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Midnight in America. This was the most shameful display of amorality I have ever witnessed. The people of Ukraine are in the hands of Merz and Macron now, because Trump and Vance have left the camp of democracy and self-determination. Slava Ukraini. 🇺🇦

submitted 7 hours ago • 1 comment

Of the 4000 researchers at NIH, only 20% are tenured. They’re going to fire all the rest as their contracts come up for renewal, absolutely decimating research at the NIH. This is catastrophic, not just for Americans, but for the whole world. www.science.org/content/arti...

submitted 21 hours ago • 213 comments

We’ve tried to shelter our minds but tonight we’re preparing for the genocide of Science. Entire NIH departments will have no leaders. World renowned Scientists kicked to the curb without cause, & grants will loose their lead investigators. Is this what they want? Chaos? Destruction?

submitted 23 hours ago • 839 comments

We keep going through the same conspiracy theory over and over and over and over again 🙃

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

All probationary federal employees at NOAA’s EMC that’s responsible for keeping all US weather model systems running have been fired with 1 hours notice. And that includes me and colleagues. We will not go quietly because we care about the NOAA mission to protect the public.

submitted 1 day ago • 928 comments

Cutting the EPA staff by 65%. The plan is clearly to hollow out every agency they don't like so it can't do its work. It's so much easier to destroy than to build. How long will it take to refill those positions in a Dem administration? Years won't be enough. www.reuters.com/world/us/epa...

submitted 1 day ago • 7 comments

not the biggest issue here but it is psychotic to think space based internet is the best option for big fixed facility right next to or within a city

submitted 1 day ago • 7 comments

Looks like the new leadership at the FAA is going to cancel a $2.4 billion communication systems contract with Verizon and give it to... Anyone want to guess? Anyone? That's right: Elon Musk's Starlink! www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

submitted 1 day ago • 22 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 1 day ago • 8 comments

More hits to #NIH: "The Trump administration has imposed a new restriction on employment that could push out thousands of NIH’s senior scientists: The agency cannot retain scientists in 1-year to 4-year positions that have long been routinely renewed." 🧪 @jocelynkaiser.bsky.social at @science.org

submitted 1 day ago • 9 comments

BREAKING: The NIH summer internship program (SIP) has been officially cancelled, across all institutes. It’s a sad loss for the brightest science students in America, for American science, and for future cures for diseases like cancer and Alzheimer’s. 🧪 1/

submitted 2 days ago • 22 comments

Vaccinate your kids. “COVID-19 vaccines cut the risk of long COVID by between 57–73 percent in kids and teens, according to a study published today in JAMA Network Open.” arstechnica.com/science/2025...

submitted 3 days ago • 5 comments

The moment in the cabinet meeting where RFK Jr, acting as the actual head of HHS was asked to respond to a deadly measles outbreak caused by vaccine refusal was one of those out-of-body, waking nightmare moments of the Trump era.

submitted 2 days ago • 190 comments

No. The part of the public that now hates NIH does so because of lies from Fox and Republicans and the WSJ Opinion section, full stop. And now, like little children, the whiny rightwingers are trying to blame scientists who care about fairness and the best science.🧪 Get outta here.

submitted 2 days ago • 9 comments

WE JUST GOT DOGE’D no funding for this year. We have to cancel the program and email 450 applicants there will be no REU program in physics at MSU. First time in 20+ years. I’m fucking livid, y’all.

submitted 2 days ago • 45 comments

The NIH is cancelling its Summer Internship Program. ~1200 college kids won't get trained in biomedical research this summer because why? Oh yes, "government efficiency". Yeah, things will be really efficient when we've got doctors and researchers that are less well-prepared to do what they do...

