Logan Johnson
Assistant Professor of Food Science
Oklahoma State University
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- Reposted by Logan JohnsonThis arrest of @donlemonofficial.bsky.social is shocking but it is all in their heinous playbook — state run media and a quashing of those who will not comply. Masks off for them and gloves off for us www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/u...
- Reposted by Logan Johnson@profgalloway.com and I got together to reflect on yet another murder of an American at the hands of federal law enforcement in Minneapolis. Absolutely tragic. RIP Alex Pretti youtu.be/N7RfB1dVxuA?...
- Reposted by Logan JohnsonLying murderer and murderous liar
- Reposted by Logan JohnsonClarissa explains it all to the DHS Instagram account
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- Reposted by Logan JohnsonThe left has a rhetoric problem? Renee Good was labeled a domestic terrorist before any investigation at all. That’s their approach - did it in Chicago, too. And that video doesn’t show what they think it does.
- Reposted by Logan JohnsonTLDR; The PSF has made the decision to put our community and our shared diversity, equity, and inclusion values ahead of seeking $1.5M in new revenue. Please read and share. pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/10/NSF-... 🧵
- Reposted by Logan JohnsonNYPD reported no arrests. So much for that antifa violence some people were expecting.
- Reposted by Logan JohnsonThis is why we fund scientists to study things like oyster slobber even if you don’t think it sounds important
- ⚠️ Chinese researchers have invented bone glue that mimics how oysters stick to surfaces underwater. The adhesive can reportedly repair orthopedic fractures in 2-3 minutes, even in blood-rich environments, and is bioabsorbable. interestingengineering.com/science/chin...
- An important story and potential development for Land Grant Institutions. Among the 6 programs being proposed to cut includes the entire Statistics program at University of Nebraska-Lincoln. budgetprocess.unl.edu/proposed-bud...
- As more schools continue to face budget challenges and program cuts, I imagine these drastic cuts will continue. As researchers, where will questions around sound practices in analysis and interpretation go? I imagine great use of ChatGPT and AI and less critical evaluation of data and results.
- Reposted by Logan JohnsonI am beyond excited to announce that ggplot2 4.0.0 has just landed on CRAN. It's not every day we have a new major #ggplot2 release but it is a fitting 18 year birthday present for the package. Get an overview of the release in this blog post and be on the lookout for more in-depth posts #rstats
- Reposted by Logan JohnsonWow imagine that
- The Trump administration used Benny Johnson's claims that his house was "burned to the ground" and that "people were murdered in my front yard" to justify its federal takeover of DC. @kenbensinger.bsky.social found out that Johnson made it all up. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/30/b...
- Reposted by Logan JohnsonThis definitely makes me forget about the Epstein files.
- Reposted by Logan JohnsonNIH will only accept six new, renewal, resubmission, or revision applications from an individual Principal Investigator/Program Director or Multiple Principal Investigator for all council rounds in a calendar year. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide....
- Reposted by Logan JohnsonCLARIFICATION : The Trevor Project's hotline will still be live. But basically this means LGBTQ people can no longer be connected to it through the US national 988 suicide prevention hotline. They will need to be contacted DIRECTLY So spread this around They can be texted. They can be called.
- Reposted by Logan Johnsonmust be incredibly frustrating and disheartening to have federal funding that was promised to you for important work suddenly and arbitrarily ripped away
- Reposted by Logan JohnsonThese are not just grants. This is thousands of people who devoted their lives and careers - taking pay cuts, working long hours, living with uncertainty - all for the chance to try to make people's lives a bit better for you and your loved ones. This breaks my heart.
- Cutting NIH or NSF funding sounds abstract. Seeing what research is actually being cut makes it real. Kudos to @nytimes.com for this piece: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
- Reposted by Logan JohnsonThis is really the perfect use of generative AI: to create a report whose purpose is solely to exist as A Report, which no one is supposed to read because no one involved in its creation even pretends to have the slightest genuine interest in the actual facts at issue.
- Seven of the sources cited in MAHA commission's report do not exist: “The paper cited is not a real paper that I or my colleagues were involved with," says one researcher. www.notus.org/health-scien...
- Reposted by Logan JohnsonAmazing. Right out in the open: "universities are free to do research as long as they're sympathetic to the administration." I want to personally play this clip in the face of every fucking clown who spent the last several years pretending that the left is the "real" threat to free speech.
- Reposted by Logan JohnsonAmerica cannot long remain free, nor first among nations, if it becomes the kind of place where universities are dismantled because they don't align politically with the current head of the government.
- Reposted by Logan JohnsonNorthwestern has not received any NIH funds since March. No written communication about why or what can be done. Thank you Ben Singer for raising awareness at #ATS2025
- Reposted by Logan Johnson"fully operational mobile McDonald’s unit" is a phrase that makes me feel like maybe i've passed away and all the news i read is all just the final neurons in my brain racing around making haphazard connections in the moments before darkness
- Reposted by Logan JohnsonLet's apply education for the benefits of the world and the US. The US economy depends on it. -- Last year, the U.S. sold more educational services to the rest of the world than it sold in natural gas and coal **combined** -- Every $1 of research funded by NIH generates $2.56 in economic activity
- Reposted by Logan Johnson“On today’s X, #AcademicTwitter is dead. And most scholars in the world do not want to be active on what the platform has become.” ~ @claesdevreese.bsky.social
- Reposted by Logan JohnsonChina is trying to recruit U.S. government scientists fired by DOGE www.politico.eu/newsletter/c...
