I spend a lot of time disparaging those who are failing us in this moment - but today I want to shine a light on all of those who are helping to make the threats to science and universities legible for other scientists and the public🧪 1/ - ThreadSky

lkfazio.bsky.social • 3 days ago

I spend a lot of time disparaging those who are failing us in this moment - but today I want to shine a light on all of those who are helping to make the threats to science and universities legible for other scientists and the public🧪 1/

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lkfazio.bsky.social•3 days ago

Thanks to @jeremymberg.bsky.social for all his work documenting what's happening at NIH - both the grant cancellations and the massive slowdown in funding E.g.
https://jeremymberg.github.io/jeremyberg.github.io/

Thanks to @davidimiller.bsky.social for helping NSF PIs understand their options after termination 2/

lkfazio.bsky.social•3 days ago

Thanks to @noamross.net , @scott-delaney.bsky.social and the team at https://grant-watch.us/ for creating a crowd-sourced list of cancelled grants at NIH & NSF (essential since the govt is not providing that information)

Thanks to @standupforscience.bsky.social for organizing action and rallies 3/

lkfazio.bsky.social•3 days ago

Thanks to https://scienceimpacts.org/ for mapping the impacts of cutting NIH indirect costs & making it easy for local news to focus on the impacts to their community

Thanks to @sciencehomecoming.bsky.social for helping researchers write op-eds for their hometown newspapers about the impacts on science 4/

lkfazio.bsky.social•3 days ago

Thanks to the organizers of the McClintock Letters who are attempting to publish over 1,000 pieces op-eds/letters to the editor from scientists around the country on June 16th – Nobel Prize-awarded geneticist Barbara McClintock’s birthday. Sign up at the link! 5/

https://blogs.cornell.edu/asap/events-initiatives/the-mcclintock-letters/

lkfazio.bsky.social•3 days ago

Thanks to all the program officers across NIH, NSF and other federal granting agencies who are working so hard in an impossible situation

Thanks to @ryanenos.bsky.social and Steven Levitsky for publicly pushing Harvard to take a stand to defend democracy https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2025/3/6/enos-levitsky-harvard-trump-democracy-fight/ 6/

lkfazio.bsky.social•3 days ago

Thanks to Bright Line Watch for continuing to track threats to democracy and academic freedom in the US

https://brightlinewatch.org/threats-to-democracy-and-academic-freedom-after-trumps-second-first-100-days/

Thanks to all the other scientists and researchers who are doing this work but I missed in this thread - please add and thank them below! 7/

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