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Great news! The unethical hepatitis B vaccine trial planned for Guinea-Bissau has been cancelled. Public pressure and insisting that clinical trials pass ethics analysis worked. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026... 1/2

Amazing and important news in Ohio #OSU @aaup.org @osuaaup.bsky.social www.acluohio.org/press-releas...

Recent stadium deals have set new records for taxpayer giveaways to teams, further evidence that public officials are uninterested in curbing subsidies for billionaire owners, despite decades of research that stadiums are a wasteful use of tax dollars ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/01/13/r...

🔥 @markruffalo.bsky.social : “I gotta be honest, I’m not feeling so great. Renee Good was murdered... stormtroopers running around terrorizing. As much as I love all this, I can’t pretend all this crazy stuff isn’t happening. We have a president who says laws don’t apply to him- this is crazy.”

If you're an NSF funded investigator, it is a huge win. We went from a proposed 60% cut to a proposed 25% cut (in initial House budget) to a 3.9% cut (which should not affect NSF extramural appropriations). This means that most NSF directorates will continue funding at last year's rates and levels.

Fans are cancelling tickets. FIFA has called an emergency meeting over the World Cup backlash. Boycott the Olympics too. Trump's Gestapo will round up and shoot anyone. No one is safe in America.

Regarding the discussion of an NIH award to help senior scientists transition to retirement, here is my first Datahound Flashback! 1/5

THREAD The first full year of tracking research on @bsky.app Hi, we are Altmetric, and we track how research is communicated across the web. We now have one full calendar year of Bluesky research data and thought we'd have a looksie.

Martin Peterson's creative response to being banned from teaching Plato (shared with his permission).

Maybe your representative is quite liberal and you are guessing that they already support impeaching RFK. Well, they probably haven't signed on yet to the existing articles of impeachment! I called mine today to encourage her to support this effort. @foushee.house.gov

just want to remind folks that pushback and public outrage stopped them from closing the CDC library. i bet pushback will stop them here, too

Every week, Nature publishes yet another breathless puff piece about some AI startup, based only unpublished claims from the company and interviewing only those who work there. How can the leading scientific journal publish piece after piece that would make Kevin Roose blush? I think it's that...

And this is just less than a year. Each day RFK Jr. stays in office as the head of our science and health system, the more his negligence compounds. Congress made a mistake confirming him, but they still have a chance to fix it. It's time they #ImpeachRFKJr www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

One of the South Park creators bought the Trump Kennedy Center URL earlier. Genius. www.trumpkennedycenter.org

He’s a deeply self-conscious, one trick pony of a man who is desperately trying to stay relevant as he has landed in a position of power far greater than he could have imagined being in AND that is far above his skill set. He’s trying to play both sides bc he wants power AND to be taken seriously.

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NSF bio hour - NSF BIO lost 40% of its staff 😑

There's a cross-platform uniformity to how LLMs bullshit you. Today I was designing an exercise for a responisble-use of-LLMs course we are designing for NIH trainees. I asked ChatGPT to complete one of Claude Shannon's original guessing games: "There is no reverse on a __(10 letters)__"

Please join me in signing and sharing this petition, and calling your Rep in the House. RFK Jr. must go!

🚨 Today, I formally introduced articles of impeachment against Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. RFK Jr. has turned his back on science and the safety of the American people. Michiganders cannot take another day of his chaos.

NSF - Forced reorg - POs down ~ 40% (DRP, most rotators not renewed, retirements) - Forced move (and we have to pack and clean) to a building with no furniture, little to no conference space for panels, inadequate 🛜, …) I personally love the boxes they gave us for packing. “Details matter” 🙃

Normally, I'm against impeachments that have zero chance of conviction ( I know, I know, unpopular opinion), but with RFK JR, I'm making an exception. Impeachment the SOB. HIs policies will still be at CDC after he's gone. We need to ruin his reputation IMPEACH RFK JR!

Impeach him.

