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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 08/07/2026
Russell Vought’s OMB Grant Proposal takes the formerly expert informed, democratic grant award process and turns it into an authoritative process based on political ideology. It will destroy science in America as we know it. Take action here: zurl.co/ydchb Article: zurl.co/Juc68
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Trump administration pursues more durable changes to science policy after setbacks in court
After legal challenges succeeded, Trump administration shifts from dismantling agencies to centralizing OMB control over research funding.
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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
🧵 Public science in the US has taken some heavy hits over the last year, but the White House OMB is proposing a series of changes that will result in a TKO for science as we know it unless we fight back. Here's what's happening, and why it matters. 1/n
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Katie McCaskey @katiemccaskey.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
"This would be the end of American science as we know it," said Cole Donovan @colesci.bsky.social, a policy analyst from the group @standupforscience.net who has been organizing to protest the change. "We're gonna make sure that it doesn't fade quietly into the night." www.npr.org/2026/06/03/n...
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President Trump seeks control of science funding
The White House Office of Management and Budget is moving to take more control of billions of dollars in federal grants. Critics say the proposed change would jeopardize the integrity of U.S. science.
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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 28/05/2026
BREAKING: New proposed OMB regulation, applying to all federal grants, requiring grant reviews by senior political appointees and re-emphasizes that "peer review remains advisory and does not replace agency discretion". #standupforscience public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2026-10817.pdf
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Mica Rosenberg @micarosenberg.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
NEW: For the first time, ProPublica has been able to quantify how many U.S. citizen children have been directly affected by Trump’s immigration crackdown: more than 11,000 kids had a parent detained — and that’s an undercount. 1/ 🧵 www.propublica.org/article/trum...
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Trump Has Detained the Parents of More Than 11,000 U.S. Citizen Kids
A ProPublica analysis of new ICE data shows that Trump has detained parents of U.S. citizen children at about twice the rate that Biden did, and moms have been deported four times as often.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 18/03/2026
oh look at that www.pew.org/en/research-...
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Austin’s Surge of New Housing Construction Drove Down Rents
After decades of explosive growth, Austin, Texas, in the 2010s was a victim of its own success. Lured by high-tech jobs and the city’s hip reputation, too many people were competing for too few homes....
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StreetsblogMASS @mass.streetsblog.org · 10/03/2026
@cambridgemass.bsky.social Traffic Data Indicate Better Bike Lanes Led to Surge In Bike Traffic - mass.streetsblog.org/2026/03/10/c...
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City of Cambridge Reports Better Bike Lanes Led to Surge In Bike Traffic - Streetsblog Massachusetts
A City of Cambridge traffic analysis finds “that investing in high-comfort bikeways is helping more people than ever choose to bike in Cambridge” with a 250 percent increase in citywide bicycle traffi...
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Scientific American article about Stand Up for Science events. www.scientificamerican.com/article/stan... Find you local March 7th event here: www.standupforscience.net
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Stand Up for Science plans second rally on March 7
Public health chaos and research funding cuts are inspiring nationwide pro-science protests against the Trump administration
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19/02/2026
Ossoff: "There are some folks who are doomscrolling in the fetal position. Every day there is a new outrage. It's easy I know to fear that maybe we could lose our republic. I think what John Lewis would tell us is it's up to us. We have the power to right the ship. Nobody is gonna do it for us."
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 09/02/2026
1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken. Hundreds of kids are still detained. We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Immigrants have paid more in taxes than they have received in benefits every single year for the past 30 years, according to new analysis from Cato. Remember this the next time Trump and his racist lackeys call immigrants "freeloaders."
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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Genuinely chilling story today from @washingtonpost.com www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...
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Homeland Security is targeting Americans with this secretive legal weapon
Under Trump, the Department of Homeland Security has weaponized administrative subpoenas to attack free speech, according to privacy and civil rights groups.
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Representative Seth Magaziner @magaziner.house.gov · 27/01/2026
Reminder that, as of the latest reports, Liam Ramos is still in prison in Texas - now for 5 days. His parents are legal asylum seekers with no criminal record.
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Lynne Fox @slotrak.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
‘The ultimate goal here is to get citizens & communities to buy into this propaganda and turn on their neighbors—this kind of complicity is really the only way that the dystopian vision that Miller has in mind can become a reality. We have seen this movie before, & yes, it is being attempted here.’
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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.com · 16/01/2026
"A Minneapolis couple said that ICE agents deployed tear gas... around them and their six children — the youngest only 6 months old — as they tried to maneuver their car out of a tense protest on Wednesday night." They were driving home from a son’s basketball game. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...
A Minneapolis couple said that ICE agents deployed tear gas and stun grenades around them and their six children — the youngest only 6 months old — as they tried to maneuver their car out of a tense protest on Wednesday night.

