jbr0cks.bsky.social @jbr0cks.bsky.social · 24/02/2026The National Institutes of Health considered much of the genetic technology work done in his lab too out there, but Church has received steady support from DARPA and Department of Energy grants over the years. 000
jbr0cks.bsky.social @jbr0cks.bsky.social · 24/02/2026Epstein made $686,000 in donations to Church’s lab...staff members were horrified to learn that project leaders were trying to prioritize Epstein’s samples because of his potential for bringing more funding to the project. 100
jbr0cks.bsky.social @jbr0cks.bsky.social · 24/02/2026So once again Democrats are showing love for a war monger. Party loyalty over principles in both parties. 000
jbr0cks.bsky.social @jbr0cks.bsky.social · 02/02/2026Schumer's ploy is a replay of their "strategy" on the ACA. when the vote on the ACA subsidies was eventually held, and Democrats, predictably, lost. On Jan. 1, 2026, the subsidies expired, just as the GOP wanted all along. 000
jbr0cks.bsky.social @jbr0cks.bsky.social · 02/02/2026And in fall, when Republicans forced a government shutdown by refusing to extend the Affordable Care Act Schumer allowed eight of his caucus members to join Republicans in supporting a funding bill that reopened the government and left the health care money fight to be settled later. 100
jbr0cks.bsky.social @jbr0cks.bsky.social · 02/02/2026We’ve seen this same game play out before, twice. Spring 2025, Schumer refused to block a GOP bill averting a shutdown. He and nine other Democrats joined the Republicans in advancing their funding bill. 100
jbr0cks.bsky.social @jbr0cks.bsky.social · 02/02/2026That would leave the bill that funds the Department of Homeland Security—which includes ICE—to be debated another day. ICE is to be given a two-week extension of its current funding level (which is already triple what it was before 2025). 100
jbr0cks.bsky.social @jbr0cks.bsky.social · 02/02/2026The Democrats, led by Chuck Schumer are getting ready to cave once again. They have already watered down demands on ICE and Schumer has cut a deal with Trump and GOP to pass five of the six appropriations bills that fund 96% of government operations and thereby avoid a potential shutdown. 200
jbr0cks.bsky.social @jbr0cks.bsky.social · 27/01/2026But hey, we are putting more than half a trillion MORE into the arms industry. 000
Reposted by @jbr0cks.bsky.socialbiometlab @biometlab.bsky.social · 27/01/2026eos.org/opinions/wha...eos.orgWhat Americans Lose If Their National Center for Atmospheric Research Is Dismantled - EosFive ways dismantling NCAR will cost the American people, and two ways to save it. 15153562595
jbr0cks.bsky.social @jbr0cks.bsky.social · 27/01/2026VP Vance,Karoline Leavitt, Stephen Miller, Kash Patel, Kristi Noem and others all made false claims about the case. Their words were an attack on constitutional rights under the 1st, 2nd and 4th amendment. 011
Reposted by @jbr0cks.bsky.socialUndark Magazine @undark.org · 27/01/2026Critics warn that new reporting requirements for foreign interactions could chill routine scientific exchange at a time when global research cooperation is vital. Originally published by @propublica.org f.mtr.coolUSDA Researchers Instructed to Investigate Foreign ColleaguesA Trump administration policy asks agency scientists to Google their co-authors and report foreign collaborations. 187
Reposted by @jbr0cks.bsky.socialAdmirable Women @admirablewomen.bsky.social · 24/01/2026Marjory Stephenson was born #OTD in 1885 + Helped establish modern microbial biochemistry + Wrote foundational textbook 𝘉𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘢𝘭 𝘔𝘦𝘵𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘭𝘪𝘴𝘮 (1930), shaping the discipline for decades + Co-founded, Society for General Microbiology + 1 of the first 2 women Fellows, Royal Society, 1945 #WomenInSTEM 212259551
Reposted by @jbr0cks.bsky.socialAcyn @acyn.bsky.social · 24/01/2026AOC: They need 10 Democratic votes in the Senate to pass, continued unfettered ICE funding with no guardrails. Regardless of where you are in the Democratic party, this moment proves that the status quo cannot stand I would implore my Democratic colleagues in the senate to vote no 481159394402
