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AJ 🐌 @abbyjc.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

If he actually cared about grad student wages he'd urge Pitt to bargain with the union in good faith...

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Elizabeth Anne, PhD @lacksauthority.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

never the wrong time for this classic

Screenshot of a tweet by @RobbtKraft reading “scientist: "does everyone here know what Watson and Crick discovered?"
me from back of room: "Rosalind Franklin's notes"”

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babs ✨ @itsbabs.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

hey now they are dozens of us

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 12/09/2026

“these solutions are announced in a rush, leaving no time for a proper writeup, the isolation of new methods & ideas, & citing relevant previous work of others. … We are witnessing a general threat to intellectual work, with misalignment between the outcome of the use of AI and its initial purpose.”

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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Hey remember how you were told to just expect Covid infections as the new normal and most of the healthy people would probably recover? Welcome to the lettuce version of that.

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 30/06/2026

The critical thing to understand about this air conditioning debate is that fossil fuel companies should be held accountable for destroying the planet.

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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Naming your biology LLM after Rosalind Franklin is… hell is not hot enough

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Union of Concerned Scientists @ucs.org · 20/05/2026

One year ago, the Trump administration eliminated $1.8 billion for research that helps protect people's health and safety. Now it's spending $1.8b on a new DOJ political slush fund instead. Let us count the ways this money could be better spent...reply to this post and share your ideas.

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Trump administration cut more than $1.8 billion in NIH grants

A new analysis shows which National Institutes of Health centers and outside institutions were hit hardest.

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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

There hasn’t been a bigger smash on TV recently than HEATED RIVALRY, created by two people with chronic illnesses, Rachel Reid and Jacob Tierney. There is also a push right now to get you to believe that people with chronic illnesses are useless drains on society. Which table sounds more fun?

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

The 2026 National Science Foundation budget is $8.75 Billion.

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First 6 Days of Iran War Cost U.S. $11.3 Billion, Pentagon Says

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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

guess what reactivates EBV

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Pestilence @pestilence4all.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

Developed initially to target and kill tumors, they are now being engineered to target cells that are contributing to autoimmune diseases, like antibody-producing B cells. #Science 🧪

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‘They don’t have symptoms’: CAR-T therapies send autoimmune diseases into remission

Engineered T cells that have been used to treat ulcerative colitis, rheumatoid arthritis and lupus show promising results.

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 20/11/2025

Can’t believe the whole country has to suffer through the return of Dickensian childhood diseases because the worst, most ignorant attention-demanders decided other people’s expertise makes them feel bad

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Rook Killjoy (dirtyhands the ninth) @foxrook.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

Want to honor Alice Wong and her work? Wear a damn mask!

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Alex Crits-Christoph @acritschristoph.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

Defunding scientists for the nationality of who they co-author with or who they train. One of the most radical attack on freedom of speech in US history. A far right nationalist destruction of US science. Such a shameful time to be an American that this racist stupidity has become mainstream.

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Elana Levin @levin.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

I cannot stop the mass firings overnight. But I can wear a mask to protect myself and those around me

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 25/09/2025

IT'S HAPPENING: House Democrats are introducing articles of impeachment against Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr for slashing research funding and spreading medical misinformation.

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 18/09/2025

IT'S OFFICIAL: Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York State, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and New York City have formed the Northeast Public Health Collaborative. The collaborative will issue their own vaccine recommendations and coordinate public health efforts.

Map of Regional Public Health Coalitions

Northeast Public Health Collaborative (Blue)

West Coast Health Alliance (Yellow)

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 04/09/2025

The “problem” with vaccines? They so effective at preventing deaths that they create generations of people that question whether disease was a problem in the first place because they have never experienced the horrors of a world without vaccines.

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Memento (spooky) Morty 🌙 @mementomorty.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

No, you're not ineligible for the vaccine. Let me introduce you to the concept of lying.

