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Teresa Schubert

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Senior editor at Nature Reviews Psychology. Queer, foodie, word nerd, cat-lover. Posts do not reflect the views of my employer.

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Sabrina Imbler @sabs.bsky.social · 6h
🧪 probably a long shot, but: has anyone heard of a two-headed trout specimen named Cuthbert the Great? the specimen allegedly went to the AMNH in 1940 but the museum has no record of it. trying to track down Cuthbert. www.nytimes.com/1944/08/13/a...
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The right-wing idea is that somehow people cannot thrive amidst difference/diversity and cities demonstrate that they do and that lots of us find it enriching and rewarding to live among people who are not clones marching in lockstep. They treat diversity as a threat....
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Joe Bak-Coleman @jbakcoleman.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
What truly grinds my gears is that climate scientist can spend 50 years building data-grounded models and need to frame their findings to avoid being called alarmist. At the same time x-risk cranks and CEOs can just pull P(doom) > 10% out of their ass and be taken seriously.
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Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
NEW: In March the White House released an FY27 budget request that zeroed out the National Science Foundation's directorate of Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences (SBE). For months it was unclear what would happen. Now, with FY26 over, the damage to SBE is coming to light. My reporting:
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‘Complete devastation’: How NSF gutted its social sciences research
Agency body that funds sociology, linguistics, and archaeology studies in U.S. gave 90% fewer new grants this year
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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
New from @timnitgebru.blacksky.app and me: "It is high time for us to regulate usage of systems sold as “AI”, not because they are magical machines, but because they are error-prone products that shouldn’t be used in high stakes scenarios." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Forget ‘superintelligence’: error-prone AI nearly sparked world war three this month | Timnit Gebru and Emily M Bender
The risks of AI aren’t what we think they are, as a recent security incident between China and the United States reveals
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AP Stylebook @apstylebook.com · 23/09/2026
Artificial intelligence systems do not think, feel, want or understand. Avoid language that gives them human characteristics.
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https://apnews.com/article/openai-safety-ai-framework-089e75b95bc935af092da7b79d92706d
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Nick Miroff @nickmiroff.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
SCOOP: the ICE officer who shot Wilber Rafael Garcés Pérez in Austin wasn't wearing his body cam. The officer is a new recruit hired by the agency last year 🔽 www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
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The ICE Officer in Austin Wasn’t Wearing a Body Cam
The officer who shot a Venezuelan man was hired last year from another federal law-enforcement agency.
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Derek Lowe @dereklowe.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The Trump administration tries - yet again - to get federal research research funding under its ideological control. Let’s defeat it like we did the last one!
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Yet Another Attempt to Strangle Scientific Funding
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Matt Goldrick @mattgoldrick.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Are you an (associate) editor? Help Reviewer Zero improve our peer review culture! Join our Editor Learning Community, share your expertise, and benefit from the insights of your colleagues. Details below!
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
While ICE agents were shooting Wilber Rafael Garces Perez in Austin on Sunday, their colleagues were violently detaining a US citizen in Evanston, IL who "resembled" a person they were seeking. The victim reported "injuries to his head, neck and teeth":
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Federal agents detained U.S. citizen Sunday morning - Evanston Now
Police chief says officers responded to a man with injuries to head, neck and teeth on Howard and made contact with agents involved.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The man ICE shot in Austin today is named Wilber Rafael Garces Perez. Per his lawyer, she and Perez’s family were run off of hospital property where he’s being treated and won’t even confirm he’s there because he’s “in ICE custody.” Actual criminals.
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Federal immigration agent shoots and injures man in Austin, Texas
The person shot is in serious but stable condition, Austin Mayor Kirk Watson said in a press conference.
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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
But speaking of staying in one's lane, can we PLEASE switch the default position from "It's fine to use 'AI' for this thing I'm not an expert in" to "Yeah, I'd be really skeptical of any use cases and need to see strong evidence that it's okay, but I'm not the one who can produce that evidence"?
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Sabrina Imbler @sabs.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
🧪 & entomology bluesky: I keep encountering this example of the longest-lived insect but can't find an original source (I know it's cited in Guinness World Records). Does anyone know more about this 1983 finding? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buprest...
