Reposted by Hannah FrankImani Gandy @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 12/09/2026The international chess Federation banned trans women from playing women's chess. CHESS. It's not about fairness. The fairness argument is intended to radicalize people into more violent forms of transphobia. 9153131745
Reposted by Hannah FrankI Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 02/09/2026“I think it’s safe to say that most, if not all, the students in the room felt like our lives were threatened. We did not feel like we were going to make it out of that room alive,” Samuel Scarborough, senior adviser for the Black Student Movement, said.”dailytarheel.comBlack student organizations targeted in racially motivated attack at campus watch partyThe individual, detained by UNC Police, entered a Greenlaw Hall classroom Monday night with an aerosol can and lighter. He communicated racially charged threats and threw items at students before flee... 711872
Reposted by Hannah FrankThe Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 29/08/2026Rep. @brotherjones.bsky.social: “We’re seeing the largest attack on Black political representation since the end of Reconstruction— this election is about which direction we head as a country: towards this New Confederacy… or a multiracial democracy.” 271200376
Hannah Frank @hannaherf.bsky.social · 20/08/202610/10 recommend working with @jpflores.rbind.io if you wanna make science better. 111
Hannah Frank @hannaherf.bsky.social · 08/07/2026Are you feeling overwhelmed by all the #platforms out there for #collabs and #teamwork? Well I have no solutions. But I do have curiosity! So I made a survey! #adhd (it’s anonymous) forms.gle/VSRog41aemrZ...forms.gleAre you overwhelmed?Do you have a communication/collaboration platform that works for you or are you just completely overwhelmed? 000
Reposted by Hannah FrankAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 24/06/2026Lander on comparisons between his flank of the Democratic Party and the Tea Party: "We're joyful about what it looks like to deliver. That is very different energy than what the Tea Party brought. We want to build something, not just break something." 14261561283
Reposted by Hannah FrankDominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 09/06/2026Wrote a little about the work the U.S. put into helping academics escape fascism during WWII and why we can't rely on that for our future www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...insidehighered.comNo One Is Coming to Save UsThe realization can either break you or liberate you. 2249103
Reposted by Hannah FrankSociety for the Protection of Underground Networks (SPUN) @spun.earth · 15/01/2026SPUN and NYU Law’s More-than-Human Life (MOTH) Program have partnered on a new initiative to support SPUN’s Underground Explorers grantees in advocating for mycorrhizal fungal communities across Earth's ecosystems. 🔗 Find out more about the Underground Advocates Program: buff.ly/KhbJmvS 085
Hannah Frank @hannaherf.bsky.social · 07/06/2026Very serious question: could AI data centers become supercharged hog farms (or insert NIMBY project)? Have the majority of victories against them been by communities with the resources to fight and will that only drive these companies to build in places without as many resources to block them? 000
Reposted by Hannah FrankThe Guardian @theguardian.com · 11/03/2026At 56, I woke to silence: the strange, sudden loss that changed everythingtheguardian.comAt 56, I woke to silence: the strange, sudden loss that changed everythingSince the US has no federal mandate for hearing aid coverage, I found myself in a quandary – I couldn’t communicate with the hearing or the deaf 23610
Reposted by Hannah FrankJess McLaughlin, PhD (they/them) @jfmclaughlin92.bsky.social · 27/02/2026Thanks so much to @melodyschreiber.com for not only writing about this issue, but quoting trans scientists as experts!theguardian.comScience of sex and gender being misrepresented by Trump officials, experts warnScientists say crackdown on gender-affirming care could have impact on healthcare of all Americans 6265110
Reposted by Hannah FrankScientist Network for Advancing Policy @snapcoalition.org · 03/02/2026Come see us at Booth 605 at @aaas.org Conference Feb. 12-14 in #Phoenix, AZ! #EarlyCareerResearchers @disha-patel3.bsky.social @dboufidis.bsky.social @jolybdenum.bsky.social @eselland.bsky.social @rosemalb.bsky.social @sneharao.bsky.social #AAASmtg #AAAS2026 01610
