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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 06/06/2026
Let's Streisand-effect these people. Here's the editorial that somehow merited calling the cops. Read and share.
diabetesjournals.org
Misguided Brushes of a Pen Continue to Dismantle and Destroy Biomedical Research in the United States: We Can No Longer Afford Complacency and Fear. We Must All Act Now!
The opinions expressed in this editorial are the personal views of the authors (S.E. Kahn, C.A.M. Anderson, J.B. Buse, and E. Selvin) and do not represent
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STAT @statnews.com · 07/04/2026
Brian Donovan had persuaded high school teachers and education researchers that prejudice might be ended by changing how genetics is taught. www.statnews.com/2026/04/07/b...
statnews.com
A star scientist showed that better genetics lessons could reduce racism. It was the death knell for his career
Brian Donovan had persuaded high school teachers and education researchers that prejudice might be ended by changing how genetics is taught.
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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
Subacute sclerosing panencephalitis (SSPE) is one of the delayed complications of measles and affects up to 1 in 600 unvaccinated children who’ve had measles. It occurs without warning an average of 7 years after infection and can occur decades later. There is no cure and it is almost always fatal.
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Daniel Swain @weatherwest.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Attention folks in the weather, climate, disaster, wildfire, and Earth science communities: NSF has just published a new "Dear Colleague" letter inviting feedback (by Mar 13) on the proposal to dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). www.nsf.gov/funding/...
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Katie Hinde @mammalssuck.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
#NoKings Phoenix
A woman dressed as a butterfly carries a sign that says "the only good orange monarch is a butterfly" with many beautiful monarch butterflies painted on the sign.
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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 07/10/2025
Learn to tell your story with urgency and hope at our PUBLIC NARRATIVE TRAINING on 10/14! We're preparing to share why we're standing up for science & democracy at No Kings Day Rally, and you can too! Sign up, tell your story, and bring it to your No Kings Rally on 10/18! zurl.co/LM0QK
Poster image with a large microphone that reads: Get ready for No kings day! Public Narrative training Learn how to bring your story to life! Sign up to speak at your no kings rally! RSVP: bit.ly/47UdeZ7
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
The reason we're rounding up grandmothers and shoving them onto concrete floors for months at a time with no habeas corpus is in part because soft human trafficking is an incredibly lucrative business for some people in this administration.
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How Tom Homan wound up ensnared in an FBI contracts-for-cash sting
A former associate of Trump’s border czar allegedly proposed a $1 million scheme last year that put FBI agents on Homan's trail.
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Edward Nirenberg @enirenberg.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
Neat study—following 320 healthcare workers for almost a year, with 152 of them being infected, the authors examined whether or not COVID-19 associates with more upper respiratory tract infections (URTIs). It didn't (yay!). But, having a kid <5 associated with a 74% increase in the risk of URTIs.
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Is COVID-19 Associated With an Increased Risk of Subsequent Upper Respiratory Tract Infections in Adults? A Prospective Cohort Study
AbstractBackground. In Autumn 2022, a surge in upper respiratory tract infections (URTIs) was observed worldwide. Individuals anecdotally reported increase
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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
Wow! Covid vaccine development and delivery cost $79.4 billion, but the health and economic benefits of vaccination were valued between $4.83 trillion–$37.8 trillion. A return on investment of $59.8–$475 per dollar invested!! This is why vaccine equity matters! www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
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The global return-on-investment of COVID-19 vaccines in the first year of the vaccination programme
COVID-19 vaccines played a critical role in reducing global health burden during the COVID-19 pandemic, but their rapid development required extraordinary effort. This study aims to evaluate their glo...
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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 07/09/2025
Authoritarians thrive on your silence — be loud — for America.
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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
This is insane. A country deciding, on purpose, to kill its own children.
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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
ICYMI: I am offering a free online 2-hour crash course in how to write and publish a scientific paper, perfect for students and early career researchers about to write their first paper. The world of scientific writing and publishing can be confusing, but I'm here to help! 🧪🌎🦑
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I’m offering a free online crash course in scientific writing and publishing. Here’s how to join!
