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I don't think we're talking enough about the fact that the pressure to remove DEI from science means women die.

submitted 1 day ago • 78 comments

If I had a band or a label, I would do a punk cover of "No More Kings" from Schoolhouse Rock. And then I would gather a bunch of people to write a whole album of next-generation Schoolhouse Rock songs, with songs about Social Security and Medicaid and NOAA. I am not kidding in the least.

submitted 4 days ago • 410 comments

It makes me proud to see college students stand up for the things they value...especially when what they value is other people www.purdueexponent.org/campus/event...

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

An attack on women’s access to paid work.

submitted 7 days ago • 5 comments

One thing Democratic leadership could do right now is to name an alternate HHS secretary--someone to provide ongoing public updates and health information. And do it for other departments too. Start showing voters what a Democratic government would look like--press conferences, speeches, all of it.

submitted 10 days ago • 558 comments

🧵"So this is how liberty dies..." Trump’s first 3 weeks have been a relentless flood of actions. It's incredibly hard to keep up. I’ve gone through 69 actions & mapped out the pattern - showing how they fall within 5 broad domains consistent with authoritarian states 1/9

submitted 10 days ago • 522 comments

It's not complicated. They're just trying to stop women from being able to vote.

submitted 11 days ago • 1152 comments

In 2023, Indiana received around $414 million in NIH grants. That supported 5,359 jobs and generated $1.1 billion in economic activity in the state, according to a report from the nonprofit United for Medical Research. #resist #NobodyElectedElon

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

Many in biotech/private sector are boasting about their ways of funding and doing science But they are staffed with PhDs and postdocs we train in our NIH and NSF funded labs in universities With university labs lacking funds to train, the private sector will be profoundly harmed

submitted 12 days ago • 14 comments

Courts ordered the Trump admin to stop its spending freeze Yet ProPublica found place after place where $ is still frozen -hot meals for elderly and disabled -groceries for those in need -maternal & child health services -a clinic that serves the poor www.propublica.org/article/trum...

submitted 13 days ago • 168 comments

The American Bar Association has just called upon every attorney, regardless of their political views, to join them & stand up for the rule of law & at minimum insist that our government "follow the law." Every lawyer has an ethical responsibility to do so. www.americanbar.org/news/abanews...

submitted 13 days ago • 207 comments

Snoop Dogg and Tom Brady in a commercial trying to solve the problem of hate.

submitted 13 days ago • 18 comments

My household is split on the teams in this game, but we agree on Tom Brady. 12yo: I'm surprised Tom Brady is impressed by anything someone else did. #TweensAreSavage

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

According to NIH data, change in indirect funding will cost blue states abt $5.7 billion. They will cost red states almost $5 billion. Universities or states will need to generate addtl funding or cuts will need to be made, thus reduced opportunities or higher tuition rates. #EduSky #AcademicSKy

submitted 14 days ago • 1 comment

in his first term, trump’s OMB tried to cut NIH indirects to like 10% every year. the house & senate appropriations subcommittees on labor, HHS, education were GOP-led during the first two years. this is unconstitutional and unprecedented, yes. but we still hold the line. from 2019:

submitted 15 days ago • 1 comment

1. Today the NIH director issued a new directive slashing overhead rates to 15%. I want to provide some context on what that means and why it matters. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

submitted 15 days ago • 271 comments

someone tell ernst that neither the president nor musk embodies the american people and that if they want to cut funding they should work with congress to pass a bill www.semafor.com/article/02/0...

submitted 16 days ago • 348 comments

The main beneficiaries of the Department of Education are disabled kids (IDEA) and working-class and poor Americans (Title I, Pell Grants, work assistance), so of course Trump wants to do away with it.

submitted 18 days ago • 104 comments

The American Community Survey (ACS) is used for so many basic, fundamental statistics, like: How many people live in each state or congressional district? Are they married? Do they have children? Are they employed? What's their income? What health insurance do they have? And now it’s offline

submitted 18 days ago • 11 comments

"I sense no appetite for a "works-with fascists-and-billionaires' message. I sense a desperate thirst for a 'fights fascists and billionaires' message." www.the-reframe.com/its/

submitted 19 days ago • 16 comments

In a disgraceful act betraying millions of their own residents, Iowa, Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, Louisiana, Missouri, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Utah, and Wyoming all write to oppose birthright citizenship.

