@aligator28.bsky.social
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Working with an interdisciplinary team, we have developed a website to communicate how the White House's proposed cuts to health research would cause losses of $16B and 68,500 jobs.
Find out how your community may be impacted.
Explore more at SCIMaP: scienceimpacts.org
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Find out how your community may be impacted.
Explore more at SCIMaP: scienceimpacts.org
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March 28, 2025 at 2:15 AM
Working with an interdisciplinary team, we have developed a website to communicate how the White House's proposed cuts to health research would cause losses of $16B and 68,500 jobs.
Find out how your community may be impacted.
Explore more at SCIMaP: scienceimpacts.org
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Find out how your community may be impacted.
Explore more at SCIMaP: scienceimpacts.org
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👩⚕️CDC and Disability Rights 🦼
Before we talk more about disability, we need to address the history of eugenics, ableism and racism that haunts US public health work.
Before we talk more about disability, we need to address the history of eugenics, ableism and racism that haunts US public health work.
February 23, 2025 at 10:58 PM
👩⚕️CDC and Disability Rights 🦼
Before we talk more about disability, we need to address the history of eugenics, ableism and racism that haunts US public health work.
Before we talk more about disability, we need to address the history of eugenics, ableism and racism that haunts US public health work.
Keep on contacting the attorney generals who are attacking Section 504. When they lie and state “we’re not looking to make the whole law unconstitutional,” direct them to page 37 of the lawsuit they signed on to.
Resources from @dredf.bsky.social on the Section 504 lawsuit:
• dredf.org/protect-504/
• FAQs docs.google.com/document/d/1...
• all 50 Attorneys General contact info docs.google.com/document/d/e...
• Disability community briefing webinar + transcript dredf.org/disability-c...
• dredf.org/protect-504/
• FAQs docs.google.com/document/d/1...
• all 50 Attorneys General contact info docs.google.com/document/d/e...
• Disability community briefing webinar + transcript dredf.org/disability-c...
February 19, 2025 at 1:51 AM
Keep on contacting the attorney generals who are attacking Section 504. When they lie and state “we’re not looking to make the whole law unconstitutional,” direct them to page 37 of the lawsuit they signed on to.
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Education Department pauses research contracts and cuts DEI training grants
About 170 contracts for the Institute of Education Sciences were targeted.
www.politico.com/news/2025/02...
About 170 contracts for the Institute of Education Sciences were targeted.
www.politico.com/news/2025/02...
Education Department slashes funding for research contracts, grants
About 170 contracts for the Institute of Education Sciences were targeted.
www.politico.com
February 11, 2025 at 3:58 AM
Education Department pauses research contracts and cuts DEI training grants
About 170 contracts for the Institute of Education Sciences were targeted.
www.politico.com/news/2025/02...
About 170 contracts for the Institute of Education Sciences were targeted.
www.politico.com/news/2025/02...
1/ As someone who has made a career of supporting individuals with disabilities, and the parent of kids with disabilities, I am deeply concerned by the current legal challenge to Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act in the case of Texas v. Becerra.
February 11, 2025 at 3:29 AM
1/ As someone who has made a career of supporting individuals with disabilities, and the parent of kids with disabilities, I am deeply concerned by the current legal challenge to Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act in the case of Texas v. Becerra.
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This page from Charlotte's Web by E.B. White resonates so so much with me.
Because... I guess it just goes to show that each and every one of us can be the saving of the other.
If that isn't such a quaint idea in these strange times.
Because... I guess it just goes to show that each and every one of us can be the saving of the other.
If that isn't such a quaint idea in these strange times.
February 7, 2025 at 7:37 PM
This page from Charlotte's Web by E.B. White resonates so so much with me.
Because... I guess it just goes to show that each and every one of us can be the saving of the other.
If that isn't such a quaint idea in these strange times.
Because... I guess it just goes to show that each and every one of us can be the saving of the other.
If that isn't such a quaint idea in these strange times.
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Search for impacts in your state (2023 data) www.unitedformedicalresearch.org/nih-in-your-...
NIH In Your State - United For Medical Research
Select a state on the map to see the impact of NIH funding across America.
www.unitedformedicalresearch.org
February 8, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Search for impacts in your state (2023 data) www.unitedformedicalresearch.org/nih-in-your-...