The Committee has withdrawn its request! Which suggests that even a little bit of pushback really matters

How can HIV science resist assaults on our field? ✅ Rely on our home-grown movements ✅ Do not comply in advance ✅ Retain precise language ✅ Use our collective power ✅ Dual job: sustain science & secure safe human bodies @nickmetheny.bsky.social @kldunkle.bsky.social @rebeccafieldingmiller.com

This exciting resolution from Rutgers University Senate is exactly the kind of model I think higher ed needs: a mutual defense pact of, in this case, Big 10 schools. They call for member institutions to create a joint defense fund and make resources available to any member institution under attack.

"We want to preserve public health data that are crucial for people's well-being," - social epidemiologist Nancy Krieger, on the value of the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine www.npr.org/2025/03/23/n...

Last Friday, 1,000 more NIH biomedical research projects were defunded with no notice Here’s a word cloud of canceled grants, based on their titles

Ah yes, pinpointing how men use rape, assault, and psychological terror towards pregnant people is scary for this administration. Because "protecting women" in no way means: keeping them alive, sane, or able to safely parent.

Most US universities are treating students with patronizing silence or "business-as-usual" platitudes (or banning their collective action altogether). But what could it look like to work alongside early-career colleagues? I'll tell you: it feels essential and inspiring!

The crush of new grant cancellations hasn't let up. If your grant was terminated (or your app was pulled) please use this Google Form👇 to submit details for tracking purposes. Multiple advocacy efforts are moving forward, but we must must must know more about what grants were cancelled and why.

Today I lost an NIH grant training clinicians to do research about intimate partner violence with perinatal women. More women are murdered in the perinatal period than die of obstetric complications. I didn't just lose a grant. We lost an entire cohort of people building careers to prevent that.

The Ed. Department's Office for Civil Rights sent letters to 60 additional institutions "warning them of potential enforcement actions" for "violations relating to antisemitic harassment and discrimination" including Harvard, Brown, Stanford, Princeton, UNC, and several UC's

I'll be Standing Up for Science tomorrow with some protest crafts. Get in dorks! standupforscience.bsky.social

BREAKING - ILLEGAL FOREIGN AID FREEZE At oral argument on the preliminary injunction in AIDS Vaccine v. State, Judge Ali orders the Trump administration to pay all plaintiffs' invoices and letters of credit draw-down requests for work completed before Feb. 13 (approx. $2B) by 6pm Monday March 10

For decades, the US government has painstakingly kept American science #1 globally—and every facet of American life has improved because of it. The internet? Flu shot? Ozempic? All grew out of federally-funded research. Now all that's being dismantled. 1/ www.technologyreview.com/2025/02/21/1...

UNC erased portions of the undergrad curriculum focused on equity to "be compliant" with executive orders. Let's see how university administrators backtrack now that constitutional rights are a thing again.

So many scientists are staying quiet. Proud to work alongside @rebeccafieldingmiller.com who says it like it is.

See you in Raleigh on Mon @ 2:30 (also featured in every state capitol near you) @50501movement.bsky.social @50501activists.bsky.social

❗#USAID Temporary Restraining Order issued: "All USAID employees currently on administrative leave shall be reinstated until [Feb 14] ... no additional employees shall be placed on administrative leave before that date. No USAID employees shall be evacuated from their host countries"

On changes to #NIH indirect rates, there is a law in place that prohibits NIH from making such changes without the approval of Congress. See Division D, Title II Section 224 of The Further Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2024 (Public Law No: 118-47) grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

Murphy: "This is a constitutional crisis that we are in today. Let's call it what it is."

This isn't my first or even second time at the rodeo. I dealt with Ronald Reagan & George Bush trying to kill my community by ignoring the AIDS epidemic. It happened again when I lived in South Africa with Thabo Mbeki. And we won twice. So: courage. We will beat them too. Stay focused. Get to work.

Here is the guidance in full. The wording is very broad. This should help a lot of organizations and people.

US institutions are being seized through "state capture". State capture is systematic corruption by unelected civilians taking control of public institutions. The goal is to erode public interest for personal gain. 🧵 @altnih4science.bsky.social @gregggonsalves.bsky.social

I am with dozens of Utah scientists, healthcare providers, and educators who urge Senators Lee and Curtis to vote no on RFK’s dangerous nomination. The health of Utahns and Americans is at risk. www.sltrib.com/opinion/comm... @sltrib.com @gregggonsalves.bsky.social

This account is for sharing info with US scientists, both extramural and intramural to NIH, about attacks on science in the US. Education is power, and we can help advocate for science and medicine together. 💪🧪 We are a team of NIH people. Please ask us questions you might have.

This thread is essential reading. LoL inspiration of the best sort. www.reddit.com/r/fednews/co...

Amazing to see Reddit become a forum of solidarity and resistance among federal workers today. If you need a dose of hope, read all the comments of federal employees vowing to hold the line and their oath to serve the American people. www.reddit.com/r/fednews/co...

HSS nomination impacts North Carolina's economy and threatens lives. But we can take action. www.wral.com/21831830/

🧵Scientific truth doesn't change with Senate confirmations. These facts remain absolute: ➡️Vaccines prevent millions of deaths ➡️Fluoride in water is a great public health achievement ➡️Raw milk threatens lives ➡️HIV causes AIDS ➡️Wi-Fi doesn’t cause cancer ➡️Anti-depressants don’t cause school shootings

Breaking: ATLANTA (AP) — US public health officials have been told to stop working with the World Health Organization, effective immediately.

With all the turmoil at #NIH, the uncertainty facing faculty, grad students and post-docs, you'd think university presidents would offer a word of support, solidarity, comfort even. But these are the days of "institutional neutrality"--"we" don't speak on things that happen in the wider world.

I ran @USAID health programs for the last 3 years. Trump’s 90 day Stop Work Order on foreign assistance does serious damage to the world and the US. Examples:🧵

Take 3 minutes to send a letter to your Senator to oppose RFK nomination: lnkd.in/gVVmRh5n Highest stakes: Alaska, Iowa, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Texas, Utah, West Virginia (in Republican-speak) RFK will mean fewer jobs, lower tax base, lost US edge #ScienceNotSilence