Jung Choi "not going back!"
Retired Biology faculty from Georgia Tech. Headed up the MS Bioinformatics program until 2022. PULSE Fellow, promoting student-centered pedagogies and departmental transformation in undergrad life science ed. Ballroom dancer, bicyclist, avid reader.
- Reposted by Jung Choi "not going back!"Ramos' parents, originally from Ecuador, were set for their asylum hearing in late Feb. DHS abruptly moved it up to THIS MORNING. They are not in the U.S. illegally and have no criminal record. DHS is simply trying to end their asylum claims.
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- Reposted by Jung Choi "not going back!"I just called this place and asked how to donate, they are @leostowingmn on Venmo
- Tow truck driver offering free service returning abandoned vehicles to families of those abducted by ICE: "For the last three weeks, we have been getting nothing but death threats." www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/ne...
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- Sent Ossoff and Warnock (my state Senators) another email asking them to oppose DHS funding, particularly CBP and ICE.
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- Reposted by Jung Choi "not going back!"No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
- Meeting with DeKalb Dems over beer and barbeque
- Reposted by Jung Choi "not going back!"My weekly update on NIH funding. This is for all projects. The breakdown for competing and non-competing awards will follow. 1/4
- Reposted by Jung Choi "not going back!"This is a genAI company *doing its own research* to find that using its product reduces coding skills.
- Striking paper from researchers at Anthropic using a randomised control trial to look at the effects of AI use on skills acquisition. TL:DR ‘We found that using AI assistance led to a statistically significant decrease in mastery.’ www.anthropic.com/research/AI-...
- Worth reading the full thread of how the Surprise community turned out to protest. Powerful testimony at the end.
- Reposted by Jung Choi "not going back!"This is brilliant. I'm so grateful for this testimony. I've transcribed it to use in letters I'm writing. Sharing the full transcription here (see alt text to copy/paste it):
- Reposted by Jung Choi "not going back!"Maybe we shouldn't be accepting climate policy advice from two Epstein Files alumni (courtesy of @desmog.com): www.desmog.com/2025/11/05/b...
- Reposted by Jung Choi "not going back!"Shocking. The argument is so simple but surprising at the same time. I would never have thought about this in practice. Another reason why we should be very careful when operating under "previously established protocols".
- New draft: "Decline effects, statistical artifacts, and a meta-analytic paradox". In this manuscript I show how a common practice in meta-analysis (eg the 2015 Open Science Collaboration) creates artifactual signatures of poor scientific behavior. PDF: raw.githubusercontent.com/richarddmore... 1/x
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- Reposted by Jung Choi "not going back!"DHS said that the woman CBP shot in the chest in Portland was “involved” in a gang shooting. Her ~involvement~ was that suspected gang members sexually assaulted and robbed her.
- Reposted by Jung Choi "not going back!"Some jawdropping CBP crime statistics here...
- I testified Friday before Gov. Pritzker's commission studying abuses of ICE and CBP and tried to explain how the agencies went so far off track. It's actually way worse than I ever realized. Please read and share my testimony as Congress considers reform: www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/accountabi...
- Helps to personally know the police chief to get your abducted US citizen spouse back from ICE.
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- Reposted by Jung Choi "not going back!"‼️This famous photo from the Minnesota Tribune on Jan. 21 is from this incident, involving at least three of the same agents from Alex Pretti's killing. Thanks to the people replying who tipped me off to this.
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- Reposted by Jung Choi "not going back!"Holy moly this chart: Cumulative US measles cases
- (CNN) - The fast-growing measles outbreak in South Carolina is now the largest in the United States since the disease was declared eliminated in this country more than two decades ago. @cnn.com www.cnn.com/2026/01/27/h...
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- Reposted by Jung Choi "not going back!"Some thoughts: 1. The deadline for nominating a person or group for the Nobel Peace Prize is Feb. 1. 2. History professors are qualified nominators. 3. The people of Minnesota have been awe-inspiringly peaceful in the face of state violence. 4. He would be so mad.
- Reposted by Jung Choi "not going back!"How many STEM Ph.D.s were lost from the U.S. federal government last year? My colleagues @mghersher.bsky.social and @policyhound.bsky.social dug into a recent data release to find the answer. A @science.org exclusive. www.science.org/content/arti...
