Andrey Kislyuk

@kislyuk.bsky.social

🇺🇦 Bit collider. Engineer. Scientist. Runner/cyclist. I work on genomics/bioinformatics infrastructure, cloud, Python, scientific computing, and transposon-mediated evolution. I build+maintain several open source projects: https://github.com/kislyuk

“Between January 2025 and February 2026, STEM and health employees at science-focused agencies saw nearly 15,000 jobs cut. The rate outpaced cuts among other federal workers.” OPM data - Figure from Wash Post article 19 April. (Where US science has been hit hardest.) NSF at -42%!

Washington Post article on STEM cuts at federal agencies. NSF tops it at -42%!

www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202... I have seen this problem first hand. The nuisance lawsuits may be tolerable to big established companies in good market conditions. They are more likely to bankrupt biotech startups that need capital to survive and deliver scientific and medical breakthroughs.

Opinion | What’s behind the staggering drop in U.S. public companies

The hostile litigation environment amounts to a de facto tax on participating in public markets.

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Buttigieg: "For the leader of this country to make a nakedly genocidal threat against another civilization as if the US was a death star that was going around blowing up civilizations, of course that is a new low ... the whole country is being judged just for tolerating that kind of thing at the WH"

All members of Congress – Democrats, Republicans, and Independents – must work together using every tool available to us, including impeachment, to stop Trump before it is too late. Stop the madness – remove him from office! (2/2)

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