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new assoc prof at Idaho State University in molecular biology. life, science, wine & politics. all tweets are my own. #mitochondria, #malaria, & #phage. she/her

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Trump has been redirecting tens of millions of National Park Service money to wasteful projects in Washington, D.C., while blocking more than 130 planned projects at national parks across the country, putting more than $25 million in already secured funding on hold.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Food companies wanted deregulation. Now there are dozens of recalls across the country. Mining companies wanted deregulation. Now the black lung rate is at a 45-year high. Financial companies wanted deregulation. Now financial losses to fraud are the highest on record. Noticing a pattern?
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Hanna Blue 🏴‍☠️🏴🏁🗽⚜️❤️‍🔥🎃🎭🍁 @blueberrypoison.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
The horse-riding librarians of the Pack Horse Library Project in Hindman, Kentucky, around 1940. This was a genuine New Deal initiative established by President Franklin D. Roosevelt's Works Progress Administration (WPA) during the Great Depression.
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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
A thing we haven’t talked about yet re: the contaminated lettuce situation is the amount of food waste this is going to create. Which is, you guessed it, a contributor to climate change. Especially as contaminated food recalls are only going to increase due to sparse regulations.
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Drug Monkey @drugmonkey.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Speaking of using your own words, don't forget that the NIH's RFI on limiting the number of RPG awards per PI/MPI is open for comment. I will remind you that the RPG designation includes everything from R03 ($50k direct, 2 y limit) to P01, huge U mechs and DPetc. rfi.grants.nih.gov?s=6a1f200c6e...
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
It's not radical to believe everybody in the richest country in the world should have healthcare. It's not radical to believe we shouldn't send our money abroad to bomb people when we need money for our schools here. It's not radical to believe corporations shouldn't be able to buy politicians.
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dr. kristin d. lane 🔬 @kristindownie.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
This 👇 but with a manuscript
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dr. kristin d. lane 🔬 @kristindownie.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
@marcelias.bsky.social @democracydocket.com I know you’re busy, but any chance another cause? Science needs your help!
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Grandma @grandmasweb.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
I went to school with polio victims. It was a childhood scourge until the vaccine was invented. People who think they know about vaccines would do well to learn the history of communicable diseases.
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Martha Lillard, last known US polio survivor using iron lung, dies aged 78
Lillard, of Oklahoma, contracted polio when she was five and slept inside cylindrical metal device to help her breathe
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dr. kristin d. lane 🔬 @kristindownie.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
If you applied for and were awarded a #NSF grant (or know someone who did) since January 2025, I want to know. Not a GRFP, but anything else especially if it was thru BIO/MCB. Thx! 🧪🦠
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billkittle.bsky.social @billkittle.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
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Karim Wafa-Al Hussaini @karimwafa.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
They say books won’t change the world. Tell that to every colonizer who burned them. To every enslaved person who was punished for reading. Literacy is resistance. Literacy is liberation. The library is a battlefield.
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Jeremy Yoder says no war @jbyoder.org · 13/07/2026
Holy COW. Text analysis of comments on the OMB rule: overwhelming opposition, overwhelmingly not form letters. (But 9 in 10 comments supporting the rule ARE form responses, LOL) Whatever happens next, folks have stepped up.
Screenshot text: Between May 29 and July 9, roughly 51,000 comments were posted to regulations.gov (and over 200,000 more had been received but not yet published). The verdict on public sentiment is clear and lopsided: about 94 percent oppose the proposed rule and only 6 percent support it, with fewer than one percent marked as unclear. The opposition is overwhelmingly grassroots rather than orchestrated. Form letters make up only about 16 percent of all comments (roughly 8,400 comments across 210 distinct campaigns), and only about one in eight opposing comments came from a form-letter campaign. Support for the rule, by contrast, was almost entirely organized: nearly nine in ten supportive comments (about 2,500) came from a single form-letter campaign. Opponents mostly wrote their own comments; supporters mostly signed the same form-letter.
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Dean Obeidallah @deanobeidallah.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Michael Fanone's take on Lindsey Graham is one of the most powerful I've read:
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Martha Hickson @sassylibrarian.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Hey, Utah teens, if you enjoyed the films Shawshank Redemption and Stand By Me, you’re out of luck. The state won’t let you read the Stephen King novellas on which the movies are based. This concludes today’s lesson on fascism.
bookriot.com
Utah Bans Its 36th Book From All Public Schools
Utah has banned more books from public schools in 2026 than any other year, and this week, they added their 36th title.
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DC Public Library @dcpubliclibrary.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Hit ❤️ if you have a library card in 2026.
