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Experimental Physiology @expphysiol.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

R. Chris Skinner et al. (@uvmvermont.bsky.social) explore the impact of a Western diet and binge drinking on metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease in male and female mice 📖 buff.ly/dZE2v8Z

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R. Chris Skinner @rchrisskinner.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Proud of all the contestants and winners but especially of my MS student Mel!

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

This is exactly what will happen. His base has already been negatively polarized against the basic concept of healthcare. This bill is a gigantic boon to the coffee enema and "alternative" cancer treatment scam industry.

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Congresswoman Chellie Pingree @pingree.house.gov · 11/03/2025

I'm appalled by the USDA's decision to pause funding to the University of Maine System. This will hurt our farmers, halt critical research, and impact students throughout Maine. Once again, our state is being targeted for retribution—all because our officials are standing up for the rule of law.

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USDA halts more than $100M in funding for University of Maine System programs

The move temporarily pauses USDA funding for Maine's university system after President Donald Trump threatened to cut off the state over Maine's decision to allow transgender athletes to compete in sp...

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

The disappearing of Mahmoud Khalil, a person with permanent legal status in the US, should be a red line that everyone should recognize. They knocked on his door and vanished him into an authoritarian system without a trace. Your door could be next. jaredyatessexton.substack.com/p/so-it-begi...

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So It Begins: The Disappearing of Mahmoud Khalil and Authoritarian Capture

The Trump Administration kidnapped a legal permanent resident and shuffled him through an authoritarian maze. We're witnessing the beginnings of something terrifying

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

New — I wrote about how the Congressional Dems who voted to censure Rep. Al Green don’t understand their enemy and aren’t made for this moment:

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The time for a spine

Democrats who censured Rep. Al Green are as clueless as they are feckless.

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Katherine J. Wu @katherinejwu.com · 07/03/2025

if you've had an NIH grant terminated, I want to hear about it. Signal: katherinejwu.12

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Jared Holt @jaredlholt.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

This is a party that has total contempt for its base. Posting your disapproval online will never make it change, only threatening its hold on power will. How frustrated will the base have to get before it starts funding some aggressive primary campaigns against caucus leaders?

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Aidan Wright @aidangcw.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

NIH cuts are getting the press, but VA research is getting slashed too. What do we lose when VA research goes away? Here's some greatest hits: The nicotine patch, invention of the cardiac pacemaker, first successful liver transplant, development of the CAT/CT scan prospect.org/health/2025-...

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VA Research Funding Slashed

Though not as prominent as the NIH, VA researchers play a major role in advancing basic health science. Hundreds of projects have been cut.

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Mike Rothschild @rothschildmd.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Massive cuts to Medicaid, Medicare, and social security are inevitable. They are the only way DOGE can hit its target and the GOP can pay for another round of high-income tax cuts. And it will help cull those who Elon believes aren't hardcore about maximizing shareholder value.

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Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

BTW it was a group of middle schoolers who walked out and protested Hegseth and as @clarajeffery.bsky.social astutely points out those middle schoolers showed more courage than what we have seen from the leaders in Congress.

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Hegseth’s visit to U.S. base in Germany met with student walkout

The civil disobedience by dozens of middle-schoolers — and some adults — was aimed at the Trump administration’s rollback of DEI initiatives.

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Emily Mullin @emilymullin.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Hi all, I'm a WIRED journalist on the science desk. If you're a government scientist or federally funded researcher with info to share about the Trump transition, please feel free to contact me securely on Signal: emullin.06

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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

The corporate coup is global. Trump's mad tariffs do not mark the end of neoliberalism or free trade or whatever you want to call it. They mark the end game of what we have been fighting for decades: corporate rule. They do not believe in the public. They believe in their wealth.

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Jared Holt @jaredlholt.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

I think it’s been interesting to see that the Right is not even arguing this stuff is good anymore. It’s just “wow look the libs are mad! Yep no more DEI!” They are pretending half of this stuff isn’t happening at all.

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Renee DiResta @noupside.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Watching RFK Jr hearing: "Americans cannot afford to import this experiment," says @wyden.senate.gov in his opening statement, re Kennedy's egregious involvement in the Samoa measles outbreak. He goes on to discuss Kennedy being wishy-washing on abortion medication. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

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Experts saw Samoa's plunging vaccination rates as a crisis. RFK Jr. saw an opportunity.

New details show how Robert F. Kennedy Jr., then chair of an anti-vaccine group and now Trump’s pick for health secretary, sought to exploit a deadly vaccine accident.

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Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Intelligence officials are starting to leak to me now too. Here’s a memo Defense Intelligence Agency personnel received instructing them to suspend observances including: - Holocaust Remembrance Day - MLK Day - Juneteenth

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R. Chris Skinner @rchrisskinner.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

My year in books. Please give me suggestions for 2025!

A stack of books with a dog and tree in the background.

Left to right and ranking:
1. Mother Night by Vonnegut
2. Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
3. Doppelgänger by Naomi Klein

Least favorite from left to right:
The Need by Helen Phillips
This is How You Lose the Time War by El-Mohtar and Gladstone

Misc awards left to right:
Weirdest read: Earthlings by Sayaka Murata

Creepiest read: This Thing Between Us by Gus Moreno

Most disappointing read: McGlue by Otessa Moshfegh

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R. Chris Skinner @rchrisskinner.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

A great dinner celebrating everything the lab accomplished this semester. Can’t wait to showcase our work at some conferences and in some publications in 2025!

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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 17/12/2024

Congratulations to the UVM Catamounts soccer team for defeating Marshall, 2-1, to win the Division One National Championship. Yup. Vermont is a soccer state!

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R. Chris Skinner @rchrisskinner.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

UVM faculty perks: getting away from the office for a trip to the maple research center.

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Rebekah Honce @rrhonce.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

May have proved to myself that Boston is indeed a *very* walkable city with @rchrisskinner.bsky.social

Screenshot of Apple fitness step count reading 33,117 steps and 15.59 miles walked

View of the Paul Revere statue in sunlight with fall colored trees lining the sides and the Old North Church steeple against a blue sky

Old gravestones in near rows, some with moss and lichen and others nearly toppled over

Johnny Blue Skies aka Sturgill Simpson and his band playing with green and white lights illuminating a smoky stage

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R. Chris Skinner @rchrisskinner.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Come join us at @uvmvermont.bsky.social! We’re hiring a tenure track food science faculty. www.uvmjobs.com/postings/76132

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Assistant Professor

Officers of Instruction - Tenure Track

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Rebekah Honce @rrhonce.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

A good week to be a Catamount 💚💛

A chilly night at the UVM soccer stadium illuminated by lights. Catamounts are playing UMBC in the America East semifinal game and go on to win in the second overtime.

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R. Chris Skinner @rchrisskinner.bsky.social · 26/12/2023

I’m going to give a general suggestion to journals that emailing reviewers on December 23rd and saying a review is due December 25th is not a stellar idea.

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Rebekah Honce @rrhonce.bsky.social · 10/10/2023

2,000 miles in 5 days may be too many, but the pit stops were nice

Impromptu hike at Buttermilk Falls State Park in Ithaca

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