🚨"Every $1 spent on #research yields $2+ to the #economy. Why do these fools think it’s a handout with no return? Grants are contracts for work *feeds the US innovation economy, which has helped put us in the global ldrshp position we’ve enjoyed for decades."
-J Allen
"Trump Comm Sec: "We've $Bs to univs for them to do research & they invent things & who owns those patents? #Universities
...If we give them the💰, don't you think it is fair that the US get a piece of that?"
-Acyn
#Science#USPol
Reining in global carbon dioxide emissions would reduce the risk of major changes in the Antarctic but still not prevent them. Once we start losing Antarctic sea ice, we set in a self-perpetuating process. Even if we stabilise the climate, we will still lose Antarctic sea ice over many centuries to come.
"To keep Earth habitable, humanity must recognize the value of Antarctica and seek to save it from irreversible damage.
Far from being a remote, isolated continent, Antarctica is integral to Earth’s climate and life-support systems.
Its vast ice sheet stores more than 90% of the planet’s surface fresh water and influences sea levels, circulation of the atmosphere and how much sunlight the planet reflects.
Around Antarctica, the Southern Ocean acts as the lungs of the deep sea, accounting for roughly 40% of the global ocean’s uptake of carbon dioxide emissions generated by human activities, shaping how seawater mixes and distributes nutrients to support marine life around the globe."
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-02618-3
#Nature#Science#Antarctica#Ocean#Climate#ClimateChange#ClimateDiary#GlobalWarming#Oceans#SeaIce#MarineBiology
Dr. Monarez’s firing, along with the resignations of 4 of the #CDC’s top leaders, will undoubtedly throw the nation’s #PublicHealth agency into further turmoil after a tumultuous month in which agency employees were laid off & a gunman fired a barrage of bullets at the Atlanta headquarters, killing a policeman & terrifying employees.
Dr. Monarez’s lawyers, Mark S. Zaid & Abbe Lowell, asserted in a statement earlier Wednesday that Dr. Monarez’s situation was symbolic of larger issues.
“It is about the systematic dismantling of #PublicHealth institutions, the silencing of experts, & the dangerous politicization of #science,” Mr. Zaid & Mr. Lowell wrote. “The attack on Dr. Monarez is a warning to every American: Our evidence-based systems are being undermined from within.”
Dr. #SusanMonarez, an #InfectiousDisease researcher, was sworn in just a month ago by #RFKJr, but had clashed with him over #vaccine policy…. 4 other high-profile #CDC officials quit en masse, apparently in frustration over vaccine #policy & RFKJr’s leadership.
Because Dr. Monarez had been confirmed by the #Senate — previous CDC directors were not subject to such confirmation — she served at the pleasure of the Trump. RFKJr most likely did not have the authority to dismiss her.
Dr. Monarez’s firing, along with the resignations of 4 of the #CDC’s top leaders, will undoubtedly throw the nation’s #PublicHealth agency into further turmoil after a tumultuous month in which agency employees were laid off & a gunman fired a barrage of bullets at the Atlanta headquarters, killing a policeman & terrifying employees.
New #CDC Director Is Fired, #Trump White House Says
#SusanMonarez was said to have refused to adopt #Health Secretary #RFKJr.’s stance on #vaccination policy.
The White House said late Wednesday that it had fired Susan Monarez, the new director of the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention, after a tense confrontation in which Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. tried to remove her from her position & she refused to resign.
#science #medicine #vaccines#USpol
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/health/cdc-monarez-kennedy-vaccines.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
There are tens of millions of Americans who work in high-knowledge professions. It cannot be left to journalists and public health professionals alone to tell the public that Trump and the Republican party are trying to destroy the entire edifice of science and modernity.
Be like Terence Tao. https://www.nbcnews.com/science/science-news/mozart-math-rarely-speaks-politics-wide-ranging-cuts-science-funding-m-rcna226033
Africa may be about to see a green energy boom. Countries across the continent imported a record number of solar panels in the past year. "Assuming all the panels imported over the past year were installed, researchers [from energy think tank Ember] estimate 16 countries imported enough to supply at least 5 per cent of current electricity generation," writes James Dineen for The New Scientist. Here's more.
The U.S. FDA has approved COVID-19 shots for fall, but with new restrictions that make affect what insurers cover. Here's more from NBC.
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I hate linking to The Hill, but here we go:
RFK Jr. says agency will reveal causes of autism in September
No, he fucking won’t. He literally shut down actual studies working on such things, because as with all fundamentalist-approach cardboard science, anything he does is driven by producing the answer he wants, not any answer that’s actually real.
So given all that, here’re a few key lies about “causes” I think we can expect:
(This may be substituted out for artificial colours and/or flavours, he’s got bugaboos about those too.)
And finally:
Yeah. I think there’s a pretty good chance they’ll go there. I can’t be sure – this is all speculation, I assure you – but it’s been floated around in christofascism on and off for a while. Not as strongly as other lies about “the pill” (christ they’re so old) causing breast cancer (again: a lie), and being an abortifacient (again: a lie). So why not here? Why not go for it?
