BREAKING: In AAUP et al v. Trump (wall-to-wall union lawsuit challenging the administration’s unlawful use of TItle VI to reshape the University of California system), the faculty and staff of the UC system WON!!! We were granted our preliminary injunction! @aaup.org

Yesterday, the NIH abruptly placed @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social, who has been a vocal critic of the administration’s changes to the NIH, on leave “It is intended as a threat,” she told me yesterday www.statnews.com/2025/11/14/n...

Jenna Norton has spoken critically about the Trump administration's funding cuts and mass firings at the National Institutes of Health. At the end of the shutdown, she says she was put on leave. n.pr/4oFYdPL

Hearing a rumor that NIH/HHS may now plan to retaliate against other Bethesda Declaration signers. I am one, but it’s not about me: we have been speaking out because of the ongoing damage to US medical research, cancer and Alzheimer’s research. As @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social put well: 1/

Job Opening **ASSISTANT PROFESSOR MARINE ECOLOGY**, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Rhode Island. jobs.uri.edu/postings/15960

"Excluding MPH and DrPH from the 'professional degree' category could restrict students’ access to higher federal loan limits, making public health education less financially attainable and potentially weakening the future workforce pipeline." Get ready to submit comments! aspph.org/department-o...

My department at UT Austin is looking to hire an Assistant Professor in Evolutionary Biology, broadly defined. Feel free to reach out to me with any questions you may have. apply.interfolio.com/177547

Now a national news story as it must be, @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social placed on admin leave; not a household name for her title but should be for her courage to speak out in *her personal capacity* in defense of NIH's mission via The Bethesda Declaration and beyond. 🎁 www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/u...

NIH program officer @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social has been placed on admin leave, sources say. Norton has been outspoken about the Trump administration's dismantling of science, and she signed the Bethesda Declaration. Bhattacharya has said that "science is dead without free speech".

Trump’s HHS put me on “non-disciplinary” admin leave today. This was retaliation for speaking up. Moves like this are designed to silence us. Let’s not let. www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8Dteoop/

Federal support of science research has catalyzed economic growth and advanced life-saving cures, diagnostics and therapies. At Science on Tap next Tuesday (11/18), Biology's Joshua Weitz (@joshuasweitz.bsky.social) will discuss his efforts to confront federal cuts to science ➡️ go.umd.edu/sot1125

Big big thanks to all the program officers and scientific review officers coming back online and managing to instill positivity and we-can-do-this attitudes in emails out to applicants & reviewers who might have wondered: What will happen to all of this good work? Answer: let's do this.

Investment in and protection of America's world-class system of higher education is essential as a counterweight to an administration that sees universities as ripe for a hostile takeover through a compact offering "preferential treatment" in exchange for the loss of autonomy.

Via @statnews.com on "hush-hush" MAHA summit: Vance: “So many of the things that are happening on the public health side are bullshit." His solution? "Science, as practiced in its best form, is that if you disagree with it, then you ought to criticize it.” a 🧵 www.statnews.com/2025/11/12/m...

Lines at the Food Pantry, Billionaires at the White House

This is key. Implication: have a record of who they turned away.

LISTEN UP, DORKS! @standupforscience.bsky.social is getting (even more!) political. People often say "well what can one person do??" 🥊 If all our followers joined Science Fight Club and gave $5 a month, we could save science! 🥊Join here: www.standupforscience.net/join-science... SHARE WIDELY!

Not sure which part of RFK Jr's "radical transparency" includes a "hush-hush" event with HHS leadership, industry leaders, and MAHA policy action groups. www.statnews.com/2025/11/11/m...

This looks amazing!

Put all of this into a time capsule... a harbinger of where the White House and HHS sees the (business) opportunity space in health care, research, and medicine.

Three German universities offering post-docs for researchers "who cannot conduct or continue their work in the USA appropriately because of actual political pressure. " www.uni-konstanz.de/zukunftskoll...

I also wrote about the health "plan" here. The ACA brought sweeping protection to tens of millions of patients, enabling them to secure coverage. Trump wants to do away with all of that, replacing insurance protection with direct payments in a much costlier system. www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

For those in/around College Park, MD come on over to Ledo Pizza, 4509 Knox Rd, next Tuesday 11/18, 6pm+ for Science on Tap, where I will share a talk and dialogue on: "Science Matters: Confronting the Impacts of Federal Cuts to Research on Communities Nationwide" science.umd.edu/events/scien...

