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rexi<p>(Second issue was *not* delayed by federal firings, but it might as well have been. Intentionally confusing and vague wording is my way of pointing to the disinformation fog machine at the head of world's biggest <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/research" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>research</span></a> funder.)</p><p>This month's imaginary cover highlights Bianconi's new bombshell in Physical Review D, which proposes a new framework that could revolutionize our understanding of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/gravity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>gravity</span></a> and its relationship with <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/quantummechanics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>quantummechanics</span></a>.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>science</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ScienceUnderground" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ScienceUnderground</span></a></p>
rexi<p><a href="https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/02/noaa-i-paid-the-price-for-speaking-out-about-sharpiegate-scientists-cant-be-silent-now-either/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">motherjones.com/politics/2025/</span><span class="invisible">02/noaa-i-paid-the-price-for-speaking-out-about-sharpiegate-scientists-cant-be-silent-now-either/</span></a></p><p>"I asked political appointees at <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/NOAA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NOAA</span></a> to sign an affirmation that they read and fully understood their obligations under the agency’s <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/scientificintegrity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>scientificintegrity</span></a> policy. That was probably just too much. </p><p>Soon after, I had a response back from the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/acting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>acting</span></a> NOAA chief of staff…says something like, Thank you very much for your response. You’re no longer the acting chief scientist…"</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>science</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ScienceUnderground" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ScienceUnderground</span></a></p>
rexi<p>The dis-reality of this dystopian moment almost obviates the need to explain that this is not a real magazine. Yet.</p><p>First Issue.</p><p>New issues in thread.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ScienceUnderground" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ScienceUnderground</span></a></p>
rexi<p>when you can literally <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/disinform" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>disinform</span></a> America's youth legally -- with <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/taxexemption" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>taxexemption</span></a> for the for all the for-profit ads that come between:</p><p>actual <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>science</span></a> becomes <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ScienceUnderground" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ScienceUnderground</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/UndergroundScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UndergroundScience</span></a></p>