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Fight For A Union @fightforaunion.bsky.social · 1d

TEN DAYS to #NoKings Day!!!!

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Melissa Kane PhD @cornymel.bsky.social · 8d

Heroes

Max Kozlov @maxkozlov.bsky.social · 8d

Staff members at the NIH seem to have done the impossible: spend the agency's $48 billion budget.

“Everyone has been rallying together to clean up the mess, but it’s a mess that did not need to be made,” an NIH program officer told me.

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

NIH races to spend its 2025 grant money — but fewer projects win funding

Despite political obstacles, officials are on track to disburse all of the research funds allocated to US biomedical behemoth.

www.nature.com

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Jenna Norton @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · 12d

This miracle happened because civil servants are among the most dedicated, passionate and hardworking people…

IN SPITE OF the Trump administration.

Even with all that work, multiyear funding policies mean a lot of excellent science went unfunded.
www.washingtonpost.com/science/2025...

NIH pulled off a ‘near miracle.’ Scientists say there’s still a problem.

The National Institutes of Health is on track to give away all of its grant money to labs, but research on cancer, aging and diabetes is still being left behind.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Melissa Kane PhD @cornymel.bsky.social · 12d

We had a wonderful time at the @pitt-immunology.bsky.social retreat this week! Lia presented a poster (hanging is one of three posters printed thanks to shipping struggles) and got great feedback/ideas from the session. We’re so grateful to be included in this community at Pitt!

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Sexy CHOAM Nomsky costume @samthielman.com · 13d

George Orwell on Hitler

He is the martyr, the victim, Prometheus chained to the rock, the self-sacrificing hero who fights single-handed against impossible odds. If he were killing a mouse he would know how to make it seem like a dragon. One feels, as with Napoleon, that he is fighting against destiny, that he can't win, and yet that he somehow deserves to. The attraction of such a pose is of course enormous; half the films that one sees
turn upon some such theme.

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Daniel MacPhee 🇨🇦 @d-macphee.bsky.social · 21d

“Antiscience has gone beyond U.S. borders to Europe, Australia, and Africa. Defeating it will require unprecedented commitment and international cooperation, not only between scientific organizations, but also their host governments.”
🧪 #Disinformation #AntiScience
time.com/7317436/scie...

Antiscience Is an Existential Threat

The ideologically-motivated assault on science threatens us all.

time.com

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Melissa Kane PhD @cornymel.bsky.social · 27d

There’s plenty of bad news today, but this should be on everyone’s radar. This is going to have a TON of negative consequences.

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/h...

$10 Million in Contraceptives Have Been Destroyed on Orders From Trump Officials

www.nytimes.com

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Melissa Kane PhD @cornymel.bsky.social · Sep 9

Horrible. I feel awful for the postdoc who was manipulated by this person, I hope she hasn’t left science as a result of this

Helen Lazear @lazearlab.bsky.social · Sep 9

retractionwatch.com/2022/01/13/e...

Exclusive: How a researcher faked data and gaslit a labmate for years

Ryan Evanoff Sometime in early 2019, a postdoc in a veterinary microbiology lab at Washington State University (WSU) in Pullman came to suspect that a research assistant in her lab was fabricating …

retractionwatch.com

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · Sep 8

"It is my view and the view of this administration that parents should be free to decide whether they want their children oppressively strapped into a two-ton vehicle or liberated head-first through the windshield."
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/the...

The Head of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration Explains Why It’s No Longer Recommending the Use of Seat Belts

“In the seven months since he was sworn in, Mr. Kennedy has delivered a lukewarm endorsement of the measles vaccine; dismantled a panel of experts ...

www.mcsweeneys.net

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Grace R @candidkitten.bsky.social · Nov 10

Since everyone’s finding old and new friends, take a moment to read my story, I’m a 32yo polio survivor because I was not vaccinated. Pass on my story, repeat it, tell it to any vaccine hesitate parent. No kid deserves vaccine preventable diseases

www.voicesforvaccines.org/as-a-polio-s...

I’m a Polio Survivor. I Don’t Want You to Get It.

Polio is once again a public health threat in the United States. Grace is disappointed, though not surprised.

www.voicesforvaccines.org

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Melissa Kane PhD @cornymel.bsky.social · Sep 6

I have never wanted to believe in heaven or hell more (still don’t, but what can you do…)

God @thegodpodcast.com · Sep 5

No.