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 28/08/2025

Bill Cassidy, you could stopped this months ago if you had a shred of integrity.

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Ed Morrish @edmorrish.com · 25/08/2025

rfkjr: we just want people to be able to make choices about their own health america: cool can we choose to take the covid booster rfkjr: lol no

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Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

Public health disinformation is killing our country.

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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 14/08/2025

🚨BREAKING NEWS: RFK Jr. is a danger to this nation. Don’t give in to Trump & his cronies: we are NOT trading innovation for ideology. We demand the immediate IMPEACHMENT and REMOVAL of RFK. Stop the quack. Protect Science. Protect Democracy Sign & share here: zurl.co/PEPyD #StandUpForScience

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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

The US Steel plant where two workers were killed and ten injured in an explosion had a history of chemical accidents — but the Trump EPA, scrubbed a tracking tool listing dangerous facilities from its website are lobbying from the chemical industry. jacobin.com/2025/08/us-s...

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Trump’s EPA Hid Risks at the Steel Plant That Just Exploded

The US Steel plant where two workers were killed and ten injured in an explosion on Monday had a history of chemical accidents. It was one of hundreds of chemical facilities whose risks were hidden fr...

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Mask Up Pittsburgh @maskuppgh.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

Hey folks! In response to the cokeworks explosion, Mask Up Pgh is at the Jefferson Hills library handing out masks tonight! Come see us if you need some!

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 06/08/2025

At his confirmation hearing, RFK Jr claimed he wouldn’t take away vaccines. So far he has: Removed COVID vaccine recommendations Fired the CDC’s vaccine committee Replaced scientists with antivaxxers Cancelled vaccine hesitancy research Pulled $500m in mRNA vaccine research

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 31/07/2025

Sentiments like these are eugenics and should have no place at government health agencies, whose mission is to protect the health of all people regardless of anyone’s circumstances.

Chronically Ill? In Kennedy’s View, It Might Be Your Own Fault

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Jess McLaughlin, PhD (they/them) @jfmclaughlin92.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

Yes, I know, it's frustrating that some people will only care about the loss of DEIA programs that hit white people. But also it is important to highlight how diversity programs *are, in fact, already* aiming to help the people anti-DEIA grifters claim at the expense of and thus cuts will benefit.

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Julia Métraux @juliametraux.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

Endless sympathies to Medicaid recipients whose chronic illnesses act up under stress.

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Neil Stenhouse @nstenhouse.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

“ICE gets a bigger budget than the Marine Corps” is a simple fact that should be communicated very widely because it clearly expresses how crazy and radical this is

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 12/06/2025

Better save a copy of this now

CDC Table: Recommended Child and Adolescent Immunization Schedule for Ages 18 Years or Younger, United States, 2025

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Dr. Kat Napaaqtuk❄️ @napaaqtuk.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

For non-scientists: the funding rate is somewhere between 7% to ~25% (rare) for NIH or NSF grants, depending on where you are applying. Grants are reviewed by a panel of peers who read the grants, score them, then debate the ratings for 1-2 days to rank them. It is INCREDIBLY competitive already.

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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 09/06/2025

(3/5) At 7:59 AM this morning, Bhattacharya and RFK Jr. both received the email with the scathing Bethesda Declaration attached. 300+ NIH employees are calling out leadership for putting: ❌ Politics before lives ❌ Loyalty before science ❌ Ideology before the American people This is unprecedented.

A protest scene in front of NIH headquarters, with people holding signs like “Brains Love Science” and “My Kid’s Careers Require Science.” Text emphasizes that the Bethesda Declaration was sent to RFK Jr. and Bhattacharya and outlines the NIH employees’ accusations against leadership.

