The economics of hate is very expensive. BREXIT was a huge own goal.
It’s truly astonishing to see how comprehensively the US government is tearing down every part of the system that has made it up until now a world-leading power in science, research, and technological development. The entire world will suffer from this wanton destruction.
Exactly this. The right — and the “centrist” — narrative is that woke pronoun people evilly colonized science which now must be rescued. In reality it was science people who wanted to occasionally have pronouns and then the right was like “oh well in that case we don’t want your cancer research”
The inaugural LEAP Summit for LGBTQ+ Research and Researchers in Asia-Pacific is in full swing! 🥳🌈
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Today’s farside
Research has shown that dogs are more intelligent than we think.
But not all of them.
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A lovely write-up of our last week's @leap-econ.bsky.social summit by Serena Doyle:
melbourneinstitute.unimelb.edu.au/news/news/20...
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🧵 New working paper out today: "Measuring the Regional Economic Cost of Brexit: Evidence as of 2026" with @jacobedenhofer.bsky.social @trfetzer.com & Shizhuo Wang
Here's what the data say about who paid the price in these 10 years from the referendum
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information security is not exactly a bastion of woke ideology. at some point there will need to be a really careful dissection of how stuff like this and funding cancer research got tossed aside like they come with a side of pronouns
White House proposes new rules giving political appointees final approval of research grants
These proposed Office of Management and Budget regulations would render the federal research grant review process opaque
www.scientificamerican.com/article/whit...
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These proposed Office of Management and Budget regulations would render the federal research grant review process opaque
This is bad. WH app to be installed on all govt-owned phones
1. The WH app is delivers blatantly partisan political content
2. Known to have weak security, including "shares the IP addresses, time zones and other data of users with third-party services"
www.govexec.com/management/2...
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The newly created, often overtly political app places the Trump administration into unprecedented and “dangerous” territory, IT experts say.
