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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com · 04/11/2025
thank you for the outpouring of support! those of us laid off from Teen Vogue yesterday are now sharing our GoFundMe to help us cover our emergency expenses now that we've lost our incomes, as we get back on our feet.
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Donate to Help Laid-Off Teen Vogue Staffers Recover, organized by Lexi McMenamin
More than half the team at Teen Vogue was laid off this week by our parent co… Lexi McMenamin needs your support for Help Laid-Off Teen Vogue Staffers Recover
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🪾santiago, phd 🐈‍⬛ @santiagokique.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
Even though it's crisis #192308 in our current time, I don't think it's sufficiently sunk in with ppl in the academic community that getting federal funding for your research will primarily depend on whether Trump political appointees find you and your work useful kffhealthnews.org/news/article...
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Changes at NIH Give Political Appointees Greater Power To Fund or Block Research - KFF Health News
The National Institutes of Health’s long-held standard of peer review for grantmaking has been subverted by President Donald Trump and NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya, who gave unprecedented power to po...
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dr. ye$enia @yesenia.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
hi everyone!! popping back into this space briefly to share the fundraiser for my long-awaited top surgery! eek! we are SO close to reaching my goal! any form of interaction helps, even if you can't donate! thank you, i love you, and keep taking care of each other! #transrights! gofund.me/60c167de1
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Donate to Dr. Yesenia's top surgery fundraiser!, organized by Yesenia Garcia
Hello friends and loved ones of the internet! I'm posting this fund… Yesenia Garcia needs your support for Donate to Dr. Yesenia's top surgery fundraiser!
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dr. ye$enia @yesenia.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
hi everyone!! popping back into this space briefly to share the fundraiser for my long-awaited top surgery! eek! we are SO close to reaching my goal! any form of interaction helps, even if you can't donate! thank you, i love you, and keep taking care of each other! #transrights! gofund.me/60c167de1
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Donate to Dr. Yesenia's top surgery fundraiser!, organized by Yesenia Garcia
Hello friends and loved ones of the internet! I'm posting this fund… Yesenia Garcia needs your support for Donate to Dr. Yesenia's top surgery fundraiser!
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 11/09/2025
the white supremacists are not taking a break to mourn because they have people of color to fuck over
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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
Again they love gun control as long as it’s against people they seek to oppress
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Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽 @needhibhalla.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
"How will we be able to weather this dark period for US research & keep...talented individuals in science?...The attacks on science & research are multi-pronged and incessant, whether they are directly targeting universities, or aimed at university endowments or indirect funds received from grants"
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Frozen Grants, Canceled Futures: The Human Toll of UCLA’s Research Suspension
A frozen grant is more than halted experiments and lost data; it is a career derailed for many of the trainees dependent on this research support.
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Ryan H. @ryan.blacksky.app · 28/08/2025
Thinking of this exhortation from @chanda.bsky.social 's recent blog: "What will you stay curious about, even when authoritarians try to shape your reality by telling you not to think, not to read, not to ask questions, not to dare consider the possibility that there’s more to life than this?"
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Feed Your Head
Even now, especially now, your curiosity is powerful.
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dr. ye$enia @yesenia.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
how it started vs how it’s going… logging in to share a quick life update: It’s, DR. Yesenia now 💅🧠🎓✨🏳️‍⚧️
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The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Amid DEI funding cuts, trainees are losing pillars of support. Grassroots mentorship organizations are stepping in to continue championing young researchers. @blackinneuro.bsky.social @colorsofthebrain.bsky.social @neurolatine.bsky.social By Paige Miranda www.thetransmitter.org/qa/we-still-...
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Neuroscience advocacy groups on navigating DEI funding cuts
Minority trainees are losing pillars of support, but grassroots organizations are stepping in to continue championing these early-career researchers.
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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 14/05/2025
Earlier today, I was leaked a copy of the Executive Secretariat Style Guide for the US State Department. The new guide included a new section requiring that all trans State employees must be misgendered in all official communications. www.patreon.com/posts/new-st...
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New State Department style guide requires trans people to be misgendered in all communications | Katelyn Burns
Get more from Katelyn Burns on Patreon
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adrienne rg @adriennerg.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Quote from the article: "Every time [researchers] are in the field or looking at specimens, they just keep finding these exceptions," Velocci says. Scientists "have seen over, and over, and over, and over, that sex is clearly not binary."
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👻 Spooky Elle 🎃🧙🏼‍♀️🍄 @hecatestorch.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Just found out NIH has officially canceled our grant, a longitudinal study of Alzheimer's disease in Black Americans. I cannot even put into words how angry I am. The truth is they are canceling it because it has Black in the title. That's it, there is no other reason to do this.
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DrGlitterbear @drglitterbear.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
A statement by SBN (again co-written by the DEI Comm with edits from the Exe Comm) on why using rodent models of trans health are important studies for the community and everyone else!
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What Are Transgender Animal Experiments and Why Should We Do Them? | Society for Behavioral Neuroendocrinology (SBN)
The Society for Behavioral Neuroendocrinology (SBN) is an interdisciplinary scientific organization dedicated to the study of hormonal processes and neuroendocrine systems that regulate behavior.
