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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 09/10/2025

Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 17/06/2025

Remembering this story from 8 years ago, about the differing values of rural & urban people. One reason I remember it is that every single factual assertion made by a rural person in the piece is false.

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New poll of rural Americans shows deep cultural divide with urban residents

Big-city and small-town Americans have vastly different views on issues like immigration and religion, helping to explain President Trump’s election

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Megan Hagenauer @mhagenauer.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

New eNeuro(@sfnjournals.bsky.social) 📄! 🤩 "Promoting Open Discussions of Scientific Failure within the Annual Society for Neuroscience Conference" w/ @kristinbigos.bsky.social @flagel-lab.bsky.social @amayoco.bsky.social @drxilma.bsky.social @comm4rigor.bsky.social www.eneuro.org/content/eneu...

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Promoting Open Discussions of Scientific Failure within the Annual
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Megan H. Hagenauer,1 A. David Redish,2 Daniela Schiller,3 Kristin L. Bigos,4 Shelly Flagel,1 Amilcar Rodriguez,5 Zac Parker,6 Angela O’Connor,1 Xilma Ortiz-Gonzalez,7 Deirdre Murphy,8 Rachel Leeson,9 and Community for Rigor6

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Stop. Validating. Fascist. Rationales. They are lying about their intentions. It doesn’t matter what they say they want to accomplish; what they actually want to accomplish is corruption, sabotage, brutality, and mass murder.

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Megan Hagenauer @mhagenauer.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

🫶🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🤝 Underrepresented folks are often called upon to: 1) serve in positions to improve DEI 2) pursue DEI-related fellowships/awards These folks could have chosen not to heed our call. @umich.edu- How will we ensure that they remain employed and supported at UM? That their service is honored? 💙💛💔

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It's ME(Jaime) @exceedhergrasp1.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Folks, very bad news for #LongCOVID. Deep breath. 29 awarded grants to do with COVID and Long COVID have been rescinded by NIH. 🧪 www.science.org/content/arti...

Science has learned that grant termination letters went out last night to principal investigators of 29 awards made by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), including nine grants that were part of a program hoping to deliver antiviral drugs to prevent future pandemics.

Other terminated grants involved research to develop improved COVID-19 vaccines and to address Long Covid, the mysterious lingering aftermath of some SARS-CoV-2 infections. “The research is being treated like we already have all the answers we will need in the future and that the current vaccines work well enough and don’t need improvement, which we know is not true,” says an investigator involved with one of the NIAID grants who asked not to be named for fear of retribution. “Some of the studies being canceled were attempting to make a pancoronavirus vaccine, which would hopefully be available the next time a novel coronavirus jumps species into humans.”

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It's ME(Jaime) @exceedhergrasp1.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Well, everyone, was nice knowin' ya

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Megan Hagenauer @mhagenauer.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

🧬🦠🧠🥼🧪📈🟦 @ebi.embl.org: Many scientists are worried that vital biomedical data housed in U.S. government databases is at risk. Which aspects of NCBI are mirrored on EMBL-EBI? Do you plan to back up more U.S. data? @altcdc.bsky.social @altnih4science.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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Scientists globally are racing to save vital health databases taken down amid Trump chaos

The mass-archiving effort is in response to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention removing some of its web pages.

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Thomas [DARK MODE], DO @tom.medsky.social · 28/01/2025

If you're struggling financially due to government fuckery or for any reason really and you need infant formula talk to your pediatrician we can hook you up and don't like to ask questions.

An image of me pointing to a closet full of Enfamil cans of various types and colors.

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Jacek Debiec, MD, PhD, DPhil 🌎 🧠 @drjacekdebiec.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Viktor Orban pacified Hungarian universities by tightening control over their funding. It went pretty smoothly. Trump is going the same way. We will see how many American academics will be ready to risk their careers in defense of #AcademicFreedom. #AcademicTwitter www.economist.com/leaders/2021...

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Viktor Orban seizes control of Hungary’s universities

And makes it hard for a future government to loosen his grip

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Angela May O'Connor @amayoco.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

So, at what point do US universities start reaching into their massive endowment $$ to support & fund their researchers & staff, rather than abandoning them to fascist censorship?

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Angela Levine @angelahlevine.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

The administration took down the reproductive rights website that women need access to. So The Skimm bought a url and brought the content back. Pass this on! Go to reproductiverightsdotgov.com

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ReproductiveRights.Gov Vanished, So We Brought It Back

theSkimm makes it easier to live smarter. You're welcome. Get all the info you need from AM to PM, wherever you are.

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 23/01/2025

The price of eggs in the US is spiking, mostly due to #H5N1 bird flu. Solving the problem requires urgent, important communications from the CDC & FDA* and rapid development of research by the NIH** * Currently paused by Executive Order ** Grant reviews now all canceled www.kcur.org/news/2025-01...