Shawn Jackson and his wife, Destiny, both 26, said they were driving home from a son’s basketball game when the family found themselves caught in a clash between protesters and federal agents in North Minneapolis.

The couple sensed the encounter could quickly spiral out of control, they said, but when they tried to turn their car around to exit the blocked-off street, they were surrounded by federal agents.

“From the side, the front and from behind me, it was nothing but ICE,” Mr. Jackson said in an interview on Thursday.

One agent told the couple that they needed to get out of the area. Ms. Jackson said she and her husband responded that they were trying to do exactly that, but their path was blocked by agents coming up the street.

Then, agents let loose on the crowd, the couple said.

The crowd-control grenades went off around them and one tear gas canister rolled beneath the car, Ms. Jackson said. A concussive blast — from the tear gas canister or another device, she wasn’t sure — rocked the vehicle, she said, setting off the airbags and trapping the family as acrid smoke billowed around.
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Sam Mintz @samjmintz.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
We're now taking applications for the summer 2026 Brookline.News internship. This is a great opportunity for a journalism student or recent graduate to do general assignment reporting in a newsy town just outside Boston, and work with/learn from our small team. brookline.news/wp-content/u...
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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
Horrible. Arson attack today at Mississippi’s largest synagogue, on Shabbat, destroyed multiple Torahs and left parts of the building in ruins
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Benjamin Ryan @benryanwriter.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
The HPV vaccine is safe and cuts cervical cancer risk by 80%, 2 large reviews find I report for @nbcnews.com: Hundreds of studies, including gold-standard clinical trials, challenge Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s claim that the cancer vaccine is harmful. www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
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The HPV vaccine is safe and cuts cervical cancer risk by 80%, 2 large reviews find
Hundreds of studies, including gold-standard clinical trials, challenge Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s claim that the cancer vaccine is harmful.
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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 20/11/2025
Lots going on but don’t lose track of the Trump attacks on biomedical research and cancer cures. @jeremymberg.bsky.social posted a leaked #NIH memo today. I want to highlight a few scary parts. They’re about taking power from scientists and experts and giving it to the president’s hacks. 1/ 🧪
DRAFT/PRE-DECISIONAL - FOR ICD INPUT, 08.15.25
Achieving NIH's Mission: Leveraging Funding Policies
Vision: A consistent and unified NIH-wide approach for funding the most meritorious science, addressing health priorities, and supporting a robust biomedical workforce
Purpose: This framework provides a rubric by which ICO funding strategies are to be developed, implemented, and evaluated to achieve NIH's goals. All ICDs, in collaboration with their ICO staff, should review this framework and if needed, adjust respective funding policies and pay plan development processes.
Background: All ICOs have funding policies to support the mission of NIH to seek fundamental knowledge about the nature and behavior of living systems and the application of that knowledge to enhance health, lengthen life, and reduce illness and disability. Appropriately, ICOs have their own respective, yet complementary, strategic plans to meet their individual ICO missions. It is crucial that there is coordination across ICO strategic plans and resulting funding policies to collectively leverage NIH's successes for the good of the American public.
Core Tenets of ICO Funding Policies: Certain core tenets of funding policies should be consistent to ensure that the NIH mission and health priorities are being achieved. Moving forward, ICO funding policies should:
• Align with NIH's and the ICO's stated mission and strategic priorities
• Prioritize scientific merit, program relevance and program balance
• Incorporate the breadth of the ICO's research portfolio and approaches
• Consider investigator career stage and sustainability of the biomedical research workforce
• Consider the total amount of NIH funding available to the investigator to promote distribution of funding
• Align with the availability of funds from the ICO
Note that while the score and critiques an application receives in peer review are important factors in determining the scientific merit of a proposal, ICOs may not rely on funding "…
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Ardem Patapoutian @ardemp.bskyverified.social · 13/08/2025
Over 20 years after Julius’s lab and mine cloned TRPM8, it is rewarding to see this science helping patients. The TRPM8 agonist Tryptyr treats dry eye by increasing tear production. A reminder that NIH-funded curiosity-driven research translates to medicines. tryptyr.myalcon.com?gad_source=1...
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TRYPTYR (acoltremon ophthalmic solution) 0.003% eye drops | Alcon US
TRYPTYR is a prescription eye drop used for the treatment of the signs and symptoms of dry eye disease. See prescribing information, how to save, and more.
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
STAT Story www.statnews.com/2025/07/29/t... 1/n
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Trump administration blocks NIH from awarding any research grants and contracts
The order applies to the entirety of new and, possibly, ongoing research grant dollars that go to universities and academic medical centers.
