This graph confirms what multiple cancer researchers told me: despite Trump admin claims, the NIH cut cancer research grants by 23% last year.
And it had the $$ from Congress!
The NIH simply failed to dole out many of the awards - another means to the admin’s *openly* stated goal of steep cuts. 🧪
𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐛𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐟𝐥𝐚𝐠𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐚𝐫 𝐦𝐨𝐭𝐨𝐫: 𝐚 𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐜𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐧𝐬 𝐛𝐢𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐲'𝐬 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐞𝐥𝐬 [via @quantamagazine.bsky.social] 🧪🥼🦠⚙️
"Evolution has created the flagellar motor, a propeller/brain that enables single-celled bacteria to move toward food sources."
www.quantamagazine.org/what-physica...
#life #motor #propulsion
job to write full time.
She knew Silent Spring, her last book would face opposition so she hid her cancer in case chemical companies would use it against her. She faced the expected backlash with courage knowing she “could never again listen happily to a thrush song if I had not done all I could.”
“The results suggest that the govt’s investment in the 988 rollout has translated into ‘a measurable reduction of deaths,’ said Dr. Vishal Patel…one of the authors of the study….
He added, ‘The implication of that is that sustained funding for this program matters’.”🧪🛟
“However, sustained access to suicide & crisis services is contingent on continued investment, & existing funding is estimated to be insufficient to meet service demand in nearly 1/2 of all states.”🛟🧪
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
“The CDC estimates that 26 million Americans contracted flu from Oct. 1, 2025, through Feb. 28, with 340,000 hospitalizations & 21,000 deaths, including 139 children.
The CDC estimated that the flu vaccine prevented 180,000 hospitalizations & 12,000 deaths.”🛟🧪
“The flu vaccine has been required annually for US military personnel since the 1950s to preserve the health of the force…
[&] has been a major factor in lower rates of hospitalizations among service members than nat’l US rates, according to an Oct 2025 Armed Forces Health
Surveillance Div report”🧪🛟
🧪⚛️ Conclusion: Complex numbers are incredibly elegant, but they encode a deeper real geometric structure governing quantum interference. They are not a fundamental necessity!
Read the full proof on arXiv here: arxiv.org/abs/2604.19482
#QuantumPhysics #Physics #CBPF 6/6
🧪⚛️ Are complex numbers fundamentally required by nature, or just a mathematical convenience? Schrödinger himself thought the imaginary unit was a "profound joke." I am thrilled to share our new preprint: "Quantum mechanics over real numbers fully reproduces standard quantum theory." 🧵 1/6
A recommended read by Hiranya Peiris:
"[we] had a quality problem long before LLMs...publish or perish, citation metrics as proxy for impact, volume as proxy for productivity... have been producing incremental, poorly checked, & sometimes wrong papers for decades"🧪🔭⚛️
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Research of today is a team sport. Much of it depends on scientists in research-support roles who remain largely unseen, uncredited and frequently underpaid.
Research is an ecosystem; every niche needs to be recognised
🧪
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
“Her [doctors] rec’ed surgery to remove the tumor, & the voices ‘told her that they were fully in agreement w/ that decision,’ according to the report….
As she regained consciousness after the operation, the voices relayed a final msg: ‘We are pleased to have helped you. Goodbye’."🧪
Over the years, I’ve had to explain many times why some cannabis products are heavily taxed, heavily regulated and only sold in dispensaries, while others are readily available online and at gas stations.
The TL;DR is that lawmakers do not understand the science of cannabis.
“2/3 of mass shootings in the US are linked to domestic violence, & 40% of the victims in domestic violence-related mass shootings are children….
Research consistently shows that the period of separation & divorce is when the risk of intimate partner homicide is highest.”🧪🛟
Police are murdering people in the streets at the direction of the president already so I’ll believe it when I see it.
💧👨👨👦👦Despite population growth, U.S. water demand dropped over the last decade — easing extreme water stress in 55 counties. Thermoelectric use had the biggest impact.
🔗🧪https://www.nature.com/articles/s44458-026-00072-4
> Francesco Sylos Labini: The Large-Scale Inhomogeneous and Anisotropic Universe
Finally someone is talking about the elephant in the room/universe
Happy 420, everyone. I’ve been covering cannabis for for nearly two years now. Sharing some of my favorites.
Here’s one from way back in 2024, when it seemed like cannabis might actually be rescheduled.
Nearly 43k ppl commented, many wanting full legalization.
2 years later, still schedule 1.
> everything changes in November
… if there is an election.
Woman are second-class citizens in the USA. I'm white. I live in a good neighborhood. I know I have it better than most, and I am grateful. When I think of my sisters if color, or my trans girlfriends, i think about how much *more* they have to endure. It's why I protest and volunteer on campaigns.
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"REPUBLICANS" are accomplices.
They are allowing Trump!
They can stop this at any moment,
they have the MAJORITY,
>>> all they need to do is OBJECT and it all stops!!! <<<
REPUBLICANS! That is the fight.
They aren't files. Epstein and Trump ran a child trafficking ring. It should be treated as a crime, not a documentary with files. Law enforcement should arrest people who the children claimed raped them, simple as that!
This👇🏼. AOC is the only one stating it clearly and plainly. Do I have any faith that the American people will ever elect a woman president someday? No. I hope I’m proven wrong.
Thoughts and prayers mate.
“Thoughts and prayers” are how you make sure nothing is ever done. “Plans and efforts” are how you fix things.
Labour MPs need to realise this isn’t about getting rid of Starmer it’s about destabilising the Labour govt and getting rid of all of you .. for Nigel and his mates ! The media have been on overdrive on this since July 24 .. it’s the latest attempt but not the last !
