By late Summer of 2020, COVID was the third leading cause of death for Black people in the USA. It’s like everyone has just forgotten that…
Daniel Colón-Ramos
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Professor Cellular Neuroscience @Yale; Associate Director WuTsaiYale; Co-fundador @CienciaPR #cienciaboricua 🇵🇷 Él; He; Him
Scientists are educators. Producers and disseminators of knowledge. Fauci generously shared his knowledge and service for >40 years to save lives. That this country has bullied a luminary to invoke the fifth amendment says everything we need to know about current state of science in US.
The New York Times@nytimes.com · 6d agoIn a three-hour Senate hearing this week, Dr. Fauci invoked his constitutional right to stay silent, leaving people confused about many of the issues raised.
This is exactly how I feel and exactly what needs to be said and done about this govt BS! “The Trump administration hates academic science funding, full stop.” www.science.org/content/blog...
The Assault On Science Funding Continues
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The report “calls for the government to invest in young researchers, without noting that the administration fired scores of young scientists and terminated hundreds of grants to early career researchers.”
Don Moynihan@donmoyn.bsky.social · 2w agoOnce you understand that this is a model of science written by non-scientists who hate universities but love venture capital and redirecting money to political allies, everything makes a lot more sense. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/22/u...
AI is to a scientist what a calculator is to a mathematician. Basing the future of science on AI is as deep as basing the future of mathematics on calculators
“The AI hypetrain nonsense is vaporware and narrowing research will distort science outcomes.” Word. IMO all science policy leaders and funders navigating how to support science in this juncture need a coffee mug with this important message.
Ross@rossengineer.bsky.social · 2w agoThis is particularly turbo-stupid. The AI hypetrain nonsense is vaporware and narrowing research will distort science outcomes. This is patronage, not a viable science strategy.
They are trying to silence the scientists. Time to speak up.
Carl T. Bergstrom@carlbergstrom.com · 2w agoTrump is going after the National Academy of Sciences. Gift link.
Titanic maiden voyage stops short of NYC
Stephen West@stephenwest.bsky.social · 3w agoEngland stops short of advancing to World Cup final
NEW: Artists, academics, city leaders, civil engineers, congressional lawmakers, doctors, housing experts and more are among the many critics of a White House push to subject $1T in federal grants to political review. In short, they say it would damage public services www.nytimes.com/2026/07/16/u...
White House Faces Stiff Pushback on Subjecting Grants to Political Review
Academics, city leaders and congressional lawmakers number among the thousands to urge the Trump administration to reconsider a plan to assert more control over grants.
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"The project also offers a stark reminder of how scientific institutions are often the first victims of dictatorships, del Pino says. 'We must be aware of what these totalitarian processes entail, and that no society is safe from the possibility of these things happening again'”
Spain’s largest research organization confronts its dark past
Spanish National Research Council, established under Francisco Franco’s dictatorship, has published the stories of some 500 researchers and support staff purged after civil war
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Essential & timely analysis via @techpolicypress.bsky.social on the massive public response to the White House's proposed OMB rule that would politicize grants, science, and federally funded research, including comment analysis dashboard. www.techpolicy.press/the-public-r...
The Public Rejects OMB's Federal Financial Assistance Rule
Tens of thousands of scientists, clinicians, and ordinary citizens warned OMB about putting political appointees in charge of which research gets funded.
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Help me speed the word! One of favorite conferences, taking place in Sept. Abstracts open until July21st! At a moment when science and scientific institutions are under attack, gathering as a community to share results, exchange ideas and reaffirm the value of scientific inquiry more imp than ever
Samantha Butler@samanthabutler.bsky.social · 4w agoLooking for a great @cshlmeetings.bsky.social CSHL meeting this Fall? Abstract submission is open for "Molecular Mechanisms of Neuronal Connectivity" until July 22nd. Join me, @dacolon.bsky.social, Elva Diaz and @schuldinerorenlab.bsky.social at the bar! meetings.cshl.edu/meetings.asp...
Breaking News: The nation’s largest group of scholars of U.S. history denounced a White House report attacking the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History.
