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nate s jacobs

@natesjacobs.bsky.social
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surfer, dad, (former) neuroscientist, research technologist, entrepreneur, open science advocate, sometimes writer.

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
The media needs to stop writing headlines like “The CDC changes course on vaccines and autism” and “The CDC defends measles response”. NONE of this is coming from legitimate scientists at the CDC. ALL of it is coming from RFK Jr. Every such headline is causing further harm to public health.
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Peter Gleick @petergleick.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
This is an intellectual war crime. NCAR is one of the nation's, and the world's, pre-eminent research institutions. www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...
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Trump moves to dismantle major US climate research center in Colorado
The Trump administration is breaking up the National Center for Atmospheric Research, taking aim at one of the world's leading climate research labs.
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nate s jacobs @natesjacobs.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
Lots of life changes over here. And beautiful King Tide sunsets!!!
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Denny Carter @dennycarter.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
Richest nation in human history
In New Jersey, a single mother struggled to figure out how to feed her two young sons with $50.
In Oklahoma, a 61-year-old woman questioned whether driving to a food pantry was worth the gas money.
And in Colorado, a woman grabbed food from a Walmart dumpster.
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nate s jacobs @natesjacobs.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
Damn we’re all going to have an epic battle for that package 😂
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Matthew Facciani @matthewfacciani.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
People are less likely to believe conspiracy theories when they get clear, simple, and early information from trusted sources. Using tools like “prebunking” and reaching people where they are (like on social media) can help build trust and reduce misinformation. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Conspiracy belief and the willful ignorance of information
The idea that conspiracy believers are prone to willful ignorance is widespread, yet many seemingly supporting studies lack designs suited to test thi…
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Stuart Turnbull-Dugarte @turnbulldugarte.com · 05/09/2025
The takeaway: 👉 Accommodating the radical right on immigration doesn’t win back voters. 👉 It alienates the progressive base. 👉 And it raises the salience of the very issue the radical right owns. In short: it’s electoral self-harm.
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
Concern over low birth rates was what the theocracy in Margaret Atwood’s Handmaid’s Tale used to come to power.
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nate s jacobs @natesjacobs.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
Whatever you do, don’t sneeze while you’re holding coffee
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nate s jacobs @natesjacobs.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
Am watching Napoleon Dynamite right now. That’s all. Happy Thursday and happy whiskey lemonades
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nate s jacobs @natesjacobs.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
Never fear, you just blame the bad stuff on the spending part and credit the good stuff to the tax break part!
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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
Yes. This is in fact what each VP did.
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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
Wishing everyone a happy Fourth of July! 249 years since we declared independence from a king, the work of living up to our founding promise is more important than ever - and it calls on each of us to do what we can for our country.
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Deb Chachra @debcha.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Joseph Carens, a poli sci prof at Toronto, said that national borders are like feudalism — if you happen to be born into the manor (ie hold a ‘good’ citizenship) the system seems right and proper to you, but there’s nothing you can say to the serf in the field to justify *their* lack of opportunity,
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Steve Herman @newsguy.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
KTLA - Narciso Barranco, a father to three sons who are all US Marines, pepper-sprayed and punched in the face by alleged federal immigration officers while he was working as a landscaper at an IHOP. He was then forced into the back of an unmarked car in Santa Ana.
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Masked men in U.S. Border Patrol vests take Santa Ana father after repeatedly hitting him
In a graphic video that has since gone viral on social media, about seven or more masked men wearing U.S. Border Patrol vests are seen violently detaining a Santa Ana father before forcing him into…
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nate s jacobs @natesjacobs.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Can someone please put Trump in the simulator already? He can have all the ketchup and well done steak and underage blow jobs and big red buttons and phalic missiles he wants in there
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
I'm sorry but the largest protest of my lifetime is not the 7th or 8th biggest news story in the country behind "what does Gen Z want from Instagram?" This shit is humiliating. Rearrange your layout to meet this moment. Omitting the thing happening in every American city is malpractice.
The New York Times front page.
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Arghavan Salles, MD, PhD @arghavansallesmd.medsky.social · 04/06/2025
This is part of why we need contingency plans. “The NIH isn’t going to fund this research for a while so stop doing it” is extremely short-sighted and harmful. We need people to have more vision than that.
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 02/06/2025
how it started / how it's going
Restoring freedom of speech and ending federal censorship

