Reposted by Shawna Follis DelgadoACLU @aclu.org · 18/02/2026BREAKING: The Department of Education has ended its directive that attempted to restrict diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts in schools nationwide. This is a victory for academic freedom and education equity. 4654063510694
Reposted by Shawna Follis DelgadoDemocracy Now! @democracynow.org · 30/01/2026The families of 26-year-old Chad Joseph and 41-year-old Rishi Samaroo say the two men were returning home from fishing and farming in Venezuela. democracynow.org“Cold-Blooded Murder”: Families of Trinidadian Men Killed in U.S. Boat Strike Sue Trump AdminThe families of two men from Trinidad killed in an October U.S. missile strike in the Caribbean are suing the Trump administration for wrongful death and extrajudicial killing. The families of 26-year... 5229108
Reposted by Shawna Follis DelgadoAmber Woods @amberspeaks.bsky.social · 30/09/2025BREAKING 🚩🚩🚩 Please share this President Trump just told U.S. military leaders they’ll be tasked with responding to the “enemy within” More ⬇️ 🧵 93634
Reposted by Shawna Follis DelgadoJeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 18/09/2025New story from STAT about a federal government-wide letter. www.statnews.com/2025/09/18/f... 1/3statnews.comDespite fear of retaliation, hundreds of federal workers urge Congress to protect medicine and scienceFederal workers send Congress a letter pleading for help, but their trouble attracting signatures reflects fear of retaliation. 29145
Reposted by Shawna Follis DelgadoChris Brockett @chrisbrockett.bsky.social · 17/09/2025Next up: multistate organizations to mirror the functions of the former NIH, CDC, and FDA that can review newly developed vaccines and treatments. 316034
Reposted by Shawna Follis DelgadoElizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 08/09/2025What the Supreme Court majority did today was endorse ethnic cleansing as legal in the United States. Someone in the mainstream media better fucking say that. That is what it is. 28804312
Reposted by Shawna Follis DelgadoSean Beckner-Carmitchel @acatwithnews.bsky.social · 08/09/2025Statement from LA Mayor Bass regarding the Supreme Court decision “I want the entire nation to hear me when I say this isn’t just an attack on the people of Los Angeles, this is an attack on every person in every city in this country.“ (Full statement in photo below) 701382591
Reposted by Shawna Follis DelgadoGregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 04/09/2025Caroline Kennedy warned us about her cousin #RFKJr, "a predator" presiding over "perverse scenes" of "despair and violence." His youth was the origin story of a new American Psycho. Now he is the position to inflict pain and suffering on millions. He has to go now. www.thenation.com/article/soci...thenation.comRFK Jr., American PsychoHe needs to go. Now. 632244791
Reposted by Shawna Follis DelgadoJeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 28/08/2025Powerful thread... 04111
Reposted by Shawna Follis DelgadoGregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 24/08/2025The @NYTimes has done a fantastic job on explaining what the Trump administration’s savage cuts to biomedical research mean: cures that won’t happen. Please share this widely. This is a catastrophe. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/24/o...nytimes.comOpinion | America First? Not When It Comes to Your Health. 14395233
Reposted by Shawna Follis DelgadoJeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 15/08/2025There are two organizations that I care most deeply about: Stanford University, where I grew up, went to college, learned to do science, and met my wife; and NIH, where is spent the most satisfying years of my professional life. Bhattacharya has managed to become an embarrassment to both. 41429
Reposted by Shawna Follis DelgadoCarl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 15/08/2025Imagine if they’d had sandwiches. 🥪 11353987412046
Reposted by Shawna Follis DelgadoLydia Jennings, PhD @1nativesoilnerd.bsky.social · 13/08/2025Not the point of the article but gentrification is making our spicy food less spicy and it kills me. Long live picante spice! 3408
