For decades the NRA and other gun nuts told us that their guns were to protect us all from a tyrannical government. So a tyrannical government is here, they are all sitting on their asses, and the people who want gun control have taken to the streets to defy the tyrannical government instead.

The #BethesdaDeclaration stories are now up on the front pages of both the New York Times and the Washington Post. Thanks again to the brave folks at NIH who stood up and worked together to make this happen. 1/n

Very smart, high ROI initiative from the Spencer Foundation. Providing bridge funding for canceled NSF grants: 1) directs funds to projects already screened by a top-noch review process. 2) avoids imposing proposal prep costs on researchers. 3) ameliorates the disruption from GOP sabotage.

My quote of the day I care not for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it. Abraham Lincoln

Obituary: Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat (1923-2025) mathematician who established that Einstein’s equations mirror the real world https://go.nature.com/3HtgQpy

EveryLibrary responds to the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals' Little v. Llano County decision, which will allow the government to remove or restrict access to books from public library shelves.

Joint w/@asinclair.bsky.social and the #SCIMaP team: brief correspondence in @nathumbehav.nature.com on the impact of NIH indirect cost cuts on the economy and employment, impacts that will only worsen given similar proposals for NSF/DOE + overall science proposal. rdcu.be/eo3Hp

“It’s why every time an incremental vaccine restriction results in a public shrug, he feels emboldened to go a bit further.” This is important. First he takes away something people don’t care much about—Covid boosters—so that later it seems more normal when he takes away polio vaccines.

Elon and his brother used student visas to come to America, then they overstayed after they dropped out of school

🚨 URGENT RESPONSE CALL 🚨 Trump’s Fool’s Gold Science EO is a dangerous sham. It gives his appointees the power to dismiss entire bodies of research and punish researchers who fail to fall in line with his agenda. We’ve launched an open letter. SIGN & SHARE NOW: actionnetwork.org/petitions/op...

It's also a misunderstanding of what the grants are for. It's not a billion dollar donation, Harvard won the grants to do specific research that it is in a relatively unique position to do. Trade schools aren't going to be able to take over, eg, Harvard's cancer immunotherapy research.

FYI to media outlets, you're misleading your readers if you repeat this at face value. There's no lawful way for him to redirect these grants elsewhere. It's a lie to distract from how the GOP budget guts educational funding, including Pell Grants at trade schools.

For real - and the Truth account for the President of the USA truly just posted this which sure looks like my 16 year olds know more about Ukraine than he does. Being president isn’t a right. Maybe a few more requirements in the country’s interest. Like citizenship & civil service exams. As orals.

Industry is investing less in R&D and turning away from innovation. The NIH and NSF fund science with huge economic ROI to taxpayers. The ratio of government/nongov employees has declined, not risen over decades, If you care about cures and a future for our children, save science funding now.

My take on the consequences of the media's "original sin." member.democracydocket.com/the-medias-o...

🧪⚛️ Deadline extended for comments. Seriously, if you don't want science agencies to be run by political functionaries, please consider making a comment. news.chanda.science/archive/urge...

The cruelty is the point.

You have three days, starting today, to leave a public comment with the FDA about, say, why COVID-19 boosters should remain available to everyone and also free. "Individual consumer" is the category you most likely want (unless you are one of the other categories; if so, choose that).

Also longer healthier lives.

people need to internalize, very quickly, that federal research grants are a hypercompetitive contracting process not charity, and that what Uncle Sam gets in return for that money is American dominance in the future

This is beautiful and compelling. youtu.be/ybVZ7vluYhQ?...

📣 NIH reinstating some terminated grants Exclusive via @chronicle.com 🔗👇 confirms what we’ve seen for weeks Piece asks: what’s “secret sauce”? As an early-impacted PI, I know strategy matters Now I'm advising orgs on appeals, “orderly” closeout & reinstatements: brittanycharlton.com/consulting

Mr. Kennedy said it’s an individual choice as to whether or not to vaccinate. Then he and his minions started taking that choice away by making FDA approval of some vaccines impossible.

