Michael Taffe

60% acceptance rate at Liberty U Law.

Yale: 5.3%. Stanford: 8.9%. UCLA: 16.1%. Howard: 32% (and ranked 127).

Can it really be that difficult to get a good GPA at Liberty?

So I dunno what the 195 “Best” law schools means. Seems like it refers to almost all of the ABA accredited ones. Do we even count the ones that can’t reach that level of merit?

ABA-Approved Law Schools The Council grants provisional and full approval to law schools located in the United States, its territories, and possessions.

The ABA accredits only 198 schools.

www.americanbar.org/groups/legal...

Liberty U Law school ranks 141 out of 195 law schools. That doesn’t sound very meritorious.

141st out of 195 is already quite the comment on merit….and to say they are fine with people who can’t even get a good GPA there?

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Why Tariff Uncertainty May Hurt More Than Tariffs Q&A with School of Global Policy and Strategy economist on what uncertainty means for businesses, how volatility affects global credibility and what policy choices lie ahead.

Tariff uncertainty may hurt more than tariffs themselves.

UC San Diego economist Kyle Handley explains how volatility slows investment, raises costs and could erode U.S. trade credibility for years to come: https://bit.ly/4rQLoDR

#Economics #TradePolicy #GlobalEconomy #PublicPolicy #UCSD

Winter ticks wiped out nearly 90% of the moose calves scientists tracked in part of Maine last year Maine is home to the largest moose population in the lower 48 states. But the iconic species is being challenged by ticks and climate change. In one of the moosiest parts of Maine, nearly 90 percent o...

Save the meese!

www.mainepublic.org/environment-...

‘Zombie moose’: As climate change shortens winters, ticks ravage New Hampshire’s moose population • New Hampshire Bulletin Every fall, winter ticks in New England sit on shrubs or other plants waiting for a large animal to pass by so they can latch on and begin sucking out blood. This has a huge impact on the area’s moose...

The moose are already suffering, guys.

newhampshirebulletin.com/2025/05/29/z...

the sentiment that everything is getting worse used to skew more to older people but these days it's broken generational containment, because everything is undeniably getting worse

IYKYK

UCSD center director VS Ramachandran receives lab funding from Epstein Emails released by the Department of Justice indicate that Jeffrey Epstein provided funding for a UC San Diego lab led by Vilayanur Subramanian Ramachandran, director of UCSD’s department of psycholog...

Of course it's Rama. Of course it is.
"something like 500,000 to 3 million would get the administrators excited.”
ucsdguardian.org/2026/02/17/u...

Secretary Bobby Jr teaming up with Kid Rock to stop the nationwide threat of leg day was not on my BINGO card.

The search page from NIH Reporter with search fields for Principal Investigator, Agency/Institute Center, and many other terms.

NIH has a website called NIH Reporter (reporter.nih.gov)

This site has a reasonable user interface where searches can be conducted.

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Offs. Removing the pride flag from the *stonewall* monument?

The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine is an extreme org that has opposed all animal research since the group’s inception. They have largely existed at the fringe of science/medicine but now have sway w/ NIH leaders. Primate research is their easiest target but they won’t stop there. 🧪

American Ben Ogden wins silver, breaking 50 year medal drought for U.S. men's cross-country skiing Ben Ogden of Vermont skied powerfully, finishing just behind Johannes Hoesflot Klaebo of Norway. It was the first Olympic medal for a U.S. men's cross-country skier since 1976.

Ben Ogden of Vermont skied powerfully, finishing just behind Johannes Hoesflot Klaebo of Norway. It was the first Olympic medal for a U.S. men's cross-country skier since 1976. n.pr/3ZuVXQx

Vaping voles

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

A new preprint examines 6-methyl-nicotine levels in oral pouches As I mentioned in a prior post, the tobacco / nicotine industry has adopted the analog strategy to stay ahead of government regulation and oversight. This involves, at present, substituting 6-methy…

A new preprint examines 6-methyl-nicotine levels in oral pouches tlneuro.wordpress.com/2026/02/09/a...

Thank you! As your constituent this is exactly the course I want you to purse. Restore the rule of law and our Constitutional protections of civil rights.

🧵Good news out of #NIH today.
(1) NIH is extending #ESI and #K99/R00 eligibility to accommodate researchers whose eligibility would have ended during the previous shutdown. Take a look at NOT-OD-26-020. If your ESI status would have ended in 2025, you get an automatic extension through 2026/03/31.

And, for completeness’ sake, Dan Ariely asking to add Jeffrey Epstein to his professional network on LinkedIn bsky.app/profile/kjhe...

Here’s Duke behavioral economist Dan Ariely asking Jeffrey Epstein for “the name and email of the redhead that was here with you.” This is four years after Epstein’s 2008 conviction for procuring a child for prostitution.

Nature's Impact Factor is in the Epstein Files. Really.

What is “rigor”, specifically, and how would a NIH Director focus on that?

Man is it hot in Sunny Ego today! 75 feels like 80. Maybe I cold adapted after a week at #WCBR2026?

Sure, but….

NIH reviewer training.

“Don’t do a bias.”

>dusts hands<

I swear ski conferences are sadistic experiments cooked up by motor and rehabilitation neuroscientists to remind mid-life academics that motor plasticity is a finite resource. #wcbr2026

Dear Director Bhattacharya: I watched some of the "Reclaiming Science" event at the MAHA Institute. In the introduction, Debra Sheldon said "Welcome to the members of the press". As I wrote yesterday, it is shocking that this welcome did not extend to two highly credentialed science journalists. She continued "But millions of Americans only discovered the problems [regarding NIH] during to COVID era when bad science was mobilized in the name of political tyranny."

I wrote again to Director Bhattacharya about the "Reclaiming Science" monstrosity from yesterday.

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