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✨NEW PROJECT✨ Support science across the country by writing an opinion piece in your hometown or local newspaper. This account is run by @cantlonlab.bsky.social & @spiantado.bsky.social. Join us at sciencehomecoming.com

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Science Homecoming @sciencehomecoming.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Today is a great day to write an editorial about how important government funded research is.
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Science Homecoming @sciencehomecoming.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
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How to revive science in America | PNAS
How to revive science in America
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Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
BREAKING: In response to huge cuts in Trump's budget request, NSF is shuttering its SBE directorate. Staff will be transferred to other parts of the agency and "grants that align with Administration priorities" will be maintained. That & more w/ @maxkozlov.bsky.social & @edwrdchen.bsky.social
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Massive budget cuts for US science proposed again by Trump administration
Budget proposal would also curb federal payments for scientific publishing.
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Science Homecoming @sciencehomecoming.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Chopping science means progress stops. Time to write home about the value of American science. Science Homecoming has resources on our website. Encourage your colleagues to pencil up ✏️
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Bruce Y Lee @bruceylee.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
Under Trump, NIH Funding Opportunity Notices Dropped From 787 To 84 Here's my coverage of this in @forbes.com 🛟 🧪 😷 #AcademicSky #MedSky #episky🩺 #HiSciSky Public Health #science www.forbes.com/sites/brucel...
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Under Trump, NIH Funding Opportunity Notices Dropped From 787 To 84
Even though the U.S. Congress gave the National Institutes of Health budget a modest increase, the Trump administration may be using other ways to cut the NIH budget.
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Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD @prasad.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
we are losing so much talent, progress, and hope for no good reason www.vox.com/future-perfe...
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Science Magazine @science.org · 28/01/2026
The U.S. government has lost more than 10,000 STEM Ph.D.s since Trump took office. A Science analysis reveals how many were fired, retired, or quit across 14 agencies. Read more: scim.ag/4boPkq8
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U.S. government has lost more than 10,000 STEM Ph.D.s since Trump took office
A Science analysis reveals how many were fired, retired, or quit across 14 agencies
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Toni Klemm @toniklemm.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
👩🏾‍🔬🐝🌌 Want to write popular science articles about your research for small-town newspapers in the U.S. to boost trust in science and support science literacy? Science Homecoming @sciencehomecoming.bsky.social has the information, tools, and volunteers to help you. www.sciencehomecoming.com
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Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
The revised Schedule F policy, finalized last week, will kick in next month. It could reclassify career government scientists—potentially those involved in grantmaking at agencies like NIH and NSF—into at-will employees, and would strip them of whistleblower protections.
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Trump team’s new rule could make firing government scientists easier
Although the government says the move will depoliticize US science, some researchers say it will do the opposite.
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Science Homecoming @sciencehomecoming.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
www.science.org/content/arti...
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U.S. government has lost more than 10,000 STEM Ph.D.s since Trump took office
A Science analysis reveals how many were fired, retired, or quit across 14 agencies
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Science Homecoming @sciencehomecoming.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
www.nature.com/immersive/d4...
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US science after a year of Trump: what has been lost and what remains
A series of graphics reveals how the Trump administration has sought historic cuts to science and the research workforce.
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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Covers of the 2 leading science journals this week @science.org and @nature.com www.science.org/content/arti... www.nature.com/immersive/d4...
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Science Homecoming @sciencehomecoming.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Even more success, now at NIH. Our collective efforts worked 🇺🇸🧪 www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...
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Congress Proposes Increasing NIH Budget, Maintaining ED
Appropriators have released legislation that wouldn’t defund Education Department programs or slash the National Institutes of Health budget. And it would prohibit the federal government from capping ...
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Science Homecoming @sciencehomecoming.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
Moving forward 🇺🇸. “When asked if the president would sign the bill, the White House directed NBC News to a statement earlier this month from the White House Office of Management and Budget. The statement said that the administration supported the bill.” 🧪🏠 NO MAJOR CUTS
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Science Homecoming @sciencehomecoming.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
Our collective efforts to save science are working. Gift article www.nytimes.com/2026/01/10/s...
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Congress Is Reversing Trump’s Steep Budget Cuts to Science
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CantlonLab @cantlonlab.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
This project is trying to raise science awareness by doing short videos about cancelled research — including mine.
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Nicole Rust @nicolecrust.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
Scicomm matters now more than ever! Returning from a trip to rural USA, realizing the messages so familiar to is are not getting out - both in terms of 1) disruptions to US science and 2) healthcare misinformation. Efforts like @sciencehomecoming.bsky.social matter! /1 sciencehomecoming.com
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The Open Notebook @theopennotebook.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
Local reporters like @emilywoodruff.bsky.social are finding voices in their communities that speak to real-life ramifications, stepping beyond the immediate news cycle and humanizing policy choices, writes TON/@bwfund.bsky.social early-career fellow Lucila Pinto. 🧪
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How to Make Science and Health Funding Cuts Resonate with Readers - The Open Notebook
By tracking funding losses and finding angles that illustrate the impacts of those cuts beyond the numbers, journalists can give readers a deeper understanding of how fiscal decisions have profound co...