The world of scientific writing and pubilshing is complex and confusing, and it can be hard for early career scientists to master. But don’t worry! I am an experienced and award-winning scien…
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Ed Markey @edmarkey.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Vaccines are safe and effective. RFK Jr. isn’t.
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Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 28/08/2025
I had serious doubts about CDC Director Monarez’s willingness to stand up against RFK Jr.’s personal mission to destroy public health in America—I’m glad that I was wrong. If there are any adults left in the White House: we cannot let RFK Jr. burn what's left of CDC. FIRE HIM.
nytimes.com
New C.D.C. Director Resists Ouster as Other Officials Resign
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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 27/08/2025
🚨The Trump admin is trying to gut our future while already withholding $8 BILLION in science funding. On Thurs, Aug 28 @6PM ET, we’re calling South Asian voters in swing districts to demand their reps protect NIH + NSF funding 📍 Online: RSVP for the Zoom link: tinyurl.com/SUFSSA #StandUpForScience
THURS 28TH AUGUST
6:00 PM ET
ONLINE
CALLING SWING DISTRICTS
Save scientific research funding
We will be calling South Asian voters in swing districts represented by Republicans to ask them to contact their representatives about the huge funding cuts the Trump administration is proposing to the
NIH and NSF. They plan to cut 38% from the NIH and 55% from the NSF and have already withheld $8 billion dollars in science funding.
A link to attend this virtual event will be emailed upon RSVP
Standupforscience.net
STAND UP ESCIENCE
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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
Over 3200 signatures in just under 5 hours!!! Can we hit 10k today? I think yes. SIGN AND SHARE!
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
Raskin: In any event, if he really cared about public safety in DC… he would not have pardoned 1600 insurrectionists and violent cop beaters on his first day in office. 
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Al Haddrell @ukhadds.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
CO2 monitors have become popular tools people can use to estimate their indoor air quality. A new study was recently published that looks into how we can use them to optimise occupancy thresholds and identify problem locations. Actual practical science!!! A thread
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
The EPA is preparing a proposal that would revoke a critical 2009 legal determination stating that greenhouse gases are harmful to human health. That finding has been the backbone of U.S. climate regulations for over a decade.
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Matthew Herper @matthewherper.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
HHS backtracks on pledge to disclose new vaccine advisers’ conflicts of interest www.statnews.com/2025/07/09/k...
statnews.com
HHS backtracks on pledge to disclose new vaccine advisers’ conflicts of interest
RFK Jr. has pledged radical transparency, but his vaccine advisers' financial disclosures aren't public.
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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 02/07/2025
EPA employees have spoken out - current leadership is dismantling scientific integrity by ignoring its own science, shrinking funding for vulnerable communities, and fostering fear amongst employees. The message: we’re done staying silent. Support their bravery here:zurl.co/UCFRI zurl.co/MhJAv
theguardian.com
EPA employees sign ‘declaration of dissent’ over agency moves under Trump
More than 170 EPA employees signed letter, with about 100 more signing anonymously out of fear of retaliation
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Trevor A. Branch @trevorabranch.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
NOAA proposed budgets would eliminate science and management of marine mammals and sea turtles, firing 311 scientists and cutting the budget by more than $100m. Also a long list of program terminations... See pages 16-20 www.commerce.gov/sites/defaul...
