R. Chris Skinner et al. (@uvmvermont.bsky.social) explore the impact of a Western diet and binge drinking on metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease in male and female mice 📖 buff.ly/dZE2v8Z

Proud of all the contestants and winners but especially of my MS student Mel!

UVM College of Agriculture & Life Sciences@uvmcals.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Congratulations to the Winners of the CALS Three Minute Thesis (3MT) contest Community Choice: Hannah Shafer Master's: Melinda (Mel) Wetzel PhD first-place: Hao (Hallie) Shi PhD second-place: Hannah Shafer university-wide 3MT competition on April 15th, 4:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. https://bit.ly/4rVEqwo

This is exactly what will happen. His base has already been negatively polarized against the basic concept of healthcare. This bill is a gigantic boon to the coffee enema and "alternative" cancer treatment scam industry.

Paul Dullea@pddullea.bsky.social · last yr.

It just occurred to me that Trump's denial of Medicaid for many of his cult followers will leave them without legitimate medical coverage & they will resort to "wellness" scammers- those who wouldn't qualify for Medicaid payments. The snake oil salesmen figure to benefit more than anyone here.

ahahahahahhahahahahahahahahahahahaha www.thetimes.com/us/american-...

Elon Musk to ‘step back’ from advising Trump

The billionaire will return to his businesses in the coming weeks, although the US president says he remains satisfied with his work cutting government costs

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I'm appalled by the USDA's decision to pause funding to the University of Maine System. This will hurt our farmers, halt critical research, and impact students throughout Maine. Once again, our state is being targeted for retribution—all because our officials are standing up for the rule of law.

USDA halts more than $100M in funding for University of Maine System programs

The move temporarily pauses USDA funding for Maine's university system after President Donald Trump threatened to cut off the state over Maine's decision to allow transgender athletes to compete in sp...

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The disappearing of Mahmoud Khalil, a person with permanent legal status in the US, should be a red line that everyone should recognize. They knocked on his door and vanished him into an authoritarian system without a trace. Your door could be next. jaredyatessexton.substack.com/p/so-it-begi...

So It Begins: The Disappearing of Mahmoud Khalil and Authoritarian Capture

The Trump Administration kidnapped a legal permanent resident and shuffled him through an authoritarian maze. We're witnessing the beginnings of something terrifying

jaredyatessexton.substack.com

New — I wrote about how the Congressional Dems who voted to censure Rep. Al Green don’t understand their enemy and aren’t made for this moment:

The time for a spine

Democrats who censured Rep. Al Green are as clueless as they are feckless.

thehandbasket.co

if you've had an NIH grant terminated, I want to hear about it. Signal: katherinejwu.12

This is a party that has total contempt for its base. Posting your disapproval online will never make it change, only threatening its hold on power will. How frustrated will the base have to get before it starts funding some aggressive primary campaigns against caucus leaders?

NIH cuts are getting the press, but VA research is getting slashed too. What do we lose when VA research goes away? Here's some greatest hits: The nicotine patch, invention of the cardiac pacemaker, first successful liver transplant, development of the CAT/CT scan prospect.org/health/2025-...

VA Research Funding Slashed

Though not as prominent as the NIH, VA researchers play a major role in advancing basic health science. Hundreds of projects have been cut.

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Massive cuts to Medicaid, Medicare, and social security are inevitable. They are the only way DOGE can hit its target and the GOP can pay for another round of high-income tax cuts. And it will help cull those who Elon believes aren't hardcore about maximizing shareholder value.

More Perfect Union@moreperfectunion.bsky.social · last yr.

BREAKING: House Republicans have released their budget resolution. They are aiming to cut Medicaid by at least $880 billion, and cut SNAP by at least 20%.

BTW it was a group of middle schoolers who walked out and protested Hegseth and as @clarajeffery.bsky.social astutely points out those middle schoolers showed more courage than what we have seen from the leaders in Congress.

Hegseth’s visit to U.S. base in Germany met with student walkout

The civil disobedience by dozens of middle-schoolers — and some adults — was aimed at the Trump administration’s rollback of DEI initiatives.

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Hi all, I'm a WIRED journalist on the science desk. If you're a government scientist or federally funded researcher with info to share about the Trump transition, please feel free to contact me securely on Signal: emullin.06

The corporate coup is global. Trump's mad tariffs do not mark the end of neoliberalism or free trade or whatever you want to call it. They mark the end game of what we have been fighting for decades: corporate rule. They do not believe in the public. They believe in their wealth.

I think it’s been interesting to see that the Right is not even arguing this stuff is good anymore. It’s just “wow look the libs are mad! Yep no more DEI!” They are pretending half of this stuff isn’t happening at all.

WIRED@wired.com · 2y ago

Elon Musk's friends have infiltrated another government agency: the General Services Administration. His former employees are trying to use White House credentials to access GSA's tech, giving them the potential to remote into laptops, read emails, and more:

Watching RFK Jr hearing: "Americans cannot afford to import this experiment," says @wyden.senate.gov in his opening statement, re Kennedy's egregious involvement in the Samoa measles outbreak. He goes on to discuss Kennedy being wishy-washing on abortion medication. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Experts saw Samoa's plunging vaccination rates as a crisis. RFK Jr. saw an opportunity.

New details show how Robert F. Kennedy Jr., then chair of an anti-vaccine group and now Trump’s pick for health secretary, sought to exploit a deadly vaccine accident.

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Intelligence officials are starting to leak to me now too. Here’s a memo Defense Intelligence Agency personnel received instructing them to suspend observances including: - Holocaust Remembrance Day - MLK Day - Juneteenth

My year in books. Please give me suggestions for 2025!

A great dinner celebrating everything the lab accomplished this semester. Can’t wait to showcase our work at some conferences and in some publications in 2025!

Congratulations to the UVM Catamounts soccer team for defeating Marshall, 2-1, to win the Division One National Championship. Yup. Vermont is a soccer state!

UVM faculty perks: getting away from the office for a trip to the maple research center.

May have proved to myself that Boston is indeed a *very* walkable city with @rchrisskinner.bsky.social

Come join us at @uvmvermont.bsky.social! We’re hiring a tenure track food science faculty. www.uvmjobs.com/postings/76132

A good week to be a Catamount 💚💛

Proud of my summer research intern Colby for all the hard work helping get the first big project in my lab off the ground last summer! www.uvm.edu/news/cals/fo...

From Probiotics to Polycultures: UVM Students Lead the Way in Food Systems Research

Each summer, the Food Systems Research Center (FSRC) funds outstanding undergraduate students as part the Food Systems Undergraduate...

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I’m going to give a general suggestion to journals that emailing reviewers on December 23rd and saying a review is due December 25th is not a stellar idea.

2,000 miles in 5 days may be too many, but the pit stops were nice