Breaking: people with “struggle unless they are interested” disorder do well once they can work in an area that interests them

So, I have read articles written by people who claim that the entire concept of modern medicine is bad, because "artificially" saving people's lives has put a stop to human evolution by letting genetically inferior people breed. Great that those folks are in charge of the CDC now.

Prohibited activities include advising Chinese graduate students. For reference, a recent Georgetown report estimated 16% of STEM graduate students in the US are Chinese nationals. This would take out entire fields at the knees, which is perhaps the point.

Which work? Calling for gay people to be stoned to death? Blaming airplane crashes on black pilots? Anti-vax bullshit? Election denialism? Pushing Great Replacement Theory? Kirk’s murder is awful and ominous for this country. But no, we don’t need to honor him or “continue his work.”

wow is it possible for seven people to all be wrong about something? www.axios.com/2025/09/02/a...

Excited to share this collaborative review with @dsegre.bsky.social and @devmoy.bsky.social. We discuss common issues with context-specific genome-scale metabolic network models and provide recommendation for future model development.

So this phrase “able-bodied” has clearly been on the most recent list of R talking points. It comes from the first round of English labor laws, which were instituted after the Black Death. A mini medieval story time!

Truly staggering numbers, per www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Well put by @mmasnick.bsky.social. www.techdirt.com/2025/06/20/c...

FUCK HIM UP

Everything that’s happened over the past six months has been a response to an imaginary crisis. There is no immigrant invasion. No trade crisis. No scientific or governance crisis. Just people completely high off their own supply trying to fundamentally reorder society. None of this had to happen.

I've seen folks talk about how "in four years" they'll be able to get back to their planned projects and I really don't think that's going to work out. People & projects losing funding now will not be able to hit pause and come back once funding is restored. Hard-won progress & capacity will be lost

The worst measles outbreak in 30 years is happening right now - in unvaccinated children - and the people who are in charge of all of our public health are pretending they’re the real marginalized victims because they got everything wrong during the pandemic and people told them they were wrong

The latest wave of COVID revisionism is a transparent attack on the idea of expertise itself. It is not 'hubris' for public health professionals to issue guidance during public health emergencies!

Happy Pride, all! And especially to @anarchygoose.bsky.social ! Text: "gé (pronounced gay) is the Irish for a goose"

These are grant TO THE STUDENTS, not to the institution, so this is just straight-up punishing students for choosing the institution

I think that a major driver of adherents to the COVID19 lab leak theory is that they cannot handle the simple truth that we are not in control of pandemics. The idea that novel pathogens emerge naturally is too frightening for them to handle. Yet that is how pandemics have begun throughout history.

The resurrection of this guy as some sort of scientific martyr is unbearably bleak. He was wrong about COVID and recommended policies that would have resulted in hundreds of thousands of unnecessary deaths! Why is his marginalization anything other than a societal good?

this guy is out here proudly being a eugenicist freak while people at mainstream and "respectable publications" make excuses for him or even muse about whether he has a "few good points"

NEW: Trump's war on government is killing a generation of scientists, researchers, and policy experts. As I note in a recent issue of my OUR LAND newsletter, this will cost the US far more than the phony savings Elon Musk and DOGE claim. link.motherjones.com/public/39805...

Ever since I started my graduate school career, I've known I want to work in science policy for the federal government, but right now that possibility is looking less and less likely each day. Thanks so much to @vivianla.bsky.social for doing such a wonderful job telling this story!

"STOP BEING MEAN TO US AS WE TEAR FAMILIES APART AND SELL PEOPLE INTO SLAVERY IN EL SALVADOR!"

The problem we have about health is that it’s marketed as this personal thing & conceptualised as the result of what you do to yourself or what individually happens to you -your bad luck- But health is largely a collective expression of our environment & circumstances. This requires societal action.

About to be Jokerfied by this blandly tossed-off statement in a piece about how the lie machines will never stop lying. Why concede that AI is "useful" in writing term papers? What is the purpose of writing assignments in education? Is AI accomplishing that purpose? www.nytimes.com/2025/05/05/t...

