Nobody talks about out how hard it is to be silly right now

Speaking of voices under attack…can we be just as loud about Black journalists and comedians who are silenced, even by our so-called liberal outlets. • Joy Reid • Don Lemon • Melissa Harris-Perry • Tiffany Cross • Jemele Hill • Marc Lamont Hill • Karen Attiah • Amber Ruffin

ME [more burnt out than I’ve ever been in my life]: okay no problem

It has become staggeringly clear that we need to make statistics required education

I find I can’t muster a proper response to either the Tylenol madness or the U.N. appearance. At some point it is just too ridiculous. It would feel insane to offer sane commentary.

Dr. Jane Goodall, DBE, founder of @janegoodallinst and UN Messenger of Peace, spoke at the 2025 #ForbesSustainabilityLeaders Summit.

ME: hey, it’s me! THEM: sorry, I don’t… ME: we met at the void last night, remember? You were screaming and… THEM: oh that right! You were also screaming! ME: yeah, yeah I was THEM: … ME: … THEM: so how’re things?

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The GOP said its overhaul of Medicaid was aimed at reducing fraud and getting more adult beneficiaries to work. Among the likely side effects: fewer services and doctors for treating sick children.

Chicago forever

#CDC directors going back to 1977 tell the truth about #RFKJr: he is endangering the health of every American. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...

ATTN: Robert Wood Johnson has money to support “canceled” research on racial-indigenous health equity www.rwjf.org/en/grants/ac...

🚨ACTION OF THE DAY🚨 @standupforscience.bsky.social Day 13! WRITE UP WEDNESDAY! Our team on the hill learned that "Contact Me" forms on congress people's websites are very underutilized. WE WANT TO CHANGE THAT… 🔗 Instructions and scripts here: docs.google.com/document/d/1... #31Days

✨Amazing time presenting our workshop on “Participatory Methods for Equity in Health Informatics Research” with co-presenters Drs. Karen Wang, Tiffany I. Leung, Johanna Elumn, and Claudia Lai at #MedInfo2025✨

*young me, developing a strong sense of justice* This is gonna be great, what an asset, this will never drive me insane

There's been a lot of discussion lately around mRNA vaccines. Learn about them from mRNA researcher & Nobel Prize winner Prof. Katalin Karikó. Science, solutions & solidarity.

Jen nails #impsci, turns out we should do something with all this research #ISRII13 @isrii.bsky.social

Are you an early career researcher planning to attend #ISRII13? We've planned some awesome events for ECRs - stop by connect with us! @isrii.bsky.social

Nick Jacobson talks about the over 90 team members spending over 100,000 human hours to train their Therabot generative AI chatbot #ISRII13 @isrii.bsky.social

Alicia Salamanca-Sanabria #ISRII13 Trailblazer speaker posits that holistic interventions are part of addressing diversity through digital interventions @isrii.bsky.social

Share your personal DEI story with other #ISRII13 attendees or read other people’s on the post-it board by the JEDI committee. 📍Enter through the main entrance to Hahn University Center and the board is located on the right, across from the stairs! @isrii.bsky.social @telementalhlth.bsky.social

Our next #ISRII13 Trailblazer is Jen Nicholas, my good ol’ friend from @cbits.bsky.social now pushing the edges of digital mental health interventions Australia @isrii.bsky.social

No one should ever have the power to autonomously cancel hundreds of millions of dollars for scientific research based on some lies they saw on YouTube.

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🚨ACTION OF THE DAY🚨 @standupforscience.bsky.social Day 7! 🚨URGENT🚨 Call RFK & say NO to cancelling $500m in mRNA vaccine development. Put in your info, you will receive a call immediately after. We’ve got a script for you to follow for your call! #31Days act.standupforscience.net/call_campaig...

One of the most promising areas of cancer research is CAR T therapy, in which a "living drug" is made by modifying a patient's T-cells. Research suggests that mRNA can improve the safety of CAR-T therapy because it prevents genome integration. Don't listen to RFK's lies about mRNA being unsafe.

