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Estimated cost of Trump's war: $1 billion PER DAY.
That's enough to pay for
- Medicaid for all 16 million people losing it because of Republican budget cuts
- AND daily food stamps for all 41 million people who rely on them
Imagine if we had a government put people over profit.
The reductions in the number of new and competing renewal R01s by topic (based on simple searches in NIH Reporter).
The cuts are across the board: Cancer down 24%, Alzheimer down 45%, Obesity down 29%, Child by 21%.
Transgender was down by 84% but represents only a small number of grants.
History soapbox time:
Saying that women weren't allowed to have a checking account or get a loan w/o a male cosigner before the '70s... is wildly misleading. Some women were; some weren't.
What's accurate is that in some places it was explicitly illegal to deny women those things, but not in others.
I want all these posters. But especially the mitten.
I want my tax dollars building schools in America, not blowing them up in Iran.
Find my editorial here, along with a special collection of really solid papers at @lsajournal.org that showcase the importance of negative data:
www.life-science-alliance.org/content/nega...
History is written by the Victors. Philosophy is written by the Garys. Lucy writes all the religious stuff.
so my challenge to buckaroo readers who share constant news about dying creative industries, who repost stories about AI harming the arts, who lament the loss of genuine human creativity, JUST TAKE A FEW MINUTES TO ACTUALLY PREORDER SOMETHING FROM A HUMAN ARTIST THAT YOU LIKE
It is genuinely a very funny bit to be living through the material realities of capitalism, having every horror it has to offer shoved in your face every single day, and still be a "communism is bad!" guy. Like I think at this point dogs have a better grasp of cause and effect than you do
A line graph showing the success rates for fiscal years 2015-2025 as a function of percentile score. The curve for fiscal year 2025 is substantially lower than for previous fiscal years.
With these results in hand, we can now reproduce the graph that @joshuasweitz.bsky.social posted.
It is still shocking, but we can now understand why it looks the way it does: The number of R01 and R56 awards were down while the number of applications were up.
16/20
A possibility which I am now working on understanding is that funds from terminated grants were not used to other NIH grants as Director Bhattacharya has said they were
Instead, it seems that they may have been returned to the Treasury, effectively cutting the NIH appropriation.
20/20
Cis people need to pay attention to the way they communicate this. They freely admit that after all of their research, they came up with zero evidence that HRT was harmful.
Then they banned it anyway, claiming their inability to find a reason is a reason in of itself.
I said what I said.
We're not ready to push forward into the renewable future. We still want to cling to This old silly fossil fuel world that is killing the planet.
If you had an EV that costs under $20K, and subsidized solar cells on your roof, you'd be partially insulated from gas price hikes.
Gee, who could have predicted this?
It kills me how much we're repeating things. And the comparisons are accurate.
genuinely: american class politics is so interesting
In a world in flames, archives might seem inconsequential, yet they represent our collective memory, and their erasure also is a political act.
apple.news/A_Mlcl43oQNm...
"temporarily-embarrassed billionaires"
a computer can never be held accountable therefore a computer must never make a management decision
the purpose of a machine is what it does - in this case allowing for maximum cruelty with minimum accountability.
ACTION ITEM-----ACTION ITEM
Because of overwhelming demand, NIH has new links for the Strategic Plan webinars
March 16, 2026 12:30 - 1:30 pm | www.scgcorp.com/strategicpla...
April 8, 2026 2:30 - 3:30 pm | www.scgcorp.com/strategicpla...
NOTE: YOU HAVE TO RE-REGISTER IS YOU REGISTERED BEFORE
A newspaper headline from over a century ago, reading: WOMEN ANARCHISTS HAVE BECOME THE TERROR OF WORLDS POLICE Their Daring Crimes Are Said to Have Out- stripped the Deeds of Brothers of the Red Search for the Woman is Becoming a Safe Rule in Crimes Proceeding From Anarchistic Violence—The Guardians of the World Nearly Always Finda Woman Implicated When a Ruler is Stricken Down—Emotional Women Lose Sense of Fear.
Happy International Women's Day. 🏴
A small vial of the original Pfizer COVID vaccine in my left had it has a red and black letters on a white label with grey bands.
Yesterday at the Stand Up for Science event in Columbus I spoke about Defend Public Health - Ohio.
At the end I handed out little COVID vaccine vials like this one and they were snatched up immediately by the college students.
You can compensate for a mediocre speech by including trinkets.
You can take action and sign the petition. There were rallies led by Stand Up For Science on Saturday to push for his impeachment. Haley Stevens introduced Articles of Impeachment last year.
www.standupforscience.net/rfk-impeachm...
Via @standupforscience.bsky.social
Science is essential for public health decisions and policy. We can't afford to sideline facts or let misinformation steer the conversation. Supporting efforts like Stand Up For Science is crucial, especially when lives are at stake. Let's prioritize evidence-based healthcare.
🌿 Postdoc opportunity in plant evolutionary ecology/genetics!
My lab in the Dept. of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology at the University of Michigan is recruiting a postdoctoral researcher to start Fall 2026.
We study plant adaptation, using weeds as model systems.
#Postdoc #EcoEvo
Pls RT!
We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words.
-Ursula K. Le Guin
when did Pittsburgh police start checking unexpected orange cones? Is there a registry?
My university is on spring break this week. But bc I'm staff, I only get Fri off. I'd really love some time off, but I don't know if my projects can take it right now.
YOU - “I approve of this, very futuristic.” (Tap on the girls kissing.)
