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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 23h

Um, ICE just coldly shot an unarmed PRIEST in the head w a pepper ball when he (and everyone around him) clearly posed no threat.

For the crime of … complaining about government policy.

Core 1A speech.

With cameras rolling, they’re sniping priests for sport.

Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 1d

Here’s video of the incident

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Noam Ross @noamross.net · 1d

Amelia Knopf, @karmacap.bsky.social and @knelphd.bsky.social write in Pediatrics about how the terminations of clinical trials of children and adolescents represent cracks in the foundation of ethical research, and the moral responsibility to repair them: doi.org/10.1542/peds...

ETHICAL IMPLICATIONS OF STUDY TERMINATIONS
As of July 2025, the National Institutes of Health has terminated approx-
imately 4700 of the grants it awarded for scientific research, training, and
infrastructure.1 Very little of the public discourse regarding the grant ter-
minations has focused on their implications for research participants who
were or would have been enrolled in the trials the grants supported. The
terminated awards are linked to 200 active registered clinical trials, which
had a total planned enrollment of more than 689 000 human subjects,
approximately 20% of whom are infants, children, and adolescents.1
Nearly all the aﬀected trials that included children and adolescents
focused on stigmatized health issues (eg, HIV, substance use, depression),
and/or persons with marginalized identities (eg, sexual and gender minor-
ity; Black or African American and Latiné). Individuals with marginalized
identities are underrepresented in clinical research,2 even when they are
at greater risk for the illness under study. The issue of underrepresenta-
tion in research is especially relevant for minor adolescents (those youn-
ger than 18 years old) because of ethical and legal barriers to their
participation. Barriers include concerns about minors’ capacity to consent,
confidentiality of sensitive information (sexual behavior, substance use)
when parental consent is required, and researcher and institutional con-
cerns about liability when waivers of parental consent are granted for
minors’ enrollment.3
As adolescent health researchers, we have each invested over a decade
of work to address the complex ethical and legal issues that prevent ado-
lescents from participating in research, especially on sensitive or stigma-
tized health issues. Through meticulous eﬀorts to engage and build trust
with adolescents, parents or guardians, and regulatory personnel, we have
enrolled thousands of adolescents in our studies...

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Kathryn Macapagal @karmacap.bsky.social · 1d

mass grant terminations might be over for now, but their impact still harms people who were in the studies, including kids & teens. @knelphd.bsky.social @amyknopf.bsky.social and I wrote about ethical implications of abruptly ending studies for political reasons publications.aap.org/pediatrics/a...

Ethical Implications of Study Terminations

As of July 2025, the National Institutes of Health has terminated approximately 4700 of the grants it awarded for scientific research, training, and infrastructure.1 Very little of the public discours...

publications.aap.org

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 2d

I have been trying to get this published as an op-ed, but I am going to post it here since I think it is timely in light of the "consent" extortion events.

Deafening Quiet from the Scientific Establishment

jeremymberg.github.io/jeremyberg.g...

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jeremymberg.github.io

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 3d

Five-alarm fire inside the DOJ - Lawyer Oyer

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Jeff Tiedrich @jefftiedrich.bsky.social · 4d

the people who told us to calm down because Roe was settled law are the same people now telling us to calm down because the military would never open fire on Americans

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Colette Delawalla @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 7d

ALRIGHT IF YOU HAVE JANE FONDA CONNECTIONS, YOU BETTER START YELLING IN MY DIRECTION.

(I've asked this before, but I had 10k fewer followers. Surely, someone knows someone who knows someone)

www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...

Jane Fonda relaunches free speech group started by her father during the McCarthy era

In wake of the Trump administration’s censorship threats, the actor re-established the Committee for the First Amendment with A-list support

www.theguardian.com

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Theresa Kim, PhD, MS @tyk314.net · 9d

Feds, get your eOPF stuff ready. Like now. Please respost. #fedstrong

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Drug Monkey @drugmonkey.bsky.social · 13d

This may be the most important paper ever published about NIH funded research.

