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Philadelphia Science Action @philadelphiascienceaction.substack.com · 3d

"Each concession leaves institutions more entangled with the federal government and more vulnerable to future coercion. Resistance must be strong, early, and sustained, or the space for resistance will vanish."

Read our latest blog post by @dramandar.bsky.social

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Why Penn Must Reject Trump’s Higher Ed Compact

By Amanda Rabinowitz Ph.D.

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Philadelphia Science Action @philadelphiascienceaction.substack.com · 7d

This Friday! 🍻🔬

Join us at National Mechanics for a science happy hour!
📅 Friday, Oct 3
⏰ 4:30–6:00 PM
🎉 10% off drinks
🤝 Connect with Philly’s science community

Then head to the FREE First Friday poster session at the Science History Institute!
🔗 tinyurl.com/3z8sh4ax

A flyer advertising Philly Science Action Social. Happy Hour for Philly's Science Community. Friday, Oct 3. 4:30-6PM National Mechanics. 22 S 3rd St #24, Philadelphia, PA 19106. Connect. Share. Build Community.

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Philadelphia Science Action @philadelphiascienceaction.substack.com · 12d

🍻 Join us for the Philly Science Action Social!
📍 National Mechanics | 📅 Fri Oct 3 | ⏰ 4:30–6pm
10% off drinks + connect with Philly’s science community.

Then head to the FREE First Friday poster session at the Science History Institute!
🔗 www.sciencehistory.org/visit/events...

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Philadelphia Science Action @philadelphiascienceaction.substack.com · 13d

PSA was honored to speak at the Parlee Center for Science and the Common Good at Ursinus College.

@amandastherrien.bsky.social and @dramandar.bsky.social had an inspiring day speaking with and learning from students about the threats facing biomedical science—and what we can do to protect it.

Dr. Amanda Therrien speaks at a lectern in a lecture hall, presenting on the history of federal science funding in the United States.

Dr. Robert Dawley, Dr. Amanda Therrien, Dr. Amanda Rabinowitz, and Parlee Fellows Ashton Newswanger and Max Matalavage at the front of the lecture hall.

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Philadelphia Science Action @philadelphiascienceaction.substack.com · Aug 26

Cuts to NIH & NCI would stall life-saving discoveries, devastate, patients, and harm Philly’s economy.

That’s why we joined @americancancersoc.bsky.social and a coalition of survivors, researchers, providers and advocates at Independence Hall to urge Congress: protect cancer research funding.

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Jefferson Moss Rehabilitation Research Institute @mossresearch.bsky.social · Aug 25

Congratulations to Postdoctoral Fellow, @jonathanwood603.bsky.social, & mentors @aaronlwong.bsky.social & @amandastherrien.bsky.social on receiving a prestigious NIH/NICHD F32 award for their project, “The role of subjective values and dopamine availability in incentive-based motor learning”!

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Philadelphia Science Action @philadelphiascienceaction.substack.com · Aug 17

🚨 Cancer research funding is under threat. Congress is considering cuts that would stall lifesaving progress.

📢 Join @americancancersoc.bsky.social + PSA at Independence Hall – People’s Plaza to oppose cuts & protect cancer cures.

🗓 Tues 8/26 | 10–11am
📍 530 Market St, Philadelphia

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Philadelphia Science Action @philadelphiascienceaction.substack.com · Aug 1

People 👏 power 👏 works 👏

“We’re particularly encouraged by the bipartisan nature of the recent actions. It does tell us we have support, that our advocacy efforts are working,” said Amanda Therrien of Philly Science Action

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Senators are pushing back against Trump’s NIH cuts. Philly scientists say their advocacy is working.

A Senate committee rejected Trump's proposed 40% cut to NIH funding. Philadelphia's medical research community says it means advocacy efforts are having an impact on Capitol Hill.

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Vaughn Cooper @vscooper.micropopbio.org · Jul 30

Let's please keep the remaining staff at NIH, NSF, etc in our thoughts even as you lose sleep over your own lab and scientific career.

They are enduring pure chaos to try to hold the fort.

See snapshot from wapo.st/4feKKuu (gift 🔗) saying they are "barely holding it together"

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Sam McDougle @actlab.bsky.social · Jul 24

Happy to announce that my lab @ Yale Psychology (actcompthink.org) will be accepting PhD applications this year (for start in Fall '26)!

Come for the fun experiments on human learning, memory, & skilled behavior, stay for the best 🍕 in the US.

Please reach out if you have any questions!

Homepage of the Action, Computation, & Thinking (ACT) Lab, Yale department of psychology

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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · Jul 24

well put.

Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · Jul 24

Bowing down to authoritarianism is a fundamental betrayal of the fundamental mission of higher ed. Shame on Columbia. abcnews.go.com/US/columbia-...

Columbia University to pay $200M in settlement with Trump administration

Columbia University has agreed to pay $200 million over the next three years to resolve claims it discriminated against Jewish students.

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Philadelphia Science Action @philadelphiascienceaction.substack.com · Jul 20

The case for investing in biomedical science is so clear it shouldn’t need defending. Yet here we are.