Reposted by Shawna Follis DelgadoLydia Jennings, PhD @1nativesoilnerd.bsky.social · 15/08/2025The paper highlights actionable steps to help improve these double standards, including more RESEARCH RELATED LANGUAGE in P &T letters for Black, Hispanic and Indigenous women to improve their outcomes.nature.comUnderrepresented minority faculty in the USA face a double standard in promotion and tenure decisions - Nature Human BehaviourMasters-Waage et al. report that underrepresented minority (URM) faculty in the USA face barriers in the promotion and tenure process, receiving more negative votes and fewer unanimous positive decisi... 18852
Reposted by Shawna Follis DelgadoGregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 13/08/2025@defendpublichealth.bsky.social issued its report today: "Improving the Health of Americans Together: An evidence-based framework for addressing the root causes of illness in the U.S." Oh and we call for #RFKJr to go! www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...theguardian.com‘Distracting the public’: group of health professionals call for RFK Jr to be removedAhead of the second Maha report, grassroots Defend Public Health warns that everything HHS is doing is ‘horrifying’ 5346121
Reposted by Shawna Follis DelgadoMax Kozlov @maxkozlov.bsky.social · 27/06/2025"DOGE's control of Notice of Funding Opportunities, or NOFOS, functioned by requiring federal agencies to send any new grant or award postings to a DOGE- controlled mailbox. At least 30 funding opportunities piled up and languished in the DOGE-controlled mailbox," WaPo reports. 0146
Reposted by Shawna Follis DelgadoDonovan Maust @dtmaust.bsky.social · 24/06/2025The "References" section of my next paper will just say: "All of the foundational assertions are accurate." 37321
Reposted by Shawna Follis DelgadoSenator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 24/06/2025This is oligarchy. This is obscene. While 60% live paycheck to paycheck & kids go hungry, Jeff Bezos, worth $230 billion, goes to Venice on his $500 million yacht for a $20 million wedding & spends $5 million on a ring while his real tax rate is just 1.1%. End this oligarchy. 12804040112755
Reposted by Shawna Follis DelgadoProPublica @propublica.org · 19/06/2025After the judge deemed the NIH grant terminations illegal, he noted that the government’s practices were discriminatory: “This represents racial discrimination, and discrimination against America’s LGBTQ community. … I would be blind not to call it out.”propublica.orgFederal Judge Deems Trump Administration’s Termination of NIH Grants IllegalIn a ruling issued Monday, the judge called the government’s directives “arbitrary and capricious” and ordered funding for some of the NIH grants, including many profiled by ProPublica in recent… 8769171
Reposted by Shawna Follis DelgadoAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18/06/2025New in PN: Judge rules that anti-woke is just racism “'I’ve never seen a record where racial discrimination was so palpable,' Judge Young fumed. 'I’ve sat on this bench now for 40 years. I’ve never seen government racial discrimination like this.' *More of this, please*"publicnotice.coJudge rules that anti-woke is just racismYou can put lipstick on a pig, but it's still a rancid bigot. 8805081915304
Reposted by Shawna Follis DelgadoArt Walaszek, MD @walaszek.art · 20/06/2025Former NIH director Francis Collins speaks out about why he left NIH: “I didn’t feel I could raise alarms about the harms that were being done to medical research. I was prohibited from speaking about it.” #medsky www.aamc.org/news/former-...aamc.orgFormer NIH chief calls research cuts “careless” and “heartless”Francis Collins, MD, PhD, lauds lifesaving research supported by the National Institutes of Health, explains why he left, and warns of scientific brain drain. 15971421
Reposted by Shawna Follis DelgadoMax Kozlov @maxkozlov.bsky.social · 23/06/2025The list of grants covered in the APHA/UAW lawsuit has been posted. See links below. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...storage.courtlistener.com 0208
Reposted by Shawna Follis DelgadoMax Kozlov @maxkozlov.bsky.social · 23/06/2025Judge Young's order has come in. Grant terminations in the plaintiff states or to the plaintiff orgs (APHA, UAW) are officially void and illegal. It also says that the "Challenged Directives" are arbitrary and capricious — and thus illegal as well. Now what exactly are are these directives? 🧵 17329
Reposted by Shawna Follis DelgadoMax Kozlov @maxkozlov.bsky.social · 17/06/2025Because on this record anyway, I don't see anyone pushing back against it. Take a look at the people who have been named as defendants here. One of them is a cabinet-level officer. The other is not the same individual, but is now the director of the National Institutes of Health [Jay Bhattacharya]. 2425
