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Jim Elser

@drlimnology.bsky.social

limnologist | Director - Flathead L Bio Station | Bierman Prof of Ecology - U Montana | Emeritus ASU |Adjunct Professor- NCSU | Director - Sustainable P Alliance | Member - NAS | opinions mine

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Christopher Webb@cwebbonline.com · 13h ago

Not BREAKING NEWS because the Trump admin has been deleting and altering federal datasets for over a year. You can argue about policy. But when the government starts eliminating the data we use to determine whether those policies are actually working, that deserves a hell of a lot more attention.

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@orangebac.bsky.social · 4d ago

There was a piece in Nature yesterday about how the NSF, between canceled grants and historical low grant awards for 2026, was sitting on an eighth of its budget unspent and reserved for some nebulous white house initiative. Makes you wonder.

Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽@needhibhalla.bsky.social · 4d ago

absolute fuckers "Trump officials at NIH disclosed the existence of DoD’s efforts only after being pressed for information by House Appropriations Committee Democrats." democrats-appropriations.house.gov/news/press-r...

Dr Dan Shugar 🇨🇦@watershedlab.bsky.social · 16h ago

The Nepal flood disaster continues to evolve. The drainage of the lower landslide-dammed lake last week undercut riverbanks, resulting in further small landslides. The huge volumes of sediment mobilized and redeposited during this event will remain unstable for many years to come. @planet.com 🧪⚒️

Michael Hobbes@michaelhobbes.bsky.social · yesterday

Vaccine conspiracism is overwhelmingly clustered among the religious, white and affluent. It’s a function of conservative ideology and bad faith media. Being nicer to MAHA types will not ‘bring them into the fold,’ it will only increase their sense of entitlement.

Objective: Strengthening of antivaccination movements in recent decades has coincided with unprecedented increases in the incidence of some communicable diseases. Many intervention programs work from a deficit model of science communication, presuming that vaccination skeptics lack the ability to access or understand evidence. However, interventions focusing on evidence and the debunking of vaccine-related myths have proven to be either nonproductive or counterproductive. Working from a motivated reasoning perspective, we examine the psychological factors that might motivate people to reject scientific consensus around vaccination. To assist with international generalizability, we examine this question in 24 countries. Methods: We sampled 5,323 participants in 24 countries, and measured their antivaccination attitudes. We also measured their belief in conspiracy theories, reactance (the tendency for people to have a low tolerance for impingements on their freedoms), disgust sensitivity toward blood and needles, and individualistic/hierarchical worldviews (i.e., people's beliefs about how much control soci hould have over individuals, and whether hierarchies are desirable). Results: In order of magnitude, antivaccination attitudes were highest among those who (a) were high in conspir- atorial thinking, (b) were high in reactance, (c) reported high levels of disgust toward blood and needles, and (d) had strong individualistic/hierarchical worldviews . In contrast, demographic variables (including education) accounted for nonsignificant or trivial lev f variance. Conclusions: These data help identify the "attitude roots" that may motivate and sustain vaccine skepticism. In so doing, they help shed light on why repetition of evidence can be nonproductive, and suggest communication solutions to that problem. Keywords: vaccination, conspiracy beliefs, health communication,
A.R. Moxon@juliusgoat.bsky.social · 2d ago

Our society's unfathomable cruelty to homeless people is not just morally unjustifiable, but more expensive than housing people would be. Cruelty against the homeless is an unaffordable luxury. Abandoning homeless people to avoid offending the Protestant work ethic is an unaffordable luxury.

ProPublica@propublica.org · 2d ago

ProPublica spoke to dozens of people who had lived in homeless encampments when cities cleared them out in “sweeps.” We distributed notecards so people could tell us about the toll in their own words. ➡️ This is what they wrote:

Handwritten notecard. Prompt at the top asks: What object was most devastating for you to lose, and how have you been coping? Answer below: Dentures. Were thrown away and coping isn't somthing I can do. It’s made me feel ugly, unworthy, can’t go get a job with no teeth. So how can get off the streets until another pair can be made?
Harmit Singh Malik@harmitmalik.bsky.social · 3d ago

The current NIH Director’s animus against NIAID to sign away much needed research funds so we can continue bombing another country is… a staggering betrayal of Congressional intentions and authority. Not surprising but still staggering.

Truthout@truthout.org · 4d ago

Trump’s DoD is reportedly working to divert billions of dollars in federal funding from the National Institutes of Health to the Pentagon. The Pentagon secretly signed an agreement that could give them “access to billions of dollars that Congress provided to NIH for critical biomedical research.”

Trump Admin Secretly Working to Divert Billions From NIH Budget to Fund Iran War

An interagency agreement would give the Pentagon access to the health agency’s coffers on top of its own massive budget.

truthout.org

Scott Santens@scottsantens.com · 3d ago

"A recent evaluation of China’s nationwide anti-poverty campaign shows that escaping absolute poverty can boost adult cognitive abilities... poverty reduction policies improve both factual knowledge and abstract reasoning by elevating physical health, educational investment, and job opportunities."

Escaping absolute poverty boosts adult cognitive abilities, study finds

A recent evaluation of a nationwide anti-poverty campaign shows that escaping absolute poverty can boost adult cognitive abilities, improving both factual knowledge and abstract reasoning by elevating...

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Dr. Kat Napaaqtuk❄️@napaaqtuk.bsky.social · 3d ago

I have so many. TW for the last one -1974 ♀️ can open a credit card in ther own name (I was too young for a credit card :) -1993 NIH requires women and racialized people to be included in clinical trials -1993 ♀️senators can wear pants -1993 nationwide criminalization of marital rape

Nicole Bedera@nbedera.bsky.social · 4d ago

I feel like we’re really overdue for a thread of things that have changed for women in your lifetime. I’m interested in good and bad things. Any little life moment that would feel unbelievable if it happened in 2026.

Eos@eos.org · 4d ago

The EPA is seeking more public comment on its proposal to update the definition of "waters of the United States." This isn't just the Trump administration renaming things. A short refresher:

EPA seeks more public comments as it struggles to devise water rule that limits scope on wetlands

The Environmental Protection Agency is seeking additional public comments as it tries to redefine the scope of the nation’s bedrock clean water law to significantly limit the wetlands it covers.

apnews.com

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 4d ago

Newsom: "Do you know how much his supporters lost on that memecoin? It's down 98%. They lost $3.8 billion. His supporters. And he took home over $600 million. That says everything you need to know about the president of the United States, Donald Trump, about who this man is."

Michael Clemens@mclem.org · 4d ago

It is illegal for the Executive to spend money on a purpose unrelated to the one mandated by our Congress, which has sole control over the public purse under our Constitution. Shattering our Constitution, along with our scientific research capacity, will harm all Conservative & Liberal Americans.

Defense Officials Attempt to Raid NIH Funds to Cover Department of Defense Activities

House Appropriations Committee Ranking Member Rosa DeLauro (D-CT-03) has learned that officials at the Department of Defense (DoD) are working to divert billions of dollars from the National Institute...

democrats-appropriations.house.gov

Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD@elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 4d ago

Just in time for the 2026-2027 vaccines, a new review shows that COVID19 vaccination significantly reduces the risk of severe illness and hospitalization across all age groups, including kids. Pregnant women were also protected, as were their babies. Don’t forget to schedule your vaccination!

COVID-19 Vaccine Effectiveness and Safety for the 2026-2027 Respiratory Season

This Special Communication aims to identify and summarize the most recently published evidence evaluating the effectiveness and safety of US-licensed COVID-19 vaccines and report on the epidemiology o...

jamanetwork.com