Bravo for this column @jamellebouie.net www.nytimes.com/2025/09/24/o...

Experts must emphasize the difference between association & causation, as well as between retrospective & prospective studies. From NYTimes: Dr. Baccarelli wrote that “substantial evidence supports a strong, positive, causal association between acetaminophen” and neurodevelopmental disorders...

As much as I like this news, it is a sure sign of Presidential mental instability.

Totally cool. This confirms my opinion that basic science is the most interesting and compelling answer to curiosity. cc: @mbeisen.bsky.social

🌱 Using ‘compelling’ methods, including #CryoET, researchers mapped spinach thylakoid membranes at single-molecule precision, revealing how photosynthetic complexes are organised and settling long-standing debates on chloroplast architecture. buff.ly/j3TSIkn

I got my flu shot and my COVID shot today. The video below is not how a democracy works. www.youtube.com/watch?v=JezJ...

@bitcoinbro.bsky.social IF bitcoin miners really wanted to use green power for their operations, they would, in a full-throated way, OPPOSE the POTUS shut-down of Rhode Island wind power: www.pbs.org/newshour/sho... NB- Nuclear energy is NOT a renewable & is a biohazard.

@bitcoinbro.bsky.social My past includes presentations at Harvard Business School. It would improve your argument if you learned the difference between industry propaganda and objective peer reviewed academic publications. Reputable academic economists, rather than broker dealers, have taught me.

The United States is no longer a democracy. The United States is no longer a republic.

We live in a country where the president can order a comedian to be yanked off TV. What I describe is not a democracy.

When the Reactionary Republicans opposed Obamacare & a Public Option, they told us those would result in "death panels". Now, with the change MMR vaccination rules, the FDA/CDC/HHS is effectively a "death panel". Where is #ABIM #AAP #ABMM #AMA?

we noticed.

Formal notification by the President "immune from prosecution for official acts" that the First Amendment has been nullified or no longer applies to Common Carriers.

It appears that unless I keep telling the truth I will end up in a lunatic asylum. Recently written by me at a site where the word antifa was misappropriated. I think there is something lost in translation here. Antifa in American English is a contraction of "Anti-Fascist" or "Anti-Fascism". 1/3

Has Google updated its AI tool to understand the American political news in the past week? Does Google AI's evaluation of the news suggest the US is a REPUBLIC? -- No answer

Previous generations fought fascism in nearly every corner of the earth. Today it’s on our streets, silencing opposition and attempting to control the airwaves. The GOP has declared all out war on free speech. It’s up to us to fight for it.

The First Amendment has been nullified.

the kimmel thing is bad but as long as they arent rounding people up indiscriminately based on race, building concentration camps and talking about eradicating those they deem sexual deviants, i think we’ll be ok

Blame doesn't matter for shutting down the government. The federal government has failed to heed the US Constitution and has made a mockery of justice. The Supreme Court has violated the Constitution in spirit and substance. That we are a nation of laws is a joke.

Headline in Time Magazine: "Trump Called for a Crackdown on the ‘Radical Left.’ But Right-Wing Extremists Are Responsible for More Political Violence" time.com/7317383/poli...

This week's "hate speech isn't free speech" calamity has, somehow, reached another new low: The president of the United States suggesting that speech he finds unfair to him is hate speech, and targetable by the Justice Department. We are in deeply dangerous territory.

Under Donald Trump’s economy: Coffee is up 26% Beef is up 14% Oranges are up 17% Bananas are up 6% Chicken is up 6% Chocolate Chip Cookies are up 5% Potato Chips are up 4% Milk is up 4% But average worker pay is only up 2% Trumpflation is eating up your paycheck.

The emerging national narrative suggests Adam Smith's invisible hand guiding laissez-faire capitalism will dictate our future. That means the powerful & informed will shape future policy & rewrite the past. Only heroic republican ideas will survive. more: anotherperson.substack.com/p/americas-e...

I have been an active scientist for ~45 years. As I read my colleague's work, the period before 2000 was much more fascinating for me than the period after. Genetics became more applied after that, which is not as interesting to me as basic science.

Another is the total & shameful capitulation of nearly every class of societal institutions in the face of rapidly consolidating authoritarianism

Medical reproductive genetics was never intended to promote eugenics.

Nah it’s about eugenics.

My quote of the day

This new America we see has been made possible by John Roberts' Supreme Court. He will be studied for his infamy.

In a sane world, Fox host Brian Kilmeade would be fired and shunned for his depraved comments that homeless people should be euthanized. That’s sick (and deeply ignorant), but sicker still is that it’s tolerated.

The fact that Matthew Dowd lost his job for pointing out Charlie Kirk’s hate speech, while Brian Kilmeade openly suggests we should euthanize the homeless and there is zero outrage, shows exactly what is terribly wrong with today’s political mainstream media.

People missing an important point about folks getting fired for whatever they said about Charlie Kirk: Americans are being conditioned to be snitches on their fellow citizens who don’t toe a party line on what is “allowed” to be expressed. And employers are going along. It’s the new secret police

Just askin': Is blowing up a boat in International waters political violence? Just wondering...

Elon Musk should donate 3/4 of his trillion dollar pay package to the Federal government, which is running a deficit I hear. No man or woman on earth needs one trillion dollars in one year.

So, at first blush, SBX is about equal to NovaSeq?

Steven Pinker must be wrong about mankind progressing. We clearly are moving into the dark ages at a rapid pace: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/h...

Thank you, Senator Warren.

The U.S. government has become a neofascist regime run by a sociopath. Keeping it funded now is to participate in the most atrocious abuse of power in U.S. history. So I for one have decided that the best route is to shut the whole thing down.

have to say that i liked this one quite a bit

Northern Ireland man from Lisburn kidnapped by Trump’s Ice raids because he “looked like a Mexican”. He had the correct visa, all his documents. He’s never been in trouble with police. Held in terrible conditions. A fellow captive couldn’t get his medication and dropped dead of a heart attack

POTUS's lawyer threatens a $10 billion lawsuit against the New York Times if the newspaper doesn't retract its publication of Trump's alleged 50th birthday card for Epstein. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/10/b...

Liberals say the Supreme Court had destroyed our democracy. They're wrong—it has destroyed our Republic.

@asharangappa.bsky.social It will be very interesting to hear your take on this: static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics...

I'm watching Roche's SBX seminar. It is clear to me that they held the product back until it was (almost) ready for the NGS marketplace. At first blush, SBX will be able to compete with other massively parallel sequencing efforts useful for Clinical Molecular Genetics. #NGS #Roche #Sequencing

@jamellebouie.net u wrote a brilliant essay in today's NYTimes. Lincoln's America is where I've lived since my NYC birth; educated in John Dewey's schools & walking on the Ellis Island of my grandparents landing as soon as I was could. Aristocracy be damned; aspirational democracy be celebrated.

Scientists are good detectives. Chief Justice John Roberts' "immunity for official acts" really does fall into the realm of Ian Fleming, 007, and a "license to kill". Crazy stuff!

I read this a few months ago concerning Jeffrey Epstein. I now believe it is true, although the administration tried to discredit it: docs.house.gov/meetings/JU/... cc: @sarahkendzior.bsky.social

After reading the Epstein article in today's NYTimes implicating JP Morgan, I wonder whether most American capitalism masks widespread corruption and crime. That is consistent with my life experience, unfortunately. cc: @sarahkendzior.bsky.social

I’ve spent a good chunk of my career relying on American science and engineering to keep me alive. Yesterday, RFK Jr. testified at the U.S. Senate Finance Committee. It was sad to see him try to destroy the life’s work of so many American scientists. He shouldn’t be in this job.