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Once again I am suggesting that you break some rules for practice. Get comfortable with breaking rules. When the rules are hurting other people, the right thing to do is break them. We need people who follow their moral code over the rules of their society, university, employer, and government.

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submitted 6 days ago • 1544 comments

i think everyone needs to stop framing whats going on as “bending the knee” and what’s really happening which is “they’re finally feel free to do what they’ve always wanted to do”

submitted 7 days ago • 260 comments

Friends, I am at a loss of words for how devastating it would be to lose the entire intramural #NIH program. Some of the biggest medical and scientific breakthroughs have come from scientists in the NIH Intramural program. #SaveTheNIH 🧬🧪 🖥️ 🧠 www.science.org/content/arti...

submitted 7 days ago • 30 comments

"We're fucked" is key quote from an anonymous NIH science officer www.nature.com/articles/d41... Interesting that Nature ran that. It seems like NIH is likely being illegally stymied by the administration. Almost no grant money is going out still.

submitted 13 days ago • 5 comments

A proposal: Academic researchers and folks in similar positions, consider writing an op-Ed, or at least a letter to the editor, in your local paper about what these horrific decisions will do to jobs and services in your local community. I train scientists to write op-Ed’s and I can help.

submitted 16 days ago • 5 comments

This new Trump Dept of Ed letter is so vaguely and tendentiously written that it can be plausibly interpreted as banning Black Student Unions. And colleges are supposed to comply with it within fourteen days. Of yesterday.

submitted 18 days ago • 11 comments

Thanks to all of the NIHers and their friends who reached out to me. I am still here (DM me or Signal jeremymberg.78) I still have a very incomplete picture but based on what I have been told, the damage to NIH and to many wonderful people who work(ed) there is/was impossible for me to imagine 1/n

submitted 18 days ago • 8 comments

They literally removed the T from LGBTQ and erased any mention of trans people who were present at the Stonewall Riots. They're trying to erase us from history. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/n...

submitted 20 days ago • 94 comments

Some higher ed organizations who are loudly circling the wagons against federal funding cuts were oddly silent or circumspect about the earlier attacks on CRT and DEI. I wish there was a better understanding that these attacks are coming because we failed to repel those.

submitted 23 days ago • 112 comments

Associated Press: “Today we were informed by the White House that if AP did not align its editorial standards with President Donald Trump’s executive order renaming the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America, AP would be barred from accessing an event in the Oval Office.“

submitted 22 days ago • 593 comments

Happy International Day of Women in Science. The National Science Foundation’s list of flagged words includes both “Women” and “Female.”

submitted 23 days ago • 28 comments

i hope it’s clear that big tech is not an ally. it only was as much as it was profitable. textboon rainbow capitalism, and now when they saw the writing on the wall, they flopped back into fascisms arms

submitted 23 days ago • 90 comments

This is the most relevant article to NIH and research cuts I’ve seen. Imagine if this was today , how many people would be saying “Why are we studying Gila Monsters and their impact on diabetes ? That’s wasted money !” globalnews.ca/news/9793403...

submitted 24 days ago • 1165 comments

A great website tracking all the companies that have bent the knee to Trump and eliminated their DEI programs, and all the companies that have stood strong. www.dei.watch

submitted 25 days ago • 176 comments

A Primer on Indirect Cost Rates

submitted 26 days ago • 15 comments

1. Today the NIH director issued a new directive slashing overhead rates to 15%. I want to provide some context on what that means and why it matters. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

submitted 26 days ago • 270 comments

Hell yeah. Hold the line. This is what we need people to do. Slow things down, don’t comply in advance so the courts have time to stop them. It’s starting to work.

submitted 26 days ago • 2166 comments

SCOOP: A US Treasury threat intelligence analysis has designated DOGE staff an ‘insider threat'. An internal email reviewed by WIRED calls DOGE staff's access to federal payments systems “the single biggest insider threat risk the Bureau of the Fiscal Service has ever faced.”

submitted 26 days ago • 738 comments

NEW: Project 2025 used DEI as a crowbar to open up attacks on the entire working class. Trump is following through, decimating the federal workforce on the back of anti-DEI rhetoric. Me for @mmfa.bsky.social

submitted 26 days ago • 4 comments

Over 2.5 billion years ago, trillions of tiny Cyanobacteria spent hundreds of millions of years creating an oxygen-rich atmosphere on Earth. Take a deep breath. How are you using your oxygen today? Be present. Give freely. Care for others. Make your ancient microbial cousins proud. Exhale. Repeat.

submitted 26 days ago • 17 comments

Decimating the NSF would be an act of violence against USA competitiveness in science, technology and innovation. Have any of these people seen Shanghai lately? arstechnica.com/science/2025...

submitted 26 days ago • 7 comments

The impact of dropping the diversity focused NIH F31 graduate student fellowships from review drugmonkey.scientopia.org/2025/02/06/n...

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

In case you’re wondering, yes, NASA has been forced to remove this image. Sigh.

submitted 27 days ago • 16 comments

Hardly new info, but BSky should know: Warsaw's water quality is monitored by eight clams with magnets attached to their shells. If contamination in the water causes the clams to close, the magnets trigger an alarm and shut off the city's water supply. Thank you, little guardian molluscs. 🧪🌏🚰

submitted 27 days ago • 97 comments

This is what the government did with 120K+ Japanese Americans in 1942. I know. I was there in those camps.

submitted 33 days ago • 3621 comments

🚨Trump’s Day One Executive Orders reportedly include directives (which will likely take time to implement) on pronouns, prison inmates, and passports. But nothing, for now, affecting the ability of trans Americans to obtain medical treatment.

submitted 45 days ago • 39 comments

If you needed some joy on this unfortunate day: here is a small, silly crab

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