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Brenton Graveley @graveley.bsky.social · 4d

Zero chance Trump wins the peace prize tomorrow.

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Brenton Graveley @graveley.bsky.social · 4d

Wouldn’t even have to change dialog at all

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Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 13d

The President of the United States just stood in front of top military leaders and declared that there’s a “domestic enemy” days after he said he was “authorizing full force” against an American city. This entire country should be outraged, not apathetic because it’s Trump.

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Jim Acosta @jimacosta.bsky.social · 21d

I said what I said.

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Dr. Jonathan N. Stea @jonathanstea.bsky.social · 21d

RFK Jr: “Research on vaccines and autism has been suppressed.”

PubMed: “Here’s over 1200 research papers on vaccines and autism…

…including this first one which is a meta-analysis showing that vaccines are not associated with autism.”

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 25d

“The law doesn’t matter anymore” is obeying in advance.

Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 26d

I know it's frustrating when lawyers point out when something the administration is doing is not legal. But responding with "the law doesn't matter anymore" is really unhelpful and defeatist. Clarifying the law is important because it reminds us not to comply in advance and to resist and take action

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max tani @maxtani.bsky.social · 26d

The union representing the musicians from Jimmy Kimmel’s band releases a statement calling the FCC’s pressure on Disney “state censorship.”

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 26d

They are literally canceling culture

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · Aug 29

there is no question in my mind that rfk jr is the most dangerous person in this administration and that his eugenicist ideology threatens the lives of millions of people www.advocate.com/politics/dem...

RFK Jr.’s damage to the CDC is ‘past the point of no return,’ Dr. Demetre Daskalakis warns

“The CDC you knew is over,” the infectious diseases doctor told The Advocate. “Unless someone takes radical action, there is nothing there that can be salvaged.”

www.advocate.com

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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · Aug 29

On the new acting CDC director. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

O’Neill, unlike Monarez, has no training in medicine or infectious disease science. He is a former speechwriter for the health department, during the Bush years, who went on to work for the tech investor and conservative megadonor Peter Thiel.

During the Covid pandemic, O’Neill voiced public support for unproven treatments that were not supported by scientific evidence, including ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine, as well as vitamin D as a supposed “prophylaxis”.

He also posted a number of conspiratorial theories on social media, including the baseless claim that “the name #COVID was chosen to conceal the origin of the virus. This name made it harder to study and probably slowed the response.”

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · Aug 28

Pay attention. Your family’s safety is on the line.

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Princess Vimentin PhD | Cancer Biologist @princess-vimentin.bsky.social · Aug 13

🧪That’s not how it works.

Science doesn’t care about your feelings.

So essentially if the people don’t like science we should ignore the potential it has.

In his op ed in the WaPo, JB has proven that he should not be taken seriously. He’s DEFINITELY not a real scientist.

Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · Aug 12

Jay Bhattacharya, the NIH Director, thinks that if science isn’t popular it should be abandoned.

“No matter how elegant the science, a platform that lacks credibility among the people it seeks to protect cannot fulfill its public health mission”.

He is unfit for his job in every imaginable way.

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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · Aug 13

If the Supreme Court rules for the Trump administration in this case, biomedical research is finished in this country.

Science and Freedom Alliance - SAFA @safa-science.bsky.social · Aug 7

The Supreme Court is reviewing a vitally important NIH case on its shadow docket.

It is likely that the Court will back Trump, and say his (illegal) grant terminations are ok.

We must speak up now.
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Tell the Supreme Court: No Stay. Hands off NIH

The Supreme Court is poised to allow Trump to illegally terminate NIH grants. Let's speak out. There is not much time.

scienceandfreedomalliance.substack.com

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Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · Jul 8

I can't stress enough how close U.S. science is to the cliff.

"Numbers released in May by the National Science Foundation (NSF) indicate that if Congress approves the cuts to the agency proposed by the White House, the number of early-career researchers it supports could fall by 78%" (@science.org)

‘It’s a nightmare.’ U.S. funding cuts threaten academic science jobs at all levels

“There is a lot of pressure to essentially leave the country or not pursue research,” one Ph.D. student says

www.science.org

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Ardem Patapoutian @ardemp.bskyverified.social · Jul 9

Franklin W. Stahl, 95, Dies; Helped Create a ‘Beautiful’ DNA Experiment. Gift article:
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/07/s...

Franklin W. Stahl, 95, Dies; Helped Create a ‘Beautiful’ DNA Experiment

www.nytimes.com

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Republicans Against Trumpism @rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social · Jun 30

CNN chief data analyst Harry Enten:

“American people don’t see this as a big, beautiful bill. They see it as a big, bad bill. They hate it, hate it, hate it! They think it’s awful, awful, awful!”

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · Jun 10

Absolutely this 👇

Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · Jun 9

Courage. Now more than ever. These NIH staffers just stood up to Trump, RFK Jr., Bhattacharya. We need to have their backs. The administration will come for each of them, one and all now. apnews.com/article/nih-...

NIH scientists go public to criticize Trump's deep cuts in public health research

Scores of National Institutes of Health researchers and staffers have come forward to send their Trump-appointed leader a letter challenging policies they say undermine the NIH mission.

apnews.com

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Jennifer Ouellette @jenlucpiquant.bsky.social · Jun 5

US science is being wrecked, and its leadership is fighting the last war arstechnica.com/science/2025...

US science is being wrecked, and its leadership is fighting the last war

Facing an extreme budget, the National Academies hosted an event that ignored it.

arstechnica.com

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Brenton Graveley @graveley.bsky.social · Jun 5

Here Are the Nearly 2,500 Medical Research Grants Canceled or Delayed by Trump

Some cuts have been starkly visible, but the country’s medical grant-making machinery has also radically transformed outside the public eye.

www.nytimes.com

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Mark A. Hanson @hansonmark.bsky.social · Jun 3

URGENT: FlyBase has lost practically all its funding overnight; even user fees are tied up in denied grant funding. 🤬🤯

Any lab using @flybase.bsky.social please donate using the link in post below.

This incredible community, on whose backs our #Drosophila labs depend, can't be left out to dry.

Marc Dionne @marcsdionne.bsky.social · Jun 3

My lab studies bacterial infections. We spend a lot of time looking at (or for) species-specific genetic and genomic databases for hosts and microbes. FlyBase is the best of all—there is literally no comparison. Its existence is under threat. Please donate.
www.philanthropy.cam.ac.uk/give-to-camb...

Drosophila Genetic Database

The Drosophila Genetic Database, FlyBase, is on the brink of collapse due to the sudden termination of the FlyBase NIH grant, which includes salaries for 5 literature curators based at the University ...

www.philanthropy.cam.ac.uk

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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · Jun 3

What a sad story in @science.org

How Trump upended science

A chaotic 100-day push to remake federal research will have lasting consequences

www.science.org/content/arti...

The 100 days that shook U.S. science

Trump’s chaotic push to remake federal research will have lasting consequences

www.science.org

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Brenton Graveley @graveley.bsky.social · Jun 3

Thank you. Those are a silver and a brown. We have 4 others. Another brown, two other silvers and a charcoal blue. There are several other varieties of bengals too

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Brenton Graveley @graveley.bsky.social · Jun 3

Beautiful

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Brenton Graveley @graveley.bsky.social · Jun 3

Bengals

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Brenton Graveley @graveley.bsky.social · Jun 3

Two of my beauties

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