Quantifying the Profiling: 1/5 ICE Arrests Are Latinos on the Streets with No Criminal Past or Removal Order. My new analysis of ICE arrest location data show that ICE is arresting staggering numbers of Latin Americans off the streets who they had no reason to target... 🧵

The Gates Foundation announced a new $2.5 billion commitment meant to “to accelerate research and development focused exclusively on women’s health," with goals to offer more accessible and effective contraceptive options for women; improve diagnosis and treatment of STIs, and more. Details here:

NEW: The bipartisan Senate Appropriations Committee has rejected Trump’s proposed $18 billion, 40% cut to the National Institutes of Health budget and endorsed a $400 million increase. DO NOT GIVE UP! Our advocacy is working. Keep speaking up and calling your elected officials.

🎉 Congratulations to Rachel Kornfield, PhD, on receiving the 2025 Rising Star Award from the International Society for Research on Internet Interventions! @isrii.bsky.social 💬 Click below to see what else our CBITs team is up to at ISRII 2025: cbits.northwestern.edu/about/_news-...

Happy 15th anniversary of the peak achievement of literary criticism, to all who celebrate

I thought this was a great run down of Trump's War on Science! thehill.com/opinion/whit...

I’m just a girl screaming into the void that the destruction of our institutions WAS THE ENTIRE POINT. This is why @timothysnyder.bsky.social’s *SECOND* (of 21!) lesson in his book On Tyranny is “Defend Institutions”

On Columbia: We in the #NIH resistance published a piece in March. “Trump is attacking NIH because politicizing funding can force universities to become conservative.” Yes. There is a straight line between attacks on science and universities.

PBS News is not going anywhere. We will continue our work without fear or favor, as we have for nearly five decades on the air. We are profoundly grateful to Viewers Like You for your loyalty and unwavering support.

A study in Nature Human Behaviour finds that four-day work weeks without a reduction in income boost workers’ job satisfaction and physical and mental health, driven by enhanced work performance, lower levels of fatigue and fewer sleep problems. go.nature.com/3Um75MP #econsky 🧪

Running government science agencies on vibes rather than evidence kills people.

The science office “is the heart and brain of the E.P.A.,” said Justin Chen, president of A.F.G.E. Council 238. “Without it, we don’t have the means to assess impacts upon human health and the environment. Its destruction will devastate public health in our country.” www.nytimes.com/2025/07/18/c...

⚠️ NIH now limits PIs to 6 applications per year. That includes resubmissions. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

Funding cuts to PBS and NPR, attempts to stop the Wall Street Journal from publishing, Colbert canceled. Do not take a free press for granted. We need to fight for it.

RFK Jr has finalized the firing of thousands of workers from the National Institutes of Health, the Food and Drug Administration, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and other federal health agencies. Decimating our health agencies will make us sicker, not healthier.

DO NOT GIVE UP! Our advocacy is working. A key Senate committee has indicated that it will reject Trump’s proposed cuts to science agencies including NASA and the NSF. Keep speaking up and calling your electeds 🗣️🗣️🗣️

Today’s #Muppet GIF of the Day is…

Despicable. “Head Start is among the programs included in the updated and expanded list of classified “Federal public benefits” under PRWORA to ensure enrollment in Head Start is reserved for American citizens from now on.“ www.hhs.gov/press-room/p...

It seems an apt time to re-up our preprint describing crises that (especially academic) clinical psychology faces under fascism, as well as opportunities we see for moving forward with purpose. I neglected to say this in my first post, but feedback is very welcome.

I can't stress enough how close U.S. science is to the cliff. "Numbers released in May by the National Science Foundation (NSF) indicate that if Congress approves the cuts to the agency proposed by the White House, the number of early-career researchers it supports could fall by 78%" (@science.org)

President Trump’s policy bill makes significant cuts to the food aid program, once known as food stamps, used by about 42 million people. https://trib.al/ObWkDdL

The fact that this type of research isn't consistently front-page news somewhere is part of the problem. #ipv #alz #dementia #stopvaw

Great opportunity for dissertation funding for clinical science PhD students who expected to have funding to complete their dissertations and now don't. Please check it out and share with your networks (and please volunteer to review if you can!).