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Amy Summerville

@regretlab.bsky.social
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Social cognitive psychologist. Former academic, still a scientist. ORCID: orcid.org/0000-0002-6409-8233

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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
(1) Continue to speak up about the value of science and U.S. government funding in science — e.g. about how investments in science drive technological innovation, lead to treatments and cures for diseases, etc. Speaking up can take a lot of forms. Every conversation matters.
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Bruce D. Baker @schoolfinance101.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Let's be clear about who some of these folks are and what their public positions have been - like Burke's position that women should not be seeking graduate degrees (and that gov't should not support them in doing so) www.heritage.org/education/re...
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Education Policy Reforms Are Key Strategies for Increasing the Married Birth Rate
The fertility rate in the United States has dropped to 1.6,
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Grace Lindsay @neurograce.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
ACTION ALERT via SaveNSF🚨 The Committee on Science, Space & Technology Democratic Staff is surveying the impact of the Trump Administration’s cancellation of federal research awards. If your award was terminated since January 20 2025 please fill out this brief survey forms.office.com/pages/respon...
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Microsoft Forms
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Aidan Wright @aidangcw.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
Want to study people in natural contexts, as they live their life? Ambulatory assessment (like EMA and passive sensing) let you do this, but are complex. Next week (June 5/6) I teach a 2-day workshop on best practices in ambulatory assessment: 1/2 smart-workshops.com/ambulatory-i...
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Ambulatory Assessment Information — SMaRT Workshops
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angela zhou @angelamczhou.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
I didn't know about this, but this is objectively procedurally terrible. See Bryan's great analysis 👇 Yes, peer review needs help, but not like this.
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Personality Psychology Podcast @pepsypodcast.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Mark your calendars! Our next episode will be an academic discussion featuring guest researchers @talyarkoni.com @regretlab.bsky.social and we want YOU to join! Check the slides for more details, message us with your questions, and join using this zoom link: tilburguniversity.zoom.us/j/4186582166...
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Paul Eastwick @pauleastwick.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
When I was in grad school, this was THE resource...and it cost a ton. Now it's free. Amazing. #PsychSciSky
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Michael Hoffman @michaelhoffman.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
NIH "temporarily" disables automatic no-cost extensions. Prior approval required. "Requests for activities that do not align with the NIH mission and agency priorities will not be approved." grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
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NOT-OD-25-110: Updated NIH Processes for No-Cost Extensions
NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: Updated NIH Processes for No-Cost Extensions NOT-OD-25-110. NIH
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Association for Psychological Science @psychscience.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Contact your Representative and Senators & urge them to support investments in NSF and NIH. The Administration’s proposed cuts to these vital agencies will harm #science and hinder our prosperity, health, and well-being. www.psychologicalscience.org/act-now
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Act Now: Share your Concerns with Your Representative and Senators
It does not matter whether your Representative or Senators agree with you. They must hear from you to understand how federal policy changes are influencing the people they were elected to represent.
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Dr. David Miller 🏳️‍🌈 @davidimiller.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
🚨 Practical URGENT tip for NSF grantees: Out of an abundance of caution, I would right now go into Research.gov and… 1. Download your NSF award letters. 2. Print PDF your annual reports. 3. Screenshot the status table for annual reports. NSF is planning maintenance tomorrow to Research.gov
Due to maintenance, Research.gov (including access to NSF-PAR, GRFP, PES, and ETAP) will be unavailable from Fri., 4/25 at 10:00 PM ET to Sat., 4/26 at 1:00 PM ET. NSF apologizes for any inconvenience.
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Mary Feeney @mkfeeney.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
For the last 3 yrs, I was the director for the Science of Science program at the NSF. We funded projects on science communication - science communication to the public, communication of public priorities to scientists, citizens engagement & participation in science. 🧵
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Amy Summerville @regretlab.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Does anyone in #psychsci #socialpsychology #psysky use something other than Qtrics for online experiments (eg, w random assignment & other complex design)? If so, what, and how is it?
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M.J. Crockett @mjcrockett.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Feminist social epistemology teaches us that diversity is a *requirement* for scientific excellence. We need each other to know the world. We need each other to solve the thorny problems that threaten our existence. Knowing the world is a group project, and everyone has something to contribute.
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Dr. Shayna Sparling @shaynagram.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Come work with me at UGuelph! Here is the first of several postings (the rest are still in the works) careers.uoguelph.ca/job/Guelph-A...
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Assistant Professor, Industrial-Organizational Psychology
Assistant Professor, Industrial-Organizational Psychology
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Amy Summerville @regretlab.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Fun fact I've learned at a small business working on DoD programs, if you want to work with UNCLASSIFIED DoD data, there is literally a 110 point checklist your IT systems have to meet.
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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 22/03/2025
Unfortunately, there was another round of FUNDED grants cancelled yesterday. These illegal cuts stop projects that have been in progress for years, interrupt lifesaving research, and destroy the public good of science in the US. If you were impacted, please share you story with us: fedfreeze.org
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FedFreeze.org
Fight Trump's funding freeze to protect lifesaving care and research.
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National Security Counselors 🕵 @nationalsecuritylaw.org · 11/03/2025
@propublica.org reporter Brett Murphy with an explosive scoop. This is insanity.
ProPublica just obtained a remarkable directive to those remaining at USAID: Empty the safes with the classified and personnel records and then ...

