Detroit well represented here! But Sufjan Stevens is my pick. The 30 Greatest Living American Songwriters www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Join us in celebrating #HHMIInvestigators Olga Boudker, William Jacobs (Emeriti), Michael Shadlen, Kim Orth & @leslievosshall.bsky.social (also HHMI VP & Chief Scientific Officer), all elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences for their leadership & excellence in science! bit.ly/4vQerd2

We believe the future of science is ours to write. A more just, more equitable, more accountable, and more sustainable scientific ecosystem that breaks through the boundaries of DC and build bridges with communities globally. You can support our work here: www.standupforscience.net/donate 7/7

Opening tomorrow, the Institute will serve as a policy-in-action hub dedicated to addressing the damage, protecting the nation’s science and technology ecosystem, strengthening research integrity, and ensuring democratic accountability for federal agencies. 3/7

The Institute will focus on strengthening oversight of federal policy actions targeting scientific organizations; and rebuilding federal science and technology capacity in the wake of the Trump administration’s destructive targeting of science, public health, and public safety institutions. 4/7

The Stand Up for Science Foundation (a nonpartisan 501c3) is launching a new Institute to craft and implement policy that will address the damage to federal agencies and institutions, recenter evidence-based decision making, and reestablish the United States as a global leader in science. 2/7

Congratulations to Jodie Foster, Rita Moreno,William Christie, Doris Tsao, Leslie Vosshall @hhmi-science.bsky.social and all newly elected members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences www.amacad.org/news/new-mem...

At the end of 2024, the National Academies put out a report concluding the NIH has woefully underfunded women’s health research, and they suggested $15 B should be invested over the next 5 years. Here’s what’s happened instead. Hard to study women’s health if you can’t say “women.” wapo.st/4euUt1c

Such an important story and so well reported. Thank you for speaking out. I wish more people understood the urgency of this issue. No one wants this wanton destruction of our research system.

All of this is my way of saying: we need basic discovery science, and we need people who use those ideas to build practical tools. Having both is a great strength of our nation. I hope we can keep that strength, and keep it alive for future generations.

Absolutely 💯 on the mark

A very excellent piece from Rich Besser, President of @rwjf.org www.rwjf.org/en/about-rwj...

Surprise surprise!

NIH grant terminations affected women scientists more than men, study finds www.statnews.com/2026/03/23/n... via @statnews.com

“The NIH has been this sort of bipartisan jewel that everybody has supported,” said KFF Health News’ @julierovner.bsky.social. “Now, it’s basically being dismantled in front of our eyes.” Listen for more analysis of the latest health care news 🎧 ⤵️

SLEEP! Yes Amita Sehgal! Also super fascinating connections to brain aging.

Congress rejected massive cuts to US science budgets for 2026, but much of the money still isn’t flowing to researchers. The culprit? The White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) is quietly slow-walking the release of funds. 🧵👇

Every day Vought withholds $ from these agencies is a day where a grad student doesn’t get funding, a day where a postdoc has to look for work elsewhere, a day where early career scientists lose gap funding with a fundable grant sitting on this clowns desk. We’re losing a generation of scientists.

My latest: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... Next column will address needed guardrails for private funding of science, esp. in light of #Epstein/ #Summers etc.

On 4 Feb Stand Up For Science hosted our first Future of Science Summit with science and policy leaders, science advocacy orgs, and Hill staffers. We’re addressing the current destruction and creating community and dialogue for building a future science ecosystem that better serves more people. 1/5🧵

I am excited to be running the New York City Half Marathon on March 15th with CASA-NYC! I’m raising $2,000 for children and youth involved in the NYC foster care system. More info about the team and to donate casa-nyc.org/nyc-half-mar...

Nurses show up in our darkest moments. 9/11. The pandemic. Every illness and emergency. Their worth is not negotiable. Fair pay, safe conditions, dignity now. NYC stands with nurses and demands good faith bargaining for justice and care for all.

sad but true

@standupforscience.bsky.social appreciation thread Science Fight Club is important and necessary for two reasons: 1. Science has become incredibly political, as identity politics took over ALL politics. 2. Scientific institutions don't typically "fight" and look where that got us. 🧪

"I was part of a system trying to make people’s lives better. To me, that was a good reason to get up in the morning."

And congrats to @cdelawalla.bsky.social, founder and CEO of @standupforscience.bsky.social, who is one of Nature's "Ones to watch in 2026"! Delawalla has been focusing on building resistance to the US government’s targeting of the nation’s scientific enterprise ahead of the 2026 midterm elections.

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Announcing UHF's Health Equity Fellowship program, empowering clinicians with space and time and training, in partnership with community organizations, to advance equity in health care! Please Share!

Join us tomorrow!

Powerful essay. Read and share widely. I Understand MAHA’s Appeal, but It Threatens My Life www.nytimes.com/2025/11/11/o...

We have a new timeline up today on our Medical Research Funding page, documenting the onslaught of political, legal, and bureaucratic attacks on medical research since January: unbreaking.org/issues/medic...

What does mating look like when you only have a single shot at getting it right? Very excited to share our work on an almost-invisible female control, rapidly evolving mating recognition systems, and species that break the rules and take over the world. IN MOSQUITOES>

A big part of why the White House's destruction feels so visceral is that it's emblematic of a much broader pattern of wantonly chopping up our shared national patrimony and selling it for parts

The next best thing to bring there is this 🧵!

Important lesson here 👇

Who burgled the Louvre? Right answers only.

Great article! Inspiring.

Such a powerful article. Bravo @apoorvanyt.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/h...

My quote of the day We have managed to unite a country tearing down the barriers the regime built to divide us. Ours is a fight of a nation united against a criminal tyranny, in defense of its human rights, freedom, and democracy. That is why we have no alternative but victory María Corina Machado

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A strong statement from MIT President Sally Kornbluth rejecting Trump's "compact for higher education." I hope other higher ed leaders follow this example. orgchart.mit.edu/letters/rega...

DC folks! Stand Up for Science will be at Politics and Prose this evening in support of @michaelemann.bsky.social and @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social's new book: #ScienceUnderSiege! Come join us, in person or virtually! Livestream: youtube.com/live/-foS1FI...

I am deeply saddened and angered by news that more NIH RIFs may happen next week. This is unacceptable, especially after NIH staff have worked nights & weekends to dig out from the backlog created by this admin's incompetence. Tell your Congress people NIH needs its staff to keep delivering cures

My last grant was an R25 focused on introducing undergraduates to aging research to motivate them to address these gaps, be it in research or clinical careers. It was terminated b/c “DEI is bad.”

My co-author @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social and I talk with the great @paulkrugman.substack.com.web.brid.gy about our new book #ScienceUnderSiege: paulkrugman.substack.com/p/science-un...

📣 New preprint from the SCIMaP team! Across three studies, we show that communicating the economic impact of NIH funding cuts—especially with interactive quizzes and maps—decreases approval and motivates action to oppose the cuts, across the political spectrum. 🧵 1/8 osf.io/preprints/ps...

Call for Papers! 🧵 The Public's Science–A New Social Contract for American Research Policy a Special Issue of The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science Editors: Alondra Nelson (IAS) and Jenny Reardon (UC, Santa Cruz) Abstract Deadline: Sept 19 www.ias.edu/stsv-lab/pub...

But yeah, reading that also made me feel even more grateful for preprints!

My reason for sharing this is not that editors make wrong decisions, but that such long delays in publications also delay other people from building on work, or could lead to people just giving up and working on other projects instead. That seems like it would've been very unfortunate in this case