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Sara Rouhi
@rouhiroo.bsky.social
Director #openscience @AIPP; political theory PhD dropout; former @PLOS-er; co-author of DefendResearch.org 📜 against #censorship: defendresearch.org #PostsAreMyOwn

We can’t look for superstition in this. The devil is precise.


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The crimson are killing it with their coverage.
November 25, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Reposted by Sara Rouhi
DORKS! @standupforscience.bsky.social is running health and science focused phone banking to Get Out The Vote in TN-07!

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November 24, 2025 at 11:05 AM
It’s weird to listen to #MTG and be nodding in agreement. #WeirdFeeling #StrangeBedfellows
November 22, 2025 at 6:21 PM
I respect this take.
November 22, 2025 at 1:51 PM
November 22, 2025 at 1:41 PM
And it's not. Their comms campaigns work. We have none. Doesn't matter if we're right. We're still losing. So what do we change? That's all I'm saying. I have never disagreed w/ your point. I'm making a different one.
November 21, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Sure? Bc the point I'm trying to make is about our side not "theirs." Yes, they're engaged in a systematic and successful campaign to undermine expertise, credibility, education, and science. And we sit in ivory towers assuming what we do is obvious.
November 21, 2025 at 6:30 PM
But then he went on about using our extorted money to fund foreign wars and I'm like - dammit, you people always have .25% of a good point. #SoClose #NotNEARLYCLOSEENOUGH
November 21, 2025 at 5:17 PM
I got sucked into a convo with a guy who calls taxes "evil extortion," and I'm deeply regretting my choices as I sit here in a super safe neighborhood with great schools and great services... paid for by taxes. #TFP
November 21, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Wild!!
November 20, 2025 at 1:56 PM
I’m in the Starbucks like watching a non-boomer pay in cash. What is this rare animal??
November 20, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Sure, fair, fine. Can’t control “them.” Can only control “us.” So get better at communicating. Say what you will about KH, terrible communicator. Most scientists are too. It takes practice. And a little humility. Just sayin’
November 20, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Amazing! Thanks for sharing!
November 20, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Needs to own its part in communicating more effectively to the public. There’s an arrogance in academia that assumes this is all obvious and it’s not. For most.
November 20, 2025 at 12:46 PM
I’m making a broader point about communicating that science is a process, not a definitive result. Whether it’s Covid or anything else, scientists have never been good communicators about the try/fail process that is the method. No one else is going to do this for them. To some extent the community
November 20, 2025 at 12:46 PM
My vote: refuses to share at all.
November 19, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Curtis Brand @umassamherst.bsky.social dean of libraries speaking to the impacts of #censorship #academicfreedom violations on campus -- 17% drop in International student enrollment, funding loss, self-censorship #CharlestonVirtualConf25
November 19, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Smear campaign, yes. Researchers/admins publicly advocating for value of their work, peer-review, and the scientific process? Not so much. I'm thinking of public health in particular/comms failures in the early days of COVID. There's a weird arrogance in academia that still stuff is self-evident.
November 19, 2025 at 3:55 PM
This is showing off.
November 19, 2025 at 3:54 PM
I’ve really had enough of these emotional snowflake bathrooms. #SensitivePlumbing
November 19, 2025 at 1:27 PM