Kendra Maas

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#LatinInSTEM #QueerInSTEM #BlackInSTEM 🧪👩‍🔬

US citizens or permanent residents from an under-represented group! You can contact any NIH-funded researcher you admire & suggest applying for this supplement to join their lab! High school thru postdoc/faculty. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

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under trump’s project 2025, a middle-class family with two children would pay $2,600 in additional federal income tax by comparison, a married couple with two children and earnings of $5 million a year would enjoy a $325,000 tax cut

Project 2025 would overhaul the U.S. tax system. Here's how it could impact you.www.cbsnews.com Project 2025, a blueprint for the next Republican president, proposes major economic changes that could impact millions of Americans.

🧪🦠 I love following people's live skeeting of conferenced. Thanks for sharing @pathogenomenick.bsky.social

Day 2 of Genome Science 2024! First up in the Microbes and Microbiomes session is Lauren Cowley: talking about building machine learning models for geographical source attribution from genome sequence data (published here: elifesciences.org/articles/84167)

Rapid geographical source attribution of Salmonella enterica serovar Enteritidis genomes using hierarchical machine learningelifesciences.org Application of hierarchical machine learning to the geographical source attribution of Salmonella enteritidis indicates high utility for the rapid translation of raw pathogen genome sequencing data in...

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In Private Speech, JD Vance Said the “Devil Is Real” & Praised Alex Jones as Truth-Teller Vance gave the speech to the secretive Teneo Network. The VP nominee has been a member of the Leonard Leo-backed group, which seeks to cultivate conservative influence in business & culture. Full video here:

In Private Speech, J.D. Vance Said the “Devil Is Real” and Praised Alex Jones as a Truth-Tellerwww.propublica.org Vance gave the speech to the secretive Teneo Network. The GOP vice presidential nominee has been a member of the Leonard Leo-backed group, which seeks to cultivate conservative influence in business a...

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Vouchers are a wealth transfer to the rich and their private schools.

Arizona, the model for voucher programs across the country, has spent so much money paying private schoolers' tuition that it's now facing hundreds of millions in budget cuts to critical state programs and projects.

School Vouchers Were Supposed to Save Taxpayer Money. Instead They Blew a Massive Hole in Arizona’s Budget.www.propublica.org Arizona, the model for voucher programs across the country, has spent so much money paying private schoolers’ tuition that it’s now facing hundreds of millions in budget cuts to critical state program...

Trying to book something (hotel if not too expensive but also airbnb) in montreal for next month. I'm creeped out by the airbnb "hosts" with >20 listings but that seems common? What's going on?

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Senator who last week promoted a tweet that called his legislative opponents traitors punishable by death now asks “to take the political temperature down.”

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Roxane Gay

Progressive values and Democrats are not responsible for this violence. There is no both sides here. Violent rhetoric is the bread and butter of modern extreme conservatism. And lax gun laws put a semiautomatic rifle in the hands of a gunman.

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Please don’t “both sides” the “violent political rhetoric” conversation when one side regularly glorifies and intimidates with guns and the other side speaks out to end gun violence. These are not the same.

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D.

If it’s not helpful to you, by all means ignore this, but I’m just saying… It really helps me to recenter myself to think “Oh right. The worst fucking people on the planet want me to feel like we’re doomed. Fuck those guys, actually.”

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from now until Election Day, we connect every story back to Project 2025 Eg: The FBI is currently investigating the Trump shooter. But did you know that Project 2025 will place the FBI under Trump’s direct control, so he can decide which acts of political violence get investigated, and which don’t?

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Senate Dems should take one of their assorted gun control bills off the shelf, rename it something like "Trump Assassination Prevention Act," and force Rs to do a talking filibuster to block it

Made teff pilaf for the first time. It was tasty but not sure i love the mouth feel. To close to the size of sand against my teeth

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“We’re the party with a base of violent freaks who dress and act like mass shooters, who we also have legally enabled to carry AR-15s with them everywhere they go - and you’re telling us that this makes it real hard for us to catch genuine assassins?”

Wow, seems like there’s some inherent security issues with having a political base of supporters made up out of crazy people who dress in camo and open-carry rifles everywhere

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Wow, seems like there’s some inherent security issues with having a political base of supporters made up out of crazy people who dress in camo and open-carry rifles everywhere

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Clarence Thomas took $267,000 from a health insurance executive, then issued rulings that made health insurance companies more money, while harming millions of Americans. This is a bribe. This isn’t complicated. Expand the Supreme Court.

Clarence Thomas, a $267,000 RV, and Why American Health Care Suckswww.rollingstone.com Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas got an RV from a top health insurance executive. Then he protected the industry.

