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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15/09/2026
“trump will destroy everything he cannot own in perpetuity” is one reason i am filled with dread over 2028
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Drew Schreiner @schreinerdrew.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
In case you missed it: 🧪 #Neuroskyence #PsychSkySci #AcademicSky #BioSky
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billyfromtheblock.bsky.social @billyfromtheblock.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
@colorado.gov is a garbage person he is a piece of a
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billyfromtheblock.bsky.social @billyfromtheblock.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Yes, and don’t hire anyone on his staff! Anyone with a modicum of decency and honor would have left after this.
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Edward Elderman @elderman.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Peaks In The Arc. Oil on canvas. 1927. 🎨 Wassily Kandinsky.
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Drew Schreiner @schreinerdrew.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Great coverage of our just published paper from Duke School of Medicine!
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 06/05/2026
horrible. this country’s turn away from science based medicine in the name of “wellness” is killing children and will kill a lot more. www.propublica.org/article/more...
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Babies Are Bleeding to Death as Parents Reject a Vitamin Shot Given at Birth
A lifesaving injection given at birth to prevent severe bleeding has become collateral damage of the anti-vaccine movement.
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Ann Kennedy @antihebbiann.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
The Claude Delusion
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 28/04/2026
maybe a hot take? not only is ziggy sobotka a great character and a great performance (RIP james ransone), but looking back from the vantage point of today, "young man struggling with his masculinity and yearning to be recognized as a man commits catastrophic violence" is incredibly prescient.
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Rep. Ted Lieu @reptedlieu.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
The time to do something is now, and we must act.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 07/04/2026
again very funny to think that a critical pro trump message in 2024 was that he wouldn’t start world war iii
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Andrew Hardaway @andrewhardaway.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
Still newish PI, but if we assume that this all an attempt to break the NIH (I do) then the best act of resistance is review grants, as best we can, despite the many flaws in the system. Hold up the system through willfull action. I know it is free work and so time consuming, but nothing else to do?
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Max Heiman @heiman.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
NYT feature on their website's front page about our local C. elegans colleague Will Mair and NIH funding www.nytimes.com/2026/03/13/u...
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His Harvard Lab Was Thriving. Then Came the Cuts.
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Drew Schreiner @schreinerdrew.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
here comes the sun
the sun rising through a leafless forest
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billyfromtheblock.bsky.social @billyfromtheblock.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
@kalshiofficial.bsky.social is a Scam, they will not honor their commitments. their support is useless.
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Kyle Clark @kylec.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Voters in southeastern Colorado overwhelmingly supported President Trump, who just vetoed a clean drinking water project there. Locals are stunned to be caught up in Trump's crusade against Colorado. @marcsallinger.bsky.social reports from Bent County:
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Congresswoman Sara Jacobs @sarajacobs.house.gov · 06/01/2026
Federal inaction and the lack of strong guardrails for AI systems are making women and children less safe online. Companies have proven they can’t or won’t do the right thing so Congress needs to set guardrails for AI to protect people’s rights and safety.
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Elon Musk's Grok AI floods X with sexualized photos of women and minors
When contacted by Reuters for comment by email, xAI replied with the message "Legacy Media Lies."
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Congresswoman Sara Jacobs @sarajacobs.house.gov · 07/01/2026
I don’t ever want to hear any “pro-family” bullshit from this Administration ever again. Cutting off $10 billion for child care in California and 4 other blue states will make kids, parents, families, and providers suffer. This is disgusting political retribution.
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Health Dept. to Freeze $10 Billion in Funding to 5 Democratic States
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Governor Gavin Newsom @governor.ca.gov · 05/01/2026
As of this year, CalRx insulin pens are now available for just $11 each — and copays for a 20-day supply are capped at $35. No one should have to choose between paying the bills and receiving life-saving medicine.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
Who are the local or Latin American reporters to follow on Venezuela? Spanish is fine.
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M. Kabir @mkabir.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
“The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.” — Bertrand Russell
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Barchart @barchart.com · 03/01/2026
Foreign Central Banks now own more Gold than U.S. Treasuries for the first time in almost 30 years 🚨🚨🚨
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Barchart @barchart.com · 01/01/2026
U.S. Dollar finishes the year with a 9.37% decline, its worst year since 2017 🚨 The Dollar hasn't had back-to-back annual declines since 2006-2007 👀
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Theresa Kim, PhD, MS @tyk314.net · 02/12/2025
@aatishb.bsky.social got me on the record. “My colleagues did an outstanding job to work their butts off to approve things.” I swear it's true. It's still true at #NIH.
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The U.S. Is Funding Fewer Grants in Every Area of Science and Medicine (Gift Article)
A quiet policy change means the government is making fewer bets on long-term science.