Reposted by Shawna Follis DelgadoMax Kozlov @maxkozlov.bsky.social · 17/06/2025After ruling the NIH grant cuts were illegal yesterday, Judge Young, a Reagan appointee on the bench since 1985, ended the hearing with a blistering 15-minute speech. I've cleaned up my notes — here are his remarks in full. 🧵nature.comJudge rules against NIH grant cuts — and calls them discriminatoryThe decision means that the US biomedical agency has to restore funding to hundreds of research projects, but the government will likely appeal. 9404194
Reposted by Shawna Follis DelgadoMax Kozlov @maxkozlov.bsky.social · 18/06/2025Wondering if your grant will be reinstated from Monday's ruling? Check here. Plaintiffs have uploaded a list of 848 (of the ~2400 total terminated) they say are covered because they're to institutions in the states aforementioned or a part of APHA/UAW. The judge must approve the list first.storage.courtlistener.com 34435
Reposted by Shawna Follis DelgadoJeremy Sayz @jeremysayz.bsky.social · 16/06/2025www.nolo.com/legal-encycl....nolo.comSuing the Federal Government for Injury: The Federal Tort Claims ActIf you're injured by a government agency, you might be able to sue. Here's how you sue the United States under the Federal Tort Claims Act. 092
Reposted by Shawna Follis DelgadoScott Delaney @scott-delaney.bsky.social · 16/06/2025After ruling, with anger in his voice, Judge Young: "This represents racial discrimination. And discrimination against America's LGBTQ community. That's what this is. I would be blind not to call it out. My duty is to call it out. And I do so." 101444373
Reposted by Shawna Follis DelgadoScott Delaney @scott-delaney.bsky.social · 16/06/2025Judge Young says he expects that the government will quickly comply with his order in this case. To clarify: he's vacating the grant terminations at issue. And wants the money to start flowing ASAP. Of note: the universe of grants "at issue" in this case is in dispute and will be litigated further 454082
Reposted by Shawna Follis DelgadoScott Delaney @scott-delaney.bsky.social · 16/06/2025To be clear, Judge Young is ruling that the NIH terminations were neither "reasoned" nor "reasonable" based on the legal standard previously set forth by the Supreme Court for reviewing agency actions (e.g., terminations) under the APA. This is very good for plaintiffs. 1610109
Reposted by Shawna Follis DelgadoIan L Morgan @ianlmorgan.bsky.social · 15/06/2025"The role of DOGE is key, because it suggests NIH is canceling grants because of external influence and not NIH priorities."science.orgExclusive: NIH documents reveal inconsistencies in grant terminations as agency reviews 3200 moreEvidence of agency’s uneven guidance to employees and role of DOGE could play into legal case against cuts 15833
Reposted by Shawna Follis DelgadoMax Kozlov @maxkozlov.bsky.social · 16/06/2025Judge Young says he has concerns about discrimination against race, sexual orientation, and potentially women in this case. He asks if the plaintiffs will bring this up. Plaintiffs say the Public Health Service Act dictates that advancing the health of minorities and women is mandated by Congress. 15617
Reposted by Shawna Follis DelgadoScott Delaney @scott-delaney.bsky.social · 16/06/2025Some notes: - At stake are hundreds of wrongfully terminated grants. We at grant-watch.us count about 1700. Most terminations at Harvard and Columbia are not included in these cases. - Defendants argue there are far fewer grants at issue in this case, i.e., just a few hundred.grant-watch.usGrant Watch 17114
Reposted by Shawna Follis DelgadoAnnie Waldman @anniewaldman.bsky.social · 16/06/2025Happening this morning: A key hearing in the cases challenging the NIH grant terminations. Plaintiffs, including multiple state AGs + researchers, are requesting an injunction to reverse the terminations. Our reporting has tracked what's at stake: projects.propublica.org/nih-cuts-res...projects.propublica.orgShattered Science: The Research Lost as Trump Targets NIH FundingThe Trump administration cut research funding that sought cures for future pandemics, examined the causes of dementia and tried to prevent HIV transmission. More than 150 researchers shared with ProPu... 026678
Reposted by Shawna Follis DelgadoScott Delaney @scott-delaney.bsky.social · 22/05/2025⚖️🍿 Alright, let’s do it. Live-tweeting oral arguments on a motion for preliminary injunction in APHA v NIH. Hearing starts at 11a EDT today This is scheduled to be an argument about whether the Court should reinstate terminated NIH grants on topics like DEI, trans health, HIV prevention. But... 27026
