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James Endres Howell

@aram Sputnik. A generation before me. Blind panic from top to bottom, opening a short window during which the broad society, and relevant institutions, were willing to make sacrifices to commit resources to science education.

Primary result: total failure.

Secondary result: every five or ten years, another comprehensive report appears that details the previous cycle's failures, and makes recommendations that are invariably ignored in the next cycle.

#science#teaching#k12
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William Lindsey :toad:

“National Institutes of Health officials have urged scientists to remove all references to mRNA vaccine technology from their grant applications, two researchers said, in a move that signaled the agency might abandon a promising field of medical research.”

~ Arthur Allen

#Trump #fascism #purges #science #medicine #research #vaccines
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KFF Health NewsScientists Say NIH Officials Told Them To Scrub mRNA References on Grants - KFF Health NewsTwo senior scientists say National Institutes of Health officials advised them to remove references to mRNA vaccines in grant applications, and they fear the Trump administration will abandon a promising field of medical research.
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Zhi Zhu 🕸️

DOGE’s Cuts at the #USDA Could Cause US Grocery Prices to Rise & Invasive Species to Spread

Thousands of #US Dept of #Agriculture employees, including food inspectors & disease-sniffing #dog trainers, remain out of work, leaving food to rot in ports & pests to proliferate.
wired.com/story/usda-food-supp

"the losses could cause #food to go rotten... even higher grocery #prices... potentially devastating invasive species getting into the country."

Headline and photo with caption from Wired: Headline: DOGE’s Cuts at the USDA Could Cause US Grocery Prices to Rise and Invasive Species to Spread Thousands of US Department of Agriculture employees, including food inspectors and disease-sniffing dog trainers, remain out of work, leaving food to rot in ports and pests to proliferate. by Kate Knibbs Business Mar 17, 2025 6:00 AM Photo: A cute beagle in a US Customs and Border Protection vest. Caption: Jarvis, a beagle with US Customs and Border Protection, works in the baggage claim area at O’Hare International Airport in Chicago.Photograph: Daniel Acker/Getty Images
#Musk#Doge#Trump
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ESO

🚨 ESO analysis confirms that the INNA industrial megaproject would have a devastating and irreversible impact on the facilities at Paranal Observatory in #Chile.

➡️ Light #pollution would increase by at least 35% above ESO's Very Large Telescope, by a minimum of 5% above ESO’s Extremely Large Telescope and by at least 55% above the south site of the Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory

➡️ Air turbulence would also increase, degrading seeing conditions by up to 40%

➡️ Vibrations from the project could seriously impair the functioning of the ELT and the VLT Interferometer, which are both extremely sensitive to micro-seismic noise.

➡️ Dust during construction is also problematic as it settles on the telescope mirrors and obstructs their view.

Full story here: eso.org/public/news/eso2506/

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www.eso.orgNew ESO analysis confirms severe damage from industrial complex planned near ParanalAn in-depth technical analysis by the European Southern Observatory (ESO) has evaluated the impact of the INNA megaproject on the facilities at the Paranal Observatory, Chile — and the results are alarming. The analysis reveals that INNA would increase light pollution above the Very Large Telescope (VLT) by at least 35% and by more than 50% above the south site of the Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory (CTAO-South). INNA would also increase air turbulence in the area, further degrading conditions for astronomical observations, while vibrations from the project could seriously impair the functioning of some of the astronomical facilities, like the Extremely Large Telescope (ELT), at the Paranal Observatory.
#environment#astrodon#astronomy
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ESO

The lasers our Very Large Telescope (VLT) pierce the Milky Way… but what is that vertical glow just below? 🤔

That’s the zodiacal light: caused by dust grains in the Solar System, it's so faint that it’s only visible in the darkest skies, such as those of Chile’s Atacama Desert.

And the pristine night sky 🌌 in this region has always been intertwined with the culture and traditions of its indigenous people, discover how: eso.org/public/images/potw2511

📷 F. Millour/ESO

A vertical image of the night sky. The Milky Way – a dense band of stars and dark dust lanes – crosses the sky diagonally. Four yellow laser beams coming from outside of the image converge towards the bright core of the Milky Way. The zodiacal light – a white, diffuse and faint smudge of light – stretches vertically from the horizon.
#astrodon#astronomy#astrophysics
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AkaSci 🛰️

This feels like an alien invasion of the United States.

