The trove of files released by the Department of Justice, illuminates Epstein’s deep interest and entrenchment in the scientific community.
But the files also underscore how he used his power and money in ways that kept women out of places where they might succeed. https://bit.ly/4qWgPLz
Arne here has a great summary of reasons why developers should reject the vibe codist death cult project.
mastodon.social/@plexus@toot...
American and Israeli missiles hit Sharif University in Tehran tonight. Often called #Iran’s MIT, the institution has been home to some of the country’s best and brightest minds in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics since 1966. 1/2
ICE has kept a disabled double amputee prisoner for over 14 months.
Rodney Taylor has been denied access to his prosthetic legs.
Forced to crawl across dirty floors to access food.
Placed in solitary.
Denied medical accommodations.
They’re killing him & he needs the community to make noise!
Trump's 2027 budget proposes cuts of:
🔻 $5.8 billion to NIH
🔻 $5.6 billion to NASA
🔻 $4.8 billion to NSF
🔻 $4.6 billion to EPA
🔻 $2.9 billion to CDC
🔻 $1.6 billion to NOAA
If these science cuts pass they will make the US a less healthy and less safe place to live.
After 15 whole minutes of discussion, the Endangered Species Committee (100% Trump appointees) decided that oil & gas companies in the Gulf of Mexico don't need to exert any caution anymore to protect endangered whales, turtles, or other wildlife.
www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
"The real threat is a slow, comfortable drift toward not understanding what you're doing. Not a dramatic collapse. Not Skynet. Just a generation of researchers who can produce results but can't produce understanding."
The. Rise. Of. Cognitive. Surrender.
Study finds that people who use GenAI chatbots rely on them 80% of the time, and develop almost no capacity to recognize when a chatbot is feeding them faulty information.
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
I am absolutely delighted to share that I am one of 10 people to be receiving a Decadal Award in a couple of weeks!
It's incredible to think that a lot of my work focuses on LGBTQ+ inclusion nowadays. Learning that I'm asexual has really changed my life - personally and professionally.
Full-time salaries for most categories of faculty have remained about the same since 2002, adjusting for inflation, while admin pay soars.
Faculty have had enough. We’re fighting back nationwide.
✊🏽✊🏻✊🏿
www.chronicle.com/article/amid...
This problem is actually pretty easy to solve:
scientists who include false citations in scientific papers should get fired for committing scientific fraud
No fooling, Avogadro 2.0.0 is finally here!
Rebuilt from the ground up: fast modern rendering, improved stability, designed for the next generation of molecular, biomolecule, and materials research & education. 🧪 ⚗️
avogadro.cc/install/
discuss.avogadro.cc
#opensource #openscience #compchem
Bold move of a commercial publisher to be questioning the morality of people working in libraries.
Why bioRxiv
This is satisfyingly niche. Shots fired by the chemical reaction networks community.
arxiv.org/abs/2603.12060
How to make your own robot!
A review of people making awesome lab robots out of commercial 3D printers. Thank you @vsaggiomo.bsky.social and Sander for inviting me to help write this paper in @digital-discovery.rsc.org.
Beep boop! 🤖 #chemsky
doi.org/10.1039/D5DD...
New: Supreme Court holds that Colorado's conversion therapy ban violates freedom of (therapists') speech. Unusual split: Sotomayor and Kagan join majority opinion (and Kagan writes a separate concurrence, which Soto joins). Jackson is the solo dissenter
Shout out to all my fellow agenders! Being agender people is just as natural as being a gendered person.
(yes, you're allowed to chuckle, we need some levity today)
like i cannot understate that major sources of social science research funding for PhD candidates are just - gone over the last few years, much less NSF support
- ford /national academy of sciences fellowships
- ssrc international dissertation fellowships
- USIP dissertation fellowships (?)
Yet anti-LGBTQ+ therapists now enjoy a First Amendment right that is denied to abortion providers. But as Jackson pointed out, the inconsistency runs deeper. After Chiles, parents who seek to “convert” their transgender children have a constitutional right to do so. But thanks to last year’s decision in Skrmetti, parents who seek to affirm their transgender children with medication have no such right. States can ban gender-affirming medication but evidently cannot ban anti-transgender talk therapy. And the majority does not explain why anti-LGBTQ+ speech receives heightened protections when other viewpoints do not. Surely, Jackson wrote, a state can direct doctors to discourage, and not encourage, smoking cigarettes. It can prohibit doctors “from telling an anorexic patient to eat less” while allowing them to recommend eating more. It can stop doctors from encouraging patients to end their lives. These laws, too, censor speech on the basis of the state’s preferred viewpoint—in Gorsuch’s words, they “enforce orthodoxy.” Why is it, then, that nobody seriously argues that they’d violate the First Amendment, too?
The Supreme Court's "conversion therapy" decision today is indefensible on its own terms. A ton of medical regulations restrict speech on the basis of "viewpoint." Nobody thinks they're unconstitutional. This court just subjects pro-LGBTQ protections to special hostility. slate.com/news-and-pol...
Today, MSF is going public with something we've been fighting behind closed doors for months: Gilead will not sell us their new HIV drug, lenacapavir.
The sticking point isn't even price, they just refuse to sell.
Open letter linked + explainer 🧵1/
www.doctorswithoutborders.org/latest/gilea...
I started covering this last year, and I can't overstate how important this is: the Trump administration officially labeled some of the most commonly-used forms of birth control as 'abortion' jessica.substack.com/i/173447780/...
Palantir has student data, including immigration status, from the ed tech discussion platform Piazza.
Palantir paid Piazza $916,000 for access to this data. www.sec.gov/Archives/edg...
I blew the whistle on this in 2016 and the CEO contacted my employer.
If you're a professor and your spending power has shrunk over time, you're not the only one. Here's how much faculty salaries have declined and why experts say it's happening.https://chroni.cl/4bQgCEf
Just published in JOSS: 'Chemical Recommender System: Replacement Suggestions for Small Molecules' https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.09339
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The COVID-19 pandemic is not over, the effects of SARS-CoV-2 are commonly body-destroying in ways we’re barely beginning to understand, and the best way to keep yourself and others safe is to WEAR A MASK.
Liberation for all includes mad liberation
