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Benjamin Pope @benjaminpope.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

cutting pure science to prioritize applications is fundamentally like asking farmers not to waste time producing grain, cheese, and tomatoes and focus on making pizzas

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Jason Rasgon @vectorgen.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

I propose a 5 year Federal funding ban on any PI who uses generative AI to write a grant proposal

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

MERE HOURS after the President of the United States posted an AI video of the Obama’s as monkeys, the Science Tech Action Committee (led by @aaas.org and @researchamerica.bsky.social) posted a THANK YOU to TRUMP for SIGNING THE BUDGET. Shot. Chaser. sciencetechaction.org/aboutus/

STAC Statement Thanking President Donald Trump for Signing the Senate Amendment to H.R. 7148, the Consolidated Appropriations Act

Except from Peter Drucker’s autobiography about scientists asking the new Nazi commissar for funding, after they expelled every Jewish faculty member.

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Ramya Kumar, PhD @ramyakumar.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

Excellent reporting by STAT on how first year PhD students are struggling to find lab/advisor matches due to funding cuts. Tenuous biomedical funding has put first-year Ph.D. students in a bind www.statnews.com/2026/01/30/f... via @statnews.com

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Tenuous biomedical funding has put first-year Ph.D. students in a bind

First-year biomedical graduate students across the country said labs have been hesitant to take them in due to a tenuous funding environment

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Ramya Kumar, PhD @ramyakumar.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

Kidnap or abduct would have been better words. If Modi had been whisked away from his sleep in New Delhi or Putin from Moscow, would we still call it "capture"? Also Trump is doing a terrible job running his own country; the idea of him running Venezuela (to the ground) is chilling.

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Ramya Kumar, PhD @ramyakumar.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

This has crossed a red line. ICE is now terrorizing Minnesotans of Somalian heritage, most of whom are American citizens, in a blatantly racist operation. What should we brace ourselves for next? Raids on Indian-Americans in New Jersey, Iranian-Americans in LA, Cuban-Americans in Florida?

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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 02/12/2025

This this this

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Alt-NIHscience4ALL @alt-nihscience4all.altgov.info · 13/11/2025

Alert for scientists: NIH institute director vacancies are posted! Please apply so we get actual scientists in these positions instead of just political appointees!!!!

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Ramya Kumar, PhD @ramyakumar.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

Sadly, we continue to reward "ambitious, arrogant, misogynistic, and opportunistic" people like Watson, who "managed to get himself into the right place at the right time." We should reward careful, methodical researchers and not just narcissists in a hurry who would rather be wrong than be last.

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 20/09/2025

I have to keep this deliberately vague, but this is a total disaster for academic research. And imposing it so suddenly is just cruel. I’ve got friends scrambling to get back to the US before midnight tonight. Do you know how hard that is to do on 36 hours of notice?

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Trump to impose $100,000 fee per year for H-1B visas, in blow to tech

The Trump administration said on Friday it would ask companies to pay $100,000 per year for H-1B worker visas, prompting some big tech companies to warn visa holders to stay in the U.S. or quickly return.

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 18/09/2025

A free and democratic society cannot silence comedians because the President doesn’t like what they say. This is an attack on free speech and cannot be allowed to stand. All elected officials need to speak up and push back on this undemocratic act.

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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

We need laser like clarity right now: political violence is abhorrent and so is the work of Turning Point USA. 11/

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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

The murder of Charlie Kirk was criminal, wrong, and should be condemned. And Charlie Kirk was a horrible, hateful man who spent his life radicalizing young people to embrace their worst demons by targeting women, people of color, immigrants, and the marginalized. I refuse to sanitize him.

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Ramya Kumar, PhD @ramyakumar.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

I saw the video. Dystopian doesn't begin to describe it. Laws are not laws unless Congress makes them. A President cannot make laws. A President cannot overrule scientific consensus. This student is incapable of critical thinking and does not belong in college. "Our president's laws." Ugh.

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Jenna Norton @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

We all deserve better than RFK Jr. Great piece from @gregggonsalves.bsky.social www.thenation.com/article/soci...

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RFK Jr., American Psycho

He needs to go. Now.

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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 31/08/2025

The party of “family values” is attacking our kids.