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Septima P. Snark @drsubini.blacksky.app · 18/03/2025
To be clear, gang members also should have due process. And this is a reminder how criminalizing behaviors, tattoos, etc is infused with white supremacy, xenophobia & ableism.
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Mike Isaacson @vulgareconomics.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
Probably not relevant to anything, but most of Germany's concentration camps were not in Germany
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The Onion @theonion.com · 14/03/2025
Democratic Leaders Stand Real Still In Hopes No One Notices Them
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Democratic Leaders Stand Real Still In Hopes No One Notices Them
WASHINGTON—With the elected officials trying their hardest not to move a muscle, reports confirmed Monday that top Democratic leaders in Congress were standing real still in hopes that the American pe...
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ACLU @aclu.org · 09/03/2025
Ripping a student from their home, challenging their immigration status, and detaining them solely based on political viewpoint will chill student speech and advocacy across campuses nationwide. Political speech should never be a basis of punishment or lead to deportation.
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eartha mae @endoeartha.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
Given the platform, I wanted to make sure I used it well & clearly articulated my message: "Thru anti-DEI & anti-trans executive orders & laws, the administration seeks to restore hierarchies centered around race & gender, resegregating America. A textbook example of fascism." tinyurl.com/3bvrf6nn
Facebook post from NPR's Philadelphia affiliate WHYY: "At the Philly 'Stand up for Science' protest Friday, Neuroscientist Eartha Mae Guthman said, "Republicans are weaponizing the state to attack all science."" 

The post links to an article about the Stand Up for Science protest.
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Jess @tiredchaotic.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
This is what I want my science reporting to be like. Blunt, clear, and very concerned with definitions
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🎃 Killy Witches 👻 @tillybridges.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
my fellow Californians of good moral character… trans people need you, *i* need you, to tell Newsom exactly what you think of him saying trans Californians (in a trans! sanctuary! state!) aren’t worth protecting PLEASE DO NOT LET THIS SLIDE
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Contact the Governor | Governor of California
You can contact the Governor a few different ways. The best way is through his online form.
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Colette Arrand @colettearrand.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
This essay is almost 10 years old and idk that I’d write it the same way today but here’s one about how it feels really good to be trans. www.autostraddle.com/my-trans-bod...
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My Trans Body as a State of Desire
"My brain is lit like the map of a major metropolis at night. My body is, too. 'I am at one with a sea of sensations, glitter, silk, skin, eyes, mouths, desire,' Anaïs Nin wrote, and that's pretty muc...
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Jessica Ritchey @jmritchey.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Every time some elected democrat sucks off Reagan, I think about Duane.
Duane Puryear holding the AIDS quilt panel he completed before his death. It reads "MY NAME IS DUANE KEARNS PURYEAR. I WAS BORN ON DECEMBER 20, 1964. I WAS DIAGONISED WITH AIDS ON SEPTEMBER 7, 1987 AT 4:45 PM. I WAS 22 YEARS OLD. SOMETIMES, IT MAKES ME VERY SAD. I MADE THIS PANEL MYSELF. IF YOU ARE READING IT. I AM DEAD..."
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Krisha Aghi, PhD @phdoll.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Obviously his framing is bigoted but I do want to say that while gender isn't studied in animal models, variables influencing sex are. It's easy to scoff at the concept of "transgender mice" but animal models for hormone therapies DO exist (see our paper). pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35863692/
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Centering the Needs of Transgender, Nonbinary, and Gender-Diverse Populations in Neuroendocrine Models of Gender-Affirming Hormone Therapy - PubMed
Most studies attempting to address the health care needs of the millions of transgender, nonbinary, and/or gender-diverse (TNG) individuals rely on human subjects, overlooking the benefits of translat...
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eartha mae @endoeartha.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Mouse models of gender affirming hormone therapy can improve outcomes for trans people and for any cis person with hormones or receiving hormone therapies. What helps is standing in solidarity with us, speaking on the importance of and fighting for the research, not jokes about "transgenic mice" 🧪
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Kate Clancy @kateclancy.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
There is a teeny tiny very uncharitable part of myself annoyed with the scientists who have suddenly discovered activism because our funding is at stake, none of whom did shit in all the years a handful of us tried to make it less predatory and full of harassers.
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JP @jpbrammer.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
ending every casual conversation with "I hope you find what you're looking for" because I'm bored
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Ariel Beccia @albeccia.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
this is targeted erasure and will have very real and very many negative consequences
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Nature @nature.com · 24/02/2025
The Trump administration's efforts to slash research funding have US graduate students, postdocs and other early-career scientists fearing for their careers. Some might leave the country -- or abandon research altogether. go.nature.com/43ao2zq
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Postdocs and PhD students hit hard by Trump’s crackdown on science
As US federal grants remain frozen and budget cuts loom, anxiety and fear grip early-career researchers.
