Weaponized government in action, to the detriment of livelihoods, power costs, and the US energy/climate future. Not to mention democracy. Also, viewpoint discrimination. Plus, Democrats (and Republicans!) in blue states pay federal taxes. Lots of them. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/24/b...

Trump Administration Admits Canceling Grants to States That Did Not Vote for Him (Gift Article)

Federal officials said in court documents that they halted billions of dollars in funding for energy projects to states “based solely” on whether they backed President Trump in the 2024 election.

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1,700 HIV Treatment Sites Closed After Trump Aid Cuts, a Study Finds. New research also shows that children and high-risk adult populations have been particularly affected. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/21/h...

1,700 H.I.V. Treatment Sites Closed After Trump Aid Cuts, a Study Finds

New research also shows that children and high-risk adult populations have been particularly affected.

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Shameful response from OMB Director Russ Vought today. He says political appointees - not scientists - should be the ones who decide whether breakthrough cancer research will be funded under the proposed OMB rules. His political attack on DEI is hurting our ability to cure cancer in America.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3w ago

TINA SMITH: Researchers in MN made a breakthrough in childhood cancer in Black kids with a grant. But it seems that according to your proposed rule, this type of research wouldn't allowed bc it's 'DEI.' VOUGHT: We are against DEI policies. We have intended to rid of them whenever we possibly can.

Please take some time out of your upcoming busy days and consider taking action to @standupforscience.net! #ScienceSky #TechSky #EngineeringSky #MedSky #MathSky #GreenSky 🧪

Colette Delawalla, PhD@cdelawalla.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Time for a thread on all the @standupforscience.net action tools! Site: www.standupforscience.net Action Center: fight2win.standupforscience.net SUFS OMB Overview: www.standupforscience.foundation/policy-and-a... SUFS Guide to Public Comments: www.standupforscience.foundation/policy-and-a...

Since January 2025, 2 MILLION fewer children are enrolled in Medicaid or Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) Not sure how not insuring our youngest people is making America healthy again. www.fiercehealthcare.com/regulatory/g...

Georgetown study: 2M children have dropped out of Medicaid, CHIP since January 2025

There are 2 million fewer children enrolled in either Medicaid or the Children's Health Insurance Program compared to January 2025, according to a new report. | There are 2 million fewer children enro...

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My comments to @nytimes.com on the "Uniform Regulation." “It means that all grants, not just science grants, are now subject to the rules that are defined by the White House, rather than by a technical agency." said Cole Donovan, the director of science policy and advocacy @standupforscience.net

White House Seeks to Impose Political Test on Billions in Federal Grants

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More important analysis and insights from Elizabeth Ginexi about the proposed OMB regulations: elizabethginexi.substack.com/p/this-new-o...

This new OMB Rule Is Bigger Than Science. Much Bigger.

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Calling all Scientists! Research Administrators! Deans! Fans of Science! No one is coming to save us. Here is your assignment. I have written a step by step, easy to understand "how-to" document to help you comment on the proposed OMB rule. elizabethginexi.substack.com/p/what-we-ne...

What We Need to do NEXT: OMB’s Proposed Federal Financial Assistance Rule (OMB 2026-10817)

What OMB’s Proposed Federal Financial Assistance Rule Means in Practice

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Great report from the Addiction Science Defense Network on the measurable impacts of the 2025 Trump Administration. See how the federal siege on addiction science has impacted your research area, your community, and your loved ones: 26d47f0d-08d3-4401-8660-1bae164059b8.usrfiles.com/ugd/26d47f_e...

Terrible new guidance from the Trump administration. Fentanyl test strips change drug use behavior: they decrease risk. This is both true for young people who want to ensure that the substances they are taking are not adulterated with fentanyl, and for people who are intentionally using opioids.

The Center for Drug Use and HIV Research (CDUHR)@cduhr.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Trump administration warns against using federal dollars on fentanyl test strips "warned its grantees against using federal funds to buy harm reduction supplies including sterile syringes and pipes, or to distribute test strips" www.statnews.com/2026/04/27/t...

When it comes to relapse risk, positive social experiences are perceived as especially protective – and negative ones as especially risky. This was true for people in recovery and those with no history of addiction. Positive social connections are worth pursuing folks!

Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs@jsadjournal.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Perceived Relapse Risks Associated With Emotionally Impactful Events: Connection Counts More (new in @jsadjournal.bsky.social 87/2) @iasatusc.bsky.social @uscpphs.bsky.social @uscpsychology.bsky.social @ninachristie.bsky.social @keck.usc.edu @casaa.bsky.social www.jsad.com/doi/full/10....

'One year of failure.' The Lancet slams RFK Jr.’s first year as health chief | NPR www.npr.org/2026/02/28/n...

'One year of failure.' The Lancet slams RFK Jr.'s first year as health chief

In a scathing review, the top US medical journal's editorial board warned that the "destruction that Kennedy has wrought in 1 in office might take generations to repair."

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During last weekend’s life-threatening freeze, city leaders asked OnPoint’s overdose prevention center (OPC) to stay open 24/7 to keep people indoors, warm, and alive. They did. That’s what OPCs are: community safety infrastructure that saves lives, cuts 911 calls, and connects people to care.

In this @thehill.com op-ed, @ninachristie.bsky.social (@aaas.org) argues that for HHS’ new $100M addiction initiative to work, it must engage with, rather than reject, evidence-based recovery approaches that promote and center community, including harm reduction + housing first models. Read now. ⤵️

RFK Jr. has harmed the US. Most have justifiably focused on what he has sought to destroy, like vaccine access. What he seeks to "build" may be just as harmful. "Great American Recovery" is a return to coerced treatment and departure from evidence-based approaches. See my newest piece in The Hill.

Excited that my TEDx ABQ Talk is out now! Tune in to hear some of my thoughts on the intersection of social connection and addiction, and why we should strive to create and maintain meaningful relationships in our own lives. www.youtube.com/watch?v=IU8w...

Is Connection at the Core of Addiction? | Nina Christie | TEDxABQ

YouTube video by TEDx Talks

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🧪 Senate appropriators say: NIH's budget gets a... boost! Rather than 40% cut, NIH gets a $400M *increase* in the Senate committee bill for FY26 (about +1%). "Congress has your back," said @murray.senate.gov. ADVOCACY MATTERS! There's still a long road (esp in the House), so keep up pressure.

Full Committee Markup of Defense and Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education Appropriations Acts | United States Senate Committee on Appropriations

United States Senate Committee on Appropriations

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Shouting from the rooftops again: Cutting research grants means the loss of that potential knowledge, yes. But most of the money in a grant supports JOBS. Your local university losing grants means your community losing prosperity. It means your kid having to take more loans for school.

TommasinaResist⚜️🦋🐈‍⬛@tommasinaresist.bsky.social · last yr.

What happens when Trump cancels millions in federal research grants—some already awarded? Students lose opportunities, campuses lose resources, & vital innovation gets silenced. Higher ed is under attack, & the damage is real. #ClassroomsNotCuts #USDemocracy #Voices4Victory

Getting this unprompted email from a participant absolutely made my day and gave me a much needed reminder on the role of research in participants' lives, even from something as simple as a daily diary study. Posting with permission from a participant:

BREAKING: Scientists are staging a “science fair” in the lobby of a Congressional building to tell elected officials about the critical knowledge the US will lose because their research grants have been canceled.

In light of recent cuts to funding for HIV prevention, I was re-listening to the Rent soundtrack, and then picked up the novel Four Squares. Both tell human stories of the AIDS crisis in the 80s. Now, I’m thinking about what folks learned then so we can build support for trust in public health now.

Teresa Winstead@drteresa-winst.bsky.social · last yr.

Really good conversation w Reed Tuckerson about trust in public health now related to AIDS crisis dynamics. ❤️‍🔥💪Dr Tuckerson made the connection to stigma and people who use drugs, like I was hoping he would. 👏@brindabee.bsky.social, et al #harmreductionsaveslives open.spotify.com/episode/6aVp...

My first RSA was a whirlwind! 3 highlights to share: discussing the importance of AA meeting quality for recovery, the mindfulness based relapse prevention workshop by @katiew.bsky.social & @monizlewis.bsky.social, and being a mentee of @katiew.bsky.social who received the Marlatt Mentorship Award!

Katie Witkiewitz@katiew.bsky.social · last yr.

