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Jessica Lussenhop @jlussenhop.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

🎧 NEW EPISODE 🎧: the incomparable @andykroll.bsky.social explains how one man (not DJT, not Elon Musk, not Pete or Kash or Marco...) is behind so much of what the second Trump administration has done. He's a bureaucrat named Russell Vought — the Shadow President www.propublica.org/podcast/who-...

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Jenna Norton @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Around 4:30, I heard Jon Lorsch had approval to turn the system back on. Not clear who gave that approval. Given the impending end of the fiscal year and the many delays this year, the few hour pause could matter. Reminded me of this stunt from July 2025: www.statnews.com/2025/07/29/t...

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Trump administration reverses course, lifts pause on NIH grant awards

The order applies to the entirety of new and, possibly, ongoing research grant dollars that go to universities and academic medical centers.

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Jenna Norton @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Just another day of unnecessary stress and chaos very likely created by Russell "We want the bureaucrats to be traumatically affected" Vought. Just another day where Russell "Project 2025" Vought did his best to make it harder for civil servants to serve the American people. impeachvought.com

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Impeach Vought

We are current and former federal workers from across the government. We have witnessed first-hand the harm Russell Vought has inflicted on American communities. We are urging Congress to act now to p...

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Jon of The North @krauza.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

For those of you that haven't read it, Chapter 10 of Project 2025 was literally about creating food insecurity by cutting safety nets and slashing regulations and restrictions on food production. No, we weren't overreacting to Project 2025.

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NIH Vigils @nihvigils.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Russell Vought has been deleting some of your comments on the proposed OMB rule to politicize grantmaking. Particularly ones that mention him by name and that his daughter was treated for CF with an NIH-funded therapeutic.

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Comments on OMB research rule mysteriously removed from federal website

Some comments on a proposed OMB research rule have been mysteriously removed from a public-facing government webpage.

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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Hey folks, this hasn’t gotten much attention, but remember those proposed OMB rule changes we all commented on recently? There’s a new attempt to sneak them just for NSF. We have three days to comment. Please don’t sleep on this!

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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 20/08/2026

The NSF has a sneaky proposal that'll implement Vought's OMB Proposal policies ahead of time such as removing requirements tied to statutory civil rights obligations and applying international collaboration restrictions.

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

This is the federal government the AAU would like universities to work with. Got it. Keveney was the HHS Acting General Counsel. He is currently Chief Counsel of the FDA.

Screenshot of whistleblower disclosure which reads: Keveney additionally said he believed Harvard would settle because they are “over abarrel.” The proposed Harvard settlement terms, which Keveney showed Ms. Van Erem briefly onhis computer screen, were extraordinary and included MOUs with police, installing a provost tooversee curriculum, ending DEI programs, placing endowment money in trusts the governmentcould seize, and investing in programs in Israel. There was no information to indicate thesesweeping enforcement terms corresponded to any specific findings of Title VI violations.

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Keith Garcia @keithcy.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Reviewed for NAR and now SciAdv. Absolute top tier mentorship coming from the Morrison Lab!

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Mark @mlnga.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

The current Lakers owner is being investigated by Trump's government for tax fraud. Today, it was announced that he is selling the team to a member of the Kushner family. A complete coincidence, I'm sure.

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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Trump‘s new CDC Director said “abortion surveillance” will be a big part of the CDC‘s role… Republicans will never stop. Never.

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davidasuper.bsky.social @davidasuper.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Congress should absolutely stop OMB's proposed rule seeking to formalize the politicization of federal grants, but the Administration is already doing most of what the rule describes. Nobody should be under any illusion that stopping the rule will stop the conduct. 1/2

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Paul Renfro @renfro.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

This is the tragic yet logical result of a decades-long project—undertaken by rightwing politicians and “business-minded” administrators alike—to distort the meaning of higher education, to deny the intrinsic value of the pursuit of knowledge, to deprive us all of richer, more purposeful lives.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

This entire administration is just nepotism and grifting all the way down. I hope @oversightdemocrats.bsky.social are ready to hit the ground running when they retake the House, because there are a lot of crooks to prosecute.

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Derek Lowe @dereklowe.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Thoughts on the various Trump administration proposals to revamp US science funding - and what they all have in common:

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The Assault On Science Funding Continues

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Texas Conference of the AAUP @texasaaup.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Dr. Iván Chaar López: “If you want a productive university…that supports the state, its citizens, its neighbors, I’m not sure that you want the workers in this institution to be nervous, to be looking over their shoulders… Academic freedom is not under duress—it’s being dismantled.”

