Women are more likely to develop Alzheimer’s yet sex and gender differences in brain research are underfunded and politically threatened. We need science that reflects reality.
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The pretense for the U.S. attorney's letter is ridiculous. "Viewpoint diversity?" What next, demands to give antivax conspiracy theorists, Creationists and Flat Earthers equal time? We are moving from peer review to clown demands, and it really is not funny. The U.S. is trapped in an unbelievable comic farce and a cruel, horrific tragedy at the same time. What a nightmare.
https://www.nbcnews.com/science/science-news/us-attorney-demands-scientific-journal-explain-ensures-viewpoint-diver-rcna201929
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NBC News · U.S. attorney demands scientific journal explain how it ensures 'viewpoint diversity'
“I urge you to ask this simple but critical question: What is my professional society actively doing to protect science right now?
Because silence isn't neutrality. It’s complicity. And science deserves better.”
#Science #Scicomm #Autocracy #Activism #ScienceMatters
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/trump-cuts-should-trigger-loud-protests-from-scientific-societies/
Scientific AmericanScience Organizations Should Protest Loudly against Trump CutsSimilar to other professions, science has organizations that represent scientists and the research they do. Too many are staying silent as Trump dismantles research
“While RFK Jr. is giving “infectious diseases a break for a while,” his policies will only allow these infections to flourish. If viruses and bacteria had a lobby in Congress, they could find no bigger advocate than RFK Jr.”
#VaccinesWork #ScienceMatters
https://pauloffit.substack.com/p/giving-infectious-diseases-a-break
Beyond the Noise · “Giving Infectious Diseases a Break”
“Science is increasingly—intentionally—being pushed out of the realm of what you trust and into the realm of the unfamiliar. Scientists must resist this push. We owe this to society—to one another”
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/scientists-need-to-speak-out-beyond-the-classroom-and-the-lab/
Scientific AmericanWhat Science Owes to SocietyScience cannot operate like a black box and expect the trust of the public
@auscandoc Just mind numbing stupidity from Conservative/Republican leaders.
#ScienceMatters #Canada #cdnpoli
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I heard Annihilation was about grief or relationships. I'm interested af in Scavenger's Reign.
I feel like we have a rough indentation / substructure of how we will process things from birth, but that every event thereon will shape it further.
As well, we know ourselves in reference to others: "I'm like A, not like B, but most like C. What lies beyond C? I might see myself reflected best over there."
"Rules do not exist to bind you; they exist so you may know your freedoms."
Parameters outline a given environment within which to experiment and explore. It's one antidote to Blank Page Syndrome, for example.
NebulaFiction About Nobody
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I have to disagree entirely about personifying the automated house in There Will Come Soft Rains (fantastic name), but otherwise yes. This is exactly my understanding.
https://nebula.tv/videos/talefoundry-fiction-about-nobody/
It's also a good description of why I feel so confused by others.
People tend to feel more secure (than I do) in their identities as individuals, group members, and (neurotypical / neurodefault / neurorigid) humans.
NebulaFiction About Nobody
Aha! THIS is ideal science:
CURIOSITY, clear communication,
respect (actual) corrections from anywhere,
honest effort to test and learn, and
share what you know with anyone interested.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJjPH3TQif0&t=4373
It's not easy, but these are each necessary. I'm using 'science' here like STEM or STEAM.
So I broadly refer to a scientific method but also engineering expertise, mathematical review, and humanities' impact on supporting any of this to happen at all.
Ignoring currency hoarding by money addicts, the rest of us are here to enjoy contentment.
We can make real discoveries, inventions, and connect ideas to find useful applications.
(Also petition to call Dark Matter instead Clear Matter.)
@rozeboosje (I just assumed it was German? aaaa I am terrible at placing accents tho.) Frustrating af part is she clearly has an axe to grind with physics / academia and so do I.
It's possible I might have *more* reason to feel spurned unjustly, since mine is "systemic ableism led to late diagnosis, but I didn't get even the minimal support I was offered and accepted".
But I still stick to my vision of a better life for everyone I can help because that's... the only thing worth doing?
beep.
