🩸🩸🩸 I'm going to post this video every day so we never forget what the POS 34x convicted felon, DEADLY INSURRECTIONIST, adjudicated rapist & pedophile Donald Trump did 🩸🩸🩸
Roald Dahl's open letter re the death of his daughter from measles;
Botanist Agnes Arber was born 146 years ago today! Her 1950 book The Natural Philosophy of Plant Form was the culmination of a half century of research into plant morphology and the continuity of processes driving plant development. Here is her story.
tinyurl.com/46c9m778
#WomenInSTEM #botany 🧪🌱
He's talking about people like Gregg:
Damn @sanders.senate.gov. Just when I compliment you, I looked for info on the event. NONE HERE. But multiple posts on X.
WTF.
You obviously don’t care to engage. Just look at the quality of replies you get over there.
Thank god pregnant 12 year olds will no longer have to see a rainbow in their classrooms while they are getting shot at.
Firings happening right now at the NSF.
Proud to share our latest published work on moisture responsive root development-a process we call hydropatterning! We find that this process has been under differential selection during maize breeding and the gaseous hormone ethylene prevents branching in air.
www.science.org/doi/epdf/10....
RESEARCH: "WOX1 controls leaf serration development via temporally restricting BRASSINAZOLE RESISTANT 1 and CUP SHAPED COTYLEDON 3 expression in Arabidopsis" - Lian Xu et al, doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...
#plantscience 🧪
Nothing to see here...
America's leadership of NATO has come to an end
That's the real headline
Trump is axing the national security infrastructure of the Atlantic Alliance that Roosevelt, Truman & Eisenhower crafted, the most powerful military alliance in the totality of human history
www.economist.com/internationa...
the single most un-american and anti-constitutional statement ever uttered by an american president
I'm going to post this video every day so we never forget what Trump did J6
Female scientists at MPIPZ
🥳Happy International Day of Women and Girls in Science! 🥳🎉🔬🧪. A special nod to all the inspiring female scientists at @mpipz.bsky.social, shaping the future of #plant science with dedication and passion 🌿🪴Read more 👉: bit.ly/4bc1TmF #womeninscience #womeninSTEM #11Feb
Total NIH funding cuts by state. This can be helpful when talking to your representatives
www.datawrapper.de/_/Y0Pnk/
JD Vance wants the executive branch to have unlimited power with no restraint from the judicial branch. Sorry, JD, this isn’t your beloved Viktor Orbán’s Hungary. We have a Constitution that you took an oath to support and defend.
It is, and has been, required in South Carolina and Georgia for at least the last fifteen (15) years. I believe it has been in Texas as well. I taught for a while South Carolina and have a cousin that teaches in Texas.
Decision tree that has been sent to Program Officers at NSF
Decision tree that has been sent to Program Officers at NSF
list of banned keywords
🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.
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i think it is important to say that the open and explicit racism of the president and the vice president isn’t just uncouth or “controversial” but a direct attack on tens of millions of americans and a dereliction of their duty to represent the entire country
Instead of cutting help for people who rely on Medicare, Social Security, and the VA, let’s focus on the billionaires and billionaire corporations who are feasting off the American taxpayer. www.foxnews.com/opinion/sen-...
We write to you on behalf of the scientific community to raise serious concerns about Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., nominee for the Secretary of Health and Human Services. We represent the Coalition for Life Sciences, an alliance of scientists and scientific organizations focused since 1990 on (1) promoting policies and practices that foster innovative, impactful research and training in the life sciences, and (2) ensuring that public policy is informed by sound scientific evidence. The leader of the Department of Health and Human Services needs to make evidence-based decisions supported by validated scientific data. Adherence to such data-driven policymaking has made America the gold standard for biomedical discovery and public health policy. Mr. Kennedy has repeatedly demonstrated that he does not use scientific evidence in developing his positions and, in fact, often denies substantial bodies of scientific research to sow doubt over health interventions long established to be safe and effective. Some of these positions have already cost lives by influencing individual behavior. Providing him with a platform to embed them in US policy would have sweeping consequences, putting potentially millions of American lives at risk.
The United States is the global leader in biomedical research, which has improved health on many fronts and generated a biotechnology industry that contributes nearly $100 billion each year1 to our economic and national security. One of the great successes of biomedical research is management of infectious diseases. In the 20th century, widespread vaccination removed infectious disease from the leading cause of death in the United States for nearly all age groups. This safe prevention strategy has saved millions of lives and trillion of dollars in the U.S. economy. Changing vaccine policy or even voicing counter-factual statements about vaccine safety will lower vaccination rates and lead to the widespread reemergence of deadly diseases like measles, typhoid, and tuberculosis and hasten the next global pandemic. We recommend you ask the following questions at Mr. Kennedy’s confirmation hearing. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. The Finance Committee’s responsibilities include oversight of Medicare. • Do you support flu vaccination for older adults? o Estimates of economic costs are >$85 billion each year, of which two-thirds are attributable to adults over 65 and ~90% of annual deaths from influenza are in people older than 65. 2 • Do you support RSV vaccination for older adults? o A recent study found that prior to availability of the RSV vaccine, there were 4 million RSV cases in adults over 60 years of age and an economic burden of $6.6 billion each year.3 o Can you provide rough comparisons of RSV vs. influenza virus in terms of symptomatic disease, hospitalizations, and deaths among adults over 65? If the emerging avian influenza virus mutates to become transmissible between people, it is likely to hit seniors the hardest. What will you do as HHS Secretary to prepare for such a threat? • Will you support the development of a vaccine? • Will you promote the use of effective public health interventions? <incomplete, see image >
6. • lHow will you, as HHS Secretary, monitor infectious disease trends across our borders in the absence of WHO data and information? You have been quoted as saying that the NIH should stop research on infectious diseases for 8 years7 to focus on chronic, non-communicable diseases. • What are the potential costs to stopping research into infectious pathogens when they continue to evolve, when so many health costs are due to infections, when new causes of infectious disease are appearing and expanding their scope? • Without research, how will you defend Americans from the increasing threat from the novel avian influenza virus? What are the potential costs if that virus mutates to become transmissible between people? • Can you provide a summary of NIH’s investment in infectious disease research versus chronic disease (cardiovascular, metabolic, neuropsychiatric and other disorders)? 7. You are widely identified with promoting the debunked claim that vaccines cause autism. • What would it take to convince you of the published conclusions of 5 randomized controlled trials, 1 controlled clinical trial, 27 cohort studies, 17 case-control studies, 5 time-series trials, 1 case cross-over trial, 2 ecological studies, and 6 self-controlled case series studies involving 14.7 million –children –– all8 of which have demonstrated that there is no link between vaccines and autism? • What are the likely consequences and costs of reducing the number of people who receive the following vaccines: (MMR for measles, mumps, and rubella; polio; human papilloma virus; hepatitis B virus; etc.) • Many have noted that your efforts to reduce the deployment of measles vaccine in Samoa 6 years ago led to over 80 childhood deaths from measles. How did that experience affect your views on vaccination? • You have been critical of the vaccine approval process. Who should be in charge of the design of clinical trialsfor vaccines during your tenure at DHHS? Who should judge whether they can be used?
To all constituents, journalists, and representatives interested in today’s hearings for RFK Jr, please read, consider, and ask the following questions of him.
On behalf of the Coalition for the Life Sciences cc: @needhibhalla.bsky.social
www.coalitionforlifesciences.org
