🚨 BREAKTHROUGH: Scientists in South Korea Discover a Kimchi Probiotic That May Help Flush Nanoplastics From the Body Before They Accumulate in Organs

It remains baffling to me that we have a clear constitutional requirement that the president can't enrich himself on the job, something we had no problem enforcing strictly for hundreds of years, and then this sweaty conman came by and the nation just sorta shrugged it off.

“Units of the NIH are privately directing grantees to request permission in advance for any co-authorship with a scholar affiliated with a foreign institution, even if all the work was done in the United States.” Grantees also told to remove papers with foreign authors from progress reports.

Amazing

This is so painful

This should be a campaign ad.

@whitehouse.senate.gov what say ye?

Age verification? My first emails were written/read in PINE.

This

Real opening for Dems to run as the law and order party. So much corruption. So much abuse of individual rights. So much battery. So much contempt of court. Chaos, disorder. Run as party that will enforce the law against criminal goons. Of course Dems would need to stop funding the criming, too.

The US immigrant population generated more in taxes than they received in benefits from all levels of government every year from 1994 to 2023. The Cato study provides the first-ever 30-year analysis of the fiscal effects of immigration on government budgets. https://ow.ly/jy8a50Y8kM3

As the Clash sang: If Adolf Hitler flew in today They'd send a limousine anyway

This sign, "The Gospel Is Anti-Fascist," is at the First Baptist Church in America, in Providence, R.I. Link to the church's FB post of the photo: www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=...

Closing out my year with a journal editor shocker 🧵 Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...

This details the costs of buying AI subscriptions at universities. Co-pilot, which my university subscribes to, is around $30 per month per user. No wonder budgets are tightening. Imagine if we took that money back from the slop peddlers and their boosters… www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Food for thought publishers! All of the major submission platforms support @orcid.org reviewer credit... #researchsky

🧵 NSF is reducing external review requirements and eliminating routine expert panels, citing staff shortages that this administration implemented. This change expands program officer authority. But the solution to flawed accountability isn't less public accountability.

If they deregulate business and radically reduce access to real health care, which they are doing, while opening up to all kinds of quacks, which they are doing, then we should expect a class dimension to what follows: prevention and medicine for the richer, ill health and quackery for the poorer.

Okay, as promised, here are my 25 boardgames that would make good presents for historians or the historically-inclined. - I've played them and enjoyed them - They have to have a historical theme or be related to the practice of history - They were within the first 25 I thought of...

I wonder how tomorrow’s meeting with Mamdani will go.

This is what happened when AI acted as both author and reviewer - a study found AI peer-reviewers accepted fake AI-generated papers 4 out of 5 times. We need #PeerReview to be better, and human oversight is more vital than ever! #ResearchIntegrity #AI #AcademicPublishing #ResearchSky #AcademicSky

DNC should be funding Lex and investing in media rather than paying consultants to tell them to adopt more conservative policies. Democrats have a communication problem not a policy problem. MAGA owns its own media bubble.

NOT ALL BAD - five major factors impacting scholarly communication - from @coar-repositories.bsky.social Kathleen Shearer

Hopeful data

Really starting to understand hypocrisy as an expression of power.

South Park's Matt Stone and Trey Parker are storytelling geniuses! I highlight their remarkably simple but effective "but/therefore rule" in every science communication lecture I give.

Worth a watch: Head of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, on so-called "agentic AI" and the difference between how it's described in the marketing and what access and control it would actually require to work as advertised.

Just learned NEW piece of info: Effective yesterday, NSF's chief financial officer Janis Coughlin-Piester has left the agency "to pursue other opportunities". Why this matters: Though there is a new acting head, this leadership shake-up doesn't bode well for spending all FY25 appropriations.

NEW: NSF will be kicked out of their building. Announcement will be made tomorrow by HUD Sec. and Governor of VA. HUD will take over the NSF building over the next two years. NSF staffer: "There is no planning for NSF, no identified future location, appropriation for a new building or a move."

I am once again pitching my romantic comedy: - two academics start dating - discover they are each other's terrible reviewer - hijinks ensue Working title: Love is Double-Blind

Holy smokes! Our article is on the cover of The Lancet!!!!!!!!!! Nbd 💅

Presidential budget is out. Here's NSF. Biggest cut, by amount, is $1 billion, or 66.8%, from MPS (Physics & Math directorate). nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/files/00-NSF...

I would trade a big beautiful golden dome for cancer research, seriously

NSF Physics was cut by 85%, basically wiping out most of its capacity for supporting research. NSF Astronomy was cut by 53% Undergrad education was cut by 71% and research on learning by 79% Graduate education was cut by 100% to ZERO. #GiftLink ⚛️🔭 www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

So tired of the disruption metaphor in tech and startups. Solutions, service, addressing needs so much better and less bro culture.

David Thomas, anarchic Pere Ubu bandleader, dies aged 71

In fact, it is offensively ridiculous to think that any but a handful of people disappeared by ICE will be able to file habeas corpus, because it relies on them having informed families with connections to available knowledgeable lawyers with time and resources to act instantly.

with apologies to @xkcd.com

Important note about this breakthrough: Literally would not exist without the kind of Federal support the current administration is slashing. Took 15+ years of research at a federal lab (Lawrence Berkeley) to get this to a point at which private enterprise could take over and make these at scale.

To be clear: this is both economically and physically suicidal. More later.

@adambonica.bsky.social showed ideology predicts which agencies experience DOGE layoffs. But what other factors could be driving this? Using a generative LLM-derived measure, I find agencies perceived as knowledge institutions are more likely to experience layoffs, even controlling for ideology. 🧵

Key findings: persuasion can happen (30% changed minds) through perspective taking, personal narratives, highlighting common ground.

When we see GOP hypocrisy it’s a unilateral power grab.

This from my old friend Jim Martin.

Jersey.

What will the journal pubs do in face of gov demand politically motivated retractions? They should stand by the peer review process and the science

Is there going to be a shadow CDC? Did enough of the datasets get saved before they went 404?