David Barker
@DavidBarker_PhD
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Barker Lab at Rutgers.Neuroscientist, Whisky collector, and 24/7 nerd. Owning all dad jokes and puns. Opinions are my own. ASU-Rutgers-NIDA-Rutgers
baltimore md
Joined October 2012
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Dumpster fires gonna burn. Can't claim Billy Joel status on this one Taco-lord.
BREAKING: The U.S. government says 247,000 people applied for unemployment benefits last week, the most in eight months.
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Life expectancy in your grandparents time was about 55 Beef tallow didn't seem to do the trick then...
MAHA tip of the day: Your great-grandparents cooked with tallow for a reason. Unlike seed oils, grass-fed beef tallow is stable, nourishing, & rich in fat-soluble vitamins. Toss the seed oils. Cook with tallow, butter, or ghee! Healthy fats fuel healthy families! MAHA
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Without its international students, Harvard is not Harvard.
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We have just filed a complaint and a motion for a temporary restraining order will follow. As we pursue legal remedies, we will do everything in our power to support our students and scholars.
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Aerosolized budesonide and clarithromycin don’t treat measles (it’s a virus- it doesn’t respond to antibiotics). For the head of HHS to be messaging this in the middle of an outbreak that has killed two children is… despicable.
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I just got off the phone with a business owner in Mississippi. He’s pumped millions into a business distributing a product he imports from China. His contract with the company prevents him from manufacturing it in the U.S. He also has contracts with a number of large retailers
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The NIH didn’t just lay off staff - it lost directors leading work on Alzheimer’s, rare diseases, maternal health, and opioids. These aren’t abstract programs - they touch every American family. We’re not just losing talent. We’re losing time, and progress.
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1. The DOGE website is garbage. The claimed savings has no relationship to the data provided. And the data that is provided grossly inflates the savings from each canceled contract. So we just launched our own site — the Musk Watch DOGE Tracker — that breaks everything
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The spring cycle of the Baltimore Brain Series Award is underway! Mark your calendars - we have an amazing lineup of talks from our awardees that you won’t want to miss. @UMMedNeuro @jhneurostudents @HopkinsNeuro
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I just got back from 36 hours in Ukraine with my brother Scott. Wanted to share a story from while we were there. At a hospital, we talked with a wounded Ukrainian soldier. I asked him what he thought about the change in US policy. His response in English was, “What the fuck.”
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The US govt is treating sex differences research as a DEI issue. It’s not! It is vital to health of all.
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Keep slicing. Vote with your portfolios.
NEW Elon Musk is rumoured to have lost over $151 Billion in worth as a result of Tesla's stock price crash. This effectively slices his wealth in half.
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This is what an actual crowd in DC looks like.
Short snippet of my speech today at the #StandUpForScience rally in DC, with the Lincoln Memorial behind me
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Mr. J.D. Vance, I am attaching a list of names of 43 Polish soldiers who died in Afganistan, following orders from the Polish government authorities, who were acting in support of the U.S.A. Have you thanked their parents and Poland for their sacrifice?
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1) Restore NIH study sections. 2) Allow award notices to be sent for non-competing renewals. 3) Empower vaccine programs before we have a Measles epidemic. 4) Figure out probs before halting systems. The govt is not a self-running app like X that can tolerate these pauses.
@geoffreyhinton Only craven, insecure fools care about awards and memberships. History is the actual judge, always and forever. Your comments above are carelessly ignorant, cruel and false. That said, what specific actions require correction? I will make mistakes, but endeavor to fix them
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Kids are dying of measles. Egg prices are skyrocketing. Bird flu is out of control. Planes are falling out of the sky. Inflation is rising. Tariffs are coming. Consumer confidence is collapsing. A recession is now likely. The stock market is dropping. Donald Trump is golfing.
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This is big, and also totally consistent with the separation of powers.
JUST IN: Judge Jackson rules that it is constitutional for the Office of Special Counsel to assert independence from the President. He has legitimate authority to act free of removal by the President without cause, she rules. Next up, SCOTUS. https://t.co/SuqakAGgoU
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