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Anne Park

@anneparkt.bsky.social
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behavioral scientist interested in wellbeing, motivation, community & civic engagement | previously UPenn psychology PhD, early adversity & brain development in children | she/her

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Anne Park @anneparkt.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
If you've been wondering "what's next?" after Saturday's No Kings protest... the organizers have shared a whole slate of next steps we can take, in order to build a durable movement to protect democracy and our communities through our everyday actions #NoKings 👉 www.nokings.org/next
Photo showing crowd of thousands at the Philly No Kings protest, from the vantage point of the stage (Rep Jamie Raskin is standing at the podium). There are many colorful signs and flags being held up, and the Philly skyline in the background.
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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
I am excited to share that @standupforscience.bsky.social is growing! We are looking to hire several positions including: - Event and volunteer coordination - Copywriting (press releases, emails, website, blogs, some social media) - Data analytics and research (marketing, not science 😉) 🧵
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Allison 🧬⚾️ @petitephd.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
Spitting FIRE holy shit 🔥
A series of tweets from Politico senior legal affairs reporter Kyle Cheney:

BREAKING: A federal judge in Massachusetts (the Reagan-appointed William Young) has declared the Trump administration's cuts to NIH grants — ostensibly over Trump's EOs on gender ideology and DEI — are "illegal" and "void." He's ordering many grants restored.

YOUNG: "I am hesitant to draw this conclusion, but I have an unflinching obligation to draw it – that this represents racial discrimination. And discrimination against America’s LGBTQ community. That’s what this is. I would be blind not to call it out. My duty is to call it out."

MORE YOUNG: "It is palpably clear that these directives and the set of terminated grants here also are designed to frustrate, to stop, research that may bear on the health – we’re talking about health here, the health of Americans, of our LGBTQ community. That’s appalling."

YOUNG still going: "I’ve never seen a record where racial discrimination was so palpable. I’ve sat on this bench now for 40 years. I’ve never seen government racial discrimination like this ... I ask myself, how can this be?"

"I have the protection that the founders wrote into the constitution, along with imposing upon me a duty to speak the truth in every case. I try to do that. What if I didn’t have those protections. What if my job was on the line, my profession... Would I have stood up against all this? Would I have said, 'you can’t do this?' You are bearing down on people of color because of their color. The constitution will not permit that."