Historians Reject Trump Administration’s Criticism of Smithsonian Museum
The nation’s largest group of scholars of U.S. history denounced a White House report attacking the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History.
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Alumnos de la UPR-RP destacan en el ámbito científico al recibir el 'Jury Choice Award for Promising Scientific Impact' y lograr el sexto lugar mundial entre 80 equipos. Un gran logro para la educación en nuestro territorio. dialogo.upr.edu/alumnos-de-u...
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New leader of the National Academy of Sciences Neil Shubin warns: ‘a society that loses science loses the future’ go.nature.com/3SVNXI7
Incoming US science academy chief vows to ‘double down’ on research
Nature - New leader of the National Academy of Sciences Neil Shubin warns: ‘a society that loses science loses the future’.
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The kind of heat wave that the Northeast and eastern Canada is suffering through this week would have been “virtually impossible” in those areas before humans began warming the planet, a team of scientists said on Friday. nyti.ms/4fiIpQA
💪 The Lancet comes out swinging on how the MAGA/MAHA Administration is destroying US science Trump’s new OMB rule will “silence independent experts, codify ideological censorship, prioritise politics over data, & erect new barriers to international collaboration” www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
The USA at 250: science in the new gilded age
“A republic, if you can keep it.” As the USA commemorates 250 years since the signing of The Declaration of Independence, the “if” in Benjamin Franklin's quip resonates more than ever. The present US ...
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Crónicas de una muerte anunciada
Science Magazine@science.org · last mo.The NIH expects to make up for a grantmaking lag and spend its full budget by 30 September. But because it plans to fund many multiyear grants up front as a lump sum, the agency will likely award fewer new grants and competitive renewals. https://scim.ag/4ePQfjf
The debate of the QED 1% ranking reminds me a lot of the Southpark episode on Walmart. Maybe the problem is in the mirror? 😂 youtu.be/4F3qESu6JFI?...
South Park Walmart 2004
YouTube video by The Last Millennials 1994-1999
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“Our simulations are barely worth the papers we print them on.” @kordinglab.bsky.social on the tiny worm with just 300 neurons that scientists still can't simulate — even with every connection mapped. Full conversation on the @juanbenet.bsky.social Podcast >>> youtu.be/FHQfmJEpRmU
Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation@laskerfdn.bsky.social · last mo.Baptiste Sadoughi, Noah Snyder-Mackler et al. examined DNA methylation across tissues in a group of rhesus macaques from Cayo Santiago. They found that age and early life adversity shape heterogeneity of the epigenome across tissues, per Science Magazine: https://ow.ly/HnOz50ZfScG
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From a month ago!
The Monarch Diaries@monarchdiaries.bsky.social · 3mo agoHAHAHAhaha! they're making the world's biggest synthetic scum pond!!! The coating is a polyurea used inside pipes. It gels in about 3 seconds, making it non self-leveling. The texture is like an orange peel, the perfect substrate for biofilms. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/19/u...
there's something remarkable how on a scientific level we're performing what would essentially be miracles and on a cultural/political level, we're going in reverse
WAFB@wafb.com · last mo.New Orleans man becomes first in Louisiana functionally cured of sickle cell disease: https://www.wafb.com/2026/06/23/new-orleans-man-becomes-first-louisiana-functionally-cured-sickle-cell-disease/?utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky_
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Colette Delawalla, PhD@cdelawalla.bsky.social · last mo.Since June 1, @standupforscience.net activists have taken 26,064 (!!!!!) actions to fight back against the OMB rule. This includes comments, emailing comments to members of Congress, calling and emailing Congress Critters, and meeting with their members of Congress!
This shift comes at a large cost to be borne primarily by young investigators at Janelia, at a time when scientific environment is exceptionally uncertain. How innovative it is to repeat, in fish, what was done in flies remains an open question tbd. Not an open question: immediate cost and who pays
The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · last mo.HHMI’s Janelia Research Campus will close two of its programs dedicated to rodent work, @thetransmitter.bsky.social has learned. #neuroskyence By @callimcflurry.bsky.social www.thetransmitter.org/community/ex...
