Screenshot of an email “As a result of bargaining unit determinations, union dues will no longer be deducted from your monthly stipend beginning with the April 1, 2026, stipend payment. Thanks for your partnership on this matter. NIH Employee & Labor Relations Branch
This ridiculous union busting does nothing to help the early career researchers the NIH director claims to support. This is ridiculous.
Capitalism has lost its fucking mind.
NIH employees were already worried that things weren't getting done under Jay Bhattacharya. Now that he's also the acting director of the CDC, they're worried even more about his fractured attention. My latest:
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The prompt was simple: “Does the following relate at all to D.E.I.? Respond factually in less than 120 characters. Begin with ‘Yes’ or ‘No.’” The results were sweeping, and sometimes bizarre. Building improvements at an Indigenous languages archive in Alaska risked “promoting inclusion and diverse perspectives.” Renewal of a longstanding grant to digitize Black newspapers and add them to a historical database was “D.E.I.” So was work on a 40-volume scholarly series on the history of American music.
"The DOGE employees did not appear to question ChatGPT’s judgments, and continued hunting for unacceptable projects."
Staff at the nation’s largest Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility have placed bets on which detainee will be the next to die by suicide, according to new reporting from the Associated Press based on 911 calls and detainee accounts.
“Question wording choices can swing opinion on immigration and trans rights by up to 60 points.”
In today's good news a single dose drug for sleeping sickness that could completely change the elimination game. Dare I hope for eradication!
Acoziborole administered as a single oral dose was ~95% effective across both early and late-stage disease in RCTs.
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“Trans voters are left vulnerable to being outed, questioned, or turned away, which creates very real barriers to casting a ballot,” said Caleb Armstrong a transmasculine Texan who cofounded Local Queer Foundation.
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MOE: +/ - 2.5 PTS FEBRUARY 25-27, 2026 OCBS NEWS POLL | YouGov HOW SHOULD THE U.S. APPROACH IRAN'S CURRENT LEADERSHIP? PRIOR TO START OF CONFLICT NEGOTIATE WITH THEM THROUGH DIPLOMACY PRESSURE THEM WITH SANCTIONS NOT GET INVOLVED REMOVE THEM FROM POWER WITH FORCE 38% 22% 22% 18%
MOE: +/- 2.5 PTS| FEBRUARY 25-27, 2026 @CBS NEWS POLL | YouGov TRUMP NEED APPROVAL FROM CONGRESS FOR MILITARY ACTION AGAINST IRAN? PRIOR TO START OF CONFLICT 74% NEEDS APPROVAL 26% DOES NOT NEED APPROVAL
CBS News conducts a poll.
It finds that only 18% of Americans advocate removing Iran's leadership "by force," and 74% say Trump needs congressional approval before starting a war.
So their headline is, "CBS News poll on Americans' views on Iran prior to conflict."
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The AI boom runs on invisible labor, writes Krystal Kauffman, a research fellow with the Distributed AI Research Institute (DAIR). Underpaid workers in Kenya, the US, and beyond are unknowingly training intelligence systems. This isn't just an ethics problem—it's a consent problem, she says.
“The Constitution requires a vote, and your Representative needs to be on record as opposing or supporting this war."
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Ultra-Processed Protein Foods Coming at Us conscienhealth.org/2026/03/01/u... via @conscienhealth.bsky.social
"...we see a proliferation of ultra-processed protein foods screaming out at us from grocery shelves and electronic media."
So much #protein hype. Reality: you are likely getting enough!
It’s not lost on me that this is happening during Ramadan and during fasting hrs.
Jerome Adams & @JeromeAdamsMD X.com As a former U.S. Surgeon General who held an active medical license and practiced medicine while in the role (at Walter Reed and aboard the USS Comfort) it is incomprehensible that the Senate is even considering a nominee for this role who lacks any active license and has never practiced unsupervised. 7:49 PM • 2/25/26 • 369 Views
Trump’s first-term Surgeon General speaks out against Trump’s current nominee for the job, Casey Means
US immigration officials picked up a blind Rohingya refugee last week in Buffalo, NY. Then, realizing they had no basis to deport him, they released him five miles from his home. He needed a walking stick and died trying to make his way back to his house: www.investigativepost.org/2026/02/25/b...
If you've ever wondered what kinds of nuclear companies the Trump administration has in mind to power all the AI data centers, I just wrote about one: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
This is a rare event in the times we're living in that shocks me for its stupid cruelty.
It's very hard to live in this country without the ability to drive - the country was set up to be like that by the auto and oil industries.
Transition has absolutely nothing to do with the ability to drive.
Proud of our CDC colleagues at National Public Health Coalition. @firedbutfighting.bsky.social
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And all the current & former federal workers who are standing up and fighting for a better future for all of us. @27unihted.bsky.social @altnih4science.bsky.social
A line in the snow with the impressions of bird wings at both ends of the line. There is a patch of rough snow on the right that looks like clouds.
Several impressions of bird wings on the snow.
Bird created impressions on the snow. It is long and bird shaped with a beak and head on the left and tail feathers on the right. It also kind of looks like a fish.
Bird snow angels🥰 #birds
I can't read this because it's behind a paywall, but if ChatGPT is trained on prior knowledge (which it is), then of course it would advise women to ask for lower salaries. Misogyny is baked into the historical data.
The Trump Administration might fight to change the signs at the President's House commemorating slavery, but they can't change what happened at this place, or who it happened to.
In a study published today, researchers reported that the ideal conditions for major wildfires are now aligning across different parts of the world at more than double the rate they did 50 years ago.
@umairfan.bsky.social for @vox.com: www.vox.com/climate/4795...
It is a tragedy for public health & health research that the MAGA/MAHA hero Jay Bhattacharya, an author of the Great Barrington Declaration, runs the NIH & CDC
“It seems the one qualification for this job is rubber-stamping RFK Jr’s agenda. He has already proven himself very capable of doing so.”
RFK "in a statement issued through a spokesman Wednesday night...said he supported the president." Drink whole milk, eat red meat, don't get vaccinated, and spray yourself with toxic weedkiller!!!
Sci-fi has always provided heady alternatives to everyday realities. But for the past few decades, a big chunk of sci-fi has gravitated toward dystopia, which, while valuable, can grow wearisome.
@clivethompson.bsky.social offers an exciting new literary genre to counter our despair.
"I spent 20 minutes writing an article on my personal website titled "The best tech journalists at eating hot dogs". Every word is a lie. ... Less than 24 hours later, the world's leading chatbots were blabbering about my world-class hot dog skills." Oh my god.
“why do you hate technology” as though “technology” were some discrete entity divorced entirely from the context of what it does and what it creates, rather than a category so broad as to constitute reality itself
A recent Congressional letter accuses DHS of not being compliant with a major civil rights law due to the mistreatment of disabled ICE detainees. As I reported for @motherjones.com, this is worsened by the fact DHS' office for civil rights has TWO EMPLOYEES now.
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