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Professor, U Washington, Public Health 🏳️‍🌈🇲🇽

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jon ben-menachem @jbenmenachem.com · 21/10/2025
Wow. Harvard nuking its PhD programs - Science PhD admissions reduced by more than 75% - Arts & Humanities reduced by about 60% - Social Sciences by 50–70% - History by 60% - Biology by 75% - The German department will lose all PhD seats - Sociology from six PhD students to zero
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Harvard FAS Cuts Ph.D. Seats By More Than Half Across Next Two Admissions Cycles | News | The Harvard Crimson
The Faculty of Arts and Sciences slashed the number of Ph.D. student admissions slots for the Science division by more than 75 percent and for the Arts & Humanities division by about 60 percent for th...
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Arghavan Salles, MD, PhD @arghavansallesmd.medsky.social · 24/04/2025
Wow! Amazing resolution at Northwestern “In an historic, landslide vote -- 338 to 83 -- Northwestern University’s highest faculty legislative‬ body voted to establish faculty oversight of the Board of Trustees and to defend academic‬ ‭ freedom against edicts of the Trump administration.”
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Northwestern Faculty Vote to Protect Students, Safeguard Academic Freedom from Unlawful Trump Edicts.pdf
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 24/04/2025
They're going after the accreditation of universities and threatening to revoke the ability of accreditors if they don't crack down on DEI and LGBTQ people in academia. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
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Reforming Accreditation to Strengthen Higher Education
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1.
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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
This is, in large part, pandemic revenge. As far as these oligarchs are concerned, all science does is tell them stuff they cannot do. They can't keep spewing carbon. They can't keep businesses open as usual when millions are dying. They have concluded that research is the enemy of profit.
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India Ornelas @profe-ornelas.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
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Read the Letter Scientists Sent to the Trump Administration (Gift Article)
Researchers at academic institutions nationwide say that U.S. science is being dismantled.
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Dr Slaughter-Acey @drslaughter99.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
🧵Yesterday, I received notice that my #NIH grant, on the social environment, lifecourse, epigenetics & #birthoutcomes in Black families, was terminated. This grant represented a critical effort to address the ⬆️ rates of maternal & infant mortality in the US, particularly among Black mothers & babies
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Stacy Fahrenthold @sfahrenthold.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
Hunter College has reposted their search for 2 scholars of Palestine Studies. Both searches are open rank and the new deadline is April 21. Please share widely! cuny.jobs/new-york-ny/...
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Jobs | City University of New York
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
I'm just a small-town professor. I'll never be a provost or chancellor. But here's some free advice: we're about to hold the most watched college sports event in 🇺🇸. Every college president should be all over TV, at every game, explaining why the March Madness of federal budget cuts is a huge crisis.
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Jason of the Resistance @jasongooljar.org · 07/03/2025
Spotted Beaker taking in the #StandUpforScience2025 rally in Washington, DC today. More photos later.
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solhog @solhog.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
#StandUpForScience #StandUpForScience2025 #DefendResearch
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Scott Delaney @scott-delaney.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
We need to organize--let’s help each other. NIH is cancelling grants, but it's not clear exactly what they're cancelling and why. Without this information, we can't respond. I've started a Google Sheet to track grant cancellations. Please add any canceled grants you know of and spread the word!
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Rescinded NIH Grants
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Luisa N. Borrell @lborrell.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
“The Departments of Education and Health and Human Services plan to immediately issue stop-work orders on grants to the school, the task force said.” www.thefp.com/p/exclusive-...
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EXCLUSIVE: Trump Administration Cancels $400 Million in Grants to Columbia
The cuts are “only the beginning,” according to Trump’s antisemitism task force.
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Jim Bloyd DrPH MPH 🍉 @jbloyd.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
#standupforscience2025
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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 07/03/2025
We heard a 🦇💩 survey was going out to states and grantees. This survey is an insult to 🦇💩 as guano is highly productive.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Presented without further comment.
“They didn’t ask me for any ID,” Machado said. “I was telling the officer, if I can give him ID, but he said just keep my hands up, not moving. After that, he told me to get out of the car and put the handcuffs on me. And then he went to me and said how did I get into this country and if I was waiting for a court date or if I have any case. And I told him I was an American citizen, and he looked at his other partner like, you know, smiling, like saying, can you believe this guy? Because he asked the other guy, ‘Do you believe him?’”

