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Trump officials are trying to sneak around federal judges’ orders. They could be held in civil contempt of court, which can include jail time and can’t be undone with a presidential pardon, according to @sbagen.bsky.social . My latest for @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

submitted 5 days ago • 15 comments

Your weather app gets its info because of NOAA. Your mail arrives at your home because of USPS. Your plane navigates the skies because of the FAA. Your food is safer -- and we get alerts when it isn't -- because of USDA. You hear about earthquakes worldwide because of USGS.

submitted 6 days ago • 17 comments

Bill introduced: "H.R.1497 - To replace the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases with 3 separate national research institutes." 😢

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Late yesterday, Trump issued an executive order that terminates HHS's Long COVID advisory committee. The committee's focus was bringing perspectives from outside government to inform action of the Executive Branch on Long COVID and other infection-associated chronic conditions.

submitted 8 days ago • 11 comments

Biomedical researchers, @aimbe-official.bsky.social is seeking anecdotes about how recent policies have disrupted your grants/research: aimbe.wufoo.com/forms/qs9tsi... Your messages are critical for us to advocate to our Members of Congress to take action against these federal disruptions 👇

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

DEI initiatives remain lawful under federal law and Supreme Court precedent - see public memo nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...

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The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) makes recommendations that determine access to vaccines in the US. The ACIP meeting scheduled for next week is now delayed. This is how RFK Jr will administratively destroy vaccination programs. www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

submitted 8 days ago • 24 comments

Make some noise about this. Call your senators and house rep. And if you know anyone in media, let them know that NIH reviews are stopped again due to the federal register issue.

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

🚨🚨🚨 STILL LOOKING FOR VOLUNTEERS! We'd love to have Stand Up for Science represented in all 50 states—and are so close! Please volunteer to organize your capitol or major city's protest if you're able! Link to volunteer form: airtable.com/app4h5wUssMG...

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

Attention scientists! Wondering what else can you can do to advocate for research funding? Let's all submit Programmatic Requests to Members of Congress next month, and flood the zone in a show of public support for #NIH and #NSF! ! #SciComm #Science #Medicine #MedSky 🧬🔬🧪 Details below⤵️ 🧵 1/n

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

Do you live in the Southeast U.S.? Did you receive a tornado or severe t-storm warning from the NWS yesterday? Did you feel good knowing someone is watching out for you & letting you know potentially dangerous weather was headed your way? If so, maybe let others know why you think NWS is important.

submitted 12 days ago • 6 comments

Welcome to the Bluesky account for Stand Up for Science 2025! Keep an eye on this space for updates, event information, and ways to get involved. We can't wait to see everyone #standupforscience2025 on March 7th, both in DC and locations nationwide! #scienceforall #sciencenotsilence

submitted 16 days ago • 130 comments

Wait, is the whole Gordon Research Conference #GRC for #SexDifferencesInImmunity just ... gone? Understanding the fundamentals of sex differences contributes to precision medicine. It helps everyone. Eliminating this meeting or targeting these scientists harms everyone.

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

The University of Virginia has created a website of archived government websites—bookmark it—you’re going to need it later. guides.lib.virginia.edu/c.php?g=1451...

submitted 16 days ago • 74 comments

There hasn’t been an NIH-related post since 1/21. Despite seeing upcoming study section & council dates in eRA commons, these will not take place if they weren’t announced. They’re starving us out until the next budget unless Universities step WAY up.

submitted 16 days ago • 9 comments

Our new pub is out in #ACSPharmacolTranslScience! Recent PhD grad Katerina Morgaenko showed how ex vivo lymph node cultures can be used to study invasion of breast cancer cells into the lymph node in response to chemokine signaling. #Immunoengineering #LymphNodes pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

submitted 16 days ago • 2 comments

As a department chair, I think about if NIH indirects are cut to 15% we will never see any funds. The university will take their money first (perhaps rightly so). Our department uses indirects to pay an instrument tech, run NMR and mass spec, run a graduate retreat etc. Real benefits for research.

submitted 20 days ago • 2 comments

Accurate #MediaFail #Media fair.org/home/as-cons...

