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Anne Park
@anneparkt.bsky.social
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behavioral scientist interested in wellbeing, motivation, community & civic engagement | previously UPenn psychology PhD, early adversity & brain development in children | she/her
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Anne Park @anneparkt.bsky.social · Feb 19
🙌 Made a flyer and card printouts with calls to action to fight this administration and care for our neighbors! I’ll be distributing these in my own neighborhood, and others are welcome to use if it seems helpful! Png files here drive.google.com/drive/folder...
Flyer with calls to action and QR codes related to civic engagement: calling representatives, toolkits and resources from organizers, and mutual aid ideas Page of cards for printing, 10 cards on the page (front side). Each card includes the capitol switchboard number 202-224-3121, and a QR code to 5calls.org for call scripts Page of cards for printing, 10 cards on the page (back side). Each card includes QR codes to resource docs for civic engagement and mutual aid
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prisonculture.bsky.social
Organizer 101 Training

www.mobilize.us/activateamer...
Organizer 101 Training · Activate America
### Ready to Level Up Your Impact? Join Our Organizer 101 Training! ### You’ve marched. You’ve donated. You’ve made calls. Now it’s time to organize. Activate America’s Organizer 101 is a fast-paced...
www.mobilize.us
June 22, 2025 at 3:00 PM
anneparkt.bsky.social
If you've been wondering "what's next?" after Saturday's No Kings protest... the organizers have shared a whole slate of next steps we can take, in order to build a durable movement to protect democracy and our communities through our everyday actions #NoKings

👉 www.nokings.org/next
Photo showing crowd of thousands at the Philly No Kings protest, from the vantage point of the stage (Rep Jamie Raskin is standing at the podium). There are many colorful signs and flags being held up, and the Philly skyline in the background.
June 17, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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cdelawalla.bsky.social
I am excited to share that @standupforscience.bsky.social is growing!

We are looking to hire several positions including:
- Event and volunteer coordination
- Copywriting (press releases, emails, website, blogs, some social media)
- Data analytics and research (marketing, not science 😉)

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June 16, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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petitephd.bsky.social
Spitting FIRE holy shit 🔥
A series of tweets from Politico senior legal affairs reporter Kyle Cheney: BREAKING: A federal judge in Massachusetts (the Reagan-appointed William Young) has declared the Trump administration's cuts to NIH grants — ostensibly over Trump's EOs on gender ideology and DEI — are "illegal" and "void." He's ordering many grants restored. YOUNG: "I am hesitant to draw this conclusion, but I have an unflinching obligation to draw it – that this represents racial discrimination. And discrimination against America’s LGBTQ community. That’s what this is. I would be blind not to call it out. My duty is to call it out." MORE YOUNG: "It is palpably clear that these directives and the set of terminated grants here also are designed to frustrate, to stop, research that may bear on the health – we’re talking about health here, the health of Americans, of our LGBTQ community. That’s appalling." YOUNG still going: "I’ve never seen a record where racial discrimination was so palpable. I’ve sat on this bench now for 40 years. I’ve never seen government racial discrimination like this ... I ask myself, how can this be?" "I have the protection that the founders wrote into the constitution, along with imposing upon me a duty to speak the truth in every case. I try to do that. What if I didn’t have those protections. What if my job was on the line, my profession... Would I have stood up against all this? Would I have said, 'you can’t do this?' You are bearing down on people of color because of their color. The constitution will not permit that." "Have we fallen so low? Have we no shame?"
June 16, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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indivisible.org
No Kings Day was one of the largest days of protest in US history. From deep red small towns to our largest cities, millions of people turned out to make it clear that the American people will not bow to fascism. #NoKings
June 15, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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prisonculture.bsky.social
If you're working on a local mutual aid project, an organizing project etc... Saturday will be a terrific recruitment day. If you attend one of the mobilizations, bring info about your work. Make sure it has contact info.
June 11, 2025 at 2:05 AM
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bencollins.bsky.social
Find your closest rally on Saturday and go. You can tell your kids where you were on the other side of this. Outnumber him everywhere.

www.nokings.org#map
No Kings
On June 14—Flag Day—Donald Trump wants tanks in the street and a made-for-TV display of dominance for his birthday. A spectacle meant to look like strength. But real power isn’t staged in Washington. ...
www.nokings.org
June 11, 2025 at 2:01 AM
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sarahmackattack.bsky.social
To everyone in PA, I know there is a ridiculous amount going on right now BUT, please take a minute (a literal minute) to contact our state reps about funding septa.

