I am QT dunking but I think this is a case where it is warranted: Science is political and "not wanting to see politics" as a scientist is a political choice. You may decide it's what works for you, but you need to decide how that fits with the fact your (diverse) colleagues still exist 🧪

🔬Our paper from the @miriammerad.bsky.social lab is now online! This is a story shaped over years of cross-disciplinary endeavor at @sinaiimmuno.bsky.social and labs across the world. 🧵: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

📝NEW STUDY📝 Cancer's first punch when battling the immune system may be rewiring myeloid progenitors in bone marrow so they become suppressive tumor macrophages blunting T-cell attacks. Find out how in @nature.com from @samhegde.bsky.social & @miriammerad.bsky.social 🧐 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

@governor.ny.gov @lizkrueger.bsky.social New York’s biomedical economy is at a tipping point! Investment in science pay off! For heath, for jobs, and for the economy!

Nature research paper: Myeloid progenitor dysregulation fuels immunosuppressive macrophages in tumours go.nature.com/48fgQ7H

A very exciting study showing that NRF2-driven suppression of type I IFN (in line with our findings) drives this immunosuppressive macrophage effect! Myeloid progenitor dysregulation fuels immunosuppressive macrophages in tumours www.nature.com/articles/s41...

This is the biggest story in America right now. Coffee up 20.9% year-over-year Steaks up 16.6% Apples up 9.6% Bananas, 6.6%. www.axios.com/2025/09/11/t...

A targetable epigenetic node of myeloid progenitor dysregulation that sustains immunosuppressive lung tumor microenvironment, a target for improving immunotherapy outcomes @nature.com @miriammerad.bsky.social @sinaiimmuno.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The Empire State can’t afford to fall behind. A group of scientists is launching NY-CURES to fight for state and city level investment in research.✊ 📢 Sign up & show Albany we stand UNITED for science. 👉 www.nycures.org @miriammerad.bsky.social @bogunoviclab.bsky.social #AdvocateForScience #NYCURES

Science has already saved countless lives and will save many more if we let it. Hearing firsthand from patients whose lives have been saved by medical research (tinyurl.com/m65339fh) shows how vital this funding is, even for those lucky enough not to have needed it yet. Please share #ScienceSavedMe

Cancer research isn't a budget line item. It's a lifeline. 🔬 ZERO Prostate Cancer, @fightcrc.bsky.social, @lungevity.bsky.social, PanCAN, @aacicancer.bsky.social + @susangkomen.bsky.social join forces to urge sustained federal funding that fuels progress + saves lives.

So he can send the guard in, illegally?

🚀 NY-CURES Launch — Championing State-Wide Investment in Science! 🚀 Our new coalition advocates for sustained public support of New York’s vibrant biomedical research ecosystem — creating cures, economic gains & strengthening communities. Sign up. Stay informed. Join the movement: www.nycures.org/

Couple of things: 1) @drugmonkey.bsky.social is multiplying the MYF grants by 4 here, so the real number of missing new R grants is over 2,000. 2) it's very variable from IC to IC. The NCI is currently at 31%, which is just awful. The NIAAA is a shell of it's former self at just 7%.

Your mission, should you choose to accept it:

1/ This week, House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer demanded that the Wikimedia Foundation hand over information on editorial policies & individual contributors to help the committee investigate "propaganda" on Wikipedia. These demands are offensive to 1st Amendment values

The average American simply has no idea how quickly the infrastructure that keeps us safe and healthy is collapsing. These systems run in the background thanks to government employees who quietly do critical work. Those employees are being purged and systems are being destroyed.

"Pediatric Brain Cancer Trial Group to Be Phased Out" "A network of hospitals and cancer centers dedicated to early phase trials of novel treatments will no longer receive federal funding." 🎁🔗 Nina Agrawal for @nytimes.com

This is a really bad sign - signals a desire to start prosecuting academics and/or university administrators for political speech

I have never seen so many public servants protest the mismanagement of a government. Trumpists will point to this as proof of the deep state, but the reality is that these are professionals who are desperately trying to get the public to understand how bad things are.

Four more top #CDC officials have submitted their resignation in the past few hours - Debra Houry (chief medical officer), Demere Daskalakis (director of NCIRD), Daniel Jernigan (director of NCEZID) + Jen Layden (director of OPHDST) www.nbcnews.com/health/healt... It is horrifying

These children were probably praying when they were shot to death at catholic school. Don’t give us your fucking thoughts and prayers. Trump got rid of the Office of Gun Violence Prevention. Trump gutted the resources that were in place to keep our communities safe.