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Dr. David Miller 🏳️‍🌈 @davidimiller.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
🧵 2/3 At high-level, here's when we'll *start* to learn: July 7-11: How much appetite does the House have to slash FY26 budgets for NSF, NOAA, NASA, and DOE? July 21-25: Same question but for NIH, CDC, Dept of Ed/IES I'll explain more later. See here for now: appropriations.house.gov/schedule
July 7:  Subcommittee Markup of Fiscal Year 2026 Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Bill

July 10:  Full Committee Markup of Fiscal Year 2026 Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Bill, Fiscal Year 2026 Energy and Water Development and Related Agencies Bill

July 21:  Subcommittee Markup of Fiscal Year 2026 Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies Bill

July 24: Full Committee Markup of Fiscal Year 2026 Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies Bill
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David Grimm @david-grimm.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Between June 2024 and January 2025, a full 62% of commercial honey bee colonies in the U.S. died, the largest on record. USDA efforts were slowed by funding cuts and layoffs. Now, USDA scientists have finally identified a culprit. But it may be too late. www.science.org/content/arti...
science.org
Scientists identify culprit behind biggest-ever U.S. honey bee die-off
USDA research points to viruses spread by pesticide-resistant mites, indicating a worrying trend
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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
The proposed recommendation to stop using the MMRV vaccine for young kids is the opening salvo in an attack on all childhood vaccines. The result will be dead children. rasmussenretorts.substack.com/p/tiny-coffi...
Link to https://rasmussenretorts.substack.com/p/tiny-coffins-across-america
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Jen Christiansen @jenchristiansen.com · 25/06/2025
Vaccination schedules on the CDC website have already started changing under RFK Jr. So we published a guide to the evidence-based vaccine recommendations in place *before* all 17 members of the advisory panel were abruptly dismissed by the new admin. www.scientificamerican.com/article/see-... 🧪
scientificamerican.com
Here’s Your Cheat Sheet for Vaccine Recommendations Backed by Science
These graphics will guide you through science-based vaccine guidelines for children and adults
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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
....RFK Jr's campaign to be HHS Secretary. Kulldorff of course also made $400/hour as a witness in litigation against the HPV vaccine manufacturer (his side lost); he earned at least $33,000 (WOW). And the GBD peddled all sorts of awful anti-vaccine BS. 2/2 www.reuters.com/business/hea...
reuters.com
Exclusive: Kennedy's new vaccine adviser was expert witness against Merck vaccine
One of the new vaccine advisers picked by U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has earned thousands of dollars as an expert witness in litigation against Merck’s Gardasil vaccine, court records show.
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Sandra Porter @digitalbio.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
This is wonderful!
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Ferric Fang, MD @fangferric.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
I’m old enough to have lost young patients to metastatic cervical cancer, and I’m not eager to have that experience again.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
Juneteenth went uncelebrated by the White House. That alone says everything you need to know about this regime.
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Apoorva Mandavilli @apoorvanyt.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
NEW: With two extraordinary moves, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has upended the certainty that American children will always have cost-free access to lifesaving vaccines (Gift article) www.nytimes.com/2025/06/13/h...
nytimes.com
How a Purge at One Obscure Panel Could Disrupt U.S. Vaccinations
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Monica H Green @monicamedhist.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
"Science Shattered". I confess that even I was unaware of the statement that opens this piece: "The National Institutes of Health is responsible for more than 80% of the world’s grant investment in biomedical research." 🧪 projects.propublica.org/nih-cuts-res...
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Brandy Zadrozny @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
This deep dive on the anti-vaccine researcher hired by Kennedy to dig into HHS/CDC data is realllly interesting. sciencebasedmedicine.org/the-long-med... By @kathleenseidel.bsky.social
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The Long Med Con: The Self-Styled Expertise and Expansive Invoices of Mark & David Geier
All it takes is a coming-of-age consultancy and you, too, can morph from an average teenage Joe or Josephine to an instant "vaccine expert"
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Jenna Norton @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Please sign on and add your voice in calling for an NIH that prioritizes the safety of research participants and public health over political momentum. actionnetwork.org/forms/add-na...
actionnetwork.org
ADD YOUR NAME: Sign the Open Letter in Support of NIH Staff
Join the courageous and committed National Institutes of Health (NIH) public servants by adding your name now.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 10/06/2025
More than 6000 scientists have signed a declaration condemning "Administration policies that undermine the NIH mission, waste public resources, and harm the health of Americans and people across the globe" www.standupforscience.net/bethesda-dec...
