John A. White, Ph.D. 🇨🇦
@johnawhitephd.bsky.social
Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Director of the Biomedical Engineering Program, U. Victoria. Research Professor, Boston U. Advocate for science, universal healthcare, housing, pedestrians, cyclists, and transit. he/him
I’m happy to read this. I’ve been boycotting Douthat, a BFF of Vance and apologist for Christian authoritarianism, for some time. ‘60 Minutes’ is already a lost cause. There are conservative commentators worth our attention, but not this dude. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/28/b...
Ross Douthat Joins ‘60 Minutes’ as a Correspondent
Mr. Douthat, an opinion columnist at The New York Times, will join the CBS News program, along with several other journalists.
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”The essence of Trumpism is that the other side will always choose surrender over discomfort.” This one sentence explains so much about the rot of our institutions. Unless we step up, Trumpism will continue after Trump. www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-was-...
Trump Was Right About the Corporate Media
The White House Correspondents’ Association surrenders.
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Here we go. The Constitution makes it very clear that the states control the details of elections. Will this matter to SCOTUS? www.nytimes.com/2026/07/27/u...
Trump Asks Supreme Court to Allow Order Restricting Mail Voting
The Trump administration asks justices to intervene after an appeals court blocked key parts of a mail-in voting executive order.
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It’s what dictators do. Even “wanna-be-never-was” versions.
www.nytimes.com/2026/07/24/b...
Trump Administration Admits Canceling Grants to States That Did Not Vote for Him
Federal officials said in court documents that they halted billions of dollars in funding for energy projects to states “based solely” on whether they backed President Trump in the 2024 election.
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Once you understand that this is a model of science written by non-scientists who hate universities but love venture capital and redirecting money to political allies, everything makes a lot more sense. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/22/u...
Trump’s Plan for Science: More Money for A.I., Less for Universities
Michael Kratsios, President Trump’s science adviser, proposed overhauling how the government funds research. Democrats said Mr. Trump’s actions had weakened science.
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Please allow those of us living in Canada a moment of smugness.
PEIPolitical 🇨🇦@peipolitical.bsky.social · 2w agoEby: "I feel sorry for Americans. If you can't be friends with Canada, then you almost certainly do not have a friend anywhere in the world. And that is a very lonely place to be." #cdnpoli
Markwayne Mullin reiterates Trump’s false claims about voting security. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/17/u...
Trump’s Homeland Security Chief Threatens Election Officials With Prison Time
Markwayne Mullin reiterated the president’s false claims about voting security while escalating the administration’s legally questionable attempts to control state elections.
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A 3-year-old girl watched ICE murder her father yesterday. We all watched Sebastian Guerrero’s final moments through our phones. We can scroll away — but Sebastian’s 3-year-old daughter cannot.
Under a Binface government, anyone who doesn’t accept human-made climate change as fact will be sent back to school, from Year 1 right the way to A Levels, to see if anything goes in the second time round. #VoteBinface
A key part of Lindsey Graham's legacy: when he called Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/12/u...
Congratulations @kangyongloh.bsky.social, Spencer Zhao, @carolynbertozzi.bskyverified.social, and the whole team– including my longtime and wonderful collaborator Zhenan Bao– for this key step in our journey toward genetically-targeted chemical assembly in biology. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
One of the best series run by the @nytimes.com - Lost science. We are losing so much ground in science and technology...... www.nytimes.com/2026/07/10/c...
She Studied Ways to Make People Smarter. Then Her Grant Was Cut. (Gift Article)
Jessica Cantlon had a grant with the U.S. Navy to explore whether people could improve spatial problem-solving skills through training. Then the program was cut.
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New research from UVic’s Baum lab reveals the extent of lost kelp forests of the Northern Salish Sea: martlet.ca/new-uvic-stu...
New UVic study reveals the extent of lost kelp forests in the Northern Salish Sea
New research reports that vast kelp forests around the North Salish Sea vanished decades earlier than previously thought due to warming ocean temperatures.
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www.nytimes.com/2026/07/06/u... an ominous trend: graduate admissions are down 15 percent from last year, on top of an 11 percent decrease from the previous year we are destroying our seed corn
Research Universities Are Admitting Fewer Ph.D.s, a Bad Sign for Science
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Don't want to speak ill of the dead, so getting this Mitch McConnell take out now. He saw Trump with complete clarity, as a danger to America, but protected him anyway. Perhaps more than anyone, he had the power to end Trumpism, but chose party over country. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/jan-6-and-...
U of Minnesota strikes again! www.startribune.com/u-of-m-resea...
U of M researcher creates synthetic cell that could change the world
Synthetic biologist Kate Adamala said the discovery is a “holy grail” in engineering biology because engineered cells could one day be used to make fuel without petrochemicals or medicines that overco...
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Trump Indicates Desire For Speedy End To World https://theonion.com/trump-indicates-desire-for-speedy-end-to-world/
In 'How to Change a Memory', Steve Ramirez draws on his own memories of friendship, family, loss and recovery to reveal how memory can be turned on and off like a switch, edited and even constructed from nothing. royalsociety.org/medals-and-p...
The Birthright citizenship ruling should be a wake up call to any Dem who is still on the fence about court reform. We are essentially one seat change away from the Court undoing Reconstruction by fiat.
This country was one person's vote away this morning from putting any birthright citizen in danger of being deported tomorrow. We are so much closer to the abyss than we think. Man oh man.