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@hcrichardson.bsky.social @jbf1755.bsky.social Re: WTH::Mamdani I think his event tix are less about public service and more about humanity. Counter to the idea that joy/art/entertainment is only for those who’ve “earned” it. That our existence isn’t merely to toil. Allowing people to believe it.

Has anyone noticed that we’re building an army of jacked GenX/elder Millennial women? Wonder what we can do with that.

I don’t think people really understand how bad the OMB proposed rule is going to be for state and local govt. We’re talking about putting a full third of state budgets under the explicit control of Russ Vought. (1/2) www.bondbuyer.com/news/cities-...

The @nejm.org comes out swinging against OMB's new proposed rule putting all federal grant making including science under political control. www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

@welch.senate.gov the most honest youtu.be/VDCxI1lV-2A

things every single republican president of your lifetime has done - started a war in the middle east - completely destroyed the economy

The University of Pittsburgh signed an agreement with Anthropic. www.pittwire.pitt.edu/features-art... I learned about this the same day I received materials about the Anthropic lawsuit settlement regarding using my textbook and other copyrighted materials without permission.

Nice try, but we remember who put these vaccine deniers in positions of power… and who, once they proved utterly unfaithful to their promises, are still keeping them there.

Ditto. Thanks for this Sarah. www.statnews.com/2025/10/06/g...

this doesn't get talked about enough consolidated corporate media owners fired all the beat reporters with informed subject matter expertise because they didn't want to pay them health insurance, which degraded informed consensus and created a media environment easily exploitable by bad actors

Immigrants, particularly on H1Bs, are the lifeblood of American innovation. If you wanted to hurt US competitiveness in the next century, I can think of few more effective ways than a move like this Even when found illegal, the mere intent will have irreparably harmed our future

Hey, what do you think is more likely guys: Indian firms and US firms start hiring more US workers Or Indian firms and US firms start the biggest offshore program to do the work in India and China you’ve ever seen in your life causing a net drop in jobs for US workers

I have to keep this deliberately vague, but this is a total disaster for academic research. And imposing it so suddenly is just cruel. I’ve got friends scrambling to get back to the US before midnight tonight. Do you know how hard that is to do on 36 hours of notice?

I have to say…that HELP hearing on the CDC was pretty shocking. A senator lying about the existence of a recording to try to bait the witness, Cassidy holding his own ACIP meeting at the conclusion to counter Rand Paul’s crazy, almost all high level scientists replaced by political appointees…

RKF Jr. is a dangerous man who is determined to abuse his authority to act on truly terrifying conspiracy theories and disinformation—leaving us unprepared for the next deadly pandemic and snuffing out potential cures while he’s at it. My full statement.

Hell of a chart, this, from @financialtimes.com. Spot the JCPOA. on.ft.com/4kSuQYO

"I'm still in shock. I know that there have been political issues around Harvard in recent weeks, but antibiotic resistance isn't one of them." My conversation with Harvard microbiologist @baym.lol, one of many researchers there who just lost millions in fed. grants. www.wbur.org/news/2025/05...

The 80-year recipe stoking America’s Prosperity: 1) Free-market capital investments in brilliant ideas… 2) enabled by Engineering Innovations… 3) based on Science Research in Universities… 4) funded by Grants from the US Government. It’s time more people understood this.

With nearly all of Harvard Chan School’s direct federal grants terminated, we are relying on philanthropy to power our research and support our educational programs. Every gift, regardless of size, advances our vision of health, dignity, and justice for every human. Support our work: hsph.me/whygive

The Trump administration this week eliminated funding for Harvard research projects across a host of areas, from the origins of breast cancer and the impact of nutrition on fertility to antibiotic resistance.

All 4 of my NIH research grants are terminated. These were grants on MDR-TB treatment & strategies for supporting adolescents living w/ HIV. This is a massive waste of resources. I am heartbroken for my Harvard team, my partners in Peru, the next generation of scientists & our country. Shame.

The ongoing campaign appears to be heading toward a point where no researchers at Harvard will receive federal funding.

This is insane. I'm hearing from multiple sources that all federal grants at Harvard have been *TERMINATED*. Full stop.

The best video yet of Bruce Springsteen ripping treasonous motherfucker Trump a new asshole. 🙌🙏💪👏👊👇

All NIH and NSF grants for my entire team--and for all of Harvard, I guess?--have been terminated. As provocative as that sounds, the practical effect is probably not much. Everything was already frozen. 🤷‍♂️ On the upside, it makes tracking terminated grants easier. No more guesswork at Harvard!

All of my NIH grants terminated this afternoon along with those of all of my colleagues including big (and extremely successful) P01 grants.

I didn’t think it was possible but I’ve found common ground.

Yesterday, the NIH R35 “Outstanding Investigator” grant to fund scientists in my lab studying antibiotic resistance was terminated for reasons not related to the content of the science, or any actions taken by me or members of my lab

I work for a federal science agency that I won't name, but here is the dirty little secret: the scientists themselves aren't the valuable thing. The valuable thing are the systems and infrastructure that make the science possible (peer-review, journals, large lab support from multiple grants).

Well the NIH has cancelled the Women's Health Initiative, the largest study of women in history It has been running continuously since 1991 and has provided massive key knowledge about diseases in women Unreal www.science.org/content/arti...

Are you listening? It’s the least you can do. Powerful, substantive, passionate. A clarion call to stand. www.youtube.com/live/rCUK2Vb...

I helped build a government AI system. DOGE fired me, rolled the AI out to the whole agency, and implied the AI can do my job and the jobs of the others they've fired. It can't. But, what DOGE accidentally revealed about themselves in the process is fascinating. 🧵

ATTENTION: Do you or someone you know get fired or have a job offer rescinded because of uncertainty due to the NIH funding freeze? Please DM me! THANK YOU!

This is very bad!!! The damage expands, as we all knew it would. It is interesting tho this time around that admin is NOT claiming to rely on Title VI (perhaps bc it recognizes the many problems that creates) but is relying upon some other, free-floating power www.thedp.com/article/2025...

There are days in life that shake you. I’m shattered 💔 to share that I just found out that the US Government terminated my 2024 NIH Director’s Early Independence Award (~$2 million), threatening my long-promised assistant professor job at Columbia University & academic career... 1/🧵

Uncuring cancer to own the libs. How else do you possibly explain this?

We’re already at the crowdfunding stage.

Keeping With Kennedy’s Advice, Measles Patients Turn to Unproven Treatments. Story by @teddyrosenbluth.bsky.social Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/03/15/h...

I received one of the 232 NIH grant "terminations" sent to scientists at Columbia last night. My research focuses on improving maternal and child health in the US. Also affected: ongoing clinical trials, research training programs, and research centers that aim to improve the health of Americans.

All the better to plunder and pillage: This woman explains why greed-driven billionaires want the U.S. economy to tank. 😳👇

you’re fired. wait you’re rehired. email us a list of things you’ve done today wait forget it you’re fired again. come back your job was important. you’re fired. or hired. come in to the office. wait the office has no computers go home. we are the department of government efficiency.

None of this means what he thinks it means. This is why peer review is better than review by political appointee.

And now back to our regularly scheduled "Data and Concern" segment...

Organizing a -80

I am not going to call this a Bluetorial, because I do not want to sully that term (which, at least I, find joyful). Let’s call it a Orwellial.

As a board member of @sciencewriters.org and a science writer who covers university research, I can also speak to reporters on record. 🧪

Note that there have been *no* new notices in the Federal Register (03/01/25) for NIH review panels or council meetings since 01/21/25. This continuation of the NIH freeze on funding is in violation of the court order to resume Federal funding of awards and obligations.