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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 09/07/2026
Children's Health Defense, the anti-vaccine group co-founded by RFK Jr., standby an Idaho woman charged with suffocating her twins after claiming the flu vaccine killed them. A heartbreaking reminder of the devastating consequences of false health claims. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/07/u...
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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 08/07/2026
Russell Vought’s OMB Grant Proposal takes the formerly expert informed, democratic grant award process and turns it into an authoritative process based on political ideology. It will destroy science in America as we know it. Take action here: zurl.co/ydchb Article: zurl.co/Juc68
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Trump administration pursues more durable changes to science policy after setbacks in court
After legal challenges succeeded, Trump administration shifts from dismantling agencies to centralizing OMB control over research funding.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
💯 There has been so much corruption and insider trading.
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Gracie12 📎 @gracienlucy.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
My favorite reason is #5 .
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dr. kristin d. lane 🔬 @kristindownie.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Currently listening to the audiobook and can HIGHLY recommend #ScienceUnderSiege
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Ms. Misanthrope 🇺🇸 @lilmsmisanthrope.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Air Force Major Jason Watson, 20-year active duty veteran, wore his uniform to the Capitol steps July 1 holding a sign reading "Impeach Convict Remove." He was arrested. His defense fund raised $139,000. Watson: "The greatest threat to our Democratic Republic is not a foreign one. It is domestic."
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Donate to Support Major Jason Watson’s Stand For Democracy, organized by DOOR, LLC
Help support Major Jason Watson’s heroic act of civil disobedience on 7/1 at the US Capitol in pursuit to IMPEACH, CONVICT, REMOVE the tyrannical government. Al
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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
NO 👇 LIES DETECTED.......
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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 05/07/2026
🚨 HEADS UP: If you haven't submitted a comment on the OMB proposal yet, there's still time - but it's running out! There are only 8 days left to push back against Russell Vought's attempt to give political appointees unprecedented control over federal research funding. Take Action: zurl.co/DhKYY
Graphic from Stand Up for Science urging action on a federal funding proposal. Large text reads: "8 Days Left" and "Help Us Stop Vought From Destroying American Science." A portrait of Russell Vought appears beside the U.S. Capitol. A banner along the bottom reads: "Submit a comment on the OMB proposal | Link in bio to take action." The Stand Up for Science logo appears in the top left.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
PASTOR LORAN LIVINGSTON (@CentralChurchNC): “There has never been a Christian nation, and never will be. You don’t live in one now. A Christian nation wouldn’t have killed and displaced 20 million Native Americans, or thought owning slaves was pleasing to God.”
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rome. @romewithadot.com · 05/07/2026
This kinda reiterates why physical media is so important. Because if all our history books become digital, they can change records of the truth on a whim.
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Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett @crockett.house.gov · 04/07/2026
Happy 250th, America. As we celebrate, let's honor those who built this country, defended it, and never stopped pushing America to live up to its promise. The fight for freedom isn't over. And the next 250 years will depend on what we do now. We've got work to do.
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Jennifer Shin - WTAF @jennifershin.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Just a reminder that patriotism isn't holding a bible and wrapping yourself in the flag while you violate the Constitution and plunder the country. Happy 4th of July, stay cool and safe!!
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wyotitania @wyotitania.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
A wide shot of the Tetons at night #BlueSkyArtShow #wide
Dark silhouette of mountains at night with the moon high in the sky
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C Hanna @chcowgirl.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
I AGREE!!!
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Matthew Cortland (they) @matthewcort.land · 02/07/2026
🧪 New from @dataforprogress.org: Federal research grants are awarded on scientific merit judged by panels of scientists and outside experts. Trump has moved to change that. Voters don't approve. www.dataforprogress.org/blog/2026/7/...
Bar chart of polling data from Data For Progress.
Title: Voters Want Scientists, Not the President's Team, Deciding Which Research Gets Funded.
Description: When it comes to deciding which proposals for scientific research get federal funding, which of the following comes closer to your view, even if neither is exactly right?
Response Options:
A) Decisions should be made by panels of scientists and experts based on scientific merit — research funding is too important to leave to political considerations.
B) Don't know
C) Decisions should be made by the president's team — elected leaders should direct how taxpayer money is spent on research.
All likely voters — 70% chose A, 8% chose B, 22% chose C
Democrat — 83% chose A, 5% chose B, 11% chose C
Independent / Third party — 78% chose A, 10% chose B, 12% chose C
Republican — 52% chose A, 9% chose B, 39% chose C

June 26–28, 2026 survey of 1,182 U.S. likely voters.
