William Lindsey :toad:<p>"In total, more than 20,500 workers, or about 18% of the Department of Health and Human Services’ workforce, have left or been pushed out, according to ProPublica’s analysis of federal worker departures using public information from the HHS employee directory.</p><p>The analysis is an undercount — it doesn’t include the hundreds or even thousands of workers who have received layoff notices but remain on administrative leave."</p><p><a href="https://toad.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/healthcare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>healthcare</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/RFKJr" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RFKJr</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/research" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>research</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>science</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/medicine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>medicine</span></a> <br>/2</p>
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#Meta is reorganising its #AI #organisation, again: this time into four new groups under the #MetaSuperintelligenceLabs (#MSL). The new groups will focus on #foundationmodels, #research, #productintegration, and #infrastructure. https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/19/meta-is-shaking-up-its-ai-org-again/?eicker.news #tech #media #news
TechCrunch · Meta is shaking up its AI org, again | TechCrunchOn Friday, The Information reported that Meta was preparing to tear down its existing AI org and reorganize it into four new groups. Four days later, the change has been made official with an internal memo.
This is important research but its conceptual blinkers are troubling.
The researchers say the therapy would not be suitable for people who ‘struggle to tell the difference between emotions and physical sensations’.
Trouble is, our emotions ARE physical sensations! This is true for all of us. Learning to interpret these & name them as particular emotions is something we do as part of our acculturation to the circumstances we grow up in. Those of us who do this correctly, in the terms set by our culture, are normal. Those who don’t, are seen as disordered. Folks who live comfortably within the range of normal find it hard to imagine that the perceptions of people who live outside that territory may be valid & interesting. Hence big blinkers in research.
Neurodivergent folk experience our physical and other perceptions differently from most people. Many of us perceive things others do not. Learning to interpret our bodily sensations & describe them in terms that make sense in our culture is, for most of us, very difficult.
Psychedelics are a powerful tool, for us as well as for other people. However the experience for us is different. For example, all drugs affect me very strongly & a tiny dose of any psychoactive substance - including things not recognised as such like matcha or cacao - will re-tune my perceptions for hours. The only way for me to learn about by body’s responses to a whole array of socially normal activities was by experience.
As with all things relating to us, research into medication for neurodivergent folks needs to be guided by how we understand our own experiences.
More please.
ABC News · Australian-first psychedelic-assisted therapy trial for terminally ill patients shows improved quality of life
“[Robert F.] Kennedy would be less hazardous if he decided to do cardiac surgery. Then he would kill people only one at a time rather than his current ability to kill by the thousands."
~ Former CDC Director William Foege
#RFKJr #healthcare #science #medicine #quackery #ignorance #nonsense #science #research #facts #vaccines
https://www.statnews.com/2025/08/18/rfk-jr-public-health-threats-william-foege-smallpox/
STAT · Former CDC Director William Foege: How public health can fight back in a time of dangerous nonsense“Kennedy would be less hazardous if he decided to do cardiac surgery. Then he would kill people only one at a time,” writes former CDC Director William Foege.
#Research: Using #algae 
as a replacement for #palmoil has many benefits. It can be grown in wastewater all year round, is #crueltyfree, #vegan and has more protein than other plant foods 
#Boycottpalmoil #Boycott4Wildlife @palmoildetect.bsky.social https://palmoildetectives.com/2022/04/10/more-protein-and-good-for-the-planet-9-reasons-we-should-be-eating-microalgae/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=Palm+Oil+Detectives&utm_campaign=publer
IgNobel worthy research. 
"In addition to always pooping midair, shearwaters release their droppings at regular intervals, every 4 to 10 minutes, according to the researchers. And even when the birds are in the water, they’ll take the extra step and fly into the air if they need to “drop feces,” Uesaka, the study’s lead author, explained to Gizmodo."
https://gizmodo.com/scientists-confirm-what-every-beachgoer-secretly-fears-about-seabirds-2000643706
Gizmodo · Scientists Confirm What Every Beachgoer Secretly Fears About SeabirdsYes, that seabird soaring above your head will poop on you—for very scientific, evolutionary reasons.