Machado said he was uncuffed and immediately released after showing his driver’s license.

The two men with him were taken into custody. He does not know why.

Machado said the experience shook his faith in the immigration enforcement efforts of Trump, for whom he voted.

“Because, like I said, I was a Trump supporter,” he said. “I voted for Trump last election, but, because I thought it was going to be the things, you know, like, … just go against criminals, not every Hispanic looking, like, that they will assume that we are all illegals.”
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 07/03/2025
The Guardian is reporting that Trump is openly violating a court order, and has transferred multiple transgender women to men's facilities. We know in Florida, transgender women are having their hair shorn, feminine items confiscated, and pulled off medication. This is inhumane and illegal.
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Trans women transferred to men’s prisons despite rulings against Trump’s order
Incarcerated trans women report being groped by male guards and suicidal thoughts: ‘I’m punished for existing’
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Stand Up for Science Washington @sufswa.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
#standupforscience @standupforscience.bsky.social
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India Ornelas @profe-ornelas.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
www.healthaffairs.org/content/fore...
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When Executive Directives And Public Health Ethics Collide | Health Affairs Forefront
Recent policy directives from the White House seek to compel actions that are contrary to widely accepted standards of ethical public health practice.
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Jim Bloyd DrPH MPH 🍉 @jbloyd.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
A team of volunteer archivists has recreated the Centers for Disease Control website exactly as it was the day Donald Trump was inaugurated. The site, called RestoredCDC.org, went live Tuesday and is currently being hosted in Europe.
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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
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Jeffrey Mervis @policyhound.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Federal judge blocks change in NIH indirect cost recovering rates, saying it would jeopardize public health. Read about it here: www.science.org/content/arti...
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U.S. judge blocks NIH’s plan to slash overhead cost payments
Injunction allows universities to keep receiving billions to recover costs of supporting federal research on campus
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Josh Busby @busbyj2.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
I can't think of a faster way to undermine the country than simultaneously firing government workers, cutting scientific research, rolling back protections on public health & environment, & cutting essential services. It's like the US was defeated in war and is being occupied by a hostile enemy.
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Pam Herd @pamherd.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Reminder that the Census determines how federal dollars, and House seats, are allocated. This is, yet another, five alarm fire.
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Ruha Benjamin @ruha9.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
“We believe this rush to comply is a sign that universities are willing to become an institutional wing of the new segregationists.” www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view...
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Colleges must stand up to the new segregationists (opinion)
In rushing to comply with Trump’s executive actions, universities support a segregationist agenda, Subini Annamma and David Stovall write.
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Jenn Dowd @drjenndowd.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
A PhD in Barcelona may do the spirit good! "We are happy to share a fantastic opportunity for a 3-year fully funded PhD to study "Adolescents’ Mental Health, Social Media, and Inequalities" as part of a prestigious MSCA Horizon Europe Programme on Mental Health." webs.uab.cat/touch/jobs/s...
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Social Media Use and Young People’s Mental Health: A Quantitative Social Science Approach – MSCA-COFUND TOUCH
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Arghavan Salles, MD, PhD @arghavansallesmd.medsky.social · 04/03/2025
“When Stanford refuses to speak internally, let alone publicly, about the attacks on DEI, I see the University for what it is: a place of incredible power and prestige more concerned with public image than the well-being of affected faculty, staff, postdocs and students that call Stanford home.”
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
NEW—Dept of Ed staff received an email from Sec. McMahon tonight with the subject, “Our Department’s Final Mission.” McMahon writes that plan is, “to send education back to the states.” Notably doesn’t mention executive order like earlier draft, but some think it’s still coming. Full text:
From: Linda McMahon
Subject: Our Department's Final Mission
When I took the oath of office as Secretary of Education, I accepted responsibility for overseeing the U.S. Department of Education and those who work here. But more importantly, I took responsibility for supporting over 100 million American children and college students who are counting on their education to create opportunity and prepare them for a rewarding career.
I want to do right by both.
