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Studying the human microbiome at UChicago
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Jess Calarco
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The point was never to save money. That was only ever a convenient justification for an effort to decimate the public sector and dismantle the US social safety net.
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Chase Madar
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Really sick victim-blaming. Sick, sick shit
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/22/u...
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Trump Administration Will Investigate Brownâs Security After Shooting
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/22/us/brown-faces-trump-investigation-security-issues-shooting.html?smid=bs-share
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Prof Gavin Yamey
9 days ago
This is the best piece Iâve read so far on why the Guinea-Bissau RCT, in which a proven life-saving vaccine will be deliberately WITHHELD, is unethical âWhen benefit is established, withholding an intervention is no longer neutral experimentation it becomes premeditated harmâ
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Prof Gavin Yamey
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I was interviewed for
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US plan for $1.6m hepatitis B vaccine study in Africa called âhighly unethicalâ
Experts decry âneocolonialistâ Guinea-Bissau study after Trump administration changed advice for US babies
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/dec/19/hepatitis-b-vaccine-study-guinea-bissau-rfk?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
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Stacey Burns
18 days ago
âShe has marks on her neck and wrist from where agents restrained her. Agents cut off her wedding ring and held her in leg shackles at Whipple Federal Building for about five hours.â Her crime: witnessing ICE, from a distance.
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Federal agents arrest citizen observer watching ICE detain neighbors on her north Minneapolis block
Susan Tincher, a 55-year-old American citizen, appears to be the first observer arrested by federal immigration enforcement officers since the agency launched an immigration surge in the Twin Cities l...
https://www.mprnews.org/story/2025/12/09/federal-agents-arrest-citizen-observer-watching-ice-north-minneapolis
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anil oza
20 days ago
âThe only reason I donât have this funding is because my last name is Rodriguez.â MOSAIC checked many of the boxes of the administration â but that didn't matter. It was terminated, and left grantees scrambling Next installment of American Science, Shattered:
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NIH shut out hundreds of young scientists from funding to start their own labs
Special Report: The NIH has shut out hundreds of young scientists from funding to start their own labs.
https://www.statnews.com/2025/12/08/trump-nih-cuts-impacts-next-gen-researchers-american-science-shattered-series/
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Jason Koebler
20 days ago
404 Media is making a print zine! About the surveillance technologies used by ICE. 16 pages, riso printed. Shipping early January. Features reworked versions of our best reporting and a few new things. We're very excited! And hope to do more if people like it:
www.404media.co/404-media-is...
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404 Media Is Making a Zine
We are publishing a risograph-printed zine about the surveillance technologies used by ICE.
https://www.404media.co/404-media-is-making-a-zine/
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Prof Gavin Yamey
24 days ago
Absolutely unconscionable: Dr Prasad won't share details, data, evidence, or proof of causality. We just have Dr Tracy Beth HĂžeg's vibes - that's the assessment. AND: "FDA vaccine staff disagreed with the assessment that the reported deaths were caused by vaccines"
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FDA says it won't release details of claimed Covid vaccine deaths in 'near term'
Details from an investigation by CBER Director Vinay Prasad into 10 alleged child deaths related to Covid-19 vaccines won't be coming soon, an FDA spokesperson told Endpoints News on Wednesday.
https://endpoints.news/fda-says-it-wont-release-details-of-claimed-covid-vaccine-deaths-in-near-term/
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Alejandra Caraballo
24 days ago
48 years. That's how long trans women have been eligible to compete in tennis.
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Dave Levitan
26 days ago
The former oil executive/DOE official who held the all-staff meeting announcing the change repeatedly told the scientists who work on clean energy that she "hates" clean energy.
