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Mobilizing the fight for science and democracy, because Science is for everyone 🧪🌎 The hub for science activism! Learn more ⬇️ http://linktr.ee/standupforscience

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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.bsky.social · 20d

You asked for it! We delivered Quack-O-Grams to our members of Congress urging them to #ImpeachRFK, and get that Quack out of office!

There's still time for you to get in on this fluffy, feathery action: Send your own duck at zurl.co/W1ZnB and keep the momentum going! 🦆

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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.bsky.social · 2h

FIGHT FOR SCIENCE RALLY ✊🌏
⏰ WHEN: October 17th, 2025
📍WHERE: 200 Independence Ave SW, Washington DC!
RSVP to JOIN THE FIGHT IRL: zurl.co/LayiM ‼️

📲 Join us Virtually!: zurl.co/Um47l

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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.bsky.social · 20h

Learn to tell your story with urgency and hope at our PUBLIC NARRATIVE TRAINING on 10/14!

We're preparing to share why we're standing up for science & democracy at No Kings Day Rally, and you can too!

Sign up, tell your story, and bring it to your No Kings Rally on 10/18! zurl.co/LM0QK

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Lauren Kuehne @omfishient.bsky.social · 1d

🧪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...

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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.bsky.social · 1d

JOIN us on 10/18 and stand up for science and democracy! There will be over 2300 events across the 50 states, DC, Puerto Rico, and internationally for you to make your voice heard!

Interested in speaking at a local event? We will be hosting a training on 10/14 — stay tuned for details!

Poster image with a large blue star and three red stripes, text reads: "No Kings Rally, Stand up for science and for democracy! Find and join your local no kings rally! October 18th, 2025, Nationwide" At the bottom is a URL which reads: www.nokings.org

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AKA NickleDave @nicholdav.bsky.social · 1d

Very proud to be part of the MD @standupforscience.bsky.social group where I am learning about these events from @ianlmorgan.bsky.social and @ecotrombonegal.bsky.social

Like @nicbennett.bsky.social says, resistance starts at the local level

AKA NickleDave @nicholdav.bsky.social · 1d

V encouraging to hear @alsobrooks.senate.gov @brookelierman.bsky.social & Bmore Councilwoman Porter speak out against RFK's budget cuts at this town hall, & stand w/scientists from @nihfellowsunited.bsky.social @hopkinspro-uaw.bsky.social @uaw.org 2070

www.alsobrooks.senate.gov/press-releas...

Senator Alsobrooks Attends Town Hall Focused on RFK Jr.’s Dangerous Funding Cuts - Senator Angela Alsobrooks

September 22, 2025 BALTIMORE, MD – Saturday, September 20, Senator Angela Alsobrooks (D-Md.) attended a Town Hall alongside Comptroller Brooke Lierman, Baltimore City Councilwoman Phylicia Porter, NI...

www.alsobrooks.senate.gov

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Colette Delawalla @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 1d

None of our research exists in a vacuum. We are weavers.

We take a thread of tech made to do complete a different task, join it with preclinical work from a different species, and weave it together with statical approaches that were made to ask a similar question in a completely different field. 🧵

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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.bsky.social · 1d

📣ACTION HOUR TOMORROW!!!📣

Feeling overwhelmed by the political attacks on science, education, and civil rights? You’re not alone—and you don’t have to face it alone. Join us tmrw @ 8 PM ET to connect with others, make sense of what’s happening, & move into action.

RSVP ➡️ zoom.us/meeting/regi...

A crowd gathered in front of the Lincoln Memorial monument in Washington, DC, holding protest signs that read, "Stop This Madness." Bold text with an invitation to "Action Hour" for scientists and allies.

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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.bsky.social · 4d

It's not gonna happen!

A screenshot from the movie Mean Girls (2004) with Regina George in a Santa hat. Closed Captions read: Stop trying to make MAHA happen. It’s not going to happen!

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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.bsky.social · 4d

Today is October 3rd, another day where we are calling to #ImpeachtheQuack!

Page which has the handwritten red text: “This guy is the worst, most useless and unqualified HHS Secretary I have ever met. DO NOT TRUST HIM. He is an incompetent QUACK!”

A picture of RFK Jr. with “Robert F Kennedy Jr.” written underneath it.

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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.bsky.social · 5d

Steadily ticking up, if we have our way with it!

thehill.com/homenews/sen...

GOP senators signal to Trump that Kennedy is on thin ice

Republican senators are sending clear signs of disapproval and unhappiness with Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr., making it plain to President Trump that they want the a…

thehill.com

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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.bsky.social · 5d

> 83% of US favor Medicaid (KFF 2025)
> 62% of US favor gov't ensuring healthcare for all (Gallup 2024)
> 54% of US disapprove of RFK Jr (Quinnipiac 2025)
> 44% of US struggle to afford healthcare (KFF 2025)

The Republican fight over healthcare is misleading. It's not a partisan political issue.

