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Dr. David Miller 🏳️‍🌈 @davidimiller.bsky.social · 19h

Fuck that noise.

Federal workers deserve our respect and pay.

And more than that: it's the law.

"Shall be paid...at the earliest date possible after the lapse in appropriations ends"

31 U.S. Code § 1341 (c)(2): uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?p...

(2) Each employee of the United States Government or of a District of Columbia public employer furloughed as a result of a covered lapse in appropriations shall be paid for the period of the lapse in appropriations, and each excepted employee who is required to perform work during a covered lapse in appropriations shall be paid for such work, at the employee's standard rate of pay, at the earliest date possible after the lapse in appropriations ends, regardless of scheduled pay dates, and subject to the enactment of appropriations Acts ending the lapse.

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Arghavan Salles, MD, PhD @arghavansallesmd.medsky.social · 4d

I got fed up with Vance’s lies, so I made a video addressing a few of them:

-Why are ED wait times long? (Hint: it’s not immigrants)
-Are “illegal aliens” getting health insurance through the government? (Not since 1996)
-What about emergency Medicaid? (This goes to hospitals, not patients)

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Dr. David Miller 🏳️‍🌈 @davidimiller.bsky.social · 5d

Receipts for above:

U of Texas Board of Regents (gift NYT link): www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/u...

California governor: bsky.app/profile/gove...

The 10-page "compact" itself: www.washingtonexaminer.com/wp-content/u...

Trump Administration Asks Colleges to Sign ‘Compact’ to Get Funding Preference

www.nytimes.com

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Dr. David Miller 🏳️‍🌈 @davidimiller.bsky.social · 5d

A tale of two states and Trump's shakedown of higher ed:

TEXAS: Oh goody, yes, we love to strip away academic freedoms to serve Trump's wishes.

CALIFORNIA: Eat shit. Any university who signs the letter will lose state funding.

“The University of Texas system is honored that our flagship — the University of Texas at Austin — has been named as one of only nine institutions in the U.S. selected by the Trump administration for potential funding advantages under its new Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education,” Kevin P. Eltife, the chairman of the University of Texas Board of Regents, said in a statement on Thursday. “We enthusiastically look forward to engaging with university officials and reviewing the compact immediately.”

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 5d

Republicans had what was a strong shutdown position: We want to keep the govt open, Dems have demands.

They had traded this for Vought's position, which imo is much riskier, since it is based on an obvious lie about the need to make cuts.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/shutdown-h...

The administration is gambling the idea that the public will buy the false claim that the cuts they are imposing are caused by the shutdown. This is simply not true, and if people start to understand that Vought is imposing needless pain, using the shutdown as an excuse to hurt public services and blue states, the Republican position looks a lot harder to defend. It is therefore substantively important that the media cover this point accurately.

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Jenna Norton @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · 6d

“American science, the gold-standard and world-leading science and innovation enterprise, is being destroyed….Congress has a rare moment of leverage to check Trump’s executive overreach and it must stand up and do so.”

- @markhisted.org, NIH neuroscientist

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

This US government shutdown is different: what it means for science

President Trump’s budget office lays out guidelines for mass lay-offs across the federal government.

www.nature.com

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Dr. David Miller 🏳️‍🌈 @davidimiller.bsky.social · 6d

Some further context on the abrupt policy change:

‘Completely shattered.’ Changes to NSF’s graduate student fellowship spur outcry

The announcement comes months later than usual, leaving many would-be applicants stranded

www.science.org

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Dr. David Miller 🏳️‍🌈 @davidimiller.bsky.social · 6d

Though many NSF employees are currently furloughed, Congress is not (where this call is going to next):

Lauren Kuehne @omfishient.bsky.social · 6d

📣 🧪 Update: #GRFP petition went to #NSF and OSTP (w/ the growing* comments list) yesterday.

We are now working to get these impacts in front of Congress, so PLEASE keep signing/sharing the petition!

*nearly 900!

@danielbolnick.bsky.social @joshuasweitz.bsky.social @jasonwilliamsny.bsky.social

Lauren Kuehne @omfishient.bsky.social · 8d

🧪 Were you one of the many thousands of STEM students (and mentors) impacted by the sudden change in #NSF #GRFP eligibility last week?