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'A Collective WTF': National Renewable Energy Laboratory Gets a Trumpian Name Change
NREL employees, many of whom joined the lab specifically to work toward its clean energy mission, are not happy about the oil-soaked leadership's moves.
https://www.gravityisgone.com/a-collective-wtf-national-renewable-energy-laboratory-gets-a-trumpian-name-change/
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Dr. Jens Foell
29 days ago
Read through this and think about how absolutely unimaginable a message like this would have been just 13 months ago. The suppression of US academic liberty has been accepted and normalized instantly. The federal government is in full control of what thoughts and values are allowed in lecture halls
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Radley Balko
about 1 month ago
They lied about it. All of it. A thug cop shot an unarmed woman five times without justification, boasted about it to his colleagues, and then this administration tried cover it all up by arresting her and charging her with felonies.
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Dan Diamond
about 1 month ago
CDC has overhauled its website to assert that âthe claim âvaccines do not cause autismâ is not an evidence-based claimâ
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Bill Grueskin
about 1 month ago
5 headlines tonight on Charlotte Observerâs homepage: âManolo's Bakery closes to protect customersâ âChurch members flee as federal agents arriveâ âSuper G executive describes agents dragging out teen employeeâ âBorder Patrol questions people at Walmartâ âBorder Patrol sweep sparks fearâ
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Arjun Raj
about 1 month ago
Also, hereâs an accessible video intro:
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick
about 1 month ago
NEW:
@propublica.org
investigated the Chicago apartment raid where kids were zip-tied and citizens detained for hours. They find: - NONE of the arrested were criminally charged - NO evidence the building was "filled with TdA terrorists." - ZERO legitimate reason for DHS to rappel from a Blackhawk.
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Jonathan Howard
about 2 months ago
Prasad and Hoeg are censoring studies showing the covid vaccine is safe. More great reporting by
@lizzylawrence.bsky.social
www.statnews.com/2025/11/12/f...
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How two top FDA officials are quietly upending vaccine regulations
Vinay Prasad and Tracy Beth HĂžeg mix skepticism with new ways to define risk in pursuing sweeping changes to vaccine policy at the FDA.
https://www.statnews.com/2025/11/12/fda-vaccine-policy-controlled-by-vinay-prasad-tracy-beth-hoeg/
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Looks like
@moderation.bsky.app
automatically mutes "rude" content? What an embarrassingly infantalizing thing for a social media platform to do
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Scott Horton
about 2 months ago
From Bovino's deposition: (1) he calls protestors "violent" if they articulate views hostile to ICE, even if no violence is manifested; (2) he instructs his forces to attack and arrest protestors who express "hyperbolic comments," which is to say, criticism of ICE and Bovino.
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Dare Obasanjo
about 2 months ago
arXiv will no longer accept review articles and position papers unless they have been accepted at a journal or a conference and complete successful peer review. This is due to being overwhelmed by a hundreds of AI generated papers a month. Yet another open submission process killed by LLMs.
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Attention Authors: Updated Practice for Review Articles and Position Papers in arXiv CS Category â arXiv blog
https://blog.arxiv.org/2025/10/31/attention-authors-updated-practice-for-review-articles-and-position-papers-in-arxiv-cs-category/
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Colin Carlson
about 2 months ago
If you're wondering how things have been going since the CDC shooting, someone bombed a friend's workplace at Harvard yesterday and, if you were going off the discourse on Bluesky, you would honestly never know it happened
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/01/u...
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âIntentionalâ Explosion Took Place at Harvard Medical School, Officials Say
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/01/us/harvard-medical-school-explosion.html?searchResultPosition=1
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Alex Holcombe
about 2 months ago
The Python Software Foundation won a $1.5m grant from the US government National Science Foundation. Turned it down because required to affirm that we "will not... operate any programs that advance or promote DEI"
simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/27/...
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The PSF has withdrawn a $1.5 million proposal to US government grant program
The Python Software Foundation was recently "recommended for funding" (NSF terminology) for a $1.5m grant from the US government National Science Foundation to help improve the security of the Python ...
https://simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/27/psf-withdrawn-proposal/
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Marisa Kabas
about 2 months ago
every day a new rubicon is crossed
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taber
2 months ago
first time at MSP Film's Main Cinema on St. Anthony Main Street for FRANKENSTEIN (2025) and not only do they offer weed at the concession stand but the Minneapolis skyline view from across the street is dynamite
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James Halls
2 months ago
The people on this airplane have a sense of duty and self-sacrifice that Donald Trump will never understand. They are NOAA employees flying their plane through the middle of the category 4 Hurricane Melissa south of Jamaica. And they aren't getting paid. I wish them safe flying and a safe return
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Alejandra Caraballo
2 months ago
The official USDA site is blaming trans people for SNAP benefits expiring.