Reposted by Hannah FrankIsako Di Tomassi @isakoditomassi.bsky.social · 05/02/2026Of course also huge thanks to @emmascales.bsky.social @alexlando.bsky.social @hannaherf.bsky.social @erinmorrow.bsky.social @mjarnett.bsky.social @jpflores.rbind.io @bdavisbio.bsky.social @rosemalb.bsky.social @sneharao.bsky.social @ksxue.bsky.social @ashyeneng.bsky.social & all others who helped! 0135
Hannah Frank @hannaherf.bsky.social · 10/11/2025Read what Emma said. I’m not even going to try and summarize my thoughts because she does it so well. 020
Reposted by Hannah FrankRachael Sirianni, PhD @docsirianni.bsky.social · 10/09/2025Another casualty of the war our govt is waging against itself. Already lost 117 filled positions + 57 open positions, then another 60 to be announced this week. Shaved ad'tl $ by cutting future "grad employees" ie slots for doctoral students to do research/teach www.oregonlive.com/education/20...oregonlive.comUniversity of Oregon announces 60 staff cuts, no layoffs for tenured facultyThe cuts did not eliminate any programs and delivered a softer blow than campus unions expected. 0123
Reposted by Hannah FrankIsako Di Tomassi @isakoditomassi.bsky.social · 09/07/2025Coming down the home stretch for #McClintockLetters! If you signed up to participate, there is still time. Please reach out if you need a hand with getting published or edits or your pitch! We are here to help. blogs.cornell.edu/asap/events-... 3129
Reposted by Hannah FrankDr. Rebecca Barnes (she/her) @waterbarnes.bsky.social · 03/07/2025“Before Trump, the review process was based on merit & impact. Now, it’s like rolling the dice because a Doge person has the final say...There has never in the history of NSF been anything like this. It’s disgusting what we’re being instructed to do.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...theguardian.comScientists warn US will lose a generation of talent because of Trump cutsPolitical interference and chaotic cuts to staff, programs and grants at the National Science Foundation are producing ‘devastating consequences’ 0199
Reposted by Hannah FrankDr Charlie Gardner @charliejgardner.bsky.social · 03/07/2025Interestingly the original 'tree huggers' weren't about intimacy with nature as such They were rural women defending the forests that supported their livelihoods from loggers, after gov sold their forests to cricket bat manufacturers and lured the men away to a meetingnature.comHow a tree-hugging protest transformed Indian environmentalismFifty years ago, a group of women from the villages of the Western Himalayas sparked Chipko, a green movement that remains relevant in the age of climate change. 2167
Reposted by Hannah FrankKat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 25/06/2025Elderly and disabled people told Congress that cutting Medicaid could kill people and in response, they were arrested in their wheelchairs. What the hell are we doing? 34674372495
Hannah Frank @hannaherf.bsky.social · 21/06/2025Why is the US aggressively defunding agricultural research that could address some of these challenges??? 031
Reposted by Hannah FrankSenator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 19/06/2025Netanyahu was wrong in 2002. He Is wrong now. 662312444
Reposted by Hannah FrankEmma Scales @emmascales.bsky.social · 19/06/2025What a week!!! First @nytimes.com, and now we are so honored to have the McClintock Letters initiative featured in @science.org ! Let’s keep the ball rolling on public-facing sci comm :) www.science.org/content/arti...science.orgU.S. researchers are speaking up for science in local newspapersThrough two grassroots efforts, more than 80 op eds have been published in news outlets across the country 086
Hannah Frank @hannaherf.bsky.social · 17/06/2025Except now we all know they know it’s wrong… @ufw.bsky.social 030
Reposted by Hannah FrankResearch! by ji @argmax.com · 16/06/2025HT @cornellasap.bsky.social "Ms. Morrow...is one of hundreds of people who wrote to their hometown newspapers as part of a national campaign...by graduate students and scientists who are just starting their careers." www.nytimes.com/2025/06/16/s...nytimes.comTo Protest Budget Cuts, Young Scientists Try Letters to the Editor 045
