Casey Cazer
@clcazer.bsky.social
Researcher, educator and consultant. Veterinary epidemiologist and infectious disease expert.
Officially had my first federal grant terminated by the Trump administration. The grant supported a Center of Excellence at Cornell on Foodborne Illnesses. It supported dozens of researchers and students to help prevent foodborne diseases that make everyday people sick, and sometimes even kill them
April 3, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Officially had my first federal grant terminated by the Trump administration. The grant supported a Center of Excellence at Cornell on Foodborne Illnesses. It supported dozens of researchers and students to help prevent foodborne diseases that make everyday people sick, and sometimes even kill them
Standing up for science in DC!
March 7, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Standing up for science in DC!
Reposted by Casey Cazer
"As scientists, we stand on the shoulders of giants. Today, we are all standing shoulder to shoulder WITH giants. Everybody here has the ability to move us forward. Everyone here is a leader. Lead with your hearts now."
— Haley Chatelaine, VP of UAW Local 2750 @nihfellowsunited.bsky.social
— Haley Chatelaine, VP of UAW Local 2750 @nihfellowsunited.bsky.social
March 7, 2025 at 8:53 PM
"As scientists, we stand on the shoulders of giants. Today, we are all standing shoulder to shoulder WITH giants. Everybody here has the ability to move us forward. Everyone here is a leader. Lead with your hearts now."
— Haley Chatelaine, VP of UAW Local 2750 @nihfellowsunited.bsky.social
— Haley Chatelaine, VP of UAW Local 2750 @nihfellowsunited.bsky.social
March 7, 2025 at 9:45 PM
For anyone who wants to understand more what is going on with bird flu, this is a great article that reviews why we don’t have a lot of good options. www.latimes.com/environment/...
Killing 166 million birds hasn’t helped poultry farmers stop H5N1. Is there a better way?
Poultry producers, disease experts and government officials are now questioning the practice of widespread culling in response to H5N1 bird flu outbreaks.
www.latimes.com
February 28, 2025 at 6:35 PM
For anyone who wants to understand more what is going on with bird flu, this is a great article that reviews why we don’t have a lot of good options. www.latimes.com/environment/...
Finally!
Welcome to the Bluesky account for Stand Up for Science 2025!
Keep an eye on this space for updates, event information, and ways to get involved. We can't wait to see everyone #standupforscience2025 on March 7th, both in DC and locations nationwide!
#scienceforall #sciencenotsilence
Keep an eye on this space for updates, event information, and ways to get involved. We can't wait to see everyone #standupforscience2025 on March 7th, both in DC and locations nationwide!
#scienceforall #sciencenotsilence
February 13, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Finally!
Did you lose your job in public health? If you are comfortable sharing, there is an effort to quantify the impact. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Public Health Loss
This is a way to help track who has been lost from federal public health service and what work is left undone. This information is being collected by a group mostly consisting of concerned EIS alumni ...
docs.google.com
February 13, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Did you lose your job in public health? If you are comfortable sharing, there is an effort to quantify the impact. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Reposted by Casey Cazer
Get in Dorks, we are going protesting.
STAND UP FOR SCIENCE. MARCH 7th 12-4pm. DC AND YOUR STATE CAPITALS.
More information to come.
STAND UP FOR SCIENCE. MARCH 7th 12-4pm. DC AND YOUR STATE CAPITALS.
More information to come.
February 9, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Get in Dorks, we are going protesting.
STAND UP FOR SCIENCE. MARCH 7th 12-4pm. DC AND YOUR STATE CAPITALS.
More information to come.
STAND UP FOR SCIENCE. MARCH 7th 12-4pm. DC AND YOUR STATE CAPITALS.
More information to come.
Reposted by Casey Cazer
“I think it’s going to destroy research universities in the short term, and I don’t know after that.” Story by @by-cjewett.bsky.social on the new NIH policy that will shrivel support for research. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/07/u...
Deep Cuts to Medical Research Funds Could Hobble University Budgets (Gift Article)
Grants from the National Institutes of Health come with additional money for overhead. Proposed funding cuts would leave colleges with large budget gaps.
www.nytimes.com
February 8, 2025 at 3:52 PM
“I think it’s going to destroy research universities in the short term, and I don’t know after that.” Story by @by-cjewett.bsky.social on the new NIH policy that will shrivel support for research. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/07/u...
When is the March for Science 2025?
February 9, 2025 at 1:12 AM
When is the March for Science 2025?
Reposted by Casey Cazer
Scientists, as well as bureaucrats.
This is the head of OMB, folks. He coauthored Project 2025. This is the playbook we are seeing with the attacks on DEI efforts, on healthcare, on NSF and NIH funding.
They want us out of the way so they can destroy many institutions and resegregate the rest.
This is the head of OMB, folks. He coauthored Project 2025. This is the playbook we are seeing with the attacks on DEI efforts, on healthcare, on NSF and NIH funding.
They want us out of the way so they can destroy many institutions and resegregate the rest.
“We Want the Bureaucrats to Be Traumatically Affected”
YouTube video by ProPublica
www.youtube.com
February 8, 2025 at 11:50 PM
Scientists, as well as bureaucrats.
This is the head of OMB, folks. He coauthored Project 2025. This is the playbook we are seeing with the attacks on DEI efforts, on healthcare, on NSF and NIH funding.
They want us out of the way so they can destroy many institutions and resegregate the rest.
This is the head of OMB, folks. He coauthored Project 2025. This is the playbook we are seeing with the attacks on DEI efforts, on healthcare, on NSF and NIH funding.
They want us out of the way so they can destroy many institutions and resegregate the rest.
The data on the possible cat-human avian flu transmission that the CDC took down.
