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Until recently, science was always a bipartisan endeavor. The value of medical research was one thing that different political parties in our country actually agreed on. I don't think *anyone* wants to see this wanton destruction of something we all worked so hard to build- anyone but Trusk, that is

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I don't think the general public wants cancer research to go away. But that's exactly what DOGE and the EO's are doing: they are demolishing the infrastructure that enables us to do our work

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The diabetes prevention program is so vital to the study of a whole host of chronic diseases. Really depressing that they would throw such a rich dataset out the window.

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Compelling thread, click through the comments below

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Valid visa and now gone. BTW, she was here to SAVE LIVES. Doctor and Professor Is Deported to Lebanon Despite a Judge’s Order www.nytimes.com/2025/03/16/u...

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Trump just deported a transplant surgeon and professor at Brown University living in the US on a valid H1B work visa with no alleged crimes. No due process. As fits the racist Trump regime’s bill, she is from Lebanon. We now live in a fascist nation. www.statnews.com/2025/02/11/a...

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If university administrators across the US don't come together and resist these demands as an organized collective, then the ideals of the American education system are over and schools at all levels will become nothing but an explicit propaganda arm of the US government. apnews.com/article/colu...

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Why isn't bench research (develop and test new therapies) done in private practice? Because research depends on INFRASTRUCTURE: microscopes, MRIs, tissue core, animal vivarium, statisticians and biorepositories. All of this is funded by NIH, being cut right now through fewer grants and slashed IDCs

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