House Minority Speaker @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social JUST POSTED THREE DAYS AGO that Bobby has to go...so why isn't he supporting articles against him?????? Let's get riled up, dorks!! bsky.app/profile/hake...

Every day that RFK Jr. remains HHS Secretary endangers the lives of millions. Enough is enough. Congress has the power stop him. We applaud @rephaleystevens.bsky.social for taking action, and we're calling on our other reps. to do the same! Join us in the fight: standupforscience.net/impeach-rfkjr

Whither the NIH Investigator criterion? drugmonkey.wordpress.com/2025/12/09/w...

🧵Congrats to @standupforscience.bsky.social activist and leader @cdelawalla.bsky.social for being named one to watch in science by Nature. The world’s leading science journal! Well deserved! www.nature.com/immersive/d4...

Just found out I was included in @nature.com's "Ones to Watch 2026" list for @standupforscience.bsky.social. Pretty wild to have my name included on a page with this calibre of scientists...really grateful for my team and the support it took to get here. www.nature.com/immersive/d4...

So, does this mean you’ll support articles of impeachment?

#NSF BIO is hosting a Virtual Office Hour December 18 at 1:00 Eastern Time www.nsf.gov/events/nsf-b...

Jay Bhattacharya and Matthew Memoli aren't bringing "gold standard science" to the #NIH, they are gutting research slowly but surely. When this time is over, they should be hauled before Congress, and shunned for the rest of their lives. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

New York Times article on science funding with some depressing but familiar curves with interactive graphics. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

An important write up from the NYT on the funding changes at the NIH. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

“AI is clearly sticking around so you have to get used to it” wrong. I don’t have to get used to shit. I am a practiced hater and I can keep this going for decades if I am required to

Don't use LLMs for ANYTHING. Not your grants, not your papers. NOTHING. You were hired because of your mind. Use it for god's sake

This is great. More please! The more folk who rely on LLMs for funding planning means my chances go up even before I submit!

The NIH Summer Internship Program (SIP) will open on 12/8 to accept applications from students studying biology, engineering, epidemiology, psychology, math, chemistry, pharmaceutical sciences, nursing, physics, computer science, bioinformatics, and health-related fields #chemsummer

College football is the Trumpism of academia. Killing us while we keep signing up for more. It's a giant cash grab full of brain damage masquerading as a serious business

Even the the damn twitter card for this Nature Scientific Reports is clearly AI Slop.

I'm an "A.i." abolitionist. No consumer-facing LLMs or generative "A.i." in anything. Sure, machine learning in science and a few other limited applications is fine. But consumer-facing LLMs and generative "A.i." that are based on theft, push disinfo, and can be manipulated by billionaires? No.

Y'all, this race is going to come down to who shows up at the polls. Trump carried this district by 22 points, and @aftynbehn.bsky.social is within 2 points in this poll! If you live in 7, GO VOTE! Today is the last day of early voting, or you can vote on December 2nd.

NIH announces 16% more proposals will be considered for funding! drugmonkey.wordpress.com/2025/11/24/n...

Stop buying Nike shoes. Stand for something other than materialism. Nike Co-Founder Phil Knight donates to Republican Salem PAC group. www.wweek.com/news/state/2...

I am begging people to *please* stop using these tools to make a point or make fun of them. We do not need to further refine them or kill the planet to make a point. We should stop using them to make them irrelevant.

Gatekeeping by demanding expensive technology or approaches is the ancient tactic of the rich laboratory.

"You don't have to accept this future." Preach.

Posting for no particular reason…. From the Archive: Comparing performance of within-payline and "select pay" pickup NIH grants at NIAID drugmonkey.wordpress.com/2011/10/26/c...

In which I fruitlessly beg NIH grant-seeking folks to focus on what is actually important. drugmonkey.wordpress.com/2025/11/21/i...

RFK Jr. has NO business being health secretary and his conspiracy theories are going to get people killed. This cannot continue—Republicans should join me in calling for RFK Jr. to be FIRED.