Reposted by Shawna Follis DelgadoScott Delaney @scott-delaney.bsky.social · 08/05/2025⚖️ Terminated NIH grant litigation update: There's a hearing on a motion for preliminary injunction today at 11:30a EDT in Mass. v RFK et al, a case brought by some states against HHS. This is 1 of 2 diff. cases on this topic. I'll be live-tweeting it later this morning. Check back on this thread. 421772
Reposted by Shawna Follis DelgadoMorgan Fairchild @morgfair.bsky.social · 21/04/2025NIH bans all future grants to universities with DEI programs or Israel boycotts www.statnews.com/2025/04/21/t... via @statnews.comstatnews.comNIH bans all future grants to universities with DEI programs or Israel boycottsNIH prohibited the awarding of new grants to institutions that have DEI programs or boycott Israeli companies 159341
Reposted by Shawna Follis DelgadoMadhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · 23/04/2025NIH cancels its first and largest study centered on women www.science.org/content/arti...science.orgNIH cancels its first and largest study centered on womenThe Women’s Health Initiative has produced numerous influential findings 8128109
Reposted by Shawna Follis DelgadoACLU @aclu.org · 09/04/2025We’re suing Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and the NIH. The government doesn’t get to block researchers from making important medical discoveries and derail the next generation of American scientists just to further its political agenda. 663125177
Reposted by Shawna Follis DelgadoNeedhi Bhalla 💅🏽 @needhibhalla.bsky.social · 01/04/2025just started watching and he's talking about the importance of NIH funded research: "let me repeat 99.4% of FDA approved drugs were funded by NIH research" 🧪 5455114
Reposted by Shawna Follis DelgadoCharles Ornstein @charlesornstein.bsky.social · 02/04/2025NIH Director Removes Four Main Scientists amid Massive Staff Purgenature.com‘One of the darkest days’: NIH purges agency leadership amid mass layoffsIn shock move, four institute directors at the US biomedical agency are removed from their posts. 29660329
Reposted by Shawna Follis DelgadoAllison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 02/04/2025I called my senators today and told them I want Cory Booker to be the senate minority leader. We can’t hold hearings. We don’t have subpoena power. We can’t pass budgets. But we CAN filibuster, and we CAN change party leadership. 956480418921
Reposted by Shawna Follis DelgadoAlexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 28/03/2025We will not be distracted. We will not be discouraged. We’ve got our eyes on the prize. And we will build the prosperous, free nation for all that we deserve. The time to organize is now. OcasioCortez.com 231210332418472
Reposted by Shawna Follis DelgadoBK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · 23/03/202599.4% of new drugs approved by the FDA are the product of NIH funded research. Remember this every time you see another headline on the NIH funding cuts. It will directly impact YOU. #ScienceNOTSilence 114104032972
Shawna Follis Delgado @shawnafollis.bsky.social · 03/02/2025Any guesses what will happen to all of us currently awarded K99/R00 MOSAIC, with NIH expiring the NOFO? NIH requires an application to transition to R00. Does the expired NOFO prevent them from accepting the R00 application? 010
Reposted by Shawna Follis DelgadoNick Silva @nicholasjsilva.bsky.social · 24/01/2025I also have the MOSAIC K99/R00 and waiting to hear what happens to the R00 application that I’m working on 🫠 Feel free to message me. 021
Reposted by Shawna Follis DelgadoChrystal Starbird @drstarbird.bsky.social · 28/01/2025The MOSAIC website has been taken down and as a current MOSAIC fellow whose grant funds the trainees in my lab in studying critical receptors, I hope this is not a prediction of what is to come. 2285
Reposted by Shawna Follis DelgadoMia Farrow @miafarrow.bsky.social · 24/01/2025“We’ll lose a generation of scientists”: Yale braces for Trump’s NIH grant suspension Trump directed federal science agencies to cancel all scheduled meetings, effectively suspending NIH research grants yaledailynews.com/blog/2025/01...yaledailynews.com“We’ll lose a generation of scientists”: Yale braces for Trump’s NIH grant suspensionPresident Trump directed federal science agencies to cancel all scheduled meetings, effectively suspending NIH research grants. 74744296