Must read... www.propublica.org/article/prop...

Proof that AI is not taking my job anytime soon: I asked a commercial LLM to help me track down a bug (yeah, its Friday night and I couldn't find my error - which was soooooooo tiny.....). Here's the screenshot:

My nerd heart is broken. blog.adafruit.com/2025/11/21/d...

@elienyc.bsky.social talking truth and drinking from a Death Star mug….

@dukesurgery.bsky.social -a great day of golf! Thanks to UNC Surgery for hosting!!!

Chili cook-off?? @dukesurgery.bsky.social

This seagull seems… judgey.

Someone decided to dig. Someone got a bath. FAFO.

@dukevascular.bsky.social There was a dress code for journal club… #VascularSurgery

RFK Jr. is reportedly going to forbid government scientists from publishing in the world’s most respected medical journals — the Lancet, The New England Journal of Medicine, JAMA, etc. It’s going to take decades to repair the damage done by this administration.

Please check in with your fed friends. It's kinda stressful here You’re fired You’re rehired You’re refired You’re staying but your team is fired Your team is staying but your funding’s cut You’re moving across the country, maybe Restraining order 🛑 Restraining order against the restraining order 🔙

fortune.com/2025/04/15/u... Are we great yet???

www.science.org/content/arti... It just keeps getting worse….

Trump ends promising cancer research. USA! USA! “Two patients’ treatments using the experimental therapy had to be delayed because NIH’s capacity to make personalized cell therapies has been slowed by the firing of highly skilled staff..." www.washingtonpost.com/science/2025...

@elienyc.bsky.social Today’s reading….

Nearly half a billion dollars ($484M) lost in the NC research triangle alone Where TF are Thom Tillis & Ted Budd?

The SAVE Act may as well be called the anti-voting rights act. Here’s why:

🤬 www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

NC Health and Human Services Department to cut 80 jobs, lose $100 million in federal funding The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services' reductions are due to the federal government's "abrupt and immediate termination of several federal grants," a department spokesperson said in ...

Everything in this thread is true.

We are super excited to welcome Jordyn O’Dell to our Duke Vascular Surgery family! Congrats and welcome, Jordyn!!! #MatchDay2025 @dukevascular.bsky.social

‼️Judge Ellen Lipton Hollander (NOT Musk) may have found actual fraud. The federal judge stops Musk's team from 'unbridled access' to MILLIONS of American’s Social Security private data! www.reuters.com/legal/us-jud...

some thoughts.... here are where our 2021 tax dollars went. Want to minimize what we spend on healthcare? Expand Medicaid, considering a no-for profit model. Want to get more money from elsewhere to help w social security?

Le Monde reporting that a French scientist traveling to Houston to attend a conference was denied entry to US after a search of his phone & computer revealed messages critical of Trump's science cuts, "which [says CPB] conveyed hatred of Trump & could be qualified as terrorism". Computer confiscated

@elsieross.bsky.social as visiting professor at @dukevascular.bsky.social

Legit, fascist talk from those closest to the President and advising him. In any normal timeline, these people would, at the very least, be run out of their jobs on a rail. Congress has the power NOW to stop this. I fear that no one is coming to save us and we’ll have to do this ourselves.

hard not to conclude every Gazan is going to get exiled or killed, with Trump's full support www.axios.com/2025/03/18/i...

the fallout continues. I have a dear friend who works for a private sector company (analytics software). He was fired yesterday due to the uncertainty in academia and the government research sector. It's just going to get worse. I've called all my senators and reps. Why don't they care?

I retired, and my replacement at the USDA was fired. There aren't any jobs for entomology researchers in the US. I recommended she look overseas. Government researchers can't get jobs at universities because their funding is gone. Trump and his cronies are absolutely destroying this country.

serious question: Why are the creators of PEPFAR silent? Why are George W. Bush and Laura Bush not saying anything??? Why have power and platform if you don't use them?

YIKES THE ACCURACY 😬

Fact check: true. www.military.com/daily-news/o...

The Trump administration recently denied a funding request from the city of Asheville, North Carolina, to help its recovery from Hurricane Helene, telling the city it must cut a program meant to aid female and minority contractors. www.yahoo.com/news/trump-a...

I bet they searched ‘sterilization’… www.nbcnews.com/politics/dog...

Whelp ed research orgs had mass lay-offs yesterday Mathematica: www.linkedin.com/posts/mathem... MDRC: www.linkedin.com/posts/mdrc_t... NORC: www.linkedin.com/posts/dan-ga... RTI: www.linkedin.com/posts/no%C3%... Westat: www.linkedin.com/posts/westat... WestEd: www.linkedin.com/posts/amyhre...

if you haven't seen it... 'The only girl in the orchestra' is a great documentary.

Viewpoint discusses discordance between patient report and objectively measured walking impairment in people with peripheral artery disease without critical leg ischemia. https://ja.ma/3F06w6Z

Maximum nerd in 10…9…8….

You've simply got to read this. beyond belief You Must Read This: Uproar Over Malicious and Disastrous Cuts at VA talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/you-m...

‘We are watching the gutting of VA,’ veterans groups warn in wake of federal worker firings www.stripes.com/veterans/202...

NIH cuts are getting the press, but VA research is getting slashed too. What do we lose when VA research goes away? Here's some greatest hits: The nicotine patch, invention of the cardiac pacemaker, first successful liver transplant, development of the CAT/CT scan prospect.org/health/2025-...

📢Veterans, now is the time to raise hell! While Trump & Musk fire critical VA staff, House Republicans are rushing through bills to GUT Veterans’ care. They think no one will fight back. Prove them wrong. Speak out. Spread the word. MORE: www.military.com/daily-news/o...

I’ll keep pushing this line of analysis because I’m increasingly convinced the clearest path out of this mess is for Dems to adopt a relentless anti-corruption, anti-inequality, anti-oligarchy, pro-democracy platform. The Dem leadership hasn’t realized it yet, but they’re now a reform party.

The DOGE firings have nothing to do with “efficiency” or “cutting waste.” They’re a direct push to weaken federal agencies perceived as liberal. This was evident from the start, and now the data confirms it: targeted agencies overwhelmingly those seen as more left-leaning. 🧵⬇️

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Great job opp if you are interested in government and public sector data architecture and data science with @posit.co enterprise solutions. #databs #pydata, #rstats #job www.linkedin.com/posts/jeremy...