These substantial donations reveal a simple truth: billionaires and corporations have the financial means to support higher taxes.

What IS workforce development (WFD)? An example explains: from declaring premed to becoming a doctor can be anywhere from 8 to 20 yrs. WFD is not just abt medicine but abt all workforce: how do we ensure that there will be sufficiently trained ppl to support science + medicine in yrs to come?

What is it like inside your head?

“It’s bizarre when people arguing for viewpoint diversity declare any statement by an employee…must be the official position of an institution. You can’t have viewpoint diversity unless you…reject the belief that every writer speaks for the…college or org” www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

Just won an award 4 innovation in workforce development from NCATS RE engaging engineers with medicine. But grants that support these internship programs remain stuck in purgatory, 1 was to be reviewed 10/21! Nothing bc of shutdown. Attacks on our govt hurt everyone. Poster link tinyurl.com/36yh33t7

Want to stay informed on the continued demolition of NIH and ongoing attacks on academia? Check out this new resource, a weekly digest of current events and action items for scientists. Subscribe to the substack and share broadly! theprincipledinvestigator.substack.com/p/the-princi...

ICE assaulted a citizen journalist in his car, tried to bash in his window with a gun & it discharged shooting both the journalist & a US Marshall. The incompetence is the point. ICE are American shabiha or titushky, barely trained thugs who spread destruction & fear www.wfsb.com/2025/10/21/u...

On Nov 5 at 4 PM, join and support members of the healthcare, public health, and scientific communities in a march from the APHA Rally for the Public’s Health to the Capitol to deliver petitions to Congress demanding the resignation or removal of RFK Jr. www.911forhealthandscience.org

“If the West Wing is the mind of the nation, then the East Wing is the heart.” — Former First Lady Betty Ford

A democracy isn’t (just) an electoral system. It’s also a culture of deliberation, debate, sensitivity to public concern, attention to social movements and community leaders, respect for civil rights and minority interests, free expression and association and due process. How’s your country doing?

Add a third button: “try to prevent the destruction of democracy in America”

WOW: The White House says the president's MAIN PRIORITY is his BALLROOM. SNAP is ending. Subsidies for health care are gong to double and in some instances quadruple plan premiums. The government is shut down. The cost of living is through the roof. And his priority is his ballroom.

SNAP benefits are about to lapse for 42 million people, because nothing says “save the children” like starving them.

On Nov 5 at 4 PM, join and support members of the healthcare, public health, and scientific communities in a march from the APHA Rally for the Public’s Health to the Capitol to deliver petitions to Congress demanding the resignation or removal of RFK Jr. www.911forhealthandscience.org

That’s seven. @reuters.com www.reuters.com/world/us/uni...

Been trying to caption this for like 5 minutes. I got nothing. Been there. Am there. So many of us are there. And history will tell the tale of the time America cut off its nose to spite the face. And it’s our kids and their futures who will be harmed the most.

Whew. This is a good read…

The WH steals people’s property constantly and never asks permission. Another example of Trump acting like a king.

When Fox News lies, people die | We explain on PBS Newshour how the antiscience disinformation spread by the Murdoch media empire and especially Fox News, likely lead to hundreds of thousands of unnecessary deaths in the U.S. And that's just COVID-19. Their fossil fuel disinformation is as deadly.

It's really not the flex he thinks it is

October is #BreastCancerAwareness month. As of 2024, 2.4M women worldwide received Herceptin. It also helped scientists realize that #breastcancer is heterogenous, paving the way for more targeted treatments. The 5 yr survival rate went from 75% in 1980 to 92%. 🧪 www.breastcancer.org/news/cancer-...

That’s about 45 5-year R01 projects. For Noem to gallivant around the world for cosplay photo shoots.

Individuals have sacrificed so much to get to the U.S. - by boat, by foot, by whatever. Only to be lost on an NY Times headline. “Mass deportations continue” “X boat sunk at see” “Children suffer in immigration prison”

Touché

Medicare is indefinitely pausing physician payments due to the government shutdown, citing telehealth policies that have to be renewed. www.cms.gov/medicare/pay...

Might have captured the precise moment I permanently damaged my vocal cords (giving a 10 min speech w laryngitis) 😂 I joke, sort of, am completely miserable + unable to talk today. Buuut WORTH IT. This, the right to stand up and speak, this is what our country is about it. May we always have hope 🙏

Video part 1/4. My speech at the Worcester No Kings rally on 10/18. It was such a hopeful and inspiring event 🚫👑🇺🇸💪

Worcester was a success! Such an inspiring event www.telegram.com/picture-gall...

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I really can’t get enough of these frogs

Need some slogans for your No Kings Rally sign? A friend, with assistance from ChatGPT, came up with the following, please share! And see you from the podium (with raging laryngitis, argh) at Institute Park in Worcester, 1pm!

Little attention has been given to the effect of NIH research terminations on people who stand to benefit most from scientific discoveries: the patients, care partners and community leaders. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

$40B is enough to effectively DOUBLE the NIH budget, never mind rescue our current crisis...

CALL TO ACTION. **Accreditation standards for Universities/grad programs are changing**. All references to DEI scrubbed. Universities no longer required to have libraries or to staff them with libraries. 34 pages of standards reduced to 11. We have until 5pm today to comment! Links in the reply 1/3

This is the face of the health care crisis in America.    It’s what I’m fighting to change.

Happy Ada Lovelace Day! My daughter is named Ada; it is a name my husband and I treasured long before we had kids. Here's to the women who broke boundaries before society at large realized that the boundaries are worth breaking!

Such important commentary from @jeremymberg.bsky.social “remaining quiet is…misguided. Silence may protect an institution from becoming an early target, but history shows that it increases the likelihood that that institution (and many others) will be become targets over time” tinyurl.com/5yzk4k5t

Read this 👇

Oh look, the president is twisting thumbscrews against American citizens for political gain again. This is normal, right?

Pro-tip: "making" the proof is not how science works. Here's the full clip: www.tiktok.com/@couriernews...

Thx to @martymeehan.bsky.social for leadership across the 5-campus UMass system (incl @umasschan.bsky.social) speaking up regarding the value of research. The DRIVE legislation mentioned in this article would be a lifeline for the MA economy. Maura Healey, your state needs this! tinyurl.com/4ex3tttp

A reminder that the PhD program for EMBL is open for winter recruitment round. If you want to understand life at a molecular level and have a quantitative science (you don't have to have done biology - we love our mathematicians/physcists/chemists!) apply www.embl.org/about/info/e...

“…like Taher’s son, Mohammed Hashim, it is Myanmar’s children who have borne the brunt of the fallout. A study published in The Lancet in June said the US funding cuts could result in more than 14 million deaths, including over 4.5 millions children under age 5, by 2030” apnews.com/article/myan...

It’s just so catchy

Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE

I can’t believe I have to say this, but historically, masked men who kidnap families in the middle of the night are usually not the good guys.