I'm helping to lead a group of Senate Democrats who are planning to force a vote - every single week the Senate is in session - to end the war in Iran. We have that right under the Senate rules, and we are going to keep putting Republicans on record supporting this insane war.
Disappointed, though not surprised, I began to describe various life- saving components of USAID’s global health portfolio, highlighting how we prepare for and respond to emerging pandemic threats; support the diagnosis and treatment of tuberculosis, malaria, and HIV; and immunize millions of children from the deadliest childhood diseases. I spoke for about five minutes, focusing primarily on our infectious diseases work and hoping to keep the attention of people who seemed to have no experience—or interest—in global health. When I finished, the room was silent, the political appointees looking at one another in what appeared to be disbelief. The silence was broken by Ken Jackson, who chuckled softly and shook his head. “Wow, there really is so much that USAID does that we never knew,” he said. “This is the story that needs to get out there.” Joel, also smiling, chimed in next, echoing Jackson’s amazement. “I had no idea you did all this,” he said. “As a Republican, when I think of what USAID does in global health, I assumed it was just, you know, abortions.”
This is NUTS
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The last time I tried to engage with Jay Bhattacharya in dialogue I ended up on administrative leave. 🤷♀️
It might lead to individuals leaving the Catholic Church for evangelical ones, but Catholic Churches and Priests aren‘t going to reject the pope. That is, by definition, schismatic.
The undisputed #1 greatest photo of a person with a fossil:
Paleontologist Altangerel Perle, with the Museum of Natural History in Ulan Bataar, Mongolia, stands between the forearms of Deinocheirus
Scientists are mad because this isn’t our first rodeo.
We’ve seen these tactics used against evolution, climate science, and vaccines. Now the government is tearing down the infrastructure that made our country a scientific powerhouse, and you invite the people involved in that to a freakin debate?
Piling in to the quote posts to say:
We know from the old Creationist vs Evolution “debates” that no one really wins or changes their mind. But holding an event with both scientists and science deniers on the same stage makes it SEEM like there is equivalent evidence for both sides.
Reform and destruction are two different things @katymilkman.bsky.social. NASEM bringing a wolf in sheep’s clothing into the pasture to lecture scientists about all our fraud while he is THE KEY PERSON SYSTEMATICALLY DISMANTLING THE NIH signals to me that NASEM is compromised.
the nasa flickr account has tons of amazing images and people still need to post slop to the TL. doesnt make any sense.
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I'm one of those trans women. I worked ground ops for Artemis I.
I am torn between celebrating the success of my friends and peers and grieving how my dream of working for NASA was shattered by hateful assholes in Tallahassee
Yeah, no one’s ever been a bit tipsy, then had someone they know hand them a drink that’s way stronger than they realize and end up trashed. No roofies needed, similar result.
Stop this victim blaming BS.
This is why you should never, ever stan a politician.
Also: there are a lot of disturbing replies challenging the integrity of the woman who has come forward, and I really want to urge all of you to remember:
People you love, who have been in similar situations, can see your replies.
Humanity did that. Science did that. Publicly-funded research did that. Excellent universities did that. Diversity did that. International cooperation did that.
Artemis II is a perfect example of what we can do at our best.
Welcome home, Integrity crew!
By the way, the woman with the ectopic pregnancy told me that during this saga, couple spent about $1200 on gas, food, and one night in a hotel. Plus her husband missed five days’ pay. And that’s not including any of the medical bills
Yes. Give people grace, everyone.
There is a light on the horizon.
But things are bad right now, and people are not doing well. Hold fast, take care of yourself, be kind, and if you can, keep doing something to bend the arc of history.
Mastodon teeth collected from Big Bone Lick, Kentucky by Lewis and Clark for President Jefferson. Photo: Justin Tweet
A massive partial skull of Bison latifrons, originally exhibited in the Peale Museum of Philadelphia and later catalogued in the collections of the American Philosophical Society
Jefferson's personal Megalodon tooth (yes, really), sent to him from South Carolina. The president's name is written across the left margin of the tooth
An illustration of the phalanges and claws of the giant ground sloth Megalonyx, originally described and named by Jefferson himself
This #FossilFriday it only seems appropriate to spotlight the collections of the Academy of Natural Sciences, oldest natural history museum in the Americas and currently in budgetary peril. 🧵 Thread to follow, with links to support the museum.
First: Thomas Jefferson's fossil collection...
It’s a wild story, but was surprisingly effective. I just happened to read about it yesterday.
The people of Iran deserve so much better than the relentless atrocities and violence the governments of Iran, America, and Israel have waged upon them.
So, so much better.
Most Med schools these days provide all textbooks as Ebooks, but physical books are great for study! Hard to know which texts will be assigned, but you can’t go wrong with Netter’s Atlas of Anatomy.
You have more in common with the people of Iran than you do with anyone in this administration, any member of the technocracy, anyone who is profiting from this war, or any billionaire. When you see Iranians forming human chains outside key infrastructure sites, you should feel a sense of kinship.
All countries between the US and Iran should shut down their airspace- deny landing rights, overflights, refueling or any other support for these explicit genocidal operations. Ideally, US military would refuse illegal orders and Congress would intervene- but that’s not happening. So, world must act
This is a clear statement of intent to commit genocide.
Trump doesn’t just need to be impeached; he needs to stand trial at The Hague.
if anything humans do has a true trickle-down effect, I hope we hear the astronauts who have these revelatory experiences and translate that into unfucking our own planet and in what we do in space in the future. We can do big weird good shit if we listen to each other.
Y'all there is a woman and a black man circling the moon and NASA's mission control+ science teams are so diverse and people are nerding out about science and exploration this is all a gigantic middle finger to the stupid and hate and grotesque ghouls running our country
Four people are now farther from Earth than anyone has ever been, with no ability to talk to anyone back home, for around 40 minutes.
War crimes on top of war crimes
