What gives? @fetterman.senate.gov and PA SAG Sunday no longer have their phone service taking messages after hours. How can you hear from your constituents when your voice mail is clogged during the day and you turn it off at night.

Pennsylvania's republican AG, David Sunday, is going to sit on his hands and not sue the NIH for their plan to cut millions of dollars from PA universities. When the job losses start - you know who to blame! Remember that he sided with Musk and not Pennsylvanians!

The smell of rotting meat is wafting through the air here @swarthmorecollege.bsky.social Our Titan arum, “Lenny” has bloomed!! It’s over 5’ tall! Stop by and take a look (and smell).

I know this first hand. When I was a child, my entire community was branded as spies and sabateurs, justifying our internment inside barbed wire camps for years without due process, trial or charge.

Exclusive: Navajo Code Talkers disappear from military websites after Trump DEI order

Whoa! These are great!

They claim they can snatch people up, put them on planes, and deport them to a country run by an authoritarian, where those people will be forced to work slave labor at an inhumane prison. All without due process, and in defiance of federal courts. The hypotheticals are over. This is the nightmare.

"I promise you it is going to be a lot harder to recruit someone to anti-Americanism and anti-American terrorism if the United States of America is the reason one is even alive today.” — Marco Rubio, Senate floor speech, 2019.

Very nice piece about why you should publish in society journals when you can! academic.oup.com/mbe/article/...

Look what arrived in the mail today!! I’m very excited to read this! @ambikamath.bsky.social #animalbehavior #feminism

THIS is one of the most chilling things I've seen lately and says a lot. It starts with people with green cards and ends with more of our students. When will Uni. Presidents and faculty organize. Is it now, when it's an undergrad, when someone more fully disappears? www.cbsnews.com/news/columbi...

This CDC "survey" getting sent to grantees is wild yall. This is some serious "Kiss my Ring" level bullshit.

Are you kidding me? Children are dying!

As Measles Spreads, Kennedy Embraces Remedies Like Cod Liver Oil. Story by @teddyrosenbluth.bsky.social Gift link: nyti.ms/4ir9cJc

JUST IN: A federal judge in Massachusetts has extended her nationwide block on Trump administration effort to slash funds for NIH research.

We're at the "French University is offering grants to refugee scientists censored by the regime" stage of our country www.404media.co/french-unive...

Swarthmore College is hiring at least one laboratory instructor this spring. These are highly valued instructional staff who interact directly with students in intro and advanced courses. I'm happy to answer questions. Salary is very competitive, June & July off. apply.interfolio.com/164486

Here’s my topic for today’s rep. And attorney general call.

The people in power intend to completely annihilate scientific infrastructure, capacity, & research in the US. No institution will be spared if its mission is to advance science. Everyone is already a target, whether you speak up or not. So, institutions, consider speaking up.

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NIH leader resigns, effectively calling Trump a traitor, elected politicians cowards, and notes this is being done by foreign interests to intentionally kill the United States.

SCOOP: On his second day as HHS secretary, RFK Jr., the onetime environmentalist, killed climate change programs at NIH that research and prepare for the health effects of extreme weather and a warming planet. This is not going to make Americans healthy. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Please consider contacting societies to share your appreciation for their advocacy! It's important for them to hear from people who support their efforts. A repost in support of action isn't always as noticeable as disapproving or critical comments/messages are.

At this point, many of us have seen our former students, our friends, our colleagues, lose their jobs without just cause. Science, public health, public safety, air safety, fire control, and far more, are being undermined. So, what can YOU do, right now? What can academic societies do? ... we can...

DOGE recommended firing workers at: -FDA, which oversees Neuralink -FAA, which oversees SpaceX -USAID, which probed Starlink -CFPB, which oversees Tesla's financing arm and a potential payment platform on X. "Conflict of interest" is a severe understatement.

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)

This just appeared on PA's Attorney General's website. Sure, but you can sue them like all of the democratic state attorneys general. David Sunday is his name: 717-787-3391 FYI

Senate-wide voicemail challenges? I should f'in hope so! They just gutted the NIH and NSF! Keep calling and leaving messages!

They did this with the federal workers overseeing our nuclear weapons stockpile, too. Starting to sense a pattern in this kakistocracy.

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This made my morning! Fired me up to do a good job in my lecture this morning. Maybe there is another Judge Reyes in that lecture hall!

Trump's lawyers are absolutely flailing in the courts right now

The sledgehammer approach is madness. America is not a company you can strip for parts.

🧵"So this is how liberty dies..." Trump’s first 3 weeks have been a relentless flood of actions. It's incredibly hard to keep up. I’ve gone through 69 actions & mapped out the pattern - showing how they fall within 5 broad domains consistent with authoritarian states 1/9

Yup. Out of the goodness of his heart… 🙄 www.nytimes.com/2025/02/12/u...

I'm new to Blue Sky and google has failed me here. Is there a Thread Up version or way to save threads for easy reading or printing?

Very thoughtful response to Coyne's rants.

Like most millennials I HATE talking on the phone. Turns out it's really not that bad. Here's my script to PA's attorney general. This really takes 2 minutes once you have the script.

Yes he is.

A judge has issued a temporary restraining order blocking the indirect costs cut. That took like seven hours. It does *not* include the states that did not join the suit (there were 22 that did). So they’re still at least temporarily screwed, I think. A hearing is scheduled for 2/21.

Letter from the SSE/SSB/ASN councils on the scientific understanding of sex and gender, pls RT

Calling now!

docs.google.com/presentation... I found this helpful.

“Efforts by Trump officials to control the publication have stalled the release of three studies about bird flu for weeks, as the virus continues spreading through wild birds, poultry farms and cows around the country.” www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-o...

8. It is difficult to overstate what a catastrophe this will be for the US research and education systems, particular in biomedical fields. It is deliberate and wanton devastation entirely out of scale with any concern about DEI activities on campuses. The goal is destroy US universities.

I just bought this book, and I recommend you do too!