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Reading Dwarkesh’s story makes my blood boil.
He came to America as a child. Grew up here. Went to school here. Spoke like every other American kid. Dreamed like every other American kid.
Yet at 21, the country he called home was prepared to tell him: “Thanks for playing. Back to India.”
Not because he broke the law. Not because his family cut corners. Not because they entered illegally. They did everything exactly the way the government asked them to.
For years.
The cruelty is that neither party seemed interested in fixing it.
The Biden administration could have provided relief for aging-out dependents while they waited in endless green card backlogs. At minimum, work authorization and protection from falling off a legal cliff after spending their entire childhood in America.
Instead, thousands of these kids were left in limbo.
The Trump administration hasn’t been much better. More paperwork. More biometrics. More bureaucracy. More delays. People literally running out of status while waiting for the government to process forms the government itself required.
Somewhere tonight there’s another kid just like Dwarkesh sitting in a bedroom wondering whether their future depends on a lottery ticket, a processing delay, or a bureaucratic technicality.
That’s insanity.
America spends billions trying to attract talent from around the world, then turns around and tells the children who grew up here legally that they might have to leave the only country they’ve ever known.
There are thousands of future founders, engineers, scientists, and entrepreneurs trapped in that pipeline right now.
We only know Dwarkesh’s name because he made it through. We have no idea how many others we lost along the way.
@EricTopol@ScienceMagazine@ScienceMagazine for some, WFH is a privilege and for others, it makes life more rigorous making them anxious and restless! Btw what’s social interaction?!
Check out our latest video featuring Dr. Grayson Rodriguez from the Chris Garcia Lab, highlighting their new approaches for T cell engineering and therapeutic development.
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For perspective: each dot is American workers.
The tiny yellow cluster are the H-1B workers <0.5% of the workforce.
That’s what’s being framed as a ‘crisis.’ There’s no Indian takeover. There are no talented unemployed Americans being replaced.
This debate is being driven more by emotion than by the actual numbers.
Not something you'd see everyday—changing the alphabet of life.
All of life organisms are are built from 20 amino acids. Now genAI is enabling life to be built with 19 amino acids, making isoleucine dispensable. @ScienceMagazine
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Our Stanford Immunology video series features Professor Bali Pulendran and his postdoctoral scholar, Haibo Zhang, who present their recent publication on universal vaccine design. https://t.co/hkV85mfa74
Big news 🧬
Plasmidsaurus is partnering with @Addgene in a 4-year strategic collaboration to strengthen genetic tool verification for researchers worldwide.
By combining Addgene’s plasmid repository with Plasmidsaurus long-read whole plasmid sequencing, we’re helping make reliable science the baseline.
Open science runs on verified materials.
Learn more:
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We were told NIH funding cuts were about eliminating DEI.
But the data now shows grants are down across nearly every field of medicine: cancer, diabetes, mental health, brain disorders.
With the greatest cuts hitting Alzheimer’s research, down more than 50%.
Congratulations to Nobel Laureate William G. Kaelin Jr., MD, on being named to @Forbes’ America’s Greatest Innovators list. Through his foundational work, Kaelin helped reveal the key molecular players that enable cells to sense and adapt to shifts in oxygen availability.
View the full list of notable innovators here: https://t.co/cwJp6EOCgO
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