How to get to the heart of connecting with your audience 💚 #MakeScienceBetter #ENGAGE #SolvingForScience

A Penn workshop sparked a cross-department coffee cart. A Utah gathering launched a trainee program. Seattle is now piloting a Libraries model. That’s what ENGAGE does. Real projects. Real impact. solvingfor.org #MakeScienceBetter

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Well, we're going to need to change THAT. How about instead of breaking the ice with 'How about the weather?' trying 'How about the insanely accurate weather report that years of modeling by federal meteorologists at NOAA made possible today that saved lives?' I'm sure you can think of more...

Call out the GOOD more than the bad. Commit to companies that commit to including all Americans. Show shareholders inclusion isn't either-or but win-win.

Emily Feiner was forcibly removed from GOP Rep. Mike Lawler's town hall after she asked her so-called "moderate" congressman to stand up to Donald Trump's authoritarian power grab. There's a great pushback happening across the entire country — even in Republican held districts.

Support Courage in your university administrations in ANY way you can. A supportive email to someone WAY above your pay grade. A GoTeam! note tacked to the elevator. Let them know the faculty students alumni have their backs and cheer them on to STAND UP. #CourageIsContagious

What's happening with these grants is much more complicated and mostly unknown. None of the NIH have been officially cancelled. The NIH was just ordered to stop paying. They got the Unis to enforce silence on their own campuses because they thought they were "negotiating" and cld get the funds back.

No need to reinvent the wheel--jump on the bandwagon!

Defiant Joy counts as ACTION. When it's all too much, take a science dance break, in the super-extra style of Eurovision! 😍(congratulations to winners of DanceMyPhD, Dr. Sulo Roukka of U of Helsinki and his sparkly team!) youtu.be/qOa6GJ6_les?...

Check this chart. Purple line: NIH actual budget (as passed by Congress) after 2000. This is in real (inflation-adjusted) dollars. The Trump/Vought proposal for 2026 (yellow) is catastrophic, for US science and medical cures for Americans. That's a massive drop.

Wouldn't it be something if the ~2m American research scientists crashed the site with expressions of interests in say the next week? Seems like it would send a notable message?

We will put forward a 500 million package for 2025-2027 to make Europe a magnet for researchers. As well as ambitious proposals for R&I in the next EU budget. We will also offer the best and brightest the right incentives to come to Europe ↓

Our scientific talent and innovation is the envy of the world. Use it or lose it, America! Respect>Neglect!

A heads up -- with potential action steps. Slow-walking NIH grants is intentional. And if you don't spend your NIH grant by end of US fiscal year 9/30/25, a plan seems afoot to force a vote to impound those funds. 🧵

Amplifying this. NIH money not used by end of summer is gone. I've had a new R01 pending for months now, the award is prepared (according to ERA commons), what steps are left before the NOGA and funds released? Feel like many grants are being slow rolled before they are then not funded.

#ScienceMayDays: Day 2 more of what to do: Support courage in statements like the one from Research!America's CEO Mary Woolley, and check out (and use) their great fact-sheets and infographics to use YOUR voice in speaking up too (or making more signs!): www.researchamerica.org/fact-sheets-...

#ScienceMayDays: What to do? Support Courage and plaintiffs in lawsuits that push back. On April 2, APHA and other researchers and union filed a lawsuit challenging the abrupt, reckless, and apparently politically-driven cancellation of research grants at NIH. Read the complaint here:

Science is definitely IN DISTRESS on Day 2 of #ScienceMayDays. Time to yell! SOS, or tap ...---... (Morse ), or hang a ⚫⬛⚫ flag, or broadcast "m'aider" (help in French) or 'mayday' 3 times in a row, because Science needs HELP! meanwhile we'll keep coming up with more things we can all do. ⚫⬛⚫

Budget released today: 40% cut to NIH 50% cut to NSF If enacted, this will destroy academic research in the United States. It will also have a major trickle down effect on the entire academic ecosystem

It's Fustilarian Friday, so today NSF is announcing that they, too, are slashing overhead rates to 15%. www.nsf.gov/policies/doc...

🧪 What the f is going on with NSF right now??? 🚨🚨🚨 There's been so many NSF updates within the past 48 hours that it's hard to keep track. It feels like an onslaught. It *is* an onslaught. But it's still vital to remain focused, organized, and strategic. So here's my recap of past 48 hours...