It's already the deadliest war for journalists on record and keeps getting worse. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

🚨 It’s the 20th anniversary of Katrina + FEMA workers are warning us: cuts + censorship are gutting the agency meant to keep us safe. Delayed disaster response = lives at risk. Sign the Katrina Declaration + demand Congress protect FEMA. 👉 www.standupforscience.net/fema-katrina-declaration

Want to run? Not too late to get started for next year (and *definitely* not too early). @runforsomething.net will help you. runforwhat.net

Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/24/o...

And what a time to start pulling out the wires ! It will take decades to come back to where we were in 2024, if ever. #SUFS

Follow @standupforscience.bsky.social for ways to get involved. Time to get off the sidelines, dorks. We have a democracy to save. ✊🏼❤️

💯this. The window for stopping the total destruction of US science is short - ask a scientist in Hungary. This is a time for bravery, resolve and action, not for putting your head down and “focusing on the science”. We need all hands on deck.

The practical upshot is that justice delayed is justice denied; or to be more precise, a lab which had to fire all of its researchers and halt work on groundbreaking research isn't going to be able to ever restore itself to the same position it would have been without a multi-year pause in funding.

This is scant comfort to NIH-funded researchers. It would take many months or more than a year to re-file cases in Federal Claims Court, win them, and get grant money back. It's also expensive. Lawyers fees add up. The practical result is that all of this research is gone. What a waste.

NEW: In March, the Trump administration announced a massive purge of workers at the nation's health agencies. We asked them how many workers were laid off, pushed out or left. They refused to give us numbers. So we conducted our own analysis... 🧵 projects.propublica.org/federal-heal...

🧪 New study: Learning about economic impact of NIH funding motivates action to oppose funding cuts. Evidence from two preregistered, randomized experiments with >5,000 U.S. adults. Similar change for liberals and conservatives. Preprint from @asinclair.bsky.social et al: osf.io/preprints/ps...

🚨 SCIENCE FUNDING IS UNDER ATTACK 🚨 On Thurs, Aug 21 @ 6 PM ET, we’re calling South Asian voters in swing districts to demand their reps protect NIH + NSF funding. 📍 Online — RSVP now for the Zoom link: actionnetwork.org/events/calli... #StandUpForScience #SaveNIH #SaveNSF #FundScience

"The children were eerily listless; they did not run, shout or even swat the flies off their faces. Their tiny, frail frames made many appear years younger than they were. Near the head of the line, Kaltum Mohammad clutched her two-year-old daughter, Fatima, who weighed just 16 pounds."

100,000% endorse this. If you're in NYC and you're tired and rundown from everything, I highly recommend in-person canvassing for Mamdani if you're able. Absolutely rejuvenated me in June. Human connection, baby. Feels great. Also, sometimes you get to pet some great dogs!

The official voice of the U.S. government draws from 4chan trolls, explicitly white nationalist phrases and talking points, and radicalizing, dehumanizing, desensitizing language for its targets. I talked to propaganda experts about what it’s doing to us: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Because making funding announcements harder to find is "efficient". smh. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

Aside from the basic amorality of the argument even on its own debased terms it's amazing after half a year of Trump 2.0 to think isolating REAL SCIENCE from the rest of the university will save anyone. Look who runs HHS for Chrissakes

This was an awesome webinar with @jeremymberg.bsky.social and fantastic moderators. Culminated in all participants writing to their representatives. If you missed tonight, there are two more - sign up below

Last month, I sat down with @thenation.com to talk about the legacy of Fiorella La Guardia, how we're building a new kind of politics to meet this moment, and our mission to deliver a dignified life for the working people of this city.

With the news yesterday of Israel killing 5 additional journalists in Gaza, this documentary is so timely. Israel's calculus is that the PR hit from killing journalists is less than the PR hit from press coverage of the genocide. Dems in Congress should watch this and then vote to end U.S. support.

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"Your union might not be certified by the NLRB, and you might not be able to run to a government regulator to enforce your contract, but you will have power and you will win things because you will stick together and because you will strike."

Between a "No Other Land" crew mate filming himself being killed by a settler, to a journalist being killed by airstrikes he was covering minutes earlier, I'm not sure how much more televised Israel's genocide can be

Everyone wants to “weather the storm and uncertainty”, wants to “wait and watch”. Many of us in the sciences or the arts will not survive this storm, but that seemingly doesn’t matter to philanthropy at the moment. Put your $ where your mouth is.

Trump tries to put federally funded science under full ruling party political control. Hard to see how the U.S. maintains any global competitiveness in science in this scenario.