As you are all aware, President Trump nominated me to take the lead on one of his most momentous campaign promises to families. My vision is aligned with the President's: to send education back to the states and empower all parents to choose an excellent education for their children. As a mother and grandmother, I know there is nobody more qualified than a parent to make educational decisions for their children. I also started my career studying to be a teacher, and as a Connecticut Board of Education member and college
trustee, I have long held that teaching is the most noble of professions. As a businesswoman, I know the power of education to prepare workers for fulfilling careers.
American education can be the greatest in the world. It ought not to be corrupted by political ideologies, special interests, and unjust discrimination. Parents, teachers, and students alike deserve better.
After President Trump's inauguration last month, he steadily signed a slate of executive orders to keep his promises: combatting critical race theory, DEl, gender ideology, discrimination in admissions, promoting school choice for every child, and restoring patriotic education and civics. He has also been focused on eliminating waste, red tape, and harmful programs in the federal government.
The Department of Education's role in this new era of accountability is to restore the rightful role of state oversight in education and to end the overreach from Washington.
This restoration will profoundly impact staff, budgets, and agencyAs l've learned many times throughout my career, disruption leads to innovation and gets results. We must start thinking about our final mission at the department as an overhaul-a last chance to restore the culture of liberty and excellence that made American education great. Changing the status quo can be daunting. But every staff member of this Department should be enthusiastic about any change that will benefit students.
True change does not happen overnight—especially the historic overhaul of a federal agency. Over the coming months, as we work hard to carry out the President's directives, we will focus on a positive vision for what American education can be.
These are our convictions:
1. Parents are the primary decision makers in their children's education.
2. Taxpayer-funded education should refocus on meaningful learning in math, reading, science, and history—not divisive DEl programs and gender ideology.
3. Postsecondary education should be a path to a well-paying career aligned with workforce needs.
Removing red tape and bureaucratic barriers will empower parents to make the best educational choices for their children. An effective transfer of educational oversight to the states will mean more autonomy for local communities.
Teachers, too, will benefit from less micromanagement in the classroom-enabling them to get back to basics.
I hope each of you will embrace this vision going forward and use these convictions as a guide for conscientious and pragmatic action. The elimination of bureaucracy should free us, not limit us, in our pursuit of these goals. I want to invite all employees to join us in this historic final mission on behalf of all students, with the same dedication and excellence that you have brought to your careers as public servants.
This is our opportunity to perform one final, unforgettable public service to future generations of students. I hope you will join me in ensuring that when our final mission is complete, we will all be able to say
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
This is not law. It couldn’t withstand legal scrutiny. Don’t comply in advance university presidents. General counsel, don’t panic. Do law, not vibes.
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NPR @npr.org · 03/03/2025
JUST IN: The White House has been clear that it intends to dismantle the U.S. Department of Education, and that it will be McMahon's job to oversee that effort.
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Linda McMahon has been confirmed as Trump's secretary of education
The White House has been clear that it intends to dismantle the U.S. Department of Education, and that it will be McMahon's job to oversee that effort.
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 01/03/2025
The Trump administration has made limited progress so far toward promised mass deportations, but a dire message is filtering into communities of long-term undocumented immigrants, @mccrummen.bsky.social reports from southwest Chicago.
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Migrants Prepare to Lose Their American Lives
In one Chicago neighborhood, this Trump term feels different.
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jenn m. jackson @jennmjacksonphd.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Over these next few years, we're going to see what incredible cowardice looks like. From elected leaders, business heads, friends, family, and comrades. But, if we look to Black, Brown, queer, trans, disabled, immigrant, and unhoused folks, we'll see what true courage is. That's where I'm focusing.
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
National Academies scrubbing reports to appease Trump admin bsky.app/profile/usha...
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Megan Ranney MD MPH @meganranney.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
ICYMI: new MMWR has been published, showing that this year’s flu vaccine is decent at keeping people from needing to see the doctor… and pretty darn good at preventing kids’ (& to a lesser extent, adults’) flu hospitalization Also: it’s safe. And it’s not too late to get it.
