post 2 test 1 Networking & Connectivity in Science

#ScientificProgress #Obesity #Neuroscience https://tnyp.me/zCZMSQVv/m

By directing a triad of investigations specifically at #MedicalSchools in a single day, the #Trump admin is widening its targets & transforming a decades-long financial partnership into a tool of #cultural leverage.

That partnership dates back to a postwar consensus in the country that #ScientificProgress is a fundamental #PublicGood — one too vital to be left to the vagaries of the market or the limitations of private philanthropy.

#law #AcademicFreedom #education #privacy #science #medicine

The Price of #Dogma: #Religion's Impact on #Freedom and Progress

Russell Bell
Independent Scholar
Date Written: September 27, 2025

Abstract
This article argues that #religiousinstitutions function as systems of #socialcontrol rather than #spiritualguides, deploying #psychological mechanisms of #fear and #dependency to maintain #authority while resisting #scientificprogress and #humanautonomy.

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5536859

The Price of Dogma: Religion's Impact on Freedom and Progress

This article argues that religious institutions function as systems of social control rather than spiritual guides, deploying psychological mechanisms of fear a

Flat Earth theory was a reasonable observation for its time but is "wrong enough to be discarded in favor of the spherical Earth theory." Asimov highlights the distinction between explainable inaccuracy (historical flat-Earth) and simple delusion (modern flat-Earthism). Modern flat-Earthism is a regression. #FlatEarth #ScienceHistory #DelusionVsInaccuracy #ScientificProgress

Matter for Thought - Timeless insights for Modern Physics

"But each succeeding year augments our experimental powers ; the invention of improved methods enables us to renew our methods with a greater chance of success."

👨‍🔬Quote by John Tyndall, Irish physicist
📚Source: Heat as a Mode of Motion (1874)

#ScientificProgress #BetterMethods #ExperimentalSetup #AdvancingScience #Physics

Ah, because nothing screams scientific progress like fleeing en masse due to border paranoia 🤡. Meanwhile, Nature.com advises to upgrade your browser from the Stone Age—because that's the real issue here, right? 🖥️✨
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-01636-5 #scientificprogress #borderparanoia #upgradeyourbrowser #techhumor #Naturecom #HackerNews #ngated
Scientific conferences are leaving the US amid border fears

Some meetings have been put on hold in response to foreign researchers’ travel concerns.

Oh, the irony! 🌈 Scientists are unraveling the mysteries of color by poking at photoreceptors, but their groundbreaking article hides behind a #JavaScript and cookie wall. Because who needs scientific progress when you have browser settings to conquer? 🍪🔒
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adu1052 #scientificprogress #irony #colorphotoreceptors #cookiewall #researchchallenges #HackerNews #ngated
🚀🔭 Breaking news! Hubble captures pretty lights on a gas giant! 🌌🪐 Because nothing screams scientific progress like playing intergalactic photographer with taxpayer money. 📸✨ Surely the universe is impressed. 🙄
https://science.nasa.gov/missions/hubble/hubble-captures-vivid-auroras-in-jupiters-atmosphere/ #HubbleNews #GasGiant #Astronomy #Photography #ScientificProgress #IntergalacticExploration #HackerNews #ngated
Hubble Captures Vivid Auroras in Jupiter’s Atmosphere

Astronomers are using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope to study auroras — stunning light shows in a planet’s atmosphere — on the poles of the largest

NASA Science
The National Institute of Head-in-Sand strikes again! 🎩🪄 By "streamlining" peer reviews, they've discovered the magic formula for scientific progress: fewer experts. 🧙‍♂️🔮 Just disable your logic and enable your browser settings! 🚫🧠
https://www.science.org/content/article/nih-will-eliminate-many-peer-review-panels-and-lay-some-scientists-overseeing-them #NationalInstituteOfHeadInSand #peerReview #ScientificProgress #fewerExperts #DisableLogic #EnableBrowserSettings #HackerNews #ngated
What Happens When Science Stops

Funding freezes, legal fights, chaos — no one in medical research knows what will come, except that as of January 22, 2025, science itself may never be the same.

Medscape