One of the coolest things about working at @stellatecomms.bsky.social is getting to work with an incredible team of designers who really understand how to bring science communication to life ✨ 🎬

🚀 NY-CURES Launch — Championing State-Wide Investment in Science! 🚀 Our new coalition advocates for sustained public support of New York’s vibrant biomedical research ecosystem — creating cures, economic gains & strengthening communities. Sign up. Stay informed. Join the movement: www.nycures.org/

I might have lost funding but at least I can do what I want. :) And I want to teach people about AI ethics in 90 second increments! bit.ly/ai-ethics-sy...

🧪 @transjournalists.org is offering a few dozen stipends of $250 or $500 to support journalists looking for a boost to attend conferences, trainings, workshops, and more. Applications will be accepted until 11:59pm PT on August 11. Find more info and apply below!

We're hiring a Digital Engagement Manager! 🧪 Learn more about the job opening and application process: laskerfoundation.org/about-us/car...

A while ago, we started a #FixItFriday tradition. We keep a running list - large & small, digital & analog, anything broken or annoying - and work on it together. Today's 30-second fix: to remove AI "preview" from search results, here's the setting for Chrome users: www.reddit.com/r/techsuppor...

🧪 Medical research funding continues to be critically endangered, but at least some grants have been ordered to be reinstated - a sure sign that we have to keep pushing back on these illegal, harmful decisions. 🧵 from this week's update - and how you can help with Unbreaking.

Join us for the first of @stellatecomms.bsky.social FREE webinars on Web Design for Nonprofits on August 6, 2025 from 1-2PT ET! ✨

The reconciliation bill Congress passed last week cut a trillion dollars from Medicaid, which covers 1 in 5 people in the US. With other Trump administration policy changes, the bill’s cuts are expected to push 17 million people out of healthcare coverage. unbreaking.org/issues/medic...

The @unbreaking.org team just launched its blog, and this post from Sydette is really something special. “Nothing ever comes back exactly the same. But if we know what has changed, what is being destroyed—but also what can be saved—then we can hope that something even better can be rebuilt.”

Very excited for this! In person (in NYC) and livestream tickets available!

Protect transgender scientist! 🏳️‍⚧️

This is an admirable decision, and must have been a devastatingly hard one. It shouldn't have to be this way - these demands are illegal AND unethical.

✊ACTION MENU✊ Science is under attack. But we’re fighting back. ✔️ Sign the Bethesda Declaration ✔️ Join our resistance to the Fool’s Gold EO ✔️ Take action in your community ✊ Let’s flood the zone with science.

CLARIFICATION : The Trevor Project's hotline will still be live. But basically this means LGBTQ people can no longer be connected to it through the US national 988 suicide prevention hotline. They will need to be contacted DIRECTLY So spread this around They can be texted. They can be called.

MORE YOUNG: "It is palpably clear that these directives and the set of terminated grants here also are designed to frustrate, to stop, research that may bear on the health – we’re talking about health here, the health of Americans, of our LGBTQ community. That’s appalling."

YOUNG: "I am hesitant to draw this conclusion, but I have an unflinching obligation to draw it – that this represents racial discrimination. And discrimination against America’s LGBTQ community. That’s what this is. I would be blind not to call it out. My duty is to call it out."

BREAKING: A federal judge in Massachusetts (the Reagan-appointed William Young) has declared the Trump administration's cuts to NIH grants — ostensibly over Trump's EOs on gender ideology and DEI — are "illegal" and "void." He's ordering many grants restored.

Tell your legislators that you stand with these scientists. 202 224 3121 is the Congressional Switchboard. Here is a letter from @resist.bot to send too. resist.bot/petitions/PQ...

I've focused a lot of energy on grant & job losses within academia lately. Glad that the @chronphilanthropy.bsky.social has launched a nonprofit job loss tracker, including a form to contribute your own data www.philanthropy.com/article/10-0... (h/t @paulacroxson.bsky.social(

SEVERAL KEY THEMES FROM THE HEARING: 1. Jay is REALLY pushing off accountability on the budget saying that it is "a negotiation between congress and the administration" I think he is distancing himself from Trump to remain "neutral" & avoid fallout when it (inevitably) comes.

🧪 Scientists are pushing back against the gutting of US research funding. Now scientists outside of the NIH and members of the public can sign on in support of the Bethesda declaration: www.standupforscience.net/bethesda-dec... More about the Bethesda declaration: apnews.com/article/nih-...

💫 Please share these resources widely - they are designed to track what we know and make sense of things in a well-sourced and fact-checked way. The page on medical research in particular covers a lot of ground and will be updated regularly. 🧪

Directly from philanthropic leaders on why philanthropy is not the answer to federal research cuts:

One week from today, on June 3, @storycollider.bsky.social is turning 15 and celebrating with an all-star lineup of fave storytellers! ✨ We still have a few tix left, so please join us in NYC or via livestream - and support us in our mission to tell science stories! 🧪 www.storycollider.org/15years

🧪 Detailed data viz NYT article, out today, on the extent of funding cuts at the National Science Foundation. This "broken pie chart" is neat & new to me: Powerfully shows the slowdown in new NSF awards across areas. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

That was fast. @nbcnews.com www.nbcnews.com/politics/imm...