This budget is laced with racist, anti-science, petty, and cruel language that should be beneath the president. If enacted, it would leave communities at the mercy of devastating climate impacts and deprived of public protections that save lives and support the economy. www.ucs.org/about/news/c...

RFK Jr. ordered the NIH’s Integrated Research Facility in Frederick to stop all research on serious infectious diseases yesterday at 5:00 PM. They study pathogens like Ebola there. You may be familiar with it from The Hot Zone. www.wired.com/story/hhs-ni...

Sen. Ossoff: Who out there in the American public is sitting at home demanding that we shut down cancer research and Alzheimer's research?

Many things about RFK Jr. taking $500m from HHS and giving it to his buddies to develop a universal vaccine are sus. 1. The Regime keeps squealing about “transparency” and “handouts” to scientists, yet the rest of us have to go through rigorous peer review before we are awarded research funding.

A fantastically useful way to picture processing outrage into action...And protecting people is first. Check out #ScienceMayDays 🧵on how to protect people who may be in literal imminent harm. Credit: Lindsay Braman lindsaybraman.com

It's ON. At May Day protests around the country, scientists are pushing back on needless and wasteful attacks on American research, public health, and science itself. It's also first day of our #ScienceMaydays: actionable resources and other ways to help, *every day* in May. Follow us for more!

Really feel badly for this next generation of scientists, now in college, who wanted these opportunities or had applied for the thousands of internships cut on short notice at NIH

Momentum is growing. Key debrief items: - 500+ university presidents standing together - NSF director Panch resigns amidst huge budget cuts. The Lancet calls for RFK to resign. - updates on student visas, Women’s Health Initiative & so much more This was Week 14 - buttondown.com/liminalcreat...

We're supporting National PROPEL in extending grants to institutions who want to set up a support system for post bacc students working toward a PhD program. Our first grant is going to University of Washington soon! Find out more at propelscholars.org

#courageiscontagious when you see it, call it out. when you know people who need it, let them know they have your support.

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🚨ATTENTION CDC AND ALLIES!🚨 We have power together. To see our strength and build community, we ask that you wear something 💚green💚 to work on WEDNESDAY to show solidarity and readiness to defend public health. Please spread the word! #courageiscontagious #wearthecolor #spreadthecolor

Let's keep talking about it! People WANT medical research to continue. If you think you've said it enough, say it again. If you think people already know what's happening, they don't. If you think this is over, it's not. Keep talking!

"The core strategy is to slow NIH spending to generate surpluses...then use surpluses as justification for slashing the budget...unspent [$] won’t be because NIH doesn’t have good science to spend on [but] because the administration has blocked spending" donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-nih-bu...

The National Cancer Institute has disbanded its Board of Scientific Advisors — a group of experts that played a vital role in shaping the future of U.S. cancer research. Here’s why that matters. 🧵

Congratulations to all the new members especially @ejohnwherry.bsky.social! National Academy of Sciences Elects Members and International Members - NAS www.nasonline.org/news/2025-na...

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Hope no one needs this, but read it now in case you DO need it, before you do!: www.aclu.org/know-your-ri...

Be safe out there everyone who is Standing Up for Science today! Take time to talk with people. Share your stories of Why Me in Science, share your collective stories of Why Us Together re Science & connect around What Now with who you're with, what you share, what you have and what you need. LFG!

Hi all, I've been speaking with Jack about the impact of potential NIH and NSF cuts on CA scientists for @sfchronicle.com. If any trainees, grad students or post-docs are willing to talk with him about the impact of the administration's actions on science over the last few weeks, please reach out!

Are you a scientist or student heading to a @standupforscience.bsky.social ‬rally this Friday? We want to hear from you. Tell us about yourself and why you’re going, how far you’re traveling, why you’re fired up, and whether there will be car snacks. Call or text us at (646) 767-6532.

This is also why I think it is a mistake for universities and corporations to simply re-brand DEI policies. They need to defend the underlying principles (integration is good, diversity makes us better) rather than trying to outrun a fascist assault that will be trained on the re-brand

The temptation to duck & cover & hope the attack passes over us can be strong. But ultimately, they'll come back around for all of us. They are out to destroy the American university, which they view as a threat. So we might as well stand up, speak out, & fight back while we still have the chance.

The World Health Organization calculates that measles vaccinations saved 60 million lives, 2000-2023. On Thursday, CDC scientists were forbidden to co-author papers with WHO colleagues. Other attacks on science + what to do about them in this week's debrief buttondown.com/liminalcreat... (1 of 11)