We created a petition to NSF leadership and Congress to reverse the changes - please sign and share your stories here!!

laurenkuehne.github.io/grfpChanges/

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Dr. David Miller 🏳️‍🌈 @davidimiller.bsky.social · 6d

📣 Calling 2nd-year grad students and their mentors:

You just abruptly lost the ability to apply for the NSF grad research fellowship.

Join ~900 others (and growing!) in signing @omfishient.bsky.social's petition to reverse that.

[Or reshare this petition if you're not directly impacted]

Petition to NSF to Restore Eligibility for the 2026 Graduate Research Fellowship Program Competition

laurenkuehne.github.io

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Lauren Kuehne @omfishient.bsky.social · 6d

📣 🧪 Update: #GRFP petition went to #NSF and OSTP (w/ the growing* comments list) yesterday.

We are now working to get these impacts in front of Congress, so PLEASE keep signing/sharing the petition!

*nearly 900!

@danielbolnick.bsky.social @joshuasweitz.bsky.social @jasonwilliamsny.bsky.social

Lauren Kuehne @omfishient.bsky.social · 8d

🧪 Were you one of the many thousands of STEM students (and mentors) impacted by the sudden change in #NSF #GRFP eligibility last week?

We created a petition to NSF leadership and Congress to reverse the changes - please sign and share your stories here!!

laurenkuehne.github.io/grfpChanges/

Petition to NSF to Restore Eligibility for the 2026 Graduate Research Fellowship Program Competition

laurenkuehne.github.io

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Dr. David Miller 🏳️‍🌈 @davidimiller.bsky.social · 6d

One blatant violation of the Hatch Act after another:

“I am out of office for the foreseeable future because Senate Democrats voted to block a clean federal spending bill (HR 5371), leading to a government shutdown that is preventing the US Small Business Administration from serving America’s 36 million small businesses. Every day that Senate Democrats continue [to] oppose a clean funding bill, they are stopping an estimated 320 small businesses from accessing $170 million in SBA-guaranteed funding.”

The email goes on to say that once the shutdown is over, “we are prepared to immediately return to the record-breaking services we are providing under the leadership of the Trump Administration.”

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Tiffany Lowe-Power 🌱🦠 @tlowepower.bsky.social · 7d

Advice: download PDFs of any documents you might need from government websites. The NIFA website went offline during the government shutdown during my PhD

Dr. David Miller 🏳️‍🌈 @davidimiller.bsky.social · 7d

In that vein, NSF's shutdown plans just went public: nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/files/nsf-sh...

Already-funded projects can continue. And proposals can be submitted. But don't expect a response from a program officer during the shutdown.

Brief Summary of significant agency activities that will continue during a lapse:
National Science Foundation (NSF) will use available carryover balances to continue daily operations.
Once those balances are exhausted, electronic systems for proposal preparation and submission
will remain available for use during a lapse in appropriations, (i.e., Research.gov, and Grants.gov).
The Awards Cash Management Service (ACM$) and the Invoice Processing Platform (IPP) will remain
available for the submission and processing of valid payments for recipients and contractors.
Recipients may continue performance under their NSF awards during a lapse in appropriations, to
the extent funds are available, and the period of performance of the grant or cooperative
agreement has not expired. In the event of a lapse, more detailed information on NSF operations for
recipients, panelists, and employees will be posted at www.NSF.gov, and will be updated as
necessary during a lapse.
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Brief Summary of significant agency activities that will cease during a lapse:
In general, no new grants, continuing grant increments, cooperative agreements, or contracts will be
awarded. No new funding opportunities (program descriptions, announcements, solicitations or
Dear Colleague Letters) will be issued. Responses to any inquiries received regarding upcoming
deadlines will be deferred until normal operations resume. All panels (including virtual panels)
scheduled to occur during a lapse in appropriations will be cancelled and will likely be rescheduled
to a later date.

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Dr. David Miller 🏳️‍🌈 @davidimiller.bsky.social · 7d

In that vein, NSF's shutdown plans just went public: nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/files/nsf-sh...

Already-funded projects can continue. And proposals can be submitted. But don't expect a response from a program officer during the shutdown.

