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How am I doing? 😭 I saw somewhere an image of a parent holding their child’s hand, and an adaptation of the Jewish teaching by Rabban Yohannan ben Zakkai: If you should happen to be holding a sapling in your hand when they tell you that the [revolution] has arrived, first plant the sapling.

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There is a requirement for study sessions to be posted in the federal register as notice. But the administration has choked off access, and the NIH is not allowed to post in the federal register. This causes a loophole which effectively allows the administration to stop all science funding.

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Follow @quorumcaller.bsky.social to see the vote-o-Rama being pushed through tonight

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PULL THE FIRE ALARM

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The measles outbreak in Texas is reminding me of the public letter Roald Dahl wrote about losing his daughter to measles in 1962, just before the vaccine was publicly available.

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The letter is damning, and an excellent step in calling out corruption.

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BREAKING On Monday, Popular Information broke the news that the NIH had frozen virtually all grant funding in violation of 2 federal court orders On Wednesday, NIH leadership distributed a memo, acknowledging that its funding freeze was illegal and directing staff to resume issuing grants.

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A adore propublica. They really are a model of reporting, and this story is fascinating (and upsetting)

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Posted a one-star review of Google’s “Gulf of America” an inaccurate and unnecessary name change only affecting US phones, including a helpful photo of a thumbs down (it won’t show up). Now begins my de-google process! It’s a lot to unwind, but Magic Earth maps is very promising.

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If your state, like mine, is not on the list call up your Attorney General, your Congress representatives, and Senators to ask why. Why are they letting citizens lose jobs and the state lose money? Why are they halting research?

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for pity’s sake, I am BEGGING university leaders to stop framing this issue in terms of what this will cost the university. people dont care! EXPLAIN WHAT THIS WILL COST THE PUBLIC: closed hospitals and clinics, skipped treatments, loss of access to experimental drugs, unemployment, recession

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There is so much power in Democrats just asserting that Musk is leading a coup and then claiming that 14A/S3 gives the power to stop him. Let me break it down…

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This is why they're attacking science and education: if you can only win with disinformation, data become a threat.

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This is actually something states can do so with Section 3 so go to town

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Just got off a webinar with a prominent national law firm on rules change on indirect rate. AAMC and other orgs on panel too. First, need to be convey that the rates are actual costs, not just overhead to pad the university coffers. Example- Institutional Review Board, space/utilities 1/4

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The US plans to cut billions in reimbursements to medical researchers for items such as hazardous waste disposal.

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It still is painful to read, but it’s all there.

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They got a Farmer Jawn outside Philly!

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Here is a script you can use for any issue. Find your reps' # at reps.fyi or 5calls.org. Every time you see a news story that horrifies you: call, or something else about it. It matters to say what you believe. You are setting a norm.

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Negotiated Indirect Cost Rate Agreements (NICRA) are public. The University of Utah has a good FAQ clearing up common misconceptions about F&A / indirects. An important point is for most institutions, this is a reimbursement to costs already incurred for research. osp.utah.edu/_pdf/FAQs%20...

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Dr Tran also goes on to say, Contact your colleagues to get loud about this NOW! This is illegal and should immediately be called out as such!

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When thinking about wasteful overhead, you are giving in to propaganda. The indirect costs on federal grants are carefully negotiated. Failure to distribute indirect costs starves the supports for research (replacing computers, funding academic offices & utilities), ultimately causing it to fail.

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I appreciated that the NEA was the only federal grant maker (that I knew of) who would work through draft proposals with potential grantees. That they are being forced to do this is despicable.

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Do not comply in advance, keep finding ways to resist. You have more skills than you realize, you have an audience. Focus on 2-3 key issues, your health and community. Fascism thrives on isolation and overwhelm. I’m knitting, I’m reading, and I work with NIH grants. @absurdistwords.bsky.social

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I am enjoying a lot of Bluesky but I do need to find a purveyor of dank memes.

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Pick 2-3 issues of key interest to you and focus on those. Use aggregators to stay abreast of other topics. Keep a community for your sanity, use a 48-hr cooling period to respond to new policy. The overwhelms the point.

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9 days ago trump was warned firing 400 FAA senior officials, the TSA head, and 3,000 air traffic controllers would put aviation security at risk apnews.com/article/coas...

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If you aren’t familiar with the PATCO strike crushed by Reagan, this helps connect it to the current struggles of air traffic controllers

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He believes he got away with it before. “Twitter's severance plan called for employees who stayed on after the buyout to receive two or six months of pay, plus one week of pay for each year of employment…Twitter instead offered fired employees just one month of pay as severance, with no benefits.”

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Incredible things continue to happen on the federal worker subreddit.

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Yes, this administration is dangerous and cruel, but they are also shockingly dim and incompetent. Opportunities are everywhere. Make everything as hard as possible. Resist every demand. Refuse entry without a warrant. Don’t take the buyout. Their problem solving skills are 📉

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Do not comply in advance! I work in federal grant compliance, and I am not being proactive to help along any of these illegal orders. apnews.com/article/dona...

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This is why the Republicans hate education in part is because education and educated communities can effectively mount pushback against them and their fascist plans to round up our neighbors, friends, and family

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The NSF reports their adherence to the illegal EOs includes stopping all payments of active awards. I am sure this applies broadly

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If you're struggling financially due to government fuckery or for any reason really and you need infant formula talk to your pediatrician we can hook you up and don't like to ask questions.

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The least you can do is flood your rep’s emails with outrage. They have the ability to check illegal power grabs, and must enforce it.

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Joined the meeting for the Board of the Norristown Public Library to thank them for their public announcement denouncing Laura Smith after her resignation and reaffirming that there is no tolerance for Nazis. northpennnow.com/news/2025/ja...

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So how’s it going so far?

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Now to get her out of the township supervisor position (she must either resign or be impeached, which is less likely)

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Local official Laura Smith who serves on a public library board and is vice chair of the town supervisors made a smirking TikTok to “check in on my … friends who are struggling this week” made a nazi salute and added “My heart goes out to you” as a poor cover for her gesture. Absolute nazi whistle

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