"Have we fallen so low? Have we no shame?"
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 15/06/2025
No Kings Day was one of the largest days of protest in US history. From deep red small towns to our largest cities, millions of people turned out to make it clear that the American people will not bow to fascism. #NoKings
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Find your closest rally on Saturday and go. You can tell your kids where you were on the other side of this. Outnumber him everywhere. www.nokings.org#map
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No Kings
On June 14—Flag Day—Donald Trump wants tanks in the street and a made-for-TV display of dominance for his birthday. A spectacle meant to look like strength. But real power isn’t staged in Washington. ...
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
To everyone in PA, I know there is a ridiculous amount going on right now BUT, please take a minute (a literal minute) to contact our state reps about funding septa. Transit is absolutely necessary for a functioning Philly, *and* for meeting climate goals. www.transitforallpa.org/takeaction/
transitforallpa.org
Tell Our Legislators: No State Budget Without Transit For All PA! – Transit for All PA!
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Daniel P. Moriarity @dpmoriarity.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Bethesda Declaration is live! 300+ workers at NIH call out NIH and HHS leadership to stop weaponizing research and censoring scientists. Read and then consider signing letter of solidarity. @standupforscience.bsky.social www.standupforscience.net/bethesda-dec...
standupforscience.net
Bethesda Declaration — STAND UP FOR SCIENCE
Support NIH Staff Now!
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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
As a part of the @standupforscience.bsky.social Summer Fight for Science campaign, we want to host 1000 teach ins across the US between now and Sept 30th. Yeah, it’s a big, hairy, audacious goal. I know. Here is a running list of ideas, please scoop and do! 🧵🪡
SUFS TEACH IN FLYER
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Molly Edwards, PhD @science-irl.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Hi! Do you want to rip your face off over the constant attacks on science in the US? Here are some actions you can take! They require varying amounts of time, repetitiveness, and sticking your neck out, so hopefully you can find something in here that’s right for you: 🧪 #scicomm
"How to take action for science" written in a retro bubbly font above a bunch of canva clipart test tubes and beakers filled with colorful bubbling liquids
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
I said it would get worse very quickly. By tomorrow we will have completed the most dangerous & frightening 24 hours thus far of Trump 2.0. Just to name a few: 1. Defiance of a court order by sending migrants to Sudan without due process (despite clear DP decision SCOTUS) & Dist. CT. order.
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 14/05/2025
Trying to understand whether, why, when, and how to take a public stand? It's scary, and difficulty — particularly the how part. I found @philipncohen.com's recent book extremely useful in this regard, for social scientists and natural scientists alike. cup.columbia.edu/book/citizen...
Cover of Philip N. Cohen's Citizen Scholar: Public Engagement for Social Scientists
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Charles Logan @charleswlogan.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
FYI: The Spencer Foundation, Kapor Foundation, The William T. Grant Foundation, and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation have collaborated to offer $25K rapid response grants. "This rapid response bridge funding opportunity is for scholars and teams whose grants have recently been cancelled by NSF."
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Rapid Response Bridge Funding Program
In the face of recent abrupt shifts in federal funding for education research, including large-scale terminations of National Science Foundation (NSF) research grant awards, we have developed a rap...
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Dr. David Miller 🏳️‍🌈 @davidimiller.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
I am so heartened to this seriously AWESOME #SaveNSF website go up today!!!! Has a take action toolkit with: 1. Press outreach templates 2. Social media toolkit 3. Elected official outreach 4. Talking points Check it out and share widely!!!! Likely more to come. www.savensf.com
Welcome to Save The U.S. National Science Foundation
A Girl Looking at a Physics Model
TAKE ACTION
Save NSF is a coalition of concerned scientists and allies who are working to save funding for scientific grants through the U.S. National Science Foundation.

 

Our mission is to support and advocate for the continuation of vital research and innovation in various scientific fields. NSF funding is critical to this work.

 

 Join us in our endeavor to ensure a sustainable future for scientific exploration and discovery.
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Union of Concerned Scientists @ucs.org · 28/04/2025
This Thursday, millions of people will stand united and speak out against the Trump administration’s illegal assault on our rights and freedoms in the May Day National Day of Action. Find your local event here:
maydaystrong.org
National Day of Action
They want to erase labor rights, break our unions, and silence immigrant voices. This May Day we are fighting back. Stand with us.
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Anne Park @anneparkt.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
If you want to dip your toes into @sciencehomecoming.bsky.social’s op-ed writing initiative, you could try writing Letters to the Editor to your local papers (~150-200 word short pieces) on timely issues that matter to you! Here’s an example of an LTE on academic freedom from me
Letter to the Editor: Academic Freedom