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Uri Manor @manorlaboratory.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
My tenure talk is tomorrow 😅😅😅😅😅
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
TEN MONTHS IN: The national debt is higher. The trade deficit is wider. The inflation rate has worsened. The unemployment rate is up.
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Martin Luther King III @officialmlk3.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
The Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871 was designed to protect Black Americans. This week, it was used to end a Black scholarship at UCSD that aimed to bolster the campus’s small Black student population. Moments like these remind us why the fight for equity must go on.
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An anti-KKK law was used to end a scholarship for Black students
The Reconstruction-era civil rights law was designed to stop conspiracies between government officials and private entities to deny Americans equal protection under the law.
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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 02/11/2025
I hope Ohtani didn’t have a lot of money riding on this game
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
From Senate hearing on Wednesday www.medpagetoday.com/washington-w...
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Expert Warns of Irreparable Damage to Biotech Industry Unless Congress Acts
U.S. owes its 'vibrant pipeline' to high levels of public funding, says Aaron Kesselheim
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Alex Wenzel @alexwenzel.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
From a mentorship and continuity standpoint, multi-generational is already locked in, the question is how much. And if Congress succeeds in its apparent mission to become a symbolic body, that damage will be maximal.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 28/10/2025
Americans are on the verge of losing their ability to choose their government. But they don't seem to have realized it yet.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
(Denver Post) - Colorado insurance commissioner warns that premiums could rise 160% next year, with the hardest-hit households facing a $22,000 increase in their annual costs .. @denverpost.com www.denverpost.com/2025/10/23/c...
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Coloradans still don’t know what they’ll pay for marketplace insurance as open enrollment nears
Colorado insurance commissioner Michael warns premiums could rise 160% next year, with the hardest-hit households facing a $22,000 increase in their annual costs to maintain coverage.
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jon ben-menachem @jbenmenachem.com · 21/10/2025
Wow. Harvard nuking its PhD programs - Science PhD admissions reduced by more than 75% - Arts & Humanities reduced by about 60% - Social Sciences by 50–70% - History by 60% - Biology by 75% - The German department will lose all PhD seats - Sociology from six PhD students to zero
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Harvard FAS Cuts Ph.D. Seats By More Than Half Across Next Two Admissions Cycles | News | The Harvard Crimson
The Faculty of Arts and Sciences slashed the number of Ph.D. student admissions slots for the Science division by more than 75 percent and for the Arts & Humanities division by about 60 percent for th...
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
Those Epstein files must be bad. #KY04
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shea in the catskills @sheainthecatskills.com · 17/10/2025
incisive analysis 🤌🏻
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boehninglab @boehninglab.com · 14/10/2025
Alternatively, don't apply to jobs in Texas
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Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD DSc(hon) @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
No words
America’s brain drain
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Howard Eissenstat @heissenstat.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
I’m a tenured professor with an endowed chair. Looking back, I don’t think the freshly minted PhD version of me could land a job in today’s market. I was smart, I was driven — but mostly, I was lucky. More of us in academia need to admit that.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
Trump just threw the potential for an escalated trade war with China on top of these headlines.
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billyfromtheblock.bsky.social @billyfromtheblock.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
@wyden.senate.gov wow you are so corrupt, why are you trading individual stocks
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Jason Rasgon @vectorgen.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
This must be why we Jews win so many Nobel Prizes www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...
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Health Secretary Kennedy, Trump link circumcision to autism through Tylenol
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. noted boys who are circumcised have higher rates of autism, which he said could be a result of Tylenol.
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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
It is pretty galling that the Supreme Court spent four years telling Biden "you can't do that without Congress" then allowed Trump to seize a once-unthinkable amount of power from Congress within nine months and concentrate law-making authority almost entirely in the executive branch.
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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 09/10/2025
Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE
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billyfromtheblock.bsky.social @billyfromtheblock.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Don't use @lingopietv.bsky.social they are horrible and no one will respond.
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Unusual Whales @unusualwhales.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
BREAKING: IRS to furlough 46% of staff
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Republicans Against Trumpism @rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
The Treasury is planning to mint a $1 coin featuring Trump’s face for America’s 250th anniversary. – POLITICO Welcome to the banana republic.
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Congresswoman Sara Jacobs @sarajacobs.house.gov · 30/09/2025
Health insurance premiums will more than DOUBLE for millions of Americans unless Republicans in Congress actually work with Democrats and do something about it.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
“.. a fivefold increase in U.S.-based applicants seeking to relocate to European institutions ..” 🤡 @politico.com www.politico.eu/article/euro...
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Unusual Whales @unusualwhales.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
BREAKING: Trump has announced 100% tariff on any branded or patented pharmaceutical product, unless the company is building pharmaceutical manufacturing in the US
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