This is how academic freedom dies: "Researchers at Clark Atlanta previously stated that Waffle House workers face hostile environments, low wages and a lack of benefits. Now, both the historically Black university and Waffle House are issuing a joint statement."

Shared this earlier but coming back to note that academic freedom and freedom of speech for educators is actually quite murky form a constitutional perspective (where boundaries are, how it gets operationalized, etc.). This is absolutely a critical ruling.

Believe Women is an epistemological stance. It doesn't mean you assume that every single woman is telling the truth and women never lie. It means you understand that in the system that we exist in, there's much more risk and pain for women coming forward about abuse than there is anything to gain.

Keep fighting. Please.

"His wife has said that he relied on an inhaler for asthma, but ICE agents rejected her attempt to give them the device when he was taken into custody."

Worked with @bobjherman.bsky.social on the data for this piece. Here’s the chart I think is the showstopper: Over the last 40 years, the amount of money spent on employer-sponsored insurance premiums skyrocketed by nearly 1000%, well above baseline inflation.

The new racist double standard set up by Alito in the TPS ruling: if there’s any other motive in addition to the racism, the racism doesn’t count, but if the state wants to *prevent* discrimination against black people, that is racist and unconstitutional www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

this is absolutely wild. where does roberts think these agencies come from?!? who invested them with authority to act? whose mandate are they designed to execute? the president is the chief EXECUTive. his job is executing the will of Congress as it spells out in its duly-passed laws!

Quick 🧪 and law note. The SCOTUS decision in Slaughter today has *profound* implications for US science, cancer cures and the economy. Sotomayor dissent: “Put simply, today the majority reshapes our Government… shifting tremendous power over broad swaths of American life into the President’s hands”

a major ruling from tuesday night: a federal judge blocked immigration arrests inside courts nationwide. a SCOTUS challenge is likely, but for now, it halts one of the most aggressive pillars of trump’s mass deportation campaign. our latest for the times: www.nytimes.com/2026/06/23/u...

Under the proposed OMB rule, "grants to rural hospitals, for mass transit and road and bridge repair, for special education programs and Head Start, [SNAP] and cancer research would now be subject to the whims of Russell Vought and his cronies." - @gregggonsalves.bsky.social

A warning to those who might be happy to have Trump appointees, rather than peer review, in charge of grantmaking: "Once grant funding is weaponized to serve a political agenda, a regime of any ideology can use it." - @jimalwine.bsky.social & @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social tucson.com/opinion/colu...

If I catch you being like “but who will use this? No one cares about Covid” I will hurl my shoe through the Internet. This is not a perfect drug but can be hugely helpful to high risk people (who have to still care about Covid) when we get those “oops, remember I told you I had allergies?” Calls.

The COVID vaccine study that was suppressed by the acting CDC director earlier this year has now been published in a JAMA journal. @nataliexdean.bsky.social www.medpagetoday.com/infectiousdi...

Musk says not a single person has died due to him axing USAID. Sadly, part of my job involves tracking aid spending. So here’s a thread with just some of the people who lost their lives because of USAID cuts

Scientific American is being sold to LabX Media, publisher of Discover: group.springernature.com/gp/group/med... They've fired me and other union staff, ahead of June 26 vote ratification. My rates are suddenly more reasonable, if you need editing or reporting - [email protected]

JUST IN: Aliya Rahman, the Minneapolis woman whose image went viral after ICE agents inexplicably dragged her out of her car on her way to a doctor’s appointment, just hit DHS with a federal complaint alleging its officers violated disability and human rights laws. www.huffpost.com/entry/aliya-...

i don't really know how "the government is sending deportees to dangerous countries on purpose to imprison or kill them" is not a bigger story

It’s Juneteenth. On June 19, 1865, Gen. Gordon Granger arrived in Galveston Island & issued General Order No. 3. It announced that “all slaves are free.” This story of this one event was commemorated through the diaspora of Black Americans for more than 150 years before becoming a national holiday.

pete hegseth is engaged in open racial discrimination against black officers. the clear message is that there is no place for black or women leadership in his military

Your reminder that fairy tales are full of stepmothers because women once routinely died in childbirth, from postpartum sepsis, or from other infectious diseases and left behind housefuls of motherless children. Stable nuclear families are made possible by vaccines, antibiotics, and safe abortions.

Nearly 5000 clinical trials, including more than 1000 cancer treatment tests, face termination under proposed federal regulations, a new analysis by the science advocacy group Stand Up for Science has found www.scientificamerican.com/article/prop...

"Just as in economics, in which markets allow the decentralized knowledge of many individuals to be harnessed, in science, relying on peer review allows the expertise of many scientists to be brought to bear." - @markhisted.org OMB rule would sideline peer review www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

If finalized as written, it would inject politics into a process that has long relied on scientists evaluating scientific merit. America’s research enterprise can be improved, but not by dismantling the system that has driven decades of discovery. www.statnews.com/2026/06/12/o...