"Shred as many documents first, and reserve the burn bags for when the shredder becomes unavailable or needs a break."

The email came from from the agency's acting executive secretary. I asked Kel McClanahan, a national security attorney, if this was legal. He said: "No it is not," citing the Federal Records Act. "Classified records are still federal records."
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Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
ICE can deport green card holders for engaging in and/or inciting terrorism. Trump will likely use this to justify the arrest of Mahmoud Khalil without a warrant They've chosen him as their first victim because the Dems are unlikely to defend him They're testing the water. They will do this again
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Pam Davis-Kean, PhD @umpamdk.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
What might be a good next step after @standupforscience.bsky.social is @cossa.bsky.social Advocacy Day. I will be there-hope to see many more colleagues from across the U.S. as well
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Amanda Kay Montoya @akmontoya.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
We spend a lot of time talking about *presentations* but not how to spend the rest of your time at a conference. I looked for some resources, but didn't find much. So I'm sharing the slides I made for my lab meeting. If you know of other resources please share! docs.google.com/presentation...
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Academic Conferences
Academic Conferences Quantitative Research Collaboratory - Lab Meeting Amanda Kay Montoya February 28, 2025
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Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪 @altnih4science.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
But this move is a cut. We are hearing approximately 150 SROs will be removed, out of approximately 600. That's in line with Berg's numbers. Removing SROs will slow grant review, and that will reduce grant funding.
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Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪 @altnih4science.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
The SRO move is designed to look plausible. Looks like another "NIH" statement passed down by the Trump/MAGA political appointees. (We hear that DOGE people are showing up at #NIH meetings, like Soviet apparatchiks, to monitor NIH leaders.) This move is to harm NIH. Why? See below in thread:

