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Alt-NIHscience4ALL @alt-nihscience4all.altgov.info · 6d

It’s past the time to stand up, but the opportunities are dwindling! Better late than never. 🧵

Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 6d

Faculty, alums, students and staff at universities across the country. Time to stand up. Your presidents and trustees need to hear from you. Stiffen their spines. Just say no to extortion.

Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 6d

Trump's higher ed ransom note is here - everyone would have to acquiesce to their unprecedented demands or not be "given priority for grants," plus they can demand "reimbursement" for "violations" www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...

A mechanism to enforce fealty. An attack on academic freedom and democracy

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 15d

"it's too much liquid" going into the baby, instantly up there with the injecting bleach moment.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15d

Trump: "It's too much liquid. Too many different things are going into that baby at too big a number. The size of this thing when you look at it. It's like 80 different vaccines and beyond vaccines."

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Richard Castillo, PhD, FAAPM @rcmedphys.bsky.social · 20d

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Robust NIH funding saves lives, strengthens America

The NIH is vital to America’s global leadership in medical innovation. Researchers explain how their NIH-funded studies have improved lives.

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C&EN (Chemical & Engineering News) @cenmag.bsky.social · 23d

To celebrate #HispanicHeritageMonth, we are highlighting stories of chemists with Latin American roots. Read more about C&EN’s Trailblazers: cen.acs.org/careers/dive... #HHM #chemsky 🧪

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Dr. Vin Gupta @vinguptamd.bsky.social · 28d

MAHA is all marketing and a distraction.

It wants to tackle poor air and water quality but the EPA just got defunded.

It wants to promote healthy eating, but the admin gutted SNAP benefits that would do just that.

Biggest killer of kids? Guns. Totally silent on that.

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Marty Weinhous @weinhous.bsky.social · 28d

RIP CBS "news." popular.info/p/cbs-news-h...

CBS News hires Trump loyalist to review news coverage

CBS News has hired Kenneth R.

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Richard Castillo, PhD, FAAPM @rcmedphys.bsky.social · 28d

Beautifully articulated, @noellemcafee.net . Thank you for your leadership!

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Richard Castillo, PhD, FAAPM @rcmedphys.bsky.social · 29d

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Stacey Abrams (@staceyabrams)

By ending DEI programs, Emory isn’t just closing offices — it’s closing doors. Students deserve every opportunity to learn, thrive, and belong. Retreating from equity undermines the very promise of hi...

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · Sep 8

Completely agree. It’s absolutely outrageous that nobody stood up for @yamiche.bsky.social — media spinelessness has played a major role in how we got here.

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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · Sep 8

Now this is a headline.

Front page lead in NYT.

And very strong, no-BS story by @julianbarnes.bsky.social Barnes and Catie Edmondson.

Respect, to all involved. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/07/u...

NYT headline: As Congress Lies Town, Trump Walks All Over it.

Subhed: He Seizes Power in Spending, Oversight, and National Security, While Republicans Shrug.

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Physicians for a Healthy Democracy @physiciandemocracy.medsky.social · Sep 8

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Grandparents for Vaccines launches to share stories of life before immunizations

New volunteer group aims to educate parents about vaccine importance by sharing personal experiences with preventable diseases.

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Noëlle McAfee @noellemcafee.net · Sep 7

This was painful to write. I hate that Emory’s new interim president, on her second day of office, just last week, called for abolishing DEI programs at Emory.
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Is Emory Joining the Club of Capitulators?

Stepping into the role of Emory University’s interim president, Justice Leah Ward Sears brought with her quite a legacy: a former chief justice of the Supreme Court of Georgia, the youngest person eve...

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · Sep 6

The President of the United States is threatening to go to war with an American city.

This is not a joke. This is not normal.

Donald Trump isn't a strongman, he's a scared man. Illinois won’t be intimidated by a wannabe dictator.

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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · Sep 6

What’s happening in Fulton County Georgia right now impacts all of us when we go to the polls in 2026 and 2028. We owe it to ourselves & our country to stay informed. joycevance.substack.com/p/five-quest...

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · Sep 4

www.savehhs.org

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · Sep 5

> @rollingstone.com

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · Sep 5

This is the digital stasi. Social media influencers utilizing tips from followers for content that they monetize while working with state actors to target the people they want.

It's all a spectacle packaged as content. Destroying people's lives for profitable ideological bloodsport.

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Sean Carroll @seanmcarroll.bsky.social · Aug 12

Refusing to "trust the experts" is meant to be a brave, responsible position.

But (as Carl explains in the thread) there is too much knowledge in the world. You have to trust *somebody*, much of the time.

If you have no trust in experts, you end up trusting the idiots.

Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · Aug 12

1. "'Trusting the experts is not a feature of either a science or democracy," Kennedy said."

It's literally a vital feature of both science and of representative democracy.

I've written a fair bit about trust in expertise as a vital mechanism in the collective epistemology of science.

RFK Jr. in interview with Scripps News: ‘Trusting the experts is not science’

HHS Secretary RFK Jr. sat down with Scripps News for a wide-ranging interview, discussing mRNA vaccine funding policy changes and a recent shooting at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · Aug 9

Phang: The Constitution says representatives shall be determined by adding to the whole number of free persons.

It doesn’t say you’re only supposed to count U.S. citizens.

Trump says you’ve got to redo the census but can’t include “illegals”? Tough shit—the Constitution says otherwise.

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Colette Delawalla @cdelawalla.bsky.social · Aug 10

I have an incentive for rich people like you @mcuban.bsky.social

Federally funded R&D has fueled the innovation that drives American prosperity. Scores of billionaires owe their fortunes to advancements made in labs across the nation.

An investment in @standupforscience.bsky.social to help save…

Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · Aug 10

Want to use rich people like me to your advantage? Incent us to help those who need it the most. Lower corp taxes for comps that pay a min of $25 per hour. Lower corp taxes if employees get stock at the same pct as the CEO.

Bottom up incentives work. Dems never innovate. They bitch

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Richard Castillo, PhD, FAAPM @rcmedphys.bsky.social · Aug 10

good, because it is also not what I am saying.

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Richard Castillo, PhD, FAAPM @rcmedphys.bsky.social · Aug 10

also, racism is not 'whatever', and I dare say more of a contributing factor then you might be supposing

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Richard Castillo, PhD, FAAPM @rcmedphys.bsky.social · Aug 10

Trying to understand what happened is fair/warranted/essential and I hope democratic leaders are acting on those insights. Responsible discourse is something we can all contribute to. I respect your voice, we should all have one, but I disagree 'Harris promising more of the same' is the lesson here.

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Richard Castillo, PhD, FAAPM @rcmedphys.bsky.social · Aug 10

No, I missed the 70% qualifier. I would also stand by having a stable democracy as ‘good’, which I think was the case before January of this year.

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Richard Castillo, PhD, FAAPM @rcmedphys.bsky.social · Aug 10

Aren’t they telling us everything is great (and healthy) now? I appreciate the sentiment but far too simplistic, if not grossly so in particular to say Harris promised more of the same. Inflation WAS going down …. It’s not a democrat pres. campaign that is the reason for the free fall into fascism

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