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The Pentagon burned through $5.6 billion worth of munitions in the first two days of its Iran assault, according to U.S. officials, alarming some on Capitol Hill over how quickly the military has depleted scarce supplies of America’s most advanced weaponry.
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The ability of the US to even pretend we have the moral high ground in any situation is pretty much gone for a generation, at least
Our tax dollars are paying for this horror.
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La Jolla, CA. 6:53 PM.
Send these fuckers to The Hague.
Excited to see our FML Research Group Leader
@luisapallares.bsky.social
in the latest Max Planck Research! 🎉
The article follows her journey from Colombia to Germany and her work on how genes and environment shape complex traits using fruit flies.
Read the full story: www.mpg.de/26180374/W00...
March 28 will be the largest nonviolent protest in American history. Find your local No Kings event to stand up for our communities and reject Trump's fear and violence. app.sosha.ai/s/Ja4OZjQB
NIH Office of Extramural Research announcements of feedback sessions for NIH-wide strategic plan for March 16 and April 8.
IMPORTANT---IMPORTANT---IMPORTANT
NIH is seeking input for the NIH-wide Strategic Plan. Open to everyone but Registration is Required!
Your chance to listen and get your 2 or more cents in.
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“Almost all the 165 people killed in the attack were girls aged between seven and 12, according to local officials. There were around 170 girls at the school in southern Iran’s Minab at the time.“
A double-tap strike on little girls at school.
“No front-page stories in NYT, WSJ, WaPo. No mention on NBC and CBS Sunday Shows. No stand alone segments on Evening News shows. A death count on par with the OKC bombing is relegated to the back page.” www.columnblog.com/p/corporate-...
What just happened in Dallas County is one of the most blatant voter suppression operations I've ever seen—and it happened in a *primary*.
In March. Imagine November.
I broke it down here:
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UAB is recruiting neuroscience faculty at two different levels - come join our vibrant neuroscience community!
Half-hearted hexanol.
A truck driving on the highway with a large label on the back side that says dedicated methanol.
I guess it's better than apathetic methanol?
This is a nice contrast to all the awful behavior confirmed through the Epstein files. Proud of @jenlucpiquant.bsky.social & @seanmcarroll.bsky.social for picking up on the sexism & charlatanism right away.
Intelligence services should be (are already?) looking for patterns like this, because they are potentially valuable intelligence leaks.
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. The cost of one modern heavy bomber is this: a modern brick school in more than 30 cities. It is two electric power plants, each serving a town of 60,000 population. It is two fine, fully equipped hospitals. It is some 50 miles of concrete highway. We pay for a single fighter plane with a half million bushels of wheat. We pay for a single destroyer with new homes that could have housed more than 8,000 people. This, I repeat, is the best way of life to be found on the road. the world has been taking. This is not a way of life at all, in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron.
from Eisenhower's April 1953 "Chance For Peace" speech
Crap
www.online-tribute.com/DavidBotstein
David Botstein passed away. I worked with him at Stanford for a few years in designing and teaching a course on "The Heart". My heart is heavy right now. He was a wonderful mentor.
I would like to think that I would have been one of the brave protesters in Iran. This is incredibly painful to read, but the world needs to witness what happened.
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Have you ever wondered 🤔... Does phenotypic variance respond to environmental perturbation? Does it have a genetic basis? Are mean and variance regulating loci exposed to different selection pressures? These and more questions are explored in our new preprint 🔥
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Rothko? Wow, you are braver than me.
Taken yesterday on Mount Solidad
In case you have snow on your mind… ❄️
Could we maybe not fund an organization like this? Is that so radical?
ICE whistleblower Ryan Schwank, a former ICE instructor and attorney, testifies that agents were trained to disregard constitutional rights.
Reminder: the entire NSF budget is 9B and NIH like 47B. And they have 500B that they don’t know how to spend.
New from @katherineeban.bsky.social in @rollingstone.com: CDC appointees bypassed the agency’s scientists to rush-fund a study questioning the hep B birth dose. The ethics committee president says his name was used on the approval without his knowledge.
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Trump in 2012: " I happen to think that the president is going to start a war with Iran. I think it'll be a short term popular thing to do and I think he's going to do that for political reasons."
This is the opposite of targeting criminals. It is criminals with badges targeting the best of us.
