Hey you! I am still on the market for jobs this fall! I am an entomologist who specializes in inclusive biology teaching (15+ semesters of collegiate instruction) and a broad array of research skills spanning collection & ID, molecular work (RNAi, Genomics), and phenotyping (behavior, physiology)🧪
That's close to 100 5-year NIH grants. So much for technical leadership.
1/n Wash Post
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Screenshotted excerpt from linked article reading as follows: "In public, Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. has cultivated a reputation for care and caution. The papers reveal a different side of him. At a critical moment for the country and the court, the papers show, he acted as a bulldozer in pushing to stop Mr. Obama’s plan to address the global climate crisis. When colleagues warned the chief justice that he was proposing an unprecedented move, he was dismissive. “I recognize that the posture of this stay request is not typical,” he wrote. But he argued that the Obama plan, which aimed to regulate coal-fired plants, was “the most expensive regulation ever imposed on the power sector,” and too big, costly and consequential for the court not to act immediately."
OOP
New York Times got receipts on John Roberts being like, 'I know this isn't how anything works, but a Democratic president is about to implement a policy!!'
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📢🎉@hhmi-science.bsky.social HHMI competition for the next cohorts of #HannaGray Fellows and #FreemanHrabowski Scholars opening 11/3/2026. Senior postdocs and faculty within 7 years of appointment. Up to $10M over 10 yrs, + salary & benefits. Spread the word and consider applying! bit.ly/4vhC0LA
rockwell guy standing up
i think governments should stop tweeting and go back to official press releases/joint statements
Map showing the following data: Children's uninsured rate by state, 2024 (ACS, under 19): Alabama 4.3%, Alaska 8.8%, Arizona 9.3%, Arkansas 7.7%, California 3.1%, Colorado 6.0%, Connecticut 2.6%, Delaware 5.8%, Florida 8.5%, Georgia 7.9%, Hawaii 2.9%, Idaho 8.1%, Illinois 3.6%, Indiana 6.1%, Iowa 3.8%, Kansas 7.0%, Kentucky 5.0%, Louisiana 4.1%, Maine 4.5%, Maryland 4.6%, Massachusetts 2.1%, Michigan 3.5%, Minnesota 3.7%, Mississippi 5.8%, Missouri 6.6%, Montana 7.7%, Nebraska 5.3%, Nevada 8.0%, New Hampshire 2.3%, New Jersey 4.7%, New Mexico 6.1%, New York 2.7%, North Carolina 5.5%, North Dakota 6.7%, Ohio 5.6%, Oklahoma 8.5%, Oregon 2.7%, Pennsylvania 5.4%, Rhode Island 3.7%, South Carolina 5.9%, South Dakota 8.0%, Tennessee 6.5%, Texas 13.6%, Utah 6.6%, Vermont 2.6%, Virginia 5.2%, Washington 3.9%, West Virginia 2.8%, Wisconsin 4.2%, Wyoming 9.0%. National average: 6.0%.
Uninsured rate for children, by state. Texas accounts for a quarter of all children without health insurance in America.
Rep. Chu brings up the fact that FEMA is approving disaster requests from Republican states but not Democratic states.
She asks Vought about it, and he basically says it's not a problem. "No one has looked harder at FEMA funding than us."
McInnis adopted a policy of institutional neutrality in October 2024, following recommendations from the Committee on Institutional Voice, which advises Yale leaders to limit public statements on political matters except in rare cases. She has said her priority is working with lawmakers behind the scenes, and lobbying has been a core part of her presidency.
Ahead of U.S. Education Secretary Linda McMahon’s scheduled appearance at a Buckley Institute event this month, University President Maurie McInnis commended the independent Yale-adjacent organization for inviting her. McMahon is slated to speak about diversity, gender and the government’s education policies at an April 16 event hosted by the Buckley Institute, a group that brings conservative voices to campus. The secretary, a member of President Donald Trump’s cabinet, oversees a Department of Education that has canceled billions of dollars worth of federal funding grants to universities across the country. “Buckley does an amazing job, as do many of our other student groups, of inviting leaders to come speak on consequential topics,” McInnis said in an interview on Tuesday. “I applaud that they have invited her.”
When asked if she believed the Education Department should be scrapped, she stopped short of clearly answering affirmatively or negatively. “I don’t believe — I — the U.S. Department of Education serves many wide and diverse functions, many of which serve our students very well,” she said, mentioning Pell Grants as an example. “I certainly think that those functions are absolutely vital and need to continue,” she added, emphasizing the word “functions.”
My alma mater @yale.edu is so embarrassing. In 2024 it adopted "institutional neutrality" to not comment on political matters; that didn't stop the President from praising a right-wing group for inviting McMahon to campus, but did stop her from saying if Dept of Edu should be illegally destroyed. 🙄
Matt Wuerker, Politico
Mini Modu @MinModulation X.com the strait was open when the american military was woke and gay Ironic.
I’m stealing bangers today
Nobel Laureate Jack Szostak “This country has given me endless opportunities…: The America we inhabit today bears almost no resemblance to the country I chose all those years ago” newsletter.ofthebrave.org/p/im-a-nobel...
Fuck SpaceX
Fund NASA
These two have to go. AIPAC is a cancer.
Fewer teen parents is good, actually. Yes, don’t have babies until you are in a more stable life situation!
The only president stupid enough to do it.
This happens on a daily basis in occupied West Bank; instead of offering medical assistance, Israeli soldiers take photos of a young Palestinian boy they shot, while dying of his wounds
Some Zionists to call this army “moral” even after the live streamed genocide of Gaza
"The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command." -- George Orwell 1984.
We are going to get something horrific about Melania dropping from the Epstein files.
🔥 @rokhanna.bsky.social to Democratic leadership: “Get out. Let a new generation lead. You’ve been ineffective. The base doesn’t like you. The base wants fighters.”
There’s too much bad news these days
To uplift you, check out this @ourworldindata.org story on how cervical cancer rates have declined greatly among younger generations with vaccination!
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The fact that nobody seriously believes there is an institution in this country that will check the president—that we’re all just sitting here hoping that he gets distracted and fails to follow through on his genocidal threats—is the most damning indictment of our political system I’ve seen yet.
Freedom of Speech by Norman Rockwell
I don't think Kamala Harris would've threatened to commit genocide in Iran on a random Tuesday morning a month after starting an unwinnable war with them for no reason
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“Trump’s former spiritual advisor released from jail after serving just 6 months for molesting a 12 year-old girl.”
Tim Dillon just declared that MAGA is "the greatest scam in history."
Every PI
Greg Jaffe Helene Cooper and Eric Schmitt on the byline with a source on background saying the dismissal was tied to refusal to comply with Hegseth’s directive to remove the 2 black and 2 female officers from the promotion list to one star general
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Hearing from #NIH sources the peer review office (CSR) is being broken.
"They [top of CSR] want ppl with zero expertise in the review area to run review. I heard they don't want people to be "distracted by the science." (??)
It's crazy to think a person can run good review for any kind of science."