The Trump administration is attempting to bully higher education into submission, by using intimidation and threats to dictate what can be taught (and who deserves a seat at the table). Harvard has decided to take a forceful stand for academic freedom, and several other colleges are now following suit. The University of Pennsylvania must do the same. As a scientist, I’ve learned firsthand how fundamentally valuable it is to listen and learn from diverse perspectives in the pursuit of knowledge. If the administration truly had the country’s best interests in mind, it would be actively fostering an environment where conflicting viewpoints can be boldly shared and constructively grappled with.Instead, they are threatening universities to close their diversity, equity and inclusion programs, and demanding an “audit” of student perspectives. This will only stifle free speech and force out some of our brightest talents, not make campuses safer. But of course, trampling on free speech is their end goal. So now is not the time to bend a knee in the hopes that things will blow over. Now is the time for universities (including Penn) to take collective action in defense of higher education.
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Beth Popp Berman @epopppp.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Small colleges have taken the lead -- but they are now joined by 6 of 8 Ivies: Cornell, Penn, Princeton, Yale, Brown, and -- yes -- Harvard. And, finally, by a handful of big publics: U. of Washington, Wisconsin, Rutgers, SUNY Buffalo and Stony Brook, UC Riverside, UVa, UMD.
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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 09/04/2025
If you and your colleagues are wishing there was something you could DO to call on your university leadership to stand up against Trump's attacks on higher ed...look no further! 📣 REGISTER YOUR CAMPUS ACTION HERE: actionnetwork.org/event_campai... FILL THE MAP! #standupwithus #standupforscience
It's time for a summer send-off. Nationwide campus action. Stand up, fight back--together! STAND UP WITH US. Because science, higher ed, and democracy are for everyone. Where: you college campus. When: your last day of classes! Standupforscience2025.org
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Everything is profoundly stupid. Like. So stupid, oh my god. So, here's my proposal. Come have a beer with me tomorrow at tattooed mom's and make some street art about it. We'll be focusing on climate change action messaging! I have SO many paint pens. Come paint with me. RSVP: lu.ma/zgq45ht1
Imagine that the Earth went to Art School and studied abroad in France and then did A LOT of cocaine. Ok you got it. (Just kidding- the earth is profusely sweating holding an artist's palette and a paintbrush, with their tongue sticking out and their eye twitching, while wearing a maroon beret, floating in between an easel with a canvas on it and the huge flames. The earth is thinking, via a thought bubble "Make stickers and wheatpastes encouraging climate action" and the title of the poster says Climate Change Crafting Night, and beneath the floating earth it says "Tattooed Mom, Sunday APril 6th 5pm, 21+ with valid I.D.
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Dannagal Goldthwaite Young @dannagal.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Philly is LIT
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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 29/03/2025
We are excited to announce our official partnership with @indivisible.org for the National Day of Action on April 5th! Stand Up for Science says: HANDS OFF OUR SCIENCE! #standupforscience #handsoffourscience Find and register for an event near you: handsoff2025.com?utm_source=s...
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Allie Sinclair @asinclair.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
📣 Across the U.S., cuts to federal funding for health research are projected to cause losses of $16B and 68,500 jobs. How will YOUR area be impacted? Excited to share SCIMaP, a website that our team has created to communicate the impact of funding cuts. #PsychSciSky #MedicalSky scienceimpacts.org
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SCiMaP
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Anne Park @anneparkt.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
If you’re feeling angry about yesterday’s vote, check out these orgs and movements for some tangible next steps - teslatakedown.com in particular is looking very promising, find an action near you 🙏
teslatakedown.com
Tesla Takedown | Take action at Tesla showrooms everywhere.
The stakes couldn’t be higher. No one is coming to save us—not politicians, not the media.
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Joe Katz @joekatz45.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
We can stop this bill in the Senate, where they will need seven Democratic votes to break the filibuster. Rand Paul has suggested he will be no, John Fetterman has suggested he'll be a yes. Call your senators and tell them to stand firm. Scripts and language here.
docs.google.com
NO SUPPORT FOR GOVERNMENT FUNDING TRUMP WON’T SPEND (Call Scripts/Resistbot)
It feels like we’re being pummeled with multiple crises right now: Trump has shut down the agencies that protect workers from employers and discrimination; Trump has unilaterally cut off support Ameri...
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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
USE THEM. Don’t you dare scrub your syllabus!!!!
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leslie berntsen, ph.d. 😷 👩🏽‍🏫 🇳🇮 @leslie-bern.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Want to keep your science advocacy going above and beyond the (very cool and very funny) protest signs you've got for tomorrow? Come hang out with me and I'll teach you! This coming Monday and Tuesday, both starting at 1:00 PM EDT // 10:00 AM PDT Learn more and register at stemedify.com
A colorful graphic advertising the Science Advocacy Crash Course taught by Leslie Berntsen, Ph.D., Founder of stemEDify. It features two checkboxes with text that reads "Persuasively speak and write about science + social issues for wide audiences" and "Apply these skills to your classroom teaching. It also includes the logistical details: Multiple one-hour sessions, taking place online, on March 10th and 11th starting at 1:00 PM EDT // 10:00 AM PDT, with registration details available at stemedify.com.
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Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
🧵Delighted to share a new guest post by Dr Anne Toomey on **8 things scientists can do right now to stand up for science in the US** Thread of her *evidence-based* actions follows, whole post here christinapagel.substack.com/p/eight-thin... 1/11
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Eight things scientists can do right now to stand up to the Trump administration’s attacks on research, public health, and the environment
A guest post by Dr Anne Toomey, author of the book "Science with Impact: How to Engage People, Change Practice, and Influence Policy".
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Office of Mayor Michelle Wu 吳弭 @mayorwu.boston.gov · 05/03/2025
To every one of my neighbors back in Boston, know this: You belong here. This is your home. Boston es tu hogar. Boston se lakay ou. 這是你的家. This is our city. We are the safest major city in the nation because we are safe for everyone. #Boston #Congress #CongressionalHearing #Immigration
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Mayor Michelle Wu's Opening Statement to the United States House Committee on Oversight
YouTube video by City of Boston
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Anne Park @anneparkt.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Thank you @sciencehomecoming.bsky.social for sharing amazing resources that gave me the boost of courage I needed to take a stab at some writing! 🧠💪 Hope many of you will join me in standing up for science THIS FRIDAY 3/7!! Find your rally site @standupforscience.bsky.social
Flyer for Stand Up For Science 2025. Includes image of the Statue of Liberty. Text reads: March 7, 2025, Washington DC and nationwide. Science is for everyone. Find your local rally site and other ways to get involved: standupforscience2025.org
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Dr. Rebecca Calisi-Rodríguez @rebeccacalisi.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
Universities that advertised their commitment to diversity in glossy brochures & fundraising campaigns now face a reckoning: was it real or just marketing? The admin bets they’ll stay silent to keep their funding. But the cost of inaction will be far greater. greencarelab.ucdavis.edu/how-universi...
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This Is Not a Drill: How Universities Can Save DEI
A roadmap for university faculty, staff, and administrators to support DEI through legal challenges, collective resistance, and institutional protections for faculty.
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Dr. Cait Cavanagh @caitcavanagh.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
If you’re thinking about running for local office but feeling nervous, please message me! I was so anxious/overwhelmed when I ran for the school board in 2022, but it was totally doable and I learned a lot along the way. Truly, I hope you consider throwing your name in the ring— support is available
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Anne Park @anneparkt.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
Please check out/contribute to this resource tracker for defending science & higher ed by @lizneeley.bsky.social @liminalcreations.bsky.social + others bit.ly/mtm-tracking - we can find creative ways to fight back by proactively sharing info & taking inspiration from the actions of fellow scientists
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Meeting the Moment - Tracker
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M.J. Crockett @mjcrockett.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
Grateful for the chance to share my thoughts on responsible use of LLMs in psychology research @spspnews.bsky.social #spsp2025. Here's a summary of my presentation for those who missed it. Thanks to @ashwinia.bsky.social for organizing this panel! How should LLMs be used in psychology research? 🧵
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
THE RESIST LIST IS HERE. Proud my team just started this @resistlist.bsky.social, which will list actions that happened and that are slated to happen.
Resist List