NIH
@NIH
NIH is centralizing peer review of all applications for grants, cooperative agreements and research and development contracts within the agency’s 
@CSRpeerreview
. This is expected to save NIH more than $65 million annually & make the review process more efficient. https://go.nih.gov/iGmUyfH
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Ellsworth Green @greenellsworth.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Once again, concrete evidence that Trump continues his killing spree without halting from anyone. www.cnn.com/2025/02/25/h...
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A kindergartner’s hopes for beating cancer are tied to federal grants now on the chopping block | CNN
A family whose 6-year-old is battling cancer says a move to slash funding by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for research at universities and medical centers would be “devastating.”
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Annika Barber @annikabarber.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Wondering if your study section cancelled? I update this sheet daily. As of today, 56/124 study sections that should have met since Jan 2, 2025 have "not met as scheduled." docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
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2025 Study section tracking
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Sarah Karlin-Smith @sarahkarlin-smith.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Breaking: FDA's March meeting to select flu shot strains for 2025-2026 season has been canceled per email sent to committee members, a VRBPAC member told me. drug companies need about 6 months leeway to make shots in time for fall vax campaigns. #healthpolicy
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Mitch Prinstein @mitchprinstein.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Here’s what’s needed: Describe how loss of NIH funds is not just affecting the campus, but how does it affect “main street” in your town/community. How does funding affect employment, health care, services, etc off campus? Tell your local and state leaders and/or tag them here!
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 25/02/2025
THEY'RE GOING TO ISSUE PERMANENT VISA BANS TO TRANS VISITORS TO THE US. This isn't just for athletes. The directive as stated applies to all visa applications made by trans folks and declare it material fraud to use a different gender marker on applications. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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US threatens permanent visa bans on trans athletes based on sex markers
Exclusive: State department memo directs officers to bar those deemed to misrepresent birth sex on applications
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
When Musk’s role in govt or in FAA oversight was under consideration, perhaps it was fair to say “raising concerns about conflicts.” When he announced SpaceX would redesign the ATC system, that was at least a clear conflict. Now they’re buying SpaceX products to do it, it is just plain corruption.
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paolo @paolopalma.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
interesting this happens after the “biological sex” people come into power, almost as if biology actually didn’t matter to them either
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 24/02/2025
I'm gonna remind people that I feel pretty strongly that if you bought one of my ebooks legitimately, then you own the book and however you secure that ownership is fine by me mashable.com/article/how-...
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How to download your Kindle books while Amazon still allows it
After Feb. 26, Amazon is doing away with its Kindle "download and transfer via USB" option.
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Erika Crable, PhD @erikacrable.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Another loss for #science & the next generation of researchers. The 28-year running NIDA summer internship program is cancelled for this year. @altnih4science.bsky.social #SavetheNIH
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Becca Miller PhD @rebeccamil.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
www.sciencealert.com/scientists-t... “For all of their personality, LLMs have more in common with the predictive text on your phone than the principles that generate knowledge using the squishy grey matter inside our heads.”
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Scientists Tested AI For Cognitive Decline. The Results Were a Shock.
It's barely been two years since OpenAI's ChatGPT was released for public use, inviting anyone on the internet to collaborate with an artificial mind on anything from poetry to school assignments to l...
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Lydia Jennings, PhD @1nativesoilnerd.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Graduating during the pandemic slowed down my process and is part of why I did two postdocs. Now as a first year faculty, all the federal grants are frozen. I love the work I do but this has all of us questioning how much www.science.org/content/arti...
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U.S. early-career researchers struggling amid chaos
Uncertain funding, government firings, and distressed universities hit vulnerable groups especially hard
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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 23/02/2025
Don't lose this in all the noise. Trump abandoned Americans in hostile areas for no other reason than doing their jobs. Now they have 30 days to move countries and find new homes, jobs, schools. Go to @altusaid.bsky.social and read the stories. Then call your reps. This betrayal cannot be tolerated
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Jay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
At least 12 universities now have hiring freezes and nearly 30 have cut PhD admissions this year If you hear of other places you can add them to this google doc:
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Adam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
How many federal workers would DOGE need to fire to make up for Musk not paying his fair share of taxes? Answer: 677,000. That's 44% of the entire non-DoD federal workforce. Again, this power grab is not about the budget. It’s about politics.
Title: What Costs More: Billionaire Tax Avoidance or Federal Workers?
Subtitle: Musk’s tax avoidance could fund 677K federal jobs
	•	Current Tax Rate: 3.27%
	•	Top Federal Tax Rate: 37%

Cost Comparison (Bar Chart):
	•	Cost of Musk’s Tax Avoidance (smallest bar, purple)
	•	Cost of Top 100 Billionaires’ Tax Avoidance (largest bar, red)
	•	Total Federal Workforce Salaries (mid-sized bar, green)
X-axis ranges from $0B to $380B, showing that billionaire tax avoidance covers a significant portion of federal workforce salaries.

Impact on Federal Workforce:
	•	Average Federal Salary: $106,000
	•	Jobs Musk’s Avoidance Could Fund: 677,782 (29.5% of all federal employees)

Federal Workforce Breakdown (Pie Chart):
	•	A segment representing 29.5% of the workforce highlights the share Musk’s avoided taxes could fund, labeled “Share Equal to Musk’s Avoided Taxes: 29.5%”.