Reposted by @jbr0cks.bsky.socialKarthik @beastoftraal.bsky.social · 25/01/2026To be so relentlessly ignorant (and shameless about being so) is also a superpower. 131498532037
Reposted by @jbr0cks.bsky.socialSTAT @statnews.com · 25/01/2026Public health giant William Foege, who helped eradicate smallpox, has died at 89 www.statnews.com/2026/01/25/w...statnews.comPublic health giant William Foege, who helped eradicate smallpox, has died at 89‘I wish we could have spared him from seeing that’: Friends of Bill Foege on his legacy, and his anger over anti-vaccination. 68619
Reposted by @jbr0cks.bsky.socialMax Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 24/01/2026It's really too bad the United States Congress no longer exists. 649253414129
Reposted by @jbr0cks.bsky.socialAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 25/01/2026Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O'Hara: "People have had enough. This is the third shooting in less than 3 weeks. The MPD went the entire year last year recovering about 900 guns from the street, arresting hundreds of violent offenders, and we didn't shoot anyone ... this is not sustainable." 11364969216209
Reposted by @jbr0cks.bsky.socialPitt Rivers Museum @pittriversmuseum.bsky.social · 16/01/2026Dating from around 1865, this hooded parka from the Aleutian Islands in southern Alaska is made from seal intestines, a naturally waterproof & windproof material. Both robust & decorative, these seal gut parkas would have been used daily to keep warm & dry in this harsh environment. bit.ly/4oRZuCC 1043330466
jbr0cks.bsky.social @jbr0cks.bsky.social · 16/01/2026Apparently you really need to finish 5th grade. 000
jbr0cks.bsky.social @jbr0cks.bsky.social · 16/01/2026Reading comprehension: Literally the heading and the first line: "..the United States spewed 2.4% more heat-trapping gases from the burning of fossil fuels in 2025 than in the year before" 100
jbr0cks.bsky.social @jbr0cks.bsky.social · 15/01/2026This is what you are not saying: US carbon pollution rose in 2025 in reversal of previous years’ reductionstheguardian.comUS carbon pollution rose in 2025 in reversal of previous years’ reductionsStudy from research firm finds that US greenhouse gas emissions grew faster than economic activity last year 100
jbr0cks.bsky.social @jbr0cks.bsky.social · 15/01/2026In the early 2000s, seven American schools would be among the top 10, led by Harvard University at No. 1. Only one Chinese school, Zhejiang University, would even make the top 25. Today seven other Chinese universities are in the top 10. Can we reverse this trend? 000
jbr0cks.bsky.social @jbr0cks.bsky.social · 15/01/2026“The scientific and technological revolution is intertwined with the game between superpowers,” he said in a speech in 2024. Trump has taken the opposite tack, aiming to cut billions of dollars in research grants for U.S. universities. 100
jbr0cks.bsky.social @jbr0cks.bsky.social · 15/01/2026Educators and experts say the shift is a problem not just for American universities, but also for the nation as a whole. China's Xi understands this and has made the reasons for the country’s investments explicit, arguing that a nation’s global power depends on its scientific dominance. 100
jbr0cks.bsky.social @jbr0cks.bsky.social · 15/01/2026Rafael Reif, a former president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, said on a podcast last year that “the number of papers and the quality of the papers coming from China are outstanding” and are “dwarfing what we’re doing in the U.S.” 100
jbr0cks.bsky.social @jbr0cks.bsky.social · 15/01/2026The number of international students arriving in the U.S. in August 2025 was 19 percent lower than the year before. China is taking these students, last year it began offering a visa for graduates of top universities in science and technology to travel to China to study or do business. 100
jbr0cks.bsky.social @jbr0cks.bsky.social · 15/01/2026As Harvard and other leading U.S. universities face a fresh set of stressors from the Trump administration’s cuts to science grants, as well as from travel bans and an anti-immigration crackdown that has swept up international students and academics. 100
