Jamie Collins

ICE arrested a 56-year old green card holder, i.e. a lawful permanent resident, and detained him in the Rio Grande Processing Center, where he died. www.texastribune.org/2026/10/19/t...

Remember, friends: Vote no on 3, 5, and 8. These are the questions we hate! #mapoli

Here's my comment, as an image with alt-text (given character limits). Full comment and expanded context on first post in this thread. Two more days left. Take the time to respond. rfi.grants.nih.gov?s=6a2b1c22c3... /🧵

MA has a historic number of ballot questions. Here's a handy guide for the 9 statewide ballot questions this year.

When members of the IRB that reviewed a study are resigning in protest because they recognize the unethical design of the study and the avoidable harm it will cause, maybe it is a sign to no proceed with said study. Great reporting in the guardian. www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

Less than one week left to comment on NIH's proposed changes to peer review! NOT-OD-26-088: grants.nih.gov/grants/guide... The NIH proposes to remove overall impact scores, which is an essential piece of information to plan resubmission and for institutions to make decisions around bridge funding.

I spent a year watching school administrators do their jobs—and interviewing the students most impacted. I spoke to @thecut.com in a long-form Q&A about what I saw. Mainly, a system designed to protect perpetrators and punish victims in each and every case.

NEW: The Trump administration keeps denying and downplaying that immigration agents have been detaining Americans. It’s wrong. We’ve found more than 500 U.S. citizens have been held against their will, including handcuffed or held at gunpoint.

Don’t let Bain Capital buy our democracy. www.bostonglobe.com/2026/10/02/m...

Most people have no idea how much international students are the lifeblood of higher education. But they’re about to learn. Sigh.

Stories of science funding being cut, labs shutting down and scientists losing jobs have flooded the media under Trump's administration. These six graphics show how those changes have affected U.S. biomedical research. n.pr/4ycseLJ

This will make it nearly impossible to file habeas petitions, because attorneys won’t even know what federal district their client has been moved to to stage for their removal. Something like a third of all people in ICE custody. apnews.com/article/ice-...

TMLR has faced a deluge of submissions, necessitating stricter desk rejection policies due to limited reviewer capacity Co-EiC Nihar Shah reached out to authors of 10 papers slated for desk reject. Could they answer questions about their *own* submission? medium.com/@TmlrOrg/ask...

In Massachusetts, we have a responsibility to protect the vulnerable and stand up for those who need it. We don’t throw trans kids under the bus for political points. We protect them—and all of our neighbors—because trans rights are human rights.

Good thing he's not a Twitch streamer without any formal role in government or his entire political party would be compelled by the media to denounce him. Just a Nazi working in the State Department. No big deal!

I mean, sorry to my fellow New Englanders but the jokes write themselves 😂

“Their proximity and access … [can] put them on a position to attract paid content sponsorships”:

Republicans' largest donor (by far) is hosting a robust debate on his platform about whether Jews are white. Corporate Media will ask precisely 0 Republicans about their largest donor's all-consuming misogyny, xenophobia, antisemitism, he will instead by referred to as a visionary industrialist.

I just redirect to the real news of our Senator not disavowing a rascist and stealing the money.

Sometimes society at large rejects certain ideas because they’ve been thoroughly shown to be wrong and also because they suck and the people who espouse them suck and when someone comes around arguing those ideas should be part of some edgy modern debate we can and should shun them and move on.

I hope everyone caught this Lancet study confirming that Elon Musk & DOGE are responsible for genocidal levels of suffering & death.

Let’s call this what it is: an atrocious betrayal of people who risked their lives to help Americans.

This will pretty much end international students pursuing doctorates. A shocking decision and one which will do irreparable damage to the United States in the long term. www.highereddive.com/news/trump-a...

The NIH just released a proposal that will apparently hide peer reviewers’ impact scores and percentiles from the research team, their institution, and NIH program officers. All the better to obscure how funding decisions will be made primarily via political review, I’m guessing.

I WAS TOLD THERE WOULD BE RADICAL TRANSPARENCY!!!!

Whatever else was wrong with the United States, we truly did have a higher education system that was the envy of the world. Now we’re lighting it on fire because some people are bored and racist.

Public comments open for how NIH should restructure funding mechanisms for mentored scientists who want to focus on clinical trials

Thx to @rheumcat.bsky.social for sharing. We can find treatments, cures, etc. but it is the policy that determines how this gets to people. see *policies* shaping GLP1 availability, for instance. NIH limits funding for research on the health effects of public policy www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Today in @thenation.com: a harrowing piece written from inside the Dilley ICE detention center by Maryam Tahmasebi, a green card holder who's been locked up along with her husband and son for months despite none of them committing any crime. www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Like so many thing happening right now. Incredibly short sighted. Cruel. The only motivation is to punish higher education.

The NIH is requesting public comments on measuring and rewarding scientific impact. How about allowing funded researchers to continue international collaborations? osp.od.nih.gov/comment-form...

The fact that these people have the nerve to open their mouths to talk about “protecting women and girls” while doing shit like this… whew!

Once again, the administration is doing everything they can to make us less globally competitive

🛑⚠️ Dubious Paper Alert ⚠️🛑 Can you easily identify #fabricated #OA publications? youtu.be/ghAHsZhZzMc This master class with Dr. Ben Faber will help you identify dubious OA publications and how we might stop them!

Science is an international pursuit. This harms in the US and our standing in the global scientific community.

Immediately thinking of multiple people I know whom this could affect

i think the party of sick freaks who want to inspect kid's private parts should be branded as such

New visa changes will upend international studies. Graduate programs are bracing for impact www.bostonglobe.com/2026/07/31/m...

ICYMI — Tennessee man Paul Vaughn, convicted in 2024 of violating the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act, which makes it a felony to interfere with reproductive healthcare services, was just awarded 7 figures by Trump. www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...

Good-faith concern on this issue would be going, "hmm, professional sports leagues should probably have some standards in place to ensure trans competitors aren't getting an unfair advantage," googling for 5 minutes, realizing every sports league already has those standards and dropping it.

Odd, how Republicans are so angry at the *pretend* notion that Dr. Fauci undermined our health but are not even slightly interested in RFK Jr’s *actual* undermining of our health.

TPS ended Monday for 350,000 Haitians in the US An extension for TPS passed in the US House but is stalled in the Senate A script to contact your Senators is here drive.google.com/file/d/1xg0z...

I don't know why these two particular episodes (out of so many) stick out in my memory, but: the Biden withdrawal from Afghanistan & Claudine Gay "plagiarism" "scandal." *No* Trump scandal has received the quantity or intensity of mainstream press fury that those two attracted.

Remember when NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya said there were no banned words and NIH Program Officers were making them up? Here’s the proof he lied: apnews.com/article/cali... I know, Jay Bhattacharya lying is not news. But it’s still really validating to have the admission.

Feds cancel grant that would have helped "improve care for kids with congenital heart disease, stroke, and influenza." No reason given. www.inquirer.com/health/chop-...

Congrats we just made it impossible to come here for a PhD www.bostonglobe.com/2026/07/16/m...

"Hundreds of federal food-safety staff have been cut, and last July the CDC narrowed FoodNet — the sentinel network that provides early warnings of foodborne illness — from eight pathogens to two, dropping cyclospora altogether."

There is still time to submit your comment and tell the government that you don't want US research to be completely destroyed by politicians meddling in individual grants. You can submit your comments here: www.regulations.gov/commenton/OM...