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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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Saloni @scientificdiscovery.dev · 05/09/2026

This is interesting. You get assigned to being born at a random place and time in history, to see what a typical person's life might have been like then. Unfortunately I was born in 1403 in the valley of Mexico and died at age 4 from dysentery.

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Any Human Ever

One life, drawn at random from all who have ever lived.

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BWJones @bwjones.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

This is 572 5 year biomedical research grants to study cancer, heart disease, blindness, Alzheimer’s, epilepsy, diabetes, infectious disease, etc…

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Insane satellite imagery. This is the change from May to July. Europe has cooked. (🎥 Colin McCarthy)

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Sara McArdle @saramcardle.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

2 more days to submit an abstract to the QBI Multiplexing conference! Come to beautiful San Diego to discuss all things multiplex immunofluorescence. Registration is still open for those who want to attend but not speak.

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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 10/07/2026

🚨 HEADS UP: If you haven't submitted a comment on the OMB proposal yet, there's still time - but it's running out! There are only 3 days left to push back against Russell Vought's attempt to give political appointees unprecedented control over federal research funding. Take Action: zurl.co/J92d9

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Magdalena Skipper @magdalenaskipper.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

‘A society that loses science loses the future’ says Neil Shubin, as he starts his tenure as the NAS President @neilshubin.bsky.social - thank you for speaking to us @nature.com 🧪 #AcademicSky www.nature.com/articles/d41...

nature.com

Incoming US science academy chief vows to ‘double down’ on research

New leader of the National Academy of Sciences Neil Shubin warns: ‘a society that loses science loses the future’.

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Sandra Newman @sannewman.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Describe the economy in a single sentence

Notice on a vending machine saying: "FYI (OUT OF ORDER) (DOES NOT GIVE YOU ICE CREM BUT IT TAKES MONEY"

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Dr Bohdana Kurylo @bohdanakurylo.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Last night, two of my family’s homes were hit in Russia's 11-hour bombardment of #Kyiv. These are the rooms I grew up in, the places where our lives happened. My family worked so hard for them. Now I am looking at them in shards.

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Peter Lucier @peterlucier.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Shot, Chaser apnews.com/article/pent...

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Glenn Fleishman @glennf.com · 25/06/2026

Weirdly, I’m alive because of fundamental research done in universities in the 1950s to 90s in cancer research that helped change Hodgkin’s Disease survival rates from 30% after five years in the early 1950s to over 90% in recent years. No progress, huh?

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Emily Bruce @brucelab.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

My friend's NSF CAREER received the highest possible score (Excellent, Excellent, Excellent: High Priority) and it was rejected today. This would have been my friend's first extramural award, 5 years after starting their lab, exactly when grant $ is make or break for an Assistant Professor's career.

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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

A @nejm.org editorial today on the Office of White House Management and Budget (OMB) regarding their new funding proposal and politicization of science www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

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Kyiv Post @kyivpost.com · 15/06/2026

A fire broke out at Kyiv Pechersk Lavra during Russia’s massive overnight attack on Kyiv. The UNESCO-listed monastery was previously devastated by war in 1941. More than 80 years later, the historic complex has once again been damaged by conflict.

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Jakub Jaraczewski @jakubjaraczewski.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Friendly reminder that Russia's co-optation of Moscow Patriarchate that made it become an almost parody of itself Warhammer 40k-style military religion does not preclude blowing up sacred Orthodox churches elsewhere.

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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Big progress vs cancer, folks. The kind of event curves from randomized trials that we've not seen before for a couple of the most deadly cancers. Congrats to the oncology research community for getting these trial done.

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Kyiv Post @kyivpost.com · 31/05/2026

Today is Kyiv Day. A city of marathons and missile strikes. Of concerts and air raid alerts. Of summer evenings and nights in shelters. Kyiv knows the sound of laughter and the sound of explosions. It knows what it means to rebuild after every attack and keep moving forward.

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TK (Takashi DY) Kozai @bioniclab.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

🪼 Your tax dollars paid a scientist to squeeze jellyfish through cheesecloth. Osamu Shimomura processed tens of thousands on an NSF grant to understand why they glow. He found a protein that glowed green under UV light. Called it "green protein." Nobody cared. For decades.

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Joshua Weitz @joshuasweitz.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

"The document itself is an odd grab-bag of micromanaging grant processes, assertion of presidential power, and airing of cultural grievances... Its lack of coherence, however, will not prevent it from causing staggering damage to the US scientific system." 👇 arstechnica.com/science/2026...

arstechnica.com

Proposed new US funding rules: We can cancel any grant at any time

Peer review now optional, political staff would screen grants for forbidden topics.

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grimmrad 🧬🎼🖼️🏛️ @grimmrad.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

“I’m part of a community of people who were told their odds weren’t good and who are still here because someone, somewhere, spent years in a lab making connections that made survival possible — and had the federal government funding their tireless work.”

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Dr Victoria Austen @vickyausten.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

They don’t care that the cast isn’t Greek. They don’t care that the armour is all wrong. They don’t care that Tom Holland in an American accent refers to Odysseus as Dad. They only care about Helen being played by Lupita Nyong'o. I WONDER WHY.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 23/05/2026

The Arlington National Cemetery Memorial apparently has deleted references and information on everyone interred there who wasn’t a white straight man from their database - attempting to sweep their existence under the rug. My thoughts on this obscenity cannot legally be shared on this platform.

