website · 12/03/2025
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
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Captain Weedlord Bonerchamp @weedlordbonerchamp.hellthread.vet · 05/03/2025
For lent I'm just giving up
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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 01/03/2025
i forgot i made this back in 2022 (someone just posted it on linkedin). startling to realise it still holds now in 2025 (kindly ignore the typo)
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M.J. Crockett @mjcrockett.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
Here is a resource for scientists that I will do my best to keep up to date. Please share! docs.google.com/document/d/1... /end
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Ethical Costs and Epistemic Risks of LLMs
Ethical Costs and Epistemic Risks of LLMs: A Resource for Psychology Researchers M.J. Crockett, Department of Psychology, Princeton University Last updated: 2/17/25 Psychologists are increasingly us...
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Q @adsl23.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
My most recent favorite museum is the Cincinnati Museum of Science purely because it is in a former train station
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Jeremy Yoder says no war @jbyoder.org · 14/02/2025
That is to say, building public trust with clear general-audience communication about the process of science and its results is important … but it cannot overcome a multibillion dollar organized effort to undermine public trust in science
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Tade "Will Eat Your Heart in the Marketplace" Thompson @tadethompson.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
This shouldn't be something that needs saying in this century, but 🤷🏾. Measles can purge your body's immunity library. So if the young one you look after gets measles, they may lose the immunity conferred by previous vaccinations (or infections like chicken pox). Adults can get measles too.
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Jon Levy @jonlevybu.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
A few factoids about NIH grants: - The max salary NIH will pay is capped ($221,900) - The max budget for an R01 (the standard research grant) is $500K, unchanged since 1993 (!) - Only 1 in 5 submitted grants are funded, after intense peer review NIH is a careful steward of taxpayer money.
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Dr. Michelle Lynn Kahn @michellelkahn.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
We are likely about to see a mass purging of archival documents and restricted access to researchers. This will be part of the regime’s effort to rewrite history itself.
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Lauren Parlett, PhD @laurenparlett.com · 04/02/2025
🧪 I'm aggregating all of the places that I'm seeing collect public health data. Please repost and signal boost so that data can be downloaded and shared! If you know of more places that have data that has been stripped, please comment here or on the post. www.laurenparlett.com/index.php?p=...
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Home | Lauren Elizabeth Parlett, PhD - Epidemiologist
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Niema Moshiri @niema.net · 05/02/2025
Wayback links to www.fda.gov URLs added! You will probably need to use an external Markdown renderer to view the "Wayback Links" document for this one since it's too long (does anyone know an online Markdown viewer that can be given a GitHub file URL?) github.com/Niema-Lab/Go...
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GitHub - Niema-Lab/Government-Wayback: Unofficial repository storing links to Wayback Machine for government pages
Unofficial repository storing links to Wayback Machine for government pages - Niema-Lab/Government-Wayback
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