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Tomorrow, April 1, is Election Day in Wisconsin and Florida, and don’t be fooled: the stakes could not be higher. Luckily, Team Big Picture is here with all you need to stay informed.

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Just in NIH grants, It looks like beautiful Iowa City, home of the U of Iowa, will lose $71m in funding. That's almost $1k per resident. And that's before all the other cuts to SSA, FDA, etc. Anyone in Iowa City that can offer more insight? scienceimpacts.org H/T to Prathima !

submitted 2 days ago • 943 comments

Today was yet another sad day for science. All U-RISE training programs, including the one at SJSU, got stop work orders. We've had a version of this program at SJSU for 30+ yrs. Devastating for the students who got their stipends & tuition pulled w no notice & for the future of science 🧪 1/

submitted 3 days ago • 10 comments

This is an understatement. We have already lost our scientific edge. Mass personnel cuts, lost grant support, gutting of pipeline programs, and the uncertainty about the future has already impacted our competitiveness and future generations of scientists. We just don’t see it yet. But we will.

submitted 2 days ago • 22 comments

From 2010 to 2016 (latest data I have ), NIH research contributed to EVERY drug approved by the FDA

submitted 9 days ago • 759 comments

So happy to see this story come together. Check it out! Kathleen Mills and many collaborators - GM-CSF–mediated epithelial-immune cell cross-talk orchestrates pulmonary immunity to Aspergillus fumigatus | Science Immunology www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

submitted 10 days ago • 4 comments

www.baldwin.senate.gov/news/press-r...

submitted 11 days ago • 3 comments

SCOOP: Hooded ICE agents snatched Indian-born Georgetown postdoc Badar Suri from Rosslyn street Monday, per court filing. Like Khalil, linked to pro-Palestinian views & Rubio 'foreign policy' power, lawyer says. Then whisked to Louisiana. w/ @kyledcheney www.politico.com/news/2025/03...

submitted 12 days ago • 223 comments

NIH “is expected to cut between 3,400 and 5,000 positions from its workforce of 20,000 in coming days.” Story by @statnews.com www.statnews.com/2025/03/14/n...

submitted 16 days ago • 2 comments

biologylife.substack.com/p/incredible...

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

In this interview Schumer says he agrees with Trump’s decision to pull $400 million from Columbia. A university in his own state. And he’s unconcerned about the unlawful arrest of Mahmoud Khalil, one of his constituents. He is a traitor who needs to resign.

submitted 15 days ago • 782 comments

This guy, who became rich off tax money, is fine now, but thinks other peoples pain is funny and cool. Tax elon

submitted 16 days ago • 631 comments

OK. What happened today is not great. But take heart! Now we shift to plan B: asking D Senators to shut down Senate business. This is a media relations game. Senators: act like this is a crisis so the public sees that it is a crisis. Many voters are unaware of the damage Trump and Musk are doing.

submitted 17 days ago • 11 comments

Check out my new post! I do an emergency video analyzing the current fight over govt spending and the sheer maddening missteps of Schumer and others adamkinzinger.substack.com/p/emergency-...

submitted 17 days ago • 226 comments

Cool so what happens if GOP attach a national abortion ban to a CR? You'll vote for that too? 🚮

submitted 17 days ago • 5306 comments

Among the material devastation to everyday people, Senate Dems have now blown a hole in their ability to work with the House. We had an agreed upon plan, House took immense risk, then Senate turned around midway and destroyed it w/ a fear-based, inexplicable abdication. They own what happens next.

submitted 17 days ago • 6017 comments

KEEP CALLING! It’s working. Anyone can call Schumer BTW. Tell the dems to vote no on the Repub “continuing resolution”. Republicans own the White House, senate, and Congress. If they can’t negotiate a CR, let alone a budget, this is their shutdown. 5calls.org/issue/cr-con...

submitted 18 days ago • 26 comments

You can write #Schumer 's staff. Tell them that if Dems let the Trump-Musk budget through and betray the federal workers who have told us shutdown is better than the DOGE reign of terror, you will organize, not just primary opponents, but an immediate leadership challenge.

submitted 17 days ago • 2 comments

It’s not too late! Write to #Schumer. His chief of staff Mike Lynch ([email protected]), his deputy CoS ([email protected]), comms director ([email protected]) and press secretary ([email protected]).

