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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
At @standupforscience.net we aren’t just talking about a better future…we are forging it.  OUT NOW from the SUFS Foundation Policy & Research Team: @irenesufs.bsky.social @brynnpaulsen.bsky.social @colesci.bsky.social @wondersofnature23.bsky.social www.standupforscience.foundation/how-we-got-h...
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Advancing science for the public good.
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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 14/10/2026
UPDATE: Turns out this study was rushed for approval because of the fiscal year ending. Congress designated the $1.6M for global health security, so instead of combating Ebola, it's being wasted on this. Denmark continues to stand by the study, despite what WHO or the Helsinki declaration says.
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How a Controversial Hepatitis B Study Was Funded by the CDC Amid a Global Swirl of Criticism
As experts questioned the ethics of the study, documents show that expiring funds forced a rushed vote in Denmark, where the researchers’ institute is based
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
New email to Director Bhattacharya about the unethical hepatitis B study. 1/3
Dear Director Bhattacharya:

According to public reporting, the CDC is preparing to fund the previously blocked study of hepatitis B vaccination on newborns in Guinea-Bissau (https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/oct/09/vaccine-trial-guinea-bissau-rfk-jr ). Based on this reporting, the ethics board in Denmark which approved this had never considered medical studies previously, and four members of the board resigned in protest of the approval.
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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
This is some spineless garbage from @apapsychiatric.bsky.social. The APA isn’t achieving neutrality with their censorship, they are aligning themselves with the Trump admin. I’ve put them on the running list of compromised institutions.
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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 09/10/2026
Trump and RFK jr. want to use your tax dollars to let children die from preventable diseases in Guinea-Bissau. Stand Up For Science says: NOT ON OUR WATCH!
NEWS ALERT banner over portraits of RFK Jr and Trump with a bold headline that reads "Trump and RFK jr. want to use your tax dollars to let children die from preventable diseases in Guinea-Bissau"
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burnt undertones @burntundertones.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 08/10/2026
In this moment, in the run-up to these midterm elections, it’s clear our country is poised on an even more perilous political moment. Our Virtual & Accessible GOTV Rally is where and when we join up to launch our brave sprint to win at the finish line on November 3rd. 🧵
The graphic contains a photo of the Statue of Liberty, various science fighters, and symbols of resistance emerging from a laptop screen, and the No Kings & Stand Up for Science logos. The graphic reads: "Virtual & Accessible GOTV Rally, with ASL & Spanish interpretation. 10/17/26 at 12 pm EST. Show Up. Fight Back. GET OUT THE VOTE!"
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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
It’s notable to me that TWO of the most recent women who have won a NoBel Prize were denied tenure from their institutions: Anne Carson and Katalin Karikó
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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 08/10/2026
The CDC just re-opened a previously shelved study that would withhold the hepatitis B vaccine from children in Guinea-Bissau, despite decades of evidence showing it is safe and effective. This is a violation of human rights, using “science” to harm some of the most vulnerable people in the world.
Breaking-news graphic featuring a photo of RFK Jr with headline that reads "RFK JR. TO GIVE 1.6M IN CDC FUNDS TO EXPERIMENT ON AFRICAN BABIES IN UNETHICAL TRIAL"
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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 08/10/2026
The Center for Disease Control is quickly turning into the Center for Disgusting Corruption. There is absolutely no reason we should be withholding a vaccine, that has been proven to be safe and effective for decades, from children. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
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CDC Is Moving Forward With a Previously Shelved Controversial Hepatitis B Vaccine Study
“It’s a wholly unethical trial, and it shouldn’t be allowed,” says Dr. Paul Offit of Guinea-Bissau study
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Cole Donovan @colesci.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The @standupforscience.net Foundation is releasing the first part of our report on forging a new future on the science and technology ecosystem. To get where we want to go, we need to understand what has happened and the forces at work that enabled it. Resilience requires reflection.
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Advancing science for the public good.
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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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Left Of Center Orange Hater @leftocorangehater.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 29/09/2026
The 1st installment of Thiel's Nashville Antichrist lecture mirrored his previous lectures. But he launched aggressive attacks on Pope Leo, AI critics, & the Effective Altruist movement (that he funded). From 2025: What's up with Peter Thiel's Antichrist Obsession? newrepublic.com/article/2004...
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What’s Up With Peter Thiel’s Obsession With the Antichrist?
