Colette Delawalla, PhD

Colette Delawalla, PhD

@cdelawalla.bsky.social

Founder & CEO of @standupforscience.net Standupforscience.net substack.com/@sciencefightclub PhD in Clinical Psychology "Colette is brass knuckles...w/ spikes tipped in poison" “Delusional broad” "Lady Switchblade" “Ditsy socialist liberal”

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The 5-year cancer survival rate is up to 70% SIDS deaths have decreased by over 50% 89% decline in tornado deaths All thanks to federal investment in science and OUR tax dollars at work!

Social media loves talking about how everything is getting worse. But what’s something that you’ve seen get _better_ in your lifetime?

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Oh fuck all the way off, Bubonic Bobby.

The Bulwark@thebulwark.com

RFK: "There's five hundred million Arabs in the world. And yet they don't produce science. They don't win the Nobel Prize. They don't win the Fields Prize. They don't win the Wolf Prize. They don't produce literature."

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At least 18 early voting centers in rural Alaska have not opened as of Friday, state Sen. Bill Wielechowski says. The commonality? All the affected areas have at least a 60% Alaska Native population — with nearly a dozen having Alaska Native populations upwards of 90%: https://demdock.com/4yTW5Ze

This is horrific. Good on @raskin.house.gov and others for this report. I want to see Dems go all gas on Trump and Epstein starting Jan 3rd, 2027.

Adam Keiper@adamkeiper.com

Evidence "shows that Trump lied about kicking Epstein out of his Mar-a-Lago club," according to a new report from the House Judiciary Dem staff. The report also reveals for the first time Beatrice Keul's account of allegedly having been raped by Trump. democrats-judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-su...

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A 2025 Nobel Prize winner in chemistry, Omar Yaghi is the son of Palestinian refugees who grew up in Jordan. He just left the US to move to China after raising concerns about rising anti-immigrant sentiment, like the kind shown here. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/china-than...

The Bulwark@thebulwark.com

RFK: "There's five hundred million Arabs in the world. And yet they don't produce science. They don't win the Nobel Prize. They don't win the Fields Prize. They don't win the Wolf Prize. They don't produce literature."

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Motherfucker, you eat roadkill and snort heroin off of shit covered toilets

The Bulwark@thebulwark.com

RFK: "There's five hundred million Arabs in the world. And yet they don't produce science. They don't win the Nobel Prize. They don't win the Fields Prize. They don't win the Wolf Prize. They don't produce literature."

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It’s just so appalling and enraging how casual and commonplace this has become. I’m out of words.

The Bulwark@thebulwark.com

RFK: "There's five hundred million Arabs in the world. And yet they don't produce science. They don't win the Nobel Prize. They don't win the Fields Prize. They don't win the Wolf Prize. They don't produce literature."

Oh fuck all the way off, Bubonic Bobby.

The Bulwark@thebulwark.com

RFK: "There's five hundred million Arabs in the world. And yet they don't produce science. They don't win the Nobel Prize. They don't win the Fields Prize. They don't win the Wolf Prize. They don't produce literature."

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SUNY's University Faculty Senate and Faculty Council of Community Colleges, the system-wide governance bodies for SUNY's 64 schools, have both signed America's Compact for Higher Education 🎉 ✊️

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At face, the lack of an ACIP board seems like a DC red tape thing, but this is a sneaky eugenics effort. When vaccines are not recommended by ACIP, they are not covered by insurance or available for free through Medicaid…meaning the most physically and financially vulnerable don’t have access.

Melody Schreiber@melodyschreiber.com

There's no ACIP in the US right now -- and there won't be for the foreseeable future because RFK Jr isn't reconstituting the group. That is already having consequences for new vaccines, which don't have ACIP recommendations. My latest: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

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A superb explainer of the ethical transgressions in the proposed RFK Jr-funded trial in Guinea-Bissau—a trial that appears to now be truly dead, but I suspect the researchers & RFK Jr will keep flogging the dead horse & try & find a way to revive it (eg, at RFK Jr’s new NIH vaccine injury center?)

Ah yes, wives are simply "servants"...

Amanda Katz@katzish.bsky.social

It’s hard to decide what part of this story on Marissa Mayer’s new startup is most loathsome, but this “women need a wife or, in other words, a digital servant” construction makes me want to flip over an actual table www.nytimes.com/2026/10/25/s...

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"seismic" is right. This student-led movement started after a building collapse almost exactly two years ago. They kept protesting and organizing, built a political party from scratch, and just blew past projections for their electoral success. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...

theguardian.comA student protest movement has gripped Serbia for two years. This weekend it will try to take powerUnorthodox campaign is challenging the ruling party’s 12-year reign with a bold democratic experiment

The long-serving strongman leader of Serbia, Aleksandar Vucic, has conceded defeat in an election that pitted him and his right-wing party against a diverse student-led opposition movement that spent two years protesting his government.

At face, the lack of an ACIP board seems like a DC red tape thing, but this is a sneaky eugenics effort. When vaccines are not recommended by ACIP, they are not covered by insurance or available for free through Medicaid…meaning the most physically and financially vulnerable don’t have access.

Melody Schreiber@melodyschreiber.com

There's no ACIP in the US right now -- and there won't be for the foreseeable future because RFK Jr isn't reconstituting the group. That is already having consequences for new vaccines, which don't have ACIP recommendations. My latest: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Spelled out more explicitly: the people most likely to die of the flu, covid, measles, diphtheria, tetanus, etc, are the people who now cannot easily access the necessary PREVENTIONS. This is an intentionally murderous policy (or lack thereof). Bubonic Bobby needs to be fired and held accountable.

