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🚨BREAKING: Federal Court GRANTS sweeping nationwide injunction against Trump DEI executive orders finding that they violate First and Fifth Amendments to the Constitution. A huge victory for @democracyforward.org and its clients. A stinging loss for Trump. Visit www.democracydocket.com for details.

submitted 9 hours ago • 695 comments

New York Times article now up on Federal Register stuff. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/s... 1/n

submitted 10 hours ago • 16 comments

If you still have friends/family who think this administration will help them, talk to them about money....

submitted 16 hours ago • 25 comments

This is why we need science. Supporting and funding scientific and educational research should be priorities that we invest more in, not gut and dismantle for some vanity project.

submitted 11 hours ago • 0 comments

So. It has officially happened. I have been officially let go from my position at CDC. I wasn’t a probationary employee. I had stellar performance reviews every year. I’ll be ok. But please understand that many worked HARD to get into these positions and were doing great public health work.

submitted 12 hours ago • 1438 comments

Cuts to NSF expected to be at 50% reduction in force for an independent agency that fuels discovery and innovation. "The NSF budget was $9B, or 0.13% of the total [budget]." This is not about fiscal prudence. This is about killing universities. nanoscale.blogspot.com/2025/02/the-...

submitted 16 hours ago • 109 comments

We are now finding bird flu in deer mice and house mice in Washington State. H5N1 is advancing along the evolutionary ladder—affecting birds, mammals, and humans. This is not speculation; it’s a timeline.

submitted 1 day ago • 579 comments

Universities are facing the largest (extremely partisan) attack on their funding model in the modern era and we’re still writing pieces like this? Feels like fighting the last war. Vanderbilt (whose provost is a co-author of this opinion piece) is slashing their grad programs.

submitted 1 day ago • 21 comments

Great letter from my colleagues @sbagen.bsky.social, @mjschlanger.bsky.social and other legal scholars across the country explaining why it is not necessary to start eliminating university programs because Trump

submitted 1 day ago • 6 comments

“More than $39 million has been earmarked to DOGE in the Trump’s administration’s first month.” Saving taxpayer money.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

How many federal workers would DOGE need to fire to make up for Musk not paying his fair share of taxes? Answer: 677,000. That's 44% of the entire non-DoD federal workforce. Again, this power grab is not about the budget. It’s about politics.

submitted 1 day ago • 50 comments

From NSF EAR program director Raleigh Martin on LinkedIn #climatesky #greensky

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments

48% of Brits believe it is more important for the UK government to support Ukraine than to maintain good relations with the US

submitted 1 day ago • 112 comments

I’m the dairy farmer running to replace Elise Stefanik in New York’s 21st Congressional District. Can you repost this, give me a follow, and help spread the word?

submitted 4 days ago • 126 comments

Upon learning that yesterday would be my last day as a program officer at the National Science Foundation, I shared this parting message with my colleagues. The next few months will be frenetic and stressful for them. Here are some things that you can do to help them with the mission ahead. (1)

submitted 2 days ago • 66 comments

Here’s how extreme the NSF budget cuts could be: The bipartisan CHIPS and Science Act authorized an NSF budget of $18B for the next year. But per last night, a White House proposal could set that as low as…$3B, about one-sixth of the CHIPS authorization Call your rep with that info!!

submitted 14 days ago • 11 comments

Talked with @briantylercohen.bsky.social about the huge #s of young people signing up with @runforsomething.net and why it’s time for the boomers to go. Got a little riled up… youtu.be/giiYSCZKsVs?...

submitted 3 days ago • 6 comments

USDA says it accidentally fired officials working on bird flu and is trying to rehire them In a statement, an Agriculture Department spokesperson told NBC News that officials are "working to swiftly rectify the situation." www.nbcnews.com/politics/dog...

submitted 3 days ago • 804 comments

I follow French politics a lot, as many of you know. Any effort for mass layoffs of public sector employees there would create such huge strikes and marches, the level of disruption and paralysis would be biblical.

submitted 3 days ago • 642 comments

An inspiring article on courageous community college leaders who are publicly organizing and standing up against DEI attacks.. www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...

submitted 3 days ago • 25 comments

SCOOP: Trump administration has been evaluating the costs of destroying or disposing of tens of millions of coronavirus tests that would otherwise be provided free to Americans. My story w/ Carolyn Y. Johnson. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

submitted 3 days ago • 134 comments

Firings are happening right now at the National Science Foundation. Essential staff are being cut. This isn’t about the budget. If it was, they’d be going after the military (17%) or state appropriations (38%). NSF is 0.7% of the federal budget. All federal employees make up only 4% of the budget.

submitted 3 days ago • 99 comments

I escaped poverty because I am a scientist. And I am a scientist because of the National Science Foundation. A 🧵:

submitted 3 days ago • 68 comments

He’s not making up: news.bloomberglaw.com/banking-law/... Is this really what y’all voted for? 🫤 💰

submitted 3 days ago • 1258 comments

NEW: NSF confirmed that they fired 168 employees today, out of their staff of ~1,500 feds. This includes some people who'd finished their 1-year probationary periods, which were extended to 2-years last month without explanation. More to come.

submitted 3 days ago • 30 comments