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Carl Sagan on sensible military spending and climate change.

submitted 13 hours ago • 81 comments

This will surely help American's health status. Not. www.cbsnews.com/news/nih-lay...

submitted 18 hours ago • 13 comments

Weather and climate research funds are being “chainsawed” from NOAA's budget. Last I checked, Louisiana & Florida, which are maximally susceptible to Hurricanes, voted Red in the last General Election. Wondering if residents there knew in advance this would happen.

submitted 19 hours ago • 1532 comments

🚨 Trump’s HHS just gutted NIOSH—laying off 85% of staff and shuttering key science programs. 🧪 Cancer research for firefighters? Halted. 😷 Respirator safety testing? Ceased. 📉 Decades of public health and worker safety science in jeopardy. Read more below ⬇️: www.cbsnews.com/news/worker-...

submitted 1 day ago • 6 comments

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President Donald Trump today asked Congress to make massive and unprecedented cuts to the 2026 budgets of major federal science agencies. scim.ag/3Yszqnm

submitted 4 days ago • 11 comments

The Trump administration is dismantling cancer research. The National Cancer Institute's Board of Scientific Advisors — a group of top researchers and clinicians tasked with guiding the direction of federally funded cancer research — has been entirely disbanded.

submitted 6 days ago • 6 comments

Telling people to “do your own research” when in reality it means embracing disinformation from uncredentialed wellness grifters trying to peddle non-proven alternatives, and ignoring decades of rigorous peer-reviewed work from scientific experts, will kill people.

submitted 6 days ago • 66 comments

A new study by economists estimates that a 25% cut in science funding would result in a GDP decline similar in magnitude to the 2008 recession. They also estimate that a 75% cut to government science would trigger a larger GDP decline than in any recession since the Great Depression.

submitted 6 days ago • 22 comments

Good question. @nature.com feature www.nature.com/articles/d41...

submitted 7 days ago • 3 comments

My comments with @marykekatos.bsky.social at ABC abcnews.go.com/amp/Health/h...

submitted 7 days ago • 3 comments

Deeply ashamed that scientists have to organize to call out the dangerous (as in life threatening) health disinformation the US government is generating #science #health #medicine www.science.org/content/arti...

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

🧵Measles isn’t the only vaccine-preventable disease making a comeback. Whooping cough is surging. Let’s talk about what’s happening and how you can stay safe. Keep reading 👇🧵

submitted 8 days ago • 21 comments

Vaccine scientists and medical leaders have announced they are launching an unprecedented initiative to react to vaccine misinformation and scientifically unfounded vaccine decisions by the U.S. government. scim.ag/3ES9r1Q

submitted 8 days ago • 5 comments

Nearly 800 NIH grants have been terminated so far, including some focused on HIV and AIDS, trans health, and COVID-19, after researchers were told their work was no longer an agency priority. https://cbsn.ws/3YkDndI

submitted 9 days ago • 19 comments

They are taking away our vaccines. Jay Bhattacharya is talking about eliminating mRNA vaccines. Meanwhile, RFK Jr. has managed to ratfuck the Novavax approval process.

submitted 11 days ago • 54 comments

A new analysis by Stanford epidemiologists predicts that measles could become endemic again in the US in the next 20 years. This would be a catastrophic failure and a result of anti-vax propaganda. Measles is a vaccine-preventable disease that was declared eliminated in the US in 2000.

submitted 11 days ago • 30 comments

Projected deaths from cessation of USAID PEPFAR funding www.thelancet.com/journals/ecl... a 90-day freeze is expected to result in ~60,000 excess deaths

submitted 11 days ago • 3 comments

If you're wondering what the projected mortality and morbidity rates might look like in a future defunded of US investment in science and health, here's a preprint article of some very sobering findings. The truth is heavy. That’s why it matters. ⬇️ papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

submitted 11 days ago • 5 comments

Since 1945, American Universities have been envied worldwide for their Government-funded research. Hard to justify via corporate R&D, frontier science is vital to our long-term health, wealth, & security. To withhold University funding is to amputate the engines that Make America Great.

submitted 11 days ago • 31 comments

Calling fellow scientists - in this time of unprecedented attacks on research at universities, it is time we raise awareness about how science impacts your community and how your community impacts your research. A group of young scientists at Cornell has an... blogs.cornell.edu/asap/events-...

submitted 12 days ago • 7 comments

Remember that absurd letter the acting US attorney sent to medical journals last week, asking threatening questions about why they don’t publish more heterodox science? The New England Journal of Medicine got one as well. @aniloza.bsky.social has the story.

submitted 13 days ago • 16 comments

The consequences of attacking #science are “existential” for the US.

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Researchers in the US are seeking career opportunities abroad as President Donald Trump’s administration slashes science funding and workforce numbers, finds an analysis of Nature’s jobs-board data. #Academicsky 🧪

submitted 14 days ago • 2 comments

Happy #EarthDay! 8 years ago, as we held the largest day of science advocacy in history, I wrote in the @theguardian.com: "Why March for Science? Because when it is attacked, only the elite benefit." These words hold true today. When we stand up for science, we stand up for justice and equality.

submitted 14 days ago • 7 comments

Harvard has some of the best scientists inventing new ways to early detect and cure cancer. But Trump’s ICE locks them in a detention center— for 2 months!

submitted 15 days ago • 64 comments

Bird flu likes this

submitted 14 days ago • 7 comments

Disgraceful.

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

More than 150 university presidents have signed a letter decrying the Trump administration. The statement — signed by Harvard, Princeton, Brown and other leading universities — denounces the White House’s ‘undue government intrusion.’

submitted 14 days ago • 43 comments

Almost every line of this story would have been simply unbelievable a few months ago: —Pioneering cancer researcher; —Arrested at airport in Boston; —Now indefinite ICE detention in Louisiana; —"Crime": not declaring some frog-embryo samples for research. Read it. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

submitted 15 days ago • 759 comments

A Lancet preprint estimates that if US funding is cut and not replaced, from 2025-2040 there will be 15.2 mil add'l AIDS deaths, 2.2 mil add'l TB deaths, 7.9 mil add'l child deaths from other causes, and 40-55 mil add'l unplanned pregnancies. @altusaid.altgov.info papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

submitted 15 days ago • 33 comments

People spend a lot of time wondering why the left is worse at using independent media to control the national narrative. A useful exercise is to ask why the left is also worse at selling snake oil and pyramid schemes, because I think the reasons are basically exactly the same.

submitted 16 days ago • 1023 comments

Francis, the first Latin American Pope, died at 88 on Easter Sunday. After decades of conservative leadership, Pope Francis tried to reset the course of the Roman Catholic Church, emphasizing inclusion and care for the marginalized over doctrinal purity. May he rest in peace and glory

submitted 15 days ago • 60 comments

A frontal assault graph from www.nytimes.com/2025/04/18/u... editorial @postopinions.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

submitted 16 days ago • 3 comments

Carl Sagan explains how the ancient Greeks knew the Earth was round and calculated its circumference over 2,000 years ago.

submitted 16 days ago • 410 comments

Interesting interview #science #education #freedom apple.news/nowPlaying/A...

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

The nationwide measles outbreak now stands at more than 800 cases, but you probably don’t know that since RFK Jr is keeping a tight lid on that news. The orange areas in the below map show where the vaccination rate is under the 95% coverage target among kindergarteners. That’s a LOT of orange!

submitted 17 days ago • 355 comments

A government against science is a government actively opposed to objective truth.

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments