Yes this is just Warsh being a douchebag, but the idea that Stanford’s leadership would ever dare question or criticize a right-wing faculty member, for anything, is implausible

Each individual layoff notice that was issued to a postdoc in May of 2025 was itself a greater degree of direct government censorship than Bhattacharya has experienced in his entire life.

Katy Milkman is like

New bit I've perfected if anyone brings up a problem: I don't really follow politics but it was never like this before Trump. "But the Democrats and the funding and--" Yeah like I said I don't really follow that. There was always politics but before Trump it was never like this. That's all I know

Sometimes when I send a Strong email that warrior mindset just kicks in. This is how my ancestors felt when they went into battle

jay bhattacharya is physically incapable of honesty, but even for him this is a lot

Confiscate 99.8% of Andreesen’s net worth for the public good, wait 20 minutes, and then tell him his memory of ever having more than $4 million is false.

If it is a utility then it must be nationalized and subsidized.

"Women have different genetics than men," Bhattacharya says.

Q: You don’t regret that people might have lost income -

DOGE BRO: No. It was more important to reduce the federal deficit from 2 trillion dollars to close to zero.

Q: Did you reduce the federal deficit?

DOGE BRO: No. We didn’t.

our war aim is to open the strait of hormuz. which was open until we started the war. any questions?

Vinay Prasad; Ardent Supporter of Everything Trump Did

(At least my obituary won’t look like this when I die)

the us military killed 175 children inside a school and the president is lying about it.

He was right about this at least

meh... let Vinay Prasad go back to being the Arnold Ventures Endowed Chair in Podcasting, or whatever his UCSF sinecure was. His time at FDA showed conclusively that he’s not cut out for a real job.

(Vaguely curious if UCSF cares about the multiple harassment complaints against him at FDA though)…

A lot of people, including me, were wondering how an IRB could ever approve this study.

The answer is that no IRB did. The person who “signed off” on approval from the only ethics board that reviewed it had resigned three years earlier. His signature was used without his knowledge.

this makes perfect sense for them. after all, the fastest way to destroy a storied medical institution is to appoint jay bhattacharya to lead it

"AI will cure cancer"

No bro, it is fully on cancer's side

Me as a child: it must be very hard to become a CEO and be very hard work once you get the job

Guy obviously on drugs speaking at a conference: the next five years of the economy should be about a dream I had where a dog spoke to me

Trump administration drops appeal of court order blocking $1.2-billion UCLA settlement The Trump administration dropped its appeal of a major higher education case in which a federal judge blocked its $1.2-billion settlement proposal to UCLA over alleged civil rights violations. It will...

This is a genuinely huge, sweeping victory today for the University of California—or rather, for us, its faculty, acting through our faculty associations, while the UC itself maintained a strict policy of deer-in-headlights silence.

The Trump admin has given up its appeal of a powerful injunction:

What will happen is the white collar tasks will be "automated" but will require a full-time human babysitter to correct. As far as I can tell, the main white collar tasks that are ripe for full AI automation are the ones done by CEOs.

release the prasad files

Thirty years of concern. Never enough courage.

GOLDMAN: Do you know what other regimes in the 20th century required similar proof of citizenship?


LYONS: Various nefarious regimes did that

GOLDMAN: Is Nazi Germany one?

LYONS: This is the wrong type of question

Academics vying for a spot in Epstein‘s world. There are so many. I feel the need to make a thread, so I don’t keep confusing them. 1/

The US immigrant population generated more in taxes than they received in benefits from all levels of government every year from 1994 to 2023.

The Cato study provides the first-ever 30-year analysis of the fiscal effects of immigration on government budgets.

https://ow.ly/jy8a50Y8kM3

Science, Politics, and Evasion: Lessons from Bhattacharya’s Senate HELP Testimony If you’ve been reading my previous posts, you will not be shocked to learn that I am no fan of NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya.

My two cents on the many misleading moments in Bhattacharya's testimony today before the Senate HELP Committee.
From claiming that there's no war on science, to claiming there weren't grant cancelations, to using loaded right-wing rhetoric, it wasn't great
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I will simply never recover from reading this sentence:

"Since Georgia implemented work requirements in 2020, they have spent twice as much on Deloitte consultants and administrative costs as on healthcare for people."

The most amoral people I encounter are the ones who frame our problem as “political polarization.”

Anthropic wants to buy up, scan, and then destroy every book on earth

“We don’t want it to be known that we’re working on this” yeah no kidding