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For the @fancycomma blog, I wrote about how Epstein's desire to understand deception caught scientists in his web. fancycomma.com/2026/04/18/eps… #ScienceInTheEpsteinFiles

The cadging cat in the background of this photo is trying to get some free cheese.

Used to live around there so I know that that's definitely where the good bird seed is! 😀

U.S. bioscience research is collapsing. This is the map of a systemic rot. NIH new award pace this year: 14.6% of normal. If you wanted to stall science, you don't pick & choose states. You just freeze the entire map. In case you missed it: ▫️ ~95,000 scientists gone (@nytimes) ▪️ ~$2.4B in NIH research wiped out ▫️ ~$6B in economic loss (@DrCatharineY / PNAS) This is what (predictably) follows next: ⇣ early-career scientists exit for good ⇣ breakthrough discoveries never made ⇣ trials that never open ⇣ labs that quietly shut down ⇣ global talent choosing other countries ⇣ the next decade of innovation erased before it starts Sadly, you don’t "bounce back" from 14% you just hollow out the system. For a country that leads in science, this is the mo(u)rning after “National Science Appreciation Day” ========== Source: NIH RePORTER via @Jori_health Plot note: NIH new-award counts were compared to the 5-year historic median for every state (as of the first week of March, Q2). ==========

Becoming a parent is much more detrimental to women’s academic careers than it is to men’s, lowering their chances of getting university jobs, tenure and reducing their publication output, finds a large analysis of academics in Denmark. go.nature.com/4tcouqQ

Scoop: the White House is planning to propose a 20% cut to the NIH in the President's budget next week rollcall.com/2026/03/27/sou…

Retraction—Today, we retract an unsigned 1977 commentary suggesting talc powder containing asbestos was not harmful. The Lancet was informed that the author had undisclosed competing interests and breached publication ethics. /4

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five words. 20 years. unfinished.

I wrote about scientists in the Epstein files and their pre-existing reputations of behaving badly for the @fancycomma newsletter. fancycomma.substack.com/p/all-i-can-do…

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Here's why we can't take the scientists named in the Epstein files at their word fancycomma.com/2026/03/14/her… via @FancyComma

Here's why we can't take the scientists named in the Epstein files at their word fancycomma.com/2026/03/14/her… #ScienceInTheEpsteinFiles

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“If MIT and Harvard accepted his money, it must be fine. If Harvard hosted him in his own office on campus, someone must have vetted him...surely the ethical due diligence was done.” — @DrBrianKeating (13 mentions, 0 excuses) medium.com/p/why-are-so-m…

"Here's every scientist I have found in the #EpsteinFiles" -- new analysis on our blog by @SheevaAzma following a month of investigation: fancycomma.com/2026/03/07/her…

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