Freezing nights don’t stop us from supporting @nynurses.bsky.social on strike at Mount Sinai. Their fight for dignity and safe working conditions is our fight too ✊ #WhenWeFightWeWin

Trump administration: Record-high homelessness is caused not by housing costs but by mental illness and addiction. Also Trump administration: We're decimating the programs that treat mental illness and addiction.

"Dedicated state funding for science could help to alleviate the growing uncertainty which will attract and retain talent coming to New York from all over the world to perform practice-changing research." - Juliane Grimm, Postdoctoral Fellow @einsteinmededu.bsky.social

NY state friends, please do this today! The Governor’s State of the State is tomorrow, January 13 at 1:00 PM. We are hopeful she will announce the Empire Biomedical Research Institute (EBRI). Email the Governor and your Reps! actionnetwork.org/letters/supp...

Stand up for science research, time for creative and bold solutions ! @uawregion9a.bsky.social @standupforscience.bsky.social

"When science funding is disrupted, it doesn’t just slow down discovery, it also cuts short promising careers, with rippling effects on society and healthcare. We actually have a real opportunity right now to change the narrative, right here in NY." @samhegde.bsky.social

This is so incredibly heart-breaking. To Jay Bhattacharya and Matthew Memoli at NIH--you have betrayed the entire scientific community. Deeply committed staff are leaving in droves--because you are destroying the institution. Shame on you. www.statnews.com/2026/01/10/n...

State-backed research funding will make NY a haven for biomedical progress! @governor.ny.gov & Albany can capitalize on this opportunity by supporting EBRI ! Was moved to see such a broad + committed coalition across @nycures.bsky.social @amsny and @uawregion9a.bsky.social . Science is political !

Over 600 New Yorkers attended our Virtual Town Hall today to advocate for state-based science funding! We were joined by researchers, patients, institutions, and elected officials. @amsnyc.bsky.social @nycures.bsky.social @uawregion9a.bsky.social

"NYS Dept of Health & NYC Health Dept reject all recent and unilateral changes to the CDC immunization schedule." This letter just went all to all medical providers in NYC. It sends an unambiguous message: Do not change your prior immunization practices.

Science saves lives, creates jobs, and strengthens New York’s economy. We’re fighting for the state to invest in the science that serves the public good. @amsnyc.bsky.social @nycures.bsky.social @uawregion9a.bsky.social @governor.ny.gov

📣 VIRTUAL TOWNHALL 📣 This Friday. Organized by NY-CURES & postdoc unions ✍️ >>> docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... Find out how the proposed Empire Biomedical Research Institute can help solve issues NY State is grappling with: affordability, workforce stability and long-term health & economic growth.

Three weeks ago I explained in @statnews.com why adopting Denmark’s vaccine schedule would leave American children unprotected. Today HHS did it anyway. www.statnews.com/2025/12/19/d...

We’re holding Virtual Statewide Town Hall for Medical Research on January 9! Join researchers, medical colleges, patients, and political allies to discuss how state funding can advance life-saving research. Let us know if you can make it! fundnyscience.org

Researchers across New York State are calling @governor.ny.gov and our elected representatives about the urgent need to invest in the Empire Biomedical Research Institute (EBRI), which would fund live-saving biomedical research through the state budget! #EBRI #NewYork #Science #Funding

"State-level support like #EBRI would protect progress, sustain new labs, and help attract talent and infrastructure." - @samhegde.bsky.social Click here to sign the Open Letter: fundnyscience.org

This is exactly why people claiming "it came up with a new set of experiments/ideas/concepts" are carrying water for the weasels trying to put genAI on everything. This is how we get science defunded. This is how your colleagues lose their jobs 🧪

The Keystone Symposia SAB isn’t just shaping science - they’re fighting for its future. Dr. Shruti Naik (@drshrutinaik.bsky.social) is leading a bold push for a NY state-run NIH to protect research funding with @nycures.bsky.social. keypoint.keystonesymposia.org/home/shruti-... #ScienceAdvocacy

This past Sunday, from 8am to 8pm, New Yorkers from every corner of our city traveled to the Museum of the Moving Image in Astoria to share their dreams, their worries, the change they want to see across New York. It was an honor listening to each of them.

Huge props to these early-career faculty for voicing their concerns and thoughts. Too often we’re told to put our head down and focus on the science. We need more AND diverse support! <science cannot happen in a vacuum>

Wondering why you should ✍ our petition? c.org/nDnRNSsVcq In @aai.org, founder @drshrutinaik.bsky.social reveals why the coalition was formed, why NY needs a state-backed research institute, and how scientists should organize for systemic support — here and nationwide. news.aai.org/2025/11/20/n...