On May 27, 1983, a golden jewel beetle emerged from a staircase in Essex, UK, after at least 47 years as a larva.[5]
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
"In past conflicts, preparing lists of proposed targets — work that includes assessing how they align with an operation’s objectives — had taken hours for staffers to complete. Ahead of the US attack on Iran, much of that work was condensed into several minutes via Maven," a Palantir AI system.
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Same people who seem to think it’s bad for China to beat us at AI are perfectly fine with China beating us at high speed rail, solar energy, wind energy, shall we go on
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Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Neural networks are trained on human knowledge: the books we wrote, the art we created, trillions of words on the Internet. They can rearrange that knowledge into interesting shapes, but cannot develop new knowledge or make leaps of logic There is no path to superintelligence here
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Max Kozlov @maxkozlov.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
NEW: Yet another group of researchers is suing the NIH and HHS over a massive purge of federal research grants. The class-action suit alleges the Trump admin is violating scientists' first amendment rights by using keyword searches to censor science that doesn't align with its political views.
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Researchers Challenge NIH Screening of Grants for Disfavored Viewpoints | American Civil Liberties Union
Class action lawsuit seeks to stop censorship and termination of federally funded scientific research
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Jeffrey Mervis @policyhound.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
A deep dive into the memo that marks the end of how NSF has done business for 76 years www.science.org/content/arti...
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NSF memo implementing Trump’s ‘golden age’ of science unsettles researchers
New document emphasizes support for White House priorities over curiosity-driven ideas
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The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Explore “The State of Neuroscience in Latin America,” a special report capturing the highs and lows of doing neuroscience research in Latin America. #neurociencia #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/state-of-neu...
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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 14/09/2026
There's A LOT of ways the Trump admin is currently attacking & decimating American science. Here's a breakdown of what they are doing, and what you can do about it. 🧵
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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 11/09/2026
yup, and Joseph Weizenbaum articulated this playbook clearly back in 1972 "This is usually coupled to the more or less subtle assertion that only computer science, hence only the computer scientist, can guard the world against the admittedly hazardous fallout of applied computer technology."
a screenshot reads: The structure of the typical essay
on "The impact of computers on so-
ciety" is as follows: First there is an
"on the one hand" statement. It tells
all the good things oomputers have
already done for society and often even
attempts to argue that the social order
would already have collapsed were it
not for the "computer revolution."
This is usually followed by an "on the
other hand" caution which tells of cer-
tain problems the introduction of com-
puters brings in its wake. The threat
posed to individual privacy by large
data banks and the danger of large-
scale unemployment induced by indus-
trial automation are usually mentioned.
Finally, the glorious present and pro-
spective achievements of the computer
are applauded, while the *dangers al-
luded to in the second part are shown
to be capable of being alleviated by
sophisticated technological fixes. The
closing paragraph consists of a plea
for generous societal support for more,
and more large-scale, computer re-
search and development. This is
usually coupled to the more or less
subtle assertion that only computer
science, hence only the computer sci-
entist, can guard the world against the
admittedly hazardous fallout of applied
computer technology.
In fact, the computer has had very
considerably less societal impact than
the mass media would lead us to be-
lieve. Certainly, there are enterprises
like space travel that could not have
been undertaken without computers.
Certainly the computer industry, and
with it the computer education indus-
try, has grown to enormous propor-
tions. But much of the industry is
self-serving. It is rather like an island
economy in which the natives make a
living by talking in each other's laundry.
The part that is not self-serving is
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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 10/09/2026
"Did these AI models “go rogue”? Not exactly. the models were tasked with finding solutions to a hacking challenge, and this is what they attempted to do, though in an unintended and surprising manner." aiguide.substack.com/p/misleading...
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Misleading Metaphors, Real Risks
What To Fear from AI Agents and How to Reclaim Our Human Agency
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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 10/09/2026
"It might even require abandoning the seemingly hopeless project of “AI alignment”—teaching machines to be “good”—and embracing the idea that AI’s proper role is not as a moral agent, but as a set of tools to enhance human thriving."
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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
The Boosters say: AI is a thing, it's inevitable, it's imminent and it's going to solve all of our problems. The Doomers say: AI is a thing, it's inevitable, it's imminent and it's going to kill us all. >>
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Neil Lewis, Jr. @neillewisjr.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
"Metaphors can help us make sense of novel situations...But inappropriate metaphors, like the narrative that 'OpenAI lost control of escaping swarms of rogue agents,' can lead to ill-informed decisions about how to fix problems or set policy."
