Did you write your comment yet on the OMB rules on federally funded science yet? No? Don’t worry, you can do it this weekend. Here are some resources that can help you get started.
North Carolina Science Coalition
@nc-science.bsky.social
Using the collective power of North Carolina scientists to advocate for data-driven policymaking 🧬 🦠 🔬 🧪 linktr.ee/nc.science
When people talk about self-censorship, they often focus on campus events or classroom discussions. But self-censorship of research is different and more impt. Big difference btw "I don't want to offend others" to "I don't want to speak truth to power" www.chronicle.com/article/near...
Nearly One-Third of Faculty in Red States Say They’ve Censored Their Research
A new survey of 4,000 academics looked at the effects of state laws barring “divisive concepts” and federal grant cuts.
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Slaughtering our golden goose: massive budget cuts for US science proposed again by Trump administration www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Massive budget cuts for US science proposed again by Trump administration
Budget proposal would also curb federal payments for scientific publishing.
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Every senator who voted to confirm RFK Jr owns this tragedy. Every single one.
Cancer research costs too much but we have the money to run Venezuela
www.nbcnews.com/health/healt... DHS has terminated seven grants totaling millions of dollars to the American Academy of Pediatrics. Grants aimed at reducing sudden infant deaths, improving young adult health, preventing birth defects, such as fetal alcohol syndrome, and identifying autism early.
HHS cuts millions in grants to the American Academy of Pediatrics
The move is an escalation in the agency’s clash with the medical group, which is suing Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. over vaccine policy.
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NEW: After freezing billions in U.S. foreign aid and putting countless lives at risk around the world, Trump administration officials in Washington celebrated with a sheet cake. By @annamaria.bsky.social & Brett Murphy, photos by @peterdicampo.bsky.social
Trump Officials Celebrated With Cake After Slashing Aid. Then People Died of Cholera.
Behind closed doors in Washington, top advisers made a series of decisions that had devastating repercussions for the poorest country on earth. We went to South Sudan and found people who died as a re...
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Absolute debasement of academic standards *student submits opinion in psych class *gets bad grade *instructor says she can make whatever arguments she wants but must draw on empirical sources *student & Turning Point says her religious freedom & first amendment rights violated *professor suspended
gwen howerton@kissphoria.bsky.social · 8mo agoOU has put the professor here on administrative leave:
So apparently the administrators at Northwestern have caved to the extortionist demands of the Feds. Faculty voted 595-4 AGAINST this measure.
BREAKING: Northwestern University has agreed to pay the U.S. Treasury $75 million, over the course of three years as part of an agreement with the federal government to restore funding and end investigations into the university Full statement from NU below:
For the first time in my career, I can’t tell people to trust what the CDC website says. And that is an incredibly sad and devastating place for this country to be.
Dan Diamond@ddiamond.bsky.social · 9mo agoCDC has overhauled its website to assert that “the claim ‘vaccines do not cause autism’ is not an evidence-based claim”
One of the most widely prescribed drugs in the U.S. is the generic version of Lipitor. FDA inspectors have found safety and quality violations at about half of the plants approved to produce it, records show.
Is Your Medication Made in a Contaminated Factory? The FDA Won’t Tell You.
The agency’s decision to conceal drug names on inspection reports has prevented doctors, pharmacists and patients from knowing whether medications made overseas are tainted by manufacturing failures t...
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Hey y’all! NEXT THURSDAY, in lieu of our usual SFS general meeting, we will be having an info session for ANY STUDENT interested in science advocacy! High school, undergraduate, and graduate students welcome. ANY SCHOOL, ANY STATE, ANY MAJOR!
Powerful anti-vaccine advocates and people selling potentially harmful goods such as raw milk are benefitting – financially and otherwise – from the push to write anti-science policies into law across the U.S.
Who benefits from the MAHA anti-science push?
Powerful anti-vaccine advocates and people selling potentially harmful goods such as raw milk are profiting from the push to write anti-science policies into law across the U.S.