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cc all the thin blue line "WhO aRe yoU gOinG To CaLL wHen ThErE'S a cRiMe" poeple. Seems like when a cop wants to murder people, the answer is nobody
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N.J. cop went to an ATM first when dispatched to a shooting scene and missed a double murder discovered a day later, prosecutors say
Lauren Semanchik, a veterinarian, and Tyler Webb, a volunteer firefighter, were killed, and Ricardo Jorge Santos, a lieutenant with the N.J. State Police and Semanchik's ex-boyfriend, was also dead.
https://www.inquirer.com/crime/new-jersey-state-trooper-murder-suicide-franklin-township-police-20251023.html?utm_source=social&tum_campaign=edit_philly_igfeed_traffic&utm_medium=referral&int_promo=newsroom&utm_campaign=feed
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Emily Josephs
2 months ago
Hey Yaniv Brandvain is not on Bluesky but his most recent biostats ebook is live
ybrandvain.github.io/biostats/
. His stats resources have been so helpful to me as I develop my own stats course, so check it out. Github repo here:
github.com/ybrandvain/b...
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Applied Biostatistics
https://ybrandvain.github.io/biostats/
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Jason Koebler
2 months ago
The specifics of this are extremely bad. DHS is using a tariffs/product importation law to demand Meta unmask the identity of an Instagram account that posts about ICE enforcement actions. The page sells no merch. Lawyers call it "wildly outside the scope" of the law
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DHS Tries To Unmask Ice Spotting Instagram Account by Claiming It Imports Merchandise
There is no evidence the Instagram and Facebook account, called Montcowatch, sells anything. Lawyers from the ACLU say the move is "wildly outside the scope" of DHS' authority.
https://www.404media.co/dhs-tries-to-unmask-ice-spotting-instagram-account-by-claiming-it-imports-merchandise/
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Maria Bernabeu
2 months ago
Pre-print alert đš We answer a longstanding question in the field. Do immune cells cause cerebral malaria? The answer is YES!!!! And independently of P. falciparum accumulation in the brain.
www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...
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Innate immune responses to Plasmodium falciparum disrupt the blood-brain barrier
Plasmodium falciparum accumulation at the blood-brain barrier (BBB) is a hallmark of cerebral malaria, a life-threatening complication. Conversely, the contribution of the immune response to vascular ...
https://www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/short/2025.10.20.683440v1
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"We have spent a century repenting those mistakes, and now the Trump administration demands that we repeat them."
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A Compact for Control (opinion)
No self-respecting institution of higher education should accept the Trump administrationâs unconstitutional terms, Robert Post and Tom Ginsburg write.
https://www.insidehighered.com/opinion/views/2025/10/07/compact-control-opinion
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Barbara J. King
2 months ago
"What NPS anthropologists provide...is the ability to recognize the crossroads and overlaps between what the Park Service hopes to accomplish and the traditions and lifeways of communities who will be affected by their actions." Good piece
@sapiens.org
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The Cost of Cutting Anthropology Out of U.S. National Parks
A former National Park Service anthropologist reflects on the vital role of cultural anthropology to the agencyâs mission.
https://www.sapiens.org/culture/national-park-service-anthropology-cuts/
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Eric Umansky
3 months ago
ICE agents blocked an ambulance that was trying to take an injured protester to hospital. "We are still not being allowed to leave by ICE officers.â an EMT said on radio When driver tried to get out, an agent yelled, "DONâT YOU EVER DO THAT AGAIN, I WILL SHOOT YOU"
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Documents Allege a Federal Agent at Portland ICE Threatened to Shoot an Ambulance Driver
Feds delayed medics who had come to pick up an injured protester. Then, according to confidential incident reports, the agents became aggressive.
https://www.wweek.com/news/2025/10/12/documents-allege-a-federal-agent-at-portland-ice-threatened-to-shoot-an-ambulance-driver/?utm
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Don Moynihan
3 months ago
They also cancelled government data collection about hunger to minimize evidence about their policies
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Prachee Avasthi
3 months ago
Some scientists arenât waiting for journals to catch up. Theyâre showing us whatâs next. The Beyond the Journal awards honor those breaking the mold in how science is shared. More details:
pracheeac.substack.com/p/off-roadin...
