Sen @murray.senate.gov continues to fight for accountability in the destruction of American biomedical science and politically-motivated retaliation against our brave colleagues who dissent, as is their right. Jay Bhattacharya must go.

🚨🚨 @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social is a force. Her voice carries power, truth, and courage—threats to the regime. The only thing authoritarians fear more than a voice they cannot control is a chorus. So let’s give them one: speak up, speak loudly, and don’t stop. Stand with Jenna. ✊🇺🇸

Jenna has been an inspiring colleague I’ve been honored to work alongside this year. It needs to be known after putting us through the longest shutdown (they say in official emails, “democrat-led” like how desperate), on Day 1 back to work they are putting people on admin leave again.

Over the weekend ICE abducted an NIH contractor when he showed up to a courthouse for his green card hearing. He is documented. His wife is a citizen. He is also member of the skeleton crew of animal care staff that works through a shutdown, to ensure the health and wellbeing of research animals.

The federal workers who take care of our veterans, inspect our food, and help people through natural disasters know Trump’s lawlessness is hurting everyday Americans and they are begging Congress to stop it.

Sharing stories matters. If you’ve faced grant terminations, funding delays, loss of research jobs, etc., your voice is needed. Help show the real impact of NIH funding interference - tell your story so we don’t lose innovation, cures, and hope for the future. www.27unihted.org/biohealthbeats

1/4 New details on just how damn close the CDC shooter came to killing us. He brought FIVE guns. He tried to get inside CDC headquarters but was stopped by security. So instead drove over to the CVS across the street and opened fire.

the people responsible for spreading lies about covid vaccines have blood on their hands tonight.

#ScienceSky #ClimateSky if you haven't yet, COPY EVERY GOVERNMENT DOCUMENT AND DATABASE AS PERTAINS TO YOUR RESEARCH. Check @archive.org as well to make sure it hasn't already been altered. Check with your university archivists for resources on data collection. They may already be at work. 🧪 🩺 🔬 👩‍💻

Normalize talking about fed. $ when these headlines happen. Thousands of scientists, working for decades funded by the federal government did this. At times, people thought this was useless research. Below is some info about the HIV labs at the University of Utah. 🧵 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Republicans are waging a generalized war on science, but I think many of them don’t fully grok that RFK isn’t at war with science alone or per se: he’s at war with sick people, and of the view that only the lucky should be allowed to survive into old age. They are know nothings, he is Mengele.

Kate Britt is garbage, BTW. Don’t care, don’t celebrate her. Her office called the police on fired Feds including me, NIH-er. Her office was the only office to do that to us.

Found that government waste

Defund the police: something that never really happened, but everybody talked about. Defund the scientists: something that's actually happening, but almost nobody's talking about in those terms.

NEW: Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s lawyers seek permission to file an amended complaint in his civil case in Maryland. Among other things, the amended complaint “includes Abrego Garcia's first-hand account of torture and mistreatment at CECOT…”

I am registered for ASP 2025! I’ll be presenting and everything! Just to give you an idea how work is going, I started the registration process in April, and it was just completed yesterday. So glad that it worked out.

MERKLEY: How do you feel about being responsible for hundreds of thousands of kids dying because of your sudden interruption in these key programs? VOUGHT: I reject the assertion MERKLEY: I find your response both ignorant & callous. Few Americans have had a more devastating & disastrous impact

People in wheelchairs are getting arrested right now in the Russell Senate Office Building in DC. They showed up to tell Congress not to cut their Medicaid, because they cant afford health care without it. If you look closely you can see the zip ties on their hands. #WeWontGetOverLosingMedicaid

A reminder that the @nytimes.com told New Yorkers to not rank Mamdani at all, & instead endorsed former hedge fund manager Whitney Tilson. Tilson sits at a whopping .8%. Corporate media trust is dead. They killed themselves by failing to fulfill their promise of holding the powerful accountable.

Vaccination schedules on the CDC website have already started changing under RFK Jr. So we published a guide to the evidence-based vaccine recommendations in place *before* all 17 members of the advisory panel were abruptly dismissed by the new admin. www.scientificamerican.com/article/see-... 🧪

Zohran Mamdani was the first mayoral candidate to swiftly condemn the arrest and disappearance of Mahmoud Khalil as a violation of his First Amendment right to advocate for Palestinian freedom.

