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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

In his 2019 memoir The Threat, former FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe quotes first-term Trump saying Venezuela was “the country we should be going to war with, they have all that oil and they’re right on our back door.” zeteo.com/p/venezuela-...

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Trump's Venezuela Attack: It’s All About the Oil, Stupid!

Here are five times Donald Trump himself admitted that illegally attacking Venezuela and toppling Nicolás Maduro was aimed at seizing the country’s massive oil reserves.

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Alison Adcock @ralisonadcock.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

“History is full of people who out of fear, ignorance, or a lust for power, have destroyed treasures of immeasurable value which truly belong to all of us. We must never let it happen again.” -Carl Sagan, Cosmos Episode 13 “Who Speaks For Earth”

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Alison Adcock @ralisonadcock.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

Woke Sinatra For a Merry Christmas

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Alison Adcock @ralisonadcock.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

Turkish participants in this study on loneliness cite government control of their lives and policies, leading to economic hardships, thus also the need to work longer hours, as limiting their opportunities to spend time with others. Democracy helps mental health.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

Remember: Almost all of us are the descendants of immigrants who fled persecution, or were brought to America under duress, or sought better lives for themselves and their descendants. Politicians who stoke fear and hatred over immigration want you to forget this. Do not.

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Alison Adcock @ralisonadcock.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

Dear Rec Letter Portals designers: Please explain this choice.

Ratings buttons in academic recommendation portal that switch polarity from one item to the next.

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allen institute @alleninstitute.org · 25/11/2025

Our python workshop is returning! Undergraduate educators, join us on July 27-30 for "Coding with Allen Institute Data." No prior coding experience needed. Travel, meals, & stipend included. Apply by Feb. 2 at: alleninstitute.org/events/educator-… #iTeachBio #EduSky

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𝙲𝚑𝚊𝚛𝚕𝚎𝚜 𝙲. 𝙼𝚊𝚗𝚗 @charlescmann.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

Shameless plug: For a year, I've been working on a series about the vast systems that underlie our lives. Built up over decades, these systems are the cathedrals of our time--but all too few of us know about them, and they're all at risk. Here's the latest:

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Two Hundred Years to Flatten the Curve

How generations of meddlesome public health campaigns changed everyday life — and made life twice as long as it used to be

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea

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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

Before the midterms of 1866, President Andrew Johnson called his congressional opponents traitors and said they should be hanged. Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.

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Spam Ayres @squirlykat.eurosky.social · 20/11/2025

“Survival of the fittest” is often used to justify capitalist society, but this wasn’t a phrase that Darwin used. He described it as “better designed for an immediate, local environment" and wrote of groups that survived through empathy and sharing rather than greed. We must change Or die

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Carolina Forward @carolinaforward.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

So the Border Patrol announced that they arrested >250 people in their North Carolina invasion, but that only 44 had any criminal record at all. Some of those "criminal" records include shoplifting and driving with an expired registration. Some were U.S. citizens. www.wunc.org/2025-11-19/b...

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18/11/2025

Epstein survivor: "Today we stand in a moment that will decide whether our government still belongs to the American people or to those who prey on them."

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Maranda 🖤 @whatevermaranda.com · 15/11/2025

Love this so much. 💜

Meme: a quirky hand-drawn cat beneath the script "AHEM - please don't give billionaires more of your money this holiday season - buy something cool and handmade from some fun weirdo instead & help them eat. Shop small, y'all."

Image credit: "Small businesses need your support more than ever 💗
By Sugarhouse Ceramic Co."

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sher12.bsky.social @sher12.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

Breaking: An Epstein survivor just silenced press conference attendees when she delivered the following remarks: “Today we stand in a moment that will decide whether our government belongs to the American people, or to those who prey on them.”

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Aaron Parnas @aaronparnas.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen. Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

Don't be evil? "Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, and tell local cops whether to contact ICE about the person, while simultaneously removing apps designed to warn local communities about the presence of ICE officers..." www.404media.co/google-has-c...

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Google Has Chosen a Side in Trump's Mass Deportation Effort

Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, while simultaneously removing apps that report the location of ICE officials because Google sees ICE as a vulnerable gr...