submitted 19 days ago • 336 comments

I was led to believe by R.E.M. that I would feel a lot better about this.

submitted 22 days ago • 311 comments

In the end, people like effective governance. There's disagreement about what this means exactly, but it is very popular to ensure that essential services are provided, that the food supply isn't contaminated, that planes don't collide midair. People don't want a real-life version of Twitter.

submitted 24 days ago • 4 comments

IF THEY INSIST ON QUITTING ALL FEDERAL PROGRAMS BASED IN GENDER IDEOLOGY.... really sucks for that abortion ban among other things

submitted 24 days ago • 4 comments

I feel like there’s not enough attention being paid to the fact that Trump’s trillion dollar funding freeze was an attempt to do McCarthyism via Presidential fiat, & in the name of combatting a phantom force identified solely by a vague propaganda term the right only started using about 5 years ago.

submitted 25 days ago • 22 comments

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.

submitted 26 days ago • 179 comments

During a shutdown a few years ago, I had staff in my group that I wasn't able to pay because grant expenditures were frozen. I've had students consider leaving when summer stipends were going to be late. People depend on these programs to eat and make rent. It's so needlessly cruel.

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

Not just the National Institutes of Health, now the National Science Foundation is put on pause. Reminder: research is a multi-step process. Pausing the peer review panels by itself creates months of delay.

submitted 27 days ago • 72 comments

This is the moment for everyone in this country to learn that the decrease in birth rate is almost entirely from lowering teen pregnancies. So what they’re asking for is children to have more children.

submitted 29 days ago • 67 comments

submitted 30 days ago • 26 comments

Heard from inside the National Cancer Institute, part of NIH — travel through April is canceled. Purchasing with government card is frozen. All public comms are off limits. Can’t even submit abstracts to future meetings. Can’t submit manuscripts for publication. All hiring activity frozen. Fuck.

submitted 29 days ago • 148 comments

Trump’s flourish of actions against the federal government are concerning and frightening in their own right, but we have to stress constantly that real, live human beings are being affected and hurt. The lack of opposition is noticeable, but people also need advocates. They deserve help.

submitted 29 days ago • 3 comments

wapo.st/3WzJb2a "The evidence that Donald Trump was truly, madly and deeply confused was worrisome when he was a candidate. It’s all the more so now that he is wielding the mighty apparatus of the U.S. government to pursue his fantasies. WAPO

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

I LOVE seeing the Boilers play like this! Nice, crisp passes! SO much energy! 🚂🏀 #CollegeBasketball

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

Being at the #UERU conference in DC in the 1st days of the new administration (not to mention a similar governor back home) has been...unsettling. Here's a slide from Terrell Strayhorn's plenary talk. And it has me wondering, as we see orders to tear down inclusion, science, basic rights...

submitted 31 days ago • 1 comment

This isn't just an attack on scientific research. It's an attack on scientists. Central to Trump's "Revolution of Common Sense" is the idea that scientists impede progress in pursuit of political goals. This move -- Telegraphed in Project 2025 -- upends life for those who depend on NIH funding.

submitted 31 days ago • 26 comments

NYT: “President Trump on Wednesday revoked a 60-year-old executive order banning discrimination in hiring practices in the federal government…”

submitted 32 days ago • 46 comments

This is so sad

submitted 32 days ago • 57 comments

I'm sitting in Washington DC, attending an excellent higher education conference, and finding out in real time (via Bluesky) that NIH meetings, study sections, etc. are being cancelled. Even in the midst of the meeting. Will federal research funding even exist? How will our universities react?

submitted 32 days ago • 1 comment

NIH council meeting (NIDCR)scheduled for today, where our R01 grant (3rd percentile) was supposed to be discussed, was postponed indefinitely as a consequence of Trump's executive order which ordered pausing of all communications from all federal agencies. Not good.

submitted 32 days ago • 18 comments

I'm currently on day two of a workshop from the NIH. We're in the middle of a presentation and we're now being told that the remainder of the workshop is cancelled. 🙃

submitted 32 days ago • 54 comments

As of yesterday, President Trump fired only women on the ACUS Council. The men remain.

submitted 32 days ago • 57 comments