They want us to think we’re alone. We are not.
The Resistance is Everywhere.
Hopescroll through stories of people’s noncooperation against Trump’s coup.
Jump to databases of noncooperation or trackers of ligitation and impact.
Follow our social media accounts to stay updated.
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Anne Park @anneparkt.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
🙌 Made a flyer and card printouts with calls to action to fight this administration and care for our neighbors! I’ll be distributing these in my own neighborhood, and others are welcome to use if it seems helpful! Png files here drive.google.com/drive/folder...
Flyer with calls to action and QR codes related to civic engagement: calling representatives, toolkits and resources from organizers, and mutual aid ideas Page of cards for printing, 10 cards on the page (front side). Each card includes the capitol switchboard number 202-224-3121, and a QR code to 5calls.org for call scriptsPage of cards for printing, 10 cards on the page (back side). Each card includes QR codes to resource docs for civic engagement and mutual aid
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Neil Lewis, Jr. @neillewisjr.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Thinking about this body of research in light of what's happening in Washington. Job loss has substantial effects not only on the individuals, but also on the families and communities surrounding them. These political games will ruin so many people's lives. www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
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The Far-Reaching Impact of Job Loss and Unemployment | Annual Reviews
Job loss is an involuntary disruptive life event with a far-reaching impact on workers' life trajectories. Its incidence among growing segments of the workforce, alongside the recent era of sever...
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Shannon Burns, PhD @shannon47burns.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Pomona College is looking for a two-year visiting assistant professor in human neuroscience! If you want to be in SoCal in the next couple years, please consider applying or let me know if you have any questions! theclaremontcolleges.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/POM-faculty-...
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Visting Assistant Professor, Human Neuroscience
Job Posting Location: Claremont, CA Job Posting Title: Visting Assistant Professor, Human Neuroscience Job Description: Pomona College Two-year Visiting Assistant Professor in Human Neuroscience. The ...
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 20/02/2025
Remarkable thread offering guidance to current and prospective NSF grantees about how to navigate the times ahead — from an NSF program officer who was fired in yesterday's DOGE purge (!)
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CantlonLab @cantlonlab.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Join us! Science Homecoming helps scientists reconnect with communities by writing about the importance of science funding in their hometown newspapers. We’ve mapped every small newspaper in the U.S. and provide resources to get you started. Help science get back home 🧪🔬🧬 🏠 sciencehomecoming.com
sciencehomecoming.com
Science Homecoming
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Katie Wilkinson @drkwilkinson.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Doom scrolling scientists- here is something to do instead: Write a letter to the editor explaining how the chaos & proposed cuts will affect you & US's health/wealth/biodiversity. Thread w tips based on the workshop @apsphysiology.bsky.social staff & I developed for early career advocacy fellows🧪
NIH funding cut could kill medical research
Re: “Judge temporarily blocks Trump move to cut NIH funding” (Page A1, Feb. 11).

