Josh Dubnau

joshdubnau.bsky.social

22 April 2025 01:35

This is totally illegal. "NIH reserves the right to terminate” awards and "recover all funds if recipients, during the term of this award, operate any program in violation of Federal anti-discriminatory laws or engage in a prohibited boycott." grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

Nature Portfolio

natureportfolio.nature.com

22 April 2025 01:31

A paper in Nature Communications maps air pollution from power plants supplying electricity to US Bitcoin mines and finds that 1.9 million people in 2022-23 breathed toxic amounts of Bitcoin mine attributable pollution, particularly around New York City and Houston. 🧪

Bill Weinberg

billweinberg.bsky.social

05 April 2025 21:33

Anti-Semitic pseudo-anti-anti-Semitism. A bit of a mouthful, but that's what it is. Just like fascist pseudo-anti-fascism. We are through the looking glass in this #PostTruth world and everything morphs into its own opposite. countervortex.org/blog/maga-fa...

Max Kozlov

maxkozlov.bsky.social

04 April 2025 21:33

🚨 BIG week for lawsuits against the NIH. Now 16 states have sued NIH and HHS for "engag[ing] in a concerted, and multi-pronged effort to disrupt NIH’s grants." "The result of these disruptions has been, in a word, devastating," they write. ag.ny.gov/press-releas...