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Being in New Zealand has been glorious, and I’ve been trying to bring joy to our world that needs more joy and less rage posting. But this is a rage post. You need to read this gift article because you need to be enraged.

Happy International Day of Women and Girls in Science! 🧪 Don't forget to send in your nominations for the FEBS | EMBO #WomenInScience Award. Deadline: 15 May Read more: https://www.embo.org/the-embo-communities/febsembo-women-in-science-awardees/nominate-for-the-women-in-science-award/#WomenInScience#award

Happy International Day of Women & Girls in Science🧪. To mark this day, we feature three female scientists from our core facilities and share their professional journeys, which reflect the diversity of careers in science. #WIS #STEM 👉 www.biozentrum.unibas.ch/research/res... youtu.be/BVkxirHBqJk

Let’s celebrate women and girls in scientific research! Often underestimated, women drive research in biomedical sciences both intellectually and at the bench. Research should be a “gender-blind” endeavor, but rarely is. Stop bigotry ! Stop unconscious bias ! Go women & girls!

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has. - Margaret Mead Pic of the day #photography

Guess what happens when one country stops investing in universities (at federal and state levels) and another country turns up the investment dial?

I hope all in the US take the time to view this statement from Minnesota Gov Walz. It clearly lays out the issues & how we need to respond. When I was growing up this would be playing on the nightly news on every channel, but since billionaires bought our media....1/n www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGTs...

open.substack.com/pub/heatherc... Particularly poignant lecture on human rights. Uphold human rights and human dignity for all!

We are in Medieval times. 16 cases are linked to a church, which followed exposures at four schools last week. The outbreaks are threatening to cost the country its measles elimination status, which was earned in 2000 after vaccination efforts stopped the virus from spreading continuously. 🧪

Scientists at Canadian institutions have long punched well above our weight despite low and stagnant funding. Spending a billion dollars on external recruitment while science here is starving is exactly what Harper got wrong about supporting research excellence in Canada.

Covid vaccines released last fall sharply decreased the risk of ER and urgent care visits in children, according to new data released by the CDC — providing a striking counterpoint to Trump administration rhetoric about the shots Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/11/h...

More of this nationwide please!

open.substack.com/pub/demwinsm... Important health care news. Go Pritzker/Illinois! Sensible advice at last.

“But the Trump administration cut the money, claiming it fell under DEI – diversity, equity and inclusion.”

So needed! Hack away!

3 infant #pertussis deaths this year in Kentucky. "Of the three infant deaths reported over the past 12 months, all three were not vaccinated, nor were their mothers." We first tested maternal vaccination for whooping cough over 80 years ago. It's safe & effective & might have saved these babies.

Always read @ericmgarcia.bsky.social on the politics of autism. This piece is excellent in describing the harm RFK Jr. is doing to autistic people.

Self evident truths. Fight for them!

micheleburton.substack.com/p/rep-melani... Worth spreading to all circles of society

APHA Rally: November 5th 2:30 National Mall, 7th Street, N.W. between Madison and Jefferson (near the Hirshhorn Museum) www.apha.org/events-and-m... 1/2

"Selling EB-5 Visas to #Chinese clients" bsky.app/profile/edhi...

DeSantis orders Board of Governors to ‘pull the plug’ on H1-B visas in universities floridaphoenix.com/2025/10/29/_...

PhDs in STEM fields, the highly trained motor that advances innovation (in everything from medicine to space exploration) are called “cheap labor” that is unwanted in the US - at least in Florida (Trump’s america). Don’t go. European opportunities await.

From Mitch Jackson, someone who is not blinded nor overwhelmed (yet):

The death of American intellectual and scientific leadership. Not only Harvard does this: Stanford, Brown, Boston U: it’s across all higher education. MADA (dumb again)

“Don’t want to lose SNAP? Tell the Dems to reopen the government!” SNAP assistance gets cut in the big beautiful bill too. Healthcare is slashed as well. They’re withholding food for 40 million Americans to try and force the Dems to sign off on cutting food AND healthcare!

Don’t mince words - spread what is true and visible to all willing to see.

Harvard is nit the first nor the last university to cut grad programs.,.,

And no one dares impeach him for his obvious travesties and self-enrichment: these are against the law. A very sick country indeed.

For some irrational reason I find this extremely disturbing even in light of all the other madness

This is absolutely insane! Tyrannical brainless takeover - it is beyond credence but is real.

Two groups are calling for new leadership at HHS after Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s actions on substance abuse treatment and mental health medications, among other issues.

No commentary needed.

Gift article: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...

Listen to this and act now! Defend science-based medicine. It’s brought us a very long way. youtu.be/ye4BE9JoVcM?...

About this Florida vaccine story: When they were little - 1 yr and 3 1/2 - my two older boys, who’d had all their shots, got whooping cough. We asked their pediatrician what would’ve happened if they hadn’t been vaccinated. “Oh, they’d have died.”

substack.com/@demwinsmedi... Clear speaking at last. RFK must resign.

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/21/o... A touching atory that underscores the horror and heartlessness of the Trump administration

No comment. Scientists, you let them do it. Fight back. Hire lawyers.

Women of the world stand with american women ! men can’t overturn social progress of the last 100+ years (but they sure as h**l are trying!)

All academic institutions will soon realize we are in this together, facing an autocratic ruler who wants to destroy academia, science, and public health (together with media and courts - pick up a history book). There is only one solution - stand up, speak up, and, critically, collective action.

Go, Gov. Newsom! Sue! Go to court, and defend your rights…. Against fascism dressed up in “antisemitism bla-bla”.

I spoke to The Guardian about the devastating impacts of the Trump adminstration's war on the NIH and science www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

open.substack.com/pub/robertre... Don’t accept authoritarian regimes!