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NPR
about 1 hour ago
The U.S. military said it carried out another strike on a boat accused of smuggling drugs in the Pacific Ocean, killing three in the fourth attack this week and putting the total death toll at 205.
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U.S. strike on alleged drug boat kills 3 in Pacific Ocean, in fourth attack this week
The U.S. military said it carried out another strike on a boat accused of smuggling drugs in the Pacific Ocean, killing three in the fourth attack this week and putting the total death toll at 205.
https://n.pr/3QeAgmC
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Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD
about 10 hours ago
This piece by
@jtimmer.bsky.social
does an outstanding job of contextualizing OMB's latest attack on American science. Current OMB policy is already choking American science, as this WSJ op-ed points out. The status quo is moribund.
www.wsj.com/opinion/get-...
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Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽
13 days ago
"It's not just that government CAN help, it's that government MUST help. And our government WILL help."
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13 days ago
Remember when the Supreme Court said a president lacked the power to forgive $20,000 of student debt for Pell Grant recipients and the White House just said "Oh, okay"
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Judd Legum
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1. What I found in Trump's new 113-page financial disclosure report. It doesn't look good.
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More evidence interpreted as showing that co-administration of cannabidiol with THC acts in part by slowing the metabolism of THC. This was a study of buccal administration in dogs. cardiovascular effects of THC were attenuated by CBD, hypothermia unaffected.
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Cumulative Effects of Cannabis Oils on Body Temperature, Electrocardiography, Heart Rate Variability, Blood Pressure, and Respiratory Function in Telemetered Dogs
Cannabis oils are progressively being investigated as potential treatments for various health conditions in dogs. However, their safety profiles in this species remain poorly understood. This study ev...
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC13080719/
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Laminariales
16 days ago
Homer literally didn't see color, the guy was famously blind...
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bioRxiv Pharmacology and Toxicology
21 days ago
Impact of Age on Heroin Intravenous Self-Administration in Wistar Rats
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.05.05.723054v1
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Zen Faulkes
26 days ago
You can make a long, LONG list of technologies that were supposed to make stupid brick and mortar institutions of higher education obsolete. Printed books. Radio. Television. Personal computers. CD-ROMs. The Internet. MOOCs. Write the story once, and you can re-use it every five years!
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Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽
26 days ago
"The controversial deal is unusual: other airports named after presidents don’t have trademarks owned by private companies...Another notable provision in the agreement gives Trump veto power over how his bio is presented at the airport, ensuring he can strike down information he finds unflattering"
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I-75 Scientist
26 days ago
SEPA R25, to support educational activities that increase understanding of biomedical research among pre-college (pre-kindergarten to grade12) individuals, and to encourage awareness of and continued interest in careers in (STEM) is published.
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PAR-27-077: NIH Science Education Partnership Award (SEPA) (R25 - Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
https://files.simpler.grants.gov/opportunities/a17265a0-a839-4e4a-b114-49c9254cd4a7/attachments/359f23ae-8749-4fac-9e6a-301ba17a8054/PAR-27-077-Full-Announcement.html
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Tim Pierce
26 days ago
This is a great example of someone using Masshole in the best possible way. “Is that a question?” “Yeah, kinda, like… are we being pricks? Are we trying to do nothin’? Cause it seems like we’re doin’ nothin’.”
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Vaping does not need to be saved. What is the sense of this?
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Looking forward to the social media panel at
#SOBP2026
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Richard Sever
about 1 month ago
Because we wanted to strongly signal we did want those types of study and indicate to readers this was a thing. Also nice to think of a world where these could be forward linked rather than just cited
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Hey Siri. What does “coug-d it” mean?
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Jenna Norton
about 1 month ago
NAS President Marcia McNutt claims she is being bipartisan by avoiding “topics for which there is a partisan divide.” But this is blatantly partisan. She is doing exactly what one party wants. Worse, in direct opposition to the science in these fields. 🧵1/?
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Mr. Business
about 1 month ago
Always good when you can recreate the dynamics of white abolitionists interpreting Black worthiness by how pitiful they find them to be.
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Mr. Business
about 1 month ago
We got rid of affirmative action so now Black kids have to define themselves by recounting personal trauma to signal that they are Black.
