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HHS is firing all untenured researchers at NIH on 3/8, ending careers of 1000s scientists, and crippling intramural research. This in addition to freezing grants to researchers at universities. email secretary Kennedy and your congressional reps today! docs.google.com/document/d/1...

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800 out at NOAA, including many in critical National Weather Service positions. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/02...

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I got asked the most unbelievable thing this week: “Do geneticists still use the human genome of the executed convict many years ago?” HELLO?! WHAT?! Is this the newest urban legend for the kids?

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Unbelievable news. Pancreatic is one of the deadliest cancers. New paper shows personalized mRNA vaccines can induce durable T cells that attack pancreatic cancer, with 75% of patients cancer free at three years—far, far better than standard of care. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Call to action: Economic Blackout on February 28. #3E #EndImpunity #EndOligarchy #Autogenocide

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Truly awful. The intramural program supports so much exploratory work that happens basically nowhere else including my PhD. It’s a jewel that attracts scientists from all over the world to attempt their dream experiments. Please call your congress person about this if you can.

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Breaking: FDA's March meeting to select flu shot strains for 2025-2026 season has been canceled per email sent to committee members, a VRBPAC member told me. drug companies need about 6 months leeway to make shots in time for fall vax campaigns. #healthpolicy

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I’m somehow on a Heritage Foundation mailing list (😂) and they sent a survey to see what we think of DOGE. Who wants to offer some m-fing feedback?!? secured.heritage.org/the-heritage... Please share with a friend or a thousand :)

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NIH cuts are getting the press, but VA research is getting slashed too. What do we lose when VA research goes away? Here's some greatest hits: The nicotine patch, invention of the cardiac pacemaker, first successful liver transplant, development of the CAT/CT scan prospect.org/health/2025-...

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lol I just want to scream into the void for an undetermined amount of time

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Also, you don’t get a lump sum to spend indiscriminately The researcher spends a line of credit and submits invoices to the NIH, who then will decide if those are APPROPRIATE before reimbursing the researcher Ask any researcher about their RPPR which is required to continue receiving funds

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When I call my representative, I usually talk about cancer, Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s, and miscarriage. Almost every person I’ve run into has a loved one who has experienced one of these, and they can’t say they don’t want cures/preventions

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In case people forgot, let me remind you: Whatever comes for Black people is coming for you. The best outcome for Black women is a better outcome for everyone else and there's been no time in history where this has this NOT been true.

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One of the remarkable things about #NIH is how rigorously its grants, research, and employees are reviewed. NIH science and scientists are held to a high standard by external reviewers — via study sections and councils, or BSC/site visit reviewers. And the reviews have teeth. 🧪

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IMPORTANT Collecting data to understand and strengthen arguments about the impact of the administration's ill-considered actions and the responses of universities... Please share!

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Ok, I'm doing a version of this thread for 🧪 who are new to political conditions where info security is a safety issue: 1. Don't make public lists of people who are engaging in acts of resistance 2. Be weary of calls to advertise acts of subversion 3. Don't live post resistance meetings

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This is a five-alarm fire 🔥 for US science 🧪. (We keep saying that, but it keeps being true 😭.) Trump and Musk are blocking ALL NIH grants ‼️ by "exploiting a loophole in the process"—stopping study sections & council meetings. Every biomedical researcher in the country should be screaming. 1/

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Life scientists and supporters: The Coalition for Life Sciences is here! Many of our professional societies work together through the CLS to advocate for science and now their work is even more important. Follow them!! @c4lifesciences.bsky.social www.coalitionforlifesciences.org

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Tuberculosis outbreak in Kansas Measles outbreak in Texas Bird flu - first death among humans But yes, by all means, please fire CDC, NIH, and other scientists Everything will be fine

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A restaurant that fires its chefs and its cooks is not cutting costs - it is going out of business - big difference

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Here's the script I'm using to holler at my red-state reps about Elon Musk's FAA takeover.

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Don't post AI slop. And if you repost by mistake, as I've done, delete it. When you have something to say and attach AI art, you're undercutting your message and hurting artists. Pay or barter for art. There's a reason good things cost money and take time. AI art is harmful and it looks like ass.

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🙃 Elon tweeting about how SpaceX engineers can help

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It's annoying how clearly this is going to play out. They gut the FAA. Therefore, the FAA can't do its job well because it was gutted. Therefore, they say "The FAA sucks, we have to privatize it." which is what Project 2025 wants to do. They're manufacturing the crises for their end goal.

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I have to book flights for a conference and I’m terrified It doesn’t help that I have no idea on how to talk about this anxiety at work

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I feel like I'm going insane every time I see a media story about DOGE that doesn't also mention the fact that the Government Accountability Office exists and performs the exact function that DOGE pretends to, only in a credibly constitutional, non-partisan, and conflict-of-interest-free manner

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Science/academia are under siege. Slashed funding from NIH, NSF, and NASA, etc.—plus loss of Pell Grants—will cripple universities. Next, massive endowment taxes aim to deliver the final blow. Research and education are on the line. Call your representatives. Spread the word. Take action. #scicomm 🧪

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The Partition of India displaced 20 million people, killed almost 2 million & created a refugee crisis whose effects are still in play over 70 years later, if you actually think it's a model for anything but massive catastrophe, you should not only not be employed here you should be in a padded cell

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Condensin IDC has a Functional ATPase That is Required for X-Chromosome Dosage Compensation in C. elegans https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.02.05.636654v1

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Condensin IDC has a Functional ATPase That is Required for X-Chromosome Dosage Compensation in C. elegans https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.02.05.636654v1

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Literally the most amazing thing reported: a study on women who got vaccinated against HPV before age 14 found that there’s 0% — ZERO incidence of cervical cancer in said women as they’ve entered their 30s and beyond And RFK opposes that to make money while preventing ppl from getting it? 👟

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This is how they fucking bankrupted Red Lobster 🙃

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It's not complicated. They're just trying to stop women from being able to vote.

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Every time your toilets flush and your streets aren’t overflowing with piss and shit? That’s your government working for you. Potable water, traffic lights, CLEAN STREETS, emergency services, PHONE LINES, safe vehicles, regulations when any of this shit falls apart. That’s the silent part of gov’t

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Today is the international day of the Woman and Girl in Science. To all badass women, scientists keep doing what you do: discovery, mentorship, and hard work. YOU belong in SCIENE. To others, uplift the Women scientists you know, cite them, promote them, sponsor them, invite them - be an upstander.

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Cancelling grants wholesale. Scientists, do we think this won’t happen at NIH and NSF? Hopefully it’s clear that this is a war on expertise, education, and any source of truth that can constrain power. The sooner 🧪 really gets in the fight the more we can protect.

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The preprint of my main thesis work is live! #condensin #chromatin #generegulation #celegans 🪱 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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