Transit is absolutely necessary for a functioning Philly, *and* for meeting climate goals.

www.transitforallpa.org/takeaction/
Tell Our Legislators: No State Budget Without Transit For All PA! – Transit for All PA!
www.transitforallpa.org
June 11, 2025 at 2:23 AM
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dpmoriarity.bsky.social
Bethesda Declaration is live!

300+ workers at NIH call out NIH and HHS leadership to stop weaponizing research and censoring scientists.

Read and then consider signing letter of solidarity.

@standupforscience.bsky.social

www.standupforscience.net/bethesda-dec...
Bethesda Declaration — STAND UP FOR SCIENCE
Support NIH Staff Now!
www.standupforscience.net
June 9, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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cdelawalla.bsky.social
As a part of the @standupforscience.bsky.social Summer Fight for Science campaign, we want to host 1000 teach ins across the US between now and Sept 30th.

Yeah, it’s a big, hairy, audacious goal. I know.

Here is a running list of ideas, please scoop and do! 🧵🪡
SUFS TEACH IN FLYER
May 20, 2025 at 12:58 PM
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science-irl.bsky.social
Hi! Do you want to rip your face off over the constant attacks on science in the US? Here are some actions you can take! They require varying amounts of time, repetitiveness, and sticking your neck out, so hopefully you can find something in here that’s right for you:
🧪 #scicomm
"How to take action for science" written in a retro bubbly font above a bunch of canva clipart test tubes and beakers filled with colorful bubbling liquids
May 23, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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sifill.bsky.social
I said it would get worse very quickly. By tomorrow we will have completed the most dangerous & frightening 24 hours thus far of Trump 2.0. Just to name a few:
1. Defiance of a court order by sending migrants to Sudan without due process (despite clear DP decision SCOTUS) & Dist. CT. order.
May 21, 2025 at 2:03 AM
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carlbergstrom.com
Trying to understand whether, why, when, and how to take a public stand? It's scary, and difficulty — particularly the how part. I found @philipncohen.com's recent book extremely useful in this regard, for social scientists and natural scientists alike.

cup.columbia.edu/book/citizen...
Cover of Philip N. Cohen's Citizen Scholar: Public Engagement for Social Scientists
May 14, 2025 at 1:11 AM
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charleswlogan.bsky.social
FYI: The Spencer Foundation, Kapor Foundation, The William T. Grant Foundation, and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation have collaborated to offer $25K rapid response grants.

"This rapid response bridge funding opportunity is for scholars and teams whose grants have recently been cancelled by NSF."
Rapid Response Bridge Funding Program
In the face of recent abrupt shifts in federal funding for education research, including large-scale terminations of National Science Foundation (NSF) research grant awards, we have developed a rap...
www.spencer.org
May 2, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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davidimiller.bsky.social
I am so heartened to this seriously AWESOME #SaveNSF website go up today!!!!

Has a take action toolkit with:

1. Press outreach templates
2. Social media toolkit
3. Elected official outreach
4. Talking points

Check it out and share widely!!!! Likely more to come.