Colette Delawalla, PhD reposted

There's no ACIP in the US right now -- and there won't be for the foreseeable future because RFK Jr isn't reconstituting the group. That is already having consequences for new vaccines, which don't have ACIP recommendations. My latest: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

theguardian.com‘It’s a mess right now’: RFK’s sweeping changes place new vaccines in limboHealth secretary’s effort to alter makeup of ACIP panel means no new recommendations coming – even as new vaccines are approved

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As parents, we have a responsibility to our children. We juggle a lot, but MediKids means you juggle less.

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Lula has been reelected president, Brazilian media has now called. An extraordinary comeback for the left-wing politician who trailed by 2 points in round 1 but managed to hold off Flávio Bolsonaro, the former president's son.

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Lula Lula Lula! Congrats to Brazil for standing up against authoritarianism once again! 🇧🇷 ⚖️✌️

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Stand Up for Science is proud to endorse Kristina Knickerbocker, running in Ohio’s 10th Congressional District. This endorsement recognizes Knickerbocker’s commitment to protecting public health and research, defending evidence-based policymaking, and pushing for government accountability.

You wouldn’t be able to water board this story out of me…but then again, I don’t need a chat bot to tell me that my son has a wicked good sense of humor, is impossibly sweet, and has never met a leaf he didn’t love.

David Gura@davidgura.bsky.social

cool, cool

As a clinical psychologist: DON’T HAVE KIDS IF YOU CANT BE BOTHERED TO KNOW THEM WELL ENOUGH TO EASILY DESCRIBE THEM IN THREE WORDS. The issue isn’t just that this is so dumb, but it’s that Mayer made this AI trash to “deal with the hassles of life”. SHE THINKS KNOWING HER KID IS A HASSLE!

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Science works, bitches.

Colette Delawalla, PhD@cdelawalla.bsky.social

The 5-year cancer survival rate is up to 70% SIDS deaths have decreased by over 50% 89% decline in tornado deaths All thanks to federal investment in science and OUR tax dollars at work!

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“Will we accept the loss? Or will we try to get our nation back?” 🎁 link 👇🏻👇🏻

Colette Delawalla, PhD@cdelawalla.bsky.social

This is going to be included as reading in history courses. Searing straight to the heart of the matter. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/24/o...

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Josh, you mean to tell me, in the US, in Oct 2026…you couldn’t find ANY BETTER MESSAGE to spend your precious political dollars on…than to punch down on ~7 people, who have done *nothing* to harm you…while there are masked, armed militia out here *kidnapping people off the streets*?? REALLY?

Erin Reed@erininthemorning.com

Josh Turek of Iowa, Democrat, comes out with one of the worst anti-trans ads yet. Not only is it an anti-sports ad, it proposes a ban on federal funding for gender affirming care. That would hit all medicaid and medicare patients, and any ACA federally-subsidized plans as well. Horrific.

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Nearly all the world’s coral reefs are at risk of collapse within 50 years, IUCN warns | Few people in the history of the world are more responsible for this preventable catastrophe than Donald Trump. Care about coral reefs? Vote for Democrats and not Republicans.

news.mongabay.comNearly all the world’s coral reefs are at risk of collapse within 50 years, IUCN warnsNearly every shallow-water coral reef ecosystem on Earth is at high risk of ecological collapse by 2075, according to the first coral reef assessment of the IUCN Red List of Ecosystems (RLE).  The…

Josh, you mean to tell me, in the US, in Oct 2026…you couldn’t find ANY BETTER MESSAGE to spend your precious political dollars on…than to punch down on ~7 people, who have done *nothing* to harm you…while there are masked, armed militia out here *kidnapping people off the streets*?? REALLY?

Erin Reed@erininthemorning.com

Josh Turek of Iowa, Democrat, comes out with one of the worst anti-trans ads yet. Not only is it an anti-sports ad, it proposes a ban on federal funding for gender affirming care. That would hit all medicaid and medicare patients, and any ACA federally-subsidized plans as well. Horrific.

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One of the most effective things Obama could do for the party is let it rip like this all year long. He's so good, but he saves it for rallies a few weeks before elections like it's a severely-limited resource and that's just not how the modern communications environment has evolved.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

“How much time do you think this defense secretary spends looking in the mirror in the morning? These are not serious people” — Obama’s audience in Ohio is hanging on every word as he skewers Trump and Hegseth

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THIS is why funding scientific research is so important. Actual tangible results that improve people's lives. Thank you for the reminder Dr. Delawalla! #FundTheScience

Colette Delawalla, PhD@cdelawalla.bsky.social

The 5-year cancer survival rate is up to 70% SIDS deaths have decreased by over 50% 89% decline in tornado deaths All thanks to federal investment in science and OUR tax dollars at work!

Colette Delawalla, PhD reposted

SCOOP: Spokesperson for Sen. Ron Wyden told me he is investigating 2 for-profit companies running new ICE facility for unaccompanied children set to open in Louisiana. LaSalle Corrections and 'humanitarian response' firm Anovaeon LLC are facing Wyden's scrutiny. www.thequeenzone.com/scoop-top-se...

thequeenzone.comSCOOP: Top Senate Dem Investigating Companies Running New ICE Facility for KidsU.S. Senator Ron Wyden (D-Ore), Ranking Member of the Senate Finance Committee, is investigating two for-profit companies contracted to run a new ICE facility for unaccompanied children about to open ...

Hey quick questions! What did the employees at Boston Dynamics think they were building robot dogs for? Shits and giggles?