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Me trying not to panic after every work email urging research faculty to "keep writing grants" While awarded grants get canceled, Grants calls get withdrawn, Study section meetings are rescheduled, Banned words in grants are added daily, etc #HigherEdUnderAttack

One trip to Mar a lago would also fund FIVE YEARS of research into cures for pediatric brain cancer. *ask me about my grants at risk and shutting down my research program

Ps: there are mRNA vaccines that are showing promise to FIGHT CANCER (including pancreatic cancer, glioblastoma, and more)

🧪The Alzheimer's Disease Research Center program is a crown jewel in the NIA's funding portfolio. 35 centers in red, blue and purple states put data in a single repository working towards a shared goal of curing AD. Funding for center renewals is on hold. tinyurl.com/yc2pr626 #standupforscience2025

In an unprecedented move, the US National Institutes of Health has begun mass terminations of research grants that fund active scientific projects because they no longer meet “agency priorities”. https://go.nature.com/4bpG2It

They’re so used to creating pseudo-events to provide more material for the distorted frames of their bullshit machine. They are not used to these dynamics being turned against them. The left needs to seize the moment, organize its own events, and start generating content for its own viral messaging.

“Why do I need NOAA? I’ve got a weather app.” Is equivalent to asking “Why do I need farms? I can go to the supermarket.” www.noaa.gov/about-our-ag...

Trump and Musk's shuttering of the DOJ's Office of Environmental Justice proves the goal isn't cost cutting or efficiency. The tiny OEP brings in tens of millions of $ from illegal polluters. Without that, tax payers have to foot the clean up bill From OEJ's deleted-today annual enforcement report:

Elon Musk is a terrible president.

the fascists are looking to rigidly define gender not just to punish trans people like they claim but to lay the groundwork for the oppression of all women. when gender is legally mutable, it is harder to use it to restrict people’s rights. they want to build a cage around you, made from our bones

Bravo to Sen. Alsobrooks for her question. “We should not be giving Black people the same vaccine schedule as Whites because their immune system is better than ours.” — RFK Jr This is the deadlier version of the racist myth that Black people feel less pain, leading to denied pain meds.

I am begging the national media to start taking this seriously. Stop buying the claims that the framing of "temporary" or "pause." They are altering the review processes of federally funded scientific research from merit-based peer review processes to political screening by ideologues.

The clip from night time is sending me 😂

“Republican lawmakers are considering a change to tax policy that would make college more expensive for students receiving grants and scholarships to help pay their tuition bill.”

LGBTQ youth are calling crisis hotlines in record numbers Fears have escalated with the Trump³⁴'s anti-LGBTQ actions and the release of his J6 goons onto our streets Image below has hotline numbers that can help We have to stick together. We must remain visible. We can not obey in advance

The anti-DEI fervor is based on the racist assumption that lesser candidates are being chosen over more qualified white men. It doesn’t even occur to these goons that the program might find talent that otherwise wouldn’t have been recognized and recruited.

One of the most important things you can do today is your science. Knowing calculus/physics/genetics/chemistry etc. makes you rare and the world will need you to rebuild tomorrow. Practice your skills and pass them on. Keep the flame alive. 💚🌱🧪

Regan branded the 80's with an image of faux posturing strength and he used Carter as his foil and at the time it worked. But here is the truth...Carter was the real deal, who walked the walk and did extraordinary things. www.politico.com/news/magazin...

Musk’s wealth in 2012: $2 Billion Musk’s wealth in 2024: $447 Billion Bezos’s wealth in 2012: $18 Billion Bezos’s wealth in 2024: $249 Billion Zuckerberg’s wealth in 2012: $44 Billion Zuckerberg’s wealth in 2024: $224 Billion Minimum wage in 2012: $7.25 Minimum wage in 2024: $7.25

Today in relatable science: Gulls making a mysterious daily trip that turned out to be to a potato chip factory

If your explanation for this election doesn’t start with how a majority of people embraced misogyny & cruelty, I’m not interested.

AND. THEY. FOUND. MULTIPLE. WAYS. TO. SOLVE. IT. 👏👏👏👏💐💐💐 There isn’t enough hype on this one, y’all.

Hey guys, we need your help! Our charity Wild Spirit Wolf Sanctuary is in need of any donation you can spare. They are in the process of absorbing IMNC. If they can't raise the funds they need the 50 wild canines from that sanctuary could be euthanized!

I guess it has fallen to me, the humor columnist, to endorse Harris for president wapo.st/3UqHWRM

this 2008 David Sedaris gem about undecided voters has only gotten more accurate with age

when you and your sibling have to pretend to like each other long enough for mom to take the picture