How bad will it be? Catastrophic. Proposed cuts to #NSF, #NIH, and #NASA will set the US R&D landscape back 25 yrs+, cause economic and job loss now, and undermine innovations to come. But, this is the WH's *proposed* budget. Speak up now before it is too late. (inflation adjusted $-s below)

New business idea: CPAP machines that double as Dune cosplay. It’s the only way to make these nasal tubes cool. @mcuban.bsky.social I think I’m ready for Shark Tank. 😂

“DOJ – from 1866 until this week – prosecuted officers accused of violating the civil rights of citizens, DOJ now will defend those officers.” Ellen Blain on the history and deterioration of civil rights in the DOJ.

The Department of Justice has abandoned civil rights

Two events this week do no less than turn upside down the enforcement of laws that protect the civil rights of all Americans.

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To my own institution, Yale, and all the other universities across the US. They will come for you no matter what you do—you can stand up for what’s right or grovel in the dirt. Your fate will be the same. It’s your legacy, which is at stake in the choice.

Paul Gowder@gowder.io · last yr.

Observe that the one that complied and the one that didn't comply are treated exactly the same way.

human lives have dignity as they are, they do not need to be whipped into shape by smooth-skinned patrician hands before deserving not just our love and respect but our joyous affirmation. if you see how somebody's getting by and feel horror the problem is with your gaze not the person. Matthew 7:5

If you live in NC, call every Republican politician you know. Call every farmer you know and ask them to do the same When money walks , voters talk. Make sure they know this effects everyone in their town and state www.wunc.org/news/2025-03...

USDA cancels $11 million in federal funding for North Carolina food banks

The USDA has notified the North Carolina Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services that it would terminate the agreement for the Local Food Purchase Assistance Program, which is one of the progr...

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By @katherinejwu.com "The NIH... supported 99 percent of the drugs approved in the U.S. from 2010 to 2019. The agency has had a hand in “nearly all of our major medical breakthroughs over the past several decades,” The NIH is in a struggle for its (and our) lives. This is existential to America:

Inside the Collapse at NIH

Administration officials pressured NIH to avoid clear advice from the agency’s own lawyers to restart grant funding now.

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Together we are mighty!

NIH cuts are getting the press, but VA research is getting slashed too. What do we lose when VA research goes away? Here's some greatest hits: The nicotine patch, invention of the cardiac pacemaker, first successful liver transplant, development of the CAT/CT scan prospect.org/health/2025-...

VA Research Funding Slashed

Though not as prominent as the NIH, VA researchers play a major role in advancing basic health science. Hundreds of projects have been cut.

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Something is shifting. They are still breaking things and stealing things. And they will keep trying to break and to steal. But the propaganda magic around the oligarchical coup is fading. (1/2)

New York Times article now up on Federal Register stuff. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/s... 1/n

Trump Administration Stalls Scientific Research Despite Court Ruling (Gift Article)

Using an arcane law, officials have effectively delayed funding from the National Institutes of Health, leaving medical studies in jeopardy.

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Ok, I'm doing a version of this thread for 🧪 who are new to political conditions where info security is a safety issue: 1. Don't make public lists of people who are engaging in acts of resistance 2. Be weary of calls to advertise acts of subversion 3. Don't live post resistance meetings

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌@chanda.blacksky.app · last yr.

This is my “daughter of a Black Panther breakfast program volunteer” coming out but anyone who tells you that you have to be public about all your resistance activity should immediately be under suspicion for being an op, or being under the influence of an op

DOGE By The Numbers theonion.com/doge-by...

I can’t see this without thinking about what Tressie McMillan Cottom has been talking about in her Instagram Lives. This is just attention/spectacle economy. The noise to distract us from the real darn and dangerous signal happening simultaneously.

Mike Nellis@mikenellis.bsky.social · last yr.

What a loser

Troubling: Congresspeople say they are NOT hearing from academics, or university administrators. PLEASE SPEAK UP! Oppose these budget cuts to research, health, student loans! www.votervoice.net/APAAdvocacy/... Tell others to do the same!

Town of Chapel Hill! Thank you for looking out for our community. @triangleblogblog.bsky.social

Office of Mayor Michelle Wu 吳弭@mayorwu.boston.gov · last yr.

The City of Boston is leading 40+ mayors, cities, and counties in an amicus brief against the Trump Administration's drastic and illegal cuts to federal research funding—cuts that will lead to immediate job losses nationwide.

I love you, scientists but you are in a messaging war & you are losing. This administration understands how to tell a story better than you do. You spent your career proving why your work matters. Now, prove why losing it hurts *everyone*. #sciencecommunication #ScienceUnderSiege #ScienceBlueSky

Scientists, I love you. I love your passion. I am one of you. But we have to talk about *how* we communicate what’s happening. People won’t fight for “science” in the abstract. They’ll fight when they understand what they are losing. A quick guide: Not this, but this. 🧵

Tyranny requires your fear, your silence, and your compliance. Democracy requires your courage.

between NIH and “stop all DEI [which is anything] or get no funding,” I think they just don’t want universities to exist.

for pity’s sake, I am BEGGING university leaders to stop framing this issue in terms of what this will cost the university. people dont care! EXPLAIN WHAT THIS WILL COST THE PUBLIC: closed hospitals and clinics, skipped treatments, loss of access to experimental drugs, unemployment, recession

Firings are happening right now at the National Science Foundation. Essential staff are being cut. This isn’t about the budget. If it was, they’d be going after the military (17%) or state appropriations (38%). NSF is 0.7% of the federal budget. All federal employees make up only 4% of the budget.

One of the most enjoyable ways I regulate my nervous system during stressful times is listening to romance. The combo of @lindaholmes.bsky.social and Julia Whelan in Evvie Drake? Pure delight and magic.

Stand Up for Science rallies will be held in DC and state capitals on March 7th. Share with friends. Sign-up here to get email updates with details: www.eventbrite.com/e/stand-up-f...

Just read a post that suggests to me that there are still people in the media that believe that cost-reduction is actually Musk and Trumps goal. Omg. People. We are operating on a whole different premise. It’s a whole different world than that.

My kid about the Pringles ad: they should have taken Chalamet’s mustache too. It would have just tried to fly without getting off the ground.

hello! just putting this here. please share in your signal groups and slacks. www.propublica.org/tips/#signal

How to Contact ProPublica Securely — ProPublica

ProPublica is an independent, non-profit newsroom that produces investigative journalism in the public interest.

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If you are on a study section that will not be reviewing diversity fellowships but will be reviewing "regular" fellowships, your next move is clear. Do not participate in the review unless all submissions can be reviewed together. Reclassify diversity grants as "regular" grants & review them all

Lorenzo Lorenzo-Luaces, PhD@lluaces.bsky.social · last yr.

I removed the ID of the posters but at what point do we have a moral imperative here? I would not want to participate in a process that explicitly discriminated against minorities. If the applications aren’t reviewed they are basically rejected no? Pull out of the reviews.

This framing is their framing, and NYT took the bait. The correct and accurate framing is: “Deep cuts to medical research threatens progress on cancer and heart disease research, costs the economy $80B, and threatens 300,000 jobs across red and blue states”