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Science Homecoming @sciencehomecoming.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
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As funding falters, young brain scientists rethink careers in research
Research on brain disorders may slow as young neuroscientists struggle to find jobs and research grants.
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Science Homecoming @sciencehomecoming.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Please join @spiantado.bsky.social at @caltech.edu today for an in-person ScienceHomecoming event with The Caltech Y www.caltechy.org/programs/sas...
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CantlonLab @cantlonlab.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Steve’s invited to present Science Homecoming to the American Mathematical Association @sciencehomecoming.bsky.social
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American Mathematical Society @amermathsoc.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
Join this free workshop on Nov 12 with Steven T. Piantadosi of Science Homecoming and learn the how-to's and beneficial impacts of communicating the importance of scientific research to your local community through opinion pieces. Register today. Link in comments.
Science Homecoming Workshop. November 12, 2025. Steven T. Piantadosi, cofounder of Science Homecoming headshot.
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Science Homecoming @sciencehomecoming.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Come to the workshop at BUCLD @bucld.bsky.social, and bring a pen ✍🏻 www.bu.edu/bucld/
Student workshop, BUCLD, Jessica Cantlon, Writing to Defend American Science
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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 16/10/2025
Here's the newest piece in the @nytimes.com "Lost Science" series. @emilyanthes.bsky.social talks to a scientist who was learning about the minds of elephants--and how to use those insights to help the animals coexist with farmers. Gift link: nyti.ms/3KXVSAG
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Science Homecoming @sciencehomecoming.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Conservation biologist Tabor Whitney learned to value nature in Colorado’s forests. Now her federally funded work protecting the Colorado River Basin and building resilience against drought, wildfire, and water scarcity is at risk of being cut. 🧪🏠 www.vaildaily.com/opinion/whit...
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Whitney: Protecting what makes Vail great means supporting federal funding for science
I am one of the lucky few to grow up in Vail. My childhood was surrounded by nature and adventure. Living in Maloit Park in Minturn meant that my backyard was essentially a forest, one...
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Science Homecoming @sciencehomecoming.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Homecoming isn’t just for football. Scientists, write an article for SCIENCE HOMECOMING
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Sarah Nelson @blueyedgenes.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Just a reminder that if you are a scientist wondering how you can communicate the value of federally-funded scientific research outside of your bubble, @sciencehomecoming.bsky.social is here to help you pitch and publish in your hometown newspaper sciencehomecoming.com
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Lauren Kuehne @omfishient.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
🧪Excited to co-present this @standupforscience.bsky.social event next week with UW's Dr. Ryan Kelly We'll cover how to effectively engage in public comments, to help shape public policy at all levels, federal to local. Attend in person or virtually! RSVP: act.standupforscience.net/events/power...
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Grace Lindsay @neurograce.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
@sciencehomecoming.bsky.social has tools for finding local newspapers and writing for them!
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Max Kozlov @maxkozlov.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
Coincidentally, another group published results today on a very similar question: What research wouldn't have gotten done had the NIH's budget been cut by 40%, as Trump proposed? Under that scenario, NIH-funded research on more than half of 557 drugs approved 2000-2023 would have never happened!
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What if NIH had been 40% smaller?
Replaying history with less NIH funding shows widespread impacts on drug-linked research
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Science Homecoming @sciencehomecoming.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
Participation has been outstanding at every level, across diverse science fields. We’ve published nearly 300 articles in local hometowns. 🧪🏠 Write yours today with help here: sciencehomecoming.com
Published authors by career stage: Pre-doc 42%, Post-doc 18%, Faculty 39%
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Science Homecoming @sciencehomecoming.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
Have you written to your home community to tell them what’s going on? They likely are unaware of the consequences 🧪🏠 penncapital-star.com/health/resea...
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Researchers: Pennsylvania out nearly $40 million in NIH scientific grants after federal cuts • Pennsylvania Capital-Star
Around 112 scientific grants in Pennsylvania from the National Institutes of Health have been impacted by cuts or freezes instituted by the Trump administration, according to a group of researchers an...
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Science Homecoming @sciencehomecoming.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
“Universities are the incubators of medical breakthroughs.” Long Island native Sam Cermak, now a biomedical PhD student at Northwestern, studies how chronic pain rewires the brain and fuels opioid addiction. Progress takes years, but has already saved many lives 🧪🏠 tbrnewsmedia.com/your-turn-ho...
Scientists studying how to improve human life
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Joachim Frank @joachim123.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
Here is a link to share, to spread the news about the importance of science for healthcare nam02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...