Hannah Frank @hannaherf.bsky.social · 16/06/2025Early career scientists! And graduate students, technicians, aspiring, etc. Want to be focusing on your work but distracted by the fact that your work is being defunded? Sign this letter! @silencedscience.bsky.social @science.org @scinews.bsky.social @nature.com docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...docs.google.comOpen Letter: A Call to Preserve the Future of American ScienceThe Scientist Network for Advancing Policy (SNAP) invites early-career scientists (e.g., student, post-bacc, PhD candidate, post-doctoral researcher, early-career faculty) in the United States to join... 030
Hannah Frank @hannaherf.bsky.social · 13/06/2025@altnih4science.bsky.social @altcdc.altgov.info projects.propublica.org/nih-cuts-res...projects.propublica.orgShattered Science: The Research Lost as Trump Targets NIH FundingThe Trump administration cut research funding that sought cures for future pandemics, examined the causes of dementia and tried to prevent HIV transmission. More than 150 researchers shared with ProPu... 000
Reposted by Hannah FrankCornell Advancing Science and Policy Club (ASAP) @cornellasap.bsky.social · 12/06/2025#McClintockLetters wouldn't be possible without @snapcoalition.bsky.social members such as ASAP leadership @alexlando.bsky.social @hannaherf.bsky.social @isakoditomassi.bsky.social @emmascales.bsky.social 075
Reposted by Hannah FrankDominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 12/06/2025"In a May 21...recording..., Provost Robin Forman said that when Tulane leadership met with elected officials in April, they were pressed as to why “‘Tulane has taken a stand on the chemical industry as harming communities’,” and this “left people feeling embarrassed and uncomfortable.” "apnews.comTulane scientist resigns citing university censorship of pollution and racial disparity researchA Tulane University researcher has resigned, citing censorship from university leaders. Kim Terrell, a researcher with the Tulane Environmental Law Clinic, resigned Wednesday, saying in a letter the u... 38545
Reposted by Hannah FrankAlexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 11/06/2025Rewording my earlier post. RFK Jr will be testifying before Congress. I am interested in what experts and others think would be the best way to leverage this time and opportunity for the public good. If you were behind the dais for this hearing, what would you do? What do you want to see asked? 3423176813045
Hannah Frank @hannaherf.bsky.social · 11/06/2025I cannot claim I work in agricultural research to help farmers without also speaking out when farm workers are under attack. In case your humanity doesn’t convince you, shortage of labor is one of the biggest challenges for many growers. @altusda.altgov.info 0115
Hannah Frank @hannaherf.bsky.social · 11/06/2025The wonders of fungal taxonomy never cease to amaze me. #mycology 010
Reposted by Hannah FrankKevin Bird @stairwaytokevin.bsky.social · 10/06/2025Based on some quick math, this alone could fund the NSF Plant Genome Research Program for ~4 years; the NSF Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Biology, which was totally axed in the NSF budget request, for ~9 years; and ~ half the total NSF GRFP budget 3252141
Reposted by Hannah Frankmjarnett.bsky.social @mjarnett.bsky.social · 10/06/2025Science is under unprecedented threat in the US, and we need to speak out to save it. If you are an early-career researcher, please consider signing our open letter calling to preserve the future of American science: tinyurl.com/mcclintockle.... Our futures, and our country's future, depend on it.forms.gleOpen Letter: A Call to Preserve the Future of American ScienceThe Scientist Network for Advancing Policy (SNAP) invites early-career scientists (e.g., student, post-bacc, PhD candidate, post-doctoral researcher, early-career faculty) in the United States to join... 02727
Reposted by Hannah FrankMolly Edwards, PhD @science-irl.bsky.social · 06/06/2025This workshop was magical and it made me a little teary to see so many scientists come together to advocate for the future of research here in the US 🥹 if you haven't signed up to write a McClintock Letter yet, do itttt: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...docs.google.comMcClintock Letter Sign-UpThank you for contributing a McClintock Letter to your hometown newspaper! Sign up now by answering the questions below, thus counting you as a participant. Please submit your letters for JUNE 16TH pu... 085
Reposted by Hannah FrankSarah T Roberts, PhD @ubiquity75.xyz · 06/06/2025The public meltdown happening between the world’s richest man 🙄 and the President of the United States 🙄🙄 once again begs the age-old question: are men simply too emotional to be in positions of power? 276109052401