Wake up Democratic Party old guard establishment. This isn’t about New York City. This is the way the wind is blowing. Step aside for young people who this country will need over the next several decades long after you are gone. Enough with your egos and the big money interests.

crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentations of their consultants

SCOOP: Big Balls is out of government, officials confirm. @makenakelly.bsky.social @zoeschiffer.bsky.social @jakelahut.writes.news and me! www.wired.com/story/big-ba...

All yall in NYC better not be ranking Cuomo! Lead the country in changing our Democratic energy. The old guard will not save us- they led us here.

THIS IS IT! THIS IS HUGE!! PLAINTIFF'S WIN!! Judge Young rules that the NIH grant terminations at issue in these cases are illegal and therefore vacated. BOOM!

In an email to staff, NIH deputy director Matt Memoli says: "It has come to our attention that some staff are giving guidance... that the word 'diversity' may not be used in any context." "Obviously this is bad guidance... Please ask your staff to use common sense when implementing NIH priorities."

For nearly a decade, since Election Day 2016, the media and politicians have had a choice: Recognize that we were in a crisis like no other in our lifetimes, or pretend that we aren't. Nearly all politicians, and too many in the media, have chosen the latter.

Last night, Capitol Police arrested roughly 60 veterans and their family members outside the U.S. Capitol. The group had gathered to hold a peaceful sit-in on the Capitol steps, but police intentionally set up a barrier of bike racks to prevent them from demonstrating.

Seeing RFK Jr.’s selections to replace the qualified scientists that he fired from ACIP, I very much doubt that the U.S. will have ready access to COVID19 and flu vaccines for 2025. And it could be even worse than that. Bill Cassidy is to blame for voting to confirm RFK Jr. He’s a disgrace.

An entire lineage of influenza B viruses literally went extinct due to COVID mitigation measures and people will still say “masks don’t work”

I will be damned if I allow a bunch of Confederate-waving January 6th apologists give the American people a lecture on flag waving. There is ZERO reason to enter an argument about patriotism with people who still worship traitors to America 150+ years later. They. Are. Breaking. The. Law.

This morning, courageous NIH workers shared a document they are calling the “Bethesda Declaration” with Dr. Bhattacharya, urging him to reverse some of the actions that are badly misaligned with progress toward the NIH mission. 1/3

“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.” 🧪

They better not forget to include the Kennedy Center in the in memoriam. #TonyAwards #Tonys2025

Reminder. Also, from a political standpoint, Democrats should be rushing to introduce legislation to abolish ICE. ICE is incredibly unpopular with their base, and regardless of what you think of these think pieces, we're seeing Republicans and conservative voters openly critique ICE/their actions.

Trump is deploying 2,000 National Guard troops to Los Angeles without the governor’s request or consent. Governor Newsom has publicly condemned the move, calling it “purposefully inflammatory.”

the enemy of my enemy is also my enemy. can't have too may enemies.

The end of the American era in science has begun. Only we can stop the slide, but only if we act up.

Just to be clear, Musk is not welcome. Whatever group, party you’re thinking of…unless it’s jail or hell, the answer is No.

must be incredibly frustrating and disheartening to have federal funding that was promised to you for important work suddenly and arbitrarily ripped away

They aren’t going to stop until they’ve removed every last federal employee who can challenge the primary MAHA objectives: cut the government, eliminate vaccination, steal the money. www.cbsnews.com/news/cdc-off...

Superstars/Nobel winners will get job offers from everywhere. They do anyway. We should be focused on the average student, postdoc and lab tech whose life is going to be turned upside down by all of this. They have nowhere to go. Let's write stories about that.

I wrote about the 23-year-old crypto bro with effectively no relevant work experience, who @alondra.bsky.social revealed is sitting in meetings, not paying attention, and then giving the thumbs up/thumbs down on whether they can get their NSF grants...

NEW: Important Context spoke with a dozen people working at NIH about Director Jay Bhattacharya. The descriptions were universally unflattering, painting the health economist as ineffectual, dishonest, ideological, arrogant, and uncommitted to science. www.importantcontext.news/p/out-of-his...

RFK Jr's "MAHA" report is filled with references to studies that literally do not exist, or that completely misinterpret the studies' findings. “We did not publish a paper.. on this topic with that co-author group, or with that title,” says one cited researcher. www.notus.org/health-scien...

NEW: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said prepackaged foods have “mass poisoned” tribal communities. But the Trump administration ended a program that tribal food banks relied on for fresh, locally produced food important to their traditions and cultures. By @maryhudetz.bsky.social

The NIH Director continues to misunderstand (or mischaracterize) the extent to which research is being gutted. I appreciate this program officer for speaking up.