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Prof Denied Tenure: Academic Freedom at UT Being Dismantled

Border-surveillance researcher Iván Chaar López received a near-unanimous recommendation from faculty and outstanding external support letters. Still, he was denied tenure without explanation.

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Keith Garcia @keithcy.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

officially co-reviewed chromatin related manuscripts for NAR and Science Advances. As always , solid PD mentorship coming out of the Morrison lab 🙏🏽

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 10/07/2026

really think that if democrats hold any chamber of congress next year that a condition of passing a budget is the removal of russ vought, who has a genuinely tyrannical vision of presidential power and is a focal point of the lawlessness of the trump administration

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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

I am once again asking people to recognize the 30 year, multi-billion dollar campaign that has been wrought against institutions of higher education and the American Scientific Ecosystem to discredit them. SCIENTISTS TAKING A STAND ARE NOT THE ONES POLARIZING THE NATION!!!! 2/?

"I am once again asking..." Bernie sanders meme format

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

The theory that “electable” means “work to appease right-wing bigots under the assumption that majorities agree with them, at least partially, and they prioritize it when voting” has been tried. It has failed. Try something else.

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Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽 @needhibhalla.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

"Right now, in some underfunded lab, a scientist is chasing a question that sounds pointless...a century of experience says that funding people to do this work is a good bet. If we stop making that bet, we will pay for it in cures no one will know to miss."

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Revolving Door Project @revolvingdoordc.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

RELEASE: Hal Duncan's testimony confirmed he'll be a Trump/Vought lackey as OMB Deputy Director. “Though they operate with a more polished veneer, Duncan and Vought’s continued chokehold of the federal government deserves the same scrutiny afforded to the DOGE bros during their deadly rampage.”

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RELEASE: Hal Duncan’s Nomination Hearing Confirms He’ll Be Vought’s Lackey At OMB | Revolving Door Project

The confirmation hearing of OMB nominee Hal Duncan confirmed he will be another henchman executing Trump and Vought's agenda.

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Revolving Door Project @revolvingdoordc.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

If confirmed as OMB Deputy Director, Hal Duncan will be second in command to Russell Vought at perhaps the most powerful office in this administration. The public deserves to know whether Duncan is on board with Vought's villainy, from impoundment to the politicization of disaster aid.

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Questions for OMB Deputy Director Nominee Hal Duncan | Revolving Door Project

A series of questions for OMB Deputy Director Hal Duncan regarding OMB's actions under Director Russell Vought.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15/06/2026

crazy to think that perhaps because trump is not an ideologue and is a little attentive to public sentiment he is less likely to go full tiananman square than miller and vance

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Jason's Mom Has Got It Going On 🎃 @sailorsoapbox.com · 14/06/2026

We have no money. You know this. Why do you keep asking why we’re not doing things we used to do? It’s because we have no money. We. Have. No. Money. We have no money. There is no money left. It’s all gone. None of us have it. No money. Nope. Money gone. We don’t have it. No.

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conifergirl.bsky.social @conifergirl.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Along with everything else he has destroyed, Trump is destroying the environment.

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Joshua Weitz @joshuasweitz.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

An OpEd in Diabetes Care would not have been my first candidate for scientific samizdat, but such are the times.

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 29/05/2026

This is bad. Bad for researchers. Bad for science. Bad for universities. Bad for professional associations. For example: 1. Every award would be vetted by political appointees, who could overrule peer reviewers and deny the award if it doesn't advance the president's priorities. 1/🧵

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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 28/05/2026

🚨UPDATE: We will launch our action center on this issue tomorrow. 📣JOIN US: Emergency Science Meeting (Virtual) June 2nd at 4pm et. Details to come. Our Policy Team has read through the entire 400 page hot mess express from Russ Vought...here are the high level details. A Thread🧵 1/x

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Katherine Aird @airdlab.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

It's time to rewrite reviews-aKG doesn't just regulate demethylation. Work from my lab and @mzspectrum.bsky.social demonstrates a new role for aKG in promoting histone acetylation and DNA repair through regulating carnitine synthesis. Congrats Apoorva Uboveja! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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αKG-mediated carnitine synthesis drives DNA repair via histone acetylation - Nature

The metabolite αKG promotes carnitine synthesis and increases site-specific histone acetylation, thereby promoting homologous recombination-mediated DNA repair, which has potential implications f...