Nominate or self-nominate here:
www.experiment.foundation/beyond
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"When exposed to 13 dietary ingredients and food additives prevalent in industrialized diets, the U.S. microbiome responded differently from its Thai counterpart... the U.S. microbiome showed a predisposition toward weight gain under industrialized dietary conditions."
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Shared environments can facilitate microbial transmission and alter metabolic outcomes
While dietary changes are often implicated in the adaptation of traditional microbiomes to highly industrialized society, it only partially explains the observed microbial shifts post-immigration. ...
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/19490976.2025.2562345
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James Stout
3 months ago
Iâm glad people are aware of this, but it isnât new. People in immigration detention were consistently moved away from their attorneys in the Biden admin. We reported on it then, but very few people cared about migrants when they werenât a partisan tool.
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The BMJ
3 months ago
New BMJ Research finds the implementation of work requirements with Medicaid expansion in Georgia did not increase health insurance coverage or employment. These findings have important implications after recently enacted legislation
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Richard Sever
3 months ago
Another record month for bioRxiv - and further evidence the pandemic spike+dip was just that and growth continues. Thanks to all involved and that includes đ«”
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Radley Balko
3 months ago
This passage nearly broke me.
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Be sure to sign up the right way or the feds will try to put you in prison for a few decades and then never explain why
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_...
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Chip Mitchell
3 months ago
Today I spoke with Greg Bovino, a top U.S. Border Patrol chief, as he led dozens of feds in military gear through downtown Chicago. He said they were arresting folks based on âhow they look.â âHow do they look compared to, say, you?â he said, referring to me.
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Feds march into downtown Chicago; top border agent says people are arrested based on âhow they lookâ
Immigration agents wearing tactical gear and carrying long guns made arrests in downtown Chicago and the River North neighborhood Sunday. âThis is not making anybody safer â itâs a show of intimidatio...
https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2025/09/28/ice-agents-spotted-downtown-on-michigan-avenue-along-chicago-river
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Having only seen Wisconsin from Brewers TV broadcasts, I was shocked at how many different ways Wisconsin finds to be beautiful. The Driftless Area is amazing.
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Daniel Laurison
3 months ago
Pretty clear illustration of "you may as well stand up for what you believe in, they're coming for you anyway."
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Kat Abughazaleh
3 months ago
They just tear-gassed us. They tried to run us over in a van holding a peaceful protester. They shot us with pepper balls. They dragged another protester into the facility.
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Joseph Cox
3 months ago
New from 404 Media: airlines are selling *5 billion* ticketing records to the government for warrantless searching, per new docs we obtained. ARC is a data broker owned by United, American, Delta, etc. Then sells peoples' travel info to ICE, Secret Service, FBI etc
www.404media.co/airlines-sel...
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Airlines Sell 5 Billion Plane Ticket Records to the Government For Warrantless Searching
New documents obtained by 404 Media show how a data broker owned by American Airlines, United, Delta, and many other airlines is selling masses of passenger data to the U.S. government.
https://www.404media.co/airlines-sell-5-billion-plane-ticket-records-to-the-government-for-warrantless-searching/
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Lindsey Cormack
3 months ago
Use of the word "evil" in official congressional e-newsletters, over time, by party
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Alejandra Caraballo
4 months ago
I can't stress enough that this is how is exactly how genocides are incited. They always use language to couch it in self defense to justify violence against their targets.
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qntm
4 months ago
ME, IN TEARS: you can't just say every single part of a computer system is a file UNIX, POINTING AT THE MOUSE: file
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