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Thank you so much for raising attention to this. It’s especially sad to see Iran’s brightest students earn PhDs at America’s top universities and then be forced to go back to Iran. Aside from how it impacts the students, it’s also worse for American competitiveness.
The folks you mention are trying to help in different ways. Most have learned that it’s easier to impact complex issues like this by working behind the scenes.
🙏
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New high quality Iranian LEGO movie will make you cry : Iran & America's Mothers 😢🥹😭
via The Story Of Things
🤖 Made with AI
The pause in processing work authorization and immigration is leaving many Iranian students in limbo. These scholars followed the rules and contribute enormously to U.S. research and innovation. Blanket delays based on nationality hurt students, universities, and America.
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Thread: Students of the Music Department at Tehran's Art Uni. have written new words to the famous Chilean revolutionary ballad "El pueblo unido jamás será vencido." It's a powerful performance w/ captivating lyrics that I'll translate in this thread: 1/4 #Iran #IranProtests2022
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The resurrection plant (Selaginella lepidophylla) can survive years of drought and almost complete desiccation, coming back to life after exposure to moisture.
Highly recommended read on patent protection - an exchange with the Director at the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition
Max-Planck-Gesellschaft mpg.de/16579491/patent-prote…
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The #NobelPrize committee couldn't reach Paul Milgrom to share the news that he won, so his fellow winner and neighbor Robert Wilson knocked on his door in the middle of the night.
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Congratulations to alumna Andrea Ghez (MS ’89, PhD ’93) on winning the 2020 #NobelPrize in #Physics. Ghez shares half of this year’s prize with Reinhard Genzel “for the discovery of a supermassive compact object at the center of our galaxy.”
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Congratulations to alumnus Charles M. Rice
(PhD ’81, Biochemistry), today awarded the #NobelPrize in Physiology or Medicine together with Harvey J. Alter and Michael Houghton ”for the discovery of Hepatitis C virus.”
Dear former first lady, our daughter Lia loves watching and listening to your @PBSKIDS program “Mondays with @MichelleObama!" Could we possibly ask for a Monday Special, reading one of her favorites, the super cute story of BO @WH? amazon.com/First-Dog-1600-Po…
#ReadTogetherBeTogether
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At this blessed moment for (half) Jamaicans, a personal story. Many years ago a talented young man enrolled at the Univ of West Indies. He asked his advisor: what should he study? “Math!” his advisor said. That student? Kamala’s dad. That advisor? My dad.
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“Jesus replied, “You do not realize now what I am doing, but later you will understand.”
John 13:7 NIV
God’s timing is perfect. – at New York, USA
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Hey astro-nerds: Interested in Artificial Intelligence applications for Astronomy?
Check out our virtual conference in October! Call for Abstracts is now open!
➡️ ncsa.illinois.edu/Conference…
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The Senate Republican plan:
- $29,400,000,000 for the Pentagon
- $0 for hazard pay
- $0 for nutrition assistance
- $0 for the uninsured/under-insured
- $0 for the Postal Service
- $0 for state and local governments
- 100% deduction for three-martini CEO lunches
What a disaster.
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The GOP COVID-19 bill includes
$2 billion for F-35s
$1.75 billion for an FBI building
$1 billion for surveillance planes
$375 million for armored vehicles
$360 million for missile defense
$283 million for Apache helicopters
$0 for millions facing eviction
It's Dead on Arrival
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One of the largest aquarium tanks in the world, the Kuroshio Sea in Japan, which holds nearly 2 million gallons of water and features an acrylic glass panel 2 feet (60cm) thick.
Credit: Jon Rawlinson
Full video: bit.ly/3gVeWeu
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I wrote in today's edition of The Batch about the new F-1 visa policy, and want to share that message here as well. #StudentBan