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dr. kristin d. lane 🔬 @kristindownie.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
TLDR: Would require a political appointee to approve all grants, scientific review panels would be advisory only and conference registration and publications would not be allowable costs on federal grants. Comment deadline is July 13th! 🧪
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Ologies with Alie Ward @ologies.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
People who write for a living: how many good hours can you write per day before you try to escape your office like a flustered weasel?
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dr. kristin d. lane 🔬 @kristindownie.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
A win for the resistance! We’re glad he won. The District of Columbia has settled a lawsuit brought by a protester who was detained and handcuffed after following National Guard troops through the city while playing Darth Vader’s theme from Star Wars.
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Demonstrator Sues after Being Handcuffed and Detained for Playing the Star Wars “Imperial March” Theme to Protest National Guard Members in D.C.   - ACLU of DC
Complaint details how the man was tightly handcuffed and prevented from exercising his First Amendment rights
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dr. kristin d. lane 🔬 @kristindownie.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
I was on study section while my grant was discussed by a different panel on the same day. My grant? Competitive but Not Discussed. This showed up on eRA commons as ND for the 1st week then was updated.
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Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
Breaking: Trump has fired the membership of the National Science Board, which is oversees NSF. I have confirmed separately with multiple now-former members of NSB.
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Ranking Member Lofgren Reacts to Latest Trump Scheme to Undermine Science | House Committee on Science, Space and Technology
The House Committee on Science, Space and Technology
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BWJones @bwjones.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
Authoritarians have this really, really weird insecurity when it comes to artists and academics. They hate them, but they also weirdly crave their approval. Eventually authoritarians find those obsequious people who are in or peripheral to artistic or academic communities to carry out their agenda
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
Spotted in Washington DC during White House Correspondents’ Dinner weekend. Source MeidasTouch
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Mark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
To my dismay, this went on as described, mixing excellent scientists who study research integrity and using them as cover to profile the NIH director whose lies about vaccines and action to damage both NIH and now CDC are shameful. What were the National Academies thinking??
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Jenna Norton @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
In the #NASEM fireside chat with Jay Bhattacharya, he says there is no political review of grants. 👀 NIH staff being required to censor grants base on a computational text analysis tool beg to differ. www.science.org/pb-assets/PD...
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Science is good. We should fund it.
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Kevin Collins @kwcollins.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
An mRNA treatment for PANCREATIC CANCER was in trials, among many other uses. Choosing to end this research is choosing to sentence millions to an early, painful death
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
No ORD means no independent research. No chemical risk assessments. No scientific firewall between industry lobbyists and federal health policy. They’re not just cutting jobs. They’re cutting the part of the EPA that tells us the truth.
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EPA tells some scientific research staffers to relocate
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is making some of its staffers relocate and reassigning an even larger share of employees as part of its efforts to reorganize its scientific research. The…
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
This isn’t a reorganization it’s a shutdown. The Trump administration is dissolving the EPA’s entire Office of Research and Development the division responsible for the science behind clean air and water standards.
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Mx. Tiffany Leigh @tiffanyleigh.northsky.social · 23/03/2026
Reposting the image with alt text. So EVERYONE can see which of the thirteen airports will have ICE agents on site
Per CNN posted on Monday, March 23, 2026.
List of thirteen airports in the United States that will have ICE agents in person:

Chicago-O'Hare International Airport
Cleveland Hopkins International Airport
Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport
Houston's William P. Hobby Airport
John F. Kennedy International Airport (New York)
LaGuardia Airport (New York)
Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport
Luis Munoz Marin International Airport (San Juan, Puerto Rico)
Newark Liberty International Airport
Philadelphia International Airport
Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport
Pittsburgh International Airport
Southwest Florida International Airport (Fort Myers, Florida)
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
You'll notice none of these guys are wearing masks, so the next time Chuck or a Chuck supporter says getting ICE to agree to taking off masks is a win at the negotiating table going forward, it isn't. They know they're not supposed to wear them. And clearly the doxxing argument is bullshit
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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 21/03/2026
Judge ruled RFK Jr. overstepped when saying gender-affirming treatments are unsafe. NY AG Letitia James: Healthcare services for transgender young people remain legal & the federal government can't intimidate or punish providers who offer them. 🏳️‍⚧️ #GoodNews #ImpeachRFKJr zurl.co/0KBHm zurl.co/OG05H
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RFK Jr overstepped in declaring gender-affirming treatments unsafe, judge rules
Judge rules that Trump’s health secretary did not go through proper procedures when issuing declaration
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