Knowing that so many other groups have stepped up to meet the moment gives me hope that we can continue to break through... ... and engage with communities throughout the US to share what will happen if America steps away from our investments in science and medical research. scienceimpacts.org /🧵

This time, it's not a western blot: "$15 million to settle charges that researchers there slipped false data and images into research grant applications" #researchmisconduct #RadminSky www.radicalcompliance.com/2025/12/17/d...

Anyone have a well-written prompt for finding funding in any discipline that appears to be working well? #LLM #RadminSky

Researchers with fed funding or those applying, see this FDP update on #researchsecurity, including disclosures

To be fair, I hate Calibri too

Hearing for Thakur v. Trump (over terminated grants for University of California researchers) starting now: www.courtlistener.com/docket/70459... Zoom link: cand.uscourts.gov/judges/rfl/l... I'll try to follow along live.

Navigator Research Report: "14% of Trump voters now say they regret their vote, largely because of his handling of the economy." #polls @navigatorsurvey.bsky.social

Yes they will sue and have a very good 1st A case against Gov if facts bear these claims out

“If a professor were to record something that a student said in the class and put it on social media, the professor would be fired,” Greene said. “If a student were to record something that a professor said and put it on social media, the professor would be fired.” #academicfreedom

NEW: As the Trump administration ordered agencies to eradicate “illegal” diversity, equity and inclusion efforts, we identified more than 1,000 nonprofits that removed such language from the mission statements in their tax filings.

Civil Monetary Penalties Law fine at #Northwestern. This is in addition to the 75M payment to Trump admin to restore fed funding. #RadminSky

My quote of the day Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science. Charles Darwin

As 2025 winds to a close, Congress took a step forward to improve quality of life for our servicemembers, but failed to address the looming health care crisis facing 22 million Americans. Keep watching for some highlights.

After he’s booted from his job in Jan 2029, I’m looking forward to JB’s attempt to return to our department.

Link inside this incredible piece is going to rescinded NOT that was not going to fly in the courts #1A #NIH #RAdminSky

"The university should have immediately gone to court to challenge this because what was done was so blatantly illegal and unconstitutional" -Erwin Chemerinksy #academicfreedom #UCLA #RAdminSky

DOE Implements Common Forms for Biosketches and Current & Pending Support www.energy.gov/management/p... #RadminSky #researchsecurity

Check out how much foreign funding and gifts your uni gets and from whom www.foreignfundinghighered.gov #RAdminSky

“American Higher Education Restoration Act” takes aim at what it describes as “a glut of academic ‘research’ that almost no one reads and which does not meaningfully advance human knowledge.” #academicfreedom #RAdminSky

Grant Witness track of NIH grant losses by state: grant-witness.us Ca, IL, NY, MA, Texas show biggest losses #RAdminSky

Grant Witness, "a project to track the termination of grants of scientific research agencies under the Trump administration in 2025" grant-witness.us #RAdminSky

Stories from the frontlines of Trump's attack on science: Follow-ups from a year of struggles in Part 8 of our series "American Science, Shattered." www.statnews.com/2025/12/11/a...

www.masseycancercenter.org/education-an... #cancer

Happening now: @rweingarten.bsky.social and AFT join our partners at @aaup.org to talk about updates on our higher education campaign, "Saving Lives, Building Futures, and Powering the Economy." Follow along in the thread below, and learn more about the campaign here: www.aft.org/HigherEdBene...

All of my colleagues on H1-B visas have been instructed to prepare their social media accounts for inspection so the US government can check for ideological correctness.

#cancer #NIH #RAdminSky

Academia: please read #academicfreedom

Are you confused about legality of firing appointees to federal agencies? See this brief overview by Erwin Chemerinsky: www.scotusblog.com/2025/12/morr...

@altassdeans.bsky.social isn’t that something to celebrate!

@smerconish.bsky.social fire the kid on the phone immediately

I’m from the generation that remembers when these diseases ran rampant. Perhaps we need to be reminded with a dose of repeated history

Since she’s resumed teaching her class, Diversity, Human Rights, and Social Justice, Adams said the university has put observers in all her classes. “That’s been very upsetting, very humiliating,” she said. @jessicacalarco.com

ICYMI Government-Funded Health and Biomedical Research Is Irreplaceable. NAM perspectives. 2025;8. doi:10.31478/202508b

Will wait and see if universities remove MLK holiday in exchange for Trump's birthday* in another preemptory concession (DEI removal being the first). *Happy to take an extra holiday day off on anyone's birthday*😉

There are sections related to domestic policy including #science but are in contrast to actual cuts by Trump admin

"How can you ethically recruit somebody into a clinical trial if you can't be sure the administration won't change its mind on its priorities and terminate your study mid-stream?" @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social slams new NIH policies making it easier to halt grants www.medpagetoday.com/washington-w...

“These publications have the First Amendment right to be free of viewpoint-based discrimination, but UA is explicitly citing their viewpoints to justify killing their publications. No federal antidiscrimination law authorizes the university to silence student media it dislikes.”

The Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) is seeking input on Federal policy updates to accelerate the American scientific enterprise. This is your chance to give some feedback on how the past ~10 months have gone for science. www.federalregister.gov/documents/20... I plan to highlight:

Bluesky Community, how twisted and amusing you are...

Journal editors: what AI software(s) are you using to detect LLM written articles? Please DM me your journal policy if you have one!

Important #NIH Policy Update: NOT-OD-26-019 – Effective immediately: Removal of the LOI as part of the application process and No longer requiring a PO approval/letter for unsolicited applications requesting $500K or more in DC in any year of the proposal. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide... #RAdminsky

This is likely unconstitutional 1A violation *viewpoint discrimination* see Rosenberger v. Rector & Visitors of UVA (1995) involving denial of payment to a religious magazine by contractor to UVA.

This means NSF dissertation improvement grants in the social sciences are simply...not happening.

Texas State Board Upholds Firing of Professor https://bit.ly/4psI7cj #AcademicSky #HigherEd #EDUSky

This is concerning…. Based on their new policy, NIH can stop providing reasoning for rejecting high-scoring proposals. #RAdminsky

China Initiative 2.0 targeting universities using FCA: Trump's version #researchsecuirty #RAdminSky

Trump and the courts review of cases to date

@jeremymberg.bsky.social What about today's Friday notice on paylines? #RAdminSky