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by pmags 1y ago
Useful graphics in this NY Times article on the numbers and geography of the outbreak: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/09/well/us-measles-record-ou...
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The Gutting of America's Medical Research(nytimes.com)
91 points by pmags 1y ago|88 comments
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by pmags 1y ago
Your comment suggests that you fundamentally misunderstand the process of scientific discovery and innovation, how the American scientific ecosystem works, or how the economic and technological return on scientific investment has helped to
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The White House Vision for Dismantling Science(joshuasweitz.substack.com)
8 points by pmags 1y ago|5 comments
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by pmags 1y ago
If you have any doubts that Trump 2.0 will destroy the American scientific workforce for years to come, this summary of cuts at NSF makes the case very strongly. Engineering: -57% Math, Physics, Chemistry: -67% STEM Education: -80% ... and
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by pmags 1y ago
I already had "deny access to life saving medicines and public health improvements" on my Trump 2.0 bingo card. What do I win besides greater probability of serious viral infection?
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by pmags 1y ago
This is a real and important challenge, which is even further exacerbated if you work on microbial organisms. I can easily think of a half dozen times in my own research where we tracked down differences in phenotype between ostensibly is
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Trump Administration Cancels Scores of Grants to Study Online Misinformation(nytimes.com)
9 points by pmags 1y ago|0 comments
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by pmags 1y ago
See also: "World Health Organization scales back work after funding cuts" • https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/...
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Trump's 'fear factor': Scientists go silent as funding cuts escalate(science.org)
8 points by pmags 1y ago|0 comments
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US administration proposes to cancel Mars Sample Return mission(scientificamerican.com)
8 points by pmags 1y ago|1 comments
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by pmags 1y ago
You mean like this? https://www.cnn.com/2019/09/06/politics/trump-sharpie-hurric...
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by pmags 1y ago
The US government is playing "hide the data".
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The Actual Math Behind DOGE's Cuts(theatlantic.com)
2 points by pmags 1y ago|0 comments
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by pmags 1y ago
And a related piece on this article in the NY Times: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/07/science/covid-coronavirus...
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by pmags 1y ago
That's a bizarre interpretation if you bother to take a few minutes to look at the flagged/dead posts on 'newest' of late. Almost anything policy-adjacent gets shut down almost immediately even if it has a strong tech or
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by pmags 1y ago
The synth company SOMA has an interesting new theremin-like synth called Flux, that uses magnetic "bows". See: https://somasynths.com/flux/
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Citing NIH Cuts, a Top Science Journal Stops Accepting Submissions(nytimes.com)
3 points by pmags 1y ago|1 comments
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by pmags 1y ago
The journal in question, Environmental Health Perspectives, doesn't charge submission fees and is open access (articles are freely available to everyone to read). Its impact factor puts it among the top journals in the fields of toxic
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by pmags 1y ago
This is an odd interpretation if the details cited in the NY Times articles are correct: > When he informed Ted of his marriage plans, Ted, who had never met Ms. Patrik, fumed, and warned him, in what David called a “vicious” letter, tha
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by pmags 1y ago
I wonder how similar / different this to the Filipino martial art known as Arnis, which is also bladed weapon + stick based? Perhaps an interesting cultural example of convergence or parallelism (depending on how you think about the sh
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by pmags 1y ago
Note that admissions for MSc admissions usually differ quite a lot from PhD admissions, and the criteria can be very different across fields. Things have changed significantly since 2010 as well, and are likely to change even more radically
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Oklahoma City family traumatized after ICE mistakenly raids their home(kfor.com)
92 points by pmags 1y ago|18 comments
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by pmags 1y ago
What are the limits of Federal liability when ICE, the FBI, or some other random federal agency mistakenly raids your home? This very question is currently before the Supreme Court for an FBI raid of a wrong house: https://www.n
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by pmags 1y ago
Sadly, Douglas Prasher, who actually cloned GFP, couldn't get his work funded at the time and ended up leaving science: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Prasher Arguably, he should have shared the Nobel. Mak
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by pmags 1y ago
Nothing scary at all about a 7 ft goat-headed centaur robot with a chainsaw in its hands! I'm guessing from the domain name this is "satyr"! ;-) Regardless, I for one welcome our mythical woodland AI-robot overlords!
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by pmags 1y ago
This is a classic middle school science outreach activity, or something older elementary age kids might do at a summer science camp.
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by pmags 1y ago
Lovely! I wish they had featured even more photos in the article.
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American Panopticon(theatlantic.com)
7 points by pmags 1y ago|1 comments
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AI Executives Promise Cancer Cures. Here's the Reality(theatlantic.com)
14 points by pmags 1y ago|1 comments

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