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Infectious Disease Fellow, University of Washington Health Policy Advocate
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In a time when American academia is under one of the greatest threats of our time, we could all stand to understand how it has succeeded becoming the powerhouse it currently is.

submitted 58 days ago • 1 comment

The Princeton Politics Department is showing up for this fight.

submitted 102 days ago • 7 comments

VA research is THE reason we have all kinds of medical breakthroughs, from the pacemaker to the nicotine patch. Veterans like Shawn know the value of VA research and how it saves lives, but Trump and Elon are decimating this work and firing VA researchers in droves.

submitted 103 days ago • 15 comments

Wonderful news. Now dreading the announcement that this will be yet another court order that is willfully ignored.

submitted 103 days ago • 0 comments

I sincerely think that universities should suspend their productivity standards for scientists and ask them instead to hold town halls in schools, public libraries, museums, shopping malls, and anywhere else and communicate what is being lost with the collapse of the research ecosystem.

submitted 103 days ago • 53 comments

A reminder that public servants provide so much value to our lives and our country, real people doing thankless work that keeps our society running.

submitted 103 days ago • 1 comment

My area of research is convict leasing. In the USA, when labor is forced outside of a punishment, such as before a guilty verdict, it is called slavery. This isn’t hyperbole…

submitted 105 days ago • 4 comments

To be clear: I know a LOT of early career physicians who are considering their exit routes from the chaos, and this is one of them. No one WANTS to leave, but they feel they must do what is right for their families, and go where they feel they can truly care for patients.

submitted 107 days ago • 1 comment

University leaders need to step up together and fight this. Columbia was an example that cannot be allowed to stand. No one wants to be next, but being quiet ensures that someone somewhere will be, and again, and again.

submitted 107 days ago • 0 comments

Science for science's sake, and for the improvement of human health and level of understanding. But also, science for economic return's sake as well.

submitted 109 days ago • 0 comments

In light of the news about Columbia, I want to reiterate a point below by me and Levitsky: universities, collectively, are among the most economically powerful and geographically thick sectors in the US. If they stood up together in opposition to this tyranny, they would be incredibly powerful.

submitted 114 days ago • 83 comments

An important reading on the dangers and ultimate futility of anticipatory obedience

submitted 113 days ago • 0 comments

Really wish people would stop talking about the problem with Science under Trump as “budget cuts”. No. Budgets are set deliberatively by elected members of congress. Budgets haven’t been cut. What’s happening are *purges* and *censorship*.

submitted 114 days ago • 22 comments

This person has no idea how many people have died, or will die, as a result of shattering our entire global infrastructure for providing lifesaving assistance. He did no analysis of those impacts before the reckless and illegal obliteration of USAID. These statements are made-up assertions.

submitted 118 days ago • 1 comment