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David Slack @slack2thefuture.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Polymarket lets people bet on wildfires. Wildfires that those samepeople could easily set in order to win money on this illegal gambling site. Big Tech is organized crime.

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Janel Comeau 🍁 @verybadllama.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

every day I wake up and read a headline that sounds like something a concussed writer for The Simpsons would come up with while trying to make an intentionally stupid joke about George Orwell

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Dr. Kareem Carr, Ph.D. @kareemcarr.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

The US government is aiming to get rid of a quarter million people involved in science research and education by 2026. I have no words.

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☀️ Starshine @starshine.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

i remain convinced a f500 company is going to nuke itself by accidently leaking every corporate secret it has. salaries, negotiations r&d, strategy, pii etc etc because of some janky model in like idk a sharepoint plugin

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Shannon Stirone @shannonstirone.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

EVERYTHING ELSE IS A GALAXY *sobs*

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Lisa Fazio @lkfazio.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

Can confirm that my NSF grant "How False Beliefs Form & How to Correct Them" was cancelled today because it is "not in alignment with current NSF priorities" Shocking that understanding how people are misled by false information is now a forbidden topic. Our work will continue but at a smaller scale

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Peter W🤓 @wang.social · 18/04/2025

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aelise.bsky.social @aelise.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

“This should unnerve every American who eats. Our food system is only as safe as our ability to respond to the next plant disease or other emergent threat, and a strong N.P.G.S. is central to our preparedness.” www.nytimes.com/2025/03/22/o...

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Opinion | Why Did Elon Musk Go After Bunkers Full of Seeds? (Gift Article)

Gene banks are like a survivalist cache: our nation’s safeguard against all future challenges to growing the food we need.

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Nigel Goldenfeld @nigelgoldenfeld.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

🧪 www.nytimes.com/2025/03/06/u... Important perspective from @ucsdcooperlab.bsky.social "I think they’re trying to break the academic enterprise. And cutting academic science has impacts on the educational mission of the entire university.” Another reason to #standupforscience

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As Trump Goes After Universities, Students Are Now on the Chopping Block (Gift Article)

Uncertainty about how much money colleges and universities stand to lose has led some schools to reduce the number of doctoral students, in some cases reneging on offers.

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J. Offir, PhD @joffirphd.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

First, they said postponed; now the meeting is canceled. That means no flu shots next year. “'It’s a six-month production cycle,' Dr. Offit said. 'So one can only assume that we’re not picking flu strains this year.'" Fundamentally, that's a form of mass murder. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/26/u...

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F.D.A. Cancels Meeting of Vaccine Experts Scheduled to Advise on Flu Shots

The cancellation plays into fears among scientists who worry that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will use his position as health secretary to sow doubts about vaccines.

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Rory Cellan-Jones @rorycj.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

America, just in case you thought Friday went well here’s how the London Times saw it …..

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John Skiles Skinner @skiles.blue · 01/03/2025

I got laid off today, with the rest of 18F. 18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it. We made this website to tell our story: 18f.org

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We're not done yet | 18F

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Waldo Jaquith @waldo.net · 01/03/2025

18F, the federal government’s technology shop, was just demolished by Musk’s team. It was a cost-recoverable org, charging agencies for their expertise, using a consulting model. Its cost to government was negligible, its benefits huge. My team there once saved DoD $500 million. A thread about 18F:

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WIRED @wired.com · 21/02/2025

After a lifetime on the frontiers of the fight against HIV, researchers can finally see the end of the epidemic in sight. But thanks to the Trump administration’s executive orders, it’s unclear when—or possibly even ever—this breakthrough medicine will see the light of day.

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This New Drug Could Help End the HIV Epidemic—but US Funding Cuts Are Killing Its Rollout

Lenacapavir, a twice yearly injection that prevents HIV transmission, was named the breakthrough medicine of 2024. But without US foreign aid dollars, its delivery to millions worldwide is under threa...

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

What Trump has done for US farmers so far: -frozen their foreign aid program (and left their food to rot) -encouraged EU to ban their products -frozen legally-owed reimbursements for their energy efficiency upgrades etc. -threatened to deport half their workforce -suppressed research on bird flu

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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

Among everything else, what a shitty fate, to have national systems of support dismantled by two men who have never once changed a diaper.

