If you're protesting ICE in Chicago, let me know at [email protected] if you need free legal training or legal support. If you're arrested protesting ICE, I can represent you pro bono. Email me at [email protected]. As always, I will take as many cases as I can.

Good 🧵on grant terminations

Right now, your ability to get access to a COVID vaccine this fall is in jeopardy, whether or not you fit the new, restricted eligiblity criteria. Please send a letter to your member of Congress here. And spread the word. @defendpublichealth.bsky.social actionnetwork.org/letters/writ...

A respected network of hospitals and cancer centers is halting enrollment in clinical trials for children with brain cancer after the federal government said it would no longer provide funding to the group. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/w...

Straub @JacksonHole2025: Looming debt crisis bc fewer workers, more retirees drive debt to 5xGDP. We can cut retirement, hike taxes. But we can also allow legal, young immigrants. The benefits of immigration are typically overlooked, but are worth years of Americans' income. #econsky

A wonderfully-done depiction of what America is losing by destroying science. This isn’t just a story about these scientists, it is a story about how Russ Vought and MAGA are killing medical cures. That will touch everyone. With David Ho, Kamila Naxerova, @docsirianni.bsky.social, 1/

The @NYTimes has done a fantastic job on explaining what the Trump administration’s savage cuts to biomedical research mean: cures that won’t happen. Please share this widely. This is a catastrophe. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/24/o...

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BREAKING: BlueSky is blocking access to Mississippi. This is the No. 1 platform for @mississippifreepress.org. We ditched X for BlueSky early this year. And now, at 3 pm on a Friday, poof. I don't know what we'll do next. Keep up with us using our newsletter at mfp.ms/subscribe.

Stephen Miller: "All these demonstrators that you've seen out here in recent days, all these elderly white hippies, they're not part of the city and never have been ... we're gonna ignore these stupid white hippies that all need to go home and take a nap because they're all over 90 years old."

Call these representatives, tell them that funding NIH and protecting it from partisan political control serves their constituents, not only with cures but with jobs, too!

Been hearing folks don’t realize NIH is more than its internal labs. That cutting NIH is ok because Dana Farber will still do cancer research. Joslin will cover diabetes, etc. But these centers get most of their funding from NIH. Stop NIH, and the whole system fails, across the entire US.

US folks: Did you know the EPA (currently run by someone more concerned with businesses than the environment) has a public-comment period right now? This is our opportunity to tell them why we think they should not repeal the 2009 Endangerment Finding. www.epa.gov/regulations-...

This is really important. The Endangerment Finding says: Greenhouse gases endanger public health and welfare. This Finding is a legal prerequisite* for regulating greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act. With it gone, the admin. proposes to repeal ALL greenhouse gas emissions standards on vehicles.

Sex-changing *rainbow* birds. Mother Nature is so brilliantly woke. ‘Mind-blown’: scientists discover sex reversal in kookaburras and lorikeets with cause unknown www.theguardian.com/environment/...

As always, Ted Chiang is great in this interview. cdh.princeton.edu/blog/2025/08...

This Sunday, we’re hosting a back to school drive in Evanston with 500 free backpacks, all-day free haircuts, and free food by two of the best restaurants in Evanston! Drop by the Fleetwood-Jourdain Center this Sunday afternoon to start the school year with everything you need!

The winners of the midterms are already working on how to integrate ChatGPT , Gemini , etc into their campaigns. Millions of voters will simply ask " who should I vote for this election"

More great coverage of the recent executive order on oversight of federal grantmaking. Proud to have contributed, calling out the Trump administration’s scare tactics, using fear to push NIH staff comply in advance. www.statnews.com/2025/08/08/t...

My quote of the day We must reject the cynicism that says allowing every eligible vote to be cast and counted is a 'power grab.' Americans understand that these are the values our brave men and women in uniform and our veterans risk their lives to defend. Stacey Abrams

Just to give the TL;DR on this one: *The* main purpose of the EO is to move funding priorities and decisions away from experts and career professionals over to political appointees. With the ultimate power held by Vought / OMB.

Any plant biologist with a funded NIH R35 MIRA ESI willing to share their proposal with me? THANKS. #PlantSciences

If you follow me, you’ve probably heard of a pocket rescission. Vought has indicated he may try one, even though they are illegal. Timing would likely be next week. Let’s keep an eye on him! www.gao.gov/blog/what-po...

A former “Alligator Alcatraz” worker says detainees are subject to “inhumane” conditions — packed by the hundreds into cages without sunlight, with overflowing toilets and limited access to showers.

It was great to see the strong rebuke from the Senate on the White House proposed NIH budget. But the NIH isn’t safe until we address the threat of the Supreme Court stay, upfront funding in 2025, the pocket rescission, and the overall politicization of NIH. www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...