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Madison Pauly @msjpauly.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
LGBTQ federal workers say they're terrified they're about to be fired for their gender identity, sexual orientation, or past efforts to support other queer and trans employees—in other words, a second Lavender Scare. Honored to have their trust with this story: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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LGBTQ federal workers brace for a McCarthyist purge
"They’re not asking people ‘Are you gay? Are you lesbian?’ They’re asking, ‘Who is participating in DEI?'"
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Sabrina Imbler @sabs.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
this weekend I wrote about Sam Nordquist, and the infuriating way the media and other authorities have treated his murder defector.com/who-gets-to-...
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Who Gets To Determine A Hate Crime? | Defector
On Feb. 13, Sam Nordquist, a Black trans man from Minnesota, was found murdered in a field in upstate New York. He was 24 years old. The ongoing investigation suggests that Nordquist was subjected to ...
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Krisha Aghi, PhD @phdoll.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
I think we should abolish gender markers on all forms of ID including passports
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Rick Huganir @rhuganir.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Reaching out to all Americans through the media to explain how decreasing funding of the NIH will have irreversible harm for developing therapies for all diseases. Please spread the word to your families and friends and contact your congressional representatives. www.nbcnews.com/science/scie...
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Science under siege: Trump cuts threaten to undermine decades of research
Sweeping layoffs, funding freezes and executive orders have provoked outcry among federal researchers and their university partners, who fear that science itself is under siege.
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kaela @kssphd.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
these terminations are aberrant, devastating, a violation of labor laws (!) and this statement from HHS is gutless, spineless, loser behavior
Screenshot of an Instagram slide from Washington Post that reads:

In a statement, HHS defended the cuts. “HHS is following the administrations guidance and taking action to support the president shelter efforts or restructure and streamline the federal government,” the department said. “This is to ensure that HHS better serves the American people at the highest and most efficient standard.”
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Dr. Catherine Macdonald @drcatmac.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Every scientist, long before they were a scientist, was a little kid who stood in front of a fish tank or stared up at the stars or turned over a rock to look at the bugs underneath and said “wow”. On the best days, working in science still feels like that.
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 16/02/2025
It is actually a problem that scientists keep marching for science though instead of against fascism and for humanity
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ACLU @aclu.org · 13/02/2025
BREAKING: A federal court temporarily blocked President Trump’s executive order aiming to restrict access to gender-affirming medical care for transgender people under age 19 nationwide. This is a major victory for our freedom to access life-saving care.
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nicole @mcafee2012.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Losing Nex upended lives in and beyond Oklahoma. There's a profound grief in marking 1 year since Nex died with the conditions that killed Nex having only worsened. I'm grateful to @leximcmenamin.bsky.social for the care with which they told this story, and gave space for our community to reflect.
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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com · 11/02/2025
a year ago 16-year-old Oklahoman Nex Benedict died after a bathroom beating. in the time since, we've lost more trans kids, while losing federal trans rights. how a community is holding itself together after years of living under Trump's current anti-trans policies at the state level @teenvogue.com
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A Year Without Nex Benedict
"We are saying that the rhetoric is just as damaging as the bullet or the blow."
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Science Magazine @science.org · 10/02/2025
Breaking news: 22 states are suing to block NIH’s cutting of indirect costs. See our updated story on the Friday night news and its aftermath. scim.ag/4hTJQ6v
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NIH slashes overhead payments for research, sparking outrage and lawsuit
Move to cut indirect cost rate to 15% could cost universities billions of dollars
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Daniel Colón-Ramos @dacolon.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Ardem, I am sorry. In this middle of this chaos, HHMI will always hold the dubious distinction of being the first organization, federal or private, to cut an ongoing and funded DEI program. In the darkest hour, it ran for the hills. As a member of those groups, I can’t tell you how painful this is.
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Anita Devineni @anitadevineni.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
My student's diversity F31 has been pulled from study section even though it's the SAME APPLICATION as regular F31s, normally reviewed together in the same panel. Throwing out all the applications from URMs while the ones from white/privileged students get to be reviewed is blatant discrimination.
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Ashley Juavinett, PhD @ashleyjuavinett.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Dear biologists & neuroscientists -- I'd like to collect some cursory data on what the "typical" breakdown of funding between federal & private looks like in labs. If you run a research lab or know enough about yours, could you fill this small form out? forms.gle/PEzWEYojBjfj...
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Neuroscience & biology lab funding
What is the current rough breakdown of funding sources for your lab? The answers below should add to 100%!
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simón(e) 🌑 @simonedsun.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Frankly, this hearing should be alarming to all biomedical researchers.
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Usha Lee McFarling @usha.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Many scientists upset with HHMI's decision to stop funding and scrub websites of a program that promoted inclusive evidence and helped diversify STEM. The are listed as the second wealthiest philanthropic organization in the U.S. with an endowment of $22B. Private philanthropy will not save science.
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André K. Isaacs @drdre4000.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Just got word that our Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) Inclusive Excellence 3 (IE3) Grant was being canceled. All 100+ institutions. So even private funding is susceptible to this administration’s unraveling of DEI initiatives
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Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 05/02/2025
Yeah this is bat signal for white supremacist terrorists
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