A highly qualified black woman. An embarrassingly unqualified white man. As a reflection of how access works at elite institutions, seems about right.

The library and the post office are the only two systems we have that circulate things widely and to everyone, no matter who they are or what they believe. The library is the only one that, for now, is not forced to pay for itself at point of sale. Attacks on IMLS are attacks on every one of us.

I did not anticipate that so many leaders across industries and professions would allow fear to silence them. Even worse than their silence in the face of Trump’s actions against our democracy is their silent complicity as they watch their peers be targeted, humiliated and punished.

It’s not enough to protect what we’ve had. That conservatism will only feed the authoritarian movement. We deserve better. We have to create a vision of the future that is better than this status quo that birthed this crisis. We cannot get out of this mess without finding a better way forward.

THIS IS INCREDIBLE! Cohen Children’s Medical Center has confirmed that it has successfully ELIMINATED sickle cell disease from Sebastien Beauzile, using the groundbreaking genetic treatment Lyfgenia. He has made HISTORY by becoming the FIRST in New York to be CURED of sickle cell anemia! 🧪🧵⬇️

the feminine urge to

Here is an open letter signed from UChicago AAUP signed by over 200 faculty to our administration on what we believe this moment requires: uchicagoaaup.wordpress.com

Columbia and other institutions better wake up and realize that no level of repression of speech on campus will ever satisfy this fascist junta. University administrators think they can defend institutions by capitulating. But the opposite is true. Defending academia requires courageous fight back.

The Ed. Department's Office for Civil Rights sent letters to 60 additional institutions "warning them of potential enforcement actions" for "violations relating to antisemitic harassment and discrimination" including Harvard, Brown, Stanford, Princeton, UNC, and several UC's

Here we go. Expected, but still devastating. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

First they came for the Palestinian protestor and I said “hey you Nazi fucks, you’re being Nazis, everyone else we need to shut these motherfuckers down RIGHT now” because I actually paid attention to the poem

Today, a broad coalition of scientific professional societies who represent over 92,000 scientists are speaking out against the politicization and demonization of Federally funded science and government scientist jobs. It was an honor to help the Union of Concerned Scientists with this! 🧪🌎

It’s a war on science.

This is some needed good news - see www.axios.com/2025/03/03/n...

Across the U.S., Sea Grant supports coastal, marine & Great Lakes communities through research, extension & education. It touches our lives in so many ways. 20 years ago, I arrived in DC to work on #science policy as a marine biologist & Knauss Fellow through the Maine Sea Grant under NOAA. /1

If you have experienced direct harm to your work/lab/job due to recent changes at US NSF, & are willing to share this on behalf of the Am. Society of Naturalists and NSF, please DM/ email me ASAP (this is time-sensitive) or submit story here sites.google.com/view/scienti... Please share widely

To be clear, “Vance skis in jeans” is Vermont’s highest insult. This is Final Boss Nuclear Insult level in the Vermont linguistic hierarchy.

Saddening, maddening.

I worry that the focus on NOAA's weather predicting value is ignoring the millions of other ways NOAA researchers enrich communities and local economies. There are no oysters without NOAA. There are no blue crabs without NOAA. NOAA trains teachers. NOAA is the lifeblood of coastal communities.

My REU in 2019 was the very first time I told myself “me? a scientist? I can do it.” It introduced me to my research interests, to knowing how to approach graduate school and what NOAA even was. Without it I would not be where I am today. This is devastating.

Again, the richest man in human history personally individually directed this

This is a gorgeous cover and an even cooler paper - a full phylogenetic tree using BUSCO genes, featuring new genomes for some weirdos including chitons, the watering-pot shell, a tusk shell, a symbiotically chemosynthetic mud clam, the Chilean abalone (not an abalone), and *two* monoplacophorans! 🧪

I don’t even know how this could be presented as being in service of anything other than hindering scientific progress.

Graduating during the pandemic slowed down my process and is part of why I did two postdocs. Now as a first year faculty, all the federal grants are frozen. I love the work I do but this has all of us questioning how much www.science.org/content/arti...