It has the added bonus of blaming the woman, which is another thing they always want to do.
Maybe I’ll be wrong. Maybe they won’t. But he used one word in particular that makes me think I’m right. That word is “interventions,” as in “interventions” that cause autism. That’s a word I’ve heard plenty of times before when fundamentalists talk about birth control, and also by the new age crowd that merged in with them, calling hormonal birth control an “unnatural intervention.” In other words, both upstream forks of his anti-vax “wellness” following have a history of using that word to describe hormonal birth control.
And here it is again. That word. “Intervention.”
Really could be a coincidence; really, genuinely could. That word is used by a lot of actual medical people for good and real medical treatments; it’s not one of their own made-up words.
But … they really do have a history of using it that way. And the orange fuckfash muttered on about “a drug or something” as the intervention at work, so… yeah.
I’m smelling an attack on birth control.
They’ve really been wanting to go at it, and given the increased… severity in tone… that we’re seeing out of the fascists, it feels like they’re slamming the metaphorical pedal to the metaphorical metal, and they might just go ahead and go for it.
Stock up on your meds, folks. Clock’s ticking.
This Incredible Dinosaur Sported The Spikiest Armor The World Has Ever Seen https://www.sciencealert.com/this-incredible-dinosaur-sported-the-spikiest-armor-the-world-has-ever-seen #science
This Incredible Dinosaur Sported The Spikiest Armor The World Has Ever Seen https://www.sciencealert.com/this-incredible-dinosaur-sported-the-spikiest-armor-the-world-has-ever-seen #science
I'm looking away from our world for a moment.
I'm looking at the little dot in this image.
It's a newborn planet, 5 times the mass of Jupiter, carving a path through the disk of dust around its star. This is the first time we've seen the process clearly.
We are watching a new planet come into the cosmos.
https://www.eso.org/public/images/potw2534a/ #space #science #nature
The new shots from Pfizer, Moderna & Novavax are approved for all #seniors. But the #FDA narrowed their use for younger #adults & #children to those with at least 1 high-risk #health condition, such as #asthma or #obesity. That presents new barriers to access for millions of Americans who’d have to prove their risk -- & millions more who may want to get vaccinated & suddenly no longer qualify.
#Trump#RFKJR#AntiVax#ConspiracyTheories #vaccines #science #medicine #law #regulation
Additionally, Pfizer’s #vaccine will no longer be available for any child underage 5, after the #FDA said it was revoking the shot’s emergency authorization for that age group.
Parents will still be able to seek out shots from rival drugmaker #Moderna, the other
maker of #mRNA #vaccines, which has full FDA approval for #children as young as 6 months. But the company’s Spikevax vaccine is only approved for children w/at least one serious #health problem.
US regulators approved updated #COVID-19 shots Wednesday but limited their use for many Americans — & removed 1 of the 2 #vaccines available for young #children.
#Trump#RFKJR#AntiVax#ConspiracyTheories #science #medicine #law #regulation
https://apnews.com/article/vaccines-covid-shots-fda-kennedy-pfizer-children-9ce19908ae7afb354732aa162fd28532?utm_source=onesignal&utm_medium=push&utm_campaign=2025-08-27-Breaking+News
The new shots from Pfizer, Moderna & Novavax are approved for all #seniors. But the #FDA narrowed their use for younger #adults & #children to those with at least 1 high-risk #health condition, such as #asthma or #obesity. That presents new barriers to access for millions of Americans who’d have to prove their risk -- & millions more who may want to get vaccinated & suddenly no longer qualify.
#Trump#RFKJR#AntiVax#ConspiracyTheories #vaccines #science #medicine #law #regulation
US regulators approved updated #COVID-19 shots Wednesday but limited their use for many Americans — & removed 1 of the 2 #vaccines available for young #children.
#Trump#RFKJR#AntiVax#ConspiracyTheories #science #medicine #law #regulation
https://apnews.com/article/vaccines-covid-shots-fda-kennedy-pfizer-children-9ce19908ae7afb354732aa162fd28532?utm_source=onesignal&utm_medium=push&utm_campaign=2025-08-27-Breaking+News
I'm looking away from our world for a moment.
I'm looking at the little dot in this image.
It's a newborn planet, 5 times the mass of Jupiter, carving a path through the disk of dust around its star. This is the first time we've seen the process clearly.
We are watching a new planet come into the cosmos.
https://www.eso.org/public/images/potw2534a/ #space #science #nature
You can find the first JEB additional language abstract by Cameron Nemeth and colleagues in Hawaiian accompanying their paper, The key to bubble-net feeding: how humpback whale morphology functionally differs from other baleen whales.
Read the paper: https://journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/228/16/jeb249607/368911
#Hawaiian#Language#Translation#Accessibility#Communication#Community#Science#Biology
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