"NIH officials have urged scientists to remove all references to mRNA vaccine technology from their grant applications, two researchers said, in a move that signaled the agency might abandon a promising field of medical research.

'Kennedy’s war on vaccines has started,' the scientist told his colleague.
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#Politics #Science
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KFF Health NewsScientists Say NIH Officials Told Them To Scrub mRNA References on Grants - KFF Health NewsTwo senior scientists say National Institutes of Health officials advised them to remove references to mRNA vaccines in grant applications, and they fear the Trump administration will abandon a promising field of medical research.
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Stephen Sekula

Let’s take a look at the next installment from my visit to #SURF last week. After arriving at the Ross Campus, we walked from the end of the tram line to the first of the VERY large DUNE caverns. DUNE is the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment and will consist of huge neutrino detectors comprised from 17,000 tons of liquid argon. 800,000 tons of rock has been excavated to make the caverns.

THEY. ARE. HUGE.

Each is over 100m long.

We walk down the main corridor that connects to the DUNE caverns.
A map of the SURF campuses provided by the SURF facility. We are walking in the area known as the Ross Campus near the LBNF DUNE caverns.
One of the two DUNE caverns, photographed from an overlook on one end. The cavern is 1.5 American football fields in length.
A schematic of a DUNE detector to be located at SURF.
#DUNE#neutrino#underground
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Flipboard Science Desk

How could you resist clicking on a story with this headline?: “This article is scientifically proven to improve your willpower.” @sciencefocus tells us how scientists are discovering some mind tricks that can take your powers of self-control to the next level:

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BBC Science Focus Magazine · This article is scientifically proven to improve your willpowerScientists are discovering there are some mind tricks that can take your powers of self-control to the next level…
#Science#Psychology#Brain
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Flipboard Science Desk

From @ScienceAlert: Baleen whales undertake some of the longest yearly migrations, with humpbacks travelling up to 8,300 km (about 5,150 miles) from Antarctica to warmer wintering grounds. With them, the whales shuttle resources from nutrient-rich polar regions to the less resourced warmer regions of the oceans. Amazingly enough, a huge amount of this nutrient distribution comes from whale urine, which disperses nitrogen and other elements through the ocean when nature inevitably calls.

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ScienceAlert · Whale Pee Transports Nutrients Across Thousands of Miles, Study RevealsGreat rivers of whale pee make a remarkable contribution to Earth's cycling of nutrients, a new study reveals.
#Science#Oceans#Whales
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Anne Ominous

so the research community is fighting back against trump

and the courts, for now, are on their side.

but i feel like there are four years of this vehement anti-science agenda ahead, the trupm admin started trying to dismantle pretty much all of our scientific endeavors immediately, and they installed leadership at various agencies that will move to fulfill their goals.
so while the pushback is awesome, it feels like more needs to happen.

#science #research #news

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screenshot of article - Last month, the National Institutes of Health lobbed a bombshell at universities that receive NIH grants by proposing to slash billions of dollars in overhead payments they receive to support cutting-edge research on their campuses. But on 5 March a federal judge in Massachusetts defused the bomb before it could explode. In response to a lawsuit brought by 22 states and a coalition of research organizations, U.S. District Court Judge Angel Kelley issued an injunction that prevents NIH from implementing the rule change, which would lower the rate to a flat 15%—far below what NIH has previously negotiated with many universities. The government now must decide whether it is going to appeal the decision. Kate Heffernan, a life sciences attorney with Epstein Becker Green, thinks the government’s arguments in trying to avoid the injunction suggest it has little chance of winning an appeal. But President Donald Trump’s administration still has a few options if it wants to try to shrink spending on indirect costs, she adds, including changing the rules governing how federal health agencies craft new policies.
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MediaFaro Magazine

A study solves the mystery of the ‘lost’ arctic owls that appeared in northern Spain three years ago.

Analysis of the isotopes of their feathers rules out the possibility that they were born in captivity and suggests that they came from somewhere in the Arctic and may have arrived on a boat.

mediafaro.org/article/20250316

One of the arctic snowy owls that arrived in Asturias. | Juan Villar Sordo/SEO Birdlife
El País · A study solves the mystery of the ‘lost’ arctic owls that appeared in northern Spain three years ago.By Esther Sánchez
#Owls#ArcticOwls#Wildlife
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