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Andy Vaughan

@vaughandy.bsky.social
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Associate Professor at the University of Pennsylvania. My lab does “lung stuff” and regenerative biology. Leges sine Moribus vanae. I took the liberty of ironing your homework. www.vaughanlab.com

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Pennsylvania AAUP Conference @paaaup.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Very excited to announce our annual Fall Conference featuring @proftwolf.bsky.social, Nov. 7 in Philly! Free for Pennsylvania AAUP members and travel stipends available. Register here tinyurl.com/96fcevme
Registration info for Pennsylvania AAUP annual conference featuring Todd Wolfson and David Pozen
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Matt Gabriele @profgabriele.com · 29/09/2026
man, LANTERNS is good
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BeshearStan @beshearstan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
God I love Angie Nixon. I hope she wins
Now @AshleyMoodyFL. Why would I want to abolish the police when I want you arrested and in jail for stealing $10 million from sick kids? BFFR
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Claire Zagorski, PhD, MSc, EMT-P @clairezagorski.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I hate it so much. This can happen to you too. A year ago, almost everyone doubted this would happen. I had faculty at other schools telling me I was hysterical. (Irony!) Watch for the installation of right wing figureheads without an academic background. Watch for assaults on faculty governance.
BREAKING NEWS
UT cuts all Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies courses from core curriculum
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Andy Vaughan @vaughandy.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Well this is a pleasant surprise. While PA's "democratic" senator is out there boot-licking Trump, McCormick actually seems to get it with regards to research funding
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In Medias Malone @professormusgrave.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I found this persuasive and constructive while still affective www.liberalcurrents.com/talarico-d-i...
liberalcurrents.com
Talarico (D) Is Just a Letter to Me Now
After folding on trans rights, James Talarico does not have my respect. Honestly, fuck him. And yet, Ken Paxton (R) must lose.
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Mark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
and take action--call your Senators today--its pretty simple. Tell them two things: no stealing NIH money to fund Trump's losing war and no to an EO that makes trump in charge of all funding. Both are cronyism and theft
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Congressman Greg Casar @repcasar.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
The horror has come to our city: ICE has shot a person in Austin this morning. As the facts emerge, I am demanding a full, independent investigation, immediate release of the body camera footage, and accountability for any ICE officer who broke the law.
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Princess Vimentin PhD | Cancer Biologist @princess-vimentin.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Recall that the OMB rule got 500,000 comments, opposed mostly by scientists, medical professionals & advocates. Trump has asked Vought to draft an EO to create a board that decides what NIH grants get funded. Vought would be on that board. Vote blue in November. 🧪 www.politico.com/news/2026/09...
politico.com
Trump asked budget chief to draft order bringing health research funding under his control
The move came after the NIH director refused Trump’s request to cut Harvard grants in an Oval Office meeting.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Article is useful in that it shows that a) Trump is directly involved in these decisions, b) sees them in purely personalist terms - he wants to politicize research grants so he can destroy Harvard for daring to defy him
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Andy Vaughan @vaughandy.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Could be totally wrong but I get increasingly weird vibes about Piker and I have a feeling DSA (of which I am a member) and progressives in general should be careful.
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Andy Vaughan @vaughandy.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
My old band opened for Macklemore back in 2010 at Western Washington University. Gotta say never really thought much about it but feeling sorta retroactively proud with the recent news.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 16/09/2026
Aaron Rowe, Lukas Graham and Finneas, the remaining opening acts for Ed Sheeran’s Loop Tour, have quit in solidarity with Macklemore, who was dismissed from his opening spot for pro-Palestine comments. wapo.st/4cPZP5M
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 15/09/2026
Breaking News: The Supreme Court blocked a Trump administration plan to dramatically change mail-in voting for the midterms. Follow live updates.
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Supreme Court Rejects Trump’s Restrictions on Mail Voting: Live Updates
The ruling blocks the Trump administration from dramatically changing how Americans vote by mail in the midterm elections.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 13/09/2026
"i will shoot myself in the gut if you do not let me cut off my dick!!!"
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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 11/09/2026
hey kids check this out act.dsausa.org/s/4536.Xd0xHm
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Join DSA. Become a member today.
