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🪾santiago, phd 🐈‍⬛ @santiagokique.bsky.social · 3d

Even though it's crisis #192308 in our current time, I don't think it's sufficiently sunk in with ppl in the academic community that getting federal funding for your research will primarily depend on whether Trump political appointees find you and your work useful
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Changes at NIH Give Political Appointees Greater Power To Fund or Block Research - KFF Health News

The National Institutes of Health’s long-held standard of peer review for grantmaking has been subverted by President Donald Trump and NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya, who gave unprecedented power to po...

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dr. ye$enia @yesenia.bsky.social · 12d

hi everyone!! popping back into this space briefly to share the fundraiser for my long-awaited top surgery! eek! we are SO close to reaching my goal!

any form of interaction helps, even if you can't donate!
thank you, i love you, and keep taking care of each other! #transrights! gofund.me/60c167de1

Donate to Dr. Yesenia's top surgery fundraiser!, organized by Yesenia Garcia

Hello friends and loved ones of the internet! I'm posting this fund… Yesenia Garcia needs your support for Donate to Dr. Yesenia's top surgery fundraiser!

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dr. ye$enia @yesenia.bsky.social · 12d

thank you!! just defended last month! 🥳

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dr. ye$enia @yesenia.bsky.social · 12d

hi everyone!! popping back into this space briefly to share the fundraiser for my long-awaited top surgery! eek! we are SO close to reaching my goal!

any form of interaction helps, even if you can't donate!
thank you, i love you, and keep taking care of each other! #transrights! gofund.me/60c167de1

Donate to Dr. Yesenia's top surgery fundraiser!, organized by Yesenia Garcia

Hello friends and loved ones of the internet! I'm posting this fund… Yesenia Garcia needs your support for Donate to Dr. Yesenia's top surgery fundraiser!

gofund.me

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 27d

the white supremacists are not taking a break to mourn because they have people of color to fuck over

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 27d

The Trump administration says it will withhold $350 million in grants to hundreds of colleges that serve large populations of minority students, calling the decades-old programs discriminatory.

Education Department ends grants for some minority college students

The Education Department is withholding millions of dollars in grant funding appropriated by Congress for colleges that serve large populations of minority students.

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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · Sep 4

Again they love gun control as long as it’s against people they seek to oppress

Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · Sep 4

Can we please understand what is happening? He is disarming us as a prelude to our extermination. And making us mentally unfit to own firearms as a matter of law will exclude us from all manner of legal rights.

www.cnn.com/2025/09/04/p...

Trump DOJ is looking at ways to ban transgender Americans from owning guns, sources say | CNN Politics

Senior Justice Department officials are weighing proposals to limit transgender people’s right to possess firearms, according to two officials familiar with the internal discussions.

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Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽 @needhibhalla.bsky.social · Sep 4

"How will we be able to weather this dark period for US research & keep...talented individuals in science?...The attacks on science & research are multi-pronged and incessant, whether they are directly targeting universities, or aimed at university endowments or indirect funds received from grants"

Frozen Grants, Canceled Futures: The Human Toll of UCLA’s Research Suspension

A frozen grant is more than halted experiments and lost data; it is a career derailed for many of the trainees dependent on this research support.

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Ryan H. @ryan.blacksky.app · Aug 28

Thinking of this exhortation from
@chanda.bsky.social 's recent blog: "What will you stay curious about, even when authoritarians try to shape your reality by telling you not to think, not to read, not to ask questions, not to dare consider the possibility that there’s more to life than this?"

Feed Your Head

Even now, especially now, your curiosity is powerful.

news.chanda.science

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dr. ye$enia @yesenia.bsky.social · Aug 26

how it started vs how it’s going…

logging in to share a quick life update:
It’s, DR. Yesenia now 💅🧠🎓✨🏳️‍⚧️

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dr. ye$enia @yesenia.bsky.social · Jun 19

Congratulations!!! So well-deserved, you are an INSPIRATION! 🌟

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The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · May 14

Amid DEI funding cuts, trainees are losing pillars of support. Grassroots mentorship organizations are stepping in to continue championing young researchers.
@blackinneuro.bsky.social @colorsofthebrain.bsky.social @neurolatine.bsky.social

By Paige Miranda

www.thetransmitter.org/qa/we-still-...

