A Modern Venus

@gritsyross.bsky.social

Anna: a fat, disabled, Millennial, queer fool living and almost dying in and around Philly. Flyers fan; podcast fanatic; dog lover.

I had my quarterly alcohol indulgence last night with two bottles of Yeungling at a comedy show. Today I am profoundly hungover and my liver physically hurts (not hyperbole). Luv 2 be chronically ill.

Zero new NSF grants in sociology, anthropology, political science and economics. The agenda of this US govt is to stop documenting the society in which we live while they are destroying it. We will find other ways to track and explain our times and fight to restore our research funding.

Dan Garisto@dangaristo.bsky.social · 6d ago

Finally, this has gone a bit under the radar, so I want to highlight it: The social, behavioral and economic sciences directorate (SBE) has simply ceased to deliver grants to many of its subareas. Any topic not specifically OK'd by the Trump administration is receiving zero new awards.

All of the NSF’s directorates are awarding fewer new grants, but the hardest hit is the social, behavioural and economic sciences (SBE) directorate, which the White House proposed eliminating in its 2027 budget request to Congress. SBE has so far awarded 84 new grants this year, about 11% of its average, mainly in areas of artificial intelligence, cognitive neuroscience and decision-making. Much of its portfolio, such as sociology, archaeology, political science, economics and geography, has received zero new awards. “I don’t think they’ve realized yet that there’s no awards,” one NSF staff member says of researchers in those fields. “That’s going to be clear soon.”

Philly, and anywhere affected by wildfire smoke, you should be busting out those n95 masks every time you go outside until the air quality alert returns to normal. Please don’t exercise or take your dog for long walks outside.

I cannot recommend n95 and kn95 masks enough. I've covered enormous wildfires multiple times throughout my career (southern california reporter) and they have saved my ass time and again. Remember, burning houses also means burning household chemicals

Fifty Shades of Whey@fiftyshadesofwhey.bsky.social · last mo.

As the nation is engulfed by wildfire smoke, you should all know that there's a clear statistical link between exposure to drifting wildfire smoke and chronic respiratory, cardiovascular, and oncological (cancer) health problems. 🧵

got the cyclospora variant that gives you explosive turds. beefy, dense logs that launch with the violence of a potato cannon

A reminder that as you see photos of those Patriot Front douchebags today, they are marching on a holiday because none of them have anywhere else to be. None of them have friends or family who want them around on a holiday. No one is missing them today. They're already with their only friends.

“Pennsylvania health officials and doctors on Friday said several people have been hospitalized amid a growing measles outbreak that has spread to six counties in the southeastern and central parts of the state… health officials stressed that vaccination was the best defense”

Pennsylvania health officials address measles outbreak: ‘We will not slow down until this ... is over.’

Vaccination is the best defense against the highly contagious disease, health officials stressed at a Friday news conference in Lancaster.

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