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This is truly devastating. Without DHS, countries' and partners' ability to monitor trends and identify gaps informing where to target global health interventions related to maternal & child health, stunting, intimate partner violence & so much more is severely weakened. 1/6

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Wisconsinites! If you are a scientist, love a scientist, or benefit from science - we need YOU! Join us on March 7th as we #standupforscience @standupforscience.bsky.social

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No words. This is absolutely horrendous news

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On March 7, STAND UP FOR SCIENCE! Rally and protest. Washington DC and nationwide. Get more info here: standupforscience2025.org Please forward to spread the word. #standupforscience2025 #sciencenotsilence #scienceforall #WomenInSTEM @standupforscience.bsky.social

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Thanks to Scientific American for featuring Stand Up for Science! 🧪☀️🌎 www.scientificamerican.com/article/stan... #standupforscience2025 #scienceforall

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🚨Anyone in CO🚨 if you are open to volunteering—I need you! Please reach out to help organize at our capitol in Denver. We need you! Science needs you! Stand up for science!

submitted 3 days ago • 4 comments

Nothing like the stomach flu at 12 am for 2 family members to help you inventory how many sheets and towels you own…and, also, so deeply grateful for a washer and dryer and disinfectant.

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DataLumos is doing invaluable work to preserve government data resources. What can you do? The team is looking for volunteers to assist with metadata and donations to support the costs of data rescue. Details at isr.umich.edu/giving/suppo...

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

While they move to illegally cut contracts/grants and defy court orders, an entire area of US social policy is in effect being destroyed. What will be left when the court battles end? If you are worried about other grants (like NIH), take heed—the purpose is the destruction, not to prove legality.

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BlueSky academics, this is your moment. It's time to activate, rally your department, put pressure on university administration and public officials by showing that what is happening is not ok. That you will Stand Up. For science, knowledge, and humanity.

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Status quo bias leads to complacency and it's fatal when the status quo has fallen to pieces. Though we go about our lives as we always have, hoping for a return to what we know, this is dangerous as everything has changed. A good article by Adam Kucharski. kucharski.substack.com/p/the-bigges...

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You know Kate Winslet in Contagion? Where she runs into a hot zone, risking her life, so Americans could be safer? She was an EIS officer. That’s who was just fired at CDC today. EIS officers. And many, many more public servants fighting every day for your health.

submitted 12 days ago • 41 comments

Out today in The Chronicle of Higher Education, my official coming-out as bereaved. www.chronicle.com/article/canc...

submitted 12 days ago • 7 comments

The announcement on exemptions to USAID/PEPFAR suspensions allowing continuation of HIV treatment and care interventions are very much a mirage. On the ground across Africa people living with HIV cannot access their medications. Deaths and new infections grow as we speak. apnews.com/article/hiv-...

submitted 15 days ago • 8 comments

NEW: 93 Republican members of Congress ask the Supreme Court to let states kick Planned Parenthood out of Medicaid programs for providing services like birth control. Arguments are on April 2. www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/23...

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment

From independent @USAID sources, >800 contracts and awards are being terminated en masse – with the procurement team subject to hourly checks on speed of executing terminations. The pace has exceeded the ability to confirm whether lifesaving assistance or any Congressional mandate is affected.

submitted 16 days ago • 33 comments

IT'S GAME TIME! So maybe the Superbowl ad buy was just a rumor - we'll see- but we know what's true: USAID saves lives. We're gearing up for another fun-filled week in MAGA conspiracy-land. Help us spread the facts! #TeamUSAID #AIDBowl www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqUE...

submitted 17 days ago • 3 comments

Read this whole thread (warning: it is extraordinarily disturbing, the cruelty of Trump/Musk is unimaginable)

submitted 17 days ago • 1 comment

Cruelty is the point.

submitted 19 days ago • 5 comments

Just received this photo from a friend of a warehouse in Kinshasa. These are tuberculosis medications--ALREADY PAID FOR--that aren't being distributed due to the Trump Administration's stop work order. TB treatment is being interrupted in SO many patients around the world. What does that mean? (1/2)

submitted 19 days ago • 169 comments

🚨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

submitted 19 days ago • 22 comments

I am really frustrated that the press is discussing the destruction of USAID as something that has happened rather than an illegal action that will likely be undone in two weeks when courts tell the world that it was illegal.

submitted 20 days ago • 1710 comments

Oh, hell yeah www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

submitted 19 days ago • 3 comments

This point needs to be elevated every day as we discuss the value of foreign aid! I wrote a blog post related to this and the critical contributions that H.I.V. patients make to ending the epidemic: yoursay.plos.org/2022/06/we-n...

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This is so frustrating and the logic is so deeply flawed! Women need PrEP before and after pregnancy too! And their male partners do too. It’s applying logic about PMTCT from 2010 to a totally different prevention tool.

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Rubio claims that @USAID lifesaving assistance for health and humanitarian needs will continue. But his team just communicated that the entire agency will be imminently reduced from 14,000 to 294 people. Just 12 in Africa.

submitted 20 days ago • 146 comments

An attack on women’s access to paid work.

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Farmers slammed. “American farms… supply about about 41 percent of the food aid that the agency sends around the world.” And “hundreds of tons of American-grown wheat stranded in Houston alone.” wapo.st/3WSo7nI

submitted 20 days ago • 41 comments

"have more babies" they said

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The #PEPFAR tracker is following the real time impact of each passing day of the funding suspensions spurred by the USAID funding freeze. Although there is a waiver to allow dispersion of ART, this is not happening because clinic workers have been laid off. People are dying. pepfarimpact.vercel.app

submitted 20 days ago • 21 comments

This! I have worked with USAID in different capacities for most of my career. Reforms are needed, AND the agency does critical and efficient work around the world that directly aligns with US priorities.Moreover there are SO many guardrails and systems to ensure that funds are spent appropriately.

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

Murphy: "This is a constitutional crisis that we are in today. Let's call it what it is."

submitted 23 days ago • 2483 comments

History you need to know: The Montgomery Bus Boycott went on for almost a year.

submitted 24 days ago • 16 comments

Staff at CDC are being asked to scrub data on trans and non-binary folks from datasets. Public health ethics hold us to the highest ethical, professional, and scientific standards. Deleting data about Americans is unethical. OPM has ZERO authority over CDC practices. Obey the law. 🇺🇸🏛️⚖️

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If U.S.A.I.D.’s operations are scaled back indefinitely, it will enable China, Russia, Iran and other U.S. adversaries to gain strategic footholds overseas that would damage U.S. security in the long term. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/u...

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