What's the connection between anti-trans and anti-intersex legislation, the defunding of science, and the scientific study of sex? It's all part of the same playbook. 🧵 Super proud to explore this and encourage creative solutions in my latest published commentary: doi.org/10.1093/icb/... (1/6)

Move over Kate Moss...cuz NOTHING feels as good as realizing you forgot to set all your clocks back

Recently a transphobic paper written by people associated with transphobic hate groups was published in Discover Mental Health @discover.springernature.com @springernature.com By publishing this manuscript, the editors lend credence to their misinformation campaign and do damage to all trans people.

Can you spare a minute to help this campaign?

Retract an Unscientific Review Written by Authors with Hate Group Affiliations

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hi everyone!! popping back into this space briefly to share the fundraiser for my long-awaited top surgery! eek! we are SO close to reaching my goal! any form of interaction helps, even if you can't donate! thank you, i love you, and keep taking care of each other! #transrights! gofund.me/60c167de1

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Ann Coulter's statement that "We didn't kill enough Indians" is a call for violence against Native people.

fwiw we on the jewish left have been saying this is project esther in action for five months

Don Moynihan@donmoyn.bsky.social · last yr.

This is a must-read: The Trump administration's use of anti-semitism to attack immigrants and higher education mirrors plans by a group of Christian nationalists in the Heritage Foundation (which produced Project 2025). 🧵 www.nytimes.com/2025/05/18/u...

This is the headline. I had friends in the path of these tornadoes.

Rebekah Jones@georebekah.bsky.social · last yr.

At least 27 are dead in Missouri in Kentucky after severe weather alerts were delayed overnight because of DOGE cuts. www.mesoscalenews.com/p/tornado-wa...

To my newborn son: I am absent not out of apathy, but conviction | Mahmoud Khalil

To my newborn son: I am absent not out of apathy, but conviction | Mahmoud Khalil

Deen, the grief I feel being apart from you is one drop in a sea of sorrow Palestinian families have drowned in for generations

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This is violence. It’s eugenics. It’s fucking evil. And the worst part is it’s gonna get very little attention and most people aren’t even gonna notice cause y’all have simply moved on.

Lindsay Beyerstein@beyerstein.bsky.social · last yr.

“FDA Commissioner Marty Makary is sending signals that FDA will likely not authorize a COVID-19 booster vaccine this year for children, and perhaps not for the general population as a whole, saying he “cannot, in good faith” recommend booster vaccination for children.”

In the past month 4 trainees in my lab lost: NIH diversity supplement, MARC, & STEP-Up funding. NSF SBE meeting (incl. ECRs) indefinitely postponed. Pipeline cuts disproportionately affect underrepresented scholars. Individual lives & our collective future impacted. #ScienceMatters

FYI: I am hearing that it would be a very good idea to log into research.gov and download copies of things like award letters if you have active NSF grants. I also recommend grabbing PDFs/screenshots of public abstracts for NSF awards in case that database goes away.

A reminder that NSF is explicitly breaking the law if/when they attempt to cancel grants that focus on promoting participation in science by underrepresented groups on that basis, incl women in science programs like NSF ADVANCE. Congress expressly directs the NSF to grant funds for this purpose. 🧪

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌@chanda.blacksky.app · 2y ago

LAWLESS NSF: Every NSF employee who is following the director on this funding freeze and fishing expedition is in violation of US code. per the post below, this language has been reauthorized twice, most recently by Biden in 2022 as the CHIPS Act. www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/... 🧪

important context about the concentration camps in el salvador:

Harvard will not comply. “No government — regardless of which party is in power — should dictate what private universities can teach, whom they can admit and hire, and which areas of study and inquiry they can pursue.” — Harvard President Alan M. Garber www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

We're in The Bad Place, folks. The existence of an overseas gulag to which you - yes, you personally - can be sent with no recourse marks the end of a whole period of American history. There's no going back after this. Even if these guys are defeated, the new order will have to look much different.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last yr.

COLLINS: Can President Bukele weigh in on this? Do you plan to return Garcia? BUKELE: How can I smuggle a terrorist into the United States? Of course I'm not going to do it. The question is preposterous TRUMP: These are sick people

This is horrifying and should, in any reasonable world, lead to immediate impeachment. On a hot mic, before the media arrived, starting around 7:15 on the time index, Trump tells Bukele he is going to start sending "homegrown criminals" to El Salvadoran gulags. This is fascism.