"Supremacy is our foundational culture; as such we are founded in it, too. If we want to counter the culture, we will need to be the counterculture. We'll need to build it." Global human family before boundary. Plenty before scarcity. Justice before convenience" www.the-reframe.com/building-cou...

Our latest: The Resistance is alive and well and angry. Please consider reading and sharing. No paywall.

The attacks and uncertainty are not just crushing progress for human health, forfeiting the US leadership role in biomedical science, curtaining economic gain, and threatening many livelihoods...but breaking a pipeline of training that will be very hard to rebuild and which will haunt industry too

I emailed university faculty/staff/administrators a roadmap to support DEI through legal challenges, collective resistance, and institutional protections for faculty. The question isn’t whether institutions will comply—it’s who will fight back, and how! greencarelab.ucdavis.edu/how-universi...

Members of the military are supposed to be loyal to the Constitution, not the president. Changing that seems to have been the point of the Friday Night Massacre. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

I truly think people don’t realize how many universities and colleges — especially public ones — may shut down if restrictions on and withholding of federal funding persists for even one presidency We are facing the demolition of American higher education

The people who would be most harmed by the closures of financially precarious colleges and universities are poor people, first generation students, people of color, and students with caretaking responsibilities That is who your small/no endowment schools disproportionately serve

I don't think we're talking enough about the fact that the pressure to remove DEI from science means women die.

Guardian article on NIH www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

“A desire to force U.S. military leaders to be obedient to him and not the Constitution is one of the constant themes of Trump’s military-related discourse.”

Eater is more aware of the moment and cares more about its community than college presidents who’ve issued zero guidance.

“Many grad programs are pausing and reducing admissions in response to NIH funding pauses and pending EO’s on indirect cost reductions. These workforce reductions have the potential to imminently and irreversibly harm research labs & grad programs”

Deeply concerned about NSF. They fired more people than they needed and now leadership is illegally reclassifying employees as probationary. www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...

Several good things are happening according r/fednews so I am going to drop them here. If federal workers are fighting back, how much more us? A thread/

Attention all college/university administrators and general counsel: here, legal analysis grounding current diversity programs firmly in federal law, demonstrating the illegality of executive orders to the contrary. app.box.com/s/2me4mszr6p...

Cuts to NSF expected to be at 50% reduction in force for an independent agency that fuels discovery and innovation. "The NSF budget was $9B, or 0.13% of the total [budget]." This is not about fiscal prudence. This is about killing universities. nanoscale.blogspot.com/2025/02/the-...

I love seafood and federal science.

Holding space to mourn the massive losses to science, careers, and trainees while grading assignments, mentoring students, and doing research is a mental balancing act

Upon learning that yesterday would be my last day as a program officer at the National Science Foundation, I shared this parting message with my colleagues. The next few months will be frenetic and stressful for them. Here are some things that you can do to help them with the mission ahead. (1)

Warren really excels at breaking down personal economics in particular.

And there it is An 8 billion dollar heist in plain sight

By making the status report filings a condition of this TRO, Judge Kelley (a Biden appointee) is making sure that the Trump Administration can't play fast and loose with compliance.

Ok but here’s the thing—he’s always been against science. People haven’t been paying attention. I’ve been dying on this hill for years—Elon has never cared about scientific discovery, other people, or philanthropy. It’s always been about his ego. www.vanityfair.com/news/story/d...

If you're in DC tomorrow afternoon, pls celebrate my birthday by fighting for @noaa.gov at the Department of Commerce (not Silver Spring)! 💙🌊 www.mobilize.us/ccanactionfu...

JUST IN: A federal judge in Massachusetts has blocked the Trump administration's rate change to NIH grants. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Here are some facts about "facilities and administrative" (F&A) costs, what we in the business call "indirects" and what Musk is calling "overhead" as he tries to convince Americans with being ok with cutting billions on dollars from medical and public health research at universities & hospitals 1/