The tech mogul is amping up his apocalyptic rhetoric—and adding a dangerous dose of extremism into the already-fraught culture war.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Lol. 😂
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
My quote of the day There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest. Elie Wiesel
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FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The Trump administration blocked the Pediatric Brain Tumor Consortium from reapplying for funding, terminating at least 2 clinical trials for children's brain cancer treatment.
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SUNY UFS President Bruce Simon @sunyufspresident.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I’m not going to give any spoilers about what @standupforscience.net has cooking for this coming Wednesday (9/30) at 7 pm ET—but I will give homework! hdl.handle.net/1951/89089
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Our National Call to Action
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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Russ Vought just sent a rescissions request to Congress, signaling he intends to illegally impound funds. The $810 million highlighted in this “request” (but this is a pretext to just illegally impound the funds) is not the exhaustive list of many billions of dollars he’s impounding this year.
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Irene 1 @irenesufs.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I’ll bring an iced coffee to a funeral. Please disqualify me 🙏
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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 20/09/2026
It’s time to fund & support pro-science politicians ourselves if we want evidence-based decision making & truth, over blind loyalty to a party. The Science Victory Fund is exactly that. Send us some support today, and make a stand against the same old bullshit. 🧪🧬✊ buff.ly/78Cyu2F
The photo displays a man (labeled as "The Democratic Party" sweating at the deliberation of pressing two buttons, one that says "Promote candidates that American's actually want." and the other that says "Same old bullshit people hate."
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Anyway, panic is a psy-op. Stay furious. Stay serious. Organize.
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Irene 1 @irenesufs.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Association heads are so desperate to find a “reasonable” actor in this administration (hi, AAAS) so they can legitimize a year and a half of capitulation and spineless advocacy.
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William Lawrence @wewill2026.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I’m proud to be endorsed by Stand up for Science. An educated population is an empowered public. We must protect our scientific education, stand up to restrictions on scientific inquiry and academic freedom, and combat misinformation and anti-science attacks.
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Today's installment in the NIH institute director shitshow... A new director for the National Institute for Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR). www.nih.gov/news-events/... As far as I can tell, he has three publications and has never received NIH funding. 1/2
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Dr. Jonathan Burke selected as director of the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research
Dr. Burke will start his role on Sept. 20, 2026.
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Developing a plan that captures the best aspects of what NSF and NIH were while addressing some long-standing issues is what the effort at the @standupforscience.net policy shop is developing.
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Dan Vergano @danvergano.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Public Confidence in Fauci Declines Since Spring, But Still Exceeds RFK Jr. - @appc.upenn.edu www.annenbergpublicpolicycenter.org/public-confi... "...confidence in their individual healthcare providers remains high, as compared with declining confidence in the major U.S. healthcare agencies..."
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Public Confidence in Fauci Declines Since Spring, But Still Exceeds RFK Jr. | The Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania
Confidence in Dr. Anthony Fauci as a source of trustworthy public health information declined since the spring but remains higher than RFK Jr.
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Irene 1 @irenesufs.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
According to Colin Wright someone leaked the HHS paper ahead of time and they were planning to submit the paper to an “unnamed journal” and thats why they published early. HHS should find a better liar. 🤥 www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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‘Nakedly political’: US attempts to link trans support to authoritarianism in new health department report
HHS releases report linking ‘gender ideology’ to political violence – a study scientists say was poorly conducted
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Miranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Prioritizing erectile dysfunction research over addressing infant mortality, cancer screenings, and suicide prevention tells you basically everything you need to know about this administration's health priorities.
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Irene 1 @irenesufs.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Helped humanity? Prison. Immediately.
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elizabethginexi.bsky.social @elizabethginexi.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
More MAHA quackery www.notus.org/health-scien...
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HHS Cancels Infant Mortality, Postpartum Grants to Focus on Sperm Counts, ED
Officials at the Office of Minority Health told grantees that they’re prioritizing “root causes” of infertility and promoting exercise.
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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 03/09/2026
Someone finally wrote a bad review of my book! Its argument: The tech bros are not fascists and we need not worry about them. Its author: a fellow at the Foundation for American Innovation (FAI). FAI's ideological godfather and treasured idol: Peter Thiel. 🫠
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AltFDA @altfda.altgov.info · 03/09/2026
Today I was made aware of the most laughable and dangerous white paper I have ever fucking seen published by this Government! 🧵🧵🧵🧵🧵🧵🧵🧵🧵🧵🧵🧵🧵 Before I link to the paper we will be going through it together because you need to understand why this was published and how to dispute it because maga.