- Reposted by Jung Choi "not going back!"Why is the msm outside of Maine not covering this? It seems like a huge and very troubling story to me. ICE coming to observers houses or calling them on the phone warning them to back off??!! www.pressherald.com/2026/01/23/i...
- Must read: "If America is to climb out of this era of rage and hate, those who stand against the extremist wave cannot just show up and expect to be counted. They must loudly demand their voices be acknowledged in every setting and institution of civic life..."
- My latest, for the MIT Press Reader: Why is an anti-immigrant extremist force cracking down on non-immigrants? Because when extremists can't win over their in-group, they must assign dissenting members to an out-group in order to maintain legitimacy. thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/anatomy-of-e...
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- Reposted by Jung Choi "not going back!"Wife and I in tears reading this…
- Students at my nearby high school www.decaturish.com/schools/more...
- A protest this past Saturday in an Atlanta suburb www.decaturish.com/news/tucker/...
- So why are CBP and ICE agents armed with firearms? Do they actually need them to arrest migrant workers and their children? Violent criminals are the purview of local police, right?
- Reposted by Jung Choi "not going back!"One of the best things I’ve read in a while:
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- Reposted by Jung Choi "not going back!"I’ve never heard of a “law enforcement” agency putting an officer who just killed someone back on the street under 24 hours. And that’s because all shootings are treated as homicides pending investigation. This is as clear a sign as you’ll get that DHS personnel enjoy practical immunity from murder.
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- Disappointingly weak statement from Ossoff. Will oppose current funding bill but still falls way short of defunding CBP/ICE operations, impeaching Noem and Bondi (for blocking prosecution of CBP/ICE thugs)
- Reposted by Jung Choi "not going back!"The Senate may choose to vote together on the DHS and LHHS bills. Thus, a filibuster on DHS may mean no funding for NIH. What my colleagues are saying: “Shut it down, public health will understand. I’ll work without pay again.” - anonymous NIHer
- Reposted by Jung Choi "not going back!"Statement from the family of Alex Pretti.
- Reposted by Jung Choi "not going back!"My sister-in-law's dad died last week, in hospice in the VA hospital in Minneapolis. I just learned Alex Pretti was part of his care team. They shot Alex less than 1/2 mile from my niece's house while doing the same observation work that my niece is doing. These are real people. Step up folks!
- Reposted by Jung Choi "not going back!"My friend Sara posted this about the superb care her father received from with Alex Pretti Absolutely heartbreaking
- Reposted by Jung Choi "not going back!"There's a prison revolt at a concentration camp in Texas in solidarity with Minneapolis:
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- Reposted by Jung Choi "not going back!"And he didn’t. He tried to help a woman who’d just been assaulted. There was nothing rash, stupid, or radical about what he did. He showed kindness. And they killed him for it.
- This is so difficult to read. apnews.com/article/immi...
- Reposted by Jung Choi "not going back!"Alex Pretti "used to tell people off when they made sexist comments to female physicians. He bought me coffee when I had a really bad day as an intern...I laughed alongside him daily. He made a point to teach medical residents without judgement, but with a smile on his face and a joke."
- I'm usually very good at compartmentalizing. Having a hard time today. Need to refocus on what I CAN do, and ways I can serve my community. Serve boxes of food at the food pantry, tutor immigrant children with La Amistad. Plan sign(s) for the next protest I attend.
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- Reposted by Jung Choi "not going back!"Another angle of the ICE murder shows agents brutally shoving two women who were also acting as peaceful observers before homing in on, tackling and then gunning down Alex Pretti at close range.
- Reposted by Jung Choi "not going back!"Alex Pretti’s last words were “are you ok?” said the woman next to him who ICE also pepper sprayed in the face.
- Reposted by Jung Choi "not going back!"This is courage. Looking a masked, government fascist dead in the eye, face to face, knowing full well that your life is on the line. If elected officials had 1/10th of Alex Pretti's resolve, we would have far fewer troubles.
- Reposted by Jung Choi "not going back!"Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him. White. Hot. Rage.
- Reposted by Jung Choi "not going back!"Alex from our time working together, while he was in nursing school. Later, he moved to ICU, working as a nurse to support critically ill Veterans. He had such a great attitude. We’d chat between patients about trying to get in a mountain bike ride together. Will never happen now
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- Reposted by Jung Choi "not going back!"He was a nurse who took care of veterans. ICE murdered a nurse who cares for veterans.