18 CANVASSES 17 NEIGHBORHOODS 2 DAYS We’re launching our field program with canvasses for universal childcare in collaboration with @nycdsa’s Tax The Rich Campaign a year after Zohran’s first ever mayoral canvass launch GET READY TO KNOCK DOORS AGAIN: ourtime.nyc/act/events

2026 is going to be a *great* year to run for office. @runforsomething.net will help you. Filing deadlines are coming up fast - it's just barely not too late to get started. runforwhat.net

The ripple effects of this are staggering. And it seems only few people (us in science) realize it or even care.

The "campus free speech types are hypocrites" line of commentary is very well-worn, so I won't belabor the point much further. But it feels worth noting that *unions* are the organizations actually fighting for freedom of speech on many college campuses...

It’s not a great deal if you don’t need it. And especially this year, others really need support. So for all of us who have enough, let’s refuse to get sucked into the holiday shopping frenzy and share instead of shop. We don’t need more stuff, we need communities where all our neighbors are safe.

Remember - if you're financially in a position to do so, skip the #BlackFriday deals online from big companies and shop instead from small and local businesses. The big guns don't need your money, but for small traders it can be what keeps them going into 2026, so support your community instead.

This is what people mean when they say Industry and Biotech companies are intricately linked to academic structures and will get hit soon. SBIR/STTRs boost acad startups and risky ventures, and Now that’s also jeopardized with no tangible alternative to support translation at very nascent stages.

📢 SIGN & SHARE THE PETITION! 📢 New York needs an Empire Biomedical Research Institute to create new statewide funding opportunities for scientists & physician-scientists so that patients and their families get the life-saving and life-changing new therapeutics they're hoping for ✏️ c.org/TDMy2H9JTW

DOGE was always a very thinly disguised con to dress up data theft and extraction class destruction of federal corporate oversight as innovative, and it's important to remember that part of the reason it worked so well is that the press helped legitimize it

In which I fruitlessly beg NIH grant-seeking folks to focus on what is actually important. drugmonkey.wordpress.com/2025/11/21/i...

We knew this regulation was going into effect, but we didn't yet know whether and how NIH might seek to use it. Yesterday, we found out. NIH will indeed add specific language to new grant terms and, in doing so, it'll preserve the option to use this new power. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide... 2/

Cuts to NIH grants have disrupted at least 383 clinical trials, with infectious disease research hit especially hard. A stark example of the real-world repercussions of Trump and co.'s health policy 🧪 my latest:

Tascha gave so many people the courage to knock that first door, make that first call and build the bridges with our neighbors that got us this far. Together, we fought for a city for all of us. Now, we’ll build a City Hall for all of us.

NEW: The first two years of Massachusetts' millionaire tax has raised $3 billion more than expected. And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.* Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:

This is far worse than anyone expected. Trump's HUD plan would cut *two-thirds* of permanent housing and push as many as 170,000 formerly homeless people back onto the street—redirecting funds to work mandates, forced treatment, and encampment sweeps. All as mass internment camps are being built.

LISTEN UP, DORKS! @standupforscience.bsky.social is getting (even more!) political. People often say "well what can one person do??" 🥊 If all our followers joined Science Fight Club and gave $5 a month, we could save science! 🥊Join here: www.standupforscience.net/join-science... SHARE WIDELY!

Senator Schumer is no longer effective and should be replaced. If you can’t lead the fight to stop healthcare premiums from skyrocketing for Americans, what will you fight for?

The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person. The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person. People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives. And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.

After tonight, I've seen enough; he won't change. @justicedemocrats.com is right: it's time to primary Chuck. The right and obvious choice is AOC. @aoc.bsky.social, the people are ready to rally around you. The time to run for US Senate has now arrived. go.justicedemocrats.com/signup/jd-em...

Want a party that actually fights back? Run for office. We’ll help you. runforwhat.net

Stop the scroll ✋‼️ Got 5 minutes? Get involved with Stand Up for Science! We're fighting to protect our science and our public health — whether by meeting urgent needs in the moment, or gearing up for electoral battles down the line. JOIN US! Links are in our bio: www.standupforscience.net/ta...

Being brown in the US, I'm just grateful I got to be a part of, and witness Zohran peaking at such an important point on the NYC,US & global scale. I was so close to being so disillusioned about politics and our power in it, now I understand what community-building can actually look like. #mamdani

he really ended his speech with Dhoooomm !!! #mamdani #nyc2025

MAMDATE #nyc2025 #zohran #mamdani #dsa #wfp

A few days after the presidential election one year ago, we went to Fordham Road in the Bronx. It was a little different last week.

New York is a-changin'.

Nothing energized me more than the meaningful conversations (& civil debates) I have had with my community in East Harlem #nyc while canvassing. I’ll remember each of these people I met, the struggles or doubts they shared. @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social campaign has truly brought us together on hope..