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PrEP4Teens wouldn’t be where it is without community! our team is delighted to receive this award 💞

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It's pretty cool that Eater put together resources for restaurants about how to handle ICE raids

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INDIANA WE NEED A LEAD!!!! #standupforscience2025 #scienceforall

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"Remember: Canada isn’t perfect either. Neil Peart probably flubbed the 'Tom Sawyer' drum solo at least once in his life. And Margaret Atwood has almost certainly double-booked herself and been late to a coffee date."

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Gift link. The actual story of the shackled people being deported without even being told where they were being taken — maybe to countries where they’d face torture or death — while their terrified children cried.😢 The White House posted that pic with “ASMR” tag. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/w...

submitted 6 days ago • 24 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 7 days ago • 603 comments

Umberto Eco put together a now-famous list of 14 attributes of fascistic states. I'm going to discuss each of them in hopes this helps ppl understand that fascism is not just a buzzword. We're going to go through these by theme, so strap in. 🧵

submitted 8 days ago • 60 comments

University messaging these past weeks

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Help us snowball sample this study about how academics in the U.S. react to the executive orders!

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

Our Department of Defense $1.4 million grant iwill no longer be funded due to Executive Order (EO) 14168: Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government.

submitted 12 days ago • 6 comments

today, hearing laughter and banter during a team meeting and finding out that my staff made MANY hilarious memes of lab in-jokes warmed the cockles of my heart in a way I haven’t felt in a few weeks. remember that moments like this exist and that joy is possible when everything feels bleak

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In the piece below, I talk a lot about mass messaging (posters, stickers, etc.) to keep the focus not just on enmity towards Trump and Musk but the impact of their actions. In case it's helpful, I put together some examples! Not perfect, but they get the job done (feel free to steal/share)

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“My death as a member of the third gender and transgender population does not mean you won. It solely marks the end of our association. You are not the land of the free.” zerodoesntsleep.substack.com/p/vet-found-...

submitted 14 days ago • 23 comments

All those universities that bravely took up those positions of "institutional neutrality" a few months ago, what do you do now?

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Having funded teams/contracts that required six figure+ funds a few times now, these numbers SOUND really huge in isolation to normal folks but they're not! Don't make floating numbers! I like to say things like this: "A cancer lab is basically a small business, with many jobs created by each grant"

submitted 17 days ago • 6 comments

In case folks are interested in contacting their congresspeople about the NIH indirect cuts with some estimates of what they would mean for institutions in their state, here are some estimates based on published F&A rates and funding ... let me know if you want a particular state

submitted 18 days ago • 197 comments

The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists will now host the important medical data the CDC no longer provides, on their website. Link below: 👇🏼 www.acog.org

submitted 19 days ago • 58 comments

NEW: More than 300 career employees at the EPA have left. Those who remain face a painful decision: resign or work for an administration that plans to radically reshape the EPA while reversing environmental protections. By @fastlerner.bsky.social & @pratheekrebala.bsky.social

submitted 20 days ago • 57 comments

My university library is assembling a list of resources for disappeared US government #data. Check it out: subjectguides.library.american.edu/data_rescue

submitted 20 days ago • 25 comments

Dear US scientists, We've been hearing a lot of questions of the form "Why aren't universities doing anything!? They need to speak out!" We can explain. It's bad news. We're on our own. But understanding why can help us all figure out our plan. Read along in thread 1/x 🧪

submitted 20 days ago • 21 comments

My ultimate academic triumph is figuring out how to never use Outlook while being a faculty member at two different universities that require it

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I sincerely don’t know why people aren’t physically stopping those dorks. Move shit. Lock doors. Lose the keys. Everyone switch seats. Turn off all the lights. Switch the signs on the elevator lobby. Make the settings all silly. Use a different language. Wear costumes. Fill rooms with balloons

submitted 20 days ago • 1764 comments

I wonder why Musk is focused on the federal civilian workforce (4% of the budget) and not federal contractors, which account for 3x more annual spending and are more prone to waste, fraud, and abuse?

submitted 20 days ago • 235 comments

Gentle reminder

submitted 22 days ago • 1 comment

DATA! 📊 Health care policy analyst @charlesgaba.com has downloaded the entire CDC site. Access it below.

submitted 23 days ago • 2 comments

Akash Bobba, Luke Farritor, Ethan Shaotran, Gavin Kliger, Gauthier Cole Killian, and Edward Coristine. Spread their names, spread their shame. These are the unelected Musk lackies with no Congressional oversight that broke into OUR data.

submitted 22 days ago • 20 comments

The American College of OB/GYN’s website is now hosting the critical documents purged by the CDC This is what every professional medical organization should be doing right now #MedSky www.acog.org/clinical/cli...

submitted 22 days ago • 46 comments

On top of 5000 problems here: FEMALE AND WOMEN IS ON THE LIST BUT MALE AND MEN ARE NOT. JUST AN FYI.

submitted 22 days ago • 6 comments

New State Department appointee's message to Black Americans (including a Republican Senator, Trump appointee and former head of Heritage)

submitted 23 days ago • 62 comments

Let’s try something. We here at @altnih4science.bsky.social want to boost descriptions of NIH-funded science. If you’re a scientist with a post or thread that describes your work, please tag us or DM us, and we’ll repost. We’ll use the #NIHFundsGreatScience hashtag so people can read in future. 🧪

submitted 23 days ago • 18 comments

Protest in Houston today against deportations

submitted 23 days ago • 9 comments

Hi all, We’re still here at OPM. We have a situation where we MIGHT, and I do mean, MIGHT have four of Elon’s people blocked from the building. Can we get press or a member of Congress down here? We’ve blocked them for two hours and they keep coming back and trying to go in.

submitted 23 days ago • 1175 comments

I am starting a thread of links to federal sites on the Wayback Machine, before the current vandalism. Please RT and add to this list! CDC: web.archive.org/web/20250129... NIH: web.archive.org/web/20250129... USAID: web.archive.org/web/20250129...

submitted 24 days ago • 13 comments

I’ve spent my adult life in these supposed “woke institutions” (Harvard, Yale, Stanford, UCSF). I have never once experienced “reverse racism.” I’ve witnessed tons of racism.

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I must not be wording this right. Lemme try again. There is only one (1) office (not even an institute) at the NIH dedicated to women’s health research. That office is now being dismantled, with only a bland landing page remaining on their website. This is a five-alarm fire! orwh.od.nih.gov

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So I'm working on something about Trump's ban on foreign aid, including HIV programs. Do not be fooled by the administration's confusing un-pause of their HIV medication pause: they are still formally banning HIV prevention. For ex, I just tried to look at the PePFAR data site & got this:

submitted 26 days ago • 2 comments

A special Bluetorial about one of my mentors Ruth Kirschstein Among Ruth Kirschstein’s many contributions to American science was the development and expansion of programs intended to increase participation of people from groups underrepresented in biomedical research.

submitted 25 days ago • 8 comments