"The E-Line draws about 5,600 riders daily—nearly double what Metro Transit expected." www.fox9.com/news/6-month...

6 months in: Minneapolis E-Line nearly twice the riders Metro Transit expected

Metro Transit’s E-Line is marking six months on the road, and business owners are weighing in on the changes it has brought to their neighborhoods.

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The NIH has quietly dropped its loan repayment program for researchers doing health disparities research and for researchers from disadvantaged backgrounds. As an LRP awardee who had six figures in medical schools loans, I know how transformative this funding can be. Losing this funding will…

The re-litigation of the COVID public health emergency is a sight to behold. People are thinking about themselves, rather than the collective, and it shows.

When people say rabbits are rodents

Sanjay Srivastava@sanjaysrivastava.com · 6d ago

What is an extremely nerdy/obscure/specific thing you hate with a white-hot wrath?

your apartment, the sport of basketball, and the Republic of Korea are all social constructs. mere recognition of this fact does not actually make the question of whether you are standing in your own apartment, playing basketball, or a Korean national up in the air until settled by op ed editors

Do you think "and/or" is overused? Should we just be committing to one?

Okay, at the age you are… does this current age feel younger or older or about what your younger self would have expected?

Great scoop from Liz

Liz Essley Whyte@lizessleywhyte.bsky.social · last wk.

NEW At a lunch at his northern Virginia golf course in May, president Trump told his health secretary RFK Jr. that he had the yips. Our look inside Trump's push to get Kennedy to do more on vaccines: www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

I blame Emily Oster for this. "Current alcohol use [among preg women] was most prevalent among those who were older (18.2%), college graduates (14.7%), not married/partnered (18.0%), and employed (15.0%) relative to their respective counterparts." jamanetwork-com.ezp2.lib.umn.edu/journals/jam...

Summer academic: 1) I'm not getting enough writing done 🥲 2) Huh, I just wrote 12K words in the last 4 days, reviewing other peoples' work. 😵‍💫

“‘I was so upset,’ Ms. Kim said. ‘I just couldn’t believe it. Of all the things that happened to me, I didn’t win the lottery. I met Epstein’s girlfriend.’” www.nytimes.com/2026/07/26/b...

Meet Jeffrey Epstein’s Girlfriend, Who Stands to Inherit Much of His Estate

Karyna Shuliak, 37, is a complicated and unusual figure in the disgraced financier’s world who has been trying to blend into obscurity since his death.

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If you want an example of why having political appointees deeply involved in grantmaking... www.nytimes.com/2026/07/24/b...

Trump Administration Admits Canceling Grants to States That Did Not Vote for Him (Gift Article)

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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Can someone who has seen The Odyssey give me a sense of how, like, twisted and upsetting it is? I do like sci-fi and fantasy things. But I'm a real lightweight when it comes to super dark/twisted or gory or just scary stuff.

Man how did I miss this? Looking forward to sunscreens with a Tinosorb S filter being easily obtainable in the US! news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...

Why you should care about BEMT and your skin — Harvard Gazette

Dermatologist says bemotrizinol, which has been available outside U.S. for decades, provides broader, longer lasting protection

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He's a really terrible NIH Director. I'd prefer an okay NIH Director. Or a good one.

Celeste Headlee@celesteheadlee.bsky.social · 2w ago

For God's sake, how did we get to the point where it's not news that the NIH director lied? The trip between "OMG the NIH director lied. This is a huge scandal," to "Yeah, he lied again, meh" was really short and fast. cen.acs.org/policy/resea...

Have I asked you guys this? Where are all the evening people at Malcolm Yards from?? I think they live in the nearby condos and apts. But some in my household speculate they commute in from the ‘burbs.

Who votes on an airplane? This is why I don’t go to Olive Garden.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2w ago

Scalise: "Anybody that gets on an airplane has to show a picture ID to vote. Nowadays, if you want to go to Olive Garden and get unlimited pasta, you gotta show a picture ID. This isn't complicated stuff."

So here is the curve... The curve for the current fiscal year is well above any previous fiscal years and is heading toward the level at the end of fiscal year 2025. This will likely result in a 20% reduction in the number of new and competitive renewal grants that could have been funded. 4/4

I’m an everyday Minneapolis runner. Now I wouldn’t have guessed the weather conditions that would send me to a treadmill this week for the 1st time in 20 years would be in the summer.

I feel like I barely see anyone on this campus in July but the one day I have poop in my backpack (Cologuard time!), I somehow run into every last one of my colleagues as I try to make my way to the UPS store...

The Federal Highway Administration quietly stripped bike lanes and other safety recommendations from a key list of best practices. Critics say those measures are proven to cut crashes and save lives. n.pr/4yoz3dD

Bike lanes and speed cameras disappear from the DOT's list of proven safety measures

The Federal Highway Administration quietly stripped bike lanes and other safety recommendations from a key list of best practices. Critics say those measures are proven to cut crashes and save lives.

n.pr

When I was a kid in the 80s stressed about pollution and how unbreathable the air would be in the future I thought the cause would be like factories or something

I don’t care what Emily Oster decides to eat. That’s all I’m saying.

Primary Election 2026: Minnesota State Attorney General. naomikritzer.com/2026/07/14/p...

Primary Election 2026: Minnesota Attorney General

The Republican is unopposed in the primary. Keith Ellison, the DFL incumbent, has one challenger. On the ballot: Keith EllisonDavid Madgett Keith Ellison Keith Ellison was first elected in 2018 and…

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Reminder: Today(7/13) is the deadline (at 11:59pm ET) for comments on OMB’s Proposed Federal Financial Assistance Rule (OMB-2026-0034). This guide by Elizabeth Ginexi is probably the most helpful thing I've seen for commenting! elizabethginexi.substack.com/p/what-we-ne...

What We Need to do NEXT: OMB’s Proposed Federal Financial Assistance Rule (OMB-2026-0034)

What OMB’s Proposed Federal Financial Assistance Rule Means in Practice

elizabethginexi.substack.com

It's wild that it's skipped Minnesota? And VERY inconveneint. MN's state public health dept is undefeated. Usually, nationwide food outbreaks keep going & nobody can find where they're coming from... until MN gets their first three cases. Then they figure out where it came from in like a week.

Did you write your comment yet on the OMB rules on federally funded science yet? No? Don’t worry, you can do it this weekend. Here are some resources that can help you get started.

Man, please leash your dog unless you are in an actually dog park or your fenced in yard

I am once again begging @minneapolismn.gov to ban right turn on red for drivers. I just had yet another close call with a driver so eager to turn right on red that they didn’t notice the leading ped interval. They almost ran me over right after I stepped into the crosswalk w/ a ped signal.

I wish the US had some sort of Center that focused on Disease Control and Prevention.