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Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 4h

OOOPS! UPDATE: Two HHS officials tell me that disease detectives, measles response officers, global health officials and the MMWR staff were laid off by mistake and will be reinstated. But Washington office is still RIFed

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 11h

an incontestable fact of the second trump administration is it is actively trying to sicken and kill as many americans as it can

Lena Sun @lenasun.bsky.social · 14h

NEW: @CDCgov hit hard by massive firings that several staff describe to me as a “bloodbath.”
Among those RIFd:
—leadership of the center for immunization and respiratory diseases;
—leadership of global health center
—leadership of the measles outbreak response; 1/4

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Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 1d

Thoughts and prayers to Cosplay Cop Kristi who had to brave the dogs, farmer’s markets, capybaras, and marathon runners of Portland this week.

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anil oza @aniloza.bsky.social · 1d

HHS confirms to @chelseacirruzzo.bsky.social that it will be impacted by the RIFS promised earlier today by Russel Vought

If you or your colleagues have been impacted, please reach out

www.statnews.com/2025/10/10/h...

HHS employees to be fired as White House enacts mass terminations it blames on shutdown

Federal health employees are being fired as the White House makes good on a promise to terminate federal employees en masse because of the shutdown.

www.statnews.com

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Unbreaking @unbreaking.org · 1d

The clear story in Immigration this week is the escalation of—and pushback against—the Trump administration’s militarized raids and warrantless stops in Democrat-run major cities. We’ve updated our timeline with a lot of events in this zone:

unbreaking.org/issues/immig...

Immigration — Unbreaking

How the administration is breaking the government, and what that means for all of us.

unbreaking.org

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 1d

aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 1d

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

chicago.suntimes.com

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 1d

Exciting #scicomm news: Ed Yong’s next book, The Infinite Extent, is coming Spring 2027!

“I think it delivers what I wanted it to, and it feels like the culmination of a career—of the themes and ideas I’ve been exploring, the values I’ve been working towards, and the skills I’ve been building.” 🧪

The Ed's Up - "I'm dying for some action..."

“… I’m sick of sitting round here trying to write this book.” - Bruce Springsteen I feel you, Bruce! These last few months have been tough; hence the...

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BioTechniques @biotechniques.bsky.social · 22d

What does it mean to ‘lift while you climb’? 🧗🏾‍♀️

In the latest STEM Tea podcast with @phdgprotein86.bsky.social, Clintoria Williams, co-founder of Black in Physiology, shares her insights on impactful mentorship and leading with your 'why'.

Listen here >>> www.biotechniques.com/podcasts/ste... 🧪

STEM Tea | Impact and sustainability in mentorship

In this episode, Clintoria Williams shares her journey in mentorship, discusses balancing life and work, and highlights the mission of Black in Physiology.

www.biotechniques.com

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Boston Tom Levenson @tomlevenson.bsky.social · 1d

Just read Mark Rowan's piece in @nytopinion.nytimes.com on the importance of Trump's "compact"–the "nice university you got here, shame if something happened to it" move to exert right wing control over the academy.

I can't tell if he's naive or malign, but it's one or the other. 1/

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Winifred Tylenol Spice Burton @authorwinifred.blacksky.app · 1d

Sandra Bland was murdered for being calmly defiant.

thematthill.bsky.social @thematthill.bsky.social · 3d

Wow. Greg Bovino admits on camera that his agents can detain people if you look scared, change your demeanor, or grip a steering wheel too tight.

As his unmasked agents walk around with large guns to scare you, they may arrest you just for that — even if you're a U.S. citizen.

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Miriam Krause @mirk47.bsky.social · 1d

a man with a crown on his head is holding a cane and says i 'm so blue

Alt: GIF of petulant King George from Hamilton stomping his foot while singing “I’m so blue”

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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 2d

here it is! my CareFax 1.2 update, with a link to a template I made on Canva so you make your own edits, fill it in digitally, or just print copies to try it out with your people IRL.

I would love your feedback and to hear about your experiences if you try it out!

template: bit.ly/3KAAul4

carerax
In a world that profits from our exhaustion and isolation, taking care of each other is a radical act. CareFax is a body-centered friendship tool that helps us emember how to live differently-to build webs of care strong enough to hold us through grief, burnout, and transformation.
CareFax is a starting place for conversations about mutual aid, community care, nd tenderness, designed to help your people show up for you (and you for them) in ways that resist the myth of self-sufficiency.
Because we can't do this all on our own. While corporations and self-help grifters try and sell us the idea that the right thing will cure us or make us happy, what we actually need is each other. start your own carerax:
Gather your friends, family, or community members and fill out your CareFax forms-either together over tea, or on your own time. You can print them and keep them in a binder, or make a digital folder that you can update as your life shifts. You can even keep your own CareFax filled out to share with folks as your relationships grow and blossom.
Over time, your CareFax can become more than a set of forms, but a practice of collective tenderness and interdependence. miigwech, ashley fairbanks find me at ziibiing.com or as ziibing on all socials

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 2d

Welp, here it is: maybe the funniest thing we've ever done, in its entirety.