https://www.europesays.com/2341797/ Hiltzik: Why does Trump want to end climate research? #Climate #ClimateChange #CrucialSatellite #DavidCrisp #EarthScience #GlobalWarming #GreenhouseGasCarbonDioxide #launch #nasa #Oco2 #place #project #research #SPACECRAFT #trump #WhiteHouse #year
Learn more about the dynamics of grassroots language activism in Galicia, Spain, and examine how urban-based language revitalization initiatives can be understood through the lens of social movement theory.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10993-024-09687-6
Spain Less Traveled
HDRView 2.5 is available! Lots of new features, including support for DDS textures and animated GIF/JXL/PNG files, a new animation/playback mode, new blackpoint/offset option when tone mapping, interactive controls for exposure and offset via blackpoint and whitepoint handles in the histogram, and other UI improvements. Download binaries and see the full changelog at https://github.com/wkjarosz/hdrview/releases/tag/v2.5.3.
#HDR, #HDRI, #CG, #highdynamicrange , #dearimgui , #research
https://www.europesays.com/2340177/ FastUKB transforms UK Biobank research with seamless data extraction and analysis #Data #Genomics #Neuroimaging #Proteomics #research #sleep #UKBiobank
EUROPE SAYS · FastUKB transforms UK Biobank research with seamless data extraction and analysis - EUROPE SAYSFastUKB is an innovative tool specifically developed to streamline and enhance research workflows utilizing the UK Biobank, effectively addressing key
"The White House FY26 budget proposal slashes NIH funding of medical research and will lead to economic and job losses in community nationwide. Our (updated) #SCIMaP analysis now includes state-level scorecards
Click on any state (or House District) to learn more."
-J Weitz
#NIH #NSF #Health #Research #Protest #USPol
https://scienceimpacts.org/fy26
scienceimpacts.orgSCIMaP - Impacts of Federal Cuts to Science and Medical ResearchView Projected Impact of the FY2026 Budget Cuts to the NIH
Puget Sound Anarchists: **Dragged into Moonlight Part III: Even More on the NPA and its Contemporaries**
https://pugetsoundanarchists.org/dragged-into-moonlight-part-iii/
submitted anonymouslythis is Part III of a multi-part series, click here for Part I, and here for Part II The Northwest Pioneer Association…
#Analysis #AntiFascist #Featured #PNWHatewatch #Antifa #Antifascist #Northwest #NorthwestPioneerAssociation #NPA #NWTI #Oregon #Papergoy #Portland #Research #TheBase
PUGET SOUND ANARCHISTS · Dragged into Moonlight Part III: Even More on the NPA and its Contemporariessubmitted anonymouslythis is Part III of a multi-part series, click here for Part I, and here for Part II The Northwest Pioneer Association (NPA) is an attempt to revive Harold Covington’s in…
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This month, Rothwell is submitting the last paperwork for a $100,000 #USDA #grant awarded under the #Biden admin for a disease study – money that’s part of a federal review of #climate-related #research. She’s not sure if the money will come through. Colleagues at other land-grant schools haven’t been paid, she said.
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On Traverse City’s northern edge, the Northwest #Michigan #Horticulture #Research Center is a 137-acre test #farm. Run by #MSU & funded by #USDA #grants & grower money, it’s where Dr. Nikki Rothwell has spent more than two decades helping orchards survive.
…#Farmers lean on her, especially now.
On a sticky summer morning, she walked the rows with interns & researchers, testing hardier trees & better fruit.
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A #USDA #grant request for #funding a cold-storage unit remained in limbo, as #Trump cut spending on #farm programs & #agricultural #research. And Jack King, Juliette’s brother & the farm’s agronomist, kept searching for #fertilizer cheap enough to haul & untouched by Trump’s #trade wars.
“It all slows us down,” King McAvoy, the farm’s business manager, said during a brief pause in July’s harried harvest.
Scientists discover oxygen ‘breathing’ crystal for clean energy tech https://www.byteseu.com/1295162/ #cobalt #crystals #Energy #FuelCells #iron #MetalOxide #Research #SmartEnergy
“Perhaps the most enraging story of the trump 2.0 era. We are actively choosing to lose the war on cancer.”
-S Stein
#Science #Research #NSF #NIH #TrumpRegime #DOGE #Betrayal #GOPDeathCult #Cancer #Protest #USPol
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/research-trump-cuts-ucla-nih-nci-funding-grants-war-on-cancer
The Bulwark · No President Tried to Lose the War on Cancer … Until Trump