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Elle Cordova @ellecordova.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Rough Draft vs Final Draft
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 29/08/2026
If this were happening somewhere else, we would call them what they are: Internally Displaced People.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
"There is no basis under federal law to get the post office involved in monitoring the security, or monitoring who is casting ballots. ...
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Cole Donovan @colesci.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Periodic reminder that part of the reason we didn’t blow ourselves up in the past 80 years is because there was a concerted effort to focus science, technology, and engineering in these frontier areas on civil, non-military efforts.
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Scott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
🚨 DILLEY 2,938 signed. 62 away from 3,000. Sixty-two people. 👇 tinyurl.com/w9zj48j6
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Tell Congress: Close the Dilley ICE Facility, End Child Detention & Secrecy
Contact Congress today!
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
My quote of the day It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment. Ansel Adams
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Excited to see these traces of the history of important therapeutics. Today's is the first of 12. It is about ras and ras inhibitors. By coincidence/karma, the first ras inhibitor for pancreatic cancer was approved by the FDA yesterday. Reactions and comments welcome! @standupforscience.net
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
My quote of the day Future generations are not going to ask us what political party were you in. They are going to ask what did you do about it, when you knew the glaciers were melting. Martin Sheen
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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 27/08/2026
Why your doctor can't give you a cure tomorrow: how effective treatments are discovered and developed. Part 1 🧪 🧵 #science #news #education #health #research
Cover graphic titled "Why Your Doctor Can't Give You a Cure Tomorrow" with subtitle "How effective treatments are discovered and developed — Part 1," showing spilled pill capsules, retro curved colored stripes, and a Stand Up for Science logo.
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James Talarico @jamestalarico.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
BREAKING: Liam Tadeo was just deported by ICE.
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Irene 1 @irenesufs.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
center/center-right tech think tanks really produce extremely uninspiring people that use bigwords that mean nothing. Glad they are all going to work for AI companies!
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AAUP @aaup.org · 26/08/2026
The AAUP & AFT condemn the recent directive from the War Dept that publicly places 30 universities under suspicion & gives them 2 weeks to investigate years of academic activity. The directive represents another threat of funding-based coercion that undermines scientific research & innovation.
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Department of War Directive Undermines Scientific Innovation. It Should Be Rescinded.
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Jenna Norton @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Great piece from @jeremymberg.bsky.social on the importance of fundamental research and the “KRAP” science ideas put forth by the current administration. www.bostonreview.net/forum/how-to...
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In Defense of Undirected Science
Jeremy Berg responds to Zeynep Pamuk in our forum, “How to Save Science.”
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Irene 1 @irenesufs.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Went to Hungary. Learned nothing.
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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 25/08/2026
Is it common for industry newsletters to hate the people who work in said industry? Like does “Plumbers Weekly” regularly publish articles arguing that plumbers are evil, incompetent, and destroying America?
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Admirable Women @admirablewomen.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Microbiologist Elizabeth Hazen (b. #OTD 1885) & chemist Rachel Brown were granted a patent for Nystatin, an anti-fungal med in 1957. In 2016, it was the 217th most prescribed medication in the US w/ >2MM prescriptions. They gave all $13.4MM in royalties to a fund that heavily supported #WomenInSTEM
A black-and-white photograph of microbiologist Elizabeth Hazen (1885–1975) and chemist Rachel Fuller Brown (1898–1980), the pioneering duo who discovered the first safe antifungal antibiotic, nystatin. On the left, Hazen sits attentively in a white lab coat over a dark-colored vest andlight shirt. She is looking directly at Brown. Standing on the right, Brown looks intently at Hazen while gesturing with chemical glassware. She wears a white lab coat over a light blouse, her silver hair styled neatly. The lab table is filled with scientific equipment, including a glass Erlenmeyer flask, a specialized tube setup, and a rack brimming with cotton-plugged test tubes. The mid-century laboratory background features white storage cabinets with glass windows revealing stacked beakers, alongside an outdoor window framing dark foliage. The composition emphasizes their collaboration, casting a focused light on their work to evoke a mood of serious, dedicated discovery and monumental historical significance in STEM.
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