3 days left! Oregon Voices for Biomedical Research made a list of talking points you can use: savescienceoregon.org/nih-strategi...

we used to spend Friday nights of a long weekend not mad

What in the actual fuck xenophobic garbage is this

🚨 🚨 🚨 NEW: A shocking @USCIS memo seems to declare that hundreds of thousands of immigrants living in this country and applying for green cards must instead apply for visas abroad; which could MASSIVELY disrupt lives. 🧵 on what we know, and what we don’t.

This is fucking insanity www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-t...

Finish the week of doing something great! Please provide input about the importance of animal research for NIH going forward!!!!!

Our goal is to simply survive this administration and all of the damage they are doing to our country, the present and future of science. I publish with "foreign scientists" all the time. This is going to be a problem if I cannot cite those papers in my progress reports.

Can vouch for this 🧵left and right: I got into science via an ag program at a land grant school (Penn State) where I got direct experience delivering baby cows & w the reactor up close. And I did an onsite proj at RIKEN. The unbelievable scale of US higher ed R&D: all true

/27 Anyway, once again, decent humans who are AUSAs now: get out. Get out now.

This is really, really, REALLY bad.

I will always be Canadian first and Albertan second.

More on the destruction of US science. www.chronicle.com/article/they...

the technician position in my lab is now posted! Please pass this along: unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/319...

Hey @thermofishersci.bsky.social you have a HUGE problem. You are about to lose a lot of the antibody market. You have now lost the trust of a lot of scientists!

In 2025, Sean Eddy received a letter from the National Institutes of Health, informing him that his work "had been determined to be of absolutely no value to the US taxpayer, and therefore it was being specifically terminated," he recalls. “Pearls before swine” was made for this

After meeting to discuss a path forward, the Laurelhurst Community Council (LCC) has agreed to fully support Children’s as it seeks city approval to end the Medical Review Committee for helicopter landings. 🚁🧡💙 Read the full statement: https://bit.ly/4dxW5q0

Our #NIH director mislead Congress on the effects of multiyear funding on research. Last yr, the WH ordered that 50% of awarded grants be MYF. As a result, NIH funded 24% fewer applications. This is difficult for early career scientists trying to launch their own labs. via 🧪@27unihted.bsky.social

RFK, Jr. has fired the two chairs of the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force. The USPSTF "determines when insurance must provide free preventive care, like mammograms and colonoscopies, for millions of Americans." We don't know why or what it means, yet. The task... 1/2 apnews.com/article/trum...

Great news! Innes lab reopened at Indiana University. They had to destroy their lab "house plants". I now foresee many of our our institutions "complying in advance" by disallowing personal plants in our working spaces. Sigh.

Bonkers. Gorgeous.

🚨🧪🧵URGENT INPUT NEEDED: NIH asks input for next strategic plan-including emphasis on non-animal models (NAMs) to replace animals. Per NIH insider, anti-animal responses now outnumber scientists 200-700x. Please please provide input. Deadline: May 26, 11:59 PM ET. grants.nih.gov/news-events/...

man, university libraries are amazing. you can just ask them to help get some obscure thing and they're like "doing that is actually our job, not only are we good at it but also we are excited to make this happen for you"

Will it feature the shutting down of a rural hospitals to mimic real life???

Microbiologist Jasmine Clark campaigned on her science background--and won. www.science.org/content/arti...

#Science! 🧪

I want to point out this is the other cause of the Oil Crisis because Ukraine correctly predicted that Russia was betting on having a windfall from the Iran War and acted accordingly against its enemy.

“Sure, it will take some adjusting and there will be some moving pains, but unless you want to be forced into the Gemini lifestyle, it’s time to make a plan to get off Google and start packing your virtual boxes for greener pastures.” By @parismarx.com disconnect.blog/google-is-it...

The purges continue... "Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has dismissed the two chairs of the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force whose recommendations determine what insurance covers with no additional charge for millions of Americans."

🚨🧪🧵URGENT INPUT NEEDED: NIH asks input for next strategic plan-including emphasis on non-animal models (NAMs) to replace animals. Per NIH insider, anti-animal responses now outnumber scientists 200-700x. Please please provide input. Deadline: May 26, 11:59 PM ET. grants.nih.gov/news-events/...

Massie should read the unredacted Epstein Files on the House floor and then run as an independent.

UCSF probably should be initiating a scientific misconduct investigation.

Each week from now onwards, there should be a "main character" Jan 6'er who has been arrested for pedophilia, etc. Make videos and/or billboards plainly stating "Republicans like Representative xxx support giving your money to pedophile yyy. Why the heck would you want to vote for pedo-lover xxx?"

Russell Vought seriously needs to become a household name. And also impeached. This website includes a social media toolkit with art and blurbs - check it out! Impeachvought.com

A summary of today’s revelations of treachery by RFK Jr.’s handpicked minions. In 11/2025, three doctors (Makary, Prasad, Hoeg) employed by the United States government told the world, with confidence, that COVID19 vaccines killed 10 children. We now have ironclad evidence that they lied.

NIH is being further gutted. Call your reps. Raise awareness. Thank you @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social for speaking out!

Take a minute to scroll through the @mountsthelens1980.bsky.social account today—it's powerful

In 2025, HHS issued stop work order for federal research lab that studies Ebola virus and other deadly pathogens and fired its director. This lab was a world leader in accelerating development therapies and vaccines for Ebola and other viruses. 1/ www.wired.com/story/hhs-ni...

Powerful example of why just funding research on the basis of market interest is no substitute for funding research based on curiosity and social need: "With private industry largely uninterested in this kind of research, Dr. Antaki said he was grateful for government funding, despite the whiplash."

And it’s not just him. It’s all of us studying all the things right now.

This is what Elon Musk, Russ Vought, RFK Jr, and of course Donald Trump, have brought us. So that insurrectionists and coconspiritors could be paid off instead.

I’m delighted to already have a copy of this book that comes out tomorrow! @stefanieoconnell.bsky.social is truly an expert on how gender operates in the workplace. I learn so much from her, and I know you will too!

New fact check of Director Bhattacharya, this time regarding multi-year funding... 27unihted.substack.com/p/fact-check... 1/2

I want to stress that: the CENTRAL IDEA of both Project 2025 and the Roberts Court is a king-like president with concentrated power. It’s an obvious thread that runs through the project 2025 doc. And it is incompatible with successful science.

American science right now is basically 10,000 of these stories, all with their own heartbreaking specificity Lost careers, lost progress, lost discoveries I feel so sad every day for all we’ve lost and continue to lose 💔

I would like Democrats to come out and say that anyone receiving assets from this new slush fund, or profiting any of the other corrupt acts from this candidate, will have 100% of their assets seized the first chance we get. Even if they get pardoned.

Meta glasses are absolute game changers for the blind community — this isn’t special pleading — they are completely revolutionary and though expensive they are in relative reasonable reach in a way a lot of disability tech is not It is expensive being blind

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