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Missing in Action: Women Service Members “Delisted” from Arlington National Cemetery Website

When visiting Arlington National Cemetery this Memorial Day you won’t find Purple Heart recipient Nicole Leanne Gee, U.S. Marine Corps (1998-2021) on it’s website despite being interred there and…

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Dom Ervolina @dominicervolina.com · 22/05/2026

This is monstrous, evil shit "Cemetery officials confirmed to Task & Purpose that the pages were unpublished” to meet recent orders by President Donald Trump and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth targeting race and gender-related language and policies in the military."

Missing in Action: Women Service Members "Delisted"
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When visiting Arlington National Cemetery this Memorial Day you won't find Purple Heart recipient Nicole Leanne Gee, U.S. Marine Corps
(1998-2021) on it;s website, She was delisted.

When visiting Arlington National Cemetery Memorial this weekend you can easily locate male
servicemembers graves and history on it's website but not cisgender female, transgender, or
minority veterans.

You won't find Purple Heart recipient Nicole Leanne Gee, U.S. Marine Corps (1998-2021) on it's
website despite being interred there and credited along with her team with saving 124,000 lives. She was delisted.

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Doctors say that a Vitamin K injection given at birth saves the lives of hundreds of newborns. A guy who snorts cocaine off toilet seats and takes raccoon penises home for "further study" says the injection can create mitochondrial challenges. For busy parents, it can be hard to know who to trust.

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Joachim Goedhart @joachimgoedhart.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

Wonderful opportunity to hear about the latest progress in fluorescent probe technology ⬇️

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ralph @crutzen.eu · 09/05/2026

Taken. "A web page that tells you what your browser gave away the moment you arrived. No login, no form, no permission. Most pages do this. None of them tell you." sinceyouarrived.world/taken

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taken.

A web page that tells you what your browser gave away the moment you arrived. No login, no form, no permission. Most pages do this. None of them tell you.

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Eva de la Serna @sciencedoodles.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

This course also pairs nicely with @jcellsci.bsky.social -@focalplane.bsky.social training grant funding, which has an application window open until May 8th! Funding Info: www.biologists.com/grants/jcs-f...

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Pam Herd @pamherd.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

The number of NIH competitive awards is down 50% from 2025, and down ~70% from prior years. Even if they catch up by the end of the year, only wealthy institutions can bridge these huge funding gaps.They're killing science-and violating the constitution-by weaponizing the bureaucracy

figure showing the trends I detail in the tweet text

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Joshua Weitz @joshuasweitz.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

A key point: the admin has made things worse & less efficient. "American scientists already spend some 40 percent of their time on grant-related administrative tasks. Now they are being deluged by ever more paperwork, said Dr. Michael Lauer, who led external grantmaking at [NIH] until last year."

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Joshua Weitz @joshuasweitz.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Major release available via scienceimpacts.org, including impact assessment of White House FY 2027 budget proposal for NIH and NSF. If enacted, we estimate budget will lead to $35B in economic loss and more than 150,000 lost jobs on top of lost programs, initiatives, and discoveries.

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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

As we’ve come to expect the unacceptable, from the purveyor of misinformation and fabrication

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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

That's right....and so dreadfully wrong www.washingtonpost.com/science/2026...

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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 19/04/2026

American science is shrinking.  A Post analysis found that, halfway through this fiscal year, the number of competitive grants awarded by the National Institutes of Health is down by more than half compared with the same period last year. wapo.st/3OgoHKV

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For U.S. medical researchers, shrinking labs and bare budgets are the new reality

The Trump administration has slashed the number of grants from the National Institutes of Health, with far fewer focused on women, cancer and mental health.

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BWJones @bwjones.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

New mRNA vaccine research has basically been shelved by this administration. We know that vaccines basically eliminate cervical cancers. The prospect of expanding this to additional cancers is incredible. Particularly the most lethal ones like pancreatic.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 17/04/2026

thanks again joe manchin!

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Kyiv Post @kyivpost.com · 16/04/2026

Odesa has declared a day of mourning for those killed in a Russian overnight strike. Eight people are confirmed dead, with another 16 reported injured. Rescue efforts are ongoing. Photo: State Emergency Service

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BWJones @bwjones.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

I will never forget a man in the COVID critical care ward literally dying of a disease telling his physicians that the thing they were trying to treat him for was a hoax. That man died thinking that the thing which killed him was fake news.

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

Science is good. We should fund it.

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BWJones @bwjones.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

At a time when vaccines may mean that some forms of cancer and neurodegeneration may be cured forever through vaccine technology, this is a crime against future humanity.

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Casey Dreier @caseydreier.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

The FY 2027 NASA budget request hides its science cuts by omitting mission names instead of explicitly zeroing them out. We did the work and found 54 missions cancelled in this proposal. This is another extinction-level event for NASA science. Full list: planetary.org/save-nasa-science

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Andrzej Rysuje @andrzejrysuje.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Dziś o wyborach

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