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Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD DSc(hon) @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

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Erin Maye Quade @erinmayequade.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Sending people to concentration camps and using the word extermination is not a mistake

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 14/04/2025

I know a number of actual doctorates who will provide their expert information for a mere $19,999 per month

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Celeste Ng @pronounced-ing.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

Used this analogy when explaining to the teen, but to point out that in the end, when the hyenas realize Scar has destroyed everything, they turn on him. Simba doesn't kill him; his own underlings tear him apart.

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Nina Turner @ninaturner.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Every American citizen should be registered to vote automatically.

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Mike Feigin 🥯 @mikefeigin.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Well fresh hell awaits us today??

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Good morning. Today is the 80th day that the U.S. President is running a backdoor bribery scheme in which any CEO or foreign oligarch can send him money secretly through his crypto coin scam in exchange for favors. It's the biggest scandal in the history of the Presidency.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

👇🎯 We are having trouble using proper terminology because it requires us to fully accept exactly what has happened to our country & wrestle with the fact that every single one of our elected representatives in Congress is violating their oaths of office by not immediately impeaching & removing him.

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Expected Own Goals @xowngoals.com · 09/04/2025

It’s not Sam Coffey > Korbin Albert, it’s Sam Coffey >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Korbin Albert #USWNT

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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

This all alone is an open-and-shut cause for impeachment, yes there are dozens of others but sometimes it's clarifying to just look at one

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J. Offir, PhD @joffirphd.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

A "big step forward" in therapy for GI cancers, including colorectal cancer, is being "delayed" (or prevented?) by NIH layoffs & policy changes. Colorectal cancer is the #3 cancer killer among men & #4 among women, btw. About 54,000 US deaths/year, & rising. www.washingtonpost.com/science/2025...

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NIH scientists have a cancer breakthrough. Layoffs are delaying it.

A big step forward in cancer therapy has been slowed by layoffs and new restrictions at the National Institutes of Health, where it was developed.

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CoreyWelch_STEM @coreywelch.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

All grants from the Training and Workforce Development Division of the NIGMS were terminated a few days ago nationwide. These funds go directly to supporting future scientists prepare for a career as Biomedical Researchers. Bridges to Bac MARC/URISE IMSD/GRISE PREP Bridges to Doc IRACDA. 1/x

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Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

A tricky thing about modern society is that no one has any idea when they don’t die. Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.

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Expected Own Goals @xowngoals.com · 05/04/2025

Lily over Korbin is the energy we need in 2025. #USWNT

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Adam Sharp @adamcsharp.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

A list of the top ten greatest animals ever… 10. Animals 9. Are 8. Sentient 7. Beings 6. Not 5. Objects 4. To 3. Be 2. Ranked 1. Penguins

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Sam Bergman @violanorth.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

What's absolutely wild about this is the way they've manufactured a global financial crisis for no reason at all. This isn't 2007-08, where it was a bubble bursting. This is taking a relatively thriving economy and deliberately destroying it in the first three months of your presidency.

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Brittany Charlton @britshmit.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

🚨 BREAKING: I'm suing #RFKJr @ #HHS & #JayBhattacharya @ #NIH Canceling medical research grants threatens innovations benefiting ALL Americans, no matter your politics! 🇺🇸 Thanks to my lawyers @aclu.org @aclum.bsky.social @protectdemocracy.org & @cspi.bsky.social Long 🧵 on why I'm suing 👇 1/

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 02/04/2025

The US is undergoing the worst self-inflicted destruction of health, education, and knowledge creation infrastructure since the great leap forward. We will all be substantially less educated, poorer, and sicker while millions will die from completely preventable causes. It's civilizational suicide.

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Dr. Stephanie @punkrockscience.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

After 24 hours on his feet, Cory Booker is defending the scientific research establishment of this country - calling out an experience like the one that drives me and SO MANY of my fellow scientists to do the work we do - that maybe we can do for others what we couldn't for our own loved ones.

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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Twenty-four hours into his time, Sen. Booker just passionately defended public science and universities-- which, at their best, are cornerstones of democracy and a powerful tool for collective liberation (which is why they've been so aggressively attacked). Thank you, Senator.

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reftpt93 @reftpt93.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

I was wondering when this was going to come up. I mean, I don’t even know what’s possible but people who have some power really ought to consider about removing it based on what’s happening lately. Even to start talking about this sort of thing might help push people a little bit.