Sources:
	•	Musk’s Tax Rate: ProPublica
	•	Billionaire Gains: Bloomberg Billionaires Index (Dec. 31, 2024)
	•	Federal Employee Data: USAFacts
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your friend oriana @schwindter.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
hey you can make a public comment in support of trans people actually being able to travel as their gender, here's a handy collection of all the places to do that:
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From the Passports community on Reddit
Explore this post and more from the Passports community
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Karen Hao @karenhao.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
For decades, the US government has painstakingly kept American science #1 globally—and every facet of American life has improved because of it. The internet? Flu shot? Ozempic? All grew out of federally-funded research. Now all that's being dismantled. 1/ www.technologyreview.com/2025/02/21/1...
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The foundations of America’s prosperity are being dismantled
Federal scientists warn that Americans could feel the effects of the new administration's devastating cuts for decades to come
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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Science (and science policy, and conservation) friends, I need your help! We are collecting *specific, clear* examples of harms caused by the Trump administration's attacks on science, to be included in an open letter. Can be links to news stories/social media posts. 🧪🦑🌎 #SciComm #SciPol
The Trump administration’s attacks on scientific funding, restrictions on Federal scientist activities, and 
indiscriminate firing have caused chaos, panic, and harm.

We need *specific* examples of harms caused 
by these policies to include in an open letter. 
Grants cut, projects cancelled, jobs lost.

Feel free to send news stories, blog posts, or social media posts that mention these, as well as original contributions. 