- Reposted by Logan JohnsonOpenAI-generated western blots? And we thought that photoshopping data was bad. This is going to be very hard to pick up... 😟
- Reposted by Logan JohnsonWorking with an interdisciplinary team, we have developed a website to communicate how the White House's proposed cuts to health research would cause losses of $16B and 68,500 jobs. Find out how your community may be impacted. Explore more at SCIMaP: scienceimpacts.org a 🧵
- Reposted by Logan JohnsonPeter Marks’s resignation letter. Everyone should read this.
- Reposted by Logan Johnson"In a minefield of glitchy AI search and social media, Wikipedia becomes one of the most reliable places on the internet" Read more, via CNN Business ➡️ edition.cnn.com/2025/01/14/b...
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- Reposted by Logan JohnsonThe Trump administration has terminated $800 million in grants to Johns Hopkins University, spurring the nation’s top spender on research and development to plan layoffs and cancel health projects
- Reposted by Logan JohnsonBut, certainly, this must be the elitist blue state institutions ripping off the taxpayers. Colored coding the graph for states where Trump won (red) or Harris won (blue) doesn’t support that narrative. 19/n
- Reposted by Logan JohnsonGulf of Distraction
- Reposted by Logan JohnsonThis says it all
- Reposted by Logan JohnsonPresident Musk made a lot of news today
- Reposted by Logan JohnsonWhenever you hear someone sneer about scientific research that seems useless to them — “they’re studying the spit of lizards?!” — remind them that’s exactly how we got Ozempic. globalnews.ca/news/9793403...
- Reposted by Logan JohnsonGovernment isn't a business. The goal isn't to save money. Success isn't measured by budget surplus. The goal is to spend money, investing in society. Every dollar spent on education, healthcare, and science is an investment in our collective wellbeing.
- People in power don’t care about the consequences of breaking government institutions. They don’t care about research, food safety, education, nor do they have plans on how to make them better. Move fast and break things. youtu.be/2xXLycFv5Gc?...
- Notice how there are no plans on how to make research more broadly functional better. No clear plans for FAA safety changes. No discussion on bird flu. Etc etc……. They do not care about you.
- Reposted by Logan JohnsonAnother assault on US competitiveness at a time when biomedicine is roaring with innovation, an own-goal in a high-stakes international tournament. Of course the real losers are American people needing medicines and cures. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
- Reposted by Logan JohnsonA Primer on Indirect Cost Rates
- Reposted by Logan JohnsonWhat this long and detailed NYT piece calmly calls an “extraordinary flexing of power by a private individual” is in fact a blatantly unconstitutional usurpation of Congress’s Article I powers and delegation of the President’s Article II duties. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/03/u...
- Reposted by Logan Johnson"We might take a stand at some point. A bold response isn’t completely off the table, but unfortunately, Elon Musk locked us out of the room with the table, and we haven’t been able to come to a consensus on which locksmith to call."
- Reposted by Logan JohnsonArticle from @science.org re: today's freeze on #NIH study sections, Council, comms, hiring, travel www.science.org/content/arti...
- Reposted by Logan JohnsonIf you’ve been directly impacted by a pause or cancellation of an NIH study session, we @forbes.com would like to talk to you
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- ❓Question❓ How do we as a scientific community, and especially as a young researcher myself, handle the publication of poor quality manuscripts in well known journals? I recognize I don’t have the largest following. My background is in food and animal agriculture. 1/
- I recently reviewed a paper but was not offered the chance to review the resubmission after the editor stated that my critiques were “excellent” and that I would be asked to review any resubmission. This manuscript is now accepted and posted to the journals webpage. 2/
- Looking at recently accepted papers from this journal, including the one I reviewed, they lack scientific rigor. This journal is generally well recognized in my field. I’ve emailed the handling editor and described my frustrations. My broader question, how do we broadly deal with this? 3/
- I think the first answer is, conduct sound, high quality work ourselves. But should we (young researchers especially) review/publish in these types of journals? Where should we publish our work? I gather this issue plagues many scientific communities and my frustrations are not unique. End/
- Amazing protocol and accessible and robust results. It’s fascinating how poorly many commercial antibodies perform, as demonstrated by these data.
- Poorly validated antibodies fuel the reproducibility crisis. YCharOS shares a protocol for antibody validation using KO cell lines. tinyurl.com/NP-article Read also the N&V. tinyurl.com/NP-comment Glad that our study is cited as an example for improving data quality. tinyurl.com/CSC-Letter
- Reposted by Logan Johnson🚀 Exciting update for #rstats enthusiasts! Our engineers have powered-up R deployments on Connect Cloud. Shiny Apps & Quarto Docs now deploy and reload in just seconds! 🔗 Sign up for free to experience the speed: connect.posit.cloud And please help us spread the word—repost to share the news!
- How exciting! A great thread in the speed of adoption of Bluesky by the scientific community 🦋👨🏽🔬
