Amy Non
amylnon.bsky.social
Amy Non
@amylnon.bsky.social
Professor of bioanth (early life adversity, epigenetics, and racial inequalities), academic mama, and avid reader of literary fiction.
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🎶Trumpism is American Lysenkoism🎶
Couched in all those sciencey sounding words is that the people who believe the Earth is 6k years old will be appointing officers at each agency to evaluate if research is “Gold Standard Science” or not. They will have the power to call anything fraud.

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Restoring Gold Standard Science
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including section 7301 of title 5, United
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May 24, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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Thank you for all of this!

Re their decimation of US research, you've probably already seen the regime's proposed budget for FY26. I thought w all the RFK "natural" medicine schpeel they'd protect NCCIH. But of course, no.

www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u...
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May 19, 2025 at 11:07 PM
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NSF has unfrozen funds but is continuing to scour research grants for violations of Trump’s orders

Nature spoke to six NSF staff members, who shared documents detailing plans to search 10,000 flagged grants for DEI language.

For @nature.com w/ @dangaristo.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Exclusive: how NSF is scouring research grants for violations of Trump’s orders
The US National Science Foundation has unfrozen grant funding, but it continues to scrutinize research projects, sowing turmoil.
www.nature.com
February 4, 2025 at 2:14 AM
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Dear journalists in countries other than America:

Coverage of American politics is going to become very important for America and the rest of the world.

Media in America is being compromised. As this compromise extends itself, your job has become more important to the course of history.
Having watched with growing alarm the developments of the last 24 and 36 hours in Washington, I thought I’d take a stab at how the US media would cover this story if it was happening in a foreign country. Here’s that story that should be written this weekend: www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/musk-s-jun...
Musk's Junta Establishes Him as Head of Government
Imagining how we'd cover overseas what's happening to the U.S. right now
www.doomsdayscenario.co
February 1, 2025 at 4:41 PM