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

What if NIH had been 40% smaller?

Replaying history with less NIH funding shows widespread impacts on drug-linked research

www.science.org

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Theresa Kim, PhD, MS @tyk314.net · 13d

The end of FY 2025 is coming, and #OMB appears perfectly content to use us as targets. We are not their chess pieces. We serve our PIs. We are here in our personal capacities. Follow the #NIH.

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Lauren S. Hallion, Ph.D. @laurenshallion.bsky.social · 16d

United States academic landscape got you down? Apply to join my lab at the University of Regina in Saskatchewan, Canada!

I’m planning to accept a graduate student in Clinical Psychology. Additional information:

https://www.uregina.ca/academics/programs/arts/master-phd-clinical-psychology.html

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Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 23d

Scoop: Status has obtained the termination letter The Washington Post sent to @karenattiah.bsky.social, in which it informed her that she was being fired for social media posts "about white men."

Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/karen-atti...

Fired By The Post

The Washington Post said it fired Karen Attiah over comments she made about white men in the wake of Charlie Kirk’s death, Status has learned.

www.status.news

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 29d

Here is a word cloud of the words that were missing from the noncompetitive renewal awards but had been present in the parent award.

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A word cloud with dominant words "equity", "disparity", "diverse", and similar words.

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 29d

I looked a grants where the title was different between the original award and the noncompetitive renewal and limited the analysis to grants with no subawards so there was no ambiguity about what to compare.

There were 777 such grant pairs.

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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · Sep 6

We have our line-up for our 24-hour AIDS research livestream on September 16/17th: saveaidsresearch.org
Allison Agwu, MD, SCM • Ali Ahmed, PhD • Frederick Altice, MD • Annukka Antar, MD, PhD • Shashika Bandara, MSc • Katie Bar, MD • Joshua Barocas, MD • Rachel Bender Ignacio, MD, MPH 1/

24 Hours to Save AIDS Research

saveaidsresearch.org

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Dr. Allison G. Harvey @allisonharvey.bsky.social · Sep 4

Are you accepting PhD applications in Clinical Psychology for Fall 2026 (U.S.)?
If so, please consider adding your name to the document linked in the comments. Our hope is to help reduce the load on applicants.

Please share widely and on X! #clinicalpsychology @abctnow.bsky.social

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Kathryn Macapagal @karmacap.bsky.social · Jun 18

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Kathryn Macapagal @karmacap.bsky.social · Jun 12

this longtime Mac user just now changed her default PDF app from preview to reader after spending uhh unnamed double digit amount of years getting unnecessarily upset with preview, trying to make it work like reader, and thinking "WHY ISN'T READER THE DEFAULT DAMMIT"

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Kathryn Macapagal @karmacap.bsky.social · Jun 2

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Bruno J. Navarro @brunojnavarro.bsky.social · May 31

some of those who work forces

The Conversation U.S. @us.theconversation.com · May 31

The 287(g) program allowing local police to act as federal #immigration officers in collaboration with ICE has expanded from 135 agreements in 25 states to 628 in 40 states since January. A criminal justice professor explains why this undermines community trust and public safety: buff.ly/orKOZ01

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Alex @purplechrain.bsky.social · Jun 1

When left-wing American Jews comment on a rise in antisemitism in the US - without ever mentioning Israel or attempting to scapegoat Palestinian solidarity activism - here are some trends over the course of the decade since Trump first ran for President that they are likely referring to:

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Colette Delawalla @cdelawalla.bsky.social · May 25

Scientists,

I am asking us to do something that goes against our nature:

Step away from fine-grained, nuanced arguments. Zoom WAY out. Share the big picture. Don’t soften the seriousness of this moment with “xxx may be ok in xxx circumstances” talk.

It’s uncomfortable AND necessary.

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Texas Observer @texasobserver.org · May 20

One superintendent said the Senate education bill was like “your house being on fire and the fire department showing up with a 12 ounce cup of water, throwing it at your house and saying, ‘See, look how much good we’ve done.’”