jbr0cks.bsky.social @jbr0cks.bsky.social · 15/01/2026The reordering comes as the Trump administration has been slashing research funding to American schools that depend heavily federal funds for scientific research. Trump’s policies did not start the American universities’ relative decline, which began years ago, but they could accelerate it. 100
jbr0cks.bsky.social @jbr0cks.bsky.social · 15/01/2026Zhejiang University in Hangzhou, China, is now at the top of a global ranking of research output. Harvard previously ranked No. 1. has dropped to No. 3. “There is a big shift coming, a bit of a new world order in global dominance of higher education and research.” 100
jbr0cks.bsky.social @jbr0cks.bsky.social · 15/01/2026American academia and research were already slipping globally. Trump has taken a wrecking ball to what we had and the effects will be devastating in 4 or 5 years from now. 120
jbr0cks.bsky.social @jbr0cks.bsky.social · 14/01/2026Krishna Venta was born Francis Herman Pencovic in San Francisco to Jewish immigrant from Romania. 000
Reposted by @jbr0cks.bsky.socialThe Nation Magazine @thenation.com · 14/01/2026When nine households hold fifteen percent of a region’s wealth, the system is broken. bit.ly/4pArpHtbit.lyRo Khanna Has a New Tech Social Contract for California's OligarchsAs Peter Thiel and other fat cats threaten to flee California over a billionaire tax, Khanna is calling their bluff. 25924
jbr0cks.bsky.social @jbr0cks.bsky.social · 14/01/2026Great rogues gallery. BTW you have Trump and Tulsi's positions on Iran reversed. Maybe AI caused it. 010
jbr0cks.bsky.social @jbr0cks.bsky.social · 13/01/2026apnews.comYoung Americans are increasingly rejecting the Democratic and Republican parties, a new poll showsNew polling from Gallup shows that Americans are increasingly identifying as political independents and rejecting the labels of the two major political parties. 000
jbr0cks.bsky.social @jbr0cks.bsky.social · 13/01/2026Independents have gravitated toward the Democrats over the past year due to Trumps madness, when asked which party they lean toward, Gallup found, but attitudes toward the party haven’t gotten warmer. Younger people, are rejecting both parties at much higher rates than older generations. 110
jbr0cks.bsky.social @jbr0cks.bsky.social · 13/01/2026Young Americans are increasingly rejecting both the Democratic and Republican parties. Democrats have shown no ability or desire to understand how we got here or what to do. 111
Reposted by @jbr0cks.bsky.socialRyan Broderick @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social · 12/01/2026For all the grandstanding, Democrats have been nowhere to be seen on the ground in Minnesota. The work there is being done by leftist groups, immigrants rights orgs, and random citizens. Took Walz almost a week to visit Good's memorial. Democrats do not functionally exist in the conversation anymore 281818452
jbr0cks.bsky.social @jbr0cks.bsky.social · 13/01/2026To defeat Trump we need more people like Warren and less like Schumer.yahoo.comElizabeth Warren Accuses Former Democratic Colleague of Blatant Corruption: ‘She Is Cashing In’Sinema sparked fury during her time in office for skuttling some of the Democrats' top policy agenda items during President Joe Biden's term 000
jbr0cks.bsky.social @jbr0cks.bsky.social · 13/01/2026“Americans are stretched to the breaking point financially, and they will vote for candidates who name what is wrong and who credibly demonstrate that they will take on a rigged system in order to fix it,” 100
jbr0cks.bsky.social @jbr0cks.bsky.social · 13/01/2026Elizabeth Warren says Democrats need to ‘read the room’ on the economy and stop being stooges for big money. thehill.com/homenews/cam...thehill.com 100
jbr0cks.bsky.social @jbr0cks.bsky.social · 13/01/2026.. If no one knows what you might do, they often do what you want them to do.” The media tries to confer on Trump a coherence that evaporates almost as soon as it’s stated. - Ralph Nader 000
jbr0cks.bsky.social @jbr0cks.bsky.social · 13/01/2026According to the Times, Trump “took unpredictable turns” during the interview. But instead of seeing this unpredictability as a symptom of Trump’s diminishing capacities and ever-shorter attention span, the Times reported it as “a tactic he embraces as president, particularly on the world stage... 100
