new data from NIH about funding trends through FY2025 also a flyby analysis from Claude lol grants.nih.gov/news-events/...

Yesterday morning kids were sent running from their bus stop in panic because ICE showed up. This guy at today’s ICE Out of Lindenwold protest is a must watch 😭. @maddow.bsky.social

when dook loses, we all win. Heels, baby

i am a bari hater and take no pleasure in reporting this but nellie does seem to have been on the up and up re epstein: she contributed reporting to at least one story on him (www.nytimes.com/2019/07/08/n...) and also specifically wrote about him emailing her (www.nytimes.com/2019/09/14/b...)

Ban everyone from using Teams! 😉

Attn @schumer.senate.gov @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social Mandatory no masking, visible IDs, body cameras on, state jurisdiction for investigations

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

Nurses are pissed. This is on the front page of the nursing subreddit, along with many discussions about it on several other posts.

Its like the set up of a very very long joke. "Ok, so there's this bar and in walks a priest, and a priest, and a pastor, and a vicar, and an imam, and a rabbi, and a deacon, and two more pastors, and a mufti and a...."

I think the more accurate phrase is "Everything Trump Touches Dies" #ETTD from @therickwilson.bsky.social but ETTTTS also has a nice ring to it.

Watch that. And then tell me how we replace Schumer with her

NEWS: The Social Security Administration has referred two DOGE employees for Hatch Act violations after discovering contacts with a political group seeking SSA data to overturn election results. www.politico.com/news/2026/01...

Students were encouraged to inform on their teachers... in the Soviet Union. "A growing threat to #academicfreedom: Students who act as informants and police their classes and professors for signs of political incorrectness." #AcademicSky theconversation.com/theres-an-in...

This. We don’t need better training for Trumps Gestapo. Just dissolve it.

Tuskegee, part 2

When the normal stand-on-the-sidelines folks get involved, you know you’ve fucked up big time.

The right: stop calling us Nazis Joe Rogan: this is some Gestapo bullshit.

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I did a crisper version of this Andor remix if anyone is a completist.

Political cartoonists are not fuckin’ around this week. (thread) 1. Pat Bagley

can we put them into a table without corrupting the larger spread sheet ?

Here's another absolute shredder I'd recommend catching live!

My friend @charlotteclymer.bsky.social has written about Mark Kelly’s distinguished military career. This is not to be missed. open.substack.com/pub/charlott...

I think Indiana's 2026 football recruiting class is about to take a sharp tick upwards

1. It’s mice 🧐 2. Sounds promising but have heard this tune before 3. I don’t know if you can reverse/cure late stage Alz 4. Prevention and early bio-marker detection seems more realistic

Wanna see real-life miracles? Fund scientific research. A team of US scientists just cured Alzheimer’s in mice — and there is now hope that the disease can be reversed in humans. futurism.com/health-medic...

Gift link for all of the 2025 remembrances of people in the NYT Magazine. These mini-portraits are lovingly crafted. Remembering Some of the Artists, Innovators and Thinkers We Lost in the Past Year

Got this fantastically clever Christmas gift. It's a dedicated algorithm free music player that you can carry around without the distractions of your phone, and it can hold thousands of songs without needing an internet connection. The UI is so simple anyone can manage it. Fantastic

Yeah, so…we should absolutely ban this shit.

Experimental evidence that students are more likely to contest grades when they are delivered by an evaluator with a female-sounding name. "These findings suggest that women in evaluative positions face disproportionate resistance when delivering negative assessments."

"Even after accounting for the upfront costs and delayed benefits, enrolling marginal applicants to public universities generates substantial net returns for society, the marginal students themselves, and the government budget." Public Universities FTW!

Lolol - love this quote referring to Canadians as treacherous 🤣 #delusions

The SAVE Plan is ending and repayment options will change dramatically in the new year. n.pr/49oJ7Jg

Updated with a pristine, HD copy courtesy of Leon Thomas @renegadecut.bsky.social Watch Inside CECOT now

It’s holly-jolly ominous.

In Georgia, the state has made "catastrophic" cuts at DHS, citing an $85 million deficit. A provider described one result: a mom who relapsed last week. "Visits with her child were keeping her sober, but transportation services had been cut." Georgia is sitting on a $14.6 *billion* budget surplus.

One thing I love is obsolete technology being encoded in our language. Words like “footage” and “rewind” and “dial (as a phone)” that literally describe a physicality that doesn’t exist anymore, yet lingers linguistically. Anybody have any other examples?

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the epstein files as rick owens fall/winter 2024

Susie Wiles told NYT she didn't call Elon Musk "an avowed ketamine" in one of her ELEVEN interviews with Vanity Fair. "That’s ridiculous. I wouldn’t have said it and I wouldn’t know." Vanity Fair: Cool here's a recording of you saying that. www.huffpost.com/entry/brown-...

fMRI signals “up,” but neural metabolism might be going “down.” In our @natneuro.nature.com paper, we demonstrate that about 40% of voxels with robust BOLD responses exhibit opposite oxygen metabolism, revealing two distinct hemodynamic modes. rdcu.be/eUPO8 funds @erc.europa.eu #neuroskyence 🧵:

Great thread with solid science that examines the importance of naturally occurring nutrients in the environment driving species success

It's a 'mix tape', not mixed tape. ;-)

MINNEAPOLIS: “All I did was step outside as a Somali American citizen, and I got chased by a masked person, assaulted, kidnapped. It was inhumane. If this is what’s happening to a 🇺🇸 citizen on camera, imagine what could happen to your loved ones.”

It’s just a transaction to him. I would not be surprised if there was some back deal investment or pay off.

Sad that this is where we are but I’ve also seen a number of quality science students opting to pursue other career paths.

Admiral Rachel Levine was the first transgender person to be confirmed by the Senate to serve in the federal government. Her official portrait at HHS headquarters has been altered. n.pr/48HypvT