“For example, any org… adopting what Trump has called “gender ideology,” but which is actually just recognition of the biological and social complexity of sex, gender and sexuality — would be ineligible for future federal research funding and could have their current grants canceled as well.”

Yesterday, the Texas Tech Faculty Senate passed a resolution condemning Chancellor Brandon Creighton and his moves to censor teaching and research at the university. 🧵 of the full resolution. Professors are standing and fighting ✊

Mife by mail is still available in all 50 states—pass it on. We just heard from SCOTUS that they are going to continue to allow providers to prescribe mifepristone through the mail–at least until this case has gone through appeal.

Based on the comments, rhetorical power of sperm decline (as delivered by RFK) also cut in half. 🥱

NEW: The Trump admin has launched moms.gov, featuring "resources, information, and help for new and expecting mothers." The first resource listed: anti-abortion crisis pregnancy centers, which appear next to or above federally qualified health centers, depending whether you're on desktop or mobile.

Exclusive: Senate Dems are calling out the Trump administration for their continued hypocrisy over IVF This time, their target is the EEOC chair, who wants to strip fertility coverage from the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act. New from me @ms.now:

Conservatives think that yesterday’s federal ruling will end abortion pills by mail—it’s not happening. Some abortion providers plan to continue shipping mifepristone 👀 jessica.substack.com/p/the-bigges...

For those living in rural areas of the U.S., or anywhere within states that have abortion restrictions, today’s ruling will not only have effects on access to reproductive healthcare. It will also take a mental toll.

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Citing fear of ICE, pregnant immigrants in Minnesota are -skipping prenatal care -requesting home births, even when not medically advised -going w/o adequate food Many are experiencing complications providers say can be stress-onset: diabetes, high blood pressure, and even water breaking early

The EPA will approve two new pesticides containing “forever chemicals” and relax a reporting rule for companies who make products with forever chemicals. The moves come after a $60 million lobbying blitz from the forever chemical industry. Where is the MAHA outcry?

“The MAHA-Fueled Rise of Natural Family Planning” www.nytimes.com/2025/11/09/u...

My former student has been detained by ICE in Tucson. He is an amazing person - aerospace engineering scholar with deep respect for the social dimensions of science. Please give if you can. gofund.me/ad78f0dea

And now there are SEVEN. UofA president Suresh Garimella announced today that the school will reject Trump’s loyalty compact. “Principles like academic freedom, merit-based research funding & institutional independence…must be preserved." Vanderbilt, TX: all eyes on you. 👀 #DefendHigherEd

The snake is growing. ✊🏽✊🏻✊🏿✊🏾✊🏼 Vanderbilt, Texas, AZ…now’s the time. The world is watching. The resistance is here. #NoLoyaltyOaths #NoKings #DefendHigherEd

“The source with knowledge of the White House’s plans said that the meeting ‘appears to be an effort to regain momentum by threatening institutions to sign even though it’s obviously not in the schools’ interest to do so.’” I repeat, Obviously not!

UPDATE: 4 Down 5 to Go Who’s Next? When students, faculty, & our communities are united, nothing can stop us. Join us for our national teach in on the growing resistance movement to Trump’s ‘Loyalty Oath’ Compact today at 2PM ET: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi... #DefendHigherEd

Trump Administration Decimates Birth Control Office in Layoffs www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...

“If we aren't free to pursue research and teaching based on wherever the knowledge leads us, we are not truly working in the service of the public.” — Rana Jaleel, associate professor at UC Davis & Chair of the AAUP’s Committee A on Academic Freedom & Tenure

Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE

"For Latine communities, the compounded impact of anti-immigration laws, surveillance, and the threat of deportation, detention, or forced family separation often makes traveling for abortion care impossible." Fund Texas Choice's latest for @truthout.org. Read now: nnaf.org/Q

The Trump administration’s deportation machine has made women invisible targets. If you’ve ever wondered, like me, what happens to all the women ICE detains:

A Korean-born researcher and longtime U.S. legal permanent resident has spent the past week detained by immigration officials at the San Francisco International Airport without explanation and has been denied access to an attorney, according to his lawyer.

“Under Trump, a New Focus for a Birth Control Program: Helping Women Get Pregnant” www.nytimes.com/2025/07/18/u...