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Joe Katz @joekatz45.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Cory Booker has just broken Strom Thurmond's record for longest Senate filibuster ever, which stood for 68 years. Thurmond set it objecting to the Civil Rights Act of 1957. Booker set it arguing against authoritarianism. May Strom's name be forgotten and his memory erased.

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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

There is no “novel legal theory” about a third term, as some reporters are parroting. It’s not legal, and the idea of seizing permanent power isn’t a “theory,” it’s just what dictators do.

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Edward Nirenberg @enirenberg.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

Peter Marks’s resignation letter. Everyone should read this.

Peter Marks, MD, PhD
Director, Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research U.S. Food and Drug Administration
10903 New Hampshire Avenue
Silver Spring, MD 20903
March 28, 2025
Sara Brenner, MD, MPH
Acting Commissioner of Food and Drugs
U.S. Food and Drug Administration
10903 New Hampshire Avenue
Silver Spring, MD 20903
Dear Dr. Brenner:
It is with a heavy heart that I have decided to resign from FDA and retire from federal service as Director of the Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research effective April 5, 2025. I leave behind a staff of professionals who are undoubtedly the most devoted to protecting and promoting the public health of any group of people that I have encountered during my four decades working in the public and private sectors. I have always done my best to advocate for their well-being and I would ask that you do the same during this very difficult time during which their critical importance to the safety and security of our nation may be underappreciated.
Over the past years I have been involved in enhancing the safety of our nation's blood supply, in advancing the field of cell and gene therapy, and in responding to public health emergencies. In the last of these, during the COVID-19 pandemic I had the privilege of watching the vision that I conceived for Operation Warp Speed in March 2020 in collaboration with Dr. Robert Kadlec become a reality under the leadership of HHS Secretary Azar and President Trump due to the unwavering commitment of public servants at FDA and elsewhere across the government. At FDA, the tireless efforts of staff across the agency resulted in remarkably expediting the development of vaccines against the virus, meeting the standards for quality, safety, and effectiveness expected by the American public. The vaccines undoubtedly markedly reduced morbidity and mortality from COVID-19 in the United States and elsewhere. Many of these same individuals applied learnings from the pandemic during a flawless response helping…

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Dezene Huber 🍁 🌻 @dezene.me · 29/03/2025

Three standard misperceptions about universities: 1. Professors’ main job is teaching. 🧑‍🏫 2. We get four months off in the summer. 🍹 3. Upper admin’s main focus is protecting academic freedom rather than increasing profits. 💸

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🎃Darin S Pumpkins🎃 @darinself.com · 27/03/2025

The internet is full of unusable sludge. Its a increasingly miserable experience that tech companies have ruined.

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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 22/03/2025

The U.S. higher education system is a key pillar of local economies, engine of economic mobility, and driver of national innovation. I’m tired of it being attacked. It’s a major sector of the U.S. economy!

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 16/03/2025

Ever since law school, I've always thought the actual case or controversy requirement of federal litigation was extremely stupid. We can't challenge zombie laws that are unconstitutional until someone actually decides to abuse it and by then it's too late. I'm talking about the Allen Enemies Act.

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American Library Association @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

🚨NEW🚨: Donald Trump is attempting to strip away federal support for libraries. We will NOT let that happen. Last night the President signed an order to gut the Institute of Museum & Library Services. But together, we know we can show up & defeat it. Full EO: www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

Show Up For Our Libraries! By eliminating the only federal agency dedicated to funding library services, the Trump administration's Executive Order is cutting off at the knees the most beloved and trusted of American institutions and the staff and services they offer. ALA American Library Association. #ForOurLibraries

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 14/03/2025

They're moving to classify constitutionally protected speech as terrorism. This is a five alarm fire.

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Ryan Hernandez @rdhernand.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.” www.science.org/content/arti...

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NIH to ax grants on vaccine hesitancy, mRNA vaccines

Move reflects vaccine skepticism of health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

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Jackie Barrientes @barrientes.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

"Losing this much money, this fast, has no precedence in NASA's history. It would force terrible decisions, including turning off scores of active, productive, irreplaceable missions, halting nearly all new mission development, and decimating the country's space science workforce." 🔭

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White House may seek to slash NASA’s science budget by 50 percent

“It would be nothing short of an extinction-level event for space science.”…

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Zach Strickland 🐊🏳️‍🌈 @zachdoesneuro.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

This is heartbreaking. Without an NIH-funded summer research internship I would not have gotten into my PhD program the app cycle I did.

