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Trust me, the woman of academia are not at all surprised by the number of academic men orbiting Epstein.

As far as NSF is concerned, when it comes to postdocs, biology is only worthwhile if it’s AI now. If there’s a clean break for saying America is no longer a country where it’s possible to do science, I think this is a pretty good death date

All these men driving women out of their fields with giggly idiot grabassery and then bloviating to the public about how the lack of women is proof of male intellectual superiority... I hate them all. I hate them so much.

It's so stupid. Do you know how many kids in this world would WISH they had two mothers that love them and cared for them?

This. Absolutely. ❤️

I have to say, as a man with two mothers, I find the derisive deployment of language like "lesbian" and "lover" by those on the far right who are trying to justify Renee Good's death particularly disgusting and dehumanizing. These women. They are wives. They are a family. That's it.

The Epstein file is the only thing Trump has ever taken his name off of

“.. After the release of thousands of Epstein files on Friday, The New York Times contacted Ms. Farmer .. She broke down in tears.

“I’ve waited 30 years,” she said. “I can’t believe it. They can’t call me a liar anymore.”

@nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/u...

I think a lot of people still aren't used to the idea of a federal government that lies openly, nakedly and as a matter of course.

Someone get me (genetic epidemiologist) & my husband (school psychologist) on a podcast bc our rants on these people are...fiery. We spent 5y in the bay around these folks and oh boy.

I'm also so sick of these puff pieces that avoid saying plainly what this actually is. Shoddy science for eugenics.

Love this.

I really wish we'd stop calling them climate "skeptics" or "vaccine skeptics", if you jump off a cliff we don't call you a "gravity skeptic"

Public engagement: building common ground How can we help to bridge this divide? Simply producing more excep­ tional science will not be enough to rebuild public trust. Rather, we must adopt a new model that recognizes communication and advocacy as core pillars of science, on a par with rigor and reproducibility. Public engagement efforts should be valued for faculty promotions, much like obtaining grants and publishing our findings in scientific journals. Researchers should be recognized and rewarded for activities such as giving public talks, working with local schools, engaging with policy­ makers, developing social media campaigns and platforms or writing accessible articles for general audiences. Developing these skills must be an integral part of scientific training, reinforcing the notion that the responsibility to champion science lies with us. Courses that teach graduate students and postdocs to communicate complex ideas clearly, to use social media effectively and to advocate for evidence­based policies must be deemed critical and supported by our universities. These efforts should not be viewed as distractions from research but woven into the fabric of what we do as scientists. Rebuilding public trust requires a cultural paradigm shift: scientists must see themselves not just as producers of knowledge, but also as its ambassadors and translators. Such a fundamental change will occur only if it is embraced by our scientific leaders and institutions, emphasizing the critical role of public engagement for science to succeed.

A thought-provoking piece in Nature Neuroscience by many neuroscience colleagues: "Science must break its silence to rebuild public trust". Lots to think about here.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Live 65-hour recording of rat hippocampal neuron growth | 2025 Small World in Motion Competition Louis Romette - Live 65-hour recording of rat hippocampal neuron growth (day 3 to day 6)

Congrats to our PhD student Louis Romette, among the winners in this year's @healthcare.nikon.com Nikon Small World competition! His hard work optimizing long-term live-cell imaging of developing neurons makes for mesmerizing movies (and lots of insights)
www.nikonsmallworld.com/galleries/20...

SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in a college applicant's file is blatantly unconstitutional

ALSO SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in targeting whom to detain and deport is cool cool cool

Exactly.

this is the conscice thing I've been mulling over all day

We cannot use race and ethnicity for college admissions but we can for arrests?

🚨NEW: Maine Governor Janet Mills is strongly considering a run for the U.S. Senate against GOP incumbent Susan Collins.

RETWEET if you would support Governor Mills for the Senate!

Seeing Kamala Harris openly say that the system is broken was so powerful.

Just having someone in her position say it so candidly without qualification was beyond powerful.

"Trump’s interference in the sciences is something new. It shares features with the science-damaging policies of Stalin and Hitler, says David Wootton, a historian of science. But in the English-speaking world, it has no precedent, he told me: “This is an unparalleled destruction from within.”

i can't say for sure, but it was definitely this

I would like to start a petition to rename the JFK airport in New York. My experiences there really suggest it should be called RFK. New Yorkers.. will you sign ?

Front-page-style graphic titled “BREAKING NEWS” with photos of RFK Jr. and Dr. Bhattacharya in front of a government hearing chamber. Text reads: “NIH Scientists Sound the Alarm as Health Research Faces Historic Threat” and “NIH Employees Send Trump Cronies Scathing Wake-Up Call.”

🚨BREAKING: 300+ NIH employees call out the harm of censorship & politicized science in scathing email to Bhattacharya, demanding an end to political interference, a lift on funding freezes, & rehiring of fired staff whose work saves lives.

This is historic - insiders are blowing the whistle.
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N.I.H. Workers Denounce Trump’s ‘Harmful’ Health Policies

New York Times story about #BethedaDeclaration is up.

(Gift Link)

www.nytimes.com/2025/06/09/h...

NIH scientists have been angry for months. Now some are rebelling. More than 90 NIH scientists sign their names to the “Bethesda declaration” in protest of Trump administration policies they say are harming people’s health.

Washington Post story about #BethesdaDeclaration

www.washingtonpost.com/science/2025...

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This seems like a great day to remind Bluesky that Stephen Miller lived four doors down from me freshman year

And our student council person asked him (and everyone) to sign a birthday card for our dorm’s janitor

And he threw a tantrum and wrote an op-ed about not socializing with “the help.”

Here again is the remarkable impact of immunotherapy for intractable cancer via engineered T cells
gift link www.nytimes.com/2025/06/03/h...

Former DOGE engineer says federal waste and fraud were 'relatively nonexistent' NPR's Juana Summers talks with Sahil Lavingia, who worked for the Department of Government Efficiency as a software engineer assigned to the Department of Veterans Affairs, about his experience.

"I think we have a bias as people coming from the tech industry where we worked at companies, you know, such as Google, Facebook, these companies that have plenty of money, are funded by investors and have lots of people kind of sitting around doing nothing." www.npr.org/2025/06/02/n...