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

A long post about what’s happening to the science funding agencies in the US and why. As mentioned, this one just kept getting longer even as I kept stripping curse words from it. www.science.org/content/blog...

submitted 24 days ago • 21 comments

It's time! Registration is open for our very first public workshop series 🎉 Take a break from doomscrolling and join us for a Science Advocacy Crash Course (taught by @leslie-bern.bsky.social) on Feb. 13th, 17th, or 18th Learn more and register at stemedify.com and tell your friends!

submitted 25 days ago • 1 comment

BREAKING NEWS: CDC orders mass retraction and revision of submitted research across all science and medicine journals. Banned terms must be scrubbed. Goes beyond MMWR +other CDC pubs. Applies to research already submitted to top medical journals. Take a look. open.substack.com/pub/insideme...

submitted 27 days ago • 603 comments

Having watched with growing alarm the developments of the last 24 and 36 hours in Washington, I thought I’d take a stab at how the US media would cover this story if it was happening in a foreign country. Here’s that story that should be written this weekend: www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/musk-s-jun...

submitted 27 days ago • 363 comments

Welcome @rosslabuc.bsky.social to BlueSky! Excited to here more about your electrochemistry and microfluidics for immunology, among other things.

submitted 27 days ago • 1 comment

Here's another free piece of strategic advice which is definitely worth what you paid for it. Stop yelling into the Bluesky void about how you don't like how your members of Congress are communicating (I mean, if you enjoy doing that, sure, but it's not effective). Instead do this one weird trick:

submitted 35 days ago • 6 comments

huh??!?

submitted 32 days ago • 3 comments

I'm hearing that NSF panels have been canceled. Did any #ChemSky folks get a cancelation email today? Would appreciate hearing from you for a potential @cenmag.bsky.social article. Reach me via DM, email ([email protected]) or Signal (kvasquez.12)

submitted 32 days ago • 1 comment

Many thanks to NPR @marketplace.org for covering the the pause in NIH review, helping non-scientists be aware of the problem and its potential impacts. #SupportScience www.marketplace.org/2025/01/27/n... P.S. I had no idea I was speaking so slowly. I was trying to pick out just the right words! 😂

submitted 32 days ago • 1 comment

Feels weird to share normal lab stuff, but science still continues, right? Enjoy this News & Views piece in @naturematerials.bsky.social on Ankur Singh's new PBMC organoids, putting this advance in context of the exciting lymphoid modeling field. #Immunoengineering www.nature.com/articles/s41...

submitted 32 days ago • 4 comments

Would you like to do a post-doc in the Bowdish lab? Interested in human immunology? Want to discover age-related differences in immune responses to SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19 vaccinations and infections? Check us out! (Please share broadly)👩‍🔬🧪 #immunosky #IDsky www.bowdish.ca www.bowdish.ca/lab/wp-conte...

submitted 33 days ago • 1 comment

I called mine today. Do it after hours and you can just leave a message. Give your name, your zip code, and just say one or two sentences. "I'm one of your constituents and I strongly urge you not to confirm RFK Jr to be director of HHS." Maybe give a brief reason why, then thank them.

submitted 33 days ago • 13 comments

PBS is now live on Prime — ad-free — and you don't need a subscription to watch. This marks the first time this programming will be available free on a major streaming service. Channels include PBS Drama, Documentaries, Kids + live feeds for 150 local stations www.pbs.org/articles/str... #TVSky

submitted 33 days ago • 259 comments

During my PhD, I met so many colleagues who only read papers for journal clubs or when their PI demanded it. Reading the literature is a must for PhDs. It keeps you sharp, sparks ideas, builds critical thinking, and once it’s a habit, it’s even fun. Young scientists: READ!

submitted 33 days ago • 3 comments

RFK Jr.’s allies have a plan to upend childhood vaccination Robert F. Kennedy’s Jr. advisers are sparring over how far he should go on vaccines as health secretary Scary unhealthy stuff www.politico.com/new... 1/2

submitted 33 days ago • 3 comments

Motivations to destroy 'diversity' initiatives are narrowly focused while appreciation for broad intent to foster participation of different races, ethnicities, age groups, regions, gender identities, sexual orientations, socioeconomic backgrounds, disabilities, and health status is lost

submitted 35 days ago • 1 comment

Funding can make or break a lab, so there's a lot of concern over recent cancellation of NIH study sections and other meetings. Some folks I spoke to are also worried about changes that could be coming to NIH funding process. cen.acs.org/policy/resea... #ChemSky @cenmag.bsky.social

submitted 35 days ago • 1 comment