Lzzy Hale

His Harvard Lab Was Thriving. Then Came the Cuts.

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“Science!!! Matters!!!” Neil deGrasse Tyson YouTube video by Hasan Minhaj

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U.S. government has lost more than 10,000 STEM Ph.D.s since Trump took office A Science analysis reveals how many were fired, retired, or quit across 14 agencies

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Top researchers consider leaving U.S. amid funding cuts: 'The science world is ending' A poll from the journal Nature found that 75% of researchers in the U.S. are considering leaving the country. That includes a man who’s been dubbed the "Mozart of Math." Stephanie Sy examines what’s b...

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"As a scientist, I’m scared. As a taxpayer, I’m livid. We built a lead. Now Washington is ready to give it away." -- David Patterson
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'Positive review only': Researchers hide AI prompts in papers Instructions in preprints from 14 universities highlight controversy on AI in peer review

It is so disappointing to see this happening within the research community. Sigh.
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Scientists warn US will lose a generation of talent because of Trump cuts Political interference and chaotic cuts to staff, programs and grants at the National Science Foundation are producing ‘devastating consequences’

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We are disgusted that RFK Jr. just wiped out the entire ACIP and replaced its members with people who have pushed dangerous misinformation, including critics of lifesaving vaccines. This is not reform. It is sabotage.

NIH, NASA, NSF budget cuts, FY 2026 - catastrophic. https://joshuasweitz.substack.com/p/the-white-house-vision-for-dismantling

The White House Vision for Dismantling Science in One Simple Plot

(Proposed NIH, NSF, and NASA budgets would be catastrophic for innovation and discovery. But they aren’t reality yet. The time to speak up is now.)

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There are too many double-negatives here for me to parse. Can I kindly request that every post like this begin with "Good news:" or "Bad news:"?

Does Neil deGrasse Tyson Believe in God?

Many traits are more common among the people who have tended to hold power in Western cultures. Yes, white, but also male, older, English-speaking, businesspersons, etc. But the author suggests only one (whiteness) that correlates with being "hollow and thin-skinned". Seems a bit gratuitous.

IDK. There are a lot of people, from a lot of different ethnicities and races, that are "hollow and thin skinned." I'd love to see the study that shows that skin color is predictive of such characteristics, if such a study could be done.

Whiteness?? Wow.

‘Chaos and Confusion’ at the N.I.H., the Crown Jewel of American Science Senior scientists at the National Institutes of Health fear that research on conditions like obesity, heart disease and cancer will be undermined by President Trump’s policies.

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From 2010 to 2016 (latest data I have ), NIH research contributed to EVERY drug approved by the FDA

MacKenzie Scott

An urgent argument for the HPV vaccine Data shows it can prevent six types of cancer. But anti-vaccine activists, including U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., have helped dampen its usage.

Data shows it can prevent six types of cancer. But anti-vaccine activists, including U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., have helped dampen its usage.

Can you give pointers to what is allowed in terms of how to respond in a case like this? If these are police officers, I assume there isn't much that can be done legally to intervene. But if they are private security (or plain-clothes police?), then how forcefully can one intervene?

That's an impressive final statement, as the list of contenders is long. Ted Cruz, Lindsey Graham, ...

While I agree that it is not the most well-reasoned or accurate passage, we mock its perspective to our own detriment. Progressives need to start choosing their hills to die on more carefully, IMO.

First hockey game evah!! Go 'canes!!

CDC Data Are Disappearing The agency has already removed scientific data from public view. More could follow.

I can't imagine any good reason for this, short of the data being found to be fraudulent or otherwise flawed and so retracted. That would be disappointing, but the apparent motivations here disappoint me far more. www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...

I don't believe you were paying attention the first time around, then.

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Senior U.S. District Judge John Coughenour on Thursday was blistering in his criticism of Trump’s action as he granted a temporary restraining order that blocks Trump’s executive order from taking effect nationwide. “I’ve been on the bench for over four decades, I can’t remember another case where the question presented is as clear as this one is. This is a blatantly unconstitutional order,” Coughenour, an appointee of Ronald Reagan, said from the bench. “There are other times in world history where we look back and people of goodwill can say where were the judges, where were the lawyers?” Coughenour interrupted before Brett Shumate, a Justice Department attorney, could even complete his first sentence. “In your opinion Is this executive order constitutional?” he asked. Shumate said, “it absolutely is.” “Frankly I have difficulty understanding how a member of the Bar could state unequivocally that this is a constitutional order,” Coughenour said. “It just boggles my mind.”

BREAKING, via The Seattle Times: Trump's executive order to restrict birthright citizenship is blocked for at least the next two weeks by a Reagan appointee in Seattle who eviscerated the Trump lawyers present defending the order. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

Trump hits NIH with ‘devastating’ freezes on meetings, travel, communications, and hiring Researchers facing

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