See 🧵
This admin continues to be incredibly creative in rejiggering boring bureaucratic processes to give themselves control of money meant to go to peer-reviewed research
This is just one example
The creativity & doggedness is truly impressive
Thinking about the young mothers in my life (they love their kids so much & are trying *so* hard… this country is v tough rn), I got too angry/sad to make it all the way through this article…
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I love her company’s stationery
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😊 I’m interested in this in a population health perspective. There’s tons of untreated iron deficiency anemia in the US and also high rates of metabolic disease among reproductive aged adults. Just wondering if improved care for anemia could have a side benefit on prevention of metabolic disease!
Does this research imply that chronic anemia (many women have iron deficiency anemia because of heavy menstrual bleeding) could put people at rest for worse glucose regulation?
This is maddening! This govt are literally blocking progress on a likely preventative cure for MS 🤯🤯🤯
MAHA
I took a weeklong trip to Minnesota with my kid last summer (MSP metro and upstate lake region and Itasca) to visit with a family friend. It was PURE DELIGHT for this Southern girl. A fabulous trip. Highly recommend. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
I’m dreading this outbreak coming over to North Carolina
This line graph illustrates the percentage change in agency staff levels from the previous year for nine major U.S. federal scientific and health organizations between the fiscal years 2016 and 2025. The agencies tracked include the CDC, Department of Energy, EPA, FDA, NASA, NIH, NIST, NOAA, and NSF. For the majority of the timeline between 2016 and 2023, the agencies show relatively stable fluctuations, generally staying within a range of +5% to -5% change per year. However, there is a dramatic and uniform plummet starting in the 2024–25 period. Every agency depicted shows a sharp downward trajectory, with staffing losses ranging from approximately -15% to over -25%. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) shows the most significant decline, dropping to roughly -26%, while the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) shows the least severe but still substantial drop at approximately -15%.
This is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again.
www.nature.com/immersive/d4...
Wow…
👀 Um, no pretending…
I don’t know much about this area…
I’m genuinely curious about this as a quant research person… I spend a lot of time thinking about how to quantify complex social interactions
And in recent years all kind of invasive metrics have been proposed (and none 100% consistent)… genetic typing, hormone testing, physical examination of genitals. If they’d do all that, orgs could definitely do a social media sweep and some interviews to see if you really do try to live as a girl…
But gender identification isn’t just some guy showing up and saying, “Hey, I’m a girl.” People live gender in so much of their lives… social media, who they date, their friend networks, their work. It’s so pervasive and ingrained that we haven’t traditionally had metrics….
Now I’m interested in how a team and league would approach that. I feel like your 17 yo scenario wouldn’t work, but I’m curious about the exact mechanisms why…
That’s interesting. There’s so much misogyny among this group that I’d assume that was a deterrent… also the teammates would object to someone who obviously was not living as a woman. Now that I think of it, the fact that there is not more of this type of trolling is notable
But do you think there really a is significantly large group of men who want to identify as women to compete in women’s sports. I’m asking sincerely. I am willing to be educated here that I dramatically misunderstand gender norms and identity and motivations
So much loss of good people and scientific knowledge.
My favorite part of BlueSky are following people who give smart takes on the US economy.
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Well… I started the day w @5calls.org, leaving voicemails with my Congressional Reps (NC)
Surreal messages to leave: this Venezuela thing is crazy and not what anyone voted for. At the least, Congress needs to take back their war power.
Also talked about NIH bill
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Is the #CelebrityTraitorsUK Season 1 a social psychology experiment to reveal how bad people are at judging others’ behavior?
These UK actors *really* overestimate their ability to read people and underestimate how much social status biases them
Wow! Fascinating! Moses, eh? Does it really say that somewhere in the Bible? I missed that part!
HT @grizzrhys.bsky.social for the link to the survey Qs and bivariates
Screenshot of data tables for 2 questions from a Harris poll about prenups in the US
Yeah… I found a link with some more info. Bad reporting of the denominator. Very small samples sizes, especially for Gen Z, and limited info on sampling. Still very perplexing.
I’m either delulu about people’s money priorities, or it’s a bad estimate, or it’s a marker of how much marriage has become a luxury experience, mostly for the well-off (which makes me sad).
Sigh
In a country where many people don’t have $500 for a car emergency, I find it hard to believe that nearly half of the married people 18-44 have paid $600+ (and earlier thousands) to get a prenup, especially when many couples in US don’t have serous discussions about money until there’s a crisis.
Could we please have someone fact-check this statistic? I heard a podcast guest use this “47% have signed a prenup statistic” and I found it so unbelievable. I’m reading the @newyorker.com article now and I’m still so skeptical. They even say it’s impossible to verify… so weird.
Really helpful points! Thank you!
Oh, interesting. What do hardcore fundamentalists believe? Like, logistically. What’s the extent of humans involvement in transcribing and translating the text? And do they accept that different parts of the Bible were written down at different times?