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Josh Zingher @zingherpolisci.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

Everything that’s happened over the past six months has been a response to an imaginary crisis. There is no immigrant invasion. No trade crisis. No scientific or governance crisis. Just people completely high off their own supply trying to fundamentally reorder society. None of this had to happen.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 31/05/2025

something that stands out about this is just how cheap it is for us to have world-leading scientific capacity we spent ~6.75 trillion last year, and the combined budgets for NIH, NSF and NASA are barely more than 1% of that what an incredible waste to lose it all for a drop in the bucket

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Kristian G. Andersen @kgandersen.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

Here's the NIH's proposed budget - from $48 billion to $27 billion. NIAID, current ~$7 billion cut to ~$4.2 billion. The proposed 15% cap on indirect costs remains. Again, these budgets are passed, and our leadership in science, technology, and innovation is gone. www.hhs.gov/sites/defaul...

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Kinsey Brock @doc-brock.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

If I didn’t receive Pell Grants, I would have had to drop out of college. The Pell changed my life (and the lives of all the students I brought with me on my research journey).

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Dhruv Mehrotra @dmehro.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

NEW: The US government has collected DNA from over 100,000 migrant children—including a 4-year-old—and uploaded their genetic profiles into a national biometric database meant for sex offenders and violent criminals. www.wired.com/story/cbp-dn...

wired.com

The US Is Storing Migrant Children’s DNA in a Criminal Database

Customs and Border Protection has swabbed the DNA of migrant children as young as 4, whose genetic data is uploaded to an FBI-run database that can track them if they commit crimes in the future.

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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

They blame pollution but cut the EPA and clean air and water regulations. They blame poor nutrition but cut SNAP and programs to bring local produce to schools. They blame increased screen time while destroying public infrastructure that connects people. All while they take millions off healthcare.

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 20/05/2025

The data tells us that everyone can benefit from getting updated Covid vaccines. Covid vaccines reduce the risk of becoming sick, developing Long Covid, and becoming hospitalized, for everyone.

The data below describe how well vaccines work to reduce your risk. This risk reduction is in addition to protection you may have from previous infections with COVID-19 or from receiving earlier versions of COVID-19 vaccines.

COVID-19 vaccines:

Reduce your risk for critical illness (admission to intensive care unit or death)
For adults ages 18 and older, the 2023–2024 COVID-19 vaccines reduced the risk of critical illness from COVID-19 by almost 70% in the first 2 months after vaccination. Protection decreased over time. During the 10 months after vaccination, the vaccines reduced critical illness risk by about 50%.6
Reduce your risk of being hospitalized
For adults ages 18 and older, the 2023–2024 COVID-19 vaccines reduced the risk of COVID-19 hospitalization by about 50% in the first 2 months after vaccination. Protection decreased over time. During the 10 months after vaccination, the vaccines reduced hospitalization risk by about 30%.67
Reduce your risk of getting sick and needing to go to urgent care or the emergency department
For adults ages 18 and older, the 2023–2024 COVID-19 vaccines reduced the risk of COVID-19 urgent care and emergency department visits by about 50% in the first 2 months after vaccination. Protection decreased over time, with little protection remaining at 4–6 months.67
Reduce your risk for Long COVID
Studies show that people who got vaccinated against COVID-19 and later get COVID-19 are less likely to have Long COVID, compared to people who are unvaccinated or not up to date with their COVID-19 vaccines.89

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

I'll be honest this result makes me feel pretty sick to my stomach. The success of disinformation is so senseless and destructive it's hard for me to wrap my head around.

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Daniel Swain @weatherwest.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

I just created a quick map depicting which portions of the United States are now (as of today) or will imminently be (by early June) without 24/7 local National Weather Service coverage (per Washington Post reporting). #CAwx #CAfire #CAwater #ORwx #AKwx #WYwx #KSwx

Map of local National Weather Service office "areas of responsibility" modified (using polygons with black outlines and red fill) to indicate where recent/expanding cuts to NOAA/NWS have resulting in understaffing so extreme that some offices can not longer operate on a 24/7 basis.

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AJ 🐌 @abbyjc.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

I had a typo on picking you do NOT need to worry 💀

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