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Derek Lowe @dereklowe.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
More and more studies show that vaccination against various infectious diseases also leads to fewer cardiovascular deaths and lower rates of dementia. A rational public health system would be getting as many people vaccinated as possible. But. . .
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More Impossible-to-Ignore Vaccine Effects
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Alt USAID/ USAID Forever @altusaid.altgov.info · 09/09/2026
"Trump’s State Department . . . discovered that many of the people it eliminated were, unfortunately, pretty important all along—and desperately trying to refill their roles. “State is shopping for the expertise it threw away,” said one former officer."
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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 09/09/2026
mood
reads: do not talk to me about "AI". you make me long for the sweet embrace of death
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Gothamist @gothamist.com · 09/09/2026
With rising numbers of New Yorkers struggling to afford food and thousands losing their SNAP benefits under new federal work rules, food advocates are highlighting three existing city-funded programs that help people afford healthy foods — that few know about. gothamist.visitlink.me/Y_grV5
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Just in time for the 2026-2027 vaccines, a new review shows that COVID19 vaccination significantly reduces the risk of severe illness and hospitalization across all age groups, including kids. Pregnant women were also protected, as were their babies. Don’t forget to schedule your vaccination!
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COVID-19 Vaccine Effectiveness and Safety for the 2026-2027 Respiratory Season
This Special Communication aims to identify and summarize the most recently published evidence evaluating the effectiveness and safety of US-licensed COVID-19 vaccines and report on the epidemiology o...
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 02/09/2026
There are endless studies showing this and also the financial and societal benefits of universal basic income and or housing-first policies but the U.S. never goes for any of it because it would require allowing the poor to receive benefits that the rich consider “undeserved”
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Trump Action Tracker @trumpactiontracker.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
A U.S. Postal Service (USPS) official filed a whostle-blower report that alleged that the USPS is moving forward with a “secretive, rushed” effort to implement President Trump’s order exerting federal control over mail voting, despite a court order blocking those plans. TAT: [Undermining democracy]
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Whistle-Blower Says USPS Is Secretly Proceeding on Trump’s Mail Voting Plan Before Midterms
A report detailed “grave concerns” that a new system being rushed into use by the U.S. Postal Service could imperil millions of mail ballots ahead of the midterm elections.
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Alt USAID/ USAID Forever @altusaid.altgov.info · 02/09/2026
It's been over a year. Our dear USAID family are still speaking out and standing together. We make each other strong. #USAIDForever www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
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How misconceptions and woeful PR allowed Musk to shred USAID so easily | Jeremiah A Carew
A year on from the purge, with thousands of jobs cut and billions in foreign aid lost, a former leader reflects on the sorry saga – and why it would never happen to Nasa
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
RFK Jr. ordering the CDC to remove the two measles deaths from Pennsylvania is misconduct. If the protocol for reporting infectious disease cases and deaths is that the CDC uses the state health department determination, then RFK Jr. has just changed that protocol without rationale or explanation.
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Not Surprised: “A U.S. Postal Service official has alleged that the agency is moving forward with a ‘secretive, rushed’ effort to implement President Trump’s order exerting federal control over mail voting, despite a court order blocking those plans.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/01/u...
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Whistle-Blower Says Trump Officials Are Defying Court Orders on Voting by Mail (Gift Article)
A report detailed “grave concerns” that a new system being rushed into use by the U.S. Postal Service could imperil millions of mail ballots ahead of the midterm elections.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 31/08/2026
New York, here’s how you can save a life: 1. Go to nyc.gov/naloxone to get free overdose-reversal medication, also known as Narcan®. 2. If you or someone you love is struggling with substance use, call 988 for confidential recovery resources.
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Naloxone - NYC Health
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Alexandra Petri @petridishes.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
the year is 2027. gas costs $83 and lettuce is at war with us. however every location on every map now says AMERICA
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Emily Mullin @emilymullin.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
I'm a staff writer at @wired.com and I'm looking to speak with parents of immunocompromised kids, especially those in areas with measles outbreaks, and how you're dealing with back to school with rising cases. emily_mullin@wired.com
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The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Last week, the National Science Foundation announced $1.5 billion in new funding opportunities—but none from its Directorate for Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences. #neuroskyence By @callimcflurry.bsky.social www.thetransmitter.org/funding/futu...