Danielle Kurtzleben@titonka.bsky.social · last yr.

Before press came in — but while live feed was running on Bukele’s feed — Trump said to him: “home-growns are next. … You’re gonna need to build about 5 more places.” x.com/nayibbukele/...

Excellent reporting breaking down the numbers in the canceled NIH grants: 24% of grants terminated were axed because of words now forbidden by the "Defending Women" executive order www.scientificamerican.com/article/hiv-...

How Trump is Slashing Health Research, in 4 Charts

An analysis reveals which fields of science and U.S. states are being hit hardest by National Institutes of Health grant terminations

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We are pleased to announce that Dr. Lisa Hiura, @l-hiura.bsky.social, Assistant Professor at the University of Colorado-Boulder, is this year’s recipient of the Frank A. Beach Early Career Award! Congrats Dr. Hiura! 🏆

If you had time to Quote Tweet this article, you have time to make a comment at this link before the April 11th deadline - (Feel free to look at other comments and customize them before submitting.) www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...

Alien Registration Form and Evidence of Registration

This IFR amends DHS regulations to designate a new registration form for aliens to comply with statutory alien registration and fingerprinting provisions. Aliens who are subject to alien registration ...

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The Associated Press@apnews.com · last yr.

BREAKING: Federal judge allows the Trump administration to require everyone in the U.S. illegally to register with the federal government.

hi, cis folks! so, when they release the US cass review that makes the cass review look like a trans liberation manifesto, i think you should • ask who’s making the case against transition • answer whether they have trans people’s best interest at heart • listen to actual trans people instead 🧵

Max Kozlov@maxkozlov.bsky.social · last yr.

NEW: After cancelling nearly all projects on trans health, the Trump admin has now directed the NIH to study the negative consequences of transitioning. This will create “a distorted research ecosystem where only politically favorable findings are permitted to exist”, researcher Harry Barbee says.

Well, here it is. Trump and Musk are turning #NIH into a garbage rightwing thinktank, just as we said. They’re forcing down junk science on us with your tax dollars. This is a deep shame for America and for scientists everywhere. 1/3

Max Kozlov@maxkozlov.bsky.social · last yr.

NEW: After cancelling nearly all projects on trans health, the Trump admin has now directed the NIH to study the negative consequences of transitioning. This will create “a distorted research ecosystem where only politically favorable findings are permitted to exist”, researcher Harry Barbee says.

OK so if anyone has any leads on private postdoc fellowships or funding sources lmk!!! Hopeful about this ACLU lawsuit but need to still think practically to make sure I have a paycheck.

Pleased to see my sexuality and gender scholar peers (as editors) taking this stance, and challenging the political encroachment on academic freedom under the current US Administration. @cygraham.bsky.social & colleagues 👏✊ Statement on the Importance of Sexuality and Gender Research

Statement on the Importance of Sexuality and Gender Research

Published in The Journal of Sex Research (Ahead of Print, 2025)

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Mike, thank you sincerely for writing about this. Americans seem to think this is the type of thing you'd only hear about in other countries. It's not.

Mike Masnick@masnick.com · last yr.

I wrote something about the secret police kidnapping and disappearing students over their op-eds, and wondering what happened to all those people screaming about the "free speech crisis on campus." www.techdirt.com/2025/03/27/t...

They're the same picture.

Just heard that an R01 developing guidelines for doing genetic research on trans, nonbinary, & gender diverse people, of which I was on the executive board and participating in data collection and analysis, was cancelled in our second year of funding.

🧵Yesterday, I received notice that my #NIH grant, on the social environment, lifecourse, epigenetics & #birthoutcomes in Black families, was terminated. This grant represented a critical effort to address the ⬆️ rates of maternal & infant mortality in the US, particularly among Black mothers & babies

Just found out NIH has officially canceled our grant, a longitudinal study of Alzheimer's disease in Black Americans. I cannot even put into words how angry I am. The truth is they are canceling it because it has Black in the title. That's it, there is no other reason to do this.

Substantial updates to the list of cancelled grants👇 - THANK YOU to all who have contributed. Crowdsourcing restores faith in humanity. - It's still a work in progress. You'll see more updates shortly. - There are multiple teams & efforts engaged in tracking & advocacy. More to come soon!

Rescinded NIH & NSF Grants

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