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

New Yorkers: Call Sen. Gillibrand’s office to vote NO on cloture and NO on the Republican Spending Bill. They vote in the morning. ☎️: (202) 224-4451

submitted 18 days ago • 1073 comments

@therickwilson.bsky.social has an urgent message for the Dems: SHUT IT DOWN! Watch:

submitted 18 days ago • 1141 comments

If Chuck Schumer enjoys a single day in NYC for the rest of his life without being told to go fuck himself at least once, then NYC will have utterly failed as a society.

submitted 18 days ago • 529 comments

Congress not cede the POWER OF THE PURSE…. Call your senator now!!!! And keep calling.

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

@schumer.senate.gov please resign if you don’t have the courage of your convictions and are unwilling and unable to meet the moment

submitted 18 days ago • 1 comment

📌BREAKING: Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer just announced that he plans to vote to advance a government funding bill, which is a green light for Musk/Trump to continue terrorizing Americans. 📌I am calling for him to step down immediately. He is no damn leader.

submitted 18 days ago • 753 comments

I’ll be on CNN at 6 with @jaketapper.bsky.social to discuss Senate Democrats’ responsibility to protect the federal government and vote NO on cloture and the GOP spending bill

submitted 18 days ago • 1270 comments

With an opposition party like this, what is the point?

submitted 18 days ago • 2523 comments

Chuck Schumer, the top Democrat in the Senate, just caved—again. His support for the Republican CR plan isn’t leadership; it’s surrender. He’s not fighting for the American people. He’s propping up policies that will hurt us.

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Schumer advocated for budget CR today, essentially giving White House decision making power on AMERICAS budget. Cutting Medicaid, social security, and SCIENCE would be no problem. Call and email your senator now if think this is a horrible idea, especially if you live in New York www.govtrack.us

submitted 18 days ago • 1 comment

This is very cool! AND I just can't believe @ucsusa.bsky.social got THAT MANY SCIENTISTS to agree on something!!! That's how you know it's serious, y'all. #standupforscience2025 @standupforscience.bsky.social www.ucsusa.org/about/news/s...

submitted 27 days ago • 1 comment

A clear discussion of the many misconceptions about the NIH. BOTTOM LINE: the war on science is misguided and will cost us our heath and our economy

submitted 28 days ago • 0 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 32 days ago • 27 comments

Important and under-covered attack on the guts of NIH's intramural program from @science.org NIH ban on renewing senior scientists adds to assaults on its in-house research | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

submitted 32 days ago • 8 comments

NIH cuts are getting the press, but VA research is getting slashed too. What do we lose when VA research goes away? Here's some greatest hits: The nicotine patch, invention of the cardiac pacemaker, first successful liver transplant, development of the CAT/CT scan prospect.org/health/2025-...

submitted 34 days ago • 7 comments

Some good-ish news from NIH “Federal Register notices for study sections run by CSR (but not those by ICs) will start being permitted again” As far as I know, the timing for this is not clear, but I will be checking the Federal Register.

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H.R.1497 - SPONSORS- text not yet released www.quiverquant.com/bills/119/hr...

submitted 36 days ago • 1 comment

Folks in TX VA WY AZ OK your representatives have introduced a bill to dissolve NIAID into 3 institutes. 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼

submitted 36 days ago • 1 comment

Yes! Turn your brewing anger into action #actlocally #thenewteaparty

submitted 36 days ago • 0 comments

Every scientist should read this open.substack.com/pub/samwang/...

submitted 36 days ago • 0 comments

2 PhD students recently met at a conference & Trump's slashing of research & science bound them With only 3 other scientists they started a movement that's growing around the country On March 7 in Washington DC, and state capitals, "Stand Up for Science" will take place All details below & bravo!

submitted 37 days ago • 2 comments

Some Republicans hammered at home by constituents about DOGE, Ukraine abcnews.go.com/Politics/rep...

submitted 38 days ago • 0 comments

As more information emerges about the firing of probationary employees from the NIH, it’s becoming clear how these actions are cruel and stupidly incompetent. Why you might ask? 1/

submitted 39 days ago • 2 comments

@drshrutinaik.bsky.social this movie looks amazing! Why do regular people need scientists? Who are we, as scientists? How do we help regular folks? sixdegreesfromscience.com #SciComm

submitted 39 days ago • 0 comments

MacKenzie Scott has donated $19 billion. The impact? 'Transformational,' new study says - USA TODAY apple.news/A9xL6UoqkRSG...

submitted 39 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 40 days ago • 6 comments