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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

Now is a good time to sign on in support of the courageous folks at EPA who stood up for all of us. www.standupforscience.net/epa-declarat...

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Support EPA Staff Now! — STAND UP FOR SCIENCE

Your solidarity with the EPA heroes increases the pressure on their Administrator Lee Zeldin.

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James Hughes @dystopian-fashion.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Tuesday refused to rule out retaliation against hundreds of National Institutes of Health scientists over a joint letter signed and delivered in protest of HHS cuts and layoffs. www.rawstory.com/rfk-jr-26724...

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'Excuse me, sir': RFK Jr. refuses to vow not to target staff with retaliation

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Nigel Goldenfeld @nigelgoldenfeld.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

🧪 If you live in these States and care about biomedical research and the #NIH, please call your Senators: Maine (Collins) West Virginia (Capito) Louisiana (Cassidy) Alabama (Britt) Pennsylvania (McCormick) 👇👇👇👇👇👇👇

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Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

NEW: NSF will be kicked out of their building. Announcement will be made tomorrow by HUD Sec. and Governor of VA. HUD will take over the NSF building over the next two years. NSF staffer: "There is no planning for NSF, no identified future location, appropriation for a new building or a move."

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Jenna Norton @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

Please sign on and add your voice in calling for an NIH that prioritizes the safety of research participants and public health over political momentum. actionnetwork.org/forms/add-na...

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ADD YOUR NAME: Sign the Open Letter in Support of NIH Staff

Join the courageous and committed National Institutes of Health (NIH) public servants by adding your name now.

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Bluetorial: Timing of getting grants out the door at NIH The pauses and low rate of releasing awards may be a problem in terms of getting the NIH appropriation spent by September 30, 2025

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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 01/04/2025

Here is a guide to practical steps to take in the aftermath of a RIF notification. Time is of the essence when you know you may lose access, so take a look here to help you keep track of what you need to do. We can't take credit for guide, but we hope it helps.

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Pre-RIF Planning • Calculate Your Benefits: Depending on your age and length of service, a RIF severance may be better than taking a VSIP, VERA or fork type offer. GRIF Severance Calculator "- Fact Sheet Severance Pay &Severance Pay Estimation Worksheet . Understand that you are entitled to getting all of your Annual Leave paid out, but not your Sick Leave or Time Off Awards 6 Step 1: Still Employed? Hoard These Before They Boot You Virtual G o Bag: For more in depth information visit this link but find some key highlights below • Unemploym ent Benefits (UI): File day one--delays burn your payout. Your duty station is the location/state where you will file for unemployment benefits d State Ul Directory
. SF-50 (Separation Notice): Your VIP pass for UI, appeals, or jumping back into fed work. Bug HR or OPF now--don't wait for the pink slip. ◦ Pay Stubs (Last 18 Months): UI wants proof you're not blufing. Pul'em fromn mypay and send to a personal email/computer. • Official Personnel Folder (OPF): Your career's paper trail. Google how to download your entire OPF folder from OPE. All SF-50s are included in this folder. Tax & Leave Records: ₩-2s, final stub, unused leave balances-crucial for cash-outs or audits. For HHS employees hit up DFAS, or IRS. &- IRS Transcripts d Note: Change your settings back to physical mail delivery (from electronic) foryour W2 to an accessible physical address for a year down the road in case of any iss ues accessing your future 2025 W2 for the whatever time you are left working in the fed • Debt Ledger (Advanced Leave): Owe leave? Get this sorted pre-exit or kiss waivers goodbye. Ask your agency's HR. & OPM Debt Rules • TSP (Thrift Savings Plan): Withdrawal rules shift post-separation-_know 'em now. Call or check online " ISP: 1-877-968-3778
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Apply for SNAP, Medicaid, and/or ACA as appropriate. • Ditch COBRA for ACA unless you'e loaded. • Rewrite your resume-fed jargon flops in private sector. Network a lot. • Consider joining Senate job fair meetings on the Hill on Tuesdays coordinated by Federal Workers Against Doge (look them up on instagram), First 45 Days: • Widen job hunt-fed hiring's frozen, but others in the private sectors are hiring - it has been most difficult in the humanitarian and foreign affairs space so you may need to be adaptable in that case and pivot your career for the time being & Civic Match
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d Join CMS Alumni group on Linkedin d- Reach out to Schedule F Consulting to put your resumne in their bank.
• For education folks: d Open Edlucation Data, Research _ and Palicy Positions
For intemational development folks: C Job Seekers _Job Opportunities for Int' Dey Professionals
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Tim O’Brien @timobrien.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Former FDA commissioner on LinkedIn:

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Jasmine Crockett @jasmineforus.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Florida & Wisconsin, I hope you understand the assignment today! The entire Country, no World, is watching you. Please show up in record numbers and support candidates who will support the constitution & not the con!