Hannah Frank @hannaherf.bsky.social · 05/06/2025www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...theguardian.comTrump’s new ‘gold standard’ rule will destroy American science as we know it | Colette DelawallaThe new executive order allows political appointees to undermine research they oppose, paving the way for state-controlled science 021
Reposted by Hannah FrankIsako Di Tomassi @isakoditomassi.bsky.social · 05/06/2025Heck yes! Let's do it @emmascales.bsky.social @emmalovesscience.bsky.social @bdavisbio.bsky.social @mjarnett.bsky.social @kassstem.bsky.social @sneharao.bsky.social @eselland.bsky.social @alexlando.bsky.social @hannaherf.bsky.social 096
Reposted by Hannah FrankEcological Society of America @ecologicalsociety.bsky.social · 05/06/2025Share your science story!✍️ Join the McClintock Letters Initiative to write op-eds for your hometown newspaper, explaining the importance of your research and why science matters Join their free writing workshop June 6 @ 12p ET via Zoom Learn more: blogs.cornell.edu/asap/events-... 0107
Reposted by Hannah FrankTristan Ahtone @tahtone.bsky.social · 04/06/2025Mining, including the extraction of transition minerals, leads every sector in attacks on environmental & human rights defenders. 40% of those killed were Indigenous, a reflection of the fact that more than half of all critical minerals lie in or near Indigenous land. grist.org/indigenous/i...grist.orgIndigenous land defenders face rising threats amid global push for critical mineralsThe past decade has seen “a consistent, sustained pattern" of violence against Indigenous people who oppose corporate human rights abuses. 6256113
Hannah Frank @hannaherf.bsky.social · 02/06/2025They’re trying to quietly eliminate Hatch Act funding for agricultural schools???? @altusda.altgov.info @aaas.org @asa-cssa-sssa.bsky.social 12514
Reposted by Hannah FrankKate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 31/05/2025The newest budget numbers out of NSF are... not good. We're looking at worse than worst case scenarios for U.S. research universities. That's in addition to all the other attacks. Every person w/ a word processer and an hour of time should be penning an op-ed to their local papers this weekend. 15848304
Reposted by Hannah FrankGregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 24/05/2025Here's the assignment. Submit a comment by June 7th here (see link below to Federal Register). Spread the word. www.federalregister.gov/documents/20... www.statnews.com/2025/05/23/n...statnews.comScientists protest White House plan to put political appointees in charge of grant-makingTrump administration proposal is seen as a way to make NIH institute and center directors political appointees. 5198110
Hannah Frank @hannaherf.bsky.social · 22/05/2025Lucky we’ve got a good #scicomm community here addressing the challenges science is facing. Shout out to @comscicon.bsky.social @aaas.org @ravenscimaven.bsky.social and all the other sources of wisdom that have helped me develop my science storytelling! 042
Reposted by Hannah FrankAnna Mazzola @annamazz.bsky.social · 21/05/2025It’s Mary Anning’s birthday, so time to share @katebeaton.bsky.social’s brilliant cartoon again. 71185204520
Reposted by Hannah FrankDrDinD.bsky.social @drdind.bsky.social · 21/05/2025Science activism from scientists and state level actions to bolster science in the face of Trump administration attacks are taking off! daniels-newsletter-42563f.beehiiv.com/p/science-ac...daniels-newsletter-42563f.beehiiv.comScience Activism Surges!An overview of some grass roots (by scientists) activism and proposed (California) legislation 7339121
Hannah Frank @hannaherf.bsky.social · 16/05/2025“No one was harmed by [her] participation in the girls’ track meet, but we are all harmed by the hateful rhetoric” (of transphobes) 021
Reposted by Hannah FrankAmerican Association for the Advancement of Science @aaas.org · 16/05/2025Federal R&D has shown to provide a return on investment that eventually leads to economic growth. Yet, the PBR proposes steep cuts. AAAS CEO Sudip Parikh told @NPR.org these proposals "will slash science at every university and laboratory in the U.S."npr.orgEconomists warn Trump's research cuts could have dire consequences for GDPPresident Trump has proposed slashing federal scientific funding. Economists say the long-term consequences could be dire. 063