Please send to WhySharksMatter @ gmail or DM me
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Anita Blanchard @anitablanchard.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
The (possible) federal funding freeze has halted the recruitment for our research study on remote scientific teams. You do NOT need to be funded, but you do need to be part of an academic research team that meets online. Link to google form in comments! pages.charlotte.edu/researchteam...
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Remote Research Teams Study | Recruitment Information
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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) makes recommendations that determine access to vaccines in the US. The ACIP meeting scheduled for next week is now delayed. This is how RFK Jr will administratively destroy vaccination programs. www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
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A CDC vaccine committee meeting, the first of Kennedy's tenure at HHS, gets postponed
An HHS spokesperson didn’t say when the meeting would be rescheduled.
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Jeremy Yoder says no war @jbyoder.org · 20/02/2025
"If DOGE is a federal agency, it can’t shield its records from the public. If it’s not an agency, then DOGE’s tens of millions of dollars in funding weren’t legally allocated and should be returned, some contend."
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Amy Summerville @regretlab.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Do you think that you should still be able to vote even if you change your name when you get married? Should it be harder for married women to vote than men & unmarried women? Tell your representatives to vote NO on SAVE, which requires a birth certificate/passport in your current legal name to vote
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Robert Garcia @robertgarcia.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
So if you criticize Elon Musk, Trump’s DOJ will send you this letter. Members of Congress must have the right to forcefully oppose the Trump Administration. I will not be silenced.
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Matthew Facciani @matthewfacciani.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
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Jack Iwashyna @iwashyna.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Over on LinkedIn, the head of the Executive Secretariat of the NIH -- a central part of NIH leadership 🧪🩺-- resigned with a lettter worth reading www.linkedin.com/posts/nathan...
February 18, 2024
TO:
Dr. Matthew Memoli, Acting Director, NIH
CC:
John Burklow, Chief of Staff, NIH
Julie Berko, Director, OHR, NIH
FROM:
Nathaniel James Brought, Director, ES, NIH
SUBJECT: Resignation
Dear Dr. Memoli,
On July 3, 2001, I stepped off a bus on Marine Corps Recruit Training Depot Perris Island. Scared out of my mind, I stood on a pair of freshly painted yellow footprints, raised my right hand, and recited the oath of enlistment:
I, Nathaniel James Brought, do solemnly swear that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; and that I will obey the orders of the President of the United States and the orders of the officers appointed over me, according to regulations and the Uniform Code of Military Justice. So help me God.
For the last 23 years, 7 months, and 15 days, I like to believe I have faithfully carried out the duties of each office to which I've been appointed in my military and civilian service to this nation. That Service has taken me from the Marine Corps to 3 different federal departments, spanned 3 continents, included service in one war zone, and has included:
• For the Marine Corps and the National Security Agency, I worked on intelligence operations at the highest classification levels using bleeding edge intelligence tools to ensure America's special operators put boots-to-asses on America's enemies overseas (including commendations crediting my work for the kill or capture of dozens of terrorists), ensuring America's policy makers were able to track the movement of dangerous dualnuclear technology across international borders, and monitored the flow of terrorist financing across the international banking system.
• Utilized information from all-source intelligence to ensure the continued security of America's homeland from international and domestic threats.
• Worked with some of the finest lawyers in the world to ensure America's security operations were effective, while upholding the rights of all those who interacted with them.
• Ensuring that America's rural communities had access to programs like rural development loans, farm aid, and that America's children wouldn't be hungry as they sat in their classrooms and tried to learn.
• Most recently, and frankly most dear to my heart, working with each of you here at the National Institutes of Health to advance the future of science and medicine. Not for Americans. Not for any one group of people. But for ALL of humanity.
I am unbelievably proud to be able to say that there are Americans who are alive, and terrorists who are not, because of the work I've done to serve this nation. I am proud to say that my service to this country has allowed me to ensure that my children have never faced the struggles of poverty that I grew up with. That service didn't begin because of some great altruistic impulse or drive. I didn't grow up saying "I want to do the great work that needs to be done to weave the fabric of America and ensure her people are not only safe, but healthy." Frankly, that service began because I was poor, and I was inspired. I grew up as a free lunch kid who lived in project housing. It was my fellow Americans who made sure I wasn't hungry in class and that I had enough food to excel academically the way I did. It was Americans who had more than we did that made sure I had good schools to attend where I could learn things that expanded my mind.
As I approached the end of high school, I dreamed of going to college and figuring out how to make a living that would allow me to do more tha…to go to college. I knew my grades weren't good enough to compete for scholarships with kids who were as smart as me but also had private tutors and didn't have to work after class to be able to drive their brand-new cars to our school each day. So, I gave up. I nearly failed my senior year of high school with an attendance failure, even though I only needed two classes to graduate. I didn't see the point. What was the point of learning calculus? So it would be that much harder when my dream of being a brain surgeon died not because I was incapable, but because I didn't have the means to make it come true? I resigned myself to being one of the working poor. I resigned myself to needing a spinal fusion before I was 50, like my father, because he literally broke his back trying to make his dreams come true. The example of my father didn't inspire me at that time. It reminded me of the futility of trying to escape the rung of the social ladder I had been born onto. No matter how smart or "gifted and talented" I may have been, I saw no path that led me to a place where I could realize my potential. So, instead I accepted that it would be wasted.
Ultimately, the reason I find myself here today, rather than in the place I saw as my only end, is because of another young man who committed to serving his country. Shamefully, I do not remember his name, but there was a young corporal from the United States Marine Corps who had been assigned as a recruiter in Reading, Pennsylvania at that time. This man spoke to me about my plans for my future during lunch one day at school. I told him I planned to do what my father had done. Work hard jobs until my body broke down, maybe start a struggling business, and try to do what I could to stay above the poverty line and off welfare. I told him I hoped to be successful enough that my kids never had to watch me use food stamps at the grocery store. It had been hard to watch my mom go through that. How sad is that? I was a smart young 18-…
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steven monacelli @stevanzetti.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
REVEALED: we identified the operator of an overtly racist X account, "GlomarResponder," as ICE Assistant Chief Counsel James Rodden, based on an overwhelming number of biographical details matched through publicly available documents, other social media activity, and courtroom observation.
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ICE Prosecutor in Dallas Runs White Supremacist X Account
The Observer has identified the operator of “GlomarResponder,” an overtly racist social media account, as ICE Assistant Chief Counsel James Rodden, based on an overwhelming number of biographical details matched through publicly available documents, other social media activity, and courtroom observation.
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Rich Meisel @richmeisel.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
NIH cannot fund competitive grants for research if review panels and advisory councils do not meet. Panels and councils cannot meet if NIH fails to post meetings to the federal register. The meetings are not being posted to the register. NIH grant funding as we know it is going away.
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