"It was not inevitable. It was a choice. It’s the Great American Brain Drain, courtesy of MAGA." www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-is-m...

Mark your calendar!!! @standupforscience.bsky.social IS BACK FOR ROUND TWO. Join us in DC on March 7th! www.standupforscience.net/march7 Want to host an event in your area?? AMAZING...go sign up: fight2win.standupforscience.net/sign_up/14434/ #standupforscience

“We are a Minneapolis 2nd grade Brownie Troop of 12 including trans and neurodiverse youth and 75% BIPOC kids. We want to go to summer camp and try horseback riding! During the current ICE occupation we need your support more than ever...” And that’s how I ordered 4 boxes of thin mints.

It's a nationwide digital spotlight on ICE arrests and detention centers.

Ossoff: "This is a seismic event. This should have people across the country absolutely shook. This is a huge deal. This is an FBI raid on the Fulton County Elections office ... This is a shot across the bow at the midterm elections. He tried to steal power when he lost it in 2020."

Friends, please help spread the word about our microbiology REU program at Montana State University. www.montana.edu/mbi/reu/ Each student receives a stipend ($7000 for 10 wks). Travel compensation, room, and board are also provided. Details in the attached pic--Feb 14 deadline 🧫🧪🦠#microsky

The American Academy of Pediatrics has released its updated recommendations for children's vaccine. The AAP continues to recommend all 18 vaccinations. It carries more significance this year: More states & doctors are relying on it instead of the controversial new schedule from RFK Jr's CDC.

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You did not bear the shame. You resisted. You bestowed the eternally vigilant symbol of change by sacrificing your impassioned lives for freedom, justice and honour. — The German Resistance Memorial in Berlin

“.. He cared about people deeply ..,” said Michael Pretti, Alex’s father. “He thought it was terrible, you know, kidnapping children, just grabbing people off the street. He cared about those people, and he knew it was wrong ..” @washingtonpost.com www.washingtonpost.com/national/202...

We are not the first people, or the first country, to suffer under a tyrannical government that does not respect our lives, or our rights. There is a method for how to effectively resist, and eventually topple, such a regime. We can learn from others who came before us. This is my favorite guide.

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"Slavery was real" Tiny sign at the base of a brick wall that, until yesterday, held panels about the people enslaved by George Washington. Presidents House, Philadelphia.

My quote of the day Where you see wrong or inequality or injustice, speak out, because this is your country. This is your democracy. Make it. Protect it. Pass it on. Thurgood Marshall

All in a year’s work. RFK Jr.’s relentless assault on vaccines has been wildly successful for the anti-vaccine agenda and detrimental to us all. A rundown of what he has managed to accomplish in such a short time should terrify everyone. A 🧵

This whack-a-mole f@#kery game is really getting old Key NIH review panels due to lose all members by the end of 2026 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

"This is such a strange decision with no clear rationale. None of it really makes sense.”

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My quote of the day I must uphold my ideals, for perhaps the time will come when I shall be able to carry them out. Anne Frank

Dr. Gladys West, the pioneering mathematician whose work laid the foundation for modern GPS technology, has died. She was 95.

My quote of the day Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable... Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals. Martin Luther King, Jr.

The National Science Foundation sign on our Eisenhower Av building is now gone. The NSF mural in the foyer is removed and torn off in sheets. We were supposed to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the agency in May 2025. That never happened.

Powerful. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/15/o...

This is a huge, huge deal. Meanwhile the Director of the National Institute for Neurological Disease and Stroke (the agency that funds this kind of work) has been dismissed and the funding for disease research is being cut.

X1.2 speed Jenna Norton @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social

Powerful piece in STAT this morning from some NIH staff members who have resigned www.statnews.com/2026/01/10/n... 1/3

He didn't shoot her in the head at point blank range because he felt like he was in danger. He shot her in the head at point blank range because he was furious that she wasn't afraid of him. He shot her in the head at point blank range because he felt emasculated.

Here's the map after 24 hours of launch. Find your event or get one up here: www.mobilize.us/map/?tag_ids...

Here's a summary of all the data that supports adding more red meat to your diet

Measles cases in South Carolina rise by nine to 185, state health department says reut.rs/4pwmDeo

First Pipeline post of the year! A statement of purpose, and science topics resume on Monday:

“The Trump administration is closing NASA’s largest research library on Friday, a facility that houses tens of thousands of books, documents and journals — many of them not digitized or available anywhere else.”

Facing a new year, I found this @dansinker.com post from February — about how the KKK in the 1920s felt unstoppable, about the people that fought against them anyway, and about how fascism always fails — to be a welcome read. dansinker.com/posts/2025-0...

ScienceInsider: NIH official resigns after flap over risks of seasonal flu virus study Another outstanding NIAID leader gone. John Beigel. ▶️https://bit.ly/4j9NoDz by @cohenjon.bsky.social

The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) led a path of gutting and destruction of public, global health, and medical research resources, among others. How much did it save in federal spending? Nothing...it led to an increase www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/u...

Helene was so giving to others about her battle, and went through to make it into maybe the top 1% of survivors of pancreatic cancer, before succumbing Dec 19, 2025 all while losing her father to it. She supported @letswinpc.org and the family asks for you to consider supporting them as well.💔

Journalists need to ask Trump why the US is reviving the Tuskegee experiments, this time on babies and why he is okay with that. Ask Bill Cassidy as well.

If people could just intuitively understand the difference between a million, a billion, and a trillion, we’d all be better off. That applies to dollars. To tons of carbon. And so on. Math. It matters.

Remember, we are being manipulated. ‘Rage bait’ is the Oxford Word of the Year, showing how social media is manufacturing anger theconversation.com/rage-bait-is... "Increasingly, platforms use rage bait to turn anger into a tool for attracting attention and advancing their commercial goals."

The horrific tragedy at Brown University is the 389th mass shooting this year and the 230th gun incident on school grounds so far this year. This is not normal and we don't have to live this way. bradyunited.org @bradyunited.org

Thiamine (vitamin B1) is essential to metabolism & deficiencies produce a condition called beriberi. I want to tell the story of why the Japanese Army suffered from it until 1926, while the Japanese Navy did NOT after 1884. A cautionary tale about science denialism & the resulting policy choices.

Michael C. Rockefeller got shipwrecked in 1963, washed up on an island, and was promptly eaten by cannibals.

Identification of sporulation genes in Bacillus anthracis highlights similarities and significant differences with Bacillus subtilis @plosbiology.org from David Rudner journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

I am a pediatric ICU physician. I am filled with dread knowing viruses and bacteria will provide the education to families who don't vaccinate their children. And the cost will be dear.

Reminder: you can get MMR and DTaP boosters at most pharmacies without a prescription. If you get it this week, you could have a nice antibody titer for the holidays! 🎁🎁

@haleyformi.bsky.social introduces Articles of Impeachment for RFK, Jr. Defend Public Health! @standupforscience.bsky.social [Gift Link] www.nytimes.com/2025/12/10/u...

Missing my grandma who used to stop everything she was doing if she heard someone criticize vaccines because so many of her childhood friends slowly disappeared after they got polio, and ask people if “surviving” polio was really a positive outcome or if they had no idea what they were talking about