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Jared Young

@jaredwyoung.bsky.social

Scottish neuropsychopharmacologist living in sunny San Diego for some reason! At UCSD but thoughts and rants certainly my own! Proud founder of several LGBTQIA2S+ socials at conferences! He/they, him/them 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏳️‍🌈

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Drug Monkey@drugmonkey.bsky.social · last mo.

This is also how NIH talked itself out of fixing the Ginther Gap. “Oh look, some of this is due to CV and some is due to the topics proposed so never mind the 80% of the bias left unexplained*.” *institutional and systemic racial bias

Big Ol’ Mush@chadstanton.blacksky.app · last mo.

This is also how people talked themselves into supporting ending affirmative action, targeting high profile Black administrators at universities, and banning Black theory and scholars from curricula.

Stacy Farina@stacyfarina.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I love this action-oriented thread! If you want to learn even more about what you can do, please consider attending these two events today and tomorrow: zurl.co/g3vTZ secure.ucs.org/a/2026-6-3-s...

Emergency Science Meeting by Stand Up for Science

OMB’s latest proposed rule, “Regulation for Federal Financial Assistance,” would place political ideologues over scientific experts in federal research funding decisions. Say goodbye to cancer treatme...

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Mark Peifer (He, him)@peiferlabunc.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Russell Vought, Director of the OMB, has issued a set of proposed changes that would dramatically alter federal grant funding. However, we can each take action to prevent these from taking effect. Here's how, a 🧵 🧪 1/n www.science.org/content/arti...

Mark Histed@markhisted.org · 2mo ago

This could be very VERY BAD. It looks like a way to remove transparency of peer review, which would enable political apparatchiks to have much more power over decisions on where grant money goes.

Jeremy Berg@jeremymberg.bsky.social · 2mo ago

(1) Overall impact scores will be binned into THREE bins: Top 25%, 25-50%, and >50%. (2) Overall impact scores will be retained but will NOT BE SHARED with program officers, advisory councils, or institute/center/office (ICO) leadership. 2/3

ACOG@acog.org · 5mo ago

ACOG has withdrawn as a liaison organization from CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, citing concerns about recent changes that undermine the committee’s scientific integrity and evidence-based approach to vaccine policy. Read the press release: https://buff.ly/gKx1qor

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Leah Mayo@mayoonthebrain.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Congrats to @pact-lab.bsky.social postdoc @ryanntansey.bsky.social on her recent paper looking at the impact of elevated anandamide via FAAH inhibition on brain function in patients with PTSD What does it do? Well....not much 😬 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Functional neuroimaging of fatty acid amide hydrolase inhibition in posttraumatic stress disorder: a randomized clinical trial - Translational Psychiatry

Translational Psychiatry - Functional neuroimaging of fatty acid amide hydrolase inhibition in posttraumatic stress disorder: a randomized clinical trial

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD@elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 6mo ago

A new paper shows that less than 2 months of exposure to Twitter’s algorithmic feed significantly shifts people’s political views to the right. Moving from chronological feed to the algorithmic feed also increases engagement. This is one of the most concerning papers I’ve read in awhile.

The political effects of X's feed algorithm https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-026-10098-2 Received: 16 December 2024 Accepted: 4 January 2026 Published online: 18 February 2026 Open access • Check for updates Germain Gauthier,5, Roland Hodler?5, Philine Widmer35 & Ekaterina Zhuravskaya3,4,5 m Feed algorithms are widely suspected to influence political attitudes. However, previous evidence from switching off the algorithm on Meta platforms found no political effects'. Here we present results from a 2023 field experiment on Elon Musk's platform X shedding light on this puzzle. We assigned active US-based users randomly to either an algorithmic or a chronological feed for 7 weeks, measuring political attitudes and online behaviour. Switching from a chronological to an algorithmic feed increased engagement and shifted political opinion towards more conservative positions, particularly regarding policy priorities, perceptions of criminal investigations into Donald Trump and views on the war in Ukraine. In contrast, switching from the algorithmic to the chronological feed had no comparable effects. Neither switching the algorithm on nor switching it off significantly affected affective polarization or self-reported partisanship. To investigate the mechanism, we analysed users' feed content and behaviour. We found that the algorithm promotes conservative content and demotes posts by traditional media. Exposure to algorithmic content leads users to follow conservative political activist accounts, which they continue to follow even after switching off the algorithm, helping explain the asymmetry in effects. These results suggest that initial exposure to X's algorithm has persistent effects on users' current political attitudes and account-following behaviour, even in the absence of a detectable effect on partisanship.
Robert Reich@rbreich.bsky.social · 6mo ago

The IRS is being gutted under Trump — which is great news for any rich tax cheats who want to dodge what they owe. And instead of fixing this, Trump is of course suing the agency for $10 billion dollars — which will come out of the taxpayers pocket. The grift never ends.

ITEP@itep.org · 6mo ago

Taxpayer services are, unsurprisingly, in worse shape as lawmakers gut the IRS. Filing your taxes should be easy, fast, and free. But it seems that the Trump administration is working to do the opposite. www.forbes.com/sites/kellyp...

Roxane Gay@roxanegay.bsky.social · 6mo ago

1. It was not an accident. 2. It was not a staffer. 3. While the president may have dementia his racism is not due to dementia. 4. He isn’t sorry. He means every racist thought he shares. 5. His base agrees with him. 6. He will do it again. 7. No one in power will hold him accountable.

God@thegodshow.com · 6mo ago

Today President Epstein kicked off Black History Month by sharing a racist AI video of Barack and Michelle Obama. It's not funny. He's a racist fascist pedophile who mocks murder victims and anyone who still supports him is pure evil.

Naomi Kritzer@naomikritzer.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Not that it would be okay to do this to an undocumented immigrant either but THIS GUY IS A LEGAL IMMIGRANT and also his lawyer hand delivered his medication and they REFUSED TO GIVE IT TO HIM. Enraging! How do ANY of these people live with themselves?

MPR News@mprnews.org · 6mo ago

A man taken into custody in Rochester Thursday by federal immigration agents and now held at the Whipple Federal Building in the Twin Cities is a recent organ transplant recipient who is without his needed anti-rejection medication, state Rep. Kim Hicks tells MPR News.