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Katie Loth @klothphd.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
The halt to scientfic process is already happening. Without study sections, projects can't be reviewed or funded - and the science stops. The scientific process moves slow, the science we are benefitting from right now started years ago. Our future depends on the action we take right now!
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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
A Seattle Times op-ed summarizing a few of the arguments from my UW talk this week: "To understand right-wing media's power, study improv and theater of influencers." I end with some recommendations for countering the right's bullshit machine: www.seattletimes.com/opinion/to-u...
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To understand right-wing media's power, study improv and theater of influencers | Opinion
Right-wing populism is leveraging online platforms' participatory nature. A counter-movement must amplify its constituents' values, with a commitment to truth.
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Dr. Lorgia García Peña @laprofelgp.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Don’t stop doing the things you love, loving the people you love and showing that love in acts of communal care because you’re afraid. Fear is how they thrive. Community. Care. Joy and Love is how we rebel. 🌈 💙✊🏽#communityasrebellion
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Dr. Ellen Fink-Samnick DBH, LCSW, CCM, CCTP, FCM @drel-dbh.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
#PublicComment has been one way for the voice of professionals to inform #HealthPolicy. www.reuters.com/business/hea...
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Kennedy proposes scrapping public comment on major US health policies
U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is seeking to eliminate public participation in many of his department's policy decisions, a move that appears to contradict his pledge to Congress of "radical transparency."
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Extending my grant update this morning. Here are data limited to new and competitive renewal applications. The Pause is dead, Long live the Pause...
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Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD @prasad.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
nih.gov is down
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India Ornelas @profe-ornelas.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
The hits keep coming. We have to keep standing up for our work and can’t do it alone. We need the voices of those whose work isn’t being targeted to be as loud as those that are.
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
None of us can be sure what will “work.” You try multiple things and find your way in. Read some histories of the Civil Rights Movement by those who participated. They were never “sure” of what would work. Some campaigns fizzled out. But persistence, creativity, determination, and focus were key.
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Michelle Kelly-Irving @mkellyirving.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
This has got to be a lessons learned moment for #science & #GlobalHealth No 1 country should be able to shut down international programs like this We were all stupid to have allowed this vulnerability to arise Now we need to find solutions & boost support for UN infrastructures once again
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Washington State Department of Health @doh.wa.gov · 28/02/2025
According to the CDC, 1 in 3 adults in the US will develop shingles (herpes zoster), a painful, blistering skin condition. Risk factors include having had chickenpox and getting older. Get yourself vaccinated. doh.wa.gov/you-and-your-family/immu…
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Shingles
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Dr. David Miller 🏳️‍🌈 @davidimiller.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
This helps to understand what's going on with the REUs (Research Experience for Undergraduates): On Feb 13, NSF said: "Although we [had earlier] sent many of you emails expressing our plans to recommend for funding...We deeply regret that we are not going to be able to hold to all of those plans."
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NSF downsizes summer research program for undergraduates
Many participants are from groups underrepresented in science
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Helen Branswell 🇨🇦 @helenbranswell.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
1. #CDC was finally allowed to issue a statement on the Texas #measles outbreak, though it wasn't sent to the press distribution list or posted on its homepage. They tweeted it in the other place at 8:29 pm EST. Communication by whisper. www.cdc.gov/media/releas...
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CDC Statement on Measles Outbreak
CDC is in close communication with Texas health authorities over the recent measles outbreak.
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Liz Zuccala @drzucc.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
@holdenthorp.bsky.social for @science.org: "The Science family of journals...will continue to uphold the highest standards of scientific integrity while publishing groundbreaking research, provocative commentary, and news that is unencumbered by interference" www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Come together, right now
The chaos, conflicting information, firings, and hurtful rhetoric of the Trump administration’s approach to science over the past month are causing anxiety, grief, and concern for the scientific commu...
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Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
"The anonymous source told OU Daily they believe the minimum staffing level required for tornado events may not be met after these layoffs. The National Weather Service issues tornado warnings and watches." www.oudaily.com/news/nationa...
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National Weather Center employees, OU meteorology students part of nationwide NOAA layoffs
Editor note’s: This story was updated at 8:26 p.m. on Feb. 27 to include statements from Ward 7 Councilmember and Mayor-elect Stephen Tyler Holman
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