Glad to see justice for my favorite state. When you read this at justice.gov what you see at the top during the shutdown is a violation of the Hatch Act. You can report violations online at a site that may be the only .gov site that does not contain the violation. osc.gov/Services/Pag...

To mark this day, we will be tweeting about the chemical senses each day over the next two weeks in support of AChemS' efforts in advancing chemosensory science and education. Follow this link to contribute www.gofundme.com/f/s....

It's Juneteenth, America's second Independence day, catching up to those excluded from the first. In the words of Langston Hughes: "O, let America be America again— The land that never has been yet— And yet must be—the land where every man is free." www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/147907...

𝗦𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗶𝘀 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝗮 𝗹𝘂𝘅𝘂𝗿𝘆. It’s the engine of American innovation. This President wants to kill it. ❌ NIH: ⬇️$18B ❌ NASA: ⬇️$6.8B ❌ NSF: ⬇️$5B This isn’t fiscal discipline. It’s surrender—to disease, to ignorance, to rivals like China. We don’t build prosperity by firing scientists & killing missions.🧪

A #MedSky thread in honor of Met Gala 2025 featuring this years fashion plus old favorites and the only thing as fascinating as gala looks Blood cells. Obviously 1/

🧪 Amazing thread by a plant taxonomist on the history of the molecule called epinephrine, its human discoverer, its chemical relationship to adrenaline, what it means to moms heading to the ER with sick kid, and why continuing to invest in basic science really fucking matters:

You must watch the John Oliver show from last night about NIH. Oliver rarely breaks his comedy routine but he did about NIH, RFK, and HHS. Oliver stared the camera down after 30 minutes and just said with a grimace: “RFK needs to go, now. By impeachment if necessary.” 1/

The "New" program at @stjohnsgreatbooks.bsky.social began in 1937, in part as a response to growing fascism. Powerful piece by a SJC alum on the need to protect liberal education now for the sake of free thought and democratic ideals. libertiesjournal.com/online-artic...

"Remember, you need a lot of time to get through your entire atrocity to-do list. If you tank the economy once and quickly, people’s attention will surely return to your cruelty, no matter how effectively you’ve impoverished them. So take your time and do it right."

Higher education required reading for today by Iveta Silova (Follow her at @isilova.bsky.social) theconversation.com/universities...

Dear scholars, scientists, doctors and advocates - we need your voices and expertise more than ever. If there was ever a time to bring the Ivory Tower right into the middle of the Public Square, it's now.

Space research!!! 🚀🛰️🧪🔭

We're disappointed to see Ben Barres's powerful book "The Autobiography of a Transgender Scientist" among the ~400 titles removed from the Naval Academy Library. Needless to say, we're proud to have published his book and will keep it — and his memory — alive.

💪Power to the People! Long COVID activists and researchers were successful in fighting to get millions of dollars of Long COVID research grants restored. But, they remain concerned about potential future funding cuts. buff.ly/2HeksnX #medsky 😷🛟🧪

So, hypothetically, if you were to write a grant about sex differences in a sensory system, what words would you use to say "sex" without saying it. Neuroendocrine genotype? 🧪

Normally I'd think a change like this sounds like a good idea, but does anyone know if there's anything nefarious hidden in the NIH CSR change? Just difficult to trust seemingly innocuous changes right now. www.nih.gov/news-events/... 🧪

#TobRegSky #PedSky #MedSky #addictionsci #policysky #academicsky🧪🛟 NIH? National Science Foundation is reinstating fired probationary employees www.axios.com/2025/03/03/n...

So, in addition to other bad stuff like canceling constituents’ healthcare, Malliotakis R-NY-11 has introduced the SPARE act to ban most animal research in biomedical science. 🧪

LISTEN.

I created a brief spreadsheet of reductions I've heard of so far. Any additions you know of (especially if you have the links/receipts) would be great: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

How you gonna make “this is your brain on drugs” ads given the price of eggs these days

My wife is a veteran of the US Army and worked as a civilian for 12 years with the USCG, earned a commendation for her service from President Obama. Her feelings are echoed here.

