Yargl Blargl
Neuro/Biochem PhD. More replying and RTing than outright tweeting. Hidalgoist-Colauist
- Reposted by Yargl BlarglA competent opposition political party would cut together the footage of what ICE had been doing in the twin cities with Mike Johnson saying "ICE is doing what ICE is designed to do" and have it in ads all across the country
- Reposted by Yargl Blarglthis is actually impressive, making up a brand new nobel peace prize replacement is a genuine innovation in bribery absolutely nobody does corruption like FIFA
- Reposted by Yargl BlarglVital piece of investigative reporting from Sky. They've uncovered the X algorithm which feeds users extremist right wing material from the moment they join the site. It is a far-right radicalisation engine, by design. news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
- Reposted by Yargl BlarglThis game is like I got caught smoking a baseball and now I have to smoke a whole pack of baseball
- Reposted by Yargl BlarglA poll from the journal Nature found that 75% of researchers in the U.S. are considering leaving the country. That includes a man who’s been dubbed the "Mozart of Math." (This PBS story on the scientific brain drain is heartbreaking & ominous for medicine, imo.) www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLvO...
- Reposted by Yargl BlarglI didn't take pics but the feeling of being in a group of people with no visible beginning or end was so thrilling. The opposite of online anomie, and a living counterpoint to the wary, isolated, compartmentalized world the shitheads want to make. It's simple and obvious I guess but it means a lot.
- Reposted by Yargl BlarglThis is what every Democratic state needs to do, tell its state university leaders that they will lose all state appropriations if they sign the compact. Take the decision out of feckless college administrators’ hands.
- Reposted by Yargl BlarglNEW The White House is blocking the NIH from awarding new research grants for the rest of the fiscal year Chokes off billions in research funding Gift link www.wsj.com/politics/pol... with @nidhisubs.bsky.social
- Reposted by Yargl BlarglYou: pornbots keep randomly following me on Bluesky Me, an intellectual: pornbots are citing my books on Google Scholar
- Reposted by Yargl BlarglCar buyers will now be allowed write off up to $10,000/ year in interest paid on qualifying auto loans Car drivers can still get over $3,500 in parking tax benefits too But, bike commuters got their $240/year benefit cut It's not about the budget, it's a preference & subsidy for people who drive
- Reposted by Yargl BlarglI think Zohran is an early sign a big part of the reaction to Trump 1 was “we need to go back to normal, we gotta nominate the most conventional people imaginable” which is how we got Biden that comprehensively failed, and a lot more people are open to real alternatives this time around
- Reposted by Yargl BlarglIncreasingly, the Mamdani story looks like the Claudine Gay story: a wannabe scholar with some racist views pushes the story, and connects with Rufo, while the Times makes it a national story. This time, the Times cut out Rufo. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-campai...
- Reposted by Yargl BlarglGenuinely curious what journalists think an academic is. If you are covering the Times on this and miss the point that they elevated someone who may or may not be an active PhD student publishing junk science into “an academic”, you missed a key part of what they messed up. bsky.app/profile/jool...
- Reposted by Yargl BlarglYou gotta read at least to the third one
- Reposted by Yargl BlarglDemocrats too often create a villain-less politics, and it’s a reason why many people don’t trust them.
- Reposted by Yargl BlarglIf you're a member of the Democratic gerontocracy, the chances of you catching a primary challenger just went up 1000%.
- Reposted by Yargl Blarglseen some people complaining that this is a political stunt and lemme say if this was the kind of political stunt more politicians were doing on a regular basis we wouldn't be where we are today dude is actually putting himself on the line here, fuck off with that shit
- Reposted by Yargl BlarglIt's hard to imagine that in 2025 some high-profile labs still don't understand false discovery rate corrections, but the evidence here is pretty shocking.
- Reposted by Yargl BlarglThey're literally doing the meme
- Reposted by Yargl BlarglPeak analysis of cell-free RNA finds recurrently protected narrow regions with clinical potential. #cfRNA #CellFreeRNA #Genomics #Genetics #GenomeBiology genomebiology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
- Reposted by Yargl BlarglHow bad will it be? Catastrophic. Proposed cuts to #NSF, #NIH, and #NASA will set the US R&D landscape back 25 yrs+, cause economic and job loss now, and undermine innovations to come. But, this is the WH's *proposed* budget. Speak up now before it is too late. (inflation adjusted $-s below)
- Reposted by Yargl BlarglOut @nature.com: Clonal tracing with somatic epimutations 🧬 Single cell methylome encodes cell state & clonal identity 🔨 EPI-Clone reads out both (+mutations, +RNA) at scale 🩸 Clonal expansions of HSCs are universal from age 50, not driven by CH mutations doi.org/10.1038/s415... 🧵
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- Reposted by Yargl BlarglYesterday, the NIH R35 “Outstanding Investigator” grant to fund scientists in my lab studying antibiotic resistance was terminated for reasons not related to the content of the science, or any actions taken by me or members of my lab
- Reposted by Yargl BlarglPhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081
- Reposted by Yargl BlarglOk so yeah, this has quickly become the #1 misunderstanding about the canceled grants the grants are not “subsidies” or “entitlements” to Harvard or Princeton or whatever they aren’t going into universities’ endowments they are competitive contracts won by these universities to do research
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- Reposted by Yargl BlarglWoah. Survival among the top wealth quartiles in northern/western/southern Europe were higher than that among the wealthiest Americans. Survival in the wealthiest US quartile were similar the poorest quartile in northern/western Europe www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
- Reposted by Yargl BlarglThere are only around 140 coal plants still operating, with hundreds of retirements in recent years. Keeping them running costs more than actually building new solar and wind power — in 99 percent of cases. Oh and also coal killed half a million people in the US between 1999 and 2020.
- Reposted by Yargl Blarglthis is a staggering amount of money to build camps—suggesting that building & running a gulag will be the primary function of the otherwise gutted Trump-state in last fiscal yr: "D.H.S. allocated about $3.4 billion for the entire custody operation overseen by ICE" www.nytimes.com/2025/04/07/u...
- Reposted by Yargl BlarglUnbelievable. Richard Youle, winner of the Breakthrough Prize for Life Sciences, just got fired from the NIH. If you want to know what madness looks like, here it is, my friend.
- NEW: The doctor behind breakthrough Parkinson’s research was among the scientists purged from the National Institutes of Health, the US’s leading medical research agency. www.wired.com/story/doctor...
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[This post could not be retrieved] - Reposted by Yargl Blarglabducted by masked agents of the state in the streets of the capital and slated for deportation for the offense of being linked to views
- Reposted by Yargl BlarglKilling off our research facilities and talent pipelines is perhaps the biggest, dumbest self-own in American history.
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- Reposted by Yargl Blarglwill Senate Dems vote to enable Elon Musk's dismantling of Article I of the Constitution? seems a critical mass just might prospect.org/politics/202...
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- Reposted by Yargl BlarglAgain, for 🇺🇸 observers looking for lessons/Narratives™️ in 🇩🇪, the story is "80% of voters rejected the fascists, the main surprise is young voters flocked to the left this year, & unlike 🇺🇸 the country held an election where votes were quickly counted & all parties accepted the results immediately"
- Reposted by Yargl Blargl1. Today the NIH director issued a new directive slashing overhead rates to 15%. I want to provide some context on what that means and why it matters. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
- Reposted by Yargl BlarglThis is an argument for civil disobedience, not against it.
