good luck to anyone dealing with this clown show www.nytimes.com/2025/04/18/b...

‘Show Me Where You Make Autism!’ Shouts RFK Jr., Storming Sour Patch Kids Factory theonion.com/show-me...

‘Show Me Where You Make Autism!’ Shouts RFK Jr., Storming Sour Patch Kids Factory

EAST HANOVER, NJ—As part of the health secretary’s highly publicized pledge to determine the cause of the disorder in the next five months, a wild-eyed Robert F. Kennedy Jr. reportedly shouted “Show me where autism is made!” Thursday while storming the Sour Patch Kid factory. “Attention Sour Patch Factory people: Give me the autism and no […]

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The permanent Daylight Saving Time trial in 1974 was a deadly mistake. This cartoon, published on October 25, 1974, expresses relief seeing morning sunlight before 8am when the country went back to Standard Time.

Hear our interview with @docsirianni.bsky.social of @umasschan.bsky.social on why she shut down some of her lab's research. She says federal cuts are "destroying" what's made the U.S. a global leader in science, medicine and tech, "without any rhyme or reason or logic." www.wbur.org/news/2025/03...

UMass biomedical scientist freezes pediatric brain cancer research due to federal funding problems

UMass Chan Medical School biomedical engineer and professor Rachael Sirianni leads a lab that researches new technologies to help treat brain tumors in children. Delays in federal grants have led her ...

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If you think what happened to Rumeysa Ozturk can't happen to you because you're a citizen and she's not, you are sorely mistaken. Ozturk was snatched off the street not for being a national security threat but for having a wrong opinion. If we don't put a stop to this, it's coming for all of us.

Sometimes you are lucky enough to meet an amazing scientist who becomes a collaborator and friend. So happy to see our first paper together published. @bengibaran.bsky.social #ucsd #uiowa academic.oup.com/schizophreni...

Age-Related Changes in Sleep and Its Implications for Cognitive Decline in Aging Persons With Schizophrenia: A Critical Review

AbstractBackground and Hypothesis. Cognitive impairment is a core feature of schizophrenia that worsens with aging and interferes with quality of life. Rec

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Help us snowball sample this study about how academics in the U.S. react to the executive orders!

Important and informative new Unexplainable podcast episode (nhassenfeld.bsky.social) entitled “Is science in danger?” It lays out the threats but also provides helpful counterarguments to the nonsense out there. Everyone concerned for the state of US science should listen and share.

Here's my bit on @npr.org morning edition talking about indirect costs. www.npr.org/2025/02/12/n...

What cuts to NIH funding could mean for American universities

What would cuts to funding at the National Institutes of Health mean for American universities? NPR talks to Holden Thorp, editor-in-chief of the journal "Science," about the possible impacts.

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