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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 2d

For the uninitiated: The pope being this direct and explicit to U.S. bishops about how to respond to a domestic policy happening in real time is…unusual.

Joshua McElwee @joshmcelwee.org · 2d

Pope Leo told U.S. bishops visiting him at the Vatican on Wednesday that they should firmly address how immigrants are being treated by President Donald Trump's hardline policies, attendees said, in the latest push by the pontiff on the issue. For @reuters.com:

www.reuters.com

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Prof. Aviles @nataliebaviles.bsky.social · 1d

Do you find the rapid growth of the police state alarming? Are you concerned that the Charlottesville City School Board voted to have armed officers police our kids in schools? Then you should vote on the issues this election, and vote @zysaidso.bsky.social and Lisa Larson Torrez for School Board.

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Prof. Aviles @nataliebaviles.bsky.social · 2d

You laugh, but this is what NIH funded research is going to look like after political appointees start deprioritizing peer review in favor of political priorities in grant approvals.

The Onion @theonion.com · 5d

New Study Shows That Bones Are Incredibly Cool

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 4d

PubMed Update (no pun intended)

Publications with Pub Date

8/1//24 62209
9/1/24 64765
10/1/24 68211

8/1/25 61610
9/1/25 63719

10/1/25 35936 (as of 10/2/25)
10/1/25 38673 (as of 10/6/25, 8:00 AM)

It appears that ~40% of the expected number of publications are missing for 10/1/25

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a man in a black vest says no bueno in front of mountains

ALT: a man in a black vest says no bueno in front of mountains

media.tenor.com

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Prof. Aviles @nataliebaviles.bsky.social · 4d

This is the first semester my students truly struggled to perform on an in-class midterm. As lame as the language of human capital is, the professoriate need to commit to ensuring college graduates come out of here with a basic skill set, including the ability to answer a short prompt in real time.

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🎃 public HELLth guy 🎃 @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 8d

dear university presidents and boards: it won’t

tobias from arrested development telling lindsey “but it might work for us”

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 9d

THEY CLOSED PUBLIC POOLS RATHER THAN SWIM WITH BLACK PEOPLE

YOU ARE DEALING WITH THE SAME GROUP OF PEOPLE AS THE FOLKS WHO DID THIS

PLEASE WAKE THE FUCK UP

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Prof. Aviles @nataliebaviles.bsky.social · 6d

1787: States are the guarantors of citizenship and must protect citizens from federal overreach

1868: The federal government is the guarantor of citizenship and must protect citizens from state impositions on rights

2025:

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Prof. Aviles @nataliebaviles.bsky.social · 6d

Good morning. This is fascism.

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 6d

Federal officer blasts chemical spray into vocal but nonviolent Portland protester, video shows

The interaction illustrates how federal law enforcement officers do use aggressive tactics against protesters who yell and needle officers but don’t appear to present clear physical threats.

Prof. Aviles @nataliebaviles.bsky.social · 6d

People on the East Coast trying to guess my ethnicity

A paint swatch for a shade called “Diverse Beige”

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Prof. Aviles @nataliebaviles.bsky.social · 6d

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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 7d

Here's the assignment folks. Write op-eds for your local papers and campus newspapers too. Just. Say. No. This is a classic authoritarian move and risks the future of higher education and science and innovation in the US. Speak out today. No time to lose. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/o...

Opinion | Trump’s ‘Compact’ With Universities Is Just Extortion

www.nytimes.com

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Janet Spittler @janetspittler.bsky.social · 6d

University of Virginia faculty senate passes a resolution to delay the search for Provost until the tenth President of the University is in place. 59 in favor; 6 opposed. Tons of students in the room.

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Prof. Aviles @nataliebaviles.bsky.social · 7d

It’s a really hard time to be someone who studies US federal science policy, so from now on if anyone asks I play didgeridoo in an Australian jazz band.

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 7d

Not surprising, but maddening. Such a loss of talent!