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The energy at the #NIH rally today was amazing and contagious. Huge turnout, huge pro-science energy. 1/ 🧪#NoKings
Happy "No Kings" Day! I just sent this email to Director Bhattacharya regarding the recently appointment of a new NIEHS Director.
On Nov 5 at 4 PM, join and support members of the healthcare, public health, and scientific communities in a march from the APHA Rally for the Public’s Health to the Capitol to deliver petitions to Congress demanding the resignation or removal of RFK Jr. Details here. 911hs.org
👇NAMI is maintaining a list government health services impacted by the shutdown. The NAMI HelpLine is available M-F, 10 a.m. – 10 p.m. ET. Call 800-950-6264, text “NAMI” to 62640, or email helpline@nami.org. If you are in a crisis, call or text 988 or chat online at 988Lifeline.org.
Shutdown Resources
2025 Federal Government Shutdown As of 12 AM ET on October 1, 2025, the federal government has shut down due to lack of an agreement for funding for Fiscal Year (FY) 2026. Some federal services and fu...
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Alarming report on FDA political interference. Scientists are being asked to find data supporting predetermined conclusions on autism treatments, vaccines, SSRIs - the opposite of how science works. We need evidence-based regulation, not regulation-based evidence. www.statnews.com/2025/10/14/f...
Inside FDA, career staffers describe how political pressure is influencing their work
Current and former FDA staff said the level of involvement of political officials in nitty-gritty regulatory matters is unprecedented.
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History faculty at Columbia & Barnard decrying the harassment of @mark-bray.bsky.social: "This is the first case in recent memory of a historian who has fled the country after receiving death threats on account of the history that they teach."
apnews.com/article/nort... More than 2.5 million North Carolina residents are getting over $6.5 billion in medical debt eliminated through a state government effort that offered hospitals extra Medicaid funds from Washington if they gave low- and middle-income patients the financial relief.
North Carolina effort wipes out $6.5B in medical debt for 2.5M people
Officials say a North Carolina government initiative is eliminating over $6.5 billion in medical debt for more than 2.5 million residents.
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Nobel Prize given for showing the importance of investing in science for innovation and long-term economic growth. Basically the opposite of what the US is doing. 😭
Nature@nature.com · 10mo agoJoel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion and Pewter Howitt share economics prize for work that underlines the importance of investing in research and development. go.nature.com/4hj9NNV
Congress could, at any time, stop this shitshow by telling Vought to end the RIFs and impoundments. It has very clear institutional reasons to do so. But obeying to Trump rules all, and instead the Speaker of the House will pretend he does not know what is happening while opining on Bad Bunny.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 10mo agoREPORTER: We know the president moved forward with mass layoffs. We're also learning there were significant cuts to staff at special education services. Are you comfortable with those cuts? MIKE JOHNSON: I haven't seen the specifics of that and I don't know
Powerful story from Olivia Lutz about the cutting of F31 diversity fellowships. NIH leadership is failing young scientists, so it's up to all of us to find ways to support them.
NIH Student Grant Cancellation Will Weaken Scientific Innovation
The termination of federal F31 diversity fellowships puts many graduate students in a bind — and U.S. science at risk.
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More of what has been lost and will be lost if the admin and supporters abandon America's commitment to science, research, and discovery. "You’re destroying something with these draconian cuts that took years to build,” [Dr. Erbelding] said. “It can’t be rebuilt as fast as it was taken down.”
Apoorva Mandavilli@apoorvanyt.bsky.social · 10mo agoHundreds of infectious disease specialists have been let go by the Trump administration. Here are four who helped to keep pandemics at bay. (Gift article) www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/h...
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Re-upping this piece on news that Vought is firing federal employees: *Vought lying that shutdowns compel layoffs, never have before. *Layoffs are a choice, the shutdown is an excuse. *Comes on top of existing RIFs, will make restoring govt services harder post-shutdown. substack.com/home/post/p-...
Shutdown hostage taking
Russ Vought's threatens more mass firings; SCOTUS blesses his de facto impoundment
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