Democratic socialists have an historic opportunity and responsibility to play a central role in continuing the political revolution for the long term. As a democratic, grassroots organization, DSA is ...
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Pennsylvania AAUP Conference @paaaup.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
A very provocative and important piece from Sylvia Chou and colleagues, who @aaup-penn.bsky.social hosted at Penn last semester. www.aaup.org/toward-recon...
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Toward the Reconstruction of US Research Infrastructure
Academia must organize now to secure the future of the US academic research enterprise.
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Congresswoman Yassamin Ansari @repyassansari.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
This is absolutely terrifying. Jacob Coxon and Evan Hubinger, top researchers at Anthropic and formerly OpenAI, said these companies are creating technology that could "kill us all by the end of the decade."
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Mark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
When Chip Quinn isolated the first Drosophila learning mutants. H wanted to name them after Republican Presidents but got worried about funding so named them after vegetables {look it up--it was in the WSJ 😉😜]
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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 04/09/2026
Right. Vought and Bhattacharya tried to gut NIH in 2025 via stopping spending (Fed Reg bans) and rescission. That failed. Now in 2026, they’re still using bureaucracy inside the agency to try to slow spending. But they need a new way to get the leftover money (meant for science!) out of NIH. 1/
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Andy Vaughan @vaughandy.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 04/09/2026
The NIH Director confirms they are giving away biomedical research money used to develop treatments and cures for infectious diseases such as influenza, malaria, tuberculosis, HIV, Ebola, and other dangerous pathogens, to the Department of Defense. Outrageous.
Jay Bhattacharya, MD, PhD
@NIHDirector_Jay

NIH funds should be used to improve the health of Americans.
Far from siphoning money away from research, this partnership between @NIH and @DeptofWar focuses on research projects that will drive discoveries to improve the health of American citizens and members of the military.
Led by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, all work will be 100% aligned with our public health mission.
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Common Dreams @commondreams.org · 04/09/2026
"The Trump administration is now trying to rob NIH of billions of dollars that Congress provided for medical research so that it can pad the Pentagon’s budget."
commondreams.org
'Outrageous': Pentagon Secretly Working to Divert Billions From National Institutes of Health
"These funds were provided for lifesaving medical research, not as extra money for the Department of Defense," said Rep. Rosa DeLauro.
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Andy Vaughan @vaughandy.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
WITAF
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Andy Vaughan @vaughandy.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
www.nytimes.com/2026/08/30/n...
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Andy Vaughan @vaughandy.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Government funded scientists aren’t the only ones struggling these days. Featuring my high school classmate Clay from Broken Bow Nebraska. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/24/u...
nytimes.com
Farmers Struggle to Get Basic Services From Depleted Agriculture Dept.
After the departure of thousands of federal workers, rural communities report problems obtaining loans, grants, technical assistance and support for infrastructure and other services.
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Andy Vaughan @vaughandy.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Four adult men grapple with their spiritual crises.
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Democratic Socialists of America @demsocialists.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
"Democratic Socialists of America extends our deepest condolences to the family, friends, and fans of Dolly Parton, a hero of the working-class and an inspiration to us all."
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James Downie @jamescdownie.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
"Area Carpenter's Son Defends Feeding Poor, Says It's His Duty to Help The Less Fortunate"
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Will Jones @willpjones.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Let's not forget that Harvard's administration did not stand up until Harvard AAUP, @aaup.org, and @uaw.org acted first.
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gamera obscura @ohrobin.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Sergey Brin is worth about $284 billion. After the proposed ONE-TIME 5% wealth tax, he would have roughly $270 billion. If, after that tragic loss, he spent $1 million every single day and never earned another cent, he would run out of money in the year 2766. Billionaires are an obscenity.
latimes.com
Google co-founder Sergey Brin spending more than $100 million fighting California wealth tax
Brin has been pouring money into Building a Better California, a group that's backing two measures that could nullify a proposed billionaire tax.