Semi-related: I need to do a basic layperson's guide to science set of videos. A bit like Minute Physics or CGP Grey, but about 'null hypothesis' (which I still need to learn, tbh) and 'a control group'.
Also petition to call Dark Matter instead Clear Matter.
It sounds like Sabine Hossenfelder is inaccurately diagnosing (some) real problems (and some false ones) as being scientists' fault directly.
The problems are a capitalist (profit-focused) failure of resource allocation. This includes a structure of education that incentivises "work-ready" skills over critical analysis.
You don't need to be an expert! Literally just encouraged to try, fail, learn, and try again.
THAT is 'science' -- not the scientific method (precisely) nor the institution of scientific research on a given scale of human organisation.
Europe aims to woo US scientists and protect academic freedom —
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-01002-5
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www.nature.comHow Europe aims to woo US scientists and protect academic freedomThe European Union’s new research chief Ekaterina Zaharieva speaks to Nature about attracting disaffected US scientists and cutting grant bureaucracy.
Silencing evidence-based research isn’t just unethical—it’s dangerous.
U.S. scientists pen letter calling for end to 'assault on U.S. science' — signed by 2K colleagues, all members of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/open-letter-science-1.7499334
h/t @adub @dmacphee
https://kolektiva.social/@adub/114268652651005313
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CBCTop scientists pen letter calling for end to 'assault on U.S. science' | CBC RadioNearly 2, 000 doctors, researchers, and scientists have signed an open letter urging Americans to stop the erosion of scientific funding and integrity.
Science is Not a Conspiracy.
It's facts. It's experiments. It's repeatable results. Unlike that "one weird trick" on the internet.
#ScienceFacts #TrustTheProcess #STEMNerd #ScienceMatters
Despite the world's imperfections, science and tech used to be a wealth of opportunities, innovation and possibilities.
Since this administration's assault on truth, scientific research has really suffered, especially in the U.S. Likewise, breakthroughs and the progress led by American science have experienced incalculable setbacks. The whole world suffers. Not much good news here these days —
ScienceInsider | News from Science | AAAS
https://www.science.org/news/scienceinsider
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An incredible person has started a movement to tell the stories of #US #scientists and #science experts who have been dismissed because of the #trump #madness over there at the moment
If you know scientists who have lost funding or jobs because of *certain decisions*, you should contact them! They are also looking for #volunteers 
www.linkedin.comSilenced Science Stories - Illustrated Features | Silenced Science StoriesWe are organizing an illustrated series of portraits and stories of dismissed federal scientists and other scientific experts whose work is being affected by federal budget cuts and mass firings. We are working with amazing science illustrators to create these features to communicate the careers and the important scientific research of federally employed and funded scientists.
How to get involved:
- If you are an illustrator / artist willing to volunteer, reach out or sign up on this sheet: https://lnkd.in/gXK4mfeC. Or email paigebjarreau@gmail.com
- If you are a scientist or any other type of science expert recently terminated or affected by the current administration's actions, and are willing to be featured, reach out or fill out this form! https://lnkd.in/gbq7cmG6
- If you are willing to sponsor a science artist to do this, reach out! If you want to help fund an artist on this project, everything given to Paige Jarreau's “buy me a coffee” page will go to this! https://lnkd.in/gm-9KQtR
We will be posting these stories via the @ScientistSelfies Instagram account, this LinkedIn page, and our Facebook page.
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Read more: https://climatesolutions.news/sectors/china-achieves-breakthrough-in-nuclear-fusion-research
Climate Solutions News · China Achieves Breakthrough in Nuclear Fusion ResearchChinese scientists make breakthrough in nuclear fusion with the EAST facility, reaching temperatures of 100 million degrees Celsius.
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Scientists scorn EPA push to say climate change isn't a danger, say just look around at the world
https://apnews.com/article/climate-change-danger-health-epa-trump-doctors-weather-9fc086f392716c1b7d2b32ab7db6cc7d
#ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #EPA #disinformation #misinformation #USpol #USpolitics #antiscience #ScienceMatters
AP News · Scientists scorn EPA push to say climate change isn't a danger, say just look around at the world