"Alignment" (aka fealty) is not a merit-review criteria. If ideology determines outcomes, our world-class federally funded research system will reward apparatchiks and loyalists while punishing opponents and critics. And then soon, it won't be world-class. www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...

Holding a phonebank today to pressure house members regarding science funding.

Judging by the shamefully opportunistic & politicizing rhetoric of some rightwingers on Twitter, & their cynical use of Charlie Kirk’s horrific murder for political point scoring, it’s almost as if Minnesota Rep. Melissa Hortman wasn’t murdered by a Trump-voting MAGA maniac just 12 weeks ago.

The people doing the non-glamorous government jobs right now are really putting in the work. thank you tireless NIH workers. 💕🫡

I’ll be holding a phonebank on Thursday to call voters living in swing districts represented by Republicans and asking them to contact their representatives about science funding.

A show of bipartisan support for NIH. Basically flat except for ARPA-H. The President’s budget proposal basically ignored (as it should have been).

This is good news… for now. The referenced 6/25 legal opinion was described in STAT: www.statnews.com/2025/07/06/h... It says the legal risk for terminations will drop starting Oct 1.

I’ll be holding a phonebank tomorrow to call voters living in swing districts represented by Republicans and asking them to contact their representatives about science funding.

Sign to support our brave FEMA colleagues.

This is a good watch. So much potentially impactful science is being stopped for no good reason.

Just posted a video to TikTok about what #SCOTUS did in the NIH funding case. It’s too long to embed on Bluesky, but here’s a link: www.tiktok.com/t/ZPHG57sTnM...

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An interesting piece about how scientists can help defend democracy by creating a sort of "shadow cabinet" that models how science and regulatory agencies should be functioning.

this is it #scisky #medsky www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

New STAT story about multi-year funding. www.statnews.com/2025/07/29/n...

A modicum of good news: www.politico.com/news/2025/07...

The #BethesdaDeclaration signers killed it today during the roundtable with Jay. Some of my favorite highlights shared from my colleagues: 🧵 1/5

IMPORTANT IMPORTANT IMPORTANT IMPORTANT Please watch the workshop video and COMMENT by 5:00 Monday 7/14 This is the source of the "no more model organism only grants in NIH-funded research" decree.

Yesterday, marked 1 month since we sent the #BethesdaDeclaration. So, has anything changed? 🧵 1/n

Another highly recommended read. She lays out the cost of the terminations and the ending tells the importance of pushing back and standing up for core principles It is easy to lose the point of all this in graphs and statistics (I plead guilty, your honor) but the human stakes are more compelling

Thanks for speaking out and sharing your story and the broader story and the consequences.

Judge Young was appointed by President Ronald Reagan in 1984. Here he excoriates the Trump Administration's termination of grants at NIH. This is just the start of a process. But it is ground-breaking and good news for today.

It's @carolynbertozzi.bskyverified.social FTW!

Over 2,500 Grants Canceled or Delayed by Trump Administration: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

I think @petergleick.bsky.social's comparisons are right on target here. I also don't think most Americans know that this is what is happening and what this means for this country. The dangers cannot be overstated at this point.

Update: Judge Orders Release of Harvard Medical School Researcher Kseniia Petrova From ICE Custody: www.thecrimson.com/article/2025... and a reminder of who she is, what she did/does, and why ICE has her locked up in an increasingly Kafkaesque system. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/13/o...

The good news for today, scientifically speaking for vision research is that the NEI appears to have survived the budget reconciliation process in the House. And the NIH budget was not decreased. This still has to go to the Senate, but the National Eye Institute still lives in the House bill...

Giving Big Balls the nuclear codes, or at least access to nuclear reactors. What could go wrong?

My heart hurts for Harvard-bound students who lost GRFPs and teams everywhere who have had grants terminated. A senseless waste of blood, sweat, tears, late nights, strained relationships, abandoned hobbies, frequent moves, financial instability, and mental health. 🧪

Many of us who read Project 2025 have been saying from the start that The Regime has a unifying goal of destroying US scientific infrastructure and causing the collapse of Universities. We were called “hysterical”. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

May 19 poll of 3,799 U.S. adults (+/-2.3%) % of U.S. adults who think federal funding for scientific research done by the following should be increased | decreased Universities 44% | 16% Government agencies 43% | 14% Private companies 25% | 21% today.yougov.com/topics/socie...

The NIH Director continues to misunderstand (or mischaracterize) the extent to which research is being gutted. I appreciate this program officer for speaking up.

Get mad, scientists www.nytimes.com/2025/05/19/o...

say it again: 4 million people work in higher ed, the largest employer in 10 states, second largest employer in 10 more, and in 60 of the 100 biggest cities ROI for NIH and NSF for local economies is conservatively 4x, often close to 10x demolishing higher education is economic sabotage

Let's be real: if Republicans pass the House budget bill as is, it will murder the US nuclear industry, ruin our chances of winning the AI race (by constraining power supply), concede the global auto sector to China, and vaporize about half a trillion dollars of US manufacturing investment...

ALSOBROOKS: Can you name which office the Safe to Sleep campaign operates out of? RFK Jr: Which campaign? ALSOBROOKS: The one the senator asked you about just two minutes ago RFK Jr: It's ACF ALSOBROOKS: No, actually it's Health and Human Services

RIP American Innovation www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Very important article on Elon Musk and co’s destruction to federal government operations- National Parks people can’t buy medicine, at NOAA Howard Lutnick is signing off on contracts one by one, thereby withholding 250 million dollars: www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...

This is an absolute disaster. If we don't stop this, they will turn NSF into a pawn of the Trump administration. There will be no research on climate, biodiversity, or anything that isn't eugenics or AI or how to more efficiently destroy the planet for profit. This cannot be allowed to happen.

The Trump administration’s newly proposed regulation, dubbed “Schedule Policy/Career” is really just a rebrand of Project 2025’s “Schedule F” – turning the non-partisan civil service into political loyalists. Here’s what you need to know ↓

#TidyTuesday week 18. Data: NSF Grant Terminations Under the Trump Administration. Code: github.com/rajodm/TidyT... #dataviz #rstats #ggplot2

More than 200 flights from and into Newark Airport had been delayed as of Monday morning. Disruptions have prompted United Airlines to cut nearly three dozen round-trip flights per day at the New Jersey airport. We explain what's going on. nyti.ms/42L2aKE

Michigan leads the world in STEM research and innovation. It’s what’s powering our manufacturing comeback. Donald Trump just proposed putting an end to that. I’m fighting back for Michigan.

So no #NSF grants. We’re done. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

How come “shrinking government” always involves taking away school lunches and building 3,000 more prisons.

But there's a catch - if you normalize these data to the total number of R01s and F31s awarded in 2023, the story changes: a greater *percentage* of the trainee awards have been cancelled as compared to non-trainee awards.

Sen. Ossoff: Who out there in the American public is sitting at home demanding that we shut down cancer research and Alzheimer's research?

Rutgers leads the way! @ruaaup-aft.bsky.social @ruaaup-ptl.bsky.social @aaup.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/04/30/n...

Spotted at Union Station

They pushed out AOC for a 75 year old guy with cancer. 4 months in, he has to step down. AOC should be the next ranking member of the House oversight committee.