Links 1/29/25

Links for you. Science:

“We’ll lose a generation of scientists”: Yale braces for Trump’s NIH grant suspension
Medical Trial Guidance Scrubbed
Trump Is Trying to Destroy Public Health in America. The administration has ground crucial scientific activity to a halt. It’s an act of national suicide.
Trump’s NIH Freeze Puts Scientific Research at Risk
Bird flu found in 1.4 million more Ohio chickens weeks after detection in separate flock
I’m a health researcher. NIH’s pause on research grants could have a devastating cost.

Other:

Experts saw Samoa’s plunging vaccination rates as a crisis. RFK Jr. saw an opportunity.
Way To The Right
Donald Trump Wants You to Die: The attack on public health begins
Mommy and Daddy Parties
Elon Musk’s salute falls flat: Why far-right trolling isn’t working this time around
Local federal workers react to Trump’s new work policies: ‘People were sobbing in the halls’
Siri Is Super Dumb and Getting Dumber
What Trump’s Executive Orders Could Mean For DC-Area Housing Market
Trump Wants Snitches to Report on DEI. There’s Just One Problem.
Paul Krugman on Leaving the New York Times
Egg Prices Are High. They Will Likely Go Higher.
Trump’s WHO Exit Threat Triggers Hiring Freeze, Cost Cuts
DOGE Will Allow Elon Musk to Surveil the US Government From the Inside
Target rolls back DEI initiatives, the latest big company to retreat (resegregation is the word they’re looking for)
You Know What Happened Next? Joe Biden Won
Trump’s executive orders are not exactly crowd-pleasers
Study shows Mamatoto Village’s culturally relevant care can improve birth outcomes for Black people
Elon Musk is facing more fallout over his Nazi salute
Trump pardons two D.C. police officers convicted in fatal chase in 2020
Boebert mocked in her home state for playing anti-trans bathroom cop
Donald Trump is not waiting for RFK Jr. — he has already started his war on public health
The Gesture Elon Musk Should Make Now: Denouncing Fascism
Donald Trump’s war on DEI is not about “merit”
Building the Corporate Menace of Severance: Saarinen’s impeccable Bell Labs campus conveys the terror of utopian office design.
The Republican Party is betraying a devastated Los Angeles
The Second Trump Presidency, Brought to You by YouTubers

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