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aelise.bsky.social @aelise.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

The 🌱 garden 🌱 layout app I've been working on is ready for beta testers! If you've been using a garden planner but have been frustrated by the limited database of plant varieties, this one's for you. I have a handful of invites for this first round. DMs open #gardening #gardensky

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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 08/02/2025

Guess what - our Science Moms climate ad made this top ten best (upcoming) Super Bowl ads list! The only nonprofit ad on the list! Warning: do not watch without a tissue www.nytimes.com/2025/02/07/a...

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Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 08/02/2025

USAID used to buy $2B worth of food from US farmers. Now, their food is just rotting away as poor people starve. And next year, many of these same farmers will be farming for government subsidies instead of food. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

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Gutting USAID threatens billions of dollars for U.S. farms, businesses

U.S. businesses that sold goods and services to USAID are in limbo, including American farms dealing in rice, wheat and soybeans.

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Dr. SkySkull @drskyskull.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

A good reminder that part of the reason scientists study “frivolous” things is because they can see potential in those things that the casual observer cannot or will not bother to see

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 09/02/2025

Just saw a farmer say, "you don't have to admit you were wrong, you have to admit you were lied to, " and idk that seems like a good framing to call people in

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

New — The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) was told this week by DOJ that they'd lose their funding if the org didn't remove any mentions of LGBTQIA+ issues from their public materials, I've learned. Staff were told they need to deadname trans kids in their reports to comply.

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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Pam Bondi is disbanding the Foreign Influence Task Force - the FBI team that is charged with combatting foreign meddling in US elections. Worth asking how this makes us more safe in any way, shape, or form.

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

New: We spoke to government IT employees/contractors about DOGE. Their warnings were dire. The people who maintain the systems that keep the country working are terrified. "This is the largest data breach and the largest IT security breach in our country’s history—at least that’s publicly known."

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The Government’s Computing Experts Say They Are Terrified

Four IT professionals lay out just how destructive Elon Musk’s incursion into the U.S. government could be.

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WIRED @wired.com · 06/02/2025

SCOOP: The US Treasury claimed a DOGE's Marco Elez didn’t have ‘write access,’ when he actually did. Sources tell WIRED that his ability to alter code controlling trillions in federal spending was rescinded, days after officials said it didn't exist.

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The US Treasury Claimed DOGE Technologist Didn’t Have ‘Write Access’ When He Actually Did

Sources tell WIRED that the ability of DOGE's Marko Elez to alter code controlling trillions in federal spending was rescinded days after US Treasury and White House officials said it didn't exist.

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Andy Greenberg @agreenberg.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

"Musk will reinvent the US government in the way that the hyperloop reinvented trains, that the Boring company reinvented subways, that Juicero reinvented squeezing. Which is to say he will...offer no solutions beyond those that consolidate his own power and wealth." www.wired.com/story/the-us...

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The US Government Is Not a Startup

Elon Musk is moving fast and breaking things that can’t afford to be broken.

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Dr. Catherine Macdonald @drcatmac.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

A decade of work started to melt away. The horror of losing irreplaceable samples. The science that would no longer be possible (I can’t go get another blood draw from a shark from 2016). THAT is the sort of nightmare unfolding now across Federal labs studying everything from cancer to catfish.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 05/02/2025

they are mostly targeting black employees so this is quite literally just a repeat of woodrow wilson’s segregationist purge of the federal government

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Wild how the category of “women” must both be ruthlessly defended by the right but also stripped from all direct research, support, or institutional funding.

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Megan Ranney MD MPH @meganranney.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Some NIH study sections for tomorrow have just been canceled. Who knows which of these grants would have led to the next life-saving invention. Who knows which scientists will throw in the towel bc of funding delays. Who can even begin to measure the impact of these reckless cancellations.😕🩺🧪🛟

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Larry Ferlazzo @larryferlazzo.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

This piece by Ezra Klein is very thoughtful and worth reading. I hope he is right————Don’t Believe Him www.nytimes.com/2025/02/02/o...

‘This is the weakness of the strategy that Bannon proposed and Trump is following. It is a strategy that forces you into overreach. To keep the zone flooded, you have to keep acting, keep moving, keep creating new cycles of outrage or fear. You overwhelm yourself. And there’s only so much you can do through executive orders. Soon enough, you have to go beyond what you can actually do. And when you do that, you either trigger a constitutional crisis or you reveal your own weakness.

Trump may not see his own fork in the road coming. He may believe he has the power he is claiming. That would be a mistake on his part — a self-deception that could doom his presidency. But the real threat is if he persuades the rest of us to believe he has power he does not have.

