Max Dunitz
@maxdunitz.bsky.social
Doctorant, Centre Borelli (compte perso). Je travail sur des problèmes inverse en imagerie. I work on inverse problems in imaging. He/they. #BlackLivesMatter Site web : max-dunitz.perso.math.cnrs.fr
Lyndie Chiou@lyndie.bsky.social · 2w agoI interviewed 99-year old Joan Birman who must be the oldest author on a major breakthrough paper. As an added bonus: her team beat the guys trying to use AI! Please read and share about this human triumph: www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-... #science #math 👩🔬
In January, as part of Wikipedia’s 25th anniversary celebrations, Dr. Netha Hussain was one of eight people featured in a video docuseries sharing a behind-the-scenes look at the lives and stories of Wikipedia volunteer editors around the world.
This Doctor Is Battling Health Misinformation One Wikipedia Edit at a Time
"I think the biggest misinformation spreader in the U.S. is the President of the United States himself. When he says something, it gets echoed in different magazines, newspapers, everywhere. And…
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This is primarily a cash-grab to hand money to his fellow antivax fraudsters. Even if we pretend the issue is unsettled (it's settled), it's simply not possible to allocate $5 billion towards legitimate study of the issue. The money will all go into the pockets of child-killers.
Gillian Branstetter@gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 3w agoRFK Jr. asked the National Institute of Health to dedicate $5 billion (!) to finding a link between vaccines and autism. "That would have dedicated more than a tenth of the NIH’s annual budget to investigating a hypothesis already refuted by scientists worldwide."
The best story ICE could make up, after 12 hours, is that ICE agents shot someone in the head because they believed the person they shot, who was not accused of any crime, was a different person also not accused of any crime, and so "public safety" required killing them on the spot.
Bill Grueskin@bgrueskin.bsky.social · 3w agoIt took DHS 12 hours to come up with this statement, And the best they could come up with is that ICE shot and killed an unarmed man who didn’t present a threat to the agents. They know they fucked this one up. And it’ll be up to state and local prosecutors—not the feds—to make the case
New: The National Science Foundation is preparing to claw back some $500 million in funds from some of its core science programs in physics, math, computer science, and engineering in order to fund a project from the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy.
NSF plans cuts to core science programmes to fund White House initiative
A proposed clawback of already distributed research funds comes as the US agency’s budget is already squeezed and it struggling to clear a backlog of grant applications.
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Keith LaMar has less than a year to live without your help. In 1989, at 19, he was sent to prison for murder after a gunfight that left him shot twice and a childhood friend dead. He pled guilty and received 18 years-to-life. That should have been the end of the story. It wasn’t.
Brief Overview | Keith (Bomani) LaMar
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An eventful week at Scientific American. Owner Springer Nature rushed to sell SciAm 3 days before the staff overwhelmingly voted to form a union, and laid off a lot of people. Including me. I got to work with amazing writers during my time, people who made me better. Thank-you list in comment below:
And people need to know about this new proposed OMB rule. Consider writing an op-ed for your local paper. 6/ www.theopedproject.org/resources
Op-Ed Writing: The Basics — The OpEd Project
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"Either way, the concentration of wealth at the very top is much higher now than it ever was during the Gilded Age. And these are numbers from last year, before the SpaceX IPO. The robber barons were pikers compared with today’s oligarchs." paulkrugman.substack.com/p/meet-the-n...
Meet the New Bosses, Worse Than the Old Bosses
The second Gilded Age is much uglier than the first
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he still sees himself as American. Despite everything, EVERYTHING, this government and this nation did to him, he sees the strangers and neighbors who rallied to his side because it was RIGHT, and he chooses to believe in that America. He looks at America and sees HOME.
Christopher Wiggins@cwnewser.bsky.social · 2mo ago"By nationality, I'm Venezuelan," Andry Hernandez Romero told me. "But in my heart, I'm American." He is the gay makeup artist Trump sent to the CECOT torture prison in El Salvador. Andry is in Spain now, rebuilding his life and haunted by his experience. www.advocate.com/news/andry-h...
Calling all Scientists! Research Administrators! Deans! Fans of Science! No one is coming to save us. Here is your assignment. I have written a step by step, easy to understand "how-to" document to help you comment on the proposed OMB rule. elizabethginexi.substack.com/p/what-we-ne...
What We Need to do NEXT: OMB’s Proposed Federal Financial Assistance Rule (OMB 2026-10817)
What OMB’s Proposed Federal Financial Assistance Rule Means in Practice
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Federally-funded science is a crown jewel of the USA. The proposed rules by OMB would, in a single stroke, dismantle decades of extraordinary progress and rob all of humanity of massive research potential and collaboration. You can make your opinion known here: www.regulations.gov/commenton/OM...
