HRT saves lives. The goal of taking it away is death.

There is a false dichotomy drawn between "the ivory tower" and "the real world," and I'm here to report that in a post-industrial society, your real-world economy absolutely hinges on the university.

University towns are factory towns. Universities drive economic activity, not the other way around.

I am an adjunct professor (for a living if you can call it that), and I am more working-class than a hundred fucking car dealership owners because I'll work until I drop dead, I'll probably never own a home, and spend like six of my ten-hour work day on my fucking feet talking to people nonstop.

we're all going to fucking die

Bar graph titled "Top 20 Countries by Research and Development Spending." The United States leads significantly in spending, followed by China, Japan, and Germany. Other countries include the United Kingdom, South Korea, France, and Australia, among others.

To see why destroying the US science enterprise is so detrimental to the world, we have to realize that the US spends more on research and development than any other country in the world (by far), and if we remove China and Japan, the US spends almost as much as ALL other countries combined.

The “brain drain” will be a primarily domestic phenomenon, w/ STEM-trained people moving into non-STEM occupations.

There are not remotely enough STEM jobs abroad for our *millions* scientists, and even if there were, moving is hard, expensive & dependent on multiple intersecting privileges.

Every dollar of government spending is like $100 of economic activity. Every time they "save money" they contract the economy.

Upset about the President's budget request to eviscerate NIH, NSF, and all science in the US? Call your representatives! Push back - 77% of Americans recently polled do not want to cut research funding. The cures and economic benefits from research are popular - don't let your reps forget that. 🧪

Stand up to him, get rewarded. Try to placate, he'll just demand more. The way is clear

There are only a few posts on here so far, but I also got the Millipore Sigma email about a surcharge because of the tariffs. Great. Pandemic era supply chain problems for no fucking reason. This will hurt commercial labs, but REALLY hurt small academic labs that are struggling with funding already.

When the AI crime scanner false flags you on the way to your AI doctor who processes the wrong claim with its AI system while misdiagnosing you due to AI reasoning being made up just remember we did not in fact want this

Early Career Summer Conference 2025

Abstract submission is open for the @microbiologysociety.org Early Career Summer Conference in Newcastle (23rd and 24th June). This is always a fantastic event, with a mix of talks, posters and professional development sessions. Abstract deadline 4th May.
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since i'm a fundamentally boring person who doesn't do drugs or buy guns, i've never gotten to participate in a black market. so i am hopeful tariffs mean i can get a small thrill out of cryptically saying "Oh, I've got a guy for that" when i mean toothpaste and tide pods

This is the first shot in the war to return to “pre-existing conditions”.

People talk about the "male loneliness epidemic", but all a man has to do is take a jumbo packet of hot dogs into the forest and he can easily make friends with dozens, if not hundreds, of raccoons.

I remember when #abolishICE was a rallying cry. In fact, that hashtag's barely older than my kid

but the Democrats are so bad at keeping their eye on the ball and the average USian voter is so irredeemably captured by passive, systemic racism that Jonathan has to spell it out like this

1867. Reconstruction.

There’s no reason to have a Democratic Party if it won’t go to the mat to save the Department of Education. It’s a fundamental belief that children in America deserve better futures. It’s tremendously simple. You cannot continue funding a government that would close this.

As someone who has spent more than 12 years on weather and climate services:

I have never seen a fully private service work economically. All effective, affordable services are built on public data. If NWS is privatized, you’ll be paying more for less effective forecasts.

83 House Democrats joined the GOP in voting for a bill that claims to be about combating pandemic unemployment fraud.....but defunds the tools the Department of Labor has to actually investigate large-scale fraud.

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If you're not familiar with the WRBU it was formed by the US Army back in the 1960s to catalog and study mosquitoes from around the world but focused on locations like SE Asia with active theaters. Since then they've published hundreds of papers and amassed a collection of over 1 million mosquitoes.

There is no person out there who could reasonably compare the facts of measles infection vs. vaccination and willingly opt for infection instead. The risks are greater by many orders of magnitude and the benefits are nonexistent. How many more people need to die until we learn this lesson?

This isn't going to get the attention of Columbia, but it's at least as bad: the University of Maine is having its funding cut off because the governor of Maine dared to challenge Trump.

"Look forward, not back" sealed our doom

If you’re feeling demoralized, know that psychological warfare is part of the enemy’s tactics and manage your PUBLIC response accordingly

Just an obvious point that anyone with the inside word on when these these total reversals are going to be announced is in a position to make almost limitless amounts of money. Don't forget that given the kind of people who make up this administration.

I wish Dems would introduce more bills that will fail but would do good things for people, especially marginalized people, if they passed. Relentlessly. Every single day. Along with articles of impeachment for the pres and cabinet every day.

Show that you’ll fight for pie in the sky as well as the status quo that was already failing most of us. Show that you care about marginalized people. Make Republicans repeatedly reject wildly popular measures.