Did you know that the Works Progress Administration employed mathematicians, physicists, and engineers? One of those projects produced the common (beloved?) reference book "Handbook of Mathematical Functions" by Abramowitz (sort of) and Stegun (primarily)! 🧪 ⚛️ 👩🔬 🧮
"106,636 years of federal work experience were lost across the 10,109 employees with Ph.D.s who departed STEM or health roles 1 January–30 November."
It isn't just the scientific knowledge but the *institutional* knowledge that's been lost. Rebuilding federal science will be a generational effort.
Tell me again history doesn't matter...
Alex Pretti was the best of us. He was murdered by the worst of us. May his memory be a blessing.
May his killers face swift justce.
General Strike Now
Shut
The whole fucking thing
DOWN
#Mm
despised everywhere he goes
This is a moderate position and every single democrat including and especially @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social and @schumer.senate.gov should be shouting it from the rooftops.
I sincerely love that for them.
Thank you Zoë. Always a pleasure to see and hear you perform.
“If the person is a U.S. citizen or otherwise lawfully in the United States, that individual will be free to go after the brief encounter.”
Justice Brett Kavanaugh
www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
The fact that he not only got away with it but got re-elected is a stunning indictment of our government, media, educational system, and society.
I've had a missile blow up next to my airplane, been shot at dozens of times by anti-aircraft fire, and launched into orbit — all for my country. I never thought I'd see a President call for my execution.
Trump doesn’t understand the Constitution, and we're all less safe for it.
California, Oregon, and Washington to launch new West Coast Health Alliance to uphold scientific integrity in public health as Trump destroys CDC’s credibility
In response to the dismantling of the CDC, California, Oregon, and Washington have launched the West Coast Health Alliance, which will make their own science-based vaccine guidelines, and make sure vaccines are accessible to everyone.
And I would never want to get between Ted and a trip to Cancun when there’s an emergency in Texas
@amyshirateitel.bsky.social Hi, Amy! I just wanted to tell you how much I enjoy your videos, especially today's on the atom. Seeing your passion & hard work communicating the value & process of science brings me a lot of joy & hope. Looking forward to the next video! www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUV8...
Or maybe it’s a shitty tool and you shouldn’t spend money on it.
“Before the second Trump era, it would’ve been seen as a ridiculous violation of the First Amendment to have some kind of monitor making sure the media was being nice to the president.”
@gizmodo.com $PARA
gizmodo.com/fcc-to-appoi...
“You are a Member of Parliament, and one of that Majority which has doomed my country to destruction. You have begun to burn our towns, and murder our people. Look upon your hands! They are stained with the blood of your relations! You and I were long friends: You are now my enemy.”
-B. Franklin.
It’s press “corps”, you illiterate hack.
Well that's just fucking great.
What were they actually gonna do here? Ask every brown-enough person for their papers to go to the fucking baseball game?
This is the most slam-dunk, anti-American thing I can think of. You need a passport to go to a Major League Baseball game now? Malpractice not to make a huge deal out of this.
🚨 BREAKING: Nearly 4 months the NIH cut its first grants, a judge has ruled that the directives and process that led to cuts are arbitrary and capricious.
"The explanations are bereft of reasoning — virtually in their entirety... unsupported by [facts]."
Each of them are VOID and ILLEGAL, he says.
Fuck that.
This is what fascism looks like - using a conspiracy theory about a dehumanized outgroup as a pretext for seizing political power and wielding arbitrary authority. What you read about in the history books is happening right here, right now.
Crazy indeed. 👀 Thanks for this video!
"Science Shattered". I confess that even I was unaware of the statement that opens this piece: "The National Institutes of Health is responsible for more than 80% of the world’s grant investment in biomedical research." 🧪 projects.propublica.org/nih-cuts-res...
I’m going to do my best — every little bit helps. Hope to see you around
This perfectly captures my feelings and state of mind over the past couple of weeks.
So much waste and harm could be avoided if we just treated these as fragile, dangerous tools suited for very specialized use cases, like we do with lasers and circular saws, and not as magic thinking beans