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In college admission, trauma is shorthand for Blackness — Code Switch
At most elite colleges and universities, affirmative action is a thing of the past. But admissions offices are still interested in building racially diverse incoming classes — which can mean looking a...
https://overcast.fm/+AAHuusmwS-k
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Jacquelyn Gill
about 1 month ago
The attack on education in the US is not new, but the slow fuse that arguably started with Reagan is now setting off detonations across K-12 and higher education that are going to be incredibly difficult to walk back if we don’t treat this like the urgent crisis it is.
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Jacquelyn Gill
about 1 month ago
10. Racial segregation has INCREASED since the 1980’s, led by the push for school choice (see #8 and #9), dismantling legal protections, and white flight to suburbs and tax havens. 11. Economic segregation has also increased (school funding is often income-tax based). Disparities are going up.
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Richard Sever
about 1 month ago
Meanwhile, creating a place for replication studies is literally why we have Confirmatory/Contradictory Results categories on bioRxiv - much better than creating a traditional journal for replications given the peer review process may work differently/vary/be ongoing.
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Jan Kirsch, M.D., M.P.H.
about 1 month ago
Why studying healthcare disparities matters.
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Key Data on Health and Health Care by Race and Ethnicity | KFF
This analysis examines how people of color fare compared to White people across 64 measures of health, health care, and social determinants of health using the most recent data available from federal ...
https://www.kff.org/racial-equity-and-health-policy/key-data-on-health-and-health-care-by-race-and-ethnicity/?entry=executive-summary-introduction
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Jan Kirsch, M.D., M.P.H.
about 1 month ago
DEI DESERVES LESS RESEARCH? Racial health disparities in the U.S. result in roughly 74,000 to over 80,000 excess deaths annually among Black Americans. Other People of Color are also affected. (See link in comments)
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Adam Kinzinger
about 1 month ago
Fifteen minutes before the President announced he was pausing strikes on Iran, somebody moved $500 million in oil futures. Somebody knew. Somebody told them. Or somebody is them. New piece ↓
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This Isn't Trading. It's Theft from Your Retirement.
Someone keeps making perfectly-timed bets right before the President speaks. The victims are your pension, your 401(k), and the country I took an oath to defend.
https://open.substack.com/pub/adamkinzinger/p/this-isnt-trading-its-theft-from?r=kjv0f&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
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Michael Hendricks 🇨🇦
about 1 month ago
You kind of get used to the naked inhumanity of Trumpism, it's odd to see a callback to the clothed-in-MBA-euphemisms inhumanity of respectable conservatism.
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Effects of analgesia on the response to a noxious stimulus in Norway lobsters (Nephrops norvegicus)
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Effects of analgesia on the response to a noxious stimulus in Norway lobsters (Nephrops norvegicus) - Scientific Reports
There is evidence that decapod crustaceans have the capacity to experience aversive states associated with nociception, highlighting the need for humane treatment. Behavioural and physiological respon...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-026-41687-w
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Ashton Pittman
about 1 month ago
The New York Times is now blocking The Wayback Machine from accessing its articles. That means you'll no longer be able to view archived versions of NYT stories published in 2026 and beyond on
archive.org
. (All those posts you see tracking changes to NYT headlines and ledes? They relied on WBM).
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Don’t New Yorkers call these bodegas? Of course this denizen of NYC for his formative years never heard it called something else.
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Impact of Sex on Heroin Intravenous Self-Administration by Heterogeneous Stock Rats
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jamelle
about 2 months ago
this is the chaplain btw. wonder why he was fired.
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jamelle
about 2 months ago
still pissed at a certain pundit who was incredulous when i said that these people are segregationists
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Don Moynihan
about 2 months ago
Hegseth firing Generals who wouldn't go along with his purge of Black and female officers
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Don Moynihan
about 2 months ago
When you have senior white male military officers willing to end their career by raising concerns about the blocking of Black and female officers, it feels safe to say this isn't about ending DEI: the better historical parallel is Wilson's resegregation of the bureaucracy
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Don’t fear the AI?
