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The Republican Party is murdering Americans.

submitted 17 hours ago • 14 comments

One purpose of public rallies is to create political will to move policy levers. Let's contact our legislators to keep the momentum going!

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#standupforscience #standupforscience25 #standupforscience2025 If you went to a rally, did you come home with items for your to do list ? Concrete specific instructions for this week, this month ? Tell us !! I'll go 1st:

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Today I #StandUpForScience2025 by creating a quilt I can take to non-STEM audiences to help them understand what is going on & why science matters to everyone. Quilt is titled Data Interrupted and has fabric squares blocking access to data. #QuiltSky 🧪 Blog post: journeysofdrg.org/2025/03/07/d...

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NEW: The NIH has begun terminating grants for active projects studying gender identity, DEI, environmental justice, climate change, among other topics. At least 16 termination letters have already been sent — and hundreds more are coming, people inside NIH tell me. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

submitted 4 days ago • 34 comments

I was on Twitter when leaders created #BlackinSTEM, #WomeninSTEM, #prideinSTEM etc, and saw how much impact they have. @thepurplepage.bsky.social @ravenscimaven.bsky.social @drcarpineti.bsky.social 👉 @standupforscience.bsky.social 👈is Very New, so just making sure y'all are seeing it! Big rally!

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🧪 #scipol

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It's really the DEI component of science that's under attack, so there's a 2 for 1 benefit of standing up tomorrow March 7th! Joinnnn ussssss <3

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Truly an excellent article and a completely accurate description of what i lived through in Korea during the 70s and 80s. Read to the key message at the end!

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

Tesla's stock is ridiculously overvalued, and even a modest consumer boycott could tank the company, which accounts for the majority of Elon Musk's wealth. The divestment movement weakened apartheid South Africa. Let's do that again. slate.com/business/202...

submitted 25 days ago • 239 comments

There has been a lot of discussion about the late Friday decision to cut funds provided through the NIH to scientists, effectively immediately (see @drugmonkey.bsky.social or @jeremyberg.bsky.social). I wanted to explain it in simpler terms for non-scientists (1/n)

submitted 29 days ago • 1 comment

PSA if you’ve been trying to force yourself to Make A Phone Call to contact your representatives for days and not quite getting there, you can email them. They receive written messages too. It’s okay to be imperfect rather than stuck in a guilt spiral that exhausts you and goes nowhere. democracy.io

submitted 32 days ago • 11 comments

“I’ll take all night if I have to!” -an 8 year old crawling up the Capitol steps to demand rights for people with disabilities youtube.com/shorts/vTSzp...

submitted 31 days ago • 1 comment

If you're a data analyst with an interest in climate change and energy, @carbonbrief.org is hiring. The deadline for applications is 17 February. Link below. #OCTT #OOTT www.carbonbrief.org/vacancy-data...

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments

This is what I've been looking for. There are thousands of scientists who want to collectively push back, and we need organization to do so. Using the national science societies is a logical choice.

submitted 32 days ago • 1 comment

My friend @jaymichaelson.bsky.social shared some key info on the Zuckerbook. Important. Quoting him. Follow him. Don’t give up. We fight. 1/x 🧵 “Hello! I'm posting in response to the many sincerely anguished claims that not enough is being done to stop Trump. This is not reflected in the facts.

submitted 32 days ago • 30 comments

An excellent summary of the current state of the CDC data under the new executive orders. Consider supporting YLE in this critical work keeping us informed and organized. yourlocalepidemiologist.substack.com/p/data-and-c...

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

A good summary of the historic changes happening to our federal science institutions wrt executive orders since January.

submitted 37 days ago • 0 comments

This is a big deal, y'all. Federal health websites are being stripped of content or removed in their entirety. Stick with this thread for a look at what's disappeared so far! 1/x

submitted 37 days ago • 324 comments

In light of this deeply illegal activity at NSF and the ongoing attack on American science, I'm posting the slides from my 2017 talk at the American Physical Society about the Nazi take over of German physics/why German is no longer science's lingua franca 🧪 🧵 1/26 drive.google.com/file/d/1_MCm...

submitted 37 days ago • 28 comments

The deadline for the Research Excellence Award has now been extended to Friday 14 February and we are calling on all supervisors and PIs to nominate any ECRs they believe to be eligible for this award. Please contact us with a name and email of the candidate at [email protected].

submitted 39 days ago • 0 comments

NSF PRFB POSTDOCS: Pull the remainder of this funding cycle’s stipend, all remaining research funds, and all remaining travel funds (if you have them). Do it before 5PM today. Per instructions from multiple NSF POs. If you’re not already on the PRFB slack, DM me and I’ll send you an invite

submitted 40 days ago • 13 comments

Here's a phone bank looking for volunteers to call constituents in 5 key states to ask for a NO vote for RFK's senate confirmation hearing. 6-8 pm Eastern this Thursday the 30th www.mobilize.us/moveon/event...

submitted 39 days ago • 0 comments

USAID: Emergency Humanitarian Waiver to Foreign Assistance Pause Implementers of existing life-saving humanitarian assistance programs should continue or resume work if they have stopped, subject to the following directions....(exclusions include abortions, DEI, trans issues, some refugee issues)

submitted 39 days ago • 0 comments

I highly recommend Dr Jetelina's account for helping scientists and the general public alike navigate public health issues. She also provides a weekly email newsletter (free) that I've found invaluable for getting knowledgeable quickly about important headlines and topics.

submitted 40 days ago • 1 comment

I don’t have a definitive source on this yet but it looks like NSF review panels have been canceled. Sixty-some years ago, Eisenhower transformed higher education because he viewed a science education gap as the single greatest threat to national security. This is absolutely an act of sabotage.

submitted 41 days ago • 158 comments

I ran @USAID health programs for the last 3 years. Trump’s 90 day Stop Work Order on foreign assistance does serious damage to the world and the US. Examples:🧵

submitted 42 days ago • 105 comments