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This, too, is America.

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this is such good news

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"It defies belief that this decision was made by anyone with even a basic level of understanding of the scientific enterprise. So, who is in charge here? How far does DOGE’s influence reach? How much is OMB dictating based on hard-right political ideology and not scientific or research expertise?" 🔥

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RFK Jr has already shown that he considers autistic Americans to be much less worthy of existence. Now he is planning a big database of autistic individuals in the US, never mind that this is a gross violation of privacy laws. Recall that a similar effort was carried out in 1930’s Germany.

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Nonchalant Dinosaur

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I did this. Please take the time! This is a radical change that will grease the wheels t speed up the dismantling of evidence and expertise-based policy in our government institutions, including NIH.

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Interesting discussion!

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How much dope could a woke pope smoke if woke pope could smoke dope?

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good thread for anyone curious about the new Pope

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Each worm lab selects a 2-3 letter allele designation. I was coming to Brandeis so I picked 'oy'. I finally have a worm colleague in my Dept - Josh Meisel - who is fabulous btw. I just convinced him to pick 'vey'. Now we need to make a double mutant. (Yes - I am very pleased with myself).

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Wait till the people mad at the new Pope find out about the policy positions of this Jesus guy

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Senate Dems introduce "End Crypto Corruption Act" that would ban the President, Vice President, Senior Executive Branch Officials, Members of Congress, and their immediate families from financially benefiting from issuing, endorsing, or sponsoring crypto assets, such as meme coins and stablecoins

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OMG if you'd just fucking tied down your fighter jets you could have saved enough money to not shut down the NSF

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NEW: We just won an order from a judge to temporarily stop Donald Trump from gutting the Department of Education while we continue our lawsuit in court. I'll never stop fighting for our kids, educators, and families.

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This is fascism.

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Texans: the House is holding a public hearing on SB 37, a bill which will (inter Alia) shift control for core curriculum in TX publics to governing boards (but with no infrastructure to implement these changes). You can submit written testimony.

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Trump administration says no masking allowed on college campuses but then send out masked men to disappear folks off the streets of America. Why are these people hiding their faces if they are acting lawfully and merely carrying out Trump’s campaign promises?

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Read this. Wow.

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The NIH move to restrict animal research is a bad one and not just about health - it's about national security. More here: medium.com/@eblissmorea...

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Trump's budget: We're cutting your health care and cancer cures to pay to deport your nurse assistant and cancer researcher.

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THIS WEEK! On Wed, May 7, The American Brain Coalition, AAN, American College of Neuropsychopharmacology, Dana Foundation, IEEE Brain, Simons Foundation, SfN & Kavli Foundation, in cooperation w/ the Congressional Neuroscience Caucus, invite you to a special briefing 👉 RSVP: tinyurl.com/25zfk538

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May the fourth be with you #StarWars #Resist 👩‍🔬⚛️

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Vigil for lost NIH research and staff. The tomb of the unknown patient represents all of the people who will die prematurely because their cures were not discovered.

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And you thought the left was censorious. How about actual censoring?

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NEW: US weather forecasting is in worse shape than previously known, with 30 NWS forecast offices missing meteorologists-in-charge and about a dozen offices at risk of no longer serving their communities 24/7. www.cnn.com/2025/05/02/w...

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The scientific community is at a pivotal moment right now. And we are seeing things start to shift. Now is the time for scientists and scientific institutions to step up. No one is coming to save us. 🧵

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US DOT just cancelled $54 million in university research: —UC Davis: $12m —NYC City College: $9m —USC: $9m —NYU: $6m —San Jose State: $6m —U. of NOLA: $6m —Johns Hopkins: $6m All had committed the woke sins of studying how to make transportation less polluting and/or less inequitable.

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I first did research as an undergraduate in an NSF-funded lab - without that experience I would not have known about science careers, let along gotten into grad school. NSF also provided the first funding for my lab and helped me make important discoveries that launched my career #WithoutNSF

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"But [as we slide into a fascist nightmare], the value I want to encourage is professionalism."

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Governor Mills is currently second to top of my list of people I’d like to see given Stephen Miller a noogie. First is his rabbi.

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Washington University faculty and graduate students are urging university leaders to take a public stance against the federal government’s actions toward higher education.

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How is this making America great?

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"I don't know what the big deal is" — exactly the right energy for fighting a moral panic

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I made a new sign for the 50501 protests on Thursday

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The war on cancer was not supposed to attack cancer funding. Or cancer science. Or cancer science advisory councils. And certainly not those who contract any of the hundreds of kinds of cancer. But here we are… The GOP’s war on science is hurting our future and our children’s futures.

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Amazon offers free advertising for the Administration's signature initiative, and for some reason the White House regards this as hostile. When I make smart decisions that make the world a better place, I'm usually proud of it, and want the everyone to know about it. So what's different here?

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Don’t destroy your seed corn, says a VC director. “The only thing more damaging than the recent attacks on our research universities is the silence from my colleagues in the venture capital world, especially from those who have the ear of the president.” www.nytimes.com/2025/04/28/o...

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I and my colleagues, @carpenterlab.bsky.social and Carol Greider, wrote an op-ed for our local media site, @lookoutsantacruz.bsky.social, about the recent cancellations of NIH funded training programs meant to broaden participation in science at UCSC: lookout.co/trumps-escal...

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⛔ NIH ended ALL of my grants mid-project, given LGBTQ health focus 🏳️‍🌈 ⚖️ So what am I doing? Suing RFK, Jr. As one team member shared in this story👇: "The threats to our work don’t just make me fear for my career — they make me fear for my safety.“ #SaveDemocracy #SupportScience #PublicHealth

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