Graphic with the text: 10 TRUMP ATTACKS ON KIDS
1. Made the largest SNAP (food stamps) cuts in history.
2. Limits school lunch for kids by imposing new red tape.
3. Reduces after-school and summer programs for poor kids by requiring extra paperwork.
4. Slashes the Children’s Health Insurance Program, which provides health care for half of all kids.
5. Rips health care away by making it harder for parents to cover their kids through the Affordable Care Act.
6. Takes money away from public schools, meaning larger class sizes and fewer teachers per student.
7. Guts Head Start, which provides early childhood education, health, nutrition, and other services to
low-income children.
8. Undermines public health and vaccines.
9. Freezes funds used to train teachers.
10. Shuts down parts of the Office of Civil Rights, which helps kids who get discriminated against in school.

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Ramya Kumar, PhD @ramyakumar.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

I finished my PhD in 6 yrs. I can't imagine stopping my research mid-project, traveling back to India, waiting 3 months to renew my visa/status, and delaying my PhD. Who is going to fund students during this absence? Why should students suffer from delays in publishing? Keep D/S provisions intact!

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Ramya Kumar, PhD @ramyakumar.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

"Financially, the NIH—for now—remains intact. The Senate has also pushed back on the Trump administration’s proposal to restructure the agency entirely. But the NIH is fast losing what turns out to be its most important resource: people." Well said. www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...

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How Many Times Can Science Funding Be Canceled?

Whether or not Congress cuts NIH’s budget, the Trump administration has devastated its ability to operate.

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Dr. David Miller 🏳️‍🌈 @davidimiller.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

Govt Accountability Office (GAO) determines Trump admin broke the law by withholding billions in new NIH awards. Full GAO report: www.gao.gov/assets/890/8... NYT article (no paywall): archive.is/202508051916...

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Mikhail Zinshteyn @mzinshteyn.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

If you're a UCLA researcher (PI, grad student, etc) with an NSF, NIH or other suddenly suspended grant, please email or DM me. I'm trying to confirm what the suspension letters say and how extensive the NIH suspensions are. Email: Mikhail at calmatters dot org

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Ramya Kumar, PhD @ramyakumar.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

Excellent article by @kzernike.bsky.social I mentor a student on an NIH div. supplement (which we worked extremely hard to win) ; we were heartbroken when this was killed. NIH's well designed DEI initiatives benefit a broad population beyond racial minorities. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/10/u...

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The Surprising Scientists Hit by Trump’s D.E.I. Cuts

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Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

No other word will do: Gestapo. American Gestapo - words I never imagined I'd associate together. A legal resident. A scientist searching for a Lyme disease vaccine. Criminality? Arrested for weed - ten years ago. Abducted at the airport by anonymous goons and disappeared. wapo.st/4lPELyy

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Scientist on green card detained for a week without explanation, lawyer says

A Korean citizen studying in Texas on a green card was detained in San Francisco after a trip overseas.

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Rachel Dresbeck @raddrrach.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

Welcome to the 12th century

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Dr. David Miller 🏳️‍🌈 @davidimiller.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

🧪 YASSSS Nearly 150 employees of the National Science Foundation signed a letter of dissent and sent to Congress yesterday. Rep Lofgren, Dem leader of the House Science Committee, held a press conference today about it. Full letter (names redacted): democrats-science.house.gov/imo/media/do...

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Employees’ protests against Trump science policies spread to NSF

Letter to key House Democrat follows declarations by scientists at NIH, EPA, and NASA

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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

"Speaking from the university’s hilltop astrophysics lab, AMU President Eric Berton likened the situation to that of European academics who fled persecution by Nazi Germany both before and during WW II. 'What is at play here today is not unrelated to another dark period of our history,' he said."

politico.eu

The first American ‘scientific refugees’ arrive in France

Aix-Marseille University is wooing researchers who feel targeted by the Trump administration.

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Derek Lowe @dereklowe.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

Journalists keep asking me, baffled, “What’s the Trump administration really trying to do to the science agencies?” So I say “They are trying to destroy them. Cut off their funding, ruin their facilities, harass their staff into leaving.” It’s not reform, and it never was. It’s destruction.