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ScienceSavedMe Testimonials - YouTube
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Science Homecoming @sciencehomecoming.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
For his hometown in Montana, Nick Weber, PhD reminds his hometown that science once cured “black measles” and Rocky Mountain spotted fever—proof that investment in research saves lives, then and now. 🧪🏠
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Atul Gawande @agawande.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
9 CDC Directors going back to 1977 speak out. What RFK Jr has done to our nation’s public health system "should alarm every American." It "is unlike anything we have ever seen at the agency, and unlike anything our country has ever experienced." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
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Opinion | We Ran the C.D.C.: Kennedy Is Endangering Every American’s Health
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
Schumer, Jeffries propose strongly-worded letter to counter RFK Jr.'s purge at the CDC.
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Dannagal Goldthwaite Young @dannagal.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
You spelled ENDANGERING wrong, @nytimes.com. “Pushing the boundaries” is a *positive* frame implying unconventional innovations. There are no innovations here. Just medieval anti-science populist attacks on some of best methods of truth seeking we have.
How the Trump-Kennedy Alliance Is Pushing the Boundaries of Public Health
The mutually beneficial relationship between President Trump and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is based on a striking alignment of some of their views.The two exchanges crystallized the mutually beneficial nature of the relationship between the two men, an alliance driven by political calculation and a striking alignment of some of their views. Their ties have empowered Mr. Kennedy to push the boundaries of public health and science with the support of the president, who in turn benefits from Mr. Kennedy’s coalition of followers opposed to vaccines and health mandates.
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
RFK Jr. ordered the NIH’s Integrated Research Facility in Frederick to stop all research on serious infectious diseases yesterday at 5:00 PM. They study pathogens like Ebola there. You may be familiar with it from The Hot Zone. www.wired.com/story/hhs-ni...
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RFK Jr.'s HHS Orders Lab Studying Deadly Infectious Diseases to Stop Research
NIAID's Integrated Research Facility is one of the few federal facilities charged with studying Ebola. Tuesday afternoon, all of its work was put on indefinite pause by Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s departm...
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Science Homecoming @sciencehomecoming.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
Where the Science Homecoming authors are from…so far 🧪🏠
Pie chart — Biology 30%, Neuro 23%, Medicine 12%, Environmental Science 13%…
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Science Homecoming @sciencehomecoming.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
Seema Shah and Kingsley Osuala write about all the lives saved by science in Detroit, “NCI funding has helped research institutions develop better detection methods, contributing to a 34% drop in cancer mortality since 1991.” 🧪🏠 @princess-vimentin.bsky.social www.detroitnews.com/story/opinio...
Scientists looking for signs of cancer in MRI images
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Science Homecoming @sciencehomecoming.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
Seema Shah and Kingsley Osuala write about all the lives saved by science in Detroit, “NCI funding has helped research institutions develop better detection methods, contributing to a 34% drop in cancer mortality since 1991.” 🧪🏠 @princess-vimentin.bsky.social www.detroitnews.com/story/opinio...
Scientists looking for signs of cancer in MRI images
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CantlonLab @cantlonlab.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
One reason scientists should WRITE ✍🏻 to small towns and suburbs is that people FORGOT what all science does for them. Interview with @sciencehomecoming.bsky.social
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Joshua Weitz @joshuasweitz.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
As see in the few examples in this thread, the #SCIMaP team has released an interactive bluesky bot. You can ask for scorecards in a variety of ways: Just send a zip (98105) or state (South Carolina) or district (MD-04)
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Science Homecoming @sciencehomecoming.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
A clear message about the value of science for Pennsylvania 🧪🏠
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neuronickole @neuronickole.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
Find me in Colorado Medicine talking about the importance of ALL of us standing up for science and innovation! Read here 👉 issuu.com/colomedsoc/d... Big thanks to @sciencehomecoming.bsky.social, @thebalelab.bsky.social and Dr. Steven Lowenstein!
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Science Homecoming @sciencehomecoming.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
Important work by @asinclair.bsky.social‬ and colleagues showing that communicating the impact of NIH cuts markedly changes beliefs across the political spectrum. bsky.app/profile/asin...
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Science and Freedom Alliance - SAFA @safa-science.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
The Supreme Court is reviewing a vitally important NIH case on its shadow docket. It is likely that the Court will back Trump, and say his (illegal) grant terminations are ok. We must speak up now. 1/
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Tell the Supreme Court: No Stay. Hands off NIH
The Supreme Court is poised to allow Trump to illegally terminate NIH grants. Let's speak out. There is not much time.
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
Scientists! @skypeascientist.bsky.social matches scientists with classrooms, libraries, & more for virtual Q&As! It's easy and fun! We are looking for 750 more volunteers by 8/15 If you're down to chat with 1-5 classrooms this semester, sign up here www.skypeascientist.com/sign-up.html
a canva graphic that says "How it works Step 1:  Go to SkypeAScientist.com
Step 2: Click “Sign Up” then “Scientist
              Sign Up Form”
Step 3: Tell us about yourself
Step 4: Get matched with a classroom
Step 5: Connect with the teacher
Step 6: Make a kid’s day 
isn't that great?
@SkypeAScientist"
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