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You can make whatever campaign promises you want, but budgets don’t lie. This is the middle-finger Trump gave to 99% of Americans tonight.

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🔥 @aoc.bsky.social : “The numbers don’t add up. $880 BILLION is a devastating cut to Medicaid, and an attack on Medicare. Anyone who votes for this budget is voting to cut Medicaid and gut health care for Medicare recipients in 🇺🇸.” Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DGg7cr0...

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Death is not the only outcome that matters when it comes to infectious disease. In the TX measles outbreak, 16 people have been hospitalized so far, which can be traumatizing for kids and financially destructive for their parents. Measles can also cause a variety of adverse outcomes such as…

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wrote about the scourge of non-English-language propaganda and misinformation across the U.S., and why any serious effort to reestablish a durable liberal-media apparatus has to be multilingual in nature: slate.com/technology/2...

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WYOMING: “Thank you, Madam chairman.” “I prefer ‘Mister’ chairman.” “Well you all voted preferred pronouns cannot be compelled speech.”

submitted 5 days ago • 1481 comments

💥The Netherlands' largest pension fund, has sold its shares in Tesla, Meta, and Alphabet (Google). The fund with US $569 billion equivolent in assets is "directing more money to companies and projects that help to improve society and the environment." #Divest www.reuters.com/markets/euro...

submitted 5 days ago • 306 comments

THIS IS HUGE! Researchers at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center say results of a Phase I trial of an mRNA vaccine aimed at preventing pancreatic cancer show promise. The vaccine PREVENTED the cancer from coming back in patients who had already received treatment for MORE THAN three years. 🧪🧵⬇️

submitted 6 days ago • 349 comments

#AcademicSky

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THE RESIST LIST IS HERE. Proud my team just started this @resistlist.bsky.social, which will list actions that happened and that are slated to happen.

submitted 7 days ago • 24 comments

NEW: The Trump administration is exploiting a loophole to keep funding frozen at the NIH - a move that some legal scholars say is illegal. Federal Register notices are blocked, so no grant-review sessions can be scheduled. All the gritty details here, and a short 🧵: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

submitted 6 days ago • 4 comments

Most people probably aren’t tracking this but Senate Republicans just started an all-night voting marathon that will allow them to gut Medicaid and increase child hunger while giving handouts to billionaires like Elon Musk.

submitted 6 days ago • 714 comments

A Missouri Representative has filed a bill to track pregnancies in the state. HB 807 will: "Maintain a central registry of each expectant mother who is at risk for seeking an abortion of her unborn child and make the same available to a prospective adoptive parent who has completed screenings."

submitted 9 days ago • 1092 comments

I’m not sure the rest of the country fully grasps the panic and anger building in DC, MD, and VA. The entire economy of this area is about to collapse. Paychecks are stopping. Careers are ruined. Taxes are about to plummet. Yet no one seems able to stop this madness.

submitted 9 days ago • 359 comments

I received a call from the “CDC” to complete a survey about flu and Covid vaccine. Of course I didn’t answer as I do with many unknown calls I receive every day. Is this real o legal? I suspect is a scam. Please people be extra careful. #AcademicBlueSky #AcademicSky #research

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Portuguese editorial cartoonist Zez Vaz reaches back to Tiananmen Square to call on American defiance.

submitted 12 days ago • 540 comments

I was just told that I have to remove “climate” from the title of an ongoing grant if I want to keep it. And publications from that grant cannot include “climate” and other forbidden words. I can’t believe I’m writing this from the United States of America. #AcademicSky

submitted 16 days ago • 402 comments

It is perfectly legal to know your rights and to educate others about them, too. EVERYONE in the United States, citizen or not, has rights. I will not allow this administration to intimidate us from helping you know about them. Here’s our shareable guide ⬇️: (pt. 1/2)

submitted 12 days ago • 1910 comments

As the closure of USAID costs children's lives, Helen Keller Intl is saving them. A terrific organization fighting malnutrition and blindness around the world.

