Rebekah Kati
@rjkati.bsky.social
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Institutional Repository Librarian. Eclectic interests = posts on random topics. she/her. 🏳️🌈 This is a personal account.
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Kevin M. Kruse
@kevinmkruse.bsky.social
· Sep 10
A top 50 US university yesterday fired an instructor, a department chair, and a dean because a course made some reference to transgender people without the brief official course description in the catalog saying “trigger warning: gender.”
In conclusion, those intolerant lefty kids, cancel culture.
In conclusion, those intolerant lefty kids, cancel culture.
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I’ve seen a lot of cishet allies who are also confused by all the prominent Dem voices suddenly acting like having trans rights means we can’t also have vaccines and schools and national parks, and that’s because some of the “why” is happening at a pitch only queer and trans people can hear
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Evan Greer
@evangreer.bsky.social
· Apr 2
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Katie Mack
@astrokatie.com
· Aug 5
Release from HHS: HHS will wind down its development of the mRNA vaccine development activities under the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA).
Rebekah Kati
@rjkati.bsky.social
· Jun 29
BREAKING: Republican Sen. Thom Tillis of North Carolina won't seek reelection after saying he'll oppose Trump's tax bill.
Republican Sen. Thom Tillis of North Carolina won't seek reelection after opposing Trump's bill
Republican Sen. Thom Tillis of North Carolina says he won't seek reelection. That news Sunday comes one day after he announced his opposition to President Donald Trump’s tax breaks and spending cuts package because of its reductions to health care programs.
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Mark Joseph Stern
@mjsdc.bsky.social
· Jun 27
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Molly Knight
@mollyknight.bsky.social
· Jun 22
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ProPublica
@propublica.org
· Jun 12
Shattered Science: The Research Lost as Trump Targets NIH Funding
The Trump administration cut research funding that sought cures for future pandemics, examined the causes of dementia and tried to prevent HIV transmission. More than 150 researchers shared with…
projects.propublica.org
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Rebecca Givan
@rkgwork.bsky.social
· May 28
This is the first media coverage that I have seen of the UNC board's quiet decision to largely pause granting tenure outside of the health sciences. This is worth watching over the coming weeks.
At Chapel Hill, Only Health-Sciences Professors Have Been Getting Tenure
The UNC Chapel Hill board hasn’t tenured a single professor in fields outside the health sciences since January. The inaction has prompted confusion and alarm among faculty.
www.chronicle.com
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tl;dr — this EO co-opts the language of open science to implement a system of political control wherein presidential appointees are given broad latitude to designate any number of reasonable scientific activities and inferences as scientific misconduct, and to penalize those involved accordingly.
Restoring Gold Standard Science
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including section 7301 of title 5, United
www.whitehouse.gov
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This is so exciting! The German National Library of Medicine @zbmed.bsky.social just had its first open meeting on the plan for an open & independent PubMed safety net. Here's my write-up @plos.org on the meeting & how institutions & others can help absolutelymaybe.plos.org/2025/05/14/g...
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Germany's Plan for an Open and Independent PubMed Safety Net - Absolutely Maybe
A few months ago, I wrote about reasons to be concerned about the reliability of PubMed under the new regime at the…
absolutelymaybe.plos.org
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Adam Serwer
@adamserwer.bsky.social
· May 12
Trump naming Todd Blanche — the former defense attorney from his hush money trial — as acting Librarian of Congress
Trump naming his former defense attorney as acting Librarian of Congress
Todd Blanche already holds the number two position at the Justice Department.
www.axios.com