The Onion Investigates: Jeffrey Epstein

YouTube video by The Onion

www.youtube.com

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Mo Ryan @moryan.bsky.social · 2d

If you're watching the situation in Chicago from afar & want to help, on the off chance you have spare $$, you can give to the Midwest Immigrant Bond Fund, which posts "bond for individuals held in the custody of ICE w ties to IL, IN, KY & WI who cannot afford to pay"
www.mibfc.org/helpusgrow

How to Help MIBFC — Midwest Immigration Bond Fund

www.mibfc.org

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 2d

You must defer to the president’s determination that there is an armed rebellion in Chicago, argues the govt’s lawyer.

That’s the Trump admin’s stance on everything. When the law doesn’t allow it, lie about the facts until it’s something that would be legal, then insist others live inside the lie.

Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social · 2d

Perry: DOJ's definition of rebellion would mean that
"literally all nonviolent protest” could be considered evidence of rebellion. Is that your argument?
Hamilton: The president has determined there is a danger of a rebellion, and you must defer to that finding

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Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 2d

These are terrible numbers for Trump (via @pewresearch.org)

www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...

"Majorities say trump has used his office improperly; fewer say he has improved government, U.S. standing" (graphs via Pew Research)

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Deborah Blum @deborahb.bsky.social · 2d

This cites seven outbreaks of listeria, salmonella, and cyclospora in food, which have caused dozens of illnesses, since July. In NO case has the contaminated food product been identified. In case you wonder how the reduction of the FDA's food safety labs has been working for us all.

Investigations of Foodborne Illness Outbreaks

The following is a list of outbreak and adverse event investigations primarily being managed by FDA’s CORE Response Teams.

www.fda.gov

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Miriam Krause @mirk47.bsky.social · 2d

I totally agree - I’m so old that have done way less stats since R came out because I learned on different tools. I’m just wondering about what the statistical literacy tools are now since it seems like a lot of pedagogy for 20 years has been structured around learning to code in R

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Miriam Krause @mirk47.bsky.social · 2d

I think this is the hard part for many scientists. If stats already feels like a bit of a black box, making R a chatGPT black box wrapped around the stats feels more dangerous… yes they should all be working w statisticians anyway but I also wonder about @hormiga.bsky.social ‘s training question

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 3d

Bray is a historian at Rutgers who received death threats after landing on Turning Points USA's Professor Watchlist. As a result, he announced he was moving to Europe. And then this happened.

This kind of harassment and abuse of scholars is Charlie Kirk's legacy and it's only getting worse.

Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 3d

“Someone” cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second.

We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’

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Rep. Ted Lieu @reptedlieu.bsky.social · 3d

We are in the second week of the Republican shutdown.

Where are House Republicans? On vacation.

Went looking around the Capitol to see if any Republicans had the common sense to come back. Featuring @mcbride.house.gov.

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Doctora Malka Older @older.bsky.social · 3d

sociology and anthropology are dangerous to them, because those fields help us understand the power dynamics, ethics, and human cost of what the industries they like better are doing.
Performing arts is hugely important for the economy, but it doesn't benefit them directly.

Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 3d

Badenoch and Co see education only as a means to a massive income in some soul destroying career.

Devoid of imagination and the power of knowledge they view life entirely through the prism of the CV.

My advice always is to study what interests you and the rest will follow

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C&EN (Chemical & Engineering News) @cenmag.bsky.social · 3d

The 2025 #NobelPrize in Chemistry has been awarded to Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar M. Yaghi “for the development of metal–organic frameworks.” Stay tuned for the full story to come! cen.acs.org/people/nobel...

#ChemNobel #Chem #Chemistry #chemsky 🧪

The 2025 chemistry Nobel goes to MOFs

Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar M. Yaghi win the prize for developing metal–organic frameworks

cen.acs.org

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Miriam Krause @mirk47.bsky.social · 3d

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Julia Métraux @juliametraux.bsky.social · 4d

For National Disability Employment Awareness Month at @motherjones.com, I spoke to four disabled federal workers who were laid off about how their old jobs were very accessible—and what the federal government loses out on by having fewer disabled employees. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

The human costs of Trump's war on government

For many disabled workers, federal jobs were decent, human, and accommodating: everything the president hates.

www.motherjones.com

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