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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 25m

Where have I heard this framing before? OH THAT'S RIGHT. HITLER AND THE NAZIS: "The Jewish Question"...idk seems like a horrific direction to be heading in?

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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 55m

BREAKING: Bernie Sanders, AOC, and Jeff Merkley are introducing the Ban Flock Act. This bill would effectively put an end to AI surveillance cameras that track Americans. /1

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Dr. Amy Acton @amyactonoh.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I don’t own individual stocks, and I won’t own them as governor. The only thing I am invested in is lowering costs for Ohioans. Vivek Ramaswamy has over $5 million invested in the data center industry and millions more in many other industries that Ohio’s governor would be in charge of regulating.

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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 3h

This over every AI generated visual…EVERY SECOND OF EVERY DAY.

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 13h

To process the chaos, I'm spending a few minutes each night stitching a news diary—embroidering tiny icons representing an important story of the day. September offered a break from the blistering heat, but not from the deluge of (often) distressing news.

Embroidered icons representing news stories for each day in September

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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 5h

The ruination of women's lives can be compartmentalized and swept under the rug when it doesn't serve someone's agenda. (By the way, this also applies to organizations platforming @cornelluniversity.bsky.social right now...)

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Cole Donovan @colesci.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Not enough people take seriously "funding delays"/"bureaucratic nonsense can kill people" but here it is right here. If I was mad when a patient died because it took a few extra months for lawyers to try to look for a legal basis for an international data transfer, I'm incandescent, now.

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NIH funding cuts delayed a promising childhood brain cancer trial. Patients lost time they didn't have

A delayed clinical trial underscores the stakes of federal research funding cuts for children with DIPG, a deadly brain tumor with few treatment options.

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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 30/09/2026

Sen. Hassan: "Do you think it's possible for the president to ever be wrong about something?"

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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 20h

The history of aspirin and rofecoxib illustrates both the extraordinary benefits that can emerge from scientific discovery and the responsibility to continually test our assumptions about how medicines work and how safe they are. 🧵 🧪

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 6h

My quote of the day A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history. Mahatma Gandhi

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Sarah Burris @sarahburris.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Y'all I just caught the Kennedy Center claiming it isn't closing while telling vendors it's closing and now they're selling all of their Steinway pianos www.alternet.org/alternet-exc...

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Kennedy Center moves to sell all of its Steinway pianos

Photos show piano movers rolling massive Steinway grand pianos through the red-carpeted halls of the Kennedy Center this week.

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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 16h

“iT’s NoT fAsCiSm!” (See how dumb you sound???)

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Angie Nixon @angieforfl.bsky.social · 21h

I don’t go high when they go low. I get LOUD. Because the soul and humanity of this country are at stake. /end

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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 19h

Not diagnosing Trump, but reading the transcript of this interview puts his cognitive decline on full display. It really is astounding. A LOT of loose association and tangentiality. He struggles to follow the questions, gets distracted by specific words, tons of repetition.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 21h

The American Bar Association laid out the receipts. Big donors get appointments. Big money flows in, investigations disappear, pardons follow, regulations loosen and foreign governments get favorable treatment. The article calls it an “unprecedented pay-to-play culture.” #PayToPlayPresident

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Bénédicte C @benecal.bsky.social · 19h

So Hickenlooper (D-CO) & McCormick (R-PA) are the chairs of new "science and innovation" caucus "about existing and new policies," and "new legislation to boost American scientific research"? Not a damn word about WH attempts to throttle science? www.mccormick.senate.gov/news/press-r...

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McCormick, Hickenlooper Announce Formation of Senate Bipartisan Science and Innovation Caucus

WASHINGTON — Today, U.S. Senators Dave McCormick (R-PA) and John Hickenlooper (D-CO) announced the formation of the U.S. Senate Bipartisan Science and Innovation Caucus to highlight and elevate Americ...

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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 22h

Join us Wednesday, October 7th, 7PM ET to hear from some of our early endorsers of America's Compact, including leading voices in higher education, learn how you can fight back, and get some inspiration to help us reach as many universities as we can! Register at: tinyurl.com/yckchhy3

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SUFS Virtual Rally: America's Compact for Higher Education

OMB’s latest proposed rule, “Regulation for Federal Financial Assistance,” would place political ideologues over scientific experts in federal research funding decisions. Say goodbye to cancer treatme...

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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 20h

Oh hey! Are YOU pissed about the state of higher ed? Us too. Let’s get together and take action.

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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 22h

Tired of the Trump administration’s efforts to bend the will of our higher ed leadership to his authoritarian control? It's time to take action and defend academic freedom for all. 🧵

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Angie Nixon @angieforfl.bsky.social · 21h

The most ordinary man imaginable came to my home state to tell me to ‘get out of America’ while he & Absent Ashley enjoyed the comfort of buildings my ancestors helped build. Imagine standing on the shoulders of the ppl who built this country & then telling their descendants they don’t belong here/2

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Angie Nixon @angieforfl.bsky.social · 21h

I don't wanna COUCH my words here: I know JD Vance, his eyeliner, and absent Ashley Moody are used to running away from people when things get tough because they care more about themselves and their billionaire buddies than the people they represent. But this is my home. /1

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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 21h

Angie Nixon was born and raised in Jacksonville FL, btw.

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Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · 23h

OMB's focus on NIH and NSF, which has confused a lot of folks, pretty much boils down to stopping money going to universities.