Executive order Jan 20, 2025.
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Arghavan Salles, MD, PhD @arghavansallesmd.medsky.social · 02/06/2025
The Tr*mp administration’s interference with publishing scientific research/opinions and the appointment of someone with no scientific knowledge or expertise to make public health decisions should remind us all of Lysenko, whose incompetence and pseudoscience led to millions of deaths.
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I’m no historian, but this all seems pretty relevant… #greenscreen #science #research #nejm #jama #lancet #nih #nsf #va #veteranshealth
TikTok video by Dr. Arghavan Salles
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nate s jacobs @natesjacobs.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
So… am watching last of us. And I know it’s a zombie movie but as a surfer the scene where Ellie gets hit by a wave in Seattle and survives for more than 5 min in that water, it’s just so much more unbelievable than the zombies. It really is a black mark on the series 😂😂
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Matthew Facciani @matthewfacciani.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
“Without sufficient funding, research progress stalls, new prevention or treatments with be delayed or absent, young scientists will leave the field or move abroad, and promising breakthroughs will remain trapped in the lab instead of reaching the people who need them most”
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The Fight for Science
Thoughts and Actions to Take From My Visit to Capitol Hill
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Liz Neeley @lizneeley.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
I was just hearing about this and searching for news on postdoc funding awards. If you know more, please share.
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nate s jacobs @natesjacobs.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
They really are screaming it from the mountain tops…
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Chicago is on to something.
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nate s jacobs @natesjacobs.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
I’m trying to organize support for cross campus solidarity initiatives to create a more united front against federal overreach into Unis. Is anyone else working on this? ampa-9d9f4.web.app
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 07/05/2025
It's tough to refer to someone as a criminal if you've given them no due process to determine whether they're a criminal. Like if you get arrested and get a trial and are convicted of 34 felony counts. That's due process. You can call that guy a criminal.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 07/05/2025
Salt Lake City, Utah, and Boise, Idaho, adopted official Pride flags on Tuesday in response to state laws barring the display of any nonofficial flags at schools and government buildings.
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Salt Lake City and Boise Adopt Official Pride Flags in Response to State Laws
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nate s jacobs @natesjacobs.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
There is no way this is real!!
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librarypunk @librarypunk.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
No new episodes for a couple weeks so I’m retweeting some things we’ve done recently
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Trump says that any American who shows “dissension” against MAGA should be “immediately ejected” from their member of Congress’ town halls. This is fascism.
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Elisabeth Bik @elisabethbik.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
Medical journals complain of 'harassment' from Justice Department Multiple scientific publications have received letters from the Trump administration questioning their editorial practices and standards. @evanbush.bsky.social at @nbcnews.com www.nbcnews.com/science/scie...
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Medical journals complain of 'harassment' from Justice Department
Multiple scientific publications have received letters from the Trump administration questioning their editorial practices and standards.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Plenty of politicians on both sides of the aisle feel threatened by rising class consciousness.
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Liz Neeley @lizneeley.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
URGENT ACTION FOR NSF GRANTEES. For current & recent (since 2020) awards, archive your award history this afternoon/tonight. Screenshot/download/print your work in research.gov & alert your partners. We have credible threats to integrity of awards tracking systems (via @jeremymberg.bsky.social)
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Research.gov - Homepage
Research.gov is a partnership of Federal, research-oriented grant making agencies with a shared vision of increasing customer service for applicants while streamlining and standardizing processes amon...
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Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Good for @theatlantic.com — this reeks of desperation for Trump and also keeps this amazing story alive. More pressure on Hegseth obvi. www.politico.com/news/2025/04...
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Trump to sit for interview with ‘SignalGate’ journalist Jeffrey Goldberg
“The way I look at it, what can be so bad,” the president said of the interview.
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Matthew Facciani @matthewfacciani.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
"the NIH told them their nearly $36-million grant, awarded during the first Trump administration, had been terminated: the work “no longer effectuates agency priorities” because of its basis in “artificial and non-scientific categories” www.scientificamerican.com/article/life...
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Lifesaving Alzheimer’s Research Delayed by Trump Funding Cuts
The Trump administration is freezing, delaying and revoking funding for dementia research, setting back discoveries of potential future treatments
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nate s jacobs @natesjacobs.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
Very excited about this! I think I can shelve the project I was just starting to get off the ground … ampa-9d9f4.web.app
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Academic Mutual Protection Alliance (AMPA) Charter
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
This
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Eric Brandom @ebrandom.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
A good oped about this sort of thing not too long ago: www.nytimes.com/2025/04/11/o...
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Opinion | Politicians Shouldn’t Get to Delete Inconvenient Facts
The Trump administration has started purging the government’s digital memory. Democracies die without proper archiving and public records.
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nate s jacobs @natesjacobs.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
For any scientists looking for a great resurrection story for their kids! radiolab.org/podcast/resu...
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Resurrection
Fighting to protect a species is one thing, but what if that species is all but gone, can you bring it back?
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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
Harvard stood up to the bully — and the bully blinked
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Trump Officials Blame Mistake for Setting Off Confrontation With Harvard (Gift Article)
An official on the administration’s antisemitism task force told the university that a letter of demands had been sent without authorization.
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Earnest Walker Jr @earnestwalkerjr.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Another insane aspect of this case is he proved his citizenship in court yet the judge said he was powerless to release him immediately without the feds permission. This is not America, this is straight out of Hitler’s playbook.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 18/04/2025
Dear senators who think you can’t do anything, Today, Senator Van Hollen - through diplomatic pressure - got a meeting with Abrego Garcia in El Salvador. So that thing you’re thinking about doing? DO IT. ~ All of Us
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Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett @crockett.house.gov · 16/04/2025
Skipped the paperwork. Ignored the court order. Broke the law. Ignored the constitution. This ain’t immigration policy. This is straight-up defiance of the rule of law.
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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
truly don’t understand why more dems aren’t being as outspoken as AOC when there’s clearly such huge appetite for it. it’s one of those rare times when it’s not just the right thing to do morally and ethically, it’s also super smart politically.
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Tim Murphy @timothypmurphy.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
not going to say the timeline would have turned out way differently if elite universities had just told Elise Stefanik to fuck off a year ago, but it probably wouldn't have hurt
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