The first two weeks of Trump’s presidency have not shown his strength. He is trying to overwhelm you. He is trying to keep you off-balance. He is trying to persuade you of something that isn’t true. Don’t believe him.

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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 02/02/2025

Reminder that if you see someone trying to figure out how to contact their reps, you now have the INCREDIBLY easy to remember URL to give to them: reps.fyi Tell your friends! Tell strangers! Print stickers and put them on things! Crash every voicemail every day. ❤️ (thank you @gregpak.net!)

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Find Your Representative

Find your representatives. Learn how to find and connect with them. Stay informed about their bills, committees, and contributions.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 02/02/2025

is it good or bad that a billionaire oligarch with close ties to foreign dictators is currently downloading the most sensitive information the us federal government has about its citizens to his own private servers?

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aelise.bsky.social @aelise.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Long week. My 🌱 garden 🌱 is my usual go-to when life is crazy and I’m looking for zen. It’s planning season and I’m working through seed packets. It turns out that my seed collection has grown and there is a LOT of info on seed packets… A bit overwhelming sooo I made a thing…

Cropped image of a garden layout editor phone app. There are a few circles each with an icon of a garden plant.

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Blue Heron Farm @blueheronfarm.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Become Colin Robinson. For America.

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Matt Shipman (he/him) @shiplives.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

You don't have to love your job, but you shouldn't hate it. Find something you love and make time for it. (Cooking, music, etc.) Find a form of exercise you enjoy and make time for it. (Running, swimming, weights, whatever.) Ask for help when you need it. Offer help when asked. That's community.

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Laura Helmuth @laurahelmuth.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Just in case anybody has doubts about what "Make America Healthy Again" really means, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. filed a trademark request to use the slogan to market supplements, essential oils & cryptocurrency. Scammity scam-scam scamming scammer. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

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RFK Jr. sought to trademark MAHA for vaccine marketing, transferred to ally

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. transferred ownership of the trademark application in December and its abbreviation — MAHA — to an LLC managed by Del Bigtree.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 30/01/2025

Warren: "He can stand there, smile at you and say, 'anybody can vaccinate their kids who wants to,' but he literally could bankrupt the vaccines manufacturers with the power he will have. And since he's got a financial incentive to do that, we cannot trust him in that job."

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Jeremy Yoder says no war @jbyoder.org · 28/01/2025

To-dos today, as PI of a lab with federal grant support: - confirm our current funding is all already dispersed to the university (pretty sure it is) - update grant-supported folks in the lab - call Congress - try to balance doomscrolling control with keeping informed - hahahahahhaHAhahAh

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Erika Hall @erikahall.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

What do you want there to be more of? Post that.

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TashasEv @tashasev.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

Anybody have a garden planning software they like? 🌱

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

I realize now that I have a “trade deficit” with the store across the street. I walked over and bought a jug of milk. The store is abusing me and I’m tired of subsidizing it by buying something at a fair price that I want. I’m going to apply a tariff that will raise the future price of milk for me.

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Dr. Katharine Dickson @metaomicsnerd.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

I don’t think folks realize just how much each and every academic researcher is a storehouse of knowledge that *needs to eat and pay rent* in order to share it with the world. I am one of frankly not very many people with experience working with rumen eukaryotes and metagenomes containing them.

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Boston Tom Levenson @tomlevenson.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

4/ One of my biggest complaints about mainstream media political coverage is the deep ignorance on display RE the meaning of political acts. It's not just confined to some DC game, who's up or down. US wealth, power, & ability to support its citizens' flourishing are being degraded in real time...

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Boston Tom Levenson @tomlevenson.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

I'm not sure if people realize how quickly the Trumpzis can do enormous damage to US science, from basic research to translation. Really fast. REALLY fast. Labs with decades of irreplaceable domain and technique knowledge can break apart with a surprisingly short funding gap. When they're gone...1/

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Adina Yakup @adinayakup.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

UI-TARS 🔥 series of native GUI agent models (2B/7B/72B) released by ByteDance, combining perception, reasoning, grounding, and memory into one system. Model: huggingface.co/bytedance-re... Paper: huggingface.co/papers/2501....

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bytedance-research (bytedance-research)

Org profile for bytedance-research on Hugging Face, the AI community building the future.

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Neo Kim @systemdesign.one · 22/01/2025

Give me 2 minutes, and I'll teach you how @bsky.app works (not joking):

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