Amanda
@dramandar.bsky.social
Brain Injury Rehabilitation Researcher 🧠🔬 TV Podcaster with @crylaughpod.bsky.social 📺 🎤 Science Advocate with @phlscienceaction.bsky.social 🧪✊🏻
Drs. @dramandar.bsky.social, Kirby Wycoff, & Jacelyn Biondo recently returned from the SMARTlab at UCD in Ireland. They are developing research collaborations to identify how to better support people living with severe brain injury & address gaps in healthcare systems globally for these individuals.
Stand Up for Science at Philadelphia, the original American city of science. #standupforscience # Philadelphia
Defending immigrant rights is not separate from science - Matthew Goldshore, pediatric surgeon #standupforscience #immigrantrights #philadelphia #medicine #philadelphiascienceaction #abolishice
When you attack immigrants, you attack science - Philadelphia Councilmember Jamie Gauthier #standupforscience #philadelphia #philadelphiascienceaction
If you’re an immigrant, if you’re first generation, if you’re a woman, a scientist of color, trans, or gay, you belong in science. - Maya English, PhD student, GETUP UAW #standupforscience #philadelphiascienceaction
Every dollar spent on bombs is a dollar not spent on curing disease. Every missle built is laboratory that doesn’t get built. - Todd Wolfson, AAUP #standupforscience #philadelphiascienceaction #nowar
The future of humanity should not depend on whether billionaires feel generous; it should depend on the democratic will of us - Todd Wolfson, AAUP #standupforscience #philadelphiascienceaction #taxbillionaires
Philly march today led by @marionleary.bsky.social Stand Up For Science @standupforscience.bsky.social
I will always show up, speak up, and stand up to defend science and all it encompasses - including protecting our immigrant colleagues, students, patients and neighbors. Thx to everyone who did just that today - showed up, spoke up, and stood up together! @philadelphiascienceaction.substack.com
Come out and rally with me tomorrow!!
Marion Leary, PhD, MPH, RN@marionleary.bsky.social · 5mo ago🚨 Here is our final speaker list for the @philadelphiascienceaction.substack.com @standupforscience.bsky.social rally and march - tomorrow Saturday at 11a at City Hall🚨 We hope to see you there so that we can stand together for and with our immigrants neighbors and science.
The 3/7 Rally & March will highlight the harms that aggressive and blunt immigration enforcement is causing our science, healthcare, and education communities. Speakers will include:
The 3/5 Teach-In will cover the state of federal science funding, academic freedom, and institutional autonomy. Speakers will include:
Get ready, Science Jawns 🧪🦅! Action week is here! 3/5: TEACH-IN on the State of American Science One Year into the Trump Admin. RSVP HERE: www.eventbrite.com/e/philadelph... 3/7: Philly's STEM, Healthcare, & Ed community will RALLY & MARCH to oppose the harms of aggressive immigration enforcement.
I’m incredibly proud of the work I’ve been doing with @philadelphiascienceaction.substack.com This week, we’re hosting 2 urgent, timely events addressing the escalating attacks on U.S. science and the immigrant communities that power and sustain it. Both free & open to public. RSVP for teach-in:
Philadelphia Science Action Teach-In
Discussing the State of American Science One Year into the Trump Administration
eventbrite.com
Marion Leary, PhD, MPH, RN@marionleary.bsky.social · 5mo agoThis is an exciting and busy week for @philadelphiascienceaction.substack.com. In the birthplace of this country, where we will celebrate 250 years in July, our history shows that Philly is a hub of science, healthcare, education, activism, and advocacy. Join us in continuing that tradition.
ON 3/7, WE RALLY & MARCH to oppose the harms caused by aggressive immigration enforcement on our STEM, healthcare, & education communities! Speakers include: @councilmemberjg.bsky.social, @aaup.org's Dr. Todd Wolfson, @pjsn.bsky.social's Miriam Oppenheimer, & more! 📍North side of City Hall 🕚 11 AM
Dr. Lorena Grundy, VP of @aaup-penn.bsky.social, will discuss their response to the Trump Admin's Compact for Higher Education and the compact's implications for academic freedom, research, and institutional autonomy.
Philadelphia Science Action@philadelphiascienceaction.substack.com · 5mo ago📣 One week to go until our 2026 Teach-In on the State of American Science One Year into the Trump Administration 🗣️ We will hear from Prof. Lorena Grundy, Dr. Andrea Liu, Dr. Kate Wallis, and more! RSVP here: www.eventbrite.com/e/philadelph...
If you care about the environment, healthcare, or academic freedom come to this event next Thursday (March 5) put on by @philadelphiascienceaction.substack.com. Then join the Stand Up For Science march on Saturday, March 7th. All are welcome Bring your curiosity 🙂
📣 One week to go until our 2026 Teach-In on the State of American Science One Year into the Trump Administration 🗣️ We will hear from Prof. Lorena Grundy, Dr. Andrea Liu, Dr. Kate Wallis, and more! RSVP here: www.eventbrite.com/e/philadelph...
We are a week and a half out, Philly! Watch this space, speaker announcements for both events, and more, are comin' your way! 🦅🧪✊
Decades of evidence show that immigrants make disproportionate contributions to scientific discovery and technological advancement. As of 2019, nearly one in four STEM workers in the United States was foreign-born. Scientists cannot afford to treat this as someone else’s issue.
This Is Our Fight: How Immigration Enforcement Threatens Science and Healthcare
By Amanda Rabinowitz, Ph.D.
open.substack.com
As individual actors, scientists are not positioned to stand up to a coordinated federal assault, but COLLECTIVELY SCIENTISTS HAVE POWER. This power comes from organization... especially unions. Check out the latest article on our Substack, by @dramandar.bsky.social
Scientists Are Workers — and It’s Time We Organize
By Amanda Rabinowitz Ph.D.
open.substack.com
Mark your calendars, Science Jawns🧪🦅! 🗓️ On 3/5: We are hosting a teach-in discussing the state of American science one year into the Trump Administration. 🗓️ On 3/7: We are once again hosting Philly's @standupforscience.bsky.social Day of Action Rally and March.
Read my latest post for @philadelphiascienceaction.substack.com about a case before the Supreme Court that threatens to endanger LGBTQ+ youth by weakening protections against discredited and dangerous conversion therapies
Philadelphia Science Action@philadelphiascienceaction.substack.com · 10mo ago“At its core, Chiles v. Salazar is not about protecting speech. It is about pathologizing LGBTQ identities ... It rejects decades of scientific consensus and ethical guidance in favor of a worldview that seeks to make society less safe and less inclusive.” open.substack.com/pub/philadel...
This is an easy one, Jameson. JUST SAY NO. "J. Larry Jameson said the school will evaluate a proposed compact from President Donald Trump’s administration based on the school’s values and mission... freedom of inquiry and thought, free expression, non-discrimination" share.inquirer.com/jTf7PW
Penn ‘seeks no special consideration,’ president Jameson says in response to Trump proposal
Penn has until Oct. 20 to respond to the compact, which would give the Trump administration wide-ranging influence over core university operations including hiring, admissions and tuition setting.
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"Each concession leaves institutions more entangled with the federal government and more vulnerable to future coercion. Resistance must be strong, early, and sustained, or the space for resistance will vanish." Read our latest blog post by @dramandar.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/philadel...
Why Penn Must Reject Trump’s Higher Ed Compact
By Amanda Rabinowitz Ph.D.
open.substack.com
