COMMUNITY REQUEST: We're trying to obtain bodycams of a Taser incident in Bremerton, and smaller police departments sometimes charge exorbitant redaction fees.
Can you pitch in a few bucks to help us cover the $83 fee?
"What's really important here is that patients themselves were reporting that their lives were improving," said Charles R. Conway, MD, a professor of #psychiatry at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. "You have a population of people that has been failed by a ridiculously high number of treatments, including very aggressive treatments such as electroconvulsive therapy."
"For the project that got cut, we were working to develop tools to measure the quality of vaccination services that children receive," she said. Her award was entitled, "Population-level assessment of early childhood vaccination timeliness, parental vaccine hesitancy, and immunization schedule adherence in the United States, including rural-urban disparities."
https://www.medpagetoday.com/special-reports/exclusives/114720
Mediterranean diet reduces risk of obesity-related cancers https://www.diningandcooking.com/1968155/mediterranean-diet-reduces-risk-of-obesity-related-cancers-2/ #cancer #diet #Endometrium #Kidney #liver #Mediterranean #MediterraneanDiet #obesity #Research #WeightLoss
"The Environmental Protection Agency plans to eliminate its scientific research office and could fire more than 1,000 scientists and other employees who help provide the scientific foundation for rules safeguarding human health and ecosystems from environmental pollutants."
https://apnews.com/article/epa-science-layoffs-trump-doge-8a5743b9281e3f82afdf2cdd5f972d5f
"Articles about the Holocaust, September 11, cancer awareness, sexual assault, and suicide prevention are among the tens of thousands either removed or flagged for removal from Pentagon websites as the department has scrambled to comply with Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth’s order to scrub 'diversity' content from all its platforms."
~ Natasha Bertrand, Haley Britzky and Oren Liebermann
#Musk #Trump #Hegseth #DEI #Pentagon #Holocaust #September11 #research
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https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/19/politics/pentagon-website-purge
"These cuts, both to staff and grants, reflect a broader move to shift how the NIH allocates its $48 billion dollar research budget, from processes governed by scientific expertise, to processes governed by partisan judgements."
#Musk #Trump #destruction #chaos #FederalGovernment #workers #firings #research #NIH #healthcare
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"There is widespread reporting of hundreds of grant cancellations at the National Institutes for Health (NIH)—with significantly more coming. This is in the context of ongoing funding freezes and chaotic layoffs of its expert staff, most of whom have PhDs in the fields for which they oversee review and funding processes."
~ Pamela Herd
#Musk #Trump #destruction #chaos #FederalGovernment #workers #firings #research #NIH #healthcare
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https://donmoynihan.substack.com/p/politicizing-science-the-national
Overseas #universities see opportunity in US #BrainDrain. But US-based #scientists seeking to leave may struggle to find positions in countries grappling with #funding issues of their own. The end result could be an exodus of talent from global science: doi.org/10.1126/scie... #science #research
Overseas universities see oppo...
Dutch researchers get questionnaires from the US government about political views – if you are a European scientist who has received such a letter, please DM me.
https://www.staff.universiteitleiden.nl/announcements/2025/03/researchers-advised-not-to-respond-to-us-questionnaire #Trump #sciencepolicy #universities #university #research
"The Continuing Crisis, Part IX: Inside the NIH Now"
Derek Lowe
Science
https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/continuing-crisis-part-ix-inside-nih-now
Innovative silicon sensors unlock unprecedented opportunities in dark matter detection with TESSERACT
Read more.... 
https://labhorizons.co.uk/2025/03/tesseract-experiment-opens-new-frontier-in-dark-matter-detection/
#GirlsDay 2025 at #MPL and #MPZPM – Experiencing science up close!
On April 3rd, female students explore the fascinating worlds of the science of light and the interface of #physics and #medicine at our institutes.
What awaits them: exciting experiments, insights into #research & #technology, lab tours & workshop visits.
Our goal? Inspiring more girls for #science! Physics, technology, and research offer diverse and exciting career opportunities.
MPL, Susanne Viezens
Attracting talent, offering safe spaces is good. If it goes hand in hand with extra resources for science / education.
If not, these plans will create extra competition in already precarious systems.
The fact is, many European countries cut on research spending.
#research #science #highereducation
https://www.politico.eu/article/europe-us-research-education-donald-trump-ekaterina-zaharieva/
New #Paper published in Quantum: PAC-learning of free-fermionic states is NP-hard
Do you remember the xz supply chain attack (or backdoor) that happened one year ago and nearly compromised half the world? (I think you do)
I claim that we could have automatically detected this backdoor in NixOS thanks to reproducible-builds!
-> Go read about it in my blog post: https://luj.fr/blog/how-nixos-could-have-detected-xz.html
Boosts would be much appreciated!
New #Paper published in Quantum: What exactly does Bekenstein bound?
https://www.europesays.com/1928325/ US scientists unlock molten salt nuclear reactor tracking at 662°F #Energy&Environment #Isotope #laser #MoltenSalt #nuclear #physics #plasma #reactors #research #science #Spectroscopy
New #Paper published in Quantum: Prog-QAOA: Framework for resource-efficient quantum optimization through classical programs
