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NYU Langone and other wealthy hospitals are capitulating to Trump’s attacks on LGBTQ and immigrant New Yorkers — while enjoying hundreds of millions of dollars in local tax breaks every year. I wrote about their publicly-subsidized cowardice at @jacobinmagazin.bsky.social.

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Jeffries: hey the GOP controls the government, absolutely nothing i can do, gonna work on my personal book tour Sanders: brb i am going to personally barnstorm strategic GOP house districts and try to peel off 2 votes so we can block Trump's cuts to Medicaid www.commondreams.org/news/bernie-...

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@sbn-bsky.bsky.social has released a statement on current events. SBN DEI comm, of which I'm chair, wrote this statement to be people-first focused on the human impacts. I want to thank Peg McCarthy & the Exec Comm in quickly approving the document w/ few edits. This is why SBN is my "home" society.

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

It's nice to see this statement from my professional society @sbn-bsky.bsky.social -- "We have collectively dedicated ourselves to ... advances in women’s health, promoting the inclusion of all sexes and genders in research, and inclusion of trans voices in setting research and symposium agendas."

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My act of defiance during that absurdist transgender lab rats house committee hearing? Caring for my research animals. They want me to stop? Fuck them. I’ll do it more. I’ll do it better.

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From reddit: a letter from a postdoc who survived the Bolsonaro years. This is helpful framing for how to science in this administration. 🧪 www.reddit.com/r/labrats/s/...

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Unelected billionaire💰Elon Musk is destroying our public services and attacking our federal workers. Yet leaders in Congress claim they have no leverage. Tell your reps: 🥄 stand with federal workers 🚫 halt all work in Congress 🫸 stop Musk ⚡️Take action: socialists.nyc/stop-musk/?s...

submitted 16 days ago • 9 comments

The image of the night.

submitted 17 days ago • 29 comments

[Insert Tim Robinson in a hot dog suit meme]

submitted 17 days ago • 13 comments

“you’re just trans for the attention” girl the attention is the worst part

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🚨RED ALERT for 🧪: The Trump NIH just gashed indirect costs. This is a direct attack on universities. “Pursuant to this Supplemental Guidance, there will be a standard rate of 15% across all NIH grants for indirect costs.” 😮 Just a devastating Friday night news dump. #scicomm #academicaky

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You can't really write a takedown better than this Like, it's more or less scientifically impossible to verbally murder someone harder than ALC does here archive.is/RHUnJ

submitted 19 days ago • 18 comments

Guess I don't need to record neurons anymore after they undergo a complex cascade of endogenous endocrine signals through a neurodevelopment period requiring multiple intact bodily systems interacting, I can just ask ChatGPT.

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Queer people are always politically expedient to Democrats. Always.

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How many more times do we need to reiterate "they came for first, then , then me" before y'all get it because we're speedrunning this whole fascism thing this time.

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Y'all, they think AI is a better model than biology. We're so cooked.

submitted 20 days ago • 2 comments

This is really bleak, they're attacking all animal research with the ranking Democrat, Shantel Brown, agreeing with Nancy Mace. Brown goes on to state that AI and 3D printing give us "better and more accurate results" compared to actual biology.

submitted 20 days ago • 20 comments

Frankly, this hearing should be alarming to all biomedical researchers.

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www.youtube.com/live/6-reyBi...

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At this point I think it's safe to assume my name is on a list somewhere for one reason or another related to my being transsexual. So, no use in radio silence. In 30m, I'll be watching Nancy Mace's hearing on our preclinical trans health research to see how my life is about to change (derogatory).

submitted 20 days ago • 1 comment

We are at the "stop transsexuals from doing research" stage of societal decline.

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Dear US scientists, We've been hearing a lot of questions of the form "Why aren't universities doing anything!? They need to speak out!" We can explain. It's bad news. We're on our own. But understanding why can help us all figure out our plan. Read along in thread 1/x 🧪

submitted 20 days ago • 21 comments

Just got word that our Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) Inclusive Excellence 3 (IE3) Grant was being canceled. All 100+ institutions. So even private funding is susceptible to this administration’s unraveling of DEI initiatives

submitted 21 days ago • 40 comments

It's really funny to be calling up a lot of organizers and asking about trans stuff and getting a 🤷🏻‍♀️ So that's my lane now, wanna hit me up and tell me what kinds of wins we can target for trans rights and bodily autonomy?

submitted 22 days ago • 2 comments

From the Free Speech™️ Regime comes, "Ideas you are not allowed to have."

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trans woman Bebe Scarpinato outside Bellevue Hospital, 1971 // protest outside NYU Langone, which began cancelling health care appointments for trans youth this week, 2025

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Hundreds of New Yorkers are out tonight demanding NYU Langone’s CEO commits to continuing to provide lifesaving gender affirming care for trans kids. No complying with fascists! No anti-trans policies!

submitted 23 days ago • 4 comments

I really need everyone to remember that when we talk about the attacks on scientists rn, y'all need to be REALLY FUCKING CLEAR about which scientists are specifically under attack

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🚨TRUMP IS TRYING TO BAN HEALTHCARE FOR TRANS KIDS🚨 NYU Langone is one of the few hospitals in the country that's begun withholding life-saving healthcare for trans kids. Join us for an emergency rally tomorrow. Demand NYU Langone reverse this decision! ⬇️⬇️⬇️ actionnetwork.org/events/prote...

submitted 24 days ago • 7 comments

this is how every trans american sounded to every cis american for the last five years, btw

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“Once you decide that a single vulnerable minority can be sacrificed, you’re operating within a fascist logic,” they said. “That means there might be a second one you’re willing to sacrifice and a third, a fourth. Then what happens?”

submitted 70 days ago • 71 comments

NYU Langone. Nazi by compliance.

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NYU-Langone is cancelling appointments for gender-affirming care for young trans people, parents say. The cancellations come after Trump's order directing institutions that receive federal funding to end gender-affirming care for patients under 19. hellgatenyc.com/nyu-langone-...

submitted 26 days ago • 34 comments

maybe we should start using the phrase “nazi by compliance”

submitted 25 days ago • 1 comment

Don’t be a coward. Don’t succumb to academic censorship and scientific suppression. DON’T FUCKING COMPLY.

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

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 25 days ago • 604 comments

If you cannot call it what it is when all in a week: a government removes every mention of a group of people, destroys information about them en masse, bans their discussion in schools, restricts their ability to travel and starts seizing and refusing their official identification, when will you?

submitted 25 days ago • 44 comments

Do Not Comply In Advance: bossy, already a cliche, implies permission to comply later Fuck You, Make Me: leads by example, directs yelling at opposition instead of allies, easy to chant at a protest or put on a banner

submitted 26 days ago • 94 comments

For those who may have missed my recent “fuck the law, be gay do crime” lecture at UBC, you can now watch it online at the link below!

submitted 26 days ago • 9 comments

These slides are a great introductory resource for scientists (and others) wanting to know more about what is currently happening to science during MAGA-2025. The text/prose on the last slide hit me like a ton of bricks.

submitted 26 days ago • 1 comment

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 26 days ago • 28 comments