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment

#medsky#pedsky#idsky#immunosky 🧪 In the midst of all of the scary headlines recently, I thought I could take a moment to share a bit of good news: for the first time in history, a malaria vaccine with >90% efficacy seems to be within reach! Here’s why that’s a really big deal for EVERYONE 🧵

submitted 14 days ago • 443 comments

How much Elon Musk makes from the government a day: $8 million. How much a senior on Social Security gets a day: $65 Guess which budget Musk and Trump want to cut?

submitted 15 days ago • 901 comments

My #Yale colleague Harlan Krumholz explains why the cuts to indirect costs are a disaster for biomedical research in the United States. Want to do something about it? I'll list those who have to hear from us below. Share, recruit friends and family to help. 1/ www.statnews.com/2025/02/08/n....

submitted 18 days ago • 24 comments

Under fascism, no one is safe. Universities stayed quiet as the admin targeted DEI & foreign aid, censored research, etc. Now, they face devastating cuts to indirect cost rates, threatening research & operations. Silence won’t protect institutions. It won’t protect people; it never does.

submitted 19 days ago • 358 comments

A Primer on Indirect Cost Rates

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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 19 days ago • 270 comments

Yesterday’s live is now on YouTube: m.youtube.com/watch?featur...

submitted 22 days ago • 818 comments

Just went live to talk about what is happening, what we can do, and what to expect this week: www.instagram.com/reel/DForuR_...

submitted 23 days ago • 1415 comments

People have gathered outside USAID HQ for press event with Democratic Congressmen Beyer, Raskin, Connolly and Olzewski and Senator Van Hollen where they're addressing the building's mysterious shutdown today in the midst of the Trump admin dismantling the agency. (Photos shared with me)

submitted 24 days ago • 383 comments

Science should generally strive for objectivity about facts. But often facts are political. Advocacy for the truth is an important part of science.

submitted 25 days ago • 1 comment

As Trump prepares to turn Guantanamo into a concentration camp, the front page for the Amache National Historical Site is down. As if you could erase history by pretending a place doesn't exist. Stalin would blush. www.nps.gov/amch/index.htm

submitted 26 days ago • 8 comments

PLEASE SHARE WIDELY #medsky #IDsky #obgynsky #pedsky CDC STI treatment guidelines have been taken down. They are archived here 👇 web.archive.org/web/20250131...

submitted 26 days ago • 167 comments

Hey if anyone is considering backing up any datasets for some reason today, the Open Science Framework has free storage up to 5G/private repository, and up to 50G/public repository. (The OSF is run by a 501c3 (Center for Open Science), so if you do this you might also consider making a donation.)

submitted 27 days ago • 57 comments

Have you been impacted by recent federal funding changes/freezes? A team of public health scientists is working to collect stories to share what is actually happening on the ground. Share your story and circulate within your networks 👇 www.youcanknowthings.com/allrant-fund...

submitted 29 days ago • 5 comments

Somewhere in the U.S., there’s a scientist staring at their NSF/NIH grant application wondering why they bother. This post is for you. Science and society both need you. Hang in there and know there is a whole community supporting you.

submitted 29 days ago • 42 comments

A wild statistic: Authors of peer-reviewed journal articles paid $8.968 billion in open-access fees in the last five years. This is clearly the wrong way of doing open access, and as academics, we should figure out a better way. #AcademicSky arxiv.org/abs/2407.16551

submitted 28 days ago • 5 comments

Don't give up - do something. A great list for civic minded Americans, from @protectdemocracy.org open.substack.com/pub/protectd...

submitted 33 days ago • 61 comments

I'm not teaching my grad course 'Civil Resistance: How It Works' this semester. But here is an abridged version of the course schedule, readings, and films I used the last time I taught it (in 2022). Just in case it's useful. drive.google.com/file/d/14RRJ...

submitted 32 days ago • 902 comments

En el #Perú podríamos tener ciudades menos contaminadas y con un tráfico eficiente pero falta voluntad política y buenos gestores. Egresados de #UNI triunfaron en concurso internacional con un innovador proyecto urbanístico para San Juan de Lurigancho. larepublica.pe/sociedad/202...

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