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Universities really need to pay attention to this. It's not just about the indirects and frozen funds. If these layoffs continue, which by all signs are continuing and going well beyond probationary employees, these agencies will not be functional, including NIH, CDC, and NSF

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Friends, I need y'all to reach out to your representatives and do some advocacy for Tribal College students 🙏 Please see the announcement below. NIEA and AIHEC are also engaging in this Call to Action! Please share.

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Went to the bonamici town hall for a vibe check and the vibe is an entire high school auditorium of elderly Portlanders yelling "What's the plan?!?"

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The dissonance of having to patiently watch people turn again and again to supposed legality as shield or excuse for compliance might be my undoing

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Obsessed with Ume the spotted tapir, need to do a road trip to Tacoma whenever she deigns to be on view.

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One Simple Trick for Destroying US Leadership in Biomedical Sciences open.substack.com/pub/joshuasw...

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If you are a VA employee in Oregon or SW Washington who has been terminated or had their work conditions changed, or has taken deferred resignation, I want to hear from you. DMs open and I have signal for encrypted communication signal.me#eu/rIqM7qzEe...

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“The system isn’t built for people to get their records sealed. It’s too complicated, and the people who need it most often lack the money and time. It’s a setup for failure. So we say, let’s automate it. Let’s create a system where people are forgiven.” thetriibe.com/2025/02/soci...

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"As of February 9, ICE’s total detained population reached 41,169."

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Ronnys

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The most exciting event of my week 🖤🖤🖤

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Someday the Darien will be free, again

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Portland: Noon @ the base of the tram!

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I’m at 412 individual donations to my part of the Save the Reader fundraiser—can we get this to 420 by midnight CST?

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In better news, wolverines are being born up in the Cascade peaks right now.

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950 layoffs at IHS. 24% of Haskell's staff gone. 638 clinics not yet affected. ictnews.org/news/life-or...

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"...the last man standing long after other political bosses of his era lost their clout, hung it up or went to prison." Ah yes, the three Chicago options

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One of our neighbors is a doppelganger for my ex-husband, to the point where I saw him outside shoveling today and said "Hey! How have you been?"

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I'm sure Michael Lauer resigning the day after putting out a memo about following previously negotiated idc agreements is fine

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aquarian girlhood

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Ann Austin and I are starting a @msu-chae.bsky.social Project on Public Research University Futures. The first webinar is scheduled on March 12 from 1-2:30 Eastern and features an incredible line-up to consider major questions facing public research universities. See: chae.msu.edu/event-types/...

submitted 38 days ago • 3 comments

Hay nieve en Portland ☺️❄️🌸

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On the 7th they announced the NIH idc evisceration, and this past week with the restraining order judgements has felt like the lull before rfk

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Are you a federal worker in the Pacific Northwest? OPB would like to hear from you about how recent directives from the current admin are affecting your work. This guide provides detailed tips on multiple ways to safely & securely contact our newsroom - such as by encrypted messaging via Signal:

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Mood.

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Administrative coup is a couping

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My dad has a form of leukemia that would have killed him had one of these clinical trials not produced a brand new drug in the nick of time that essentially made him cancer free, against all expectations when he was diagnosed. Cutting funding to groundbreaking medical research is heinous and stupid.

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Ray Lopez constantly winning the “worst politician in the city of Chicago” award

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someone reportedly in the halftime show unfurled the sudanese and palestinian flags and stood on the car that opened the show, was later chased off and tackled by security x.com/diyatv/statu...

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Truly an inspiration to me.

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Mulched for 3 hours, which equaled casi un dtmf entero más GNX, and my most beloved, good kid, M.A.A.D. city

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I find it so interesting watching US grapple with belligerent leaders. There’s such conviction that institutions will protect against tide of authoritarians. Maybe it’s the Egyptian before the hyphen but at its core politics is a story of who you’ve let hold the guns & where their allegiance lies.

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I started working in research and grant administration in 2008, low state funding was an issue then, and has only gotten worse.

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