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Maxwell Frost @maxwellfrost.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
I just left the Everglades Immigrant Interment Camp. No, I’m not using their ridiculous name. It was a very tough to witness humans in those cages. Every Floridian should be ashamed that our taxpayer money is being used for this.
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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 03/06/2025
The U.S. has long led the world in research. But under Trump’s policies, that leadership is slipping. As federal support collapses, scientists are forced to choose b/t staying & fighting for the work they love - or leaving the country to keep their careers alive. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/03/u...
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U.S. Scientists Warn That Trump’s Cuts Will Set Off a Brain Drain
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Scott @scottistvan.com · 16/05/2025
@bikeboston.bsky.social launched their stress map for bike routes through the city! This is an excellent tool not just for folks trying to find a safe route, but also for city staff to identify missing connectivity in their bike networks! bostoncyclistsunion.org/bcu-labs-lau...
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BCU Labs Launches Bike Stress Map - Boston Cyclists Union
BCU Labs is excited to unveil our Bike Stress Map. This is a tool that helps viewers to better understand how people riding bikes or other personal mobility devices likely experience stress caused by ...
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Brookline for Everyone @brooklineforeveryone.com · 13/05/2025
One week after Election Day, we thought that it would be a good idea to look back at what we accomplished. We can’t say thank you enough to everyone who ran for office, volunteered, donated, or voted for pro-housing candidates. Your efforts made these victories possible!
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Eduardo Suárez @eduardosuarez.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
"I did not complete a customs declaration for frog embryos (for my research) in my luggage. I’m told this would normally result in a warning or a fine. Instead, my visa was revoked and I was sent to a detention center in Louisiana, where I've spent 3 months" www.nytimes.com/2025/05/13/o...
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Opinion | I Came to Study Aging. Now I’m Trapped in ICE Detention.
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Sam Mintz @samjmintz.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Michael Rubenstein, pro-housing candidate endorsed by @brooklineforeveryone.com, wins seat on Brookline Select Board. In election night interview, Rubenstein says he will look to ID barriers to development and "push parameters of what is possible." brookline.news/election-res...
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Election results: Rubenstein wins Select Board seat; Weintraub, Frias, Perry elected to School committee - Brookline.News
Brookline voters sent Michael Rubenstein to the Select Board and elected two new faces and one incumbent to the School Committee in Tuesday’s town election, according to unofficial election results pu...
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Erin 🦇🎃💀👻EEK👻💀🎃🦇 Kane @dianamonkey.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Hey Boston folks, does anyone have any leads for temporary housing for asylum seekers? All my networks are pretty tapped out but I'm looking urgently.
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amandazimmerman.bsky.social @amandazimmerman.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Election Day is coming up in #Brookline Tues 5/6, and I have some thoughts. There is only one choice for SB, and that's Michael Rubenstein. He has the vision and the leadership skills necessary to help Brookline tackle our structural deficit and address our housing needs. www.michaelforbrookline.com
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Michael Rubenstein for Select Board
Vote Michael Rubenstein for Brookline Select Board on May 6, 2025. We are building a vibrant and diverse Brookline with thriving businesses and homes for all ages interwoven with the natural world.
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amandazimmerman.bsky.social @amandazimmerman.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Election Day is coming up in #Brookline Tues 5/6, and I have some thoughts. There is only one choice for SB, and that's Michael Rubenstein. He has the vision and the leadership skills necessary to help Brookline tackle our structural deficit and address our housing needs. www.michaelforbrookline.com
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Michael Rubenstein for Select Board
Vote Michael Rubenstein for Brookline Select Board on May 6, 2025. We are building a vibrant and diverse Brookline with thriving businesses and homes for all ages interwoven with the natural world.
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Colleen Newsome @colleentconqueror.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
A letter from my slate and I in response to some deeply misleading messages being sent around by our opposition in regards to our experience, stance, and ability. p2brookline.vote/open-letter
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Boston Tom Levenson @tomlevenson.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
In local politics: Brookline, MA's upcoming election is fascinating. There is a real possibility of electing a pro-housing select board member and new Town Meeting members...and that has the old-boy/girl network of self-described progressives revealing themselves as NIMBYs in sheep's clothing.
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Colleen Newsome @colleentconqueror.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Hi, my name is Colleen Newsome! Please vote for me and my slate in P2 on May 6th! A vote for us is a vote to preserve the heart and soul of the Brookline community.
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Jeff Wachter @jeffwachter.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
TONIGHT! Join @brooklineforeveryone.com for our April Happy Hour at Hamilton Restaurant. RSVP at the link, or just stop by!
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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Almost every line of this story would have been simply unbelievable a few months ago: —Pioneering cancer researcher; —*Arrested* at airport in Boston; —Now indefinite ICE detention in Louisiana; —"Crime": not declaring some frog-embryo samples for research. Read it. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
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New images could change cancer diagnostics, but ICE detained the Harvard scientist who analyzes them
Without scientist Kseniia Petrova’s expertise, no one can fully unlock the data’s potential, putting crucial advancements in early cancer detection at risk.
