Every #climate scientist today to every elected official: Dammit it, we told you so for decades and you ignored us. You reap what you sow, and you sowed carbon dioxide. This is what we're reaping today.
Brian J. Reiser (he/him)
@reiserbrianj.bsky.social
Professor of Learning Sciences, Northwestern University. Advocate for empowering learners to investigate their world.
Life expectancy in Chicago can fluctuate by two decades, largely based on how close to polluting facilities you live. A proposed Illinois law would require the state to consider the health of overburdened communities before approving new polluting projects.
Opinion: Your ZIP code shouldn't determine how long you live
Depending on your neighborhood, life expectancy in Chicago swings by two decades.
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A new OMB rule would allow the executive branch to cut scientific research funds on behalf of corporate interests and against marginalized people. Please submit public comments before the deadline on Monday July 13. This link gives excellent instructions: www.faseb.org/science-poli...
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We advance health and well-being by promoting research and education in biological and biomedical sciences through collaborative advocacy and service to our societies and their members.
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Here's the article. diabetesjournals.org/care/article...
Misguided Brushes of a Pen Continue to Dismantle and Destroy Biomedical Research in the United States: We Can No Longer Afford Complacency and Fear. We Must All Act Now!
The opinions expressed in this editorial are the personal views of the authors (S.E. Kahn, C.A.M. Anderson, J.B. Buse, and E. Selvin) and do not represent
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The criticism of Trump, Kennedy, and Bhattacharya that was so subversive that the ADA had to eject the Editor-in-Chief of their flagship journal from their annual meeting for sharing it? Prior today it had fewer than 1000 views. Do your thing.
The Trump administration is dismantling a $368 million deep-ocean monitoring network 900+ sensors tracking climate currents, fishery health, ocean carbon absorption, and coastal flooding along the East Coast. Ships go out in June to start pulling it up. Congress funded it twice after Trump
AAUP members, call them and ask that they defend their members from this attack, by litigating. www.aaup.org/staff academicfreedom@aaup.org (202) 737-5900
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Pam Herd@pamherd.bsky.social · 6mo agoWe do now know the NSF is proceeding with dissolving the Social and Behavioral Sciences Division. Congress might reverse it, but it is now already underway. YOU CAN NO LONGER SUBMIT FUNDING PROPOSALS TO SBE. Program officers are being moved to different parts of the agency. Call your Congress member
The EPA was created to protect Americans from polluters, but it's undermining its own ability to protect people from climate pollution, abandoning its core mission. Alongside our partners, we’re suing the EPA for this unscientific, illegal, and irresponsible move.
E.P.A. Faces First Lawsuit Over Its Killing of Major Climate Rule
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BREAKING: The Department of Education has ended its directive that attempted to restrict diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts in schools nationwide. This is a victory for academic freedom and education equity.
BREAKING: Over 680 members of the National Academy of Sciences, Medicine, and Engineering have endorsed articles of impeachment against RFK Jr. (1/2 🧵)
Educators Sue Over ICE Activity on School Grounds and Nearby: The challenge targets the Trump administration's revocation of a policy that limited immigration enforcement at schools.
Educators Sue Over ICE Activity on School Grounds and Nearby
The challenge targets the Trump administration's revocation of a policy that limited immigration enforcement at schools.
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Congress is about to force a vote that will pave the way for copper mining in Minnesota’s Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness, a 1.1-million-acre public area with federally protected forests and fre...
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Wow! Yay! The Senate just rejected Trump’s proposed science cuts, voting 82–15 to boost funding for NOAA, NASA, and the NSF. The bill already passed the House 397–28. Strong bipartisan support for science still exists.
US Senate passes bill to boost federal science spending after White House sought major cuts
The U.S. Senate voted on Thursday to approve billions of dollars in funding for federal science agencies, rejecting deep cuts proposed by President Donald Trump in space and other areas.
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“I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo. "So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
World AIDS Day is tomorrow. US government doesn’t want us to champion it - we can anyway. Honor lives stolen. Fight like hell for everyone living with HIV. Do everything we can to prevent new infections. Show up. Speak up. At the very least: 🔴 wear a red ribbon tomorrow to work 🔴
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Get Involved There are loads of ways to get involved: in school, college or university, in your workplace or in any other setting.In your school Never too young to raise awareness (and money) to help ...
