Jonathan D. Jackson, PhD
@jondoesscience.bsky.social
Cognitive neuroscientist celebrating 20 years of working to cure Alzheimer's disease. One truth above all: If it ain't equitable, it ain't science.
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This Isn’t New. The Target Is.
Yesterday a scientific society called the state police on the editor-in-chief of its own journal, for handing out its own editorial, at its own meeting. An apology, a field guide to what happens next,...
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It’s the end of science as we know it, and I feel fine www.statnews.com/2026/05/27/s... via @statnews.com I wrote a thing (also hi, I’m alive!).
It’s the end of science as we know it, and I feel fine
“Science itself is inherently resilient — that is, after all, why it’s science,” writes Jonathan Jackson.
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At least one journal has received a letter from the U.S. attorney for D.C. about alleged bias “The only plausible goal is to intimidate academic journals." - @sbagen.bsky.social If your journal is affected by this, i'd like to hear from you (signal = aniloza.16) 🧪 www.statnews.com/2025/04/18/t...
Medical journal receives U.S. attorney letter seeking information about alleged bias
“Why would the interim US attorney be qualified to judge scientific viewpoints on the treatment of advanced lung disease and critical illness?"
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Our government feels like when Scar took over after Mufasa died. Just a bunch of ecological damage and hyenas running around this mf.
“If we just sit back and allow ourselves to shrink back in the face of darkness and denialism, then we don’t deserve the jobs that we have." @jondoesscience.bsky.social on the need for researchers to speaking out. w/ @hollylynchez.bsky.social + Melissa Simon. Story: www.statnews.com/2025/03/21/r...
‘We’re living in the Twilight Zone’: Researchers decry Trump administration assault on science
At the STAT Summit on Thursday, researchers called for a "full-throated defense" of university research again the attacks by the Trump administration.
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“If large numbers of academics working in the U.S. do decide to leave, Gold doubts other countries will be able to absorb them all. The end result, he warns, could be an exodus of talent from global science. “My biggest fear,” he says, is that “we’re going to lose a cohort of researchers.”” 🧪
Overseas universities see opportunity in U.S. ‘brain drain’
But many U.S.-based scientists seeking to leave may struggle to find positions in countries grappling with funding issues of their own
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“Instead of doing the science, we’re in meetings about ‘Can I say diversity here, can I say trans-disciplinary, or is it going to be caught up in a word search?,’” she said. “We’re living in the Twilight Zone.” www.statnews.com/2025/03/21/r...
‘We’re living in the Twilight Zone’: Researchers decry Trump administration assault on science
At the STAT Summit on Thursday, researchers called for a "full-throated defense" of university research again the attacks by the Trump administration.
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Holden Thorp@holdenthorp.bsky.social · last yr.I'm in the Chronicle today trying to explain why Columbia might be taking the egregious deal they were offered by the feds to get their $400M back. Everyone questioning this needs to go read Christopher Newfield's book, The Great Mistake. 1/n www.chronicle.com/article/why-...
Hopping back into the saddle after a long time away from social media. I suppose if now isn't the perfect time to impotently shout into the void, when is?