Preferential treatment has become the rallying cry to say no. substack.com/home/post/p-...

I spoke to CNN about how demoralizing it was to watch Stanford leadership stay silent while contrarians on campus launched unscientific attacks to stifle Stanford researchers. Now, those attacks have gone nationwide and much of MAHA leadership have ties to Stanford. www.cnn.com/2025/11/08/p...

Canada has just lost measles elimination status. The U.S. will undoubtedly follow shortly. Elimination means that there is no continuous spreading of measles within the country for a year or longer. Canada and the U.S. have blown it, and it’s largely the fault of the anti-vaccination movement.

If you are listening to MAHA when thinking about public health "reform" then really listen to what they want: "I’ve come to this anti-vax conference with a message that we need to be more boldly anti-vax,” said Mark Gorton, the president of the MAHA Institute. 🎁 www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/u...

A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death. Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written." Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating. 🧪🧬🧫

*deadpan* This is particularly enraging because 1) @standupforscience.bsky.social is doing a LOT against RFK Jr/MAHA and we are just getting started and 2) because I HAVE SPOKEN WITH HIS WRITERS AND PRODUCER. @thedailyshow.com hit me up!

That's not quite what one might call taking responsibility.

Any food which has gotten to poor families the states must send agents to reclaim the food before it is eaten or face new federal penalties

"[P]rocedurally, had she denied the request, the Justice Department could have gone to another justice. Finally, and perhaps most importantly, by issuing the order herself, she was able to set the limits." 👇

BREAKING: DOJ goes to SCOTUS trying to stop a district court order that USDA pay out full SNAP benefits this month. The First Circuit denied an administrative stay, but has not yet ruled on the stay request. And, CNN reported that USDA is already processing payments. DOJ went to SCOTUS anyway.

#BREAKING: The Trump administration is asking #SCOTUS for an immediate “administrative” stay of a Rhode Island district judge’s order that is otherwise requiring it to resume the distribution of SNAP benefits from other funding sources no later than the end of today.

It's definitely a choice @scholars.org Feel free to dive in: joshuasweitz.substack.com/p/revisionis...

Director Bhattacharya decided to weigh in on X/Twitter about the impact of the government shutdown. He (not surprisingly) focuses on the impact of the MAHA agenda. Of course, delays of research for months (which could be minimized by NIH with planning) will have little effect on MAHA actions 1/5

GISAID on providing data to @Nextstrain.org: "After consulting with our staff and advisors on the feasibility of keeping your global tree up-to-date, there was a clear consensus that continuing to generate, zip and move big files back and forth is not sustainable and a waste of resources." 🙃

HAPPENING NOW: Judge McConnell is sharply rebuking the Trump administration for what he said was defying his order to make full SNAP payments by Nov. 5. He has ordered USDA to make the *full* payment to states by tomorrow.

Sometimes we do need another hero.

SCIENCE ON THE MOVE! The march has reached HHS, where stacks of petitions are piling up! FOLLOW ALONG ➡️ www.youtube.com/live/3Hi18Fv...

If you're looking for a faculty position at the intersection of ecology and computing (both broadly defined), please apply to this joint search between the CEE Department and the College of Computing at MIT: cee.mit.edu/people/share...

Ok then... "The institute is now sponsoring and soliciting donations for a movie about Bhattacharya written by author and establishment critic Walter Kirn."

Seven data-driven lessons from the 2025 elections www.gelliottmorris.com/p/seven-data...

Summarizes what I’ve been trying to pull together in my head. Democrats basically won everywhere, high profile and low profile, usually by more than optimistic predictions

There are 133 counties and county-equivalents in Virginia and New Jersey. In 127 of them, the vote shifted to the Democrats since November 2024. On average, the shift was 6 points to the left.

New-to-me but very helpful visualizations how all the actions of the past ten months are affecting the CDC www.cdcdataproject.org

Hard to keep elimination status intact amidst community spread and continued attacks on the efficacy and safety of childhood vaccines.

Directly defying a court order so that he can withhold food from the poor