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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

78% of surveyed professional women in marine science experienced sexual harassment in the workplace, in case anyone still wrongly believes this is a matter of just partying too much in college. www.womeninoceanscience.com/sexual-haras...

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Sexual Harassment in Marine Science — WOMEN IN OCEAN SCIENCE

\u2026and we\u2019re open! Shop now \u2192

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 01/10/2026

I'm not sure if y'all saw a CNN report on how the US had almost started WW3 with China based on fabricated information generated by a chatbot, claiming that a Chinese vessel was carrying components of nuclear weapons. That was an "existential threat" to humanity www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Forget ‘superintelligence’: error-prone AI nearly sparked world war three this month | Timnit Gebru and Emily M Bender

The risks of AI aren’t what we think they are, as a recent security incident between China and the United States reveals

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Peter Griffith @carboncyclist.org · 01/10/2026

Remember this when (not if) your institution asks you to stifle yourself

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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The organizational hypothesis of @standupforscience.net is that we believe the scientific ecosystem can thrive if we refuse to compromise our integrity. We believe that if we stand by our values, unflinchingly, we won’t doom science and democracy, we will see a better future. Integrity ages well.

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Kumail Nanjiani @kumail.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

AI will never be able to make art. Thanks.

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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

1. Abolish the death penalty. 2. It’s not lost on me that Pike is the first woman to be sentenced to death in TN in 200 years. As such, the “standard state protocol” developed ONLY ON MEN failed. EVEN IN STATE SANCTIONED DEATH WOMEN ARE TOSSED ASIDE. www.newsfromthestates.com/article/tenn...

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Tennessee death row inmate Christa Pike receiving medical care after failed execution

The Wednesday execution of Tennessee death row inmate Christa Pike was halted after the State of Tennessee administered two failed rounds of its lethal injection protocol and an anti-death penalty gro...

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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

God almighty, why must we “find common ground” with folks who are kidnapping and torturing kids?

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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

What I find striking about every one of these “politics are too hostile” takes, is that the emphasis is always on the people with higher standards to lower them to allow violence at the table. How come Cox isn’t telling the right to love their neighbor? Instead it’s come to the table with Trump.

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NowThis Impact @nowthisimpact.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Oof, she walked right into that one.

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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Still kind of inconceivable how many people died or will die because of the death of USAID. And the world’s richest man did it almost as a joke

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Maggie Astor @maggieastor.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The 988 suicide prevention hotline's Press 3 option — which provides specialized services to LGBTQ callers — has been restored more than a year after the Trump administration shut it down. Confirmed by HHS and the office of Senator Tammy Baldwin, who led on legislation that forced its restoration

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

We're seven months into losing a war that costs $100 million/day in military outlays and raised the price of gas $1.5/gallon. All we have to show for it is more radical Iranian leadership and a blown up school. "Just warriors" isn't working, bring all those other people back and put them in charge.

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Dr. Jenny Morber @jrmorber.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

“We should all be uncomfortable about how much our inaction has already cost lives. We should all be uncomfortable about how many more will be lost in the future.”

sciencefightclub.substack.com

We Are Still Unserious About the Climate: Reflections from New York Climate Week

By the Stand Up for Science Team

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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

People have asked why we aren't involved with Neil deGrasse Tyson...this is why. @standupforscience.net does not endorse candidates with accusations of sexual misconduct and we do not collaborate with people who have accusations of sexual misconduct. PERIOD. Welcome to the matriarchy.

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HIAS @hias-hamburg.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

"Speak up, stand up, gang up for Science and Academic Freedom" Jan Marco Müller @ec.europa.eu Thanks to our panelists @scidipalliance.bsky.social, to Andreas Roepstorff for moderating, to the Hanse-Office, to our partners @uni-hamburg.de and @aiasdk.bsky.social and to everyone who joined on site!

Entrance to the Hanse-Office in Brussels

Keynote by Jan Marco Müller, EU Commission, DG Research and Innovation

On the panel: John Owusu Gyapong ( Secretary-General of the African Research Universities Alliance ARUA), Nela Riehl (Member of the European Parliament (Volt), Chair of the Culture and Education Committee (CULT) at the European Parliament), Maria Rentetzi (Professor in Science, Technology and Gender Studies, @University Erlangen/Nürnberg; Chair of the @European Union Science Diplomacy Alliance), Frank Lehner (Head of Directorate's Office, DESY).
The panel is moderated by Andreas Roepstorff (Director of the @Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies (AIAS)

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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

A big group of the @standupforscience.net team went to #NYCW and it was...an interesting experience. We gathered our thoughts and published our reflections. HEADS UP: It's 🌶️spicy🌶️.

sciencefightclub.substack.com

We Are Still Unserious About the Climate: Reflections from New York Climate Week

By the Stand Up for Science Team

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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.blacksky.app · 30/09/2026

The more I learn about this Cornell situation, the angrier I get because it's SO normalized in academic environments.

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 30/09/2026

Eugenics 🤝 ai www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/h...

One of the things that is going to change is that we’re never ever again going to be able to be dominated by public officials who tell us, ‘Trust the experts,’” Mr. Kennedy said during the Tuesday session.

“If somebody tells you, ‘Masks work, trust the experts,’ A.I. may tell you otherwise,” he added. “If somebody tells you, ‘Social distancing works, trust the experts,’ A.I. may correct that. And if somebody tells you that a vaccine will prevent transmission and infection, or you need to take it to protect your grandmother, A.I. may say it actually doesn’t do that.”

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