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by pmags 2y ago
The US government being alarmed at such actions is "interesting" in light of arrests of valid visa holders and green card holders in the US for freedom of speech issues.
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by pmags 2y ago
The administration's record to date with respect to USAID, CDC, NIH, and Dept of Ed, suggests a vanishingly low probability of any "relatively benign scenarios". Based on past actions I think the appropriate Bayesian prior f
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by pmags 2y ago
It seems Research.gov has updated the URL. Now available at: https://www.research.gov/grfp/AwardeeList.do?method=loadAwar...
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by pmags 2y ago
You seem to have left out the critical next sentence (which is the topic of article): But without personnel to manage the initiatives or to disburse the money, it’s not clear how the work will continue.
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by pmags 2y ago
NOTE added, 9pm EDT: This link to the award lists is currently broken. I don't know if this is simply an issue with research.gov serving up the data or if it has been intentionally removed from public view. EDIT: Research.gov seems to
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NSF slashes prestigious PhD fellowship awards by half(nature.com)
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by pmags 2y ago
I made a post about this earlier but it was just the raw data from NSF. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43624506 This article in Nature includes significant discussion about NSF GRFPs, their history, and trends over t
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Cells are swapping their mitochondria. What does this mean for our health?(nature.com)
139 points by pmags 2y ago|51 comments
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by pmags 2y ago
As per the NY Times article: On Tuesday, a study in The Lancet estimated that suspending PEPFAR could lead to about one million new H.I.V. infections by 2030 and could lead to nearly 500,000 AIDS deaths among children and the orphaning of
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All Federal Experts on HIV Prevention in Children Overseas Were Dismissed(nytimes.com)
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>50% cut in NSF Graduate Research Awards for 2025(research.gov)
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by pmags 2y ago
The National Science Foundation announced Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) awards today. These awards directly fund graduate students across the natural sciences (math, physics, chemistry, biology), engineering, and social scienc
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by pmags 2y ago
If you haven't seen it, I recommend the movie "Cane Toads: An Unnatural History". https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0130529/ The "Peter Pan" mutants sound clever, but biocontrol has such a dodg
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NIH scientists have a cancer breakthrough. Layoffs are delaying it(washingtonpost.com)
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Bessent: Federal layoffs will help fill factory jobs created by Trump tariffs(thehill.com)
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Trump administration rolls back forest protections in bid to ramp up logging(apnews.com)
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by pmags 2y ago
Above I'm just reporting what the New Yorker reports that Colossus has accomplished. Reading between the lines, I take the reporting to imply that these 20 edits are what Colossus thinks is sufficient (at least for marketing purposes
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by pmags 2y ago
Yes, species/lineage/population distinctions are quite fuzzy at the level of divergence under consideration here (dire wolves vs gray wolves). Here's what was actually have done according to the New Yorker article, starting w
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by pmags 2y ago
Here's the key text from Kennedy's post on X: "I also visited with these two extraordinary healers, Dr. Richard Bartlett and Dr. Ben Edwards who have treated and healed some 300 measles-stricken Mennonite children using aeros
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CDC's top laboratory on STDs is shut by Trump administration(statnews.com)
157 points by pmags 2y ago|96 comments
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by pmags 2y ago
More "own goals" by the US in the fight against infectious disease. See also: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/04/health/cdc-sti-lab-gonorr...
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After 'coding error' triggers firings, top NIH scientists called back to work(science.org)
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by pmags 2y ago
https://archive.is/RkCst Color me dubious about "coding errors" when Musk and his lap DOGE-ies are involved.
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Laura Loomer Is a Warning(theatlantic.com)
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by pmags 2y ago
For information about why you might care about who Laura Loomer is, and how her actions may contribute to the weakening of US cybersecurity , see this previous HN discussion: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/03&#x2
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by pmags 2y ago
I'll draw the reader's attention to the last few paragraphs: Liu's lab has made much of its work freely accessible, sharing DNA blueprints through a nonprofit library used by tens of thousands of labs worldwide. "
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U.S. stock futures tumble indicating another plummet on Wall Street(reuters.com)
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Things look grim for the opening bell on Monday. As of 6:41pm EDT on Sunday: * S&P futures: -4.13% * NASDAQ futures: -4.89% * DOW futures: -3.72%
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by pmags 2y ago
NPR: "Trump signs order ending union bargaining rights for wide swaths of federal employees" -- https://www.npr.org/2025/03/28/nx-s1-5343474/trump-collectiv...
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by pmags 2y ago
I'm not a big fan of the Cato Institute, but here's an interesting take on Navarro's evolution on trade and tariff's from 2018: https://www.cato.org/regulation/fall-2018/peter-navarros-con... L

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