This is encouraging news. I appreciate our law enforcement professionals working hard to keep our communities safe. We must keep this momentum. That’s why the $100 million we secured this year for police hiring is so important.

🚨ACTION OF THE DAY🚨 @standupforscience.bsky.social Day 3! We are easing in—I told ya it would be easy, sustainable, & have a big impact! Share our 31 Days of Action with a friend (or 2!) and encourage them to sign up for daily action calls here: www.standupforscience.net/31-days-of-a... #31Days

For almost four months, we've been holding NIH vigils every Saturday at 10 am to come together as a community, support each other, and talk about what's been happening at the NIH. We will keep going as long as the NIH is under attack. Come join us to support NIH workers! @nihvigils.bsky.social

I’m trying to figure out the right way to say this, because: Look, the CPB closing is devastating, and I don’t in any way want to blow even a wisp of smoke that it isn’t. But twice today, I’ve seen people express how sad they are that all of public television and radio is over. Not true! (1/3)

Spamming you with this knowledge of a tariff waiver for scientific instrumentation which you can apply for retroactively! bsky.app/profile/sara...

The tariff on our flow cytometer (U.S. assembled but with several expensive Chinese components) was about as much as my car, bought new. This was a purchase months in the works, and the tariffs only hit at the 11th hour. Just a lovely system we have right now.

#NIH PIs, start emailing Dr. Jayanta Bhattacharya and tell them what you are experiencing. CC Dr. Jon Lorsch and your ICO Director of Extramural Activities. Get them to talk with each other. #defendresearch

“The court has asked for a final list of delayed or withdrawn applications to be submitted as early as August 4th, and we are hoping to provide as complete a list of impacted grant applications as possible. 2/n

IMPORTANT UPDATE IMPORTANT UPDATE Regarding APHU/ACLU et al. vs. NIH Lawsuit

Court accepting updated list of plaintiffs/grantees impacted! MUST BE SUBMITTED BY AUGUST 1st 5pm EST! Please disseminate!!! Message from ACLU team below: 1/n

Live in the U.S.? We’re organizing in-person meetings for you to speak directly with your elected officials in Washington, D.C. October 5–6, join us and nearly a dozen partner organizations for the Day of Action to save NASA’s space science. Make your voice heard. www.planetary.org/advocacy/day...

This @today.yougov.com poll is why I'm going to become the Joker. The US murder rate in 2024 was likely down nearly 30 percent relative to 2020 and down nearly 50 percent relative to 1990.

Even with flat funding for the NIH, under the current FY26 plan, there will be 60% less cancer research and much less research funded overall. We need to make sure Congress understands these tricks and protects against them in their budget plan.

A good explainer for #NIH funded researchers on why the multiyear funding scheme is going to squeeze NIH scientists and NIH science. open.substack.com/pub/sciencea...

TAPPER: 14 Republicans say you're risking undermining critical research by holding up NIH funding VOUGHT: If they were a company, their stock price would in shambles. They in some respects caused the pandemic. You have an entire institute that does nothing more than DEI research at the NIH.

Call these 14 senators. Thank them for supporting #NIH. Remind them that supporting NIH is meaningless if NIH cannot function. This stay would: 1) Enable censorship of science. 2) Disrupt NIH’s ability to fund any research.

Deported under a little-known wartime law, more than 130 Venezuelans were sent from the U.S. to a maximum-security prison in El Salvador. Now released, several tell NPR they endured beatings, sexual abuse, and near-total isolation.

If you refuse to see what is happening, the cancellation of the Colbert show should open your eyes. I want to explain to you what a censorship state looks like - where a corrupt government gives favors to media that suppresses criticism of the regime.

I am a public signer of the Bethesda Declaration who wasn't invited to the roundtable 🤔, so instead I've been helping to organize a rally to support the signers who were! If you live near the DMV, please come Stand Up For NIH Workers on Monday, July 21st at 4 pm! Make sure to also RSVP and share.

This is the Katie Johnson civil case. It was filed in April 2016 against Trump before the election. She was only 12 yrs old when she was first raped by Trump at Epstein's NY mansion. The details are incredibly disturbing. She dropped the charges due to death threats from Trump & the MAGA cult.

Good morning! I'm in Uganda to visit family and friends. But depending on your perspective, don't worry or I'm sorry: I'll be back by the end of the month. See you soon, NYC.

Update on funding curves and late non-competitive renewals. First, funding curves for new and competitive renewals. 1/n

One of the first things Vladimir Putin did on becoming president was take over NTV, the TV channel that hosted a satirical puppet show because he didn't like the Putin doll and how he was portrayed. He arrested NTV's owner and only released him when he signed the channel over. #Colbert

“If the administration and Congress follow through …,” Bawendi says, “it’s going to be the destruction of the scientific enterprise in this country. And that’s really scary. Not for science, but for the economy. For national security. And the leadership of the US in the world.”