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Scientists worry finalizing 'Schedule F' rule will further politicize NIH grant decisions (Anil Oza/STAT)
https://www.statnews.com/2026/02/06/nih-grant-reviewers-schedule-f-designation-politicizes-science/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260206/p141#a260206p141

Waymo
– the driver-less taxi company is about to get a $16bn cash injection to further expand its business to cities all around the world.
Smaller American metro areas like Sacramento and Nashville are next up to get Waymo service,
as are global capitals like London and Tokyo.
Fleets of robotaxis are seeming more and more inevitable.
It all can start to feel rather nihilistic.
Last year, the CEO of Waymo told a live audience that society will accept a …

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The Trump administration officially sent Congress its 2027 budget proposal on Friday,
And while the largest story that emerged from the mammoth document was that the president is looking to
increase defense spending over 40 percent to a staggering $1.5 trillion,
there are plenty more budget adjustments to laugh/shudder/weep over.
Among the social and health programs Trump is looking to cut in order to fund his bloodlust is the
National Institutes of Health,

Trump Suggests Decimating NIH to Give Military Even More Money
The president is asking Congress to severely cut the health agency’s budget.

The political effects of X's feed algorithm #politics #SocialMedia

The political effects of X's feed algorithm - PubMed
Feed algorithms are widely suspected to influence political attitudes. However, previous evidence from switching off the algorithm on Meta platforms found no political effects¹. Here we present results from a 2023 field experiment on Elon Musk's platform X shedding light on this puzzle. W …

Without health insurance in #Alaska: Helicopter transport and appendictomiy cost $60,000–$140,000. The entire cost must be borne by the individual.
It is not unlikely that #Inuit in the USA lack health insurance; a quarter live below the poverty line.

Poverty and Health Disparities for American Indian and Alaska Native Children: Current Knowledge and Future Prospects
This report explores the current state of knowledge regarding inequalities and their effect on American Indian and Alaska Native children, underscoring gaps in our current knowledge and the opportunities for early intervention to begin to address ...

Trump has never hidden his desire for domination
-- and the related willingness to have his followers engage in violence,
from the call to rough up people at his rallies
to the pardons of even the most brutal January 6 insurrectionists
Unlike with 20th century fascism, there is no attempt to promote or symbolically reward self-sacrifice
– it is just video game-style killing at a distance,
justified not with strategic objectives,
but with seemingly u…

Pete Hegseth is promoting a nihilist cult of death (Jan-Werner Müller/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/mar/23/pete-hegseth-nihilist-cult
http://www.memeorandum.com/260323/p27#a260323p27

ON JAN. 20, 2025, his first day back in office,
President Donald Trump signed an executive order declaring that the United States would henceforth recognize only two sexes, male and female.
Trump framed the move as one meant to protect the dignity, safety, and well-being of women. But the order also upended a long-standing policy at the National Institutes of Health
— one that was crafted to ensure that females are adequately represented in biomedical research.
Imple…

The Future of Sex as a Biological Variable in Health Research
An executive order upended an NIH policy requiring researchers to account for both sexes in preclinical animal studies.

Thousands of early-career NIH researchers forming union for first time
The push for better pay and benefits among US scientists arrives at world’s largest biomedical funder.
-- Nature [paywall]
-- But 'crickets' in the mainstream media
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Thousands of early-career NIH researchers forming union for first time
Push for better pay and benefits among US scientists arrives at world’s largest biomedical funder.