Steve Engel
@sengelweb.bsky.social
Professor of psychology and visual neuroscience, (very) local, (very) blue political activist, dorky dad, cat owner
Some people never, ever learn. AND THEY VOTE. Make sure YOU do, too! Tell a friend.
OMG -- under questioning from Hassan, Trump's FDA nominee Heidi Overton refuses to acknowledge that Trump can ever be wrong about anything even after she's confronted with a specific example of something Trump is clearly wrong about
Here's an anecdote: On 9/10/2001, The Onion staff had a New York launch party at the Bowery Ballroom to celebrate the staff's move from Madison, Wisconsin to New York City. They woke up hungover, took a week off, and then produced one of the greatest front pages in the history of newspapers.
Ben Collins@bencollins.bsky.social · last mo.Hey everybody. On the 25-year anniversary, we're reprinting the much revered 9/11 edition of The Onion and sending that free to every member this month. It's been 25 long years. Look back in anger.
What Dems should do (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2026/09/08/o...
Opinion | Voters Have Spoken. Why Aren’t Democrats Listening? (Gift Article)
Less than two years after a catastrophic election, the Democratic brand remains unpopular, and the party is still in the grip of a divisive identity crisis.
nytimes.com
Faculty Position! @visionscience.bsky.social @visionsciences.bsky.social The Uni of Minn Dept of Psych is hiring in computational approaches to perception and/or cognition. Applications invited from folks who combine experimental and computational methods, including vision science.
A commenter notes that "Trump managed to be both Hitler and Chamberlain in the same negotiation. An unprecedented feat." 😭
native americans determined to not be birthright citizens; deported back to america
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 6mo agoGORSUCH: Do you think Native Americans are birthright citizens under your test? SAUER: Ah, I think ... so. I have to think that through.
clinical expertise to advise officials, while the pox virus team will have none. The CDC announced it has temporarily paused all testing for rabies and pox viruses (which include smallpox and mpox). Links: cdc.gov/infectious-d... www.nytimes.com/2026/04/01/h...
Test Directory
Find information about the CDC Infectious Diseases Laboratory Test Directory.
cdc.gov
World Series winner Sean Doolittle nails it. Don't forget to subscribe: www.dworkinsubstack.com/subscribe
![Ink bottle, brown fountain pen, text "As times become increasingly fraught, I find myself retreating to the smaller and increasingly analouge [sic] elements of my life."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:tbqqvyv6pjjww44glrmycaxl/bafkreig42zalkiatmu2g3pdfltqgwaaldghcozh2vegbo3dibalc4npkou)
Goal all along for whole Fed govt is to have political appointees pick and choose who gets $.
Science Magazine@science.org · 11mo agoIn a potentially dramatic change to how it chooses what science to fund, NIH is ending a long-running practice at many of its institutes of establishing, and making public, a threshold peer-review score needed for a grant application’s approval. https://scim.ag/48ck2zu
Update on a significant development NIH grant terms. On 10/1, a change to grant making regs went into effect that gives NIH more power to terminate grants for policy reasons. But to use this power, new grant terms must include specific language. See @aniloza.bsky.social w/ the story from July. 1/
HHS devises legal playbook for future grant terminations, internal memo shows
Exclusive: HHS devises a legal playbook for future research grant terminations, an internal memo shows.
statnews.com
Ah- this makes it clear- >>Trump will refuse to release the Epstein Files because they will be part of a new ongoing investigation!<<
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 11mo agohe’s crashing out