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

I have heard that NIH is canceling its summer internship program

submitted 2 days ago • 4 comments

Just got this passed on to us, about the damage at NIH's home campus -- the largest biomedical research institute in the world. "The articles on cuts and damage assessments are largely grants focused. The grants program is a bit easier to characterize because it’s visible outside the NIH..." 🧪 1/

submitted 3 days ago • 28 comments

A terrible environmental catastrophe is unfolding in Zambia right now 🧪

submitted 3 days ago • 3 comments

For the US to side with Russia and North Korea to oppose a UN resolution condemning the illegal invasion of Ukraine defies all common sense and adds insult to the countless injuries suffered by the brave Ukrainian people. edition.cnn.com/2025/02/24/p...

submitted 3 days ago • 3768 comments

There are so many reasons university endowments can't make up for the dramatic cuts the Trump administration has planned for science. Here are a few. Thanks to @donmoyn.bsky.social for the platform.

submitted 4 days ago • 34 comments

Very useful explainer.

submitted 4 days ago • 4 comments

FINALLY! I always knew Kennedy was behind the high cost of eggs. These Republicans are really getting things done.

submitted 4 days ago • 99 comments

Sadly true. Also expect that anything you have put in eRA Commons, NIH’s central grant application and review repository, will be used to train Musk’s AI. We should start asking Grok “what research work is <X NIH grant applicant> proposing to do” and see when confidential info starts popping up. 🧪

submitted 6 days ago • 5 comments

From a source at NIH, some grants may be nixed because the investigator’s bio sketch mentions DEI-related activities, even if the science itself has nothing to do with it.

submitted 7 days ago • 14 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 7 days ago • 1876 comments

Aside from everything else it's just kind of funny that the CFPB is way over there on the left, meaning "companies shouldn't be able to scam you and take your money" is largely antithetical to conservatism

submitted 8 days ago • 7 comments

Happy now #BillCassidy #SusanCollins #JoniErnst, #TomTillis? Your cowardice will kill. www.politico.com/news/2025/02...

submitted 8 days ago • 6 comments

A brief history of the Pentagon's relative clear-eyed realism on climate change, now apparently upended by weird children

submitted 8 days ago • 19 comments

"America has no king" seems like a good theme to rally around

submitted 9 days ago • 102 comments

The head of the Autism, ADHD, and Externalizing Disorders Interventions Research Program at the National Institute of Mental Health was fired over the weekend, 21 days shy of the end of her one year probationary period. She posted about it on fb.

submitted 9 days ago • 10 comments

So #BillCassidy, #SusanCollins and the rest of the Quisling caucus knew that #RFKJr was lying then. But they cowered under the hot breath of the man in the White House and capitulated as they always do. Now, all this is on them.

submitted 9 days ago • 9 comments

To my colleagues, friends, and everybody else in the federal workforce, including from the NIH and the CDC, you are all heroes and deserve so much better than the obtuse insanity you’re all living through at the moment. Rest assured that we are with you in this fight and unafraid 💪!

submitted 9 days ago • 5 comments

I lost my job at the National Science Foundation yesterday, along with 167 of my colleagues, including some dear friends. This was the best job I've ever had, and I thought it would be my last. The PI community has been sympathetic and supportive, without exception. I will miss working for you.

submitted 9 days ago • 603 comments

Do you care if the food you eat is safe? Whether a measles outbreak is headed for your kid's school? Do you want to enroll in a study of a new cancer drug? #ElonMusk #DonaldTrump are playing deadly games with US health agencies. Call your members of Congress now. www.statnews.com/2025/02/17/t...

submitted 11 days ago • 4 comments

The Richest Man in the World Says We Can't Afford Any More Cures for Cancer talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/nih-a...

submitted 11 days ago • 127 comments

If you wanted to cut waste, fraud, and abuse, you would empower the inspectors general. If you wanted more waste, fraud, and abuse, you would fire them.

submitted 11 days ago • 2289 comments

The flying public needs answers. How many FAA personnel were just fired? What positions? And why?

submitted 11 days ago • 2400 comments

#Trump, #Musk, #Vought are destroying NIH; creating a rump-institution that kills research on health disparities by banning grants on words like race, gender, etc; creating a whites-only future for research by banning DEI initiatives. My latest for @thenation.com. www.thenation.com/article/arch...

submitted 11 days ago • 5 comments

#billcassidy is the worst. He knew what he was doing was horrendous but did it anyway. Just a disgrace as a physician and human being.

submitted 12 days ago • 5 comments

Not all (thank goodness) but some, and that is unconscionable. I have communicated with some of these talented young scientists and they are understandably shattered. I have also communicated with branch chiefs who are sorting out what happens to the leaderless coworkers.

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments