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🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.
February 4, 2025 at 1:26 AM
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Every disaster movie starts with scientists being ignored. Good thing we’re not doing that.
January 30, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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I'll be very frank and say simply that: Your freedom and liberation lies in the freedom and liberation of Black women.
I make one post daring to center Black women-- and responses are like -- "ITS ALL GROUPS!"

And y'all wonder why we are in the mess that we are in. It's not just the right-wing getting pissed off at Black women centering ourselves.

A lot of y'all need to tighten up.

QUICKLY.
January 29, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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Many of you may not be familiar with #NIH grants. Here are some facts to help you understand the magnitude of this disaster.
1) NIH grants are extremely difficult to get & not "free money". Researchers must have preliminary data & write detailed proposals. Mine was >200pages & took years to put
January 28, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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President Donald Trump signed an executive order halting new federal leases for offshore wind projects. He cited the impact offshore wind may have on marine life. “If you’re into whales,” Trump said, “you don’t want windmills.” Whale experts say the facts show otherwise.
Is offshore wind driving whales ‘crazy?’ Science says no
President Donald Trump signed an executive order halting new federal leases for offshore wind projects. He cited the impact offshore wind may have on marine life. “If you’re into whales,” Trump said, ...
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January 22, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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SHARE WIDELY.
KNOW YOUR RIGHTS.

With mass deportations starting today across the country, it is vitally important - for both citizens and non-citizens - to know your rights.

You have the right to remain silent. Assert it. You have the right to a lawyer. Ask for one.

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January 22, 2025 at 2:19 AM
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Also: If you don't have money to buy my (or anyone's) books, and you live in the anglosphere, before you pirate them, try to get them from your local library instead. They have it or can get it, they pay for the books, and in many places writers get paid for their books being lent. Everyone wins!
November 23, 2024 at 1:01 AM