Steve Engel
@sengelweb.bsky.social
Professor of psychology and visual neuroscience, (very) local, (very) blue political activist, dorky dad, cat owner
A commenter notes that "Trump managed to be both Hitler and Chamberlain in the same negotiation. An unprecedented feat." 😭
native americans determined to not be birthright citizens; deported back to america
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 4mo agoGORSUCH: Do you think Native Americans are birthright citizens under your test? SAUER: Ah, I think ... so. I have to think that through.
clinical expertise to advise officials, while the pox virus team will have none. The CDC announced it has temporarily paused all testing for rabies and pox viruses (which include smallpox and mpox). Links: cdc.gov/infectious-d... www.nytimes.com/2026/04/01/h...
Test Directory
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World Series winner Sean Doolittle nails it. Don't forget to subscribe: www.dworkinsubstack.com/subscribe
![Ink bottle, brown fountain pen, text "As times become increasingly fraught, I find myself retreating to the smaller and increasingly analouge [sic] elements of my life."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:tbqqvyv6pjjww44glrmycaxl/bafkreig42zalkiatmu2g3pdfltqgwaaldghcozh2vegbo3dibalc4npkou)
Goal all along for whole Fed govt is to have political appointees pick and choose who gets $.
Science Magazine@science.org · 8mo agoIn a potentially dramatic change to how it chooses what science to fund, NIH is ending a long-running practice at many of its institutes of establishing, and making public, a threshold peer-review score needed for a grant application’s approval. https://scim.ag/48ck2zu
Update on a significant development NIH grant terms. On 10/1, a change to grant making regs went into effect that gives NIH more power to terminate grants for policy reasons. But to use this power, new grant terms must include specific language. See @aniloza.bsky.social w/ the story from July. 1/
HHS devises legal playbook for future grant terminations, internal memo shows
Exclusive: HHS devises a legal playbook for future research grant terminations, an internal memo shows.
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Ah- this makes it clear- >>Trump will refuse to release the Epstein Files because they will be part of a new ongoing investigation!<<
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 9mo agohe’s crashing out
WE NEED A REAL LEADER OF THE OPPOSITION. Like other countries have. A leader of the out-of-power party who has actual power over members. Otherwise people will vote their self-interest over the party's interest - and over the country's as well.
Allison Gill@muellershewrote.com · 9mo agoNever forget who sold us out: Hassan King Cortez-Masto Shaheen Kaine Fetterman Durbin Rosen
One party blatantly lies, and that's all its supporters hear. We must have been here before in the glided age with robber-baron-owned press. What strategies proved useful then to persuade folks who bought the lies? @hcrichardson.bsky.social @jamellebouie.net bsky.app/profile/atru...
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 9mo agoWELKER: Should the 300,000 Oklahomas who rely on ACA subsidies be prepared for their costs to skyrocket? LANKFORD: We're trying to find a way to be able to help (That's a yes!)
College has gotten cheaper in real terms and much more affordable relative to incomes, but good luck trying to convince anyone to ignore the nominal price ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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Dismantling of US federal agencies will ‘destroy science’
From NASA to the National Institutes of Health, federal agencies conduct research that universities cannot. Agency scientists speak out about the irreplaceable facilities, institutional knowledge and ...
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