Figure showing number of competitive grants mentioning women from 2015-2025. The number was rising until recently, with a precipitous drop in the last year.

At the end of 2024, the National Academies put out a report concluding the NIH has woefully underfunded women’s health research, and they suggested $15 B should be invested over the next 5 years.

Here’s what’s happened instead. Hard to study women’s health if you can’t say “women.”

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Faculty Defect From Texas Publics, Citing Censorship Fed up with the state’s censoring of Plato, Joan of Arc and Romeo and Juliet, humanities professors are leaving Texas public institutions in pursuit of academic freedom.

Colleagues leaving, students losing out. Sure would be nice if we lived in a world where other universities could do some serious poaching, but alas it's bad all over. www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...

For this episode of In Bed with the Right @moiradonegan.bsky.social and I headed to Flavortown to talk about its frosty-tipped mayor, about Anthony Bourdain, celebrity chefs and the gender of cookery www.patreon.com/posts/episod...

In 2025, the world started construction of nuclear power plants that would generate 12 GW of power if completed.

In the same year, it installed 108 GW of batteries and 600 GW of solar capacity.

FBI Director Kash Patel about to find out that defamation requires "a false statement of fact"

Oh fuck yes haha

Weird how they never do this in areas where Trump won!

DOJ Office of Civil Rights seem very focused on districts with a lot of Black voters.

Think of how much of this country's political and cultural destruction has been caused by a bunch of mediocre white dudes making up someone to get mad at

I'm pretty tuned into Democratic politics and I have never in my life heard anyone ever use the phrase "justice involved population."

But thank you for now vouching for the existence of that phrase and letting Fox News do a thousand pieces about it.

Gov. Bill Lee signed a resolution defining family as a man, a woman, and their children, a move critics say targets LGBTQ+ households.

I am a gay dad and this is FUCKED UP

this reminds me, i don't think SCOTUS should be allowed to choose their own clerks. standardize the hiring schedule, put the applications in a pool, blind reads (perhaps by a panel of former clerks) and random assignments.

Trump, IRS in talks to settle US president's $10 billion lawsuit Lawyers for Donald Trump ​and the Internal Revenue Service are in talks to settle the U.S. president's $10 billion lawsuit against the tax ‌collection agency for leaking his tax returns to the media i...

Every presidential administration gets accused of corruption—sometimes with good reason, sometimes not. But the corruption of the Trump administration is of a magnitude that is not only without precedent in American history but so large and brazen as to be difficult to wrap one's head around.

Übrigens nun auch mit @adriandaub.bsky.social 's neuestem Buch durch und ich mochte den Schreibstil und durchgehenden Humor, trotz der Thematik.

Besonders auch, dass es nach dem Ende der Utopie durch deren Aufgehen im Longtermismus auf einer letztlich positiven Note endet.

Denn...

OpenAI: We’re burning money like the Joker. A miracle needs to happen for us to turn a profit

Microsoft: Please please use our AI systems, we’re teetering on the edge here

Anthropic: I wonder what’ll kill us first: lawsuits, regulations or model collapse

Media and universities: AI is here to stay

Distracted boyfriend meme: I’m researching a guy fieri episode instead of our aquinas episode

Me working on @inbedwiththeright.bsky.social this week

Linda Yaccarino replies to a Zohran Mamdani tweet to say that taxing rich people's penthouses is "actually one of the scariest things I have ever seen"

Zohran Mamdani said he's going to start taxing rich people who buy luxury housing in NYC but don't actually live in there, and the former CEO of Twitter/X called it "actually one of the scariest things I have ever seen."

Last year I wrote about this push for “viewpoint diversity” and how it misunderstands and perverts the university on my newsletter adriandaub.substack.com/p/what-is-it...

Depressing to see Harvard (and so many others) accede to it now.

How is “viewpoint diversity” not just affirmative action for people with bad ideas

S.F. shoe brand Allbirds says it will become an AI company, sending shares soaring Allbirds said it will pivot from footwear to artificial intelligence, backed by a $50 million financing deal and a planned rebrand as NewBird AI.

Somehow not The Onion www.sfchronicle.com/tech/article...

whale head. raccoon penis. it's glaringly obvious that rfk jr is assembling some sort of Super Animal... and i fear he may soon acquire flamingo legs

Da wo Merz sein Erdgas herholt scheint die Sonne so gut wie gar nicht da bringer auch Photovoltaik nix

A big stack of books

This is stack 1 of 5 in my office rn. If there’s an earthquake please tell first responders to listen for the deranged cackling under the burial mound of books

Barrera said her husband said the smell of human feces in the toilet caused a fellow detainee to vomit and, in turn, created a chain of people vomiting. She said her husband is asthmatic and has not received medication to treat his condition. The lack of medicine and the stress of the overcrowded holding cell has left him short of breath and teetering on the edge of an asthma attack, Barrera said. ICE did not immediately respond to questions on April 10 about the conditions of the Mesa or Phoenix facilities. After the publication of this article, Barrera told The Arizona Republic her husband was transferred to the ICE facility at San Luis Regional Detention Center at about midnight. The San Luis Regional Detention Center is in Southwestern Arizona and has the capacity to hold 700 people.

This is horrific. A U.S. citizen describes the facility in Arizona that her husband was brought to while he waited to be put on a deportation flight. Dozens of people were crammed into tiny cells, there was a "chain of people vomiting" from filthy toilets, no medical care, and only one meal per day.

In Bed with the Right episode 130: Elizabeth Cady Stanton

New episode! On @inbedwiththeright.bsky.social, @adriandaub.bsky.social and I take on the Goliath of 19th century feminism: Elizabeth Cady Stanton. pod.link/1696774612/e...

For decades, birthday party clowns folded balloons and played games. John Wayne Gacy is taking a different approach.

I suspect the Pope sounds "woke" to many Christian conservatives because the US is steeped in prosperity theology, where the point of worship is to deliver health and wealth to believers. Thus, "feed the hungry" and "show mercy for the poor" sounds needlessly political and "woke."

Same goes for every "genius" academic or scholar.

"The New Testament is a brutal destroyer of human illusions. If you follow Jesus and don't end up dead, it appears you have some explaining to do [...] The traumatic truth of human history is a mutilated body. " - Terry Eagleton

so what I’m getting from this is that no one at the paper relentlessly running op-eds about how college is “woke” now could even be bothered to go to history class when they had the chance

Vor drei Wochen war @adriandaub.bsky.social zu Gast im Podcast.
Die Folge ist heimlich, still und leise in die Top20 von über 280 aufgestiegen.

Ich habe Heute mit seinem Buch »Was das Valley denken nennt« begonnen und es ist jetzt schon unter den Top3 meines Jahres.

Literally the first comment. Also, the fact that authoritarians *can* lose elections in some systems does not mean democracy is unaffected. Would Cowen prefer to live in an illiberal democracy or competitive authoritarian state? Are they really the same as, say, Canada?