Michael Weissman
@mbw61567742
Retired physics prof. Helped start scientists' boycott of Star Wars (SDI). Did time for Vietnam draft resistance. Often critiques bullshit.
Russell: "It is strange that the last men of intellectual eminence before the dark ages were concerned, not with saving civilization... or reforming the abuses of the administration, but with preaching the merit of virginity and the damnation of unbaptized infants."
Harvard sociologist/polisci Theda Skocpol explains how the vast expansion of ICE in BBB may be Trump's secret weapon to overcome the barriers of federalism and complete his autocratic takeover of the American state. (History from Germany & Hungary in 20s/30s.)…
Andrew nails it.
NIH plan to remove ideological influence from science. How does this fit in the junk science being promoted by the U.S. Dept of Health and Human Services? statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2025/06/20/nih…
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Trump says he doesn't want war with Iran, but that's exactly what he wants, because that's exactly what Saudi Arabia, Netanyahu, al-Qaeda, Bolton, Haley, and other NeoCons/NeoLibs want. That’s what he put first--not America.
None of these capture the full size of our no-kings rally. I'd guess ~4k, all ages. Champaign-Urbana has a population of ~130k. news-gazette.com/news/photo-gal…
Sen. Padilla frames this in exactly the right way: "If this is how the Department of Homeland Security responds to a senator with a question...I can only imagine what they're doing to farmworkers, to cooks, to day laborers, in Los Angeles & throughout California & the country."
Padilla: “We will hold this administration accountable”
How wrong was Jay Bhattacharya’s Great Barrington Declaration? open.substack.com/pub/drbobmorri…
College alumni join forces open.substack.com/pub/lastpaige1…
Five different federal grants supported parts of this work to discover bacteriophages that specifically kill antibiotic resistant bacteria. They were all politically terminated three weeks ago.
The latest work from my lab, Phage Disco, a method @EllieRand3 developed for targeted discovery of bacteriophages based on the bacterial receptor, defense system, or other component they interact with, is now live in mSystems