Finally, incredibly stunned/honored to receive the @rsaofficial.bsky.social Marlatt Mentorship award. Alan Marlatt (my PhD mentor) is the reason I am a scientist and I am so honored to carry on his legacy of mentoring. I hope our T32 will fund so we can continue mentoring our amazing trainees.

I am really excited to publish this work from my dissertation which shows that positive social experiences are perceived as especially protective – and negative ones as especially risky – for relapse risk. Fostering positive social connections is crucial, keep on connecting!

Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs@jsadjournal.bsky.social · last yr.

Perceived Relapse Risks Associated with Emotionally Impactful Events: Connection Counts More (just accepted in @jsadjournal.bsky.social) @iasatusc.bsky.social @uscpphs.bsky.social @uscpsychology.bsky.social @ninachristie.bsky.social @keck.usc.edu @casaa.bsky.social www.jsad.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Truly incredible statement on current affairs directly from NIH employees. How can you demonstrate your support? Here is a link to sign in support of science and the Bethesda Declaration here: www.standupforscience.net/bethesda-dec...

NIH Open Letter of Support — STAND UP FOR SCIENCE

Add your name now!

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Stand Up for Science!@standupforscience.net · last yr.

🚨BREAKING: 300+ NIH employees call out the harm of censorship & politicized science in scathing email to Bhattacharya, demanding an end to political interference, a lift on funding freezes, & rehiring of fired staff whose work saves lives. This is historic - insiders are blowing the whistle. 🧵(1/5)

Cassie said it best in yet another great piece in the ABQ Journal from addiction scientists: "We owe it to every person struggling with substance use, and their families, to act now to save the very infrastructure that saves families from unnecessary suffering." Check it out here:

Cassie Boness, PhD@cassie-boness.bsky.social · last yr.

New op-ed out in the Albuquerque Journal. I share about the importance of federal substance use and addiction funding for families like mine. www.abqjournal.com/opinion/arti... and in case you hit a paywall: unmm-my.sharepoint.com/:b:/g/person...

Absolutely worth the two minute listen! What we are facing now with the proposed cuts to NIH is not a 5-year problem, but a 10-year, 20-year, 30-year problem

American Association for the Advancement of Science@aaas.org · last yr.

Earlier today, AAAS CEO Sudip Parikh testified as a bipartisan witness before the U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee, warning that without immediate action, the U.S. runs the risk of losing its position as a global leader in biomedical research and innovation.

Only 100 days into his presidency, the Trump admin & Congress are scaling back support for health services that prevent overdose & offer a path to recovery. With $1.5 trillion in cuts still on the table, we continue to fight for care. Learn more: drugpolicy.org/news/trumps-...

Trump’s Funding Cuts Jeopardize Fentanyl Overdose Prevention and Recovery - Drug Policy Alliance

Q&A: How do Trump's and Congress's proposed federal funding cuts threaten overdose treatment access and other health services?

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Great article by @ethanbrooks.bsky.social about the underutilization of buprenorphine. Mallory's story highlights the benefits of this treatment for opioid addiction, while her brother's illustrates our failures in the treatment sector. www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...

Why Has America Ignored Its Best Addiction Treatment?

Buprenorphine can stop cravings for opioids, yet its uptake in the U.S. has stagnated.

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Writing to your neighbors about your science is a critical skill! The time is now to advocate for the health of your community, for your community. @standupforscience.bsky.social @sufsnewmexico.bsky.social

Emma Courtney@emmaccourtney.bsky.social · last yr.

HEY SCIENTISTS!!! Looking for a way to get involved in advocating for science on a local level? ⬇️ We're asking scientists to publish an op-ed in their local newspaper on June 16th, the birthday of Nobel-prize winning scientist Barbara McClintock ☀️ See the link below for more details!

Lots of news today - my op-ed is now out in the Albuquerque Journal. Science is for all. Let's take a stand, together! #StandUpForScience @standupforscience.bsky.social @sufsnewmexico.bsky.social @wearehighered.bsky.social @insidehighered.com @govmlg.bsky.social

Scholars Strategy Network@scholars.org · last yr.

Threats to federal funding have created uncertainty for the future of #science & scientific research. In this OpEd, @ninachristie.bsky.social writes about the need to stand up for science, having organized local rallies on this issue herself. Albuquerque Journal: www.abqjournal.com/opinion/arti...