When I went off to @bostoncollege.bsky.social, my mandate from my mom was pretty simple: do well academically, find a job, and be done in 3 years. My dad had just jumped the family ship and my sister would be going off to college in my 4th year. I had enough college credits to grad in 3. 1/

I escaped poverty because I am a scientist. And I am a scientist because of the National Science Foundation. A 🧵:

Dear federal scientists: If you have been affected by the probationary firings and would be willing to speak with Science, please reach out to me by email ([email protected]) or on Signal. We can guarantee annonymity.

In response to the emergence of H5N1 influenza A viruses as a novel pathogen of cattle, a study in Nature Communications shows that pasteurisation of cows’ milk should effectively inactivate the virus, but that it remains infectious in unpasteurised milk. https://go.nature.com/3WRQ8fb 🧪

I kind of want to write a grant that uses every disallowed word in totally regular scientific contexts just to occupy every censor combing NSF grants. Diverse organisms, female and male animals, integration across scales, climate change in the early Paleozoic era... 🧪

Scientists alarmed as Rubin Observatory changes biography of astronomer Vera Rubin amid Trump's push to end DEI efforts ✍️ by @skuthunur.bsky.social for @space.com 🔭🧪 www.space.com/the-universe...

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Anyone know a source for the contracted IDCs for private companies, like, say Boeing or another rocket ship company? Feel free to DM me.

The last report for the state university system in Missouri showed $6.5 billion in economic impacts and 69,000 jobs. Trump and Musk are threatening that success. That is the message that needs to be shared in every state.

Executive wants to frame the NIH indirects cut as $4B in savings. But given that NIH returns $2.5 on every $1 investment, this would actually cost US economy a net $6 BILLION (per year!). Not to mention the human costs of wrecking education and research sectors and the communities they serve.

Research universities are often the largest employers in their region. They are often the primary health care providers to communities. This funding shift will not only reduce US research leadership, it will put working people out of work and reduce healthcare access.

This is so simultaneously heartbreaking and enraging that I can’t even think of what to say. They don’t want women to exist except to serve them

House Oversight Republicans have blocked House Oversight Dems from trying to subpoena Musk. If you have GOP members on House Oversight? Call and yes, raise hell: oversight.house.gov/subcommittee...

Sabotage. Criminal sabotage. "[The NSF] is planning to lay off between a quarter and a half of its staff in the next two months, a top National Science Foundation official said Tuesday." www.eenews.net/articles/sci...

Hey fellow 🧪 people, just a reminder that when you share screenshots of the emails and such you're getting, you need to INCLUDE THE FULL TEXT IN THE ALT TEXT. Your disabled colleagues are under attack rn, so it's literally the least you can do.

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

Today is Retraction Day, when we observe the anniversary of the retraction (Feb. 2, 2010) of the fraudulent paper that purported to show a link between vaccines and autism. 🧪#medsky

Below is a link to submit government urls to the Internet Archive so that they can be preserved. The deeper the URL, the better because the web crawlers work their way up to the top level domain. Please pass this on before data is scrubbed. digital2.library.unt.edu/nomination/e...

If you need some positive science in your feed, check out @nerdychristie.bsky.social’s piece about how we can use #conservation dogs to find fungal diversity, inspired by the first #truffle paper my sister and I co-authored. www.science.org/content/arti... 🧪🌎 #mycology @ecol-evol.bsky.social

Anyone have a link to archive of USDA site prior to Jan 20, 2025?

The news cycle right now - even just for science & higher ed - is overwhelming. We have to do it, but fortunately, we don’t have to do it alone. My team is focused on tracking what’s happening to research funding, jobs & salaries, shared datasets, university responses & safety of our communities

@lizneeley.bsky.social is publishing a weekly newsletter to track the ongoing attacks in science and higher ed. If you want to keep abreast without drowning in the news, I recommend it: buttondown.com/liminalcreat...

Associate Professorship of Social Psychology at the Department of Experimental Psychology, Oxford: my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...

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RFkJr is a threat to human health: when the next pandemic hits we need disease tracking (CDC now silenced) and fast vaccine development (which he opposes). If you live in ME, NC, SD, LA, AK, ID, KY or SD call your senators to oppose his confirmation (hearing this Wed.). (continued, please retweet):