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Egg prices are soaring again. Here’s why and what to expect

Bird flu has killed millions of hens in recent weeks, shrinking the supply of eggs and hiking up prices at grocery stores.

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Ezra S @ezra.zone · 19/01/2025

Do you want to do something meaningful to help your friends with Long Covid? Do you live in the SF Bay Area? Have you had Covid at least once? (Bonus points if you have a photo of a positive test!) If so, please sign up UCSF's LIINC study! liincstudy.org Here's why:

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LIINC - Long-term Impact of Infection with Novel Coronavirus

LIINC studies the biology behind the long-term consequences from COVID-19 and other infections. Learn More Join the Study Have you ever had COVID-19? The

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Ordering the CDC to stop all public communications in the middle of a bird flu epidemic is definitely a choice. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/22/h...

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Tal Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

just a reminder that despite somewhat dismal sales numbers, people who've read my book said they found it important and clarifying, and emotionally resonant, and thoughtful, and well-written. and i hope you'll consider buying it as we move into the era it describes: bookshop.org/p/books/wild...

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Wild Faith: How the Christian Right Is Taking Over America a book by Talia Lavin

Esquire Best Nonfiction Books of 2024 The acclaimed author of Culture Warlords investigates the rise of the Christian Right over the last half-century that lays out the grim vision evangelicals are en...

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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

These emails, sent across agencies, compel all federal employees to snitch on any colleague whose work might have some vague DEIA inflection. Those who refuse to snitch will be disciplined. Seems designed to put all workers who aren’t white men under a cloud of suspicion. Truly vile stuff.

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 22/01/2025

Devastating for scientists and their research, and everyone who benefits from that research. I’m not sure if everyone outside academia is aware that a delay or “pause” in grant funding often means the researchers themselves are lost from the field, along with their expertise.

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Dr. Jens Foell @jensfoell.de · 22/01/2025

Just look at this shit. US research is being murdered right now. “Researchers who planned to present their work at meetings must cancel their trips, as must NIH officials promoting agency programs off site or visiting distant branches of the agency.“ www.science.org/content/arti...

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Trump hits NIH with ‘devastating’ freezes on meetings, travel, communications, and hiring

Researchers facing

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Nsikan Akpan @monscience.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

NIH appears to have canceled/postponed all of its study sections—the independent review panels that approve federal grants for health research. Such grants fund the work/salaries of 300k people at more than 2,500 institutions

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Jane Liebschutz, MD MPH (she/her) @liebschutz.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

All NIH study sections canceled indefinitely. This will halt science and devastate research budgets in universities.

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Dr. Jens Foell @jensfoell.de · 22/01/2025

The autocrat who is currently dismantling the US federal government has just silenced the FDA, the CDC and the NIH. There will be no new regulations, guidance, announcements, press releases or social media posts until they’ve been approved by a political appointee. www.statnews.com/2025/01/22/t...

“The Trump administration has put a freeze on many federal health agency communications with the public through at least the end of the month.
In a memo obtained by The Associated Press, acting Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Dorothy Fink told agency staff leaders Tuesday that an
"immediate pause" had been ordered on - among other things - regulations, guidance, announcements, press releases, social media posts and website posts until such communications had been approved by a political appointee.”

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Healthcare workers…If your patient is wearing a mask you should too. When you ask “do you want me to wear a mask?” You’re putting an undue burden on your patient You’re refusing to acknowledge the imbalance of power that makes us feel uncomfortable saying “yes” Just wear a mask. At all times.

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A Plea to Maskless Healthcare Workers from Vulnerable Patients

If you see a mask - wear a mask. Better yet - wear a mask all the time and show us you understand that we're still IN a pandemic. We are depending on you to keep us safe - please don't betray that.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Shout out to the media who participated in the most obvious misdirection ever

USA Today fact check saying Project 2025 is from the Heritage Foundation, not Donald Trump

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Angela May O'Connor @amayoco.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Guess we're almost guaranteed an H5N1 pandemic in the next few years 🫠

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Seamus Blackley @seamus.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

My Co-founder Josh Weinsch took this photo of his little daughter’s bike, which was in their driveway when they evacuated. Their neighborhood was vaporized.

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Lizz Porter @lizzporter.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

SoCal friends, I’m so sorry you’re dealing with this. A few things I wish I’d known as we evacuated ahead of a wildfire (that took our home in 2021) 🧵

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Megan Hagenauer @mhagenauer.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

😡 *URGENT* 😡 The Univ. of Michigan Regents are discussing defunding/restructuring the Office of Diversity Equity and Inclusion (DEI) in the next fiscal year. Some of UM's larger DEI initiatives include the Go Blue Guarantee (income-based financial aid to in-state students) and Wolverine Pathways. 🧵

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Is DEI in the Crosshairs at the U. of Michigan?

In the aftermath of a critical <i>New York Times</i> story, faculty leaders fear regents are considering cuts to one of the nation’s most unapologetically ambitious models.

