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🚨 WANT TO HELP US STAND UP FOR SCIENCE? 🚨 Here's a little update on where we're currently at with the planning process! Is your state red or grey & you want to see an event happen? Fill out our volunteer form or share with a friend! airtable.com/app4h5wUssMG... #standupforscience2025

submitted 1 day ago • 19 comments

Does your child want to go to college, want to go to med or grad school? The new cures for diseases, new technologies that we depend on come out of universities. #Trump, #Musk, #Vought are now killing higher education. If you haven't been paying attention, this would be a good time to wake up.

submitted 1 day ago • 9 comments

TRUMP: The NCAA has complied immediately. That's good. But I understand Maine -- is the governor of Maine here? JANET MILLS: Yeah I'm here TRUMP: Are you not gonna comply? JM: I'm going to comply with state and federal law T: You better do it bc you're not gonna get any federal funding at all

submitted 1 day ago • 2178 comments

So. It has officially happened. I have been officially let go from my position at CDC. I wasn’t a probationary employee. I had stellar performance reviews every year. I’ll be ok. But please understand that many worked HARD to get into these positions and were doing great public health work.

submitted 1 day ago • 1865 comments

I am begging for a diagram of Reaper metabolism #elevationmovie

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

BREAKING: They called them heroes. Then they cut their healthcare. Trump and Musk just gutted funding for the 9/11 first responders’ health program—forcing layoffs and slashing care for those who risked their lives. This is a national disgrace. thehill.com/policy/healt...

submitted 4 days ago • 14 comments

Welcome to the Bluesky account for Stand Up for Science 2025! Keep an eye on this space for updates, event information, and ways to get involved. We can't wait to see everyone #standupforscience2025 on March 7th, both in DC and locations nationwide! #scienceforall #sciencenotsilence

submitted 11 days ago • 87 comments

SENIORS UNITE YOUR Social Security and Medicare are going to be in the hands of a lunatic who wants YOUR money. IRS info, same lunatic. MEDICAID will be in his hands GONE. WE DID NOT ELECT THIS MAN/CHILD. ARE THEY TRYING TO KILL US ALL. ANSWER: YES, the weakest will perish

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

This is inexcusable

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I’m angry; you should be too. Call your member of Congress every day until they stop this hemorrhaging of scientific and clinical expertise. #Musk #Trump #Vought are making us less safer and making us sicker. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/u...

submitted 5 days ago • 4 comments

so Bobby will make sure black children get the opportunity to get "re-parented" and sent out to some farm somewhere.

submitted 5 days ago • 81 comments

This is devastating. The NIH plays an important role in coordinating trials across the country. Do you have a loved one in a clinical trial? It might be stopped due to these cuts. Call your representatives! Let them know you care about science and developing life saving treatments!

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

Picked up these two volumes for the #WomenInSTEM Bookshelves at #AAAS2025. It’ll be tough to dethrone Neuenschwander’s Noether book from my heart as it’s one of my all time favorites but always happy to see her covered! #BookSky #AstroSky #MathSky

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

The Trump NIH is banning hires of new students and postdocs. This is devastating for NIH research and will result in a lost generation of researchers at the institution. Heard from a applicant today: "A lot of people are banking their entire careers on the [NIH student programs]..." #NIH 🧪 1/

submitted 13 days ago • 8 comments

On the 40th anniversary of the Bhopal disaster, survivors demanded justice, rightful compensation, and long-term care and rehabilitation. cen.acs.org/environment/... #chemsky🧪

submitted 7 days ago • 2 comments

We're seeing continued censoring from the administration of scientific and clinical information including this crucial webpage from FDA of "Approved Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategies (REMS)" which serve as critical programs for drug safety. No explanation, no notice. #MedSky

submitted 7 days ago • 2 comments

Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s idea of efficiency is stopping research on curing cancer.

submitted 9 days ago • 186 comments

Termination notices going out this afternoon to more than 300 employees of the National Cancer Institute. Access likely ends today. Four weeks paid leave and that’s it. Strong power move for Team Cancer.

submitted 8 days ago • 1088 comments

It’s been buried in all the news today, but every scientist in the US should pay attention to this: Mike Lauer went out on a limb for us all, sending out a memo saying institutes should start awarding grants. And it looks like Trump/Musk fired him for that. 🧪

submitted 8 days ago • 21 comments

Yes. This is the message that every scientist should be getting out right now: “Trump/Musk are killing cancer research” — it’s a political slam dunk. Public pushback is what can stop them now. Please help 🧪. Scientists are in all 50 states, including in red areas.

submitted 9 days ago • 5 comments

It is not "just a pause". It can destroy everything a lab has worked for.

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

somewhere, harrison butker is crying about jalen hurts' all-women management team

submitted 13 days ago • 8 comments

for those who aren't aware, the Philly QB, Jalen Hurts, is a big advocate for women in sports, and his management team is all women. I just think he's neat.

submitted 13 days ago • 67 comments

Very happy that a city I both like and am completely terrified of won

submitted 13 days ago • 124 comments

Slashing the NIH budget isn’t just a policy decision—it’s an attack on science, medicine, and the future of innovation. Cancer research, life-saving treatments, and our global leadership in health are all on the line. Pay attention.

submitted 14 days ago • 7 comments

Read this thread! The scientific ecosystem being destroyed in one fell swoop.

submitted 15 days ago • 2 comments

Taking a break from the unceasing horrors to enjoy the microscopic world

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

I know we can’t run around on fire every time Trump says something but he appears to have just announced the new US policy on Gaza which is to take ownership of it, ethnically cleanse it of the 1.8 million Palestinians there and maintain a long term ownership stake as it’s “developed.”

submitted 18 days ago • 1605 comments

Mentality: I think a revolution is in order. Energy level: Naps are nice.

submitted 18 days ago • 31 comments

they are mostly targeting black employees so this is quite literally just a repeat of woodrow wilson’s segregationist purge of the federal government

submitted 18 days ago • 1280 comments

If you ever wondered where you would do something in a "First they came for" scenario before "and then they came for me," now is the time to figure that out.

submitted 18 days ago • 56 comments

I think people think our rage is hateful. This is love. Love for myself and others. This rage is the anger of someone who wants no more people to get hurt. Its not petty.

submitted 20 days ago • 43 comments

In preview of my Monday morning piece, I'm going to say a little bit about why this is so concerning. This is not some "economy" thing. Its first & foremost the possibility that our legal order is modified so the law of the land is defined by Elon Musk at Treasury www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/u...

submitted 21 days ago • 58 comments

Our son woke up early this morning, then fell back asleep on my lap. Such a cozy morning 🥰

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

Happy Caturday!

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

I honestly believe our most powerful position in a toxic time that feeds on cynicism, apathy,& despair is to genuinely care and act for a better world. Cynicism is our enemy. We should check it, incl. on the left. It’s not intellectually superior. It’s the virus they’re trying to infect us with. NO

submitted 22 days ago • 4418 comments

So, that's not good... Researchers rush to preserve federal health databases before they disappear from government websites

submitted 22 days ago • 1 comment