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Melissa Kane PhD @cornymel.bsky.social · Sep 3

I imagine we’ll get show elections… We’re screaming into the void about what they’re doing to science, it’s hard to break through when there are SO many terrible things happening.

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Melissa Kane PhD @cornymel.bsky.social · Sep 3

This is really bad, really just f*cking awful

Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽 @needhibhalla.bsky.social · Sep 2

"We’re currently at about 54% of last year’s total [of funded R01s]...Another way to look at this is that we’re missing 1,809 new R01s."

Drug Monkey @drugmonkey.bsky.social · Sep 2

One month to go for NIH grants in the FY2025 cycle drugmonkey.wordpress.com/2025/09/02/o...

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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · Aug 25

Basically, pick a side

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Melissa Kane PhD @cornymel.bsky.social · Aug 25

🤣🤣

Geo @georevilo.bsky.social · Aug 24

I can't believe he basically got people to Pokemon Go To The Polls.

Elisa G. Schneider @elisagschneider.bsky.social · Aug 24

The crowd at Stop One of the Mamdani scavenger hunt!

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Stuart Neil @tetherin.bsky.social · Aug 20

rasmussenretorts.substack.com/p/bhattachar...

A chilling deep dive into the stark parallels between Lysenko’s destruction of Soviet science and how the MAGA NIH Director Bhattacharya is razing US biomedical research to the ground.

@angierasmussen.bsky.social deserves printing in major newspapers

Bhattacharya is the New Lysenko

Starving the NIH through ineptitude, bitterness, and thirst for revenge

rasmussenretorts.substack.com

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Science and Freedom Alliance - SAFA @safa-science.bsky.social · Aug 14

Yes. Scientists must defend democracy and freedom. The three are linked. We cannot do great science without the other small-l liberal values. From our mission statement at @safa-science.bsky.social : 1/2

Timothy Caulfield @caulfieldtim.bsky.social · Aug 14

Scientists’ role in defending democracy www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Let's all support this vital need: the ability to tell the truth. 💪

"Those in the science community who are willing & able to be more visible can step up. Acting together will be more impactful than going it alone."

Scientists’ role in defending democracy

The United States’ democratic leadership, commitment to freedom of expression, and investment in the pursuit of knowledge have long enabled its preeminence in science and technology. Yet today we are ...

www.science.org

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · Aug 13

"The tenure process is harrowing, punitive, predatory, and generally demoralizing — if you’re successful. If you don’t get tenure, your academic career is over, and you will be publicly stoned to death in the quad between the library and the student union."

Congratulations on Your New Academic Position of Assistant Professor of Annual Reviews, Merit Reviews, Peer Reviews, Student Evaluations, Tenure Review, Post-Tenure Review, and [Your Discipline]

Welcome to our faculty. We have recently changed our titling norms to more accurately reflect how you will allocate your time. We will conduct the ...

buff.ly

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Melissa Kane PhD @cornymel.bsky.social · Aug 8

It’s no wonder that I haven’t had a solid night of sleep since January and my whole body is tense. They’re destroying everything. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

‘Impossible to rebuild’: NIH scientists say Trump cuts will imperil life-saving research

Researchers say scientific community is in state of whiplash and accuse president of trying to ‘destroy’ vital work

www.theguardian.com

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Brian Wasik @brianrwasik.bsky.social · Aug 7

Again, the Congress has the power to reclaim its Article I powers and tell this OMB troll to pound sand.

Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · Aug 7

Well, this is a huge Executive Order power grab...

www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

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Improving Oversight of Federal Grantmaking

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, and to improve the process of Federal

www.whitehouse.gov

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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · Aug 5

"If the behaviour of your politicians seems inexplicable and against the public and their own interest, blackmail is almost certainly the reason behind that. That is how you lose wars, your country, and your lives." #opdeatheaters #3E #Epstein #Maxwell

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Melissa Kane PhD @cornymel.bsky.social · Aug 4

Christian nationalists are destroying this country

Stardust 🌏🎬 @stardustbluepr.com · Aug 3

The hypocrisy is astounding.

James Stalarico (Rep. Texas) calls them out.

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Melissa Kane PhD @cornymel.bsky.social · Aug 3

💯

Anyone who participated in the trafficking, abuse, and assault of those girls deserves to be exposed and prosecuted - I don’t give a damn if they’re on my side of the political aisle or not

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Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · Aug 2

Wow. Who could’ve guessed the party that’s led to country to a recession every time they’ve been in charge in the last 40 years would lead the country to a recession again?

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