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Alexandra Petri @petridishes.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

it’s even more demoralizing when the history you’re repeating is history you were around for the first time

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Theanne Griffith, PhD 🇧🇧👩🏽‍🔬🇭🇷 @doctheagrif.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

Today I had the honor of speaking in front of nearly 3000 people today at the Woodland #NoKings rally. WE FEAR NO KING BECAUSE WE DONT HAVE ONE ✊🏾✊🏾✊🏾✊🏾 let’s gooooooo

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

AOC: We must acknowledge the terrifying moment we are in right now. What we are hearing and seeing with our own eyes is, in fact, happening. We are watching our neighbors, students, and friends being fired, targeted, and disappeared. It is real.

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Dr. Becca @docbecca.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

If you're still not convinced that the goal is to both get rich and make Americans dumb and compliant by forcing universities to close, may I interest you in the freezification of ALL Columbia University grants? www.science.org/content/arti...

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NIH freezes all research grants to Columbia University

Amid negotiations with Trump, the university could risk losing nearly $700 million

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Ardem Patapoutian @ardemp.bskyverified.social · 09/04/2025

Published an op-ed for @cnn.com: “Nobel laureate: I owe America my success. Today, its scientific future is in danger.” A personal reflection on what’s at stake as science funding gets slashed. I’d be grateful if you could amplify both in and beyond the science world. www.cnn.com/2025/04/09/h...

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Nobel laureate: I owe America my success. Today, its scientific future is in danger | CNN

Dr. Ardem Patapoutian says he watches “with deep sadness as the United States’ remarkable scientific enterprise, which took generations of hard work and national investment to build, faces a concerted...

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Aaron Shaw @aaronshaw.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

University presidents, the time is now! Unshackle the general counsel's office! File all the lawsuits! Release the faculty upon the op-ed sections! Write to your alumni, parents, and donors! You have nothing to lose but a tiny percentage of your enormous endowments... www.nytimes.com/2025/04/08/u...

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Trump Officials Freeze $1 Billion for Cornell and $790 Million for Northwestern

The funding pause amid civil rights investigations into both universities sharply escalates the Trump administration’s campaign against elite colleges.

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Geoff Swanson @gtswanson.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Massive turnout for Hands Off! in Chicago.

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 02/04/2025

Donald Trump may want to call this ‘Liberation Day,’ but there’s nothing liberating for those who are grappling with the high costs of food, housing, and utilities. Tariffs are a tax – a tax on working families, a tax on groceries, and a tax on other everyday necessities.

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Thomas Hansen @thomashansen.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

The former ambassador to Denmark for the United States, Rufus Gifford, posted this video on his Facebook account: Ht: @hpsc24.bsky.social

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Geoff Swanson @gtswanson.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

Northwestern University Neuroscience program had outstanding offers rescinded.

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Geoff Swanson @gtswanson.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

Very sorry to hear Katie. Your students deserve better.

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Geoff Swanson @gtswanson.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Kidnapped for writing an Op-Ed. Insane.

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Barb McQuade @barbmcquade.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

From interview of Lee Bollinger, 1st Amendment scholar who served as dean of @UMichLaw, president of @UMich, and president of Columbia University. www.chronicle.com/article/were...

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Geoff Swanson @gtswanson.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

My Senator. What a tool. Absolutely failed to rise to the moment and then puts out the bullshit justification. Illinois we can do better.

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Geoff Swanson @gtswanson.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

Lifelong Democrat who will never vote for you again. What a disgrace.

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Geoff Swanson @gtswanson.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

This has to be a joke. Illinois Democrat, used to support Durbin, but that all stopped today. What a pathetic show of weakness. All talk no spine. We need Senators who lead not buckle under to a lawless administration.

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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

I don’t understand why the president is allowed to spout nonsense about colonizing another country and the 25th amendment isn’t being invoked in addition to all the other horrors this is insane. It’s absolutely insane. It isn’t funny or even weird.

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Geoff Swanson @gtswanson.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Columbia is only the first. Academic research under attack on so many fronts.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Justin Trudeau gave the exact kind of press conference today that we have been waiting for from our Democratic leaders. Watch it and learn from it. No gimmicks, no stunts, no script, no platitudes, no slogans, no games. Just straight talk, honesty, sincerity and facts.

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Rick Huganir @rhuganir.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Reaching out to all Americans through the media to explain how decreasing funding of the NIH will have irreversible harm for developing therapies for all diseases. Please spread the word to your families and friends and contact your congressional representatives. www.nbcnews.com/science/scie...

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Science under siege: Trump cuts threaten to undermine decades of research

Sweeping layoffs, funding freezes and executive orders have provoked outcry among federal researchers and their university partners, who fear that science itself is under siege.

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Geoff Swanson @gtswanson.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Every study section due to start on the 20th has been canceled/postponed. That's ~30 panels listed on the CSR site.

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Science Magazine @science.org · 19/02/2025

A freeze on meetings of expert panels that peer review grant proposals at the National Institutes of Health is kicking in this week. Follow Science’s coverage of President Donald Trump’s impact on U.S. research and science globally. ⬇️ scim.ag/40XtSSi

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Trump Tracker: Firings, lawsuits, and U.S. science in chaos

Follow President Donald Trump’s impact on U.S. research and science globally

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Geoff Swanson @gtswanson.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

I'm on ZRG1 IVBH on March 4/5. I contacted with the SRO last Friday 2/14. He didn't explicitly state that it was taking place but did encourage us to submit reviews.

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Theanne Griffith, PhD 🇧🇧👩🏽‍🔬🇭🇷 @doctheagrif.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

Attending #BPS2025? Want to know more about tangible steps you can take to challenge the attacks on science in the U.S.? Please attend an Emergency Town Hall Meeting on Tuesday at 1:30! @biophysicalsoc.bsky.social @blackinbiophys.bsky.social Please spread the word!

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