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Alicia Oshlack @aliciao.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

New paper from the lab! Spoiler: data driven methods performed better for normalisation than spike in CUT&RUN (again). Congratulations especially to Krutika Ambani for most of the work here now embarking on a PhD.

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

They're stealing billions of your money to pay off violent right-wing psychos while doing everything in their power to spike gas up to $5 a gallon, make groceries into a luxury and hand the country over to the oligarchs who want to permanently replace you.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 17/05/2026

just open contempt for the united states as a pluralist and secular democracy. and a reminder that the function of the fiction that the united states was founded as a fundamentalist christian nation is to establish a hierarchy of human worth with white christians at the top

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Jenna Norton @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Bhattacharya: "I don't see a bottleneck now.... My job is to make sure every single dollar goes out, and it will go out by the end of the year on excellent science. A lot of the concerns, it just seems like political noise to me. It's not reality." Reality... 🧵1/6 www.27unihted.org/jay-fact-che...

Graph: Number of Competitive Awards. Cumulative numbers of competitive awards administered by the NIH through February of respective fiscal years. FY2021-2024 average is just under 3,000, FY2025 is just under 2500, FY2026 is at about 1000. Data from NIH Reporter.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 14/05/2026

This video on the rise of Russ Vought is based on scores of interviews, thousands of pages of emails and dozens of hours of videos and recordings of private briefings given by Vought, most of which have not been previously reported.

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Russell Vought: The Shadow President

YouTube video by ProPublica

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Keith Garcia @keithcy.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Positive-- first grant that was discussed. Negative--k99 Impact score no bueno. Wouldn't daddy RFK want to fund chromatin remodelers and metabolism!?Last shot for a June NEW submission A delayed March to May study section won't give me time to address critiques in time for june. I have 4wk 😵‍💫

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Keith Garcia @keithcy.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

eRA is down and probably a sign to not ruin our day trip to Santa Cruz checking on the K99 resubmission 😅

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

Black people are giving it these Confederates raw and uncut. This is how it’s gonna be now. You wonder what we’re thinking? It’s this. I believe this is activist Gary Chambers again in Louisiana.

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Lucas Farnung @lucas.farnunglab.com · 08/05/2026

The Farnung Lab is looking for postdoctoral researchers interested in understanding mechanisms at the intersection of chromatin, transcription, and replication. Find out more here: www.farnunglab.com

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Contact — Farnung Lab

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 08/05/2026

as per melissa's thread, it is really important to understand that a major goal of this administration is the resegregation of key institutions of american society

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Fred, His Enemy Getting a Vote @thefred.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

It took 8 days for Republicans to deny federal representation to the largest Black majority city in the country.

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Ari Berman @ariberman.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Breaking: Tennessee Republicans pass new 9-0 gerrymander after SCOTUS destruction of Voting Rights Act eliminating state’s only majority-Black district & last Democratic seat. Splits Memphis, which is 63% Black, into 3 districts to disenfranchise Black voters. Quite literally a return to Jim Crow

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 07/05/2026

yeah man, we’re all just dummies who don’t understand that you’re just judicial monks operating in a sphere of pure law [puts finger to ear] what’s this, clarence thomas gave another speech blaming progressives for hitler?

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Chief Justice John Roberts says American public wrongly views the justices as ‘political actors’

In remarks at a judicial conference, Roberts bemoaned what he characterized as the American public’s misconceptions about the Supreme Court.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 07/05/2026

i can’t tell if roberts is full of shit or if he is delusional and i’m not sure which is worse

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

I found 777 grants with title changes. Here is a word cloud of the words that had been removed. 2/5

A word cloud of words removed from NIH grant titles. The most commonly removed words are "equity", "disparity", "diverse", "racial" and similar terms.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 03/05/2026

thank you sam alito for ending the unconstitutional racial discrimination against white conservatives and allowing them to obliterate federal representation for as many black people as they can manage, as the reconstruction congress intended

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John Teets @suenitos.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

The editorial cartoonist's pen is one of the sharpest tools in journalism, whittling issues down to basics for satire or rage. I'm proud to say that my long-ago colleague, Milt Priggee, is unafraid to shock with a tough point of view.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

The most corrupt family in American history. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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