White House Senses Political Risk on Healthcare Despite Shutdown Bravado

Aides to President Trump are discussing proposals to extend enhanced Obamacare subsidies on which millions of Americans rely.

www.wsj.com

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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.bsky.social · 5d

The Trump admin has been targeting whistleblowers, from the #FEMA36 to the countless other patriotic public servants and scientists across NIH, CDC, NASA, and more who spoke out about the danger posed by the chaos in our federal agencies. This is an concerted, autocratic effort to silence dissent.

RFK Jr fires top NIH scientist weeks after she files whistleblower complaint

Jeanne Marrazzo’s complaint reportedly involved the Trump administration’s hostility toward vaccines

www.theguardian.com

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Neferast 🦉 @neferast.bsky.social · 5d

Book Talk: Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social and Peter J. Hotez @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social — Science Under Siege #ClimateCrisis www.youtube.com/live/-foS1FI...

Book Talk: Michael E. Mann and Peter J. Hotez — Science Under Siege

YouTube video by Politics and Prose

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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.bsky.social · 5d

We had an amazing time last night with @michaelemann.bsky.social and @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social as they discussed their new book #ScienceUnderSiege!

One poignant quote: “Anti-science is a lethal force.” Standing up for science saves lives! ✊

A gathering of people in the early evening alongside Dr. Michael E Mann and Dr. Peter J Hotez, they are dressed casually and standing on a sidewalk terrace hung with string lights. Behind, a green awning says "Rosemary Bistro Cafe."

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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.bsky.social · 5d

Playing petty political tit-for-tat with critical funds, with the livelihoods of patriotic civil servants, and with the future of our PLANET makes us all vulnerable.

Republicans need to start putting science and the American people over ugly partisan politics.

Trump administration cancels nearly $8 billion in climate funding to blue states: Vought

The announcement came on the first day of the federal government shutdown.

www.cnbc.com

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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.bsky.social · 5d

DC folks! Stand Up for Science will be at Politics and Prose this evening in support of @michaelemann.bsky.social and @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social's new book: #ScienceUnderSiege!

Come join us, in person or virtually!
Livestream: youtube.com/live/-foS1FI...

Poster with text: Conversation with Dr. Michael E Mann, Dr. Peter J Hotez. Image of a book cover: Science Under Siege: How to Fight the Five Most Powerful Forces that Threaten our World by Michael E Mann and Peter J Hotez, with a picture of a microscope on fire.

Brief blurb of the book: In this powerful manifesto, they reveal the 5 maan forces threatening science: plutocrats, pros, petrostates, phonies, and the press. It's a call to arms and a road map for dismantling the forces of antiscience.

Red banner at base of page with text: Today, 10/2 @7pm, Also Livestreamed! At Politics and Prose, 5015 Connecticut Ave NW

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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.bsky.social · 5d

READ ⬇️ Stand Up For Science Statement on Compact Corrupting Higher Education.

10/2/2025: Stand Up For Science Statement on Compact Corrupting Higher Education.

Washington, D.C. — Today, the administration has unveiled their proposed "compact" for higher education. This document is antithetical to the free academic inquiry that forms the foundation of American excellence in higher education. Further, while the compact is framed as a way to promote fairness in higher education, this compact runs counter to the scientific method by prioritizing federal grant funding to go to universities who have signed, rather than proposals that have been selected by experts.
We call on university leaders to unite and reject this overreach of executive power by the White House.

The compact lies in the context of an ongoing and multi-pronged attack on the integrity of the American scientific ecosystem, but this also tangibly represents the President seizing control of public spaces and higher education. Each university represents a beacon of free thought, vibrant educational empowerment, and public enrichment, and we must demand President Trump stay out of dictating universities.

"Trump's compact is yet another form of attack on the American institutions that provide evidence that counter's the core belief of MAGA — racism, misogyny, and regression of the human race to name a few. If universities agree to these terms, academic freedom in America will be over," says Colette Delawalla Founder and Director of Stand Up For Science. She continues "when the White House takes over what is defined as 'truth' regardless of scientific evidence, we are no longer in a free nation. Universities must understanding the seriousness of this moment and respond accordingly."

Stand Up For Science will reliably sound the alarm when science and scientists are under attack, and our platform empowers scientists to speak out and organize against corruption of American science. The proposing of this document represents an extreme authoritarian escalation for American higher education. It is crucial that university leaders, congress and the public stand together to protect higher education from this attack.

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Colette Delawalla @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 6d

Pressure to reject the compact should come from all sides:

Alumni, students, current employees, AND anyone who engages with people or work from the institution, high school students looking to attend, etc.

We say NO.

@standupforscience.bsky.social

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/u...

