What’s in the anti-DC bills moving today: Take over DC’s Attorney General’s office —blocking accountability for Trump Strip power from DC’s elected leaders Undermine DC residents’ right to govern their own communities Call (202) 224-3121: Tell your Representative to oppose all anti-DC bills.

People from all over are showing up for DC. This is not a moment. It’s a movement. We are united in our demands. We are all DC! #FreeDC

#DC DEEP TODAY… Marching to the White House 🏡

Washington DC - the bells of this church are ringing in support of the protest! 😁

Zoom in. 16th street to the White House #FreeDC

It's that time of year again! Thrilled to see so many faculty postings popping up! If you're going on the faculty job market and looking for resources, we have collated what I hope are a number of helpful examples, guides, lists, timelines! www.plasticityinneurodevelopmentlab.com/resourcesfor...

Is there an online repo of example TT application materials like research and teaching statements?

“Defend the District” protest and Go-Go concert against Trump’s takeover at 14th and U St:

While masked agents were violently attacking a delivery worker this morning, bystanders repeatedly asked to see their badge numbers but they refused. Bystander: You guys are ruining this country, you know that, right? Agent: Liberals already ruined it.

Musk should be asked about this in every interview he does now and forever. To ignore it is a dereliction of duty. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...

Scientists who receive NIH funding, anyone want to share your thoughts on the recent White House whiplash? I'm working on a story about it for The Guardian. DMs are open. 🧪

We need a coup d'etat to install @jeremymberg.bsky.social as the new NIH director.

If we still have a democracy, democrats need to add “granting DC statehood” to Project 2029

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My hot take on Jeff Bezos' wedding: That $50 million price tag is double what the US government was spending annually on food and medicine for 5 million AIDS orphans before the Trump administration canceled it. We are literally letting orphans die rather than make this guy pay taxes.

“It takes a lot to pull one over on New Yorkers, and when we looked around, the city described in Cuomo attack ads simply did not exist. We recognize that the city’s problems come mostly from the people above, and not the ones sitting next to us on the subway.”

@altnps.bsky.social @altnih4science.bsky.social @alt-hhs.altgov.info @altdhs.altgov.info @jeremymberg.bsky.social @golikehellmachine.com I tested a theory. My theory was correct. I thought you all may like to know...

Here are the 128 House Democrats who voted to table (kill) the Rep. Al Green D-TX impeachment resolution against President Trump over the Iran attacks.

If you can’t pronounce the name of a country correctly, you shouldn’t be bombing it.

DC wasn’t supposed to have a rally. But we had one anyways. Whoops. #ResistFacism #NoKings

Thing I need all Dems at every level to absorb yesterday: if someone pulls a knife on you, you are in a knife fight, whether or not you want to be

I’m gonna make it simple since it seems a lot of the liberals on this site right now are having trouble with this. It was illegal to protect Anne Frank and it was legally required to turn her in to the Nazis. If your reliance on the law dictates your morals you have already lost to the fascists.

“We urge you as NIH Director to restore grants delayed or terminated for political reasons so that life-saving science can continue.” Over one hundred NIH employees publish a letter of dissent to Trump administration attacks on medical research, the “Bethesda Declaration.” 🧪

Merchant et al. perform a meta-analytic investigation of neurocognitive systems involved in real-time social interaction doi.org/10.52294/001... @fmri-today.bsky.social @mallarchak.bsky.social @ohbmofficial.bsky.social

Senator Tammy Baldwin pointing out grants that are being withheld. Secretary Kennedy thinks its a game...

Coinciding with it's "No" letter Harvard has refashioned its university homepage into essentially an advertisement for the social benefits of university research. This is the current front page.

Remember Fiona Hill? She’s now sounding the alarm again: “We’re definitely on a path toward full-on state repression. There’s no question about it. I’ve thought about this for an extraordinarily long time.” When Fiona speaks, we should all listen.

