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Saw a cybertruck and my son asked why Elon Musk would think that looked good and I said "remember that drug they gave you at the hospital when you broke your arm, and you got scared and said everyone had 4 eyes? he takes that all the time"

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www.nytimes.com/2025/02/24/c...

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The NIH continues to be fully halted. 11/11 study sections canceled today, which includes the study section my grant was meant to be reviewed at. This is never ending and so damaging. www.csr.nih.gov/RevPanelsAnd...

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Our first round of acceptances for the 2025 Chemistry Education Research and Practice Gordon Research Seminar (CERP GRS) went out today! 🤩 We still have about 25 spots left to fill, so if you are a CER graduate student or postdoctoral scholar, please consider applying. #ChemEd #CER #DBER

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Great write up at @thetransmitter.bsky.social on the seeming erasure of SABV in the new era of NIH. Gotta say The Transmitter is killing it the last few weeks, first to report on the Federal Register block and now this. Leading the charge! 💪 www.thetransmitter.org/policy/exclu...

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The NIH review panel that was supposed to meet tomorrow and review that grant I am a Co-Pi on was postponed with no idea of when it would be postponed to. Sigh.

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At least 12 universities now have hiring freezes and nearly 30 have cut PhD admissions this year If you hear of other places you can add them to this google doc:

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Russ Vocht he OBM Director and architect of Project 2025 is on the other site advertising payday loans, in case you’re wondering what stage of administrative rot we’re at.

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I wish more people knew about the 1920s Klan because they—perhaps more than European fascists—are the model for Trumpism. This is a good summary and a nice reminder that they do a lot of damage, but in the end, fascists always lose.

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I want to see every scientific society going into emergency mode. This is a good example of how an organization can flex its specific power in a time of great need. What else is possible?

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A president rapidly sundowning into full-blown dementia ambiguously handed power over the entire government to a delusional billionaire drug addict in a made-up illegal quasi-office and the Cabinet is split over whether their departments have to listen to his mad orders. It's day 34.

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Recent Seattle Aquarium layoffs include devastating cuts to the Beach Naturalist program that has nurtured community engagement with the Salish Sea for 25 years. There is a board meeting February 26th. Send comments in support of the satff & program to [email protected] 🧪🦑 #SciComm

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Say what you want about Kendrick but the fact that people are figuring out what “40 acres and a mule” in 2025 is why any education to black history is important, no matter no big nor small.

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World's First Electric Ferry Marks a Decade of Operations

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Dr. St. Elmo Brady earned an MSc and PhD in #chemistry from the University of Illinois. He studied divalent oxygen atoms, and later went on to research #infrared #spectroscopy and organic acids. #28DaysOfBlackSTEMHistory #BlackHistoryMonth www.sciencehistory.org/education/sc...

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In light of everything happening, I wrote about how the KKK in the 1920s felt unstoppable, about the people that fought against them anyway, and about how fascism always fails. dansinker.com/posts/202…

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Join us! Science Homecoming helps scientists reconnect with communities by writing about the importance of science funding in their hometown newspapers. We’ve mapped every small newspaper in the U.S. and provide resources to get you started. Help science get back home 🧪🔬🧬 🏠 sciencehomecoming.com

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Kickass worm-friend @rnareylab.bsky.social wrote a piece for @sciencehomecoming.bsky.social and you should read it and send it to your red-state friends and fam. Hurting research hurts all of us. #invertsolidarity 🧪 www.heraldbanner.com/opinion/colu...

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Q: How evil do you have to be to cut a Dolly book program? A: Pretty f*cking evil. Solution: Dolly for Prez! Dolly Parton Calls Out Indiana Gov Over Plan to Dump Her Imagination Library www.thedailybeast.com/dolly-parton... cc @drjengunter.bsky.social

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Freezing out the NIH's funding means freezing out American innovation. Research into curing cancer, Alzheimer's, and Parkinson's all delayed. And ultimately it won't just cost us advancements in life-saving research, it will cost us lives.

