🧪Excited to co-present this @standupforscience.bsky.social event next week with UW's Dr. Ryan Kelly

We'll cover how to effectively engage in public comments, to help shape public policy at all levels, federal to local. Attend in person or virtually!

RSVP: act.standupforscience.net/events/power...

@sciencehomecoming.bsky.social has tools for finding local newspapers and writing for them!

Coincidentally, another group published results today on a very similar question: What research wouldn't have gotten done had the NIH's budget been cut by 40%, as Trump proposed?

Under that scenario, NIH-funded research on more than half of 557 drugs approved 2000-2023 would have never happened!

Participation has been outstanding at every level, across diverse science fields. We’ve published nearly 300 articles in local hometowns. 🧪🏠 Write yours today with help here:

sciencehomecoming.com

Have you written to your home community to tell them what’s going on? They likely are unaware of the consequences 🧪🏠

penncapital-star.com/health/resea...

“Universities are the incubators of medical breakthroughs.” Long Island native Sam Cermak, now a biomedical PhD student at Northwestern, studies how chronic pain rewires the brain and fuels opioid addiction. Progress takes years, but has already saved many lives 🧪🏠

tbrnewsmedia.com/your-turn-ho...

Here is a link to share, to spread the news about the importance of science for healthcare

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For his hometown in Montana, Nick Weber, PhD reminds his hometown that science once cured “black measles” and Rocky Mountain spotted fever—proof that investment in research saves lives, then and now. 🧪🏠

9 CDC Directors going back to 1977 speak out. What RFK Jr has done to our nation’s public health system "should alarm every American."

It "is unlike anything we have ever seen at the agency, and unlike anything our country has ever experienced." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...

Schumer, Jeffries propose strongly-worded letter to counter RFK Jr.'s purge at the CDC.

You spelled ENDANGERING wrong, @nytimes.com.

“Pushing the boundaries” is a *positive* frame implying unconventional innovations. There are no innovations here. Just medieval anti-science populist attacks on some of best methods of truth seeking we have.

RFK Jr. ordered the NIH’s Integrated Research Facility in Frederick to stop all research on serious infectious diseases yesterday at 5:00 PM.

They study pathogens like Ebola there. You may be familiar with it from The Hot Zone.

www.wired.com/story/hhs-ni...

Where the Science Homecoming authors are from…so far 🧪🏠

Seema Shah and Kingsley Osuala write about all the lives saved by science in Detroit, “NCI funding has helped research institutions develop better detection methods, contributing to a 34% drop in cancer mortality since 1991.” 🧪🏠
@princess-vimentin.bsky.social

www.detroitnews.com/story/opinio...

Seema Shah and Kingsley Osuala write about all the lives saved by science in Detroit, “NCI funding has helped research institutions develop better detection methods, contributing to a 34% drop in cancer mortality since 1991.” 🧪🏠
@princess-vimentin.bsky.social

www.detroitnews.com/story/opinio...

One reason scientists should WRITE ✍🏻 to small towns and suburbs is that people FORGOT what all science does for them. Interview with @sciencehomecoming.bsky.social

As see in the few examples in this thread, the #SCIMaP team has released an interactive bluesky bot. You can ask for scorecards in a variety of ways:

Just send a zip (98105)

or

state (South Carolina)

or

district (MD-04)

A clear message about the value of science for Pennsylvania 🧪🏠

Find me in Colorado Medicine talking about the importance of ALL of us standing up for science and innovation!

Read here 👉 issuu.com/colomedsoc/d...

Big thanks to @sciencehomecoming.bsky.social, @thebalelab.bsky.social and Dr. Steven Lowenstein!

Important work by @asinclair.bsky.social‬ and colleagues showing that communicating the impact of NIH cuts markedly changes beliefs across the political spectrum.
bsky.app/profile/asin...

The Supreme Court is reviewing a vitally important NIH case on its shadow docket.

It is likely that the Court will back Trump, and say his (illegal) grant terminations are ok.

We must speak up now.
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Scientists!

@skypeascientist.bsky.social matches scientists with classrooms, libraries, & more for virtual Q&As! It's easy and fun!

We are looking for 750 more volunteers by 8/15

If you're down to chat with 1-5 classrooms this semester, sign up here
www.skypeascientist.com/sign-up.html

Neuroscientist Chris Camp writes home to Charleston, SC: “World-changing scientific discoveries are the products of decades of risky research.” From SC to Yale, his career was built by public science funding, now threatened by cuts.
@chrisclaycamp.bsky.social

www.postandcourier.com/opinion/lett...

Biologist John Benning writes home to North Carolina: “The fruits of science are so widespread, they sometimes escape notice.” Decades of taxpayer-funded research made miracle gene therapies possible, saving countless children’s lives. 🧪🏠

@jbenning.bsky.social
johnbenning.net/2025/08/01/a...