Thankfully courts have paused, for now, the National Institutes of Health’s (NIH) attempt to immediately slash the amount of money given to research institutions to support research. If allowed to proceed, the loss of money to pay research support staff and support research facilities will be a death knell for biomedical research in the United States.

At San Jose State, my lab is currently funded by NIH to test out a treatment to prevent a devastating side effect of cancer chemotherapy drugs. Odds are if you know cancer survivors, you know someone still struggling with chronic pain or other issues caused by chemotherapy. If NIH cuts research support funds, I doubt that SJSU will be able to find the funds to make up the shortfall, meaning that I will have to fire talented scientists and stop our research.

Researching cures to improve America’s health is not wasteful spending.

Katherine Wilkinson
Professor of Biological Sciences, SJSU
San Jose
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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
This is tomorrow at 5 ET. If you can make the time, please register and tune in. We have big plans.
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N. K. Jemisin @nkjemisin.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
A bunch of people have sent me this. I just want everybody to know this is NOT my fault. (This time.)
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Joe Katz @joekatz45.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
Reminder: NAKASEC built a Know Your Rights app available in 16 languages w/resources and the power to read your rights out loud to law enforcement and message an emergency contact. Apple: apps.apple.com/us/app/know-... Android: kyr-4-immigrants.en.aptoide.com/app (h/t @heylookitsruth.bsky.social)
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‎Know Your Rights 4 Immigrants
‎Empower yourself with Know Your Rights 4 Immigrants app. Use this app to prepare, learn and respond if you are at risk of being detained by deportation agents.
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Liz Neeley @lizneeley.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
What to tell your trainees, your students, your teams, and yourselves, when you feel the doubt and darkness encroaching: your work is under attack *because it matters* Keep at it.
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