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Does anyone know what happened to the NIH supplement fact sheet database? I haven’t been able to access it these last couple of days, and am concerned it has fallen victim to the new administration 😔 #nutsky #medsky #nih

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The changes to passport applications based on Trump's executive order redefining "gender" and "sex" is now OPEN FOR PUBLIC COMMENT. www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...

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“I have to decide...whether to take new students into my lab, and I don’t know if I can afford them,” said Rutgers prof @annikabarber.bsky.social "there are no NIH study sections...there is a six-month funding gap …That is going to close small labs.” @aaup.bsky.social @ruaaup-aft.bsky.social

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ATTENTION: If you have received a NoA from NIH within the last 10 days, please let me know the grant number and award date. I am trying to characterize the time lag between awards and NIH Reporter. DM me if you wish or just reply

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WHAT. Ecuador's government recently authorized a U.S. military base on the Galápagos Islands. NO. No no no no no no noooooooo NO 🧪 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Your weather app gets its info because of NOAA. Your mail arrives at your home because of USPS. Your plane navigates the skies because of the FAA. Your food is safer -- and we get alerts when it isn't -- because of USDA. You hear about earthquakes worldwide because of USGS.

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Alberta curling athlete Ashton Skrlik has a degree in Chemistry from Mount Royal University in Calgary. I know this because I wondered why she had a tattoo of quercetin on her bicep!

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Science under siege: Trump cuts threaten to undermine decades of research Sweeping layoffs, funding freezes and executive orders have provoked outcry among federal researchers and their university partners By Evan Bush, Aria Bendix and Denise Chow www.nbcnews.com/science/scie...

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Keith Haring died of AIDS aged 31 on 16 Feb 1990. One of his last works, Unfinished Painting, was deliberately incomplete, reflecting the devastating, unquantifiable loss to the arts due to AIDS. #LGBTplusHistoryMonth

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Transgender folks have been around forever, and have helped secure human rights for others multiple times. www.cnn.com/2025/02/16/u...

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If you are an academic, scientist, or concerned member of the population and want to understand how we got to this very anti-education, anti-science, pro-misinformation place, this book is very good. The anti-education forces have been working in coordinated, well-funded ways for a while.

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They are going to ignore court orders. If they ignore court orders, the social contract is dead and buried, the constitution is no longer in effect. It's a rubicon that cannot be uncrossed.

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The NIH capping the indirect cost rate (IDC) for grants at 15% can best be described as a direct assault on Universities. It’s such a bureaucratic, innocuous sounding thing that actually means that research universities will be kneecapped. Thousands of employees across the US will lose their jobs.

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I just called my MAGA Rep to tell him to do something about the massive attacks on NSF, NIH, and more. The University of Virginia is in his district, and these cuts will devastate UVa. He, and so many other Congresspeople, are in a vulnerable position here, so hit 'em at home where it hurts.

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To build a world-leading science base is hard and takes a lot of time. To destroy it is easy, quick & nasty. Just defund, censor & sack the scientists.

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Noticing all the posts about rural hospitals and children’s hospitals here and how the cap on Indirect Cost rates will smash their ability to save children’s lives, and I can’t help but scream POLICIES THAT ENSURE THE DEATHS OF SICK CHILDREN IS KEY TO EUGENICS.

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Another assault on US competitiveness at a time when biomedicine is roaring with innovation, an own-goal in a high-stakes international tournament. Of course the real losers are American people needing medicines and cures. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

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Now more than ever.

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I'm suffering survivor's guilt at having abandoned academia 4 years ago...

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A lot of universities are in immediate financial trouble as of this evening thanks to the NIH overhead change. But that’s presumably the idea, isn’t it?

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in all seriousness, research in institutions of higher education is dead with an ICR cap of 15%. they “lose” money already with current rates (owing to an admin component cap of 25%), so they’re … done.

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On changes to #NIH indirect rates, there is a law in place that prohibits NIH from making such changes without the approval of Congress. See Division D, Title II Section 224 of The Further Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2024 (Public Law No: 118-47) grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

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