Wow! Up now on our website @lchad.bsky.social created these *amazing* graphic recording notes from our panel “Critical Approaches to Reproductive Health & Justice). Check them out: tinyurl.com/HSKSymposium

‼️🚨WHAT’S AT STAKE: Higher ed “has long served as a necessary counterweight to authoritarianism… But that crucial role is possible only if universities support discourse that includes dissent and uphold their core values of inclusion, equity, and academic freedom consistently, not selectively” (5/6)

Out today in the Columbia Spectator — faculty from CUIMC Stands Up & CU Faculty Alliance reframe the narrative about antisemitism at Columbia through an analysis of the HEALS data. Read it here ⬇️ www.columbiaspectator.com/opinion/2025...

Reframing the narrative on antisemitism at Columbia: What the data says

In March, President Donald Trump’s administration abruptly terminated numerous federally funded scientific research projects at Columbia. According to personal correspondence with multiple Columbia Un...

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So far ~250 Columbia affiliates have signed a petition calling to remove Shoshana Shendelman from CU Board of Trustees + boards of CUIMC & VP&S: www.bit.ly/Remove-Trustee After an FDA warning letter ‼️ she allegedly misled investors re: company prospects Read more: theintercept.com/2025/05/27/c...

Columbia Trustee Got Sued for Securities Fraud — Then Left Her Pharma Firm Under a Cloud

Columbia trustee Shoshana Shendelman sold millions in stock as she was going back and forth with the FDA. Then the drug got rejected.

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Still thinking about the official Columbia Medical Center @columbiamed.bsky.social X account posting about the “importance of collaboration” between pharma and Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) as if MAHA is a legit org and not a gov. committee & broader movement, both widely considered unscientific

CUIMC Stands Up@cuimcstandsup.bsky.social · last yr.

@columbiamed.bsky.social posted this on X? CUIMC has many obesity medicine docs, dietitians, etc. who study nutrition. Trustee Shoshana Shendelman isn’t one of them She’s been sued for fraud (hiding FDA concerns). Faculty have a petition to remove her from CU leadership: bit.ly/Remove-Trustee

Not to mention that MAHA also isn’t your typical community health org. It’s a politically charged initiative tied to RFK Jr., with a shaky scientific foundation and commercial interests. Columbia should be more transparent about who they’re using their platform to promote.

@columbiamed.bsky.social posted this on X? CUIMC has many obesity medicine docs, dietitians, etc. who study nutrition. Trustee Shoshana Shendelman isn’t one of them She’s been sued for fraud (hiding FDA concerns). Faculty have a petition to remove her from CU leadership: bit.ly/Remove-Trustee

Columbians won’t tolerate kings — which is why we’re standing up AGAINST authoritarianism and FOR democratic values & shared governance at @columbiauniversity.bsky.social and in all levels of government! CUIMC, join us! There’s an interest form linked on our website homepage: www.cuimcstandsup.org

Columbians Against Kings! 🦁❌👑 We had such a vibrant Columbia contingent at the NYC No Kings March!! 💙✊ Columbia faculty and staff will continue standing up for our research, our teaching, and most crucially, our students! 📸: @ninaber.bsky.social #NoKings #RiseUpHigherEd #HandsOffOurStudents

‼️Action item for Columbia affiliates‼️ We urgently need to stand up for shared governance at Columbia! Please sign our petition in support of CU-AAUP’s recommendations for moving forward — grounded in democratic values: bit.ly/cu-defend-sh...

Sign In Defense of Shared Governance at Columbia University

Initiated May 8, 2025 Dear Members of the Columbia University (faculty, staff, students, and alumni), The Columbia University Chapter of the American Association of University Professors (CU-AAUP) exe...

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I will not rewrite my research to exclude the communities who need this work most. Science must reflect those it aims to serve. www.reviewjournal.com/opinion/lett...

LETTER: UNLV researcher laments cuts to federal grants

I will not rewrite my research to exclude the communities who need this work most.

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My latest on solidarity & RFK Jr. for Truthout: “Many autistic self-advocates condemned these falsehoods by pointing to the reality that they themselves do pay taxes, write poetry, have been married for years, and much more… But this argument fails to respond to the deeper problem…”

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A Trump official spoke of an “autism registry” then walked it back. Organizers still fear infringements on rights. truthout.org/articles/we-...

Scenes from our demonstration today urging the Columbia Board of Trustees to protect our patients, students, research and teaching.

RIGHT NOW: Columbia physicians, nurses, researchers, & faculty are calling on the Board of Trustees to resist the Trump admin’s assault on students, research, teaching, and patients. @cuimcstandsup.bsky.social @aaupcu.bsky.social

Our call to the Board in full detail is here.

We call on the Columbia University Board of Trustees to take the following steps: 1. Stand up for our higher ed! Propose & establish a Mutual Academic Defense Compact. This request is rooted in principles of academic freedom, institutional integrity, and the research enterprise.

TOMORROW AT 12:30PM: Join us on the Low Library steps as we call on Columbia and the Board of Trustees to resist the Trump administration's assault on our students, research, teaching and patients!

Join us on Monday as we call on Columbia and the Board of Trustees to resist the Trump administration's assault on our students, research, teaching and patients! 📍Low Library Steps ⏰ 12:30pm Monday April 14

A petition from @humanists.uk to have #abortion decriminalised "From 1861-2022 only 3 women had ever been prosecuted for terminating a pregnancy in the UK. In the past 2 years at least 6 women appeared in court." humanists.uk/action/prote...

Sign our petition: Take abortion out of the British criminal code

We are calling on the Government to protect legal abortions in the UK for all time by taking abortion out of the Criminal Code

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“America wants a country that benefits from advancing knowledge. We have to fight for that.” —Jeremy Veenstra-VanderWeele, MD, Professor of Developmental Neuropsychiatry @ Columbia University Irving Medical Center #defendresearch #defendscience #defendhighered @aaupcu.bsky.social @aaup.bsky.social

Over 200 CUIMC medical, public health, and nursing researchers, clinical, support staff, and students took a stand in Haven Plaza Thursday March 27th. Standing up to Protect our Research, Protect our Students, Defend Science, Academic freedom and voicing the need for Columbia to Fight Back!!!

🚨 The NIH RIF plan is becoming more clear, sources say. The consolidation of peer review is a blueprint for what is to come. Policy, grants management, budget, comms, admin staff will be hit hardest. The end result: Each IC will have less autonomy and NIH director will have more direct control.