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Bethesda Declaration — STAND UP FOR SCIENCE
Support NIH Staff Now!
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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
It was a HUGE privilege to be asked by NIHers to support this effort. We are so proud of them and this brave act of resistance. Please read their declaration and sign to support them. ❤️✊ #StandUpforscience #downwithDOGE #BethesdaDeclaration
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 08/06/2025
The Trump administration's Environmental Protection Agency is taking aim at dozens of rules aimed at protecting the environment, including one that requires big polluters to report greenhouse gas emissions.
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Planet-warming emissions dropped when companies had to report them. EPA wants to end that
The Trump administration's Environmental Protection Agency is taking aim at dozens of rules aimed at protecting the environment, including one that requires big polluters to report greenhouse gas emissions.
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Jon Freeman @freemanjb.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Want your NIH and NSF program officers and division directors to be fired and turned into political appointees? Deadline extended: 3 days left! Already 33,000+ public comments Comments can tank a proposed rule in court. 📣 Oppose the rule with a brief comment: shorturl.at/WKuBj
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
RFK Jr. says the top scientific journals are “corrupt”. Yet his MAHA disinformation report includes fake references and grossly false statements. Reviewers and editors at any of these journals would have caught these, resulting in its wholesale rejection. Don’t give an inch to this charlatan.
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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 29/05/2025
This isn’t just a warning — it’s a call to action. 🛑 Stand against a future where facts are filtered by Trump’s ideology. Sign & share our open letter. ⬇️ actionnetwork.org/petitions/op...
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Sign The Open Letter to Stand Up For Science Now!
Science is under siege. Trump’s latest Executive Order calls for politically appointed science commissars to evaluate research. Join us in adding your name to our open letter condemning Trump’s escala...
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 29/05/2025
Our op-ed in the Guardian addresses the danger of Trump's "Gold Standard Science" executive order. with @cdelawalla.bsky.social @vambros.bsky.social Carol Greider @michaelemann.bsky.social @briannosek.bsky.social
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Trump’s new ‘gold standard’ rule will destroy American science as we know it | Colette Delawalla
The new executive order allows political appointees to undermine research they oppose, paving the way to state-controlled science
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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
🚨ATTENTION MOMS🚨 Friday, May 30th at 3pm Meet me outside of the CDC with your pregnant bellies, your babies, your toddlers, your strollers, your signs, and your baby gear. We are standing up for science and vaccines! @standupforscience.bsky.social RSVP: actionnetwork.org/events/moms-...
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Jessica Pickett @pickettjessica.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
CDC staff are still fighting the good fight with all available tools — including today’s MMWR email alert.
Screenshot of MMWR alert email, where the “in case you missed it” section features a 2024 study quantifying the health and economic benefits of routine childhood immunization since 1994.
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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 27/05/2025
Statement from the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
Children and pregnant women are going to die, but that's the point.
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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
A big step forward vs cancer www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 26/05/2025
🚨 URGENT RESPONSE CALL 🚨 Trump’s Fool’s Gold Science EO is a dangerous sham. It gives his appointees the power to dismiss entire bodies of research and punish researchers who fail to fall in line with his agenda. We’ve launched an open letter. SIGN & SHARE NOW: actionnetwork.org/petitions/op...
actionnetwork.org
Sign The Open Letter to Stand Up For Science Now!
Science is under siege. Trump’s latest Executive Order calls for politically appointed science commissars to evaluate research. Join us in adding your name to our open letter condemning Trump’s escala...
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 26/05/2025
As the parent of a type-I diabetic, I would like to invite the ignorant piece of shit currently directing the FDA to kiss my ass.
“Maybe we need to treat more diabetes with cooking classes, not just throwing insulin at people,” FDA Commissioner Marty Makary said on Fox News’ Sunday Futures. “You know, scientists have been waving the flag for years, saying you’ve got to look at this body of scientific data, and the modern medical establishment really has been disconnected.”
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Jen Mercieca @jenmercieca.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
Did you like breathing? Oh, maybe you should have voted.
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