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Andy Vaughan @vaughandy.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Biking through Denmark, 10/10 would recommend
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Jenna Norton @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Out today with a piece with Max Stier of @ourpublicservice.bsky.social on how the Trump Administration is dismantling the scientific workforce, to the detriment of the American public. scienceandfreedomalliance.substack.com/p/the-trump-...
scienceandfreedomalliance.substack.com
The Trump administration is dismantling one of America's greatest strategic assets: its scientific workforce
By Jenna Norton and Max Stier
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 07/08/2026
It’s weird how people in professional circles can’t just say “sorry it’s not going to work out” anymore and instead just ghost you.
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Congresswoman Sydney Kamlager-Dove @kamlager-dove.house.gov · 06/08/2026
I just filed articles of impeachment against OMB Director Russell Vought. Vought has repeatedly and openly broken the law to stroke Trump’s fragile ego. The administration’s own admission that it terminated federal funding to states that voted against Trump in 2024 is just the latest example.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 07/08/2026
Two capybaras wandered into the reception area of a Brazilian state legislature last week. The animals, which are the largest rodents in the world, were shooed away from the premises by a parliamentary aide. nyti.ms/4yZ1DTr
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
This is an INSANE thing to say and believe.
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Dan Greene @dmgreene.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
(The lights quite literally. It's gonna vary everywhere but in an r1, the sciences get the grant money to subsidize everyone's facilities costs and the humanities get the tuition money to subsidize everyone's salaries)
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Dan Greene @dmgreene.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
UC and UAW are sponsoring a bill to authorize a $12 billion bond offering for research funding. I have been barking up this tree since COVID but it's really only a rich private school here and there that have done it. Obvs you want the money without the debt but still a serious political advance.
edsource.org
University of California pushes for $12B scientific research bond to counter federal cuts
Amid federal cuts and funding uncertainties, the University of California is advocating for a state bond to fund scientific research projects at California universities.
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Andy Vaughan @vaughandy.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
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#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 05/08/2026
Unfathomable
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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Need to have some frank talk about #Yale President McInnis, General Counsel Alexander Dreier and the trustees. First, they keep saying that they are compelled to enter into a settlement with the #Trump administration. Untrue. 1/
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AAUP @aaup.org · 31/07/2026
🧵on the AAUP endorsement of Dr. Abdul El-Sayed for U.S. Senate in the Michigan Democratic primary, the first-ever electoral endorsement in the organization's 110-year history. 1
"For the first political endorsement in AAUP's 110-year history, we are proud to endorse Dr. Abdul El-Sayed because he shares our vision of higher education as a public good. He will fight for tuition-free and debt-free higher education and a system that works for everyone-not just those who can afford it."
-TODD WOLFSON,
AAUP PRESIDENT
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Andy Vaughan @vaughandy.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
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AAUP–Penn @aaup-penn.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
“This victory shows that universities should not capitulate to unjust and unconstitutional demands from the Trump administration,” said Lorena Grundy, vice president of @aaup-penn.bsky.social. “AAUP-Penn will continue to defend the rights of all communities at Penn.” When we fight, we win.
inquirer.com
Trump administration drops its subpoena seeking names of Jewish people at Penn
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission also agreed not to seek the information in the subpoena in alternative ways.
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Andy Vaughan @vaughandy.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Thank God! Also the fact that not giving the government a list of Jewish people at Penn was something we had to fight for is crazy??? What a world. Huge props to @aaup-penn.bsky.social and the ACLU and associated groups for taking on this fight. www.inquirer.com/education/up...
inquirer.com
Trump administration drops its subpoena seeking names of Jewish people at Penn
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission also agreed not to seek the information in the subpoena in alternative ways.
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Sarah T Roberts, PhD @ubiquity75.xyz · 22/07/2026
A reminder that UC _faculty_ and Faculty Associations — not the universities themselves nor their administrators — are waging this battle in court, demonstrating great bravery and moral clarity.
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White House admits it used keywords to kill billions worth of California research grants
Federal agencies that terminated more than a thousand research grants at the University of California last year admitted that they used keywords related to diversity, gender, vaccine hesitancy and COV...
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Brandon Bishop @brandontbishop.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
"Postdoc travel grant for AGU" This is a sign that the meeting costs are out of hand. Or the average postdoc should make as much as an assistant manager at Panda Express. Possibly both.
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assbutt @nasboat.org · 21/07/2026
thought about this meme again and started laughing like an idiot at work
Ween fans when the worst song you’ve ever heard comes on
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