Pregnancy Is Going to Be Even More Dangerous in America www.nytimes.com/2025/07/09/o...

This interview 🙄 - talk about stagnation: this dude sounds like my grandpa (RIP). “We landed on the moon in July of 1969, Woodstock started three weeks later and, with the benefit of hindsight, that’s when progress stopped and the hippies won.” www.nytimes.com/2025/06/26/o...

Birthrate👏🏼Decline👏🏼is👏🏼not👏🏼the 👏🏼problem! It’s racist immigration policies and lack of social welfare. Sure, make the case to spend billions but stop framing decline as downfall, repeating Musk’s eugenicist claim about humanity’s extinction. Feminists do better! www.nytimes.com/2025/06/20/w...

With abortion becoming increasingly inaccessible, more people are discussing seeking a form of permanent birth control because they fear getting pregnant against their will. 1/3

Trump Withdraws From Agreement With Tribes to Protect Salmon www.nytimes.com/2025/06/12/u...

NIH staffers who signed the Bethesda Declaration "have risked their jobs to blow the whistle on Bhattacharya and the rest of the administration ... this kind of courage is contagious, and energizing. We need more of it." - @gregggonsalves.bsky.social www.thenation.com/article/acti...

Fulbright Board Resigns After Accusing Trump Aides of Political Interference www.nytimes.com/2025/06/11/u...

"At least 20 Planned Parenthood clinics across seven states have shuttered since the start of 2025 or have announced plans to close soon – closures that come amid immense financial and political turbulence for the reproductive health giant [since the overturning of Roe v. Wade]." @theguardian.com

Shout out to all of the faculty and students who made it through this semester in particular. What a time to be teaching and learning in spaces that are directly under attack from people who benefited from having access to the same resources themselves.

Abortion bans disproportionately harm our community, and make it harder for LGBTQ+ people to access family planning or other forms of health care. Alongside our partners, we’re fighting with everything we’ve got for reproductive rights and freedom. @americanprogress.bsky.social's survey: ⬇️

Republicans push for bigger families – but their tax bill could exclude millions from child credits www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

AOC’s 3 a.m. comment over miscarriages sparks fiery exchange with GOP male counterparts.

I am coping via op/Ed’s - my latest is “reflecting on maternal mortality this Mother’s Day”

"For me, the answer now lies in refusal, the withdrawal of participation from systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging." Today I am resigning from the National Science Board and the Library of Congress Scholars Council. I wrote about my decision in TIME. time.com/7285045/resi...

Ages 0-4 are the most important, emotionally & intellectually, in human development. Yet, in the US, we have a very high rate of childhood poverty and a broken child care system. Congratulations to New Mexico for leading the way forward for high quality, free child care. Other states must follow.

Dr. Noor Abdalla will be spending her first Mother's Day as a mom without her husband Mahmoud Khalil, who is still locked up hundreds of miles away from her in ICE detention. He should be holding his son who he hasn't met yet, but he is instead detained without due process by the U.S. government.

**New book alert** Seminal offers a kaleidoscopic view of the relationship between sperm, health, and intersecting politics of gender, race, and reproduction. 30 short essays by experts in the social sciences, humanities, law, and medicine. 30% off! Code: NYUAU30 nyupress.org/978147983408...

I published a short letter in the NYTimes about the Trump Administration’s call for a baby boom, and my current research. It doesn’t say everything I think about what’s wrong with the idea of birthrate decline but it’s something! I could write a whole book about this issue - and plan to!

Fundraiser for amazing AZ AG Kris Mayes! bit.ly/AGMayesTucson

More cuts to maternal mortality research and repro services from the administration of the self-declared ‘fertilization president’-‘father of IVF’. The pronatalism of Vance and Musk has nothing to do with maternal and child health. It is white supremicist heteronormative panic based in fear. 👊🇺🇸🤮

Trump is set to freeze federal grants that provide birth control, cancer screenings, and STI testing to low-income people "while it investigates whether the money was used for DEI efforts." The Title X program—signed into law by Nixon—is literally about equity. (via @paleofuture.bsky.social)

The Shame of Columbia: violating academic freedom “Not even during the communist witch hunts of the early 1950s did a university agree to put an entire academic department under special oversight because of what its faculty researched or taught.” open.substack.com/pub/robertre...