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Dr. David Miller 🏳️‍🌈 @davidimiller.bsky.social · 7d

Needed to take a bit of a social media break for personal reasons, but hopping back on say:

At awe of the civil servants at NSF, NIH, etc.

While Vought uses their jobs/livelihood as a political pawn re: shutdown, their first instinct has remained: how do I support the communities of scientists?

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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 16d

I might play this as my alarm every morning for the next month

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Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · 18d

New: More than two weeks after a court order ruled the Trump administration's termination of 1000+ grants illegal, Harvard's research funding is still frozen—with one exception. On Wednesday, NSF reinstated both Harvard's grants and access to funds. My reporting:

Harvard vs Trump: research funds still mostly frozen despite court win

US funding agencies might violate a judge’s ruling if they continue to withhold money.

www.nature.com

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Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social · 20d

Exactly this

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 25d

Here are the _public_ email addresses for the reporters and the standards editor listed on the WSJ site.

Standards editor:
[email protected]

Journalists who wrote the article:
[email protected]
[email protected]

Politely and peacefully demand a retraction and an apology.

Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 25d

Transgender people are owed a retraction and apology from @wsj.com. The lie has already become canon to millions and it seems the least they could do.

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 25d

From the Charlie Kirk press conference:

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 25d

If I don't see multiple ~media reporters~ columns about the extraordinarily irresponsible Wall Street Journal report from yesterday morning — and their extensive promotion of that inflammatory report — you all should just pack up and go home.

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Dr. David Miller 🏳️‍🌈 @davidimiller.bsky.social · 25d

Appreciate the timeline cleanse 😂

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 25d

‘Booty’ and ‘butt’ are synonyms.

‘Call’ and ‘dial’ are synonyms.

But, a ‘booty call’ and a ‘butt dial’ are VERY different things.

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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.bsky.social · 26d

FIGHT FOR SCIENCE RALLY ‼️🧬💪
⏰WHEN: Weds, Sept. 17th at 8am ET
📍WHERE: 1200 New York Ave NW, Washington DC

🔗📲JOIN US at the LINK in BIO, or in the REPLIES BELOW ⬇️

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Dr. David Miller 🏳️‍🌈 @davidimiller.bsky.social · 27d

Statement from the plaintiffs:

“We are as united and committed as ever to ultimately winning this case and protecting these important NSF grants. The Trump-Vance administration acted unlawfully when it terminated these crucial grants."

In a Loss for American Innovation and Excellence, Court Allows Mass Termination of Grants at National Science Foundation as Case Continues - Democracy Forward

democracyforward.org

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Dr. David Miller 🏳️‍🌈 @davidimiller.bsky.social · 27d

And more broadly, fuck this lawless dangerous SCOTUS.

Like how SCOTUS gave the green light for racial profiling earlier this week.

From a chaired law professor at NYU:

Chris Sprigman @cjsprigman.bsky.social · 29d

If I were a Democrat in Congress I'd be introducing legislation to suspend the Supreme Court's upcoming term (it's happened before, in 1802). The suspension would be to give us time to figure out what to do with this dangerous, anti-democratic institution.

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Dr. David Miller 🏳️‍🌈 @davidimiller.bsky.social · 27d

So... where to go from here???

CONGRESS 👏 HAS 👏 POWER

Laws from Congress can help override this SCOTUS mess.

☎️ So tell your Senator to support Sen Baldwin's amendment to restore terminated NSF grants (or Durbin's for NIH)

🐘 *Especially* if you have a Repub Senator.

More context here:

Senate panel raises hopes that NSF will restore killed grants

Republicans promise to work with Democrats to salvage defeated amendment

www.science.org

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Dr. David Miller 🏳️‍🌈 @davidimiller.bsky.social · 27d

U of California researchers brought yet a different case.

It's a bit more promising than the other two right now. But it's also being reconsidered now in light of SCOTUS ruling: www.courtlistener.com/docket/70763...

It's also specific to U of Cali (but offers a model for elsewhere)

Thakur, et al. v. Trump, et al., 25-4249 - CourtListener.com

Docket for Thakur, et al. v. Trump, et al., 25-4249 — Brought to you by Free Law Project, a non-profit dedicated to creating high quality open legal information.

www.courtlistener.com

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