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Neuroscientist, Northwestern University
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Today I had the honor of speaking in front of nearly 3000 people today at the Woodland #NoKings rally. WE FEAR NO KING BECAUSE WE DONT HAVE ONE ✊🏾✊🏾✊🏾✊🏾 let’s gooooooo

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Gut wrenching. gift link. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/13/o...

submitted 33 days ago • 1 comment

AOC: We must acknowledge the terrifying moment we are in right now. What we are hearing and seeing with our own eyes is, in fact, happening. We are watching our neighbors, students, and friends being fired, targeted, and disappeared. It is real.

submitted 63 days ago • 268 comments

If you're still not convinced that the goal is to both get rich and make Americans dumb and compliant by forcing universities to close, may I interest you in the freezification of ALL Columbia University grants? www.science.org/content/arti...

submitted 67 days ago • 4 comments

Published an op-ed for @cnn.com: “Nobel laureate: I owe America my success. Today, its scientific future is in danger.” A personal reflection on what’s at stake as science funding gets slashed. I’d be grateful if you could amplify both in and beyond the science world. www.cnn.com/2025/04/09/h...

submitted 67 days ago • 15 comments

University presidents, the time is now! Unshackle the general counsel's office! File all the lawsuits! Release the faculty upon the op-ed sections! Write to your alumni, parents, and donors! You have nothing to lose but a tiny percentage of your enormous endowments... www.nytimes.com/2025/04/08/u...

submitted 67 days ago • 22 comments

Massive turnout for Hands Off! in Chicago.

submitted 71 days ago • 0 comments

Donald Trump may want to call this ‘Liberation Day,’ but there’s nothing liberating for those who are grappling with the high costs of food, housing, and utilities.   Tariffs are a tax – a tax on working families, a tax on groceries, and a tax on other everyday necessities.

submitted 73 days ago • 46 comments

The former ambassador to Denmark for the United States, Rufus Gifford, posted this video on his Facebook account: Ht: @hpsc24.bsky.social

submitted 78 days ago • 199 comments

Kidnapped for writing an Op-Ed. Insane.

submitted 81 days ago • 0 comments

From interview of Lee Bollinger, 1st Amendment scholar who served as dean of @UMichLaw, president of @UMich, and president of Columbia University. www.chronicle.com/article/were...

submitted 92 days ago • 753 comments

My Senator. What a tool. Absolutely failed to rise to the moment and then puts out the bullshit justification. Illinois we can do better.

submitted 92 days ago • 0 comments

I don’t understand why the president is allowed to spout nonsense about colonizing another country and the 25th amendment isn’t being invoked in addition to all the other horrors this is insane. It’s absolutely insane. It isn’t funny or even weird.

submitted 96 days ago • 299 comments

Columbia is only the first. Academic research under attack on so many fronts.

submitted 96 days ago • 0 comments

Justin Trudeau gave the exact kind of press conference today that we have been waiting for from our Democratic leaders. Watch it and learn from it. No gimmicks, no stunts, no script, no platitudes, no slogans, no games. Just straight talk, honesty, sincerity and facts.

submitted 103 days ago • 870 comments

President Trump’s simpering fealty to Vladimir Putin and Russia is embarrassing and dangerous. Illinois stands with Ukraine, and so should the White House.

submitted 107 days ago • 665 comments

WTAF Tuesday edition. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

submitted 110 days ago • 1 comment

Reaching out to all Americans through the media to explain how decreasing funding of the NIH will have irreversible harm for developing therapies for all diseases. Please spread the word to your families and friends and contact your congressional representatives. www.nbcnews.com/science/scie...

submitted 115 days ago • 1 comment

It’s @katherinejwu.com with the receipts. The NIH memo undercutting the NIH came directly from Trump officials. www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...

submitted 115 days ago • 5 comments

A freeze on meetings of expert panels that peer review grant proposals at the National Institutes of Health is kicking in this week. Follow Science’s coverage of President Donald Trump’s impact on U.S. research and science globally. ⬇️ scim.ag/40XtSSi

submitted 116 days ago • 6 comments

Attending #BPS2025? Want to know more about tangible steps you can take to challenge the attacks on science in the U.S.? Please attend an Emergency Town Hall Meeting on Tuesday at 1:30! @biophysicalsoc.bsky.social @blackinbiophys.bsky.social Please spread the word!

submitted 120 days ago • 3 comments