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Alison Adcock @ralisonadcock.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

jmarriott.substack.com/p/the-dawn-o... "The world of print is orderly, logical, rational. In books, knowledge is classified, comprehended, connected to make arguments, and propose theses..with print culture came the prestige of reason, hostility to superstition, and the rapid development of science"

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The dawn of the post-literate society

And the end of civilisation

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Ilana Witten @ilanawitten.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

NYT is looking for scientists to tell them about their projects that were cut by the administration for a new series on “lost science”: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/c...

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Has Your Scientific Work Been Cut? We Want to Hear.

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Jia-Hou (JH) Poh @jiahou-poh.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

Hello world! Only a year late, but I am now at the NUS Centre for Sleep and Cognition, where I will be directing the Dynamic Brain & Memory lab!

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Boris Bernhardt @borismontreal.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

🚨 New paper in Nature Methods: HippoMaps: multiscale cartography of the human hippocampus Open-source tools & data to explore structure and function of the 🍤🧠 (histology, in/ex vivo MRI, iEEG) Led by @jordandekraker.bsky.social docs: hippomaps.readthedocs.io paper: doi.org/10.1038/s415...

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Nicola Low @nicolamlow.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

🧪 👇 read the 🧵 for all the posts being cut - health statistics in US will disappear

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Alison Adcock @ralisonadcock.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

Motivations are like emotions about (what we know about) possible outcomes. Sometimes incentives spur urgency to act, other times to comprehend. Neuromodulatory systems reflect these motivational moods and shape memories. Out now w @jiahou-poh.bsky.social! www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

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Motivation as Neural Context for Adaptive Learning and Memory Formation

Our memories shape our perception of the world and guide adaptive behavior. Rather than a veridical record of experiences, memory is selective. An accumulating body of work suggests that motivational ...

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Jia-Hou (JH) Poh @jiahou-poh.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

How does motivation shape learning and memory? In a new review w @ralisonadcock.bsky.social, we propose that under different motivational ‘moods', neuromodulators set distinct neural contexts to determine information processing and memory formation. doi.org/10.1146/annu... #psychscisky #neuroskyence

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Motivation as Neural Context for Adaptive Learning and Memory Formation

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

For decades the NRA and other gun nuts told us that their guns were to protect us all from a tyrannical government. So a tyrannical government is here, they are all sitting on their asses, and the people who want gun control have taken to the streets to defy the tyrannical government instead.

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

The #BethesdaDeclaration stories are now up on the front pages of both the New York Times and the Washington Post. Thanks again to the brave folks at NIH who stood up and worked together to make this happen. 1/n

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 07/06/2025

Very smart, high ROI initiative from the Spencer Foundation. Providing bridge funding for canceled NSF grants: 1) directs funds to projects already screened by a top-noch review process. 2) avoids imposing proposal prep costs on researchers. 3) ameliorates the disruption from GOP sabotage.

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Rapid Response Bridge Funding Program

In the face of recent abrupt shifts in federal funding for education research, including large-scale terminations of National Science Foundation (NSF) research grant awards, we have developed a rap...

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

My quote of the day I care not for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it. Abraham Lincoln

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School Library Journal @slj.com · 03/06/2025

EveryLibrary responds to the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals' Little v. Llano County decision, which will allow the government to remove or restrict access to books from public library shelves.

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This is Government Censorship in its Plainest Form, States EveryLibrary

EveryLibrary responds to the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals' Little v. Llano County decision, which will allow the government to remove or restrict access to books from public library shelves.

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Joshua Weitz @joshuasweitz.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

Joint w/@asinclair.bsky.social and the #SCIMaP team: brief correspondence in @nathumbehav.nature.com on the impact of NIH indirect cost cuts on the economy and employment, impacts that will only worsen given similar proposals for NSF/DOE + overall science proposal. rdcu.be/eo3Hp

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NIH indirect cost cuts will affect the economy and employment

Nature Human Behaviour - NIH indirect cost cuts will affect the economy and employment

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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

“It’s why every time an incremental vaccine restriction results in a public shrug, he feels emboldened to go a bit further.” This is important. First he takes away something people don’t care much about—Covid boosters—so that later it seems more normal when he takes away polio vaccines.