“Lysenkoism demonstrated that allowing politics to control the scientific process can halt or even reverse a nation’s progress … When science becomes politicized, everyone loses.” @nejm editors recognize how destructive the new OMB rule is. Comment against it by July 13! www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

Medical societies endorse ACOG’s vaccine schedule, saying maternal vaccines are ‘key element’ of protection. My latest: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

A glimpse into the astounding, essential, *so creative and so cool* research being done by early-career scientists whose ability to remain scientists is under federal attack

Boom! @by-cjewett.bsky.social posts another blockbuster exposé. Markwayne Mullin & RFKJr both profit financially as agencies rollback protections from #kratom, a dangerous & addictive liver toxin. Added Bonus: White House's Kush Desai invokes "gold standard science” to justify the rollback.

U.S. scientists are being lured abroad—and they aren't looking back www.scientificamerican.com/article/u-s-...

Alabama women have to take a monthly pregnancy test to get a cannabis rx filled. Where it begins is never where it ends www.al.com/news/2026/06...

The US has recorded 2073 confirmed #measles cases so far this year, which is 91% of the total accumulated last year -- in less than six months. 40 jurisdictions have reported cases. www.cdc.gov/measles/data...

Since issuing a "gold standard science" exec order, the administration has "invoked that phrase not as a neutral standard for scientific rigour but as a rationale for political control over scientific judgment" - Jacob Carter, @drdavidmichaels.bsky.social & Wendy Wagner www.bmj.com/content/393/...

"Precision medicine cannot be precise if it reflects only a narrow slice of humanity." Chloe Bird and Hamad Al Ibrahim recommend ways to ensure research benefits women's health as well as men's. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

"The administration has publicly given no scientific rationale explaining why citizenship or immigration status would alter risk of infection or transmission. Pathogens don’t recognize passports." @drdebhoury.bsky.social @krutikakuppalli.bsky.social in @wsj.com

At the NYC AIDS Memorial with fellow advocates speaking out against Medicaid cuts and the continued threats to HIV funding and ours trans siblings. #healthisprimary #sevendaysofaction

Tangentially: the co-founder of Run for Something posted on Threads that she wished she had more resources and support to do candidate development in Maine 8 years ago I think this is where “oh my god Platner sucks!!” energy should go www.threads.com/@amandalitm/...

This is the second time this has happened. CBS News's Investigative unit got a retired ICE agent to break down the Good shooting frame-by-frame. On the record, he said the agents were entirely out of line. The piece was only posted online and never broadcast. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ywL...

"CBS News is on fire." Scott Pelley answers questions. And he has a lot to say. "There was a thumb on the scale for the president’s version of events that I felt was a level of political influence that I had never seen in 37 years at CBS News. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/07/m... [Gift link]

Right. The deeper issue is that the regulation increases PRESIDENTIAL control of science. And *that* is the major break from the decades of NIH success, where Congress via legislation set NIH priorities and the president mostly stayed out of it. But: /1 🧵

Please call your representatives about this proposed OMB rule if you haven’t already! 5 Calls has a very helpful script you can use. @5calls.org

“A brazen power grab” indeed - I am glad to see (some) scientific leaders describe what’s happening in plain terms. Link is www.aaas.org/news/aaas-st... Adding alt-text for the images (please make sure your team makes this required for all images @aaas.org!)

“the first amendment wasn’t intended to make an officer’s job easier”

"Pelley was not uncivil. He didn’t threaten anyone. He didn’t curse or scream. He was professionally disagreeable. Which is basically the job description for journalists. It’s the job description that Weiss herself wrote. She just didn’t mean it."

Adroit piece from @hana-kiros.bsky.social on the crisis at NSF's Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences Directorate and a bit of the history of attempts to cut it. (Many of which, like Reagan's, were abandoned after convincing from scientists and advocates.)

The next pandemic is coming. Trump has eliminated the surveillance systems, research programs, and workforce needed to stop it. New @amprog report on America's self-inflicted vulnerability: www.americanprogress.org/article/how-... S/O to my coauthor Dean Perry Halkitis @rutgerssph.bsky.social

Congress set a June 1 deadline for CMS to issue detailed regulations on how states must operationalize Medicaid work requirements, leaving states with just 7 months to finalize implementation with guidance in hand. The rule could drop Monday. Or today. There are still a lot of known unknowns.

AHIP Statement on Vaccine Coverage: AHIP members will cover ACIP recommended vaccines through 2027. www.ahip.org/news/press-r...

This one his close to home, because I met my spouse of 20+ years when he came to the US for grad school. Hate to imagine how hard it would've been to get married and then be separated for months while he waited for immigration paperwork. This is needless cruelty. theconversation.com/how-a-propos...

"A resistance that began as individual acts of courage is now taking collective shape, and what has emerged over the past several months is beginning to look like the early architecture of a [scientists'] movement." - Allie Cashel, @protectdemocracy.org www.ifyoucankeepit.org/p/a-scientif...

1 in 6 “That’s how many patients with Covid-19 go on to develop long Covid, according to a study of nearly 458,000 patients at 58 hospitals” published in JAMA Network Open. “about twice the rate estimated by federal health officials.” www.statnews.com/2026/05/28/h... via @statnews.com