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

After months in limbo, four NIH institute directors fired

Two leaders removed by Trump administration had hoped to stay at agency as in-house investigators

www.science.org

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 7d

it makes me incandescently furious that roberts invented the idea of banning coercive conditions on funding to kill medicaid expansion and refuses to do a single thing about the fact that the trump administration's entire deal is "coercive conditions on funding"

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Prof. Aviles @nataliebaviles.bsky.social · 7d

Clever work by economist Pierre Azoulay and colleagues shows that if the NIH budget had been 40% lower in prior decades, critical new drugs never would have seen the light of day.

www.eurekalert.org/news-release...

“What if” scenario reveals the impact of a drastically smaller NIH

Roughly half of all FDA-approved drugs from 2000 onward rely on publications funded by grants that would have been cut assuming a 40% reduction in U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) funding in p...

www.eurekalert.org

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Tim Kocher @timkocher.bsky.social · 8d

Best thing I have seen in a long time. Nazi interrupts and heckles Psych 201 class, gets a quick and appropriate response. 10/10, no notes

Queer Satanic @queersatanic.bsky.social · 8d

Wow, the University of Washington's Psych 201 class does *not* play

go fuckin Huskies

Nazi UW students fuck off

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Theresa Kim, PhD, MS @tyk314.net · 9d

Please read. #NIH #shutdown

NOT-OD-26-004: Information for the NIH Extramural Community During the Lapse of Federal Government Funding

NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: Information for the NIH Extramural Community During the Lapse of Federal Government Funding NOT-OD-26-004. NIH

grants.nih.gov

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Prof. Aviles @nataliebaviles.bsky.social · 9d

US government is shut down, post your freshest lotr memes

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 9d

Impressive how one political party can control the White House, the House, the Senate, and the Supreme Court, but not bear responsibility for whether the federal government functions. Neat trick.

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Jacob Bogage @jacobbogage.bsky.social · 10d

👀 Just Now -- President Trump in the Oval Office said a government shutdown gives his administration the power to cut benefit programs, which include Social Security and Medicare.

www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

“We can do things during the shutdown that are irreversible, that are bad for them, and irreversible by them, like cutting vast numbers of people out, cutting things that they like, cutting programs that they like. And, you all know Russell Vought. He’s become very popular recently because he can trim the budget to a level that you couldn't do any other way. So they're taking a risk by having a shutdown. Because of the shutdown, we can do things medically and other ways, including benefits. We can cut large numbers of people. We don't want to do that, but we don't want fraud, waste and abuse.”

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Ian L Morgan @ianlmorgan.bsky.social · 11d

DHS is proposing a rule that would end "duration of status" for J, F and other visa holders. This would decimate the international graduate student and postdoc population, which are a crucial part of the United States biomedical workforce. There's still time for you to comment on the proposed rule.

Establishing a Fixed Time Period of Admission and an Extension of Stay Procedure for Nonimmigrant Academic Students, Exchange Visitors, and Representatives of Foreign Information Media

Unlike most nonimmigrant classifications, which are admitted for a fixed time period, aliens in the F (academic student), J (exchange visitor), and most I (representatives of foreign information media...

www.federalregister.gov

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Prof. Aviles @nataliebaviles.bsky.social · 10d

RFK Jr. really stood up here and said, when NCI is the FIRST and LARGEST of NIH’s categorical institutes, that “Cancer, like other chronic diseases, was long neglected in federal research attention.”
I couldn’t breed a HHS Secretary more ignorant of basic facts in a lab.

www.nih.gov/news-events/...

Secretary Kennedy Swears in Dr. Anthony Letai as Director of the National Cancer Institute

Dr. Letai will serve as NCI’s 18th director.

www.nih.gov

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Nathan K. Hensley @nathankhensley.bsky.social · 13d

The thing regular people don’t often grasp about ‘academic freedom’ is that if you don’t allow experts to research & teach in their fields of expertise, guided by their professional judgment & decades of training, you have effectively given up on the concept of knowledge & shut down your university

Bryan Edward Stone (שָׁלוֹם) @bestonetx.bsky.social · 13d

Universities are moving rapidly to comply with laws that don't exist.

Texas Conference of the AAUP @texasaaup.bsky.social · 13d

“I’m emotionally shellshocked right now,” said one professor in the Texas Tech system. “What does it say about academic freedom? It says we don’t have it.” The professor spoke by phone from the inside of a car to avoid being overheard by colleagues.

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/u...

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