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When the Unexpected Becomes Life Saving - New Hampshire Magazine
AI Enhances Lung Cancer Detection at Elliot Health System
https://www.nhmagazine.com/when-the-unexpected-becomes-life-saving-ai-enhances-lung-cancer-detection-at-elliot-health-system/
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“I want to use up everything on the planet before I die and my grandkids can fuck off” is a helluva policy principle.
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First legalizing polar bear “take” in the Arctic, now “fuck them whales” in the Gulf of Mexico.
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A new preprint from the Nguyen lab explores the impact of dry-hits, as in when the e-cig cartridge runs out of liquid. It ain't good. Neurobehavioral Effects of Dry Hit Nicotine E-Cigarette Vapor Inhalation in Adolescent Wistar Rats
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A new preprint from the Nguyen Lab has posted: Changes in perineuronal net and parvalbumin expression in the orbitofrontal cortex of male Wistar rats following repeated fentanyl administration
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Melissa Barber
2 months ago
Today, MSF is going public with something we've been fighting behind closed doors for months: Gilead will not sell us their new HIV drug, lenacapavir. The sticking point isn't even price, they just refuse to sell. Open letter linked + explainer đź§µ1/
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Gilead refuses to sell groundbreaking HIV prevention drug to MSF
Blocking humanitarian organizations from accessing a medical breakthrough puts vulnerable people across the world in danger.
https://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/latest/gilead-refuses-sell-groundbreaking-hiv-prevention-drug-msf
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Congratulations to Jacques Nguyen for an award recognizing “Baylor faculty members "who go above and beyond in mentoring undergraduate students."”
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Six Baylor Faculty Members Are Honored for Exceptional Student Mentoring
https://artsandsciences.baylor.edu/news/story/2026/six-baylor-faculty-members-are-honored-exceptional-student-mentoring
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Recent release of NIH fellowship funding for FY2025 reminded me of this post where I addressed the long standing government interest in training scientists and in asking them to do science thereafter. I work for you...as you have repeatedly requested.
tlneuro.wordpress.com/2025/06/26/i...
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I work for you…as you have repeatedly requested.
The political situation in the United States in 2025 has raised the operations of the agencies that fund scientific research to common conversation. Research grants which have been issued by the Na…
https://tlneuro.wordpress.com/2025/06/26/i-work-for-you-as-you-have-repeatedly-requested/
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Recent release of NIH fellowship funding for FY2025 reminded me of this post where I addressed the long standing government interest in training scientists and in asking them to do science thereafter. I work for you...as you have repeatedly requested.
tlneuro.wordpress.com/2025/06/26/i...
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I work for you…as you have repeatedly requested.
The political situation in the United States in 2025 has raised the operations of the agencies that fund scientific research to common conversation. Research grants which have been issued by the Na…
https://tlneuro.wordpress.com/2025/06/26/i-work-for-you-as-you-have-repeatedly-requested/
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Drug and Alcohol Dependence Reports
2 months ago
New in DADR: Han et al. found sex-specific youth vaping risks and concluded that prevention efforts may benefit from sex-specific strategies. Check it out here:
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It is important to understand the arguments if we hope to minimize the bad stuff. Not only his testimony but also the punch and Judy show aspect of the questions of Reps.
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WATCH LIVE: Dr. Jay Bhattacharya testifies at NIH oversight hearing before House panel
YouTube video by PBS NewsHour
https://www.youtube.com/live/r4TFsqL_l8A?si=4R-SNCD4dRBCITAF
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Monica H Green
3 months ago
Absolutely essential reading for anyone considering those "unicorn" hiring positions in Canada. Observations from researchers who are already there:
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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The problem with Canada’s plan to buy scientific prestige
The government’s plans to poach 100 US researchers might make good economic sense. But what about the existing community?
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00743-1
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boehninglab
3 months ago
I Wrote Research Funding Announcements for NIH for 22 Years. This Year They’ve Published 14
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I Wrote Research Funding Announcements for NIH for 22 Years. This Year They’ve Published 14
How NIH went from 756 funding announcements to 14 in two years — and what it means for every disease that depends on federal research
https://open.substack.com/pub/elizabethginexi/p/i-wrote-research-funding-announcements?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web
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