We just need to turn the negative productivity of research scientists at NASA and forner auditors at the IRS that DOGE fired to gainfully making shoes in Nike factories reshored from Vietnam.

This is the groundbreaking economic thinking of communist purges from Mao to Pol Pot with a sprinkle of American Exceptionalism.

How are international conferences dealing with the fact that some people are now afraid or unwilling to enter the US? Are they holding conferences elsewhere, encouraging remote participation, ignoring the issue, or what?

If you're helping run an international conference (like me), or even just going to one, I'd like to know what you're seeing.

https://www.science.org/content/article/international-scientists-rethink-us-conference-attendance

Deutsche fahren weniger Auto und gehen mehr zu Fuß

Das Verkehrsverhalten insbesondere in Großstädten verändert sich. Eine Erhebung der Technischen Universität Dresden zeigt, dass die Menschen immer häufiger zu Fuß gehen, anstatt das Auto zu nutzen.

➡️ https://www.tagesschau.de/inland/gesellschaft/studie-verkehrsaufkommen-100.html?at_medium=mastodon&at_campaign=tagesschau.de

#Verkehr #Mobilität

It's beyond ridiculous that one of TWO BSL4 (highest security) labs in the USA & World Reference Centre for Emerging Viruses and Arboviruses has had funding cut by Trump & DOGE because it had a COVID component.

We are willfully & actively throwing valuable & critical science in the trash.

Clem Burke, whose versatile drumming propelled the iconic rock group Blondie during its decades performing everything from new-wave punk to disco-infused tunes, has died. He was 70.

READ: https://tmt.news/2088226