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IMPORTANT Collecting data to understand and strengthen arguments about the impact of the administration's ill-considered actions and the responses of universities... Please share!

submitted 5 days ago • 3 comments

I’ll be at the one at the Minnesota State Capital in St. Paul on March 7th from 3-5pm 🧪 #standupforscience2025 #scienceforall

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

Elon Musk Suggests He Alone Decides What Gets Funded in the Government gizmodo.com/elon-musk-su...

submitted 2 days ago • 9 comments

I don't really have words for how devastating it would be to lose the entire intramural program. This has to be stopped.

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

I talked to NIH officials, current and former, about what's been happening inside the agency since the Trump administration shut down their grantmaking pipeline in January. Their stories showed just how willing our new leaders are to break the law: www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...

submitted 1 day ago • 24 comments

WaPo displaying 10x the empathy for a Trump voter who lost her job than for any trans person, anyone who depended on USAID for food or medicine, anyone in a cancelled clinical trial, etc, etc.

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments

The headline that 21 DOGE staffers have resigned is a little misleading. These were employees of the United States Digital Service, which existed pre-administration and was absorbed into Musk’s team. These aren’t the young idiots; these are actual civil servants.

submitted 3 days ago • 92 comments

A large portion of grants awarded by the U.S. National Institutes of Health cannot be funded for the foreseeable future because of an indefinite hold on submissions to the Federal Register, according to an email reviewed by The Transmitter. By @avaskham.bsky.social bit.ly/3X8ngz8

submitted 10 days ago • 12 comments

Important reporting on an NIH funding crisis. HHS is violating a court order, continuing a freeze on all new NIH grant reviews, and therefore on funding too. I have not seen this reported anywhere else.

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

“There are currently four people remaining over there to do the work of 15 people. The danger to the national airspace can’t be understated." "This is a very real threat to the American flying public.” EXCLUSIVE ⤵️

submitted 10 days ago • 289 comments

doing cutesy hypotheticals around the electoral effects of invading and annexing an entire country is everything that's wrong with the New York Times, elite media in this country, and you in particular total inability to consider the horror of what's being proposed, fuck off with this shit

submitted 11 days ago • 52 comments

Big, growing crowd just west of the U.S. Capitol protesting Trump, Musk and DOGE on President’s Day. “Hey Congress, grow a spine,” they shout, gathering for a rally around the reflecting pool.

submitted 11 days ago • 367 comments

So employee protections just don’t exist at the federal level?

submitted 14 days ago • 1 comment

This is completely destructive and heartbreaking. 💔

submitted 14 days ago • 2 comments

That the winning political strategy ended up being "put tons of people out of work" really lays bare how Democrats failed big time in solidifying a broad labor-focused coalition over the years.

submitted 14 days ago • 1 comment

Can confirm mass layoffs of probationary employees underway or about to commence at National Institutes of Health (NIH), Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and Fish & Wildlife Service, per agency sources.

submitted 14 days ago • 58 comments

While other scientific societies duck and cover from executive orders, @sbn-bsky.bsky.social calls out the hateful policies coming out from the executive branch. I’m proud to be a member of SBN sbn.org/news/news/a-...

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

It should be a source of profound embarrassment that a bunch of FedSoc lifers are taking a more vocal and principled stand against the corrupt Eric Adams deal than most elected Dems.

submitted 14 days ago • 246 comments

Get in dorks, we're going protesting! STAND UP FOR SCIENCE WITH US ON MARCH 7TH, 2025 WASHINGTON DC AND EVERY STATE CAPITOL Because science is for everyone! Find us at www.standupforscience2025.org #standupforscience2025 #scienceforall #sciencenotsilence

submitted 18 days ago • 50 comments

JD Vance confirms a fundamental shift in the world order as the US aligns with Russia and Russian-funded European fascist parties against the Atlantic alliance and its liberal democracies. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/02...

submitted 14 days ago • 9 comments

BREAKING: StatNews reports that more than 5,000 HHS employees across NIH, CDC and other public health and research agencies will be fired this afternoon. www.statnews.com/2025/02/14/f...

submitted 14 days ago • 97 comments

5200 people. They just received notices apparently.

submitted 14 days ago • 8 comments

See here's how to do a headline. fortune.com/2025/02/13/e...

submitted 15 days ago • 248 comments

1/So, the guy who is supposedly fighting waste & corruption in government just got a $400 mil contract with that same government he’s supposedly overseeing for his trucks that get, let’s just say less than stellar reviews www.nytimes.com/2025/02/12/u...

submitted 15 days ago • 480 comments

How much Elon Musk makes from the government a day: $8 million. How much a senior on Social Security gets a day: $65 Guess which budget Musk and Trump want to cut?

submitted 16 days ago • 902 comments

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.

submitted 16 days ago • 373 comments

Please remember that emails from your work account are not confidential, private or secure in any way

submitted 19 days ago • 1 comment

With the huge challenges facing scientists, I call on peer reviewers to reflect on their role as gatekeepers to trainee career development and scientific progress. You can maintain high standards for rigor while being kind and not demanding an extra year of studies for every paper revision.

submitted 16 days ago • 4 comments

Not sure how many realize that NIH funding is still frozen. This article details an almost complete dropoff (97%) in NIH funding between Feb3-10 this year and last. Our institution's numbers are consistent with those cited here. If yours are as well, please share! popular.info/p/trump-main...

submitted 16 days ago • 2 comments

Yes. Important for all NIH people and scientists: The executive orders are not law. The President cannot make laws. And in fact, executive orders may violate the law. As a federal employee, you are obligated not to follow illegal orders. That includes illegal EOs.

submitted 16 days ago • 18 comments

98% of NIH grants that should have gone out this month, didn't. Despite court orders 'unfreezing' the funds, they are frozen. Biomedical research will grind to a halt. Clinical trials will end. All for no reason: the total impact on the US budget is miniscule

submitted 16 days ago • 52 comments

JUST IN: Federal judges orders HHS, CDC, and FDA to restore “by no later than 11:59 pm” today their websites and datasets to pre-January 30th status. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 17 days ago • 1570 comments

The closure of CFPB highlights the grand lie at the heart of DOGE. CFPB is cheap to run & delivers billions to victims of corporate scams. It’s the definition of value for money. But X & Meta hate it because it targets big tech fraud. DOGE is not about waste. It’s about enriching the oligarchy.

submitted 18 days ago • 41 comments

Get in Dorks, we are going protesting. STAND UP FOR SCIENCE. MARCH 7th 12-4pm. DC AND YOUR STATE CAPITALS. More information to come.

submitted 19 days ago • 43 comments

Hero lawyers in state AG offices busted their asses over the weekend to get this done. Now do your part: call your Representative and Senators TODAY. Call your AG AND governor and voice your support for these lawsuits.

submitted 18 days ago • 4 comments

Read the 🧵 on the 2025 plan for the NIH: the proposal suggests dismantling the agency and redistributing its funding to the states.

submitted 18 days ago • 1 comment

Let’s be clear about something that maybe the wider public will get. Not only will this destroy research but it will also lead to huge tuition increases. Your kids’ college is about to get a lot more expensive.

submitted 21 days ago • 86 comments