There is no aborted fetus debris in the MMR vaccine, or in any vaccine at all. It is worth noting that the Catholic Church, one of the most staunch anti-abortion organizations in the world, has a formal policy that encourages all vaccinations.

RFK Jr. ordered the NIH’s Integrated Research Facility in Frederick to stop all research on serious infectious diseases yesterday at 5:00 PM. They study pathogens like Ebola there. You may be familiar with it from The Hot Zone. www.wired.com/story/hhs-ni...

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A third of a penny on the dollar is too much to spend on #NASA #science according to this administration. There is no more powerful driver than #NASA to stoke the flame of curiosity & to inspire our children to dream big to become the innovators, entrepreneurs, engineers, & scientists of tomorrow. 🧪

My dad had a word for people like these. Shitbirds.

Kurt Vonnegut man

New report shows that NIH grants fueled $95 billion in economic activity and 407,782 jobs in 2024. That's not to mention the countless lives that biomedical research has saved. Show me a better investment than that. www.forbes.com/sites/michae...

1. For the past thirty years I've had the best job in the world. 
I've had the opportunity to follow my curiosity; explore the workings of nature and society; mentor students and junior colleagues in the same process; and teach generations of students about it all.

NIH isn’t some bloated bureaucracy—it’s the reason you survived COVID. It’s why cancer treatments keep improving. It's why gene therapy exists. Now? We’re defunding it. That’s not just foolish. It’s strategic surrender. A thread 🧵 medium.com/@KellenSquir...

📢Hot off the pr... digital repository! Need to hire someone with lots of transferable skills training and practice? Hire a teacher. "Teacher training and education programs were found to have the highest scores on the transferable skills index" #HigherEd 🧪 doi.org/10.3390/high...

Very interesting paper. It reports a more in-depth exploration of similar issues that were modeled for Canada in a report from 2023: cca-reports.ca/reports/the-... This paper adds more important details.

Can we get more of this? “The Japanese American National Museum will ‘scrub nothing,’ Fujioka said, and instead will highlight the importance of DEI. “Our community is based on diversity, equity is guaranteed to us in the Constitution, and inclusion is what we believe in,” Fujioka said.

🚨🚨Calling all North Carolina voters!! Here is a list of every voter that Jefferson Griffin is trying to disenfranchise, please if you are a NC voter check to see if your name is on here, you have 15 days to cure your ballot to make sure your vote counts. thegriffinlist.com/assets/griff...

If your NC vote has been challenged, the appeals court has triggered a 15-day "curing" period. It is imperative that you contact your local Board of Elections or legal representation for the next steps. The NC GOP is openly trying to steal their state's Supreme Court. Do not let them.

I don’t think people are paying enough attention to the fact that the North Carolina court of appeals just ruled that 65,000 votes don’t count, and that the Republican Supreme Court candidate who lost actually won. This will be appealed, but make no mistake: they’re trying to steal this election.

Well, here it is. Trump and Musk are turning #NIH into a garbage rightwing thinktank, just as we said. They’re forcing down junk science on us with your tax dollars. This is a deep shame for America and for scientists everywhere. 1/3

People tend to view scientists most positively when they have no stated religious identity—rating them as more trustworthy and intelligent than religious, spiritual, atheist, or non-religious scientists. journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1...

Chattanooga’s WTVC reporting on Trump choosing a LIV golf tournament over the ceremony for the 🇺🇸 soldiers killed in Lithuania…

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Nature research paper: Mastering diverse control tasks through world models https://go.nature.com/3YigkQB

Those trying to understand the tariffs as economic policy are dangerously naive. No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief. 1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.

Bloomberg reporting that *all* #FOIA staff at CDC, NIH, and FDA are gone. Absolutely gobsmacking stuff: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

It's getting a lot of attn today. But even before today most of the country had very little idea of what has happened at NIH or through it the entire ecosystem of biomedical research in the US. Simply put, Musk, Kennedy & Trump exploded a bomb right in the middle of cancer cure research in the US.

HCR cites Yarvin: “The job of this landing force is not to govern.The new regime must take over the country, seize all points of power, without respect for paper protections” then “perform the real functions of the old, & *ideally perform them much better.“ *word that oddly pissed me off most