Deriding kindness as "virtue signaling" foreshadowed a desire to punish virtue itself. * Do good science, lose your grant * Practice civic engagement in school, get abducted * Express yourself with peaceful protest, get run over * Serve the public as a government employee, get fired/threatened

What we are seeing now— ICE abductions of Muslim/Muslim-perceived grad students— is what you get when there is a convergence of imperialism, anti-intellectualism, and Xenophobia. Academia’s silence on these abductions is disappointing

Incredibly powerful

Hearing more and more PhD programs are pausing admissions (including my alma mater). Absolutely terrible

This Minneapolis season of love is blind ending with two women saying no at the alter because of wishy-washy conservative politics from their fiancés…. Is very telling of the times and the deep gender divide

This is a critical detail I haven’t seen reported elsewhere. The physician will likely be protected by NY’s shield law—but the mother of the person who had an abortion is also being charged. To my knowledge, this is the first instance of criminalizing self-managed abortion since Roe was overturned.

I'm not sure how much people outside the science world understand what this means. NSF grants and fellowships are *extremely* competitive. These were already funded. It's not just new stuff being put on pause; awards already made have been frozen.

FYI, this is straight-up eugenics. There were lots of programs like this proposed in the 1930s that offered incentives and rewards to “good” (i.e. white and economically advantaged) communities to promote population growth among those groups and suppress it in others deemed less desirable.

Pronatalism and the eugenic policies that promote it are inextricably tied to white supremacy and preserving a white racial majority

Normalizing spelling out what people actually mean when they cite DEI rather than letting them hide behind the safe cover of a euphemism that's been sapped of meaning

The slurification of “dei”

remember stuff like this when they tell you that diversity means a lowering of standards

The stories coming out of Africa over the next few months without PEPFAR are going to be gruesome. People will get sick; people will die. Someone has to tell their stories.

A very smart colleague just pointed out the grim truth that the U.S. leaving the WHO may ultimately be a win for the rest of the world. Why? Because without a vote, “the US can't block WHO actions like vaccine programs, disease surveillance, contraception, etc”. Man, that is daaaark, but accurate.

got my book’s page proofs and she looks soooo good

I was so lucky to have received this funding to support my PhD. Absolutely devastated for junior scientists who won’t have the same opportunity. BUT the real losers in all of this is the American public who will now be deprived of the innovative science that comes with diverse perspectives

The “assistant” part of assistant professor is really throwing my mom off— “who are you assisting??” Girl, great question idk

PSA for cat owners in the US: cats have been contracting H5N1 (bird flu). They are very susceptible to it and the fatality rate for cats is 67%. To avoid it: -keep your cats indoors. They can catch it from infected birds and mice. -do not feed them raw dairy -do not feed them raw meat

I hate to say it but my resolution this year is just: manuscripts 😭

Rewatching ‘sex and the city’ in your 30s… scary. Why am I doing the math and realizing Carrie and my mom are the same age 🫠

The operative principle is not that political violence is not allowed. It is that it is allowed only by some actors, for some ends, and forbidden to others.

Person-centered, reproductive autonomy-promoting National Recommendations for Providing Quality Family Planning Services just dropped 🔥 www.qfpguide.org

NEW: Georgia officials have dismissed all members of a state committee charged with investigating deaths of pregnant women. The move came in response to ProPublica having obtained internal reports detailing two deaths.

between anti-abortion extremists and rfk the trump administration seems to be a targeted effort to increase maternal and early childhood mortality

In DC for the next few days—catch me and many brilliant colleagues talking methods tomorrow virtually or in person :) www.nationalacademies.org/event/43944_...

Once a month I have dinner at a fancy restaurant with three other early career repro folks in the city— and tonight is that night 🤭🤸‍♀️

resolved: people who insist that all social media sites must be places where users are constantly encountering and arguing with people over fundamental disagreement do so because their actual, real lives are echo chambers where they do not encounter any meaningful difference from day-to-day.

If you'd rather choose which accounts to follow, check out my starter pack. Both will continue to be updated as more orgs join! go.bsky.app/Gow33pj

An abortion researchers starter pack! Let me know if you’d like to be added. go.bsky.app/SHS3EQa

I haven't seen one out there yet, so I created a Sexual and Reproductive Health starter pack! Let me know who I missed that's here. Looking forward to building back community here, especially as we gear up for these next few years. go.bsky.app/6WuJVjj

After Election Day, @PlanCPills told me the site, which helps connect ppl to abortion pills by mail, received 82k visits compared to ~400 daily: "We fully anticipate [Project 2025] will be implemented & we advise people to be prepared.”

Finally letting go of twitter— for real this time!

My biggest challenge in life— joining a new social media platform 🥹