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If you wish you had a succinct, mainstream explanation of the horrors of Trump's Project 2025 you could send to your friends and relatives, People magazine has provided one. Please spread this link. No matter how bad you think it is, it's worse. people.com/what-is-proj...

What Is Project 2025? Inside the Far-Right Plan Threatening Everything from the Word 'Gender' to Public Educationpeople.com Donald Trump's far-right allies created Project 2025 as a blueprint for his possible second term. The controversial plan would push a Christian nationalist agenda that dramatically reshapes the U.S. g...

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My consulting firm specializes in training scientists how to talk to the public including writing op-Ed’s. I will waive my fee for any who can’t pay, and will happily review any draft op Ed’s or op Ed pitches about this.

Junior Scholars: Project 2025 is now breaking through to public consciousness. The more people learn about it, the more they hate it. Now is a great time to search that website, go to the section of your expertise, and write an oped. Keep the drip of bad news for them coming, all the way to Nov.

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From @tonyariley.bsky.social on how SCOTUS striking down Chevron is threatening the FCC's effort to enforce privacy protections in the wake of constant data breaches. Notably we learned today that an AT&T breach exposed "nearly all" its customers' metadata.

Chevron’s Demise Amplifies Threat to FCC’s Renewed Privacy Focusnews.bloomberglaw.com A $35 million settlement with a communications firm resolving allegations of unlawful record retention exemplifies the Federal Communications Commission’s most substantial privacy enforcement push in ...

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Remarkable finding in new Marist poll: By 68-32, voters say they're more concerned about a president who doesn't tell the truth than one who is too old to serve. Maybe we should cover Trump's serial lying as a sign of his unfitness for the presidency. 1/ (new piece) newrepublic.com/article/1837...

Shocker Poll Suggests Trump’s Lying May Be Huge Weakness for Himnewrepublic.com One possible reason the polls haven’t moved as much as pundits expected: Voters still don’t like or trust Trump. Can the Democrats shift focus to that?

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The IRS reported this week they collected $1 BILLION in taxes owed by rich tax cheats thanks to the Inflation Reduction Act funding that provided them the additional staffing to pursue these cases. First up on the GOP agenda for the next administration is gutting the IRS.

billionaire wealth in the US hit 6 trillion today, an all time high, and that’s double what it was before trump-gop passed their tax bill in 2017 that accelerated the rich getting absurdly insanely richer

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Very unfun fact: Project 2025 specifically names Minnesota's Boundary Waters Canoe Area and wants to remove its protected status and open it up to mining. This is the future Donald John Trump wants.

@atinygreencell.bsky.social Do you make/sell mag racks for plates and tubes?

Listening to @strictscrutiny.bsky.social to try to understand wtf is going on with scotus power grabs from Executive branch but also declaring presidents immune from criminal prosecution. Criple the federal govt except for the individual of the president??

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"In 1863 and 1867, revisions to the Judiciary Act sought to rein in a supreme court that was potentially pro-slavery. Now, we need to rein in one that is pro-authoritarian." newrepublic.com/article/1834...

The Case for Expanding the Supreme Court Has Never Been Strongernewrepublic.com Biden has repeatedly refused to endorse “court-packing.” The right-wing justices’ ruling on presidential immunity ought to change his mind.

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Gwen Snyder is uncivil

Our candidate is a rambling geriatric centrist with a horrifically mixed foreign policy record? Yeah okay the alternative is a guy who admirers Hitler and is literally telling us he's going to be a fascist dictator and toss his political opposition before military tribunals

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It was a privilege to work with @markabelan.bsky.social on an infographic that summarizes the role of microbes in methane cycling, both cells that make or break methane. We have English, German and Spanish versions! Use widely and freely :)

NEW PIECE: The Microbial Role of Climate Change Check out this infographic I made with @environmicrobio.bsky.social that introduces this unique intersection between methane, microbes, and climate change!

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Fight against daunting odds, because it’s the right thing to do, and because sometimes you win.

BREAKING NEWS: Voters turned out in numbers not seen in decades to stop the far-right National Rally from taking power in the French National Assembly. Polls predicted a first-place finish for National Rally, which instead came in third in initial results as polling stations closed.

Projections in France's election show voters rejecting the far rightwww.npr.org Voters turned out in numbers not seen in decades to stop the far-right National Rally from taking power in the French National Assembly. Polls predicted a first-place finish for National Rally, which ...

Aaaccckkkk this years plum crop was out of control. We thinned >75% of the fruit that set. But came home from vacation to a bunch of brown fruit. I'm guessing brown rot fungus. Pick off everything with any spots and spray with fruit tree fungacide?