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Momentum Magazine @momentummag.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Explainer: What Is a Road Diet—And Why Should Cities Embrace It? momentummag.com/explainer-wh...
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Explainer: What Is a Road Diet—And Why Should Cities Embrace It?
At its core, a road diet is a reconfiguration of a roadway that reduces the number of lanes dedicated to cars.
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Bone chilling. A court ordered Kilmar Abrego Garcia to stay in the United States. The Supreme Court ruled 9-0 that he was illegally removed. Trump is pretending he won the ruling 9-0. 1/ You may not think this case means anything to you. But let me tell you why it does.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
If you have a Republican representing you in the House or Senate, call them to demand they undo Trump's tariffs. They're already shaken by the 20 point shift in Florida and the Wisconsin loss. You can fuel that feeling.
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WIRED @wired.com · 02/04/2025
NEW: The doctor behind breakthrough Parkinson’s research was among the scientists purged from the National Institutes of Health, the US’s leading medical research agency. www.wired.com/story/doctor...
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Doctor Behind Award-Winning Parkinson’s Research Among Scientists Purged From NIH
Leading scientists at the National Institutes of Health, the US’s leading medical research agency, were swept up Tuesday in the Trump administration's latest firing blitz.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 02/04/2025
Breaking News: Senator Cory Booker’s speech criticizing President Trump has just become the longest speech in recorded Senate history.
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Cory Booker Condemns Trump’s Policies in Longest Senate Speech on Record
The New Jersey senator, who had spent much of his last 24 hours on the Senate floor assailing the Trump administration, surpassed Senator Strom Thurmond’s speech in 1957.
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Sen. Cory Booker @booker.senate.gov · 01/04/2025
I’ve taken the Senate floor and will speak for as long as I’m physically able to lift the voices of Americans who are being harmed and not being heard in this moment of crisis. Watch here:
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Live: Speaking on Trump, Musk, and America’s Moral Moment on the Senate Floor | Senator Cory Booker
YouTube video by Senator Cory Booker
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Rachael Sirianni, PhD @docsirianni.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
They are cutting cancer research. They are cutting cancer research. They can deny it all they want, but they are cutting cancer research. These are the cuts being made the DoD CDMRP cancer funding mechanism www.fightcancer.org/sites/defaul...
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Ruining studies and potentially harming research subjects... Abruptly terminating clinical trials... Ignorant and evil www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
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The NIH’s Most Reckless Cuts Yet
Ending clinical trials with no warning can put patients at risk.
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
The US military just purged their website of mentions of the Holocaust, 9/11 remembrance, cancer awareness, sexual assault, and suicide prevention to align with their new “anti-DEI” policies.
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Massive purge of Pentagon websites includes content on Holocaust remembrance, sexual assault and suicide prevention | CNN Politics
Articles about the Holocaust, September 11, cancer awareness, sexual assault and suicide prevention are among the tens of thousands either removed or flagged for removal from Pentagon websites as the ...
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Rachael Sirianni, PhD @docsirianni.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
This is horrible to post, but I may as well post it. We are essentially shutting down research operations in my group, which is focused on treatments for pediatric brain cancer. I’m a well funded investigator, and there’s no choice. Science can’t function without the stability of NIH
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The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
The bill, which was approved today by the U.S. House of Representatives and heads next to a Senate vote, includes 20 percent less BRAIN Initiative funding than last year. By @avaskham.bsky.social www.thetransmitter.org/funding/u-s-...
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U.S. BRAIN Initiative set to lose $81 million this year
A government spending bill, approved today by the House of Representatives, allocates 20 percent less funding for the program than last year.
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Miles Howard @milesperhoward.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
Boston renters: Were you recently forced to move to another city or town due to rising rent prices? Are you currently worried about this displacement in your future? If so, I’d like to talk with you for a story. DMs welcome!
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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
I don't care how you feel about campus anti-Israel protests, or about antisemitism on campus. Fighting antisemitism cannot mean disappearing foreign citizens in the US on green cards for Wrongthink. It just cannot. Not in my name. Never. www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news...
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ICE arrests Palestinian activist who led Columbia University protests, lawyer says
Mahmoud Khalil, a Palestinian activist who helped lead Columbia University's student encampment protests, has been arrested by ICE, his lawyer says.
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Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪 @altnih4science.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
+1e9 This isn’t just about NIH or NSF, it’s not about biology vs math/physics vs health outcomes research, not about intramural or extramural. This is a coordinated attack on ALL US science. The gov’t / academia partnership IS what makes US science. They’re trying to end all science research.
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