Base R forever
04.03.2026 03:44
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This piece by Elizabeth Ginexi is a must read. Trump, Vought, RFK and Bhattacharya are destroying the NIH simply ignoring the law and the US Congress. It’s illegal and immoral. The NIH Restructuring Congress Rejected Is Happening Anyway open.substack.com/pub/elizabet...
1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken.
Hundreds of kids are still detained.
We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵
This. Science and democracy are linked. We can’t put science advocacy in a bubble and do it alone— the fascism, division, and attack on experts and trust are *the reason* science is under attack.
Plus the inside advocacy alone does not work! Just look at what happened with MYF this year.
If you have the privilege of living in a democracy, it is your civic duty to protect democracy when it’s in peril.
If you have the privilege of being a scientist, you have the civic duty of protecting science.
So yeah, scientists in America: ITS TIME TO BE YELLIN.
Ah, so it was premeditated murder.
Vigil participants stand with signs and flags. Photos by Mike Simmons, Tulsa World.
Man in orange beanie and brown jacket lights Taper candles planted into a snow bank.
Vigil participants kneel beside the makeshift vigil.
A closeup of the vigil: candles planted into the snowbank, with flowers and notes strung about.
Tulsa stands with you, Minneapolis.
More than 100 people showed up to a vigil Tuesday evening at LaFortune Park in Tulsa, OK to remember people murdered by federal officers of the Trump regime.
Photos by Mike Simmons, Tulsa World.
Is he dead yet
This administration is cooked. Literally no one is scared of them.
His last words were “are you okay?”
As we prepare for the coming weeks and think about how we will choose to face this moment, remember that in his last few minutes alive, Alex Pretti was rendering aid.
Alex Pretti, wearing a green sweater with his VA badge on.
This is Alex Pretti.
This morning he was murdered by ICE. Six ICE agents held him down and shot him at point blank range. Alex was a nurse and researcher at the VA.
Our thoughts are with his loved ones and we stand united in action calling for the abolishment of ICE.
#ScientistsAgainstICE
When are they going to get it that being untrained is the point?
We should be doing this in every state.
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...
“heroism is neither being perfect, nor doing something spectacular. In fact, it’s just the opposite: it’s regular, flawed human beings choosing to put others before themselves, even at great cost, even if no one will ever know, even as they realize the walls might be closing in around them.”
“Somewhere I read of the freedom of speech.
Somewhere I read of the freedom of the press.
Somewhere I read that the greatness of America is the right to protest for rights.”
I’m seeing posts from people (outside of MN) about how US citizens should carry their passports.
And let me say that *inside* MN, we are calmly responding to requests with: “No, I don’t have to show you any documentation.”
Because that’s how you protect everyone, regardless of immigration status.
I'm delighted to release the first half of my new textbook in human genetics:
web.stanford.edu/group/pritch...
"An Owner's Guide to the Human Genome: an introduction to human population genetics, variation and disease"
To be clear, they're play-fighting and also: this video improved my day measurably and I wish I'd've watched it earlier. If you haven't, fix that now.
can i let them both be? this fickle faith and this college science that heckles from the back of the
classroom
now i can’t believe—
that the bible and qur’an and bhagavad gita are sliding long hairs behind my ear like mom
used to & exhaling from their mouths “make room for wonder”
Having a 🍺 with Mr PEG tomorrow who wants to join
So are we just gonna post our way through this one too or what?
Mine landed on “bougie” twice in a row. @merriam-webster.com I am a postdoc lmao
We should support them because they’re the right thing to do… because our humanity is measured by how we care for the most vulnerable among us, not by what we stand to gain. 6/6
You may have heard “disabled people are the only minority group you can become a part of at any time.” While true, we shouldn’t support public health measures and accessible healthcare simply because we might need them ourselves someday. 5/
I hope in 2026 we fight for the world it implies: where wearing a mask around immunocompromised people and policies that increase access to healthcare are mutually understood to be just and good. Where “individual liberty” means the freedom to consider the needs of people you may never meet. 4/
I grew up in the heart of the conservative Christian right — the same Heritage Foundation sacrilege now profiting at the helm of our government, which either ignores or detests its own scripture when it says:
“Truly, I say to you, as you did it to one of the least of these, you did it to me.” 3/
I spent the year becoming increasingly heartbroken and furious that this federal administration, run by grifters and nihilists, is dismantling public health infrastructure and making life for people with chronic illnesses more difficult, expensive, confusing, dangerous, or simply impossible. 2/
In 2025, I learned a lot about chronic illness as my spouse and I navigated the US healthcare system to get diagnoses and options for managing symptoms. 1/