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Statement from @health.nationalacademies.org "...based on our body of work on this topic and the overwhelming scientific consensus, we support the statement that vaccines do not cause autism." www.nationalacademies.org/news/stateme...
National Academies - Statement on CDC’s Updated Vaccine Guidance
National Academies respond to CDC’s updated vaccine guidance, offering scientific context and clarity on vaccine safety.
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Help slow down ICE’s terror. Talk to local businesses about putting up signage to protect employees from ICE raids and show solidarity with immigrant communities: act.indivisible.org/signup/signs...
Carl Zimmer@carlzimmer.com · last yr.Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE
Four down. Five to go. Let’s go. Join our National Teach-In on Trump’s Loyalty Oaths. Register Here: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi... #DefendHigherEd
4 universities have now said no—to Trump’s Faustian bargain- Penn, USC, Brown, and MIT. Standing up- by AAUP and AFT, our members, our students & our communities- is working. www.cnn.com/2025/10/16/u...
4 universities decline White House offer for expanded access to federal funding in exchange for demands. Here’s what we know | CNN
The battle for academic freedom and institutional sovereignty in higher education continues to play out as another university has rejected a White House offer for expanded access to federal funding in...
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It’s outrageous that Sec. Kennedy is trying to fire the CDC Director — after only a few weeks on the job — for her commitment to public health & vaccines. The Sen. HELP Committee must hold a hearing with Kennedy & the CDC Director as soon as possible. Vaccines save lives. Period.
Please sign and share our petition to remove RFK Jr. www.change.org/p/rfk-jr-mus... abcnews.go.com/Health/trump...
Trump previously called mRNA vaccines a 'medical miracle.' Now, RFK Jr. cut $500M in funding
The top public health officials during Trump's first term praised mRNA vaccines. In the second term, officials seem to be retreating from them.
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Y’all really loved this post! I wanted to wax poetic for a minute about Lysenkoism. I’m adding the rest of the thread below and then I’ll ~explain~
Colette Delawalla, PhD@cdelawalla.bsky.social · last yr.I truly cannot emphasize enough how this is straight up Lysenkoism. Because of the incredible work of our nation’s scientists, we have our finger tips on the closest thing humanity has ever come to “a cure for cancer”, but brainworm over here doesn’t believe in it. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/05/h...
Good news about this weather data, for now. But why is this even a question whether to continue this important work?!?
Stand Up for Science!@standupforscience.net · last yr.The Pentagon reversed plans to cut off critical military satellite data used for hurricane forecasting. The data, vital for tracking storm intensification, will keep flowing through Sept 2026 after experts warned losing it could delay life‑saving alerts. zurl.co/IGKQy
Just released. My Nature piece: "Never before has the USA seen such an anti-intellectual, anti-science assault... History tells us that there are times when the dangers of inaction become sufficiently threatening to individuals or the planet that scientists... rdcu.be/eo3Hb
More US scientists must speak out
Nature Human Behaviour - The Trump administration has launched an extraordinary and dangerous attack on US science. Climate and water scientist Peter Gleick calls on scientists who are able and...
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When Americans raised concerns about RFK Jr.'s anti-vaccine views, he said he was "not gonna take away vaccines from anybody." But now he's taking them away from millions of mommas and babies. Vaccine recommendations should be based on science, not RFK Jr.'s political agenda.
NSF is undergoing a massive shake-up: over 80 senior staff cut, remote work banned, the equity-in-STEM division eliminated, and hundreds of research grants scrapped. This isn’t budget efficiency—it’s a direct attack on U.S. science, education, and equity. www.eenews.net/articles/nsf...
NSF initiates more layoffs amid major agency shake-up
The agency will also reassign all remote employees to in-person work at its Alexandria, Virginia, headquarters.
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The National Science Foundation marks its 75th anniversary this week. Rather than celebrate, it's time to save it. www.savensf.com/nsf-at-75-to...
The Trump administration has dismissed the scientists behind the U.S. climate report. Now scientific societies are stepping in to finish the job—because the climate crisis doesn’t pause for politics. Science will not be silenced. apnews.com/article/clim... #ClimateScience #StandUpForScience
Scientific societies say they'll step up after Trump puts key climate report in doubt
Two major scientific societies say they will try to fill the void from the Trump administration’s dismissal of scientists writing a cornerstone federal report on what climate change is doing to the Un...
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