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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 01/04/2025

Good morning. We’ve learned that RIF notices went out by branch overnight—timed for maximum cruelty. We’ll share info and resources throughout the day. To those affected: We’re so sorry. This is a deep personal loss and a loss for everyone you keep safe and healthy through your work. 💚

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 29/03/2025

All anti-mask laws—even those with so called “medical exceptions”—stigmatize mask-wearing. Fewer people wearing masks increases the spread of infectious diseases. No matter how lawmakers try to spin it, any law that criminalizes wearing a mask endangers public health. Period.

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Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪 @altnih4science.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Yes. The situation at NIH is worse than the public realizes. The #NIH is on track to be effectively ended as a funder of evidence-based research within a year. That is not an exaggeration. The firings and consolidation announced today will create a new, MUCH worse NIH. 1/

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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

If you think what happened to Rumeysa Ozturk can't happen to you because you're a citizen and she's not, you are sorely mistaken. Ozturk was snatched off the street not for being a national security threat but for having a wrong opinion. If we don't put a stop to this, it's coming for all of us.

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 25/03/2025

The Office of Long COVID Research and Practice will close as soon as this week, according to an internal HHS email obtained by Inside Medicine. This is the opposite of what you would do if you were genuinely interested in finding treatments for chronic diseases, as RFK claims.

Here is the text of the email:

Dear Colleagues,

We are writing to let you know that the Office of Long COVID Research and Practice will be closing as part of the administration’s reorganization coming this week. We are proud of what we have accomplished together in advancing understanding, resources, and support for people living with Long COVID.

Over the last 3+ years, we have built meaningful connections and fruitful collaborations across the federal landscape to support this work. While our office is closing, we hope that the work we have been dedicated to will continue in some form. Updates will be shared as they become available.

Thank you again for your collaboration and commitment.

Best regards,

Ian Simon, Ph.D.

Director, Office of Long COVID Research and Practice

Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 18/03/2025

Ahead of Germany’s election, with anti-immigrant sentiment rising, they released viral videos showing life without immigrants. History proves that when a country starts erasing certain people, it doesn’t end well. 🧵

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

CARTOON OF THE DAY 😕🇺🇸

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Oni Blackstock, MD MHS @oniblackstock.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Demand your reps and senators oppose elimination of the CDC’s HIV Prevention Division. Eliminating this Division would reverse all of our hard-won gains and lead to a resurgence of HIV, taking us back decades. 5calls.org/issue/cdc-hi...

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Protect the CDC’s HIV Prevention Division ⭑ 5 Calls

Amid broad threats to slash Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) staffing, the Trump administration is reportedly considering slashing …

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Timothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · 17/03/2025

HLB destroyed the Florida citrus industry because one person on a flight from China managed to land in Miami while the Ag Inspection team was understaffed. I cannot state how devastating to our nation's agricultural industry a reduction in force across the country would be.

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

these are our party leaders now, ignore all other opinions

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Eliza Orlins @elizaorlins.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

THIS FIGHT IS NOT OVER. TOMORROW MORNING: everyone MUST call en masse. Do you have a recurring donation to your Democratic Senator? PULL IT IF THEY ARE VOTING YES. We can still fight back!!

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Elizabeth Booker Houston @bookersquared.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Democrat Derangement Syndrome is strong.

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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

I’m sick to death of people saying we’re “descending” into fascism. The fascism is ALREADY here. THIS IS WHAT IF FEELS LIKE. And if you’re not feeling it, it’s probably because you’re one of the “good Germans.” @michaelharriot.bsky.social explains

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The 'Threat to Democracy' Is Over

It's time to admit that the fascism we feared is already here.

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Leah Greenberg ❌👑 @leahgreenberg.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

🚨🚨🚨 ALERT: we are hearing from sources that there is a very serious danger that Senate Democrats are on the verge of folding on the MAGA CR. CALL THIS MORNING indivisible.org/resource/cal...

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CALL NOW: Tell Senate Democrats to Hold the Line Against the Extreme MAGA Continuing Resolution

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Martin Austermuhle @maustermuhle.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

NEW in @51st.news: House Republicans just voted to defund D.C. police and schools. As part of a spending bill to avert a federal government shutdown, they could force D.C. to slash $1.1 billion out of its budget, and no one understands really why. 51st.news/house-republ...

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Dollars and nonsense: House Republicans vote to defund D.C. police and schools

Congress could force D.C. to cut $1.1 billion out of its local budget, but no one really understands why.

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Tamara @tamaratrails.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Freaking bonkers. 🤦🏻‍♀️

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Isaiah Martin @isaiahrmartin.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

This Repub CR, that they claim will keep the government open, is a perfect example of why you must read bills. Inside the text, you’ll find cuts everywhere, and so much money taken from vets you wouldn’t believe it. These guys are frauds. Nice try! Hard NO! Throw it in the 🗑️

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Posted by @attorneycrump.bsky.social: “Target, once a corporate leader in DEI, now faces a 40-day boycott led by Rev. Jamal Bryant after scaling back its diversity efforts. The retailer currently faces declining sales, tariff pressures, and customer visits dropping more than rival competitors.”

