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Cutting NIH and threatening NSF...now they are going for the heart of US research.

submitted 14 days ago • 1 comment

Florida’s April 1st election is our shot to take back the House. It’s a long shot, but with attention, rallies, and funding, we can win. Musk will try to buy this election too, hopefully enough people have learned something over the last couple of weeks. Vote!

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

Under fascism, no one is safe. Universities stayed quiet as the admin targeted DEI & foreign aid, censored research, etc. Now, they face devastating cuts to indirect cost rates, threatening research & operations. Silence won’t protect institutions. It won’t protect people; it never does.

submitted 14 days ago • 358 comments

Yes. While there are absolutely things Democrats can and must do to slow, obstruct, etc, GOP hold both House and Senate majorities, severely limiting our options. Johnson and Thune are handing over the own keys and relinquishing their own power. Even for the cynics this should be a shock.

submitted 20 days ago • 4029 comments

This is kind of where I am at. We either pull off some sort of massive collective action like a sustained general strike, or we end up in a brutal dictatorship. Laws are no longer functioning to contain Musk's coup, and institutions are failing as we speak.

submitted 15 days ago • 6 comments

I mean

submitted 15 days ago • 4 comments

Whole lotta people going to lose their jobs at research universities. Indirect costs cover the salaries of a lot of office staff and facilities workers.

submitted 15 days ago • 4 comments

We’d have an easier time defending NIH, CDC etc if the public’s main interactions with the American health complex weren’t with insurance companies and corporate bureaucracies. That we’ve made healthcare such a shitty experience predisposes people to burn everything down, even the good parts.

submitted 14 days ago • 4 comments

This is so deeply, deeply, deeply fucked up. “The trial was shutting down. A silicone ring inserted into her vagina, needed to be removed right away. … The stop-work order was so immediate and sweeping that the research staff would be violating it if they helped the women remove the rings.”

submitted 15 days ago • 6 comments

I was just outside the Treasury Department where Elon Musk has launched a full scale authoritarian takeover. My message to Musk is simple: get your hands off our money and get the hell out.

submitted 18 days ago • 845 comments

Scenes like this wouldn’t be possible without whistleblowers coming forward about Elon Musk’s authoritarian takeover. Reminder that if you’re a public servant wishing to report fraud, waste, or abuse at a federal agency, you can do so on my website:

submitted 17 days ago • 219 comments

I need to contact an EPA person to ask about a database - I want to ensure the data is still available and not doctored/changed/removed. I can be reached on Signal (if you need my number for that, message me).

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

The United States Military Academy has just eliminated all Cadet clubs and activities for POC. Most of these have existed for decades like the Society of Black Engineers. They were there when I was a Cadet in 1987. All of the religious ones remain. This isn’t DEI. It’s white Christian Nationalism.

submitted 17 days ago • 2838 comments

So Trumps "Defend Women" initiative (his naming of the removing of gender from documents) is shown to be what it is - he hates anything and anyone that isn't a white man.

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

WTF @nytimes.com

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

Elon Musk’s Power Grab Is Lawless, Dangerous, and—Yes—a Coup slate.com/news-and-pol...

submitted 18 days ago • 2 comments

Tell your senators to do their jobs: Vote no on all nominees Refuse a quorum Call for quorum checks Object to unanimous consent requests Be LOUD about why they are doing this and demand a stop to the coup. Thank you @indivisible.org indivisible.org/resource/how...

submitted 19 days ago • 33 comments

This is how you do it. Thank you @sicbjournals.bsky.social Read their whole email to membership here mailchi.mp/sicb.org/sic...

submitted 18 days ago • 14 comments

This is so good.

submitted 19 days ago • 626 comments

Researchers! If you use federal databases, datasets, stats, info—download that right now. 🧪 #education #academicsky #edusky

submitted 18 days ago • 4 comments

This is insanity! 501c3 nonprofits are accountable to the PUBLIC not to the federal government. While they may get gov funding, they can lose their nonprofit status by changing work that was funded by donors and private entities, and that they stood by as scientifically accurate...

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

What did people expect of a convicted felon who has gone bankrupt 6 times?

submitted 19 days ago • 2 comments

The wind gusts are devastating. Truly a hurricane of fire. Video: @stuartpalley.bsky.social

submitted 45 days ago • 996 comments

So let's talk about the facts. How many have heard of maquiladoras? US companies on the other side of the US Mex border dumping industrial waste into a river that ends up in the US. Is this a US or Mexico problem? Here is the list.

submitted 45 days ago • 4 comments

First lecture today...Climate Change Studies. Will provide update on climate. Punchline: It's not good. There is nowhere you can live now and not see evidence of change. Mother Earth is very unhappy and yelling louder every day...her latest? Fires in LA. So unbelievably sad. What will it take???

submitted 45 days ago • 8 comments

ABC, NBC & CBS dedicated about 16 minutes of airtime last night to the California wildfires without once mentioning climate change. Since the news failed do it's job, here's a short summary of the role of climate change and wildfire risk: www.noaa.gov/noaa-wildfir...

submitted 45 days ago • 1263 comments

These extraordinary photos of the LA fires have been shared widely on social media, often without crediting the photographer. These are all the work of Ethan Swope, an LA-based photojournalist working for AP. You can follow his remarkable reporting here👇 www.instagram.com/ethanswopeph...

submitted 44 days ago • 821 comments