www.savensf.com
Welcome to Save The U.S. National Science Foundation A Girl Looking at a Physics Model TAKE ACTION Save NSF is a coalition of concerned scientists and allies who are working to save funding for scientific grants through the U.S. National Science Foundation. Our mission is to support and advocate for the continuation of vital research and innovation in various scientific fields. NSF funding is critical to this work. Join us in our endeavor to ensure a sustainable future for scientific exploration and discovery.
May 2, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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ucs.org
This Thursday, millions of people will stand united and speak out against the Trump administration’s illegal assault on our rights and freedoms in the May Day National Day of Action. Find your local event here:
National Day of Action
They want to erase labor rights, break our unions, and silence immigrant voices. This May Day we are fighting back. Stand with us.
maydaystrong.org
April 28, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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shengokai.blacksky.app
To your question about my supposed fear of change: I am not afraid of change or sociotechnical innovation. What I am afraid of is how change and innovation take place under the conditions set by capitalism and a variety of other oppressive structures which developers refuse to recognize as salient.
April 24, 2025 at 2:20 AM
anneparkt.bsky.social
If you want to dip your toes into @sciencehomecoming.bsky.social’s op-ed writing initiative, you could try writing Letters to the Editor to your local papers (~150-200 word short pieces) on timely issues that matter to you! Here’s an example of an LTE on academic freedom from me
Letter to the Editor: Academic Freedom The Trump administration is attempting to bully higher education into submission, by using intimidation and threats to dictate what can be taught (and who deserves a seat at the table). Harvard has decided to take a forceful stand for academic freedom, and several other colleges are now following suit. The University of Pennsylvania must do the same. As a scientist, I’ve learned firsthand how fundamentally valuable it is to listen and learn from diverse perspectives in the pursuit of knowledge. If the administration truly had the country’s best interests in mind, it would be actively fostering an environment where conflicting viewpoints can be boldly shared and constructively grappled with. Instead, they are threatening universities to close their diversity, equity and inclusion programs, and demanding an “audit” of student perspectives. This will only stifle free speech and force out some of our brightest talents, not make campuses safer. But of course, trampling on free speech is their end goal. So now is not the time to bend a knee in the hopes that things will blow over. Now is the time for universities (including Penn) to take collective action in defense of higher education.
April 22, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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epopppp.bsky.social
Small colleges have taken the lead -- but they are now joined by 6 of 8 Ivies: Cornell, Penn, Princeton, Yale, Brown, and -- yes -- Harvard.

And, finally, by a handful of big publics: U. of Washington, Wisconsin, Rutgers, SUNY Buffalo and Stony Brook, UC Riverside, UVa, UMD.
1789jam.bsky.social Judith A. Miller @1789jam.bsky.social · Apr 22
A powerful call has just gone up on the website of the @aacu.org : “A Call for Constructive Engagement” signed by almost 200 college & university presidents (more sure to join), from community colleges to R1s! #academicsky #edusky @academic-chatter.bsky.social www.aacu.org/newsroom/a-c...
A Call for Constructive Engagement | AAC&U
A Call for Constructive Engagement
www.aacu.org
April 22, 2025 at 10:34 AM
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standupforscience.bsky.social
If you and your colleagues are wishing there was something you could DO to call on your university leadership to stand up against Trump's attacks on higher ed...look no further!

📣 REGISTER YOUR CAMPUS ACTION HERE: actionnetwork.org/event_campai...

FILL THE MAP!

#standupwithus
#standupforscience
It's time for a summer send-off. Nationwide campus action. Stand up, fight back--together! STAND UP WITH US. Because science, higher ed, and democracy are for everyone. Where: you college campus. When: your last day of classes! Standupforscience2025.org
April 9, 2025 at 11:42 AM
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sarahmackattack.bsky.social
Everything is profoundly stupid. Like. So stupid, oh my god.

So, here's my proposal. Come have a beer with me tomorrow at tattooed mom's and make some street art about it.

We'll be focusing on climate change action messaging!

I have SO many paint pens. Come paint with me.

RSVP: lu.ma/zgq45ht1
Imagine that the Earth went to Art School and studied abroad in France and then did A LOT of cocaine. Ok you got it. (Just kidding- the earth is profusely sweating holding an artist's palette and a paintbrush, with their tongue sticking out and their eye twitching, while wearing a maroon beret, floating in between an easel with a canvas on it and the huge flames. The earth is thinking, via a thought bubble "Make stickers and wheatpastes encouraging climate action" and the title of the poster says Climate Change Crafting Night, and beneath the floating earth it says "Tattooed Mom, Sunday APril 6th 5pm, 21+ with valid I.D.
April 5, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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dannagal.bsky.social
Philly is LIT
April 5, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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standupforscience.bsky.social
We are excited to announce our official partnership with @indivisible.org for the National Day of Action on April 5th!

Stand Up for Science says: HANDS OFF OUR SCIENCE!

#standupforscience
#handsoffourscience

Find and register for an event near you: handsoff2025.com?utm_source=s...
March 29, 2025 at 1:16 PM