Neuroscience advocacy groups on navigating DEI funding cuts

Minority trainees are losing pillars of support, but grassroots organizations are stepping in to continue championing these early-career researchers.

www.thetransmitter.org

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Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · May 14

Earlier today, I was leaked a copy of the Executive Secretariat Style Guide for the US State Department. The new guide included a new section requiring that all trans State employees must be misgendered in all official communications. www.patreon.com/posts/new-st...

New State Department style guide requires trans people to be misgendered in all communications | Katelyn Burns

Get more from Katelyn Burns on Patreon

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adrienne rg @adriennerg.bsky.social · Apr 16

Quote from the article: "Every time [researchers] are in the field or looking at specimens, they just keep finding these exceptions," Velocci says. Scientists "have seen over, and over, and over, and over, that sex is clearly not binary."

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🧙🏻‍♀️ Spooky Elle 👻 Ready for Fall 🍄🎃 @hecatestorch.bsky.social · Mar 21

Just found out NIH has officially canceled our grant, a longitudinal study of Alzheimer's disease in Black Americans. I cannot even put into words how angry I am. The truth is they are canceling it because it has Black in the title. That's it, there is no other reason to do this.

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DrGlitterbear @drglitterbear.bsky.social · Mar 21

A statement by SBN (again co-written by the DEI Comm with edits from the Exe Comm) on why using rodent models of trans health are important studies for the community and everyone else!

What Are Transgender Animal Experiments and Why Should We Do Them? | Society for Behavioral Neuroendocrinology (SBN)

The Society for Behavioral Neuroendocrinology (SBN) is an interdisciplinary scientific organization dedicated to the study of hormonal processes and neuroendocrine systems that regulate behavior.

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Septima P. Snark @drsubini.blacksky.app · Mar 18

To be clear, gang members also should have due process. And this is a reminder how criminalizing behaviors, tattoos, etc is infused with white supremacy, xenophobia & ableism.

Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · Mar 18

With Trump ramping up efforts to disappear people under the dubious pretext of "gang affiliation," Hannah Dreier’s gutting @propublica.org story from 2018 is a must-read.

It exposes how high schools, police, and ICE funneled students into detention and deportation over nothing more than a doodle.

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Mike Isaacson @vulgareconomics.bsky.social · Mar 16

Probably not relevant to anything, but most of Germany's concentration camps were not in Germany

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The Onion @theonion.com · Mar 14

Democratic Leaders Stand Real Still In Hopes No One Notices Them

WASHINGTON—With the elected officials trying their hardest not to move a muscle, reports confirmed Monday that top Democratic leaders in Congress were standing real still in hopes that the American pe...

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ACLU @aclu.org · Mar 9

Ripping a student from their home, challenging their immigration status, and detaining them solely based on political viewpoint will chill student speech and advocacy across campuses nationwide.

Political speech should never be a basis of punishment or lead to deportation.

NYCLU @nyclu.org · Mar 9

The Trump administration’s detention of Mahmoud Khalil — a green card holder studying in this country legally — is targeted, retaliatory, and an extreme attack on his First Amendment rights.
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ICE arrests Palestinian activist who helped lead Columbia University protests, his lawyer says

A prominent Palestinian activist who helped lead last spring's protests at Columbia University has been arrested by federal immigration agents.

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eartha mae @endoeartha.bsky.social · Mar 8

Given the platform, I wanted to make sure I used it well & clearly articulated my message:

"Thru anti-DEI & anti-trans executive orders & laws, the administration seeks to restore hierarchies centered around race & gender, resegregating America. A textbook example of fascism."

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Facebook post from NPR's Philadelphia affiliate WHYY: "At the Philly 'Stand up for Science' protest Friday, Neuroscientist Eartha Mae Guthman said, "Republicans are weaponizing the state to attack all science.""

The post links to an article about the Stand Up for Science protest.

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Jess @tiredchaotic.bsky.social · Mar 6

This is what I want my science reporting to be like. Blunt, clear, and very concerned with definitions

Sabrina Imbler @sabs.bsky.social · Mar 6

I wrote about the "woolly mouse"
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Do Not Be Bamboozled By The New Fluffy Mouse | Defector

As I see it, there are a few unofficial laws of science journalism when it comes to covering new research. The first and most obvious is that outlets are more likely to cover a press release if it is ...

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🦇 Killy Witches 🎃👻 @tillybridges.bsky.social · Mar 6

my fellow Californians of good moral character…

trans people need you, *i* need you, to tell Newsom exactly what you think of him saying trans Californians (in a trans! sanctuary! state!) aren’t worth protecting

PLEASE DO NOT LET THIS SLIDE

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