Read and share our latest blog from @amandastherrien.bsky.social & @dramandar.bsky.social

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A case so obvious it shouldn’t even need to be made: Biomedical research is an excellent investment

By Amanda S. Therrien Ph.D. and Amanda Rabinowitz Ph.D.

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Philadelphia Science Action @philadelphiascienceaction.substack.com · Jul 17

Dr. Francis Collins speaks to the dire state of affairs at our government agencies.

"Predictions are that since the plug was pulled on USAID, 90,000 children have died unnecessarily... And yet, where is the outrage?..Where is our compassion?"

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A Scientific Brain Drain Has Followed Trump’s Gutting Of The NIH - Dr. Francis Collins

YouTube video by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

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Amanda @dramandar.bsky.social · Jul 16

Hey you! 👋

Are you a scientist with something to say? We want to hear from you!

The @philadelphiascienceaction.substack.com Substack is looking for contributors!

Bring your voice — let’s defend science together. 🧬✊

DM us if you’d like to write for us!

Philadelphia Science Action @philadelphiascienceaction.substack.com · Jul 16

8/ 💌 DM us if you’d like to share your perspective, story or project. We want to hear from you — students, researchers, public health workers, climate activists, educators, neighbors.

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Prof. Carrie McDonough @carrieamcdphd.bsky.social · Jul 16

if you know someone who has been really active in speaking out against the Trump regime, and you've been wondering if they want your help or if they have it all handled, please go help them however you can. they are exhausted. I am exhausted.

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Ian L Morgan @ianlmorgan.bsky.social · Jul 14

House FY26 Commerce, Justice, and Science Appropriations Bill proposes a 23% cut to funding for the National Science Foundation.
Call your legislators and tell them no cuts to science funding!
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Proposed science spending in FY26 House Commerce, Justice, and Science appropriations bill.

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Philadelphia Science Action @philadelphiascienceaction.substack.com · Jul 16

1/ ✊🔬 Introducing the Philadelphia Science Action Substack — your local hub for scientists & science activists fighting for truth, transparency & inclusivity in Philly and beyond. 🧵 philadelphiascienceaction.substack.com

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RebelFema @rebelfema.altgov.info · Jul 14

A reminder from Mister Rogers we might all need right now.

“Some days, doing ‘the best we can’ may still fall short of what we would like to be able to do, but life isn’t perfect on any front — and doing what we can with what we have is the most we should expect of ourselves or anyone else.”

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Philadelphia Science Action @philadelphiascienceaction.substack.com · Jul 14

Sign our open letter to Penn condemning this capitulation and standing up for transgender athletes and truly inclusive sport. Add your name here:

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · Jul 12

IMPORTANT IMPORTANT IMPORTANT IMPORTANT

Please watch the workshop video and COMMENT by 5:00 Monday 7/14

This is the source of the "no more model organism only grants in NIH-funded research" decree.

@LaBonneLaB @labonnelab.bsky.social · Jul 11

Dear all, PLEASE add comments on the importance of model organism research at this link:

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Philadelphia Science Action @philadelphiascienceaction.substack.com · Jul 13

We should be wary of scientific priorities that frame disability as a problem to “cure” instead of a reality to support.

Read more on our Substack from @dramandar.bsky.social:

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The Dubious Promise of Disability “Cures”

By Amanda Rabinowitz Ph.D.

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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · Jul 12

Tapping the sign that says “NSF, NIH, and public investment into basic research are the real engines of US innovation”

Adam Gurri @adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com · Jul 12

Silicon Valley VCs sit atop a system where federal and state governments spent more on basic research of all kinds than most other countries in the world combined, and then take the ideas that come out of that and take it the last mile. An important function, but they disproportionately benefit.

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Philadelphia Science Action @philadelphiascienceaction.substack.com · Jul 6

Penn’s acquiescence to the Trump Admin last week is troubling. It condones scapegoating, revisionism, & transphobia.
It also condones an interpretation of biological sex that flies in the face of current biological science.

Here, @amandastherrien.bsky.social discusses the actual biological truth.

The Biological Truth Is That There Is No Simple Dichotomy Between Male and Female

By Amanda S. Therrien Ph.D.

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Union of Concerned Scientists @ucs.org · Jul 1

In June, the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) proposed a rule to implement a federal hiring classification that would reintroduce parts of “Schedule F,” a controversial hiring scheme. UCS’s Joseph Reed explains why we joined a group of orgs to submit a comment urging OPM to withdraw the rule.

Schedule F by Another Name Is Still a Threat to Science

Should this rule take effect, civil service protections would be stripped from much of the federal workforce, all but dismantling the merit-based system we’ve had for more than a century.

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Philadelphia Science Action @philadelphiascienceaction.substack.com · Jul 1

Extreme weather events, like heat domes, will become more frequent & dangerous with climate change. The Big Bad Bill includes severe roll backs of clean energy initiatives, which will worsen this trend.

Keep calling your Senators! Tell them to vote no TODAY!! 📞 202-224-3121.

Surprise Tax in G.O.P. Bill Could Cripple Wind and Solar Power

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