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Michael McLean @michaelmclean.me · 28/05/2025

Elon and his brother used student visas to come to America, then they overstayed after they dropped out of school

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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 26/05/2025

🚨 URGENT RESPONSE CALL 🚨 Trump’s Fool’s Gold Science EO is a dangerous sham. It gives his appointees the power to dismiss entire bodies of research and punish researchers who fail to fall in line with his agenda. We’ve launched an open letter. SIGN & SHARE NOW: actionnetwork.org/petitions/op...

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Sign The Open Letter to Stand Up For Science Now!

Science is under siege. Trump’s latest Executive Order calls for politically appointed science commissars to evaluate research. Join us in adding your name to our open letter condemning Trump’s escala...

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Owen Barcala @obarcala.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

It's also a misunderstanding of what the grants are for. It's not a billion dollar donation, Harvard won the grants to do specific research that it is in a relatively unique position to do. Trade schools aren't going to be able to take over, eg, Harvard's cancer immunotherapy research.

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

FYI to media outlets, you're misleading your readers if you repeat this at face value. There's no lawful way for him to redirect these grants elsewhere. It's a lie to distract from how the GOP budget guts educational funding, including Pell Grants at trade schools.

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I am considering taking Three Billion Dollars of Grant Money away from a very antisemitic Harvard, and giving it to TRADE SCHOOLS all across our land. What a great investment that would be for the USA, and so badly needed!!!

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Alison Adcock @ralisonadcock.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

For real - and the Truth account for the President of the USA truly just posted this which sure looks like my 16 year olds know more about Ukraine than he does. Being president isn’t a right. Maybe a few more requirements in the country’s interest. Like citizenship & civil service exams. As orals.

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Alison Adcock @ralisonadcock.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

Industry is investing less in R&D and turning away from innovation. The NIH and NSF fund science with huge economic ROI to taxpayers. The ratio of government/nongov employees has declined, not risen over decades, If you care about cures and a future for our children, save science funding now.

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Douglas Natelson @nanoscaleviews.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

🧪⚛️ Deadline extended for comments. Seriously, if you don't want science agencies to be run by political functionaries, please consider making a comment. news.chanda.science/archive/urge...

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Urgent: Take Action to Protect Public Services

Act now to defend the integrity of our civil service from the dangerous Schedule F proposal!

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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

The cruelty is the point.

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 21/05/2025

You have three days, starting today, to leave a public comment with the FDA about, say, why COVID-19 boosters should remain available to everyone and also free. "Individual consumer" is the category you most likely want (unless you are one of the other categories; if so, choose that).

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ghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

people need to internalize, very quickly, that federal research grants are a hypercompetitive contracting process not charity, and that what Uncle Sam gets in return for that money is American dominance in the future

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Brittany Charlton @britshmit.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

📣 NIH reinstating some terminated grants Exclusive via @chronicle.com 🔗👇 confirms what we’ve seen for weeks Piece asks: what’s “secret sauce”? As an early-impacted PI, I know strategy matters Now I'm advising orgs on appeals, “orderly” closeout & reinstatements: brittanycharlton.com/consulting

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Consulting — Brittany Charlton

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

Mr. Kennedy said it’s an individual choice as to whether or not to vaccinate. Then he and his minions started taking that choice away by making FDA approval of some vaccines impossible.

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

There is no aborted fetus debris in the MMR vaccine, or in any vaccine at all. It is worth noting that the Catholic Church, one of the most staunch anti-abortion organizations in the world, has a formal policy that encourages all vaccinations.

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

RFK Jr. ordered the NIH’s Integrated Research Facility in Frederick to stop all research on serious infectious diseases yesterday at 5:00 PM. They study pathogens like Ebola there. You may be familiar with it from The Hot Zone. www.wired.com/story/hhs-ni...

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RFK Jr.'s HHS Orders Lab Studying Deadly Infectious Diseases to Stop Research

NIAID's Integrated Research Facility is one of the few federal facilities charged with studying Ebola. Tuesday afternoon, all of its work was put on indefinite pause by Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s departm...

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