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Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD @prasad.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

signing onto such a statement is incompatible with leading a scientific institution there is no factual basis to his endorsed claim of mRNA vaccine harms meanwhile mRNA vaccines are showing great promise in early clinical trials as anti-cancer therapy this is harmful to patients and the public

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Linda Andersson Burnett @lindaaburnett.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

My department at Uppsala university has just announced two open PhD positions: one in history of science and the other in history of ideas. We research, for example, colonial history of science, history of medicine, and intellectual history. Deadline: 8 April

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Please look up the influenza epidemic of 1918-19 to understand that the CDC not selecting strains for next year’s vaccines sets the stage for a public health calamity that will, without doubt and at bare minimum, catastrophically and directly impact people you know. This is a five alarm fire.

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

ppl arguing about whether the admin is stupid or craven or evil or what-have-you -- it does not matter why they're doing what they're doing. if a guy is going to stab me I don't care what his motivation is. I address the urgent question of getting stabbed less. we can dwell on particulars later

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Jeremy Konyndyk @jeremykonyndyk.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

So - I've actually led Ebola outbreak response at USAID. This is bunk from Elon. They have laid off most of the experts, they're bankrupting most of the partner orgs, have withdrawn from WHO, and muzzled CDC. What's left is a fig-leaf effort to cover their asses politically.

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Karen James @kejames.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Grateful to Nature editors and scientists and others around the world for their support. They understand that despite the ongoing nationalist rhetoric around this, scientific progress is not a zero-sum game. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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Trump 2.0: an assault on science anywhere is an assault on science everywhere

US President Donald Trump is taking a wrecking ball to science and to international institutions. The global research community must take a stand against these attacks.

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Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪 @altnih4science.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

This is a five-alarm fire 🔥 for US science 🧪. (We keep saying that, but it keeps being true 😭.) Trump and Musk are blocking *ALL* NIH grants ‼️ by "exploiting a loophole in the process"—stopping study sections & council meetings. Every biomedical researcher in the country should be screaming. 1/

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Arghavan Salles, MD, PhD @arghavansallesmd.medsky.social · 20/02/2025

Not all university presidents are cowards. This, from the pres of Wesleyan, should be mandatory reading for leaders. “It's 1 thing to be reminded that "elections have consequences," but quite another to insist that the best response to the abuse of authority is to be restrained, demure, neutral.” +

It's one thing to be reminded that "elections have consequences," but quite another to insist that the best response to the abuse of authority is to be restrained, demure, neutral. For university leaders the exception is their opposition to endowment taxes. On this topic, they're inclined to be positively brat.

Corporate and educational leaders must not put on a demure face and stay silent while civil society is undermined by the diktat of executive orders. We must not sacrifice academic freedom and a healthy civil society for the short-term gains of anticipatory compliance. We must instead cultivate in our institutions the ability to bring different kinds of people together in common purpose, the will to protect the vulnerable, and the resilience needed for our institutions to successfully pursue their missions. Their missions, not the agenda of whoever controls the powers of the central government. Let's hope that the 2025 word of the year isn't "submissive."

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Ari Drennen @aridrennen.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Trump's lawyers are absolutely flailing in the courts right now

A screenshot of a text excerpt from a court proceeding, showing a conversation between Judge Reyes and Jason C. Lynch about an executive order that defines “sex” strictly as male or female. Judge Reyes challenges this definition, noting that there are roughly 30 different intersex variations and citing examples such as XXX chromosomes, androgen insensitivity, and five-alpha reductase deficiency. Judge Reyes emphasizes that not everyone fits neatly into an XX or XY pattern, concluding that the executive order’s premise—that there are only two sexes—is biologically incorrect.

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

hard to overstate that the people saying stuff like this are like...extremely sober individuals whose job it is to like weigh risk and who are not prone to hyperbole

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Elizabeth C. Neilson, PhD (she/her) @ecneilsonphd.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

GAO saved the federal government $70.4 billion in FY 2023!

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Zach Strickland 🐊🏳️‍🌈 @zachdoesneuro.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

This is textbook quid pro quo, not that laws matter anymore

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