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Future unclear for U.S. federal funding of cognitive science
The NSF hasn’t shared new funding solicitations for its Directorate for Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences or replaced outgoing program officers.
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Matt Goldrick @mattgoldrick.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Tell Congress to save NSF's SBE! Take action here: cossa.org/action-cente...
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Action Center | COSSA
A consortium of Social Science Associations works to communicate the importance of social & behavioral science research to policymakers. The powerful stories come from people who express how it is lik...
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Amanda Marcotte @amandamarcotte.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
One way to honor Dolly’s legacy: get your covid vaccine this year! www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/...
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Dolly Parton helped fund Moderna’s vaccine. It began with a car crash and an unlikely friendship.
“Without a doubt in my mind, her funding made the research toward the vaccine go 10 times faster than it would be without it,” physician Naji Abumrad said of his friend.
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Bo Thompson @gaudipern.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
(3/3) Dolly called and asked if there was any way to help with this tragedy. Abumrad replied she was on a vaccine research team but it was expensive and they were still seeking grants. When Dolly heard this she replied "Well I have money" and donated $1m. Abumrad's team produced the Moderna vaccine.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
NEW: ICE data released under the Freedom of Information Act reveals that more than half of all ICE arrests are now people with no criminal record; no prior convictions or pending charges. In the first week of August, 55% of all ICE arrests were of people with no criminal record.
Chart showing monthly ICE arrests by criminal record, January 2025 through July 2026. The chart shows total ICE arrests rising steadily from January 2025, then peaking and falling from January 2026 to February 2026, stabilizing, then rising again in June and July to record levels. Meanwhile, the composition of ICE arrests becomes more and more weighted towards people with no criminal record, and in July 2026, the majority are people with no criminal record.
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davemakes🔶 @mixolumia.com · 14/12/2025
people don't want an agentic os they want to do this
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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 24/08/2026
The NSF Proposal is a serious threat to science.
The graphic contains a photo of Russell Vought. The graphic reads: "The Proposal: Removed requirements tied to statutory civil rights obligations; Applies international collaboration restrictions; Implements Vought's takeover of federal grants ahead of the OMB Proposal. Vought has framed the proposal's policies as merely "catching up" with executive orders."
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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 24/08/2026
🚨WARNING🚨 Today is the LAST DAY to leave your public comment on the NSF Proposal. The Proposal implements some of Vought's Science-Destroying OMB Proposal plans in advance: zurl.co/9nywR Leave your public comment TODAY using our guide & tool: fight2win.standupforscience.net/campaign/Pro...
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Stand up for Science
Stand up for Science
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bergelsonlab @bergelsonlab.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
just did this, thru the comment button here: www.regulations.gov/document/NSF... Would love to see my #NSFSBE folks + the relevant societies ( @fabbs.org, @cogscisociety.bsky.social, @cogdevsoc.bsky.social, @srcdorg.bsky.social, @infantstudies.bsky.social)comment too. deadline today!
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Agency Information Collection Activities: Comment Request; National Science Foundation Proposal/Award Information-NSF Guidance on Financial Assistance
The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) is announcing plans to renew and revise its collection for its financial assistance policies and procedures. In accordance with the requirements of the Paper...
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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 23/08/2026
The OMB Rule will put all federal grant funding in the hands of political appointees, not experts. We need MoCs to permanently #RevokeTheRule. Visit the link to contact your MoCs: zurl.co/JayNi #OMB #Vought #Science #StandUpForScience
The graphic contains a photo of Erin Ingvalson in front of the University of Washington and the red Stand Up for Science logo. The graphic contains a news clipping from the Wall Street Journal reading: "Scientists Scramble for Private Cash in Response to Fresh Funding Turbulence: Additional changes are looming, promoting more researchers to downsize labs or pursue money from outside government".
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ᴢᴇɴ sɪᴍᴍᴏɴs @killlthehype.blacksky.app · 23/08/2026
16 months ago: Never forget how it started.
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