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A 40-day Target boycott starts today. It couldn’t come at a worse time for the company | CNN Business

Target is facing a 40-day consumer boycott starting Wednesday over the company’s shift away from diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) policies.

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Bluetorial: The announcement to move scientific review out of the institutes and centers into the Center for Scientific Review (CSR) and its potential consequences

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A Jean Stevenson @amandajean.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

They are sabotaging our national excellence in science - a huge source of our prosperity and power - and university leaders are standing by silently.

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Universities Are Under Attack. Silence Is Not an Option.

University presidents are staying quiet as Trump tries to destroy their institutions. It won't work.

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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 27/02/2025

The number of non-citizens on Social Security is 0. The cost of printing out this stupid Executive Order is greater than the money received by non-citizens on Social Security—which again is $0. He's distracting his MAGA base to steal $800B in Medicaid & give billionaires trillions in tax cuts.

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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

1. UPDATE The NIH is still blocking most ongoing scientific funding over concerns about DEI, according to NIH sources and internal NIH correspondence. The freeze has continued even after top NIH officials acknowledged that continuing to block the funding would violate a federal court order.

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is still blocking most ongoing scientific funding over concerns about "diversity, equity and inclusion" (DEI), according to NIH sources and internal NIH corresp...

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

“Operation Whirlwind” What’s Happening Now? In 2025, Operation Whirlwind was launched under Interim U.S. Attorney Ed Martin to investigate alleged threats against employees of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).

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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

looking back everything went to shit when Schoolhouse Rock stopped airing

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Max Kozlov @maxkozlov.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

NEW: The Trump administration is exploiting a loophole to keep funding frozen at the NIH - a move that some legal scholars say is illegal. Federal Register notices are blocked, so no grant-review sessions can be scheduled. All the gritty details here, and a short 🧵: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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Revealed: NIH research grants still frozen despite lawsuits challenging Trump order

The Trump administration is exploiting a loophole to keep a funding freeze in place, leaving researchers in limbo.

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 19/02/2025

In 1999, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., then an environmental lawyer, was named by Time magazine as a “hero of the planet” for his pioneering work to clean up America’s waterways. On his second day as secretary of the DHHS, he ended HHS funding for health and climate change.

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RFK Jr., one-time environmentalist, kills NIH climate change programs

He pulled HHS support from projects that aim to protect Americans' health.

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

We have been careful to avoid using the word coup, but it’s time to call it what it is—this is a coup. Trump signed an executive order granting only the attorney general or the president the authority to interpret laws executed by the executive branch.

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Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪 @altnih4science.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

“Trumpers defend HHS cuts.” Shocker, right? But this article shows what scientists 🧪 are up against. And gives a bit of hope. The Trump/Musk people are highly savvy about info environment and media. They have to be, their regime is built on deception. They use the media. This story… 1/

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Trump officials defend HHS cuts as more methodical than the slashing at other agencies

The administration’s Friday night message comes as a sharp departure from the approach that Trump and DOGE have taken to cuts in other federal departments and agencies.

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Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪 @altnih4science.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

Garrett Graff is a former editor of Politico. Take note, scientists 🧪, he is deeply informed about politics. “American institutions [including science institutions] continue to **underreact**” to what is happening. Keeping our heads down won’t work. 1/

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

They are absolutely cutting science! Folks in the NIH intramural program are gone. Folks in extramural programs. These include PhD and MD scientists who help make NIH function as a granting agency. They are depict this as cutting easily replaceable bureaucrat. There aren't many of those at NIH.

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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

This new Administration is a bunch of terrorists blowing up all that is meant to keep us safe and healthy. CDC cuts expected to devastate Epidemic Intelligence Service, a ‘crown jewel’ of public health www.statnews.com/2025/02/14/t... via @statnews.com

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CDC cuts expected to devastate Epidemic Intelligence Service, a ‘crown jewel’ of public health

Members of the CDC's Epidemic Intelligence Service were warned Friday that many of them were about to be fired

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

This is all a good reminder that, “no help, no votes until the criminal conduct stops” is neither a big ask nor a politically perilous one.

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Simon Rosenberg @simonwdc.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

We need to be clear that Trump and Musk are not reducing the size of the US government, or making it more efficient. They are destroying it.

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Jim Stewartson, Antifascist @jim-stewartson.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Yesterday was the greatest display of American weakness, and pure evil, ever seen in the White House. But the media still won’t say the quiet parts. This regime is not a government, it is a murderous, racist Crusade. Say it. Or die regretting you didn’t. www.mind-war.com/p/say-the-qu...

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Say the Quiet Parts. Or Die Regretting You Didn’t.

What the most embarrassing day in Oval Office history should tell us

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