😂 it’s a brave new world

I don’t know who needs to hear Jesse Jackson leading the kids on Sesame Street in this beautiful call-and-response reminding them that every child is somebody, but here it is

Thank you @acnporg.bsky.social and the incredibly impressive panel for the excellent, important session on sex and gender in neuropsychopharmacology research. #acnp2026

Woman, Dr. Bershad, at podium next to screen with talk title slide.

Happening now: Fascinating updates on the growing field of social psychopharmacology by my superstar friend, UCLA Asst Prof Anya Bershad and colleagues! @acnporg.bsky.social @uclagreenlab.bsky.social #ACNP2026

Ocean view with palm trees and pools, at Atlantis Resort in the Bahamas.

Ocean view with palm trees in foreground, at Atlantis Resort in the Bahamas.

Woke up to this incredible view this morning! Feeling grateful to @acnporg.bsky.social for the lovely location and the opportunity to attend. Very ready to soak up the science. #ACNP2026

M.I.T. Rejects a White House Offer for Special Funding Treatment

This is the way

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

RFK, Jr., Cites ‘Truly Appalling’ Studies to Tie Autism to Circumcision and Tylenol Studies suggesting circumcision rates are linked with autism are “riddled with flaws”

Studies suggesting circumcision rates are linked with autism are “riddled with flaws”

Opinion | Trump’s ‘Compact’ With Universities Is Just Extortion

Hear! effing Hear!

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www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/o...

The horror continues…

People of Illinois, we need your help.

Get your cell phones out – record what you see. Put it on social media. Peacefully ask for badge numbers and identification. Speak up for your neighbors.

We need to let the world know this is happening – and that we won’t stand for it.

NIH awarded 37 percent fewer neuroscience-related grants in 2025 than in past years But the agency has spent nearly its entire budget for this fiscal year, which ends tomorrow.

www.thetransmitter.org/funding/nih-...

So exhausting..

The problem with allowing guns everywhere is that no one is safe anywhere.

‘Maybe we need the same level of turmoil and concern when innocent kids are killed in school. Everyone’s talking about Charlie Kirk. Maybe we should be taking about all the kids who’ve been shot’ - my 16yo’s comment

The suspect in the shooting of 2 Minnesota lawmakers had a 'hit list' of 45 officials Vance Boelter was captured in a wooded area on Sunday night, and charged in the shootings of two state lawmakers and their spouses. He appeared in federal court after being charged with murder.

Don’t forget this one. Trump never said anything about it.

Vance Boelter captured, charged in shooting of Minnesota lawmakers

www.npr.org/2025/06/16/n...

Speed, confusion, no courts: ICE ships Upstate NY factory workers to Central America in 72 hours More than 40 workers detained in a massive Central NY immigration raid have been quickly shuttled to the Texas-Mexico border

So very sad, so very wrong.
www.syracuse.com/news/2025/09...

It's amazing that ICE can use the color of your skin to profile for your arrest, but universities can't use it to understand the background that you grew up in.

Look, I don’t know why this is so complicated for people

When a man says violence against women isn’t a crime, they told you who they are, and you can believe it or you can explain it away, but then you know who you are, too

The misogyny was always a core point

US Taxpayers Will Pay Billions in New Fossil Fuel Subsidies Thanks to the Big Beautiful Bill A report finds that President Trump’s flagship legislation will grant $40 billion in new subsidies to the oil and gas industry over the next decade.

The Trump administration has already added nearly $40 billion in new federal subsidies for oil, gas, and coal in 2025, a report released Tuesday finds, sending an additional $4 billion out the door each year for fossil fuels over the next decade.

And guess what, taxpayers are going to pay for it.

"Why on earth would we abandon institutions that have genuinely made America great? ... Why would we put at risk laboratories that are working to cure cancers or perfecting artificial limbs or exploring deep space or testing the limits of artificial intelligence?"

"Young ordered the restoration of $783 million in federal funding for fiscal year 2025 — a portion of which, totaling millions, was allocated to Harvard — before the Supreme Court stayed the order nearly two months later. (The total multi-year funding pool affected by Young’s ruling included $3.8 billion in grants, many of which were partially paid out before the freeze. According to a Crimson analysis of court filings, Harvard was awarded more than 140 grants within that pool, with a combined multi-year value exceeding $60 million.) Harvard expected the grants listed in Young’s ruling to flow back to researchers, according to a person familiar with the matter, even though the White House had imposed a block on all Harvard grants as part of its initial funding cut in April. But the funds never arrived, and Harvard wrote in an August press release from the School of Public Health that the NIH was continuing to “block disbursement of any funds to Harvard University.” According to one person, Harvard has been unable to access any funds from the NIH since April because of the restrictions imposed by DOGE through its oversight of the NIH’s payment system, including in the two-month period in which Young’s ruling mandated that grant awards listed in the ruling be resumed."

The Crimson, scooping every news outlet not run by undergraduates working in between classes, gets into how court orders mandating return of research funding have been flaunted, and makes a clear case for contempt proceedings against DOGE officials. www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

A voice of sanity within this absolutely insane ruling. The SCOTUS has officially corrupted itself. The fascist, police state is here.

It's really not rocket science.

The CEO of a a multi-trillion dollar company went to the White House, openly handed the US president a gift made of gold, and his company got a special exemption to tariffs the president has illegally imposed.

Also, the Founders took bribery so seriously the Constitution bans it 3 separate times.

There needs to be a political push for a right to an offline life. Like require the existence a paper form and a way to unsubscribe by post

Emmett Till memorial shot up with bullets

People with guns proudly posing in front of the Emmett Till memorial shot up with bullets

A bulletproof Emmett Till memorial. Riddled with bullet dents.

All I think about when I hear people say that it’s bad taste to dance on Hulk Hogan’s grave is that Emmett Till’s monument had to be replaced with a 500lb steel bulletproof monument because white people simply won’t stop riddling it with bullets. So now it just has tons of dents. From bullets.

Exclusive | RFK Jr. to Oust Advisory Panel on Cancer Screenings, HIV Prevention Drugs The task force determines which preventive services insurers must cover at no cost to patients.

RFK Jr. has fired all members of the Preventive Services Task Force, which requires insurance companies to cover certain treatments. The Supreme Court ruled he could do so in June.

Likely next step: Appointing quacks who will end mandatory insurance coverage for PrEP.
www.wsj.com/health/healt...

When Will Greenland’s Ice Disappear? Scientists Are Racing to Find Out The collapse of the world’s second-largest ice sheet would drown cities worldwide. Is that ice more vulnerable than we know?

The collapse of the world’s second-largest ice sheet would drown cities worldwide. Is that ice more vulnerable than we know?

Exclusive | RFK Jr. to Oust Advisory Panel on Cancer Screenings, HIV Prevention Drugs The task force determines which preventive services insurers must cover at no cost to patients.

This may turn out to be really bad. By removing all members of USPSTF, he can place whoever he wants without congressional oversight and they can take away health insurance coverage for preventive screenings, HIV testing, etc.

www.wsj.com/health/healt...

F.C.C. Approves Skydance’s Merger With Paramount

A Democratic commissioner on the F.C.C. said in a statement that the F.C.C. is now imposing never-before-seen controls over newsroom decisions and editorial judgment, in direct violation of the First Amendment and the law. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/24/b...