I was listening to the excellent interview with President Eisgruber from Princeton on The Daily podcast. Some key points: Interviewer: You said “Once you make concessions once, it’s hard not to make them again.” So I’d like to know, did what Columbia did make your job harder…?” 1/n

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Analysis of Terminated NIH Grants with Word Clouds First, using the titles of grants not to Columbia... Gender and DEI predominate

I'm Kat Abughazaleh and I'm running for Congress.

Here are six examples of how foreign visitors to the US with no criminal record are being treated: 1. Mahmoud Khalil, a green card holding student with no criminal record married to an American is abducted by ICE and is still in detention over a week later. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/19/n... ......

ATTENTION: Do you or someone you know get fired or have a job offer rescinded because of uncertainty due to the NIH funding freeze? Please DM me! THANK YOU!

Sources inside NIH say DOGE is at one of their buildings right now. If you have additional info, i’m marisakabas.04 on Signal.

If you have a federal grant, I *highly* recommend going to this Friday's webinar on responding to grant terminations. Lisa Brown, former general counsel at Dept of Ed, will present along with other lawyers. Friday, March 21, 2-3 pm. More info & register here: www.linkedin.com/pulse/regist...

Project 2029 “We want the billionaires to be traumatically affected. When they wake up in the morning, we want them to not want to go to work because they are increasingly viewed as the villains.”

Hey! Are you an American considering a PhD or a postdoc, and the funding / academic situation just went absolutely bonkers? Canada's federal funding awards just added eligibility for international applicants if at Cdn institutions. www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/NewsDetail-D...

BREAKING: @indivisible.org calls on Senator Schumer to step down as minority leader after voting in favor of GOP funding bill. “Our democracy is in danger. The path ahead will be hard. Indivisibles are ready to do the work - it’s time for a Senate Democratic Leader who is too.” Full statement:

When pro-cloture Senators are up: 2030 Gillibrand (NY) King (ME) 2028 Cortez Masto (NV) Fetterman (PA) Hassan (NH) Schatz (HI) Schumer (NY) 2026 Peters (MI) not running Shaheen (NH) not running ...evidently one has to protect one's post-office livelihood www.washingtonpost.com/politics/int...

👋 DC resident here. I’ve paid my taxes for (checks watch) 15 years, & my democratically elected council approved a budget to spend my taxes on schools, bike lanes, libraries, etc. Show me a population more devoted to the national Democratic Party than DC. 92% of us are registered democrats. 🧵 1/n

Share with US students who had their offers of admission withdrawn for PhD programs: Apply to Canada. Check out Canadian professors, and contact us. Our system works differently here, and we are all still, technically, able to accept students for Fall 2025.

Bluetorial: My NIH grant got funded; The money is in the bank What happens behind the scenes with NIH fund transfers

It is infuriating how much I have been gaslit that my grant is fine because the university already received the big check for my renewal. My experience through every stage of academia has been people making assumptions about policies without having the evidence to back it up. Irony from researchers.

We are fighting for the rights of ALL MD Public Higher Ed Faculty & librarians to collectively bargain! Can you take a sec & write to @senbillferg.bsky.social @govwesmoore.bsky.social & other legislators to ask them to support our bill for ALL faculty & librarians? actionnetwork.org/letters/md-p...

The idea that a political party must do more dramatic things in response to defeat is not new to the social media age. New bio of John Lewis describes his approach to Newt Gingrich et al taking the House in 1994. Lewis applied Civil Rights era lessons and a willingness to burst norms to hurt Newt.

We need to organize--let’s help each other. NIH is cancelling grants, but it's not clear exactly what they're cancelling and why. Without this information, we can't respond. I've started a Google Sheet to track grant cancellations. Please add any canceled grants you know of and spread the word!

What would it take for us to step back from the brink of losing a functional democracy? One step is court orders. Today, a small piece of good news for NIH. Another step is large-scale protest. Today I describe how these two components fit together: samwang.substack.com/p/for-us-sci...

If you missed the State of the Union last night (or skipped most of it like I did), this is the only part you need to watch. youtu.be/pIFnWF8ubzM?...

Not sure if this story from a random Redditor is true, but makes sense of the Democratic leadership’s failure to rise to the occasion.