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Feds Work For You @fedsworkforyou.bsky.social · 6d

If Vought tries to RIF federal workers, using the shutdown as an excuse, be ready to rally at OMB, his Fortress of Evil. We’ll announce it here. @fedsagainstdoge.bsky.social @fedworkersunited.bsky.social @safa-science.bsky.social @standupforscience.bsky.social

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Science Vs @sciencevs.bsky.social · 7d

This moment from our latest episode with science writer @edyong209.bsky.social is 🔥

We asked Ed — how do we talk up the benefits of science in the face of government cuts? He told us that's the wrong approach. 🧪

Listen wherever, or watch on Spotify 👇

open.spotify.com/episode/7Evh...

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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.bsky.social · 6d

CORRECTION: NIH funding is impacted by Trump's proposed appropriations bill, not the OBBB.

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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.bsky.social · 6d

With a shutdown looming, one thing is clear: this is a standoff over the future of science. Everything from science funding and research, to public health and wellness, to managing emergency situations will be affected by what our leaders decide to put first: people or politics.

#Standupforscience

Poster image with an upside-down image of the US capitol in red. Text reads: What does a government shutdown mean for science?

2/ Poster image with heading: The shutdown fight is over healthcare. Bubble 1: The government shutdown is driven by Republicans in Congress and the White House refusing to extend funding for Affordable Care Act premium subsidies, and restore Medicaid funding slashed in the “Big Beautiful Bill.”
Bubble 2: The “Big Beautiful Bill” is set to strip Americans of $880 billion in Medicaid funding — driving up our healthcare premiums, lowering healthcare access and quality, and making us sicker and weaker.
Bottom title: This would be a crisis for public health.

3/ Poster image with heading: The shutdown fight is over staff cuts. Bubble 1: A shutdown will force critical agencies responsible for our nation’s health, safety, and environment to suspend or reduce essential services. OMB Director Russel Vought has openly threatened mass firings of career civil servants.
Bubble 2: The administration has already cut or retaliated against agency staff, from the CDC and NIH to FEMA and the EPA. This represents dire losses in scientific expertise and manpower for daily and emergency work.
Bottom title: This would be a crisis for public safety

4/ Poster image with heading: The shutdown fight is over research. Bubble 1: Republicans in Congress are also refusing to restore funding cuts to research across our scientific agencies. Pending the shutdown, research will also be stalled and scientific facilities and instruments might be suspended or shut down.
Bubble 2: Right now, the Big Beautiful Bill aims to slash grant funding for the NIH by nearly 40%, and the CDC by half. This stalls critical medical and health research, shuts down labs and projects, and kills scientific progress.
Bottom text: This would be a crisis for innovation

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Max Kozlov @maxkozlov.bsky.social · 8d

Staff members at the NIH seem to have done the impossible: spend the agency's $48 billion budget.

“Everyone has been rallying together to clean up the mess, but it’s a mess that did not need to be made,” an NIH program officer told me.

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

NIH races to spend its 2025 grant money — but fewer projects win funding

Despite political obstacles, officials are on track to disburse all of the research funds allocated to US biomedical behemoth.

www.nature.com

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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.bsky.social · 7d

@drdemetre.bsky.social, former director of the CDC Nat'l Cen. for Immunization and Respiratory Disease for @sciam.bsky.social.

ALL our agencies are facing death by a thousand funding and staff cuts. It costs us expertise and manpower. In an emergency, we will feel this loss — from CDC to FEMA.

Screenshot of article text which reads: "So Mpox is a syndemic—that means interacting epidemics that when they touch each other make themselves much worse. And so Mpox is an epidemic, HIV is an epidemic, homelessness is an epidemic, drug use is an epidemic, so all of those things converged to actually create a really bad Mpox outbreak. So what I was able to do in Mpox was bring together mental health providers, housing providers, HIV prevention, HIV treatment in a way that generated an effective response.

So these people who are pulling CDC and the federal government apart don’t understand that. What you’re doing is taking away, like, the limbs of a response. So maybe the infectious disease sort of work is, like, the heart or the brain, but it’s not the arms and legs. The arms and legs means you need all of those things to work together.

And so as you see CDC being torn apart, 2,000 people who are no longer there, years of experience, centers that are being demolished, we are sorely unprepared for the next thing, even if it’s not so big. And I’m sitting here as an expert not only in infectious diseases but in outbreak and emergency response, I’m looking at this saying, like, “The people who are tearing apart your public health endeavor have no idea how to do this.”

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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.bsky.social · 7d

Tired of the corruption and anti-science in our government? You're not alone—and you don't have to do it alone!

Meet like-minded scientists, activists, and allies in Stand Up for Science at our two Action Hours coming up this month — Join us in the fight to protect science!

zurl.co/viaW8

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