Applications are now open for our fall internship program! This is an excellent opportunity for a beginning science journalist to report and write about the fast-moving field of neuroscience. Apply now: simonsfoundation.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/simons...

After more than a month of uncertainty, 30 previously purged employees at the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke received an email yesterday stating they no longer face termination. By @sydneywyatt.bsky.social, @avaskham.bsky.social #neuroskyence bit.ly/4dwfrdG

NEW SCIENCE VS EPISODE out discussing what's going on with U.S. science under the Trump administration — and how scientists are fighting back. We hear from fan fave @maxkozlov.bsky.social at @nature.com. PLUS: Does funding science do anything for the economy?🧪 open.spotify.com/episode/4A9A...

I'm really excited to be part of @unbreaking.org. Our goal is to share information about what is happening - and the human cost - in ways that are clear and rigorously fact-checked. More pages coming soo, including on funding cuts and other attacks on medical research unbreaking.org 🧪

New NIH Notice "expiring" a large number of funding opportunities because "We have identified a number of Notices of Funding Opportunities (NOFOs) that were not expired or reissued as indicated in the implementation plan outlined in NOT-OD-24-085." grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

My ongoing request: If your NSF or NIH grant was terminated--whether at Harvard or elsewhere--please report it here. NSF: grant-watch.us/submit-nsf.h... NIH: grant-watch.us/submit-nih.h... Our trackers are actively used in lawsuits and are often the only record that terminations ever occurred.

1. Over the past four months I've talked with many foundation directors about science philanthropy during Trump 2.0. Two things come to the fore every time. i) The most important they can do is maintain the pipeline of talent ii) With the federal govt pulling out, ROI is higher now than ever.

I was just hearing about this and searching for news on postdoc funding awards. If you know more, please share.

Is your foundation’s website pulling its weight? Our free Web Strategy Checklist helps science-focused funders evaluate what’s working — and what might be holding you back. Find out how well you are showcasing your impact online: 📥 stellatecomms.kit.com/foundations-...

This Wednesday! I'm trying out a new show idea involving talks and comedy, w/ help from Brian Morabito! Come by and you can also see @joshgondelman.bsky.social, Andy Vega, @emenez2.bsky.social, Kat Thek, Kurt Cruz, McKenna Moore, Molly Brown, and @paulacroxson.bsky.social! caveat.nyc/events/frien...

Science Is Stronger When We Live Our Values: two scientists have drafted a pledge to uphold our values as scientists and STEM professionals. Learn more, sign it and share it here blog.ucs.org/science-blog...

Rapid response funding for education-related projects impacted by recently-terminated or cancelled grants from NSF. $25,000 grants to address immediate needs - where possible, early-career scholars will be prioritised. www.spencer.org/grant_types/...

🚨Report your NSF grant terminations! 🚨 We are starting to collect information on NSF grant terminations to create a shared resource as we have for NIH. The more information we collect, the more we can organize, advocate, and fight back! Please share widely! airtable.com/appGKlSVeXni...

It's not just Columbia, it's not just DEI, and it's not just biomedical research: Trump's war on universities has frozen crucial science at institutions like Princeton, Cornell, Northwestern, and more. Our @nature.com team spoke to some of the affected scientists: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

This is a great action list for those facing NSF terminations. I would add one key point: Be in touch with legal counsel at your institutions and universities. There is a lot to dispute in these terminations.

It is breaking our hearts to hear of people taking their lives over the the pain this administration has caused. Please keep your eyes on and your hearts open to your loved ones. Below are resources for anyone struggling.

Turns out the warning about the NSF taking down grant information was (thankfully) a false alarm, but happy I shared it in case it was true. Never a bad time to keep our own records, and grateful to @lizneeley.bsky.social and others for keeping track of this rapidly-evolving situation 🙏

🚨 An URGENT heads-up for NSF grantees to screenshot/download/print your work in research.gov & alert your collaborators and colleagues to do the same.

I'm proud to have been part of producing both of these amazing stories of breaking down barriers in #science 🧪! Listen here or wherever you get your podcasts: www.storycollider.org/podcast

Amazing to see such a great turnout at our #scicomm session at @cogneuronews.bsky.social and so many scientists engaging with the public or eager to learn 🧠 It's never been more important to communicate how science is necessary and beneficial.

Effective storytelling in #scicomm requires some connection with the human side, to provide a vehicle to the science You have to make yourself vulnerable ... To enable an audience to connect, whether scientists, courtroom or public @ayannakim.bsky.social #CNS2025

@paulacroxson.bsky.social started being more engaged in #scicomm after attending a workshop to learn about how to more effectively share her research and then connecting with the more personal side of storytelling #CNS2025

#scicomm is more important than ever, as science is under attack @charan-neuro.bsky.social Excited for this workshop on #scicomm at #CNS2025