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Julia Lurie @julialurie.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

Breaking: The Trump administration is shutting down the national suicide hotline's service for LGBTQ kids. In February, the program received an average of 2,100 calls and texts per day. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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The Trump administration is shutting down the national suicide hotline's program for LGBTQ youth

"This is a death sentence potentially to thousands of youth across the United States."

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

The findings at the recent trial and today's Columbia chaos is pushing me to the edge. I just sent the following email...

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Ramya Kumar, PhD @ramyakumar.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

Shame on the republicans for going after the so-called violent protesters in LA (who were largely peaceful) while engaging in rhetoric that motivated a white guy to draw a gun and attempt these political assassinations. I hope both these elected officials and their spouses pull through.

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Carolyn Bertozzi @carolynbertozzi.bskyverified.social · 11/06/2025

Seems a good time to invite Sen Britt to watch an NIH review panel (aka study section) analyze piles of grants over several days to identify the <10% that win funding. Applications that scientists spent months preparing, whose peers spent weeks poring through in advance of review mtg at NIH.

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

New York Times story about #BethedaDeclaration is up. (Gift Link) www.nytimes.com/2025/06/09/h...

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N.I.H. Workers Denounce Trump’s ‘Harmful’ Health Policies

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Sarah Mullins @smullins.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

Imagine if, in the 90s, universities had instituted curriculum requirements for raising tamagotchis. Justified by saying it was essential to preparing for eventual parenthood. Think how profoundly stupid this would look, even just a few years later. 🤦‍♀️

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Sarah T Roberts, PhD @ubiquity75.xyz · 06/06/2025

The 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?

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Evan Spotte-Smith (they/them) @ewcss.info · 29/05/2025

I've attempted to explain my rationale for leaving CMU and the United States - and for joining UCD - in this blog post. I believe that it is the right decision for me, but strangely, I hope I'm wrong. I hope that the US is not going down a path as dark as I fear.

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Leaving Before the Beginning

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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 27/05/2025

The US Administration has indefinitely blocked *all* student visa applicants from getting a visa interview. Worldwide, unconditional, no end date. All. International students are crucial to the US university system, American innovation, and future US prosperity.

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Rubio Reportedly Pauses New International Student Visa Interviews

More than 1.1 million international students were enrolled at U.S. colleges and universities in the 2023-2024 school year.

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

More nonsense from Secretary Kennedy Kaitlan Collins asked Kennedy if he stood by his earlier comment that people should not be taking medical advice from him, even though his job involves communicating health guidance and recommendations based on his department’s expertise. 1/n

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Derek Lowe @dereklowe.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

Cowards.

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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

It’s time to disrupt their plans. If they want to dismantle our science, we are going to make it exceptionally difficult. We will fight every step of the way, and when this regime falls to pieces just like every other thing Trump has touched, we will rebuild.

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Chemjobber @chemjobber.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

My God, I hate this so much

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Andrea Love, PhD | Biomedical Scientist @drandrealove.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

Which FDA-approved vaccines had randomized, placebo-controlled trials? ALL OF THEM. Polio? Measles, mumps, rubella? Haemophilus influenzae B? Diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis? Meningococcus? Varicella? Pneumococcus? Rotavirus? RSV? Hepatitis B? Influenza? HPV? COVID-19? Shingles? YEP. A thread🧵 1/

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Ramya Kumar, PhD @ramyakumar.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

Students are getting their SEVIS records deleted for offences as grave as speeding tickets (going 30 mph on a 25 road), noise complaints, and literally any trivial encounter with law enforcement, whether they were are at fault or not.

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Ramya Kumar, PhD @ramyakumar.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

We were awarded a TrailBlazer R21 from NIBIB to design chaperone-mimetic polymers for ribonucleoprotein delivery. Excited to work with coIs Gerard Madlambayan and Serveh Kamrava.

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Matthew Gibson @labgibson.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

We have another #postdoc vacancy @uommib.bsky.social . Join us to explore new applications of glycan-nanodiagnostics, with our partners Iceni Glycoscience and Field Lab. #glycotime We have world-class facilities in great environment. Pls RT. www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

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Sarah Senese @ssenese.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

It’s official! Stand Up for Science with us on the east steps of the Colorado State Capitol building in Denver, CO! @standupforscience.bsky.social

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