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Megan Hagenauer @mhagenauer.bsky.social · 02/07/2024

🎉🥳Our Brain.GMT paper is now published in MethodsX! doi.org/10.1016/j.me... You can access our database of brain-related functional gene sets on Github, along with example usage code: github.com/hagenaue/Bra... Message me if you have questions! :) (w/ @amayoco.bsky.social)

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Angela May O'Connor @amayoco.bsky.social · 11/06/2024

I tapped out the first draft of this one-handed back in 2020, as I was breastfeeding my youngest child. I am eternally grateful to everyone in the Wakil lab for their support of academic mums & those of us with health stuff going on. Letting the people in science be people, & still getting it done 💪

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Megan Hagenauer @mhagenauer.bsky.social · 10/06/2024

We have a new paper out in Neurobiology of Stress (w/ @amayoco.bsky.social)! It's very pretty. "Adolescent environmental enrichment induces social resilience and alters neural gene expression in a selectively bred rodent model with anxious phenotype" 🐀🧠📈🧬🖥️📖 doi.org/10.1016/j.yn...

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Angela May O'Connor @amayoco.bsky.social · 11/04/2024

This is an excellent resource for all neuro people who do RNA-Seq data analysis, put together by the expert stats & data team of @mhagenauer.bsky.social & her rockstar undergrads. It's made for a richer, more useful & relevant analysis of the data generated by my experiments 🤗

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Megan Hagenauer @mhagenauer.bsky.social · 10/04/2024

🧠🧬🟦📖📈 We got sick of running functional ontology analyses on brain RNA-Seq data and getting answers like "Sperm motility". 🍆😂 "Resource: A Curated Database of Brain-Related Functional Gene Sets (Brain.GMT)" www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... w/ @amayoco.bsky.social

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Angela May O'Connor @amayoco.bsky.social · 05/10/2023

This thread is such a great description of what I've come to call "the stupids" feels like with Long Covid. Thank you for this resource!

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Angela May O'Connor @amayoco.bsky.social · 22/09/2023

Slight prang with another motorbike this week has resulted in a pretty spectacular bruise starting up on my foot. Nothing broken, just sore

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Sunny Moraine @dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social · 21/09/2023

FDA: so we reviewed your proposal, we have concerns Elon: it’ll be fine FDA: but the batteries Elon: pssh FDA: what if the wires go all over people’s brains Elon: they won’t FDA: you promise? Elon: sure Elon: plus as you can see I have an unfathomable amount of money FDA: ah well in that case

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Emily St. James @emilystjams.bsky.social · 20/09/2023

There are a number of tools for finding people you follow on Twitter on Bluesky, but I've been happiest with this one: skeet.labnotes.org It has some issues but has generally helped me find old friends. I use it every few weeks.

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Skeet @ labnotes.org

Find your Twitter/Mastodon follows on BlueSky

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hilzoy @hilzoy.bsky.social · 19/09/2023

PSA: the CDC has a program that pays for your COVID vaccine if your insurer won't. The guy at CVS told me that my insurer had not added the new vaccine to its formulary yet, so I'd need to pay $190. I told him about this program, showed him the website, and paid nothing. 🤗

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Bridge Access Program | CDCCenters for Disease Control and Prevention. CDC twenty four seven. Saving...

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Angela May O'Connor @amayoco.bsky.social · 08/09/2023

Found a teeny tiny bakery near our house that makes absolutely delicious and very cute cakes 🤤

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Angela May O'Connor @amayoco.bsky.social · 04/09/2023

Currently reading "A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century" & my man Enguerrand VII de Coucy had some serious rizz. Like, the Bill Clinton of his day social wizardry levels of rizz

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Shrew @shrewshrew.bsky.social · 03/07/2023

Since the neuroscientists are starting to show up, I'd like to point out that we have an opportunity to make this place better than the old one! Let's all make a promise not to make posts with the following terms: dopamine, hippocampus, cortex, marble burying, "thrilled to announce", egg monopoly

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Angela May O'Connor @amayoco.bsky.social · 19/08/2023

Repost a meme that lets us get to know you better

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 29/05/2023

it’s jumping spiders in tiny leaf cottages time

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Angela May O'Connor @amayoco.bsky.social · 22/05/2023

Mainlining the entirety of the first three Dune books in the past week has resulted in some fairly weird dreams 🫠

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Angela May O'Connor @amayoco.bsky.social · 19/05/2023

Very cool - our 6 year old has started drawing with perspective/layers of depth!

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Karla Monterroso @karlaliliana.bsky.social · 06/05/2023

I’ve been on a patient advisory board for the patient-led research collaborative. When I see this, it is clear to me how doctors center their own power and comfort over patients all the time. www.thedailybeast.com/stanford-medi…

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Stanford Was Conducting a Long COVID Study. Then the Staff Stopped Masking.

A long COVID clinical trial at Stanford Medicine is in chaos after participants felt unsafe because staff did not wear masks.

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