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by pmags 1y ago
Thanks. Having read the (auto-translated) article in Der Spiegel, I agree that Bär's prior behavior suggests nepotism.
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by pmags 1y ago
In early March, the agency announced that it had arrested forty-eight people in New Mexico—a month later, their identities and whereabouts remain unknown. ● ENFORCED DISAPPEARANCES, Amnesty International -- https://www.amnesty.
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by pmags 1y ago
Evidence? Citations? Suggested reading?
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Germany creates 'super–high-tech ministry' for research, technology, aerospace(science.org)
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Trump seeks to end climate research at premier U.S. climate agency(science.org)
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by pmags 1y ago
Pete Hegseth faces new allegations of alcohol abuse and misconduct https://www.npr.org/2025/01/22/nx-s1-5270033/pete-hegseth-fa... Hegseth’s ex-wife gives new statement to FBI amid scrutiny over his nomi
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by pmags 1y ago
Do you consider a further 4-day delay as requested by the DOJ to be "reasonable" given the prior events in this case? For example, in the Supreme Court ruling Justic Sotomayor included the following statement: "The United St
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by pmags 1y ago
I think this meets the definition of one type of constitutional crisis, i.e. "...a fight among branches of government in which neither side backs down, and there is no clear resolution within the constitutional system." https:&#x
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The Great Torpedo-Bat Panic(theatlantic.com)
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Pharmaceutical Tariffs: The What and the How(science.org)
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Mpox Outbreak in Africa Traced Back to Squirrels(scientificamerican.com)
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by pmags 2y ago
According to the "passback" documents given to NASA officials on Thursday, the space agency's science programs would receive nearly a 50 percent cut in funding. After the agency received $7.5 billion for science in fiscal-ye
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Trump White House budget proposal eviscerates science funding at NASA(arstechnica.com)
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by pmags 2y ago
I too would love to see a follow-up study. Unfortunately the research was done at Columbia University, which has suffered massive arbitrary grant freezes....
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How Trump 2.0 is slashing NIH-backed research – in charts(nature.com)
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by pmags 2y ago
Glad to see this, though to my non-lawyerly eyes the ruling is pretty lilly-livered on the points of "facilitate" and "effectuate".
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White House Moves to Cancel Migrant's Social Security Numbers(nytimes.com)
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by pmags 2y ago
This seems to amount to an attempt to change someone's legal status by manipulating the SSA database: The effort hinges on a surprising new tactic: repurposing Social Security’s “death master file,” which for years has been used to tr
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by pmags 2y ago
To be clear -- the attorney is a US Citizen who was returning from a trip outside of the US. Border agents pressured Makled to hand over his cell phone. He refused. After more than 90 minutes of back-and-forth, he eventually showed agents
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by pmags 2y ago
In addition, the Justice Department has told it's attorney's they can't attend American Bar Association events: https://www.reuters.com/legal/us-justice-dept-bars-its-attor...
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US NIH scientists barred from attending conferences on their own time and dime(reuters.com)
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by pmags 2y ago
I posted the article here, and I had a fairly similar reaction to yours. I was tempted to remove the "What does this mean for our health?" part of the title, but I thought that such a large edit might be against HN policy / t
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by pmags 2y ago
Job cuts at the US traffic safety regulator instigated by Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency disproportionately hit staff assessing self-driving risks... The NHTSA, which has been a thorn in Tesla’s side for years,
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America Is Backsliding Toward Its Most Polluted Era(theatlantic.com)
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by pmags 2y ago
Some key text from the article: At the behest of its parent agency, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), NIH will not only block new funding for the university, but also stop paying investigators working on all existing
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NIH freezes all research grants to Columbia University(science.org)
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Trump Administration Cuts Research Funding, Claiming It Creates Climate Anxiety(nytimes.com)
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by pmags 2y ago
The paper itself (open access): Iwasaki K, Neuhauser C, Stokes C, Rayshubskiy A. The fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster, as a microrobotics platform. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2025 Apr 15;122(15):e2426180122. doi: 10.1073/pnas.24261801
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After April Fools' Day purge, U.S. health agencies spiral into chaos(science.org)
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American Is Arrested in Thailand on Charges of Criticizing Royalty(nytimes.com)
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