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"Meetings are held, emails are sent, phone calls are made, and something like 520,000 children die of malnutrition, diarrhea, tuberculosis, malaria, and HIV." prospect.org/2026/05/22/w...
Who Died When Elon Musk Killed USAID? - The American Prospect
Nicholas Enrich’s new memoir details the human toll of the agency’s dismantling.
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From me: Chaco Canyon listed as 'endangered' as tribes, feds spar over drilling
Chaco Canyon listed as 'endangered' as tribes, feds spar over drilling
The Chaco Canyon area was recognized as an endangered historic place as a debate continues over new drilling and mining claims.
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Three selfless men, likely, saved the lives of over a hundred children.
Guardian US@us.theguardian.com · 3mo agoAmin Abdullah, 51, was one of the three victims of deadly shooting at the Islamic Center of San Diego on Monday
“The court has made it so hard that it’s effectively impossible to prove a Section 2 case in the races that it was primarily thinking about, which are state legislative and congressional races.”
“The Court Interred the Voting Rights Act Without the Dignity of a Funeral” - Bolts
Two redistricting experts answer your questions on the latest Supreme Court ruling that guts the VRA—did it kill Section 2, what can states do, and how may Congress respond?
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Don't print lies in the newspaper. (At the time of the founding, at-large statewide elections were more common than districting, and it remained very common although steadily declining until 1842.)
people fucking died for the voting rights act. to wave it away with a magic wand is just so grotesque
They are intentionally destroying the future of science in America. A generation of lost talent. These are grants that go *directly* to support trainees.
Scott Delaney@scott-delaney.bsky.social · 4mo agoNext up: T grants These support grad student and post doc training programs at certain institutions. # of new grants issued through April 15 in FY2024 (the last “normal” year): 70 FY2025: 23 FY2026: 2
« Ça va craquer » : le cri de détresse des laboratoires français du CNRS. reporterre.net/Dans-nos-lab...
« Ça va craquer » : le cri de détresse des laboratoires français du CNRS
Baisse des subventions, conditions de travail dégradées... La recherche publique souffre et craint pour sa survie. Dans les laboratoires d'écologie, les chercheurs pointent une « perte de sens au trav...
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"Pancreatic cancer mRNA vaccine shows lasting results in an early trial: Scientists caution that more research is needed, but nearly all of the patients who responded to the personalized vaccine are still alive six years later."
Pancreatic cancer mRNA vaccine shows lasting results in an early trial
Scientists caution that more research is needed, but nearly all of the patients who responded to the personalized vaccine are still alive six years later.
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Visas for international students were down 40% last summer, thanks to a slew of policies designed to throttle visa issuances and scare off students. Students from 40 countries are now outright banned.
The Constitution and a court order both say that the Everglades detention facility must allow people access to their attorneys. Instead of complying, guards are cutting off people’s phone access and beating people who speak up.
Alligator Alcatraz phones were cut off. Then the beatings began, court docs say
Attorneys say the Trump and DeSantis administrations are disregarding a court order requiring access to phones and attorneys for detainees.
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I'm one of those trans women. I worked ground ops for Artemis I. I am torn between celebrating the success of my friends and peers and grieving how my dream of working for NASA was shattered by hateful assholes in Tallahassee
Takaichi’s Castle@discographette.online · 4mo agocongratulations to the astronauts who get credit for a moon mission using rocket development work by trans women who had to quit their job and flee the state of florida and can’t celebrate this win with their coworkers
Our PhD student Kennedy Orwa, who studies applications of AI to health care, was hastily deported today to Kenya along with his 13-year-old son without opportunity to speak to legal counsel. King 5 reports that he held a valid visa that was rescinded without explanation.
UW graduate student deported through SEA as protesters demand answers
A union representing University of Washington graduate student workers says Kennedy Orwa’s student visa was rescinded without explanation.
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On a serious note — Pope Leo is asking you to call your Members of Congress Capitol switchboard ☎️ 202-224-3121
Protect Chaco Canyon! Trump’s DOI has announced a proposal to open it to oil and gas drilling—potentially destroying sites that have been sacred to Pueblo and Diné indigenous communities for generations. Say NO to revoking protections for this sacred place: eplanning.blm.gov/Project-Home...
The President's Budget Request proposes a 47% cut to NASA Science, a 55% cut to NSF, and a 13% cut to the DOE Office of Science. AAS President Dr. Dara Norman sent a call to action to AAS members via email today. Urge your members of Congress to reject these cuts now! aas.org/reject-2027-...
Le saviez-vous ? Au cœur de la mission lunaire Artemis II se trouve le module de service européen (ESM), qui alimente, propulse et soutient le vaisseau spatial Orion et son équipage pendant leur voyage autour de la Lune et leur retour en toute sécurité sur Terre. www.esa.int/Newsroom/Pre...