In poll after poll you see these same kind of numbers, and for whatever reason, the takeaway is that YOUNG men have a fascism problem when clearly OLDER men are more likely to be fascist according to every poll

RFK Jr. wants everyone to be infected with vaccine-preventable disease. He thinks it’s no big deal if your infant or your mom undergoing through chemo dies from a VPD. He thinks that if you die from a VPD, you are weak or you don’t “eat right” or you don’t exercise. He thinks you deserve it.

jesse singal is being used as a primary reference by the trump administration on “the dangers of youth transgender care”. he is aiding the states objective of oppression of trans rights directly now

Lots of very high profile UK biologists sign a letter saying that biological sex isn't binary or immutable and that the Supreme Court's ruling is scientifically wrong! We really need to hammer home how the anti-trans side is anti-science (you can add your name still if you are in a relevant field)

Just deranged. This was a *solved* problem.

We really need to be talking about the impact of these cuts and freezes not just on research but on people’s material ability to live— I don’t know if most get how precarious so many in academic are financially

Every review of youth gender medicine is just, "there's evidence that this helps and no evidence that this causes harm, but here's why that doesn't count."

Some people did not read Upton Sinclair's The Jungle in high school and it shows.

BREAKING: 1,500 grad workers at the University of Rochester are ON STRIKE. They teach, research & run labs but the administration refuses to respect their right to unionize. After months of delays, they’re taking action. We stand with them in the fight for a fair process. #UofRStrike

This is egregious obviously but even the original abstract was bad. The government’s lab leak page doesn’t cite ‘misleading or heavily contested claims’, it’s full of outright lies!

It's frustrating how distorted that episode has been. "We think X is unlikely but we should rule it out anyway" is very common in the research process. Looking into a lab leak hypothesis and then publishing an article favoring natural origin is not even remotely evidence of a cover up.

Can confirm that my NSF grant "How False Beliefs Form & How to Correct Them" was cancelled today because it is "not in alignment with current NSF priorities" Shocking that understanding how people are misled by false information is now a forbidden topic. Our work will continue but at a smaller scale

The White House has turned COVID.gov from a public health resource into a politically charged platform promoting the lab-leak theory and attacking specific scientists and the pandemic response in general. Let’s fact check its 5 headline claims… 🧵

I know some folks are like, "I'm autistic and I CAN do those thing" and that's great, but that's actually not why this statement is horrifying. It's horrifying because he's saying anyone who isn't "normal" and isn't "productive" don't have valuable lives, so should they really be alive?

"You know that system we already built and that works great that allows people to file their taxes? In the name of efficiency, let's destroy that, so that people have to file on paper or give money to a vendor." There's no pretending that this is about "efficiency." It's an Intuit subsidy.

Theres no one property that *is* "Biological Sex". Changing even one of the properties that make up the cluster is making concrete and real changes to your sex, and the act of transition makes profound changes to many of them. Trans men grow prostate tissue, women develop a hormonal cycle,

Here’s what RFK Jr. has done since a measles outbreak began which has killed 3 people so far: 1. Buried a CDC report showing need for vaccination 2. Recommended vitamin A, resulting in liver damage in kids 3. Defunded vaccination clinics nationally 4. Hired a fraud to manipulate vaccine data

I wear a mask when I travel on public transit a lot of the time. I am not paranoid and I don’t think covid will kill me. I’ve just had it three times, found it deeply unpleasant, and usually prefer masking to getting it.

This is such BS. Bhattacharya wanted no preventative measures for COVID. His plan would have killed millions more. Bhattacharya doesn’t want to prevent sickness, he wants to dismantle the NIH as revenge for governments implementing COVID measures that actually saved many lives.

All anti-mask laws—even those with so called “medical exceptions”—stigmatize mask-wearing. Fewer people wearing masks increases the spread of infectious diseases. No matter how lawmakers try to spin it, any law that criminalizes wearing a mask endangers public health. Period.

A century ago, there was none of this woke food safety. Listeria and Cronobacter contamination was just a fact of life! Sure, way more people died horribly, but

I think my biggest problem with the "debate" over whether Democrats should abandon trans people is how divorced from reality it is. Republicans are banning gender-affirming care because they think kids are being rushed into surgeries. THIS IS NOT HAPPENING.

The obvious point here is that when Dems hold positions of power they don't actually force people to say things like "pregnant people." Some people were asked to used their pro-nouns once on a zoom call and mistook it for oppression.

I appreciate this response from Ed Yong on why he requests that people mask at his events. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/22/m...

being obsessed with IQ is a good sign that you have nothing in your life to give you actual meaning. (also a good sign you have bell curve-esque beliefs about human equality)