February 8, 2025 at 10:32 PM
The data on the possible cat-human avian flu transmission that the CDC took down.
Reposted by Casey Cazer
“Efforts by Trump officials to control the publication have stalled the release of three studies about bird flu for weeks, as the virus continues spreading through wild birds, poultry farms and cows around the country.” www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-o...
Trump officials exerting unprecedented control over CDC scientific journal
"The MMWR has lost its autonomy," one health official told CBS News.
www.cbsnews.com
February 8, 2025 at 3:23 AM
“Efforts by Trump officials to control the publication have stalled the release of three studies about bird flu for weeks, as the virus continues spreading through wild birds, poultry farms and cows around the country.” www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-o...
This will cause jobs to be lost at universities. There is no way around it. www.science.org/content/arti...
NIH slashes overhead payments for research, sparking outrage
Move to cut indirect cost rate to 15% could cost universities billions of dollars
www.science.org
February 8, 2025 at 11:17 AM
This will cause jobs to be lost at universities. There is no way around it. www.science.org/content/arti...
If you’re struggling to keep track of and understand the impacts of the many changes happening right now in the federal government, this is a good overview and highlights the global impacts. @profgalloway.com
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
Raging Moderates: Trump’s Short-Lived Trade War
Podcast Episode · The Prof G Pod with Scott Galloway · 02/04/2025 · 1h 18m
podcasts.apple.com
February 4, 2025 at 11:28 PM
If you’re struggling to keep track of and understand the impacts of the many changes happening right now in the federal government, this is a good overview and highlights the global impacts. @profgalloway.com
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
“Musk is a private citizen taking control of established government offices. That is not efficiency; that is a coup.”
This is terrifying. Where is the Dem leadership?
This is terrifying. Where is the Dem leadership?
Extremely important post from @smotus.bsky.social
Friday Night Musk-acre open.substack.com/pub/smotus/p...
Friday Night Musk-acre open.substack.com/pub/smotus/p...
Friday Night Musk-acre
Friday saw some very serious attacks on democracy and the rule of law
open.substack.com
February 2, 2025 at 1:24 PM
“Musk is a private citizen taking control of established government offices. That is not efficiency; that is a coup.”
This is terrifying. Where is the Dem leadership?
This is terrifying. Where is the Dem leadership?
I’ll come!
🧪
If I were Canadian PM I would immediately:
1. Create a new $15B science fund
2. Offer any credentialed US scientist funding for lab startup and replacement of NIH grants if they move to Canada
3. Immediate permanent residency
4. Citizenship after 2 years
Overnight a science superpower
If I were Canadian PM I would immediately:
1. Create a new $15B science fund
2. Offer any credentialed US scientist funding for lab startup and replacement of NIH grants if they move to Canada
3. Immediate permanent residency
4. Citizenship after 2 years
Overnight a science superpower
February 2, 2025 at 3:34 AM
I’ll come!
I have NSF funding. Ours has already been distributed so I think we will keep it for this year, and thankfully it only pays some of my salary (Cornell will cover my salary if it disappears) and not my graduate students or staff who would not get that safety net.
www.npr.org/2025/01/31/n...
www.npr.org/2025/01/31/n...
National Science Foundation freezes payments in response to Trump's executive actions
The National Science Foundation's funding freeze, and wider confusion about the status and future of science funding, is already hampering research.
www.npr.org
February 1, 2025 at 3:36 PM
I have NSF funding. Ours has already been distributed so I think we will keep it for this year, and thankfully it only pays some of my salary (Cornell will cover my salary if it disappears) and not my graduate students or staff who would not get that safety net.
www.npr.org/2025/01/31/n...
www.npr.org/2025/01/31/n...
apple.news/AtvacpovxQVa...
This could be a huge loss of data. I hope anyone who downloaded data posts it on a repository
This could be a huge loss of data. I hope anyone who downloaded data posts it on a repository
CDC Data Are Disappearing — The Atlantic
The agency has already removed scientific data from public view. More could follow. January 31, 2025 Last night, scientists began to hear cryptic and foreboding warnings from colleagues: Go to the CDC...
apple.news
January 31, 2025 at 11:35 PM
apple.news/AtvacpovxQVa...
This could be a huge loss of data. I hope anyone who downloaded data posts it on a repository
This could be a huge loss of data. I hope anyone who downloaded data posts it on a repository
Apparently some CDC and other government websites are being taken down with no explanation…
January 31, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Apparently some CDC and other government websites are being taken down with no explanation…
And one was my friend who supports childhood nutrition in rural Africa. Take your #AmericaFirst and shove it.
“Hundreds of people were laid off today by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) as the Trump Administration's stop-work order for foreign assistance goes into effect.” - Fatma Tanis / NPR Goats and Soda
www.npr.org/sections/goa...
www.npr.org/sections/goa...
Nearly 400 USAID contract employees laid off in wake of Trump's 'stop work' order
All departments were affected, including offices that address HIV and AIDS, infectious disease and child health.
www.npr.org
January 29, 2025 at 2:30 AM
And one was my friend who supports childhood nutrition in rural Africa. Take your #AmericaFirst and shove it.
Reposted by Casey Cazer
Memos posted publicly to government websites claiming to be from the acting directors of OPM and OMB have metadata showing that the original authors are affiliated with Project 2025.
January 27, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Memos posted publicly to government websites claiming to be from the acting directors of OPM and OMB have metadata showing that the original authors are affiliated with Project 2025.
Reposted by Casey Cazer
I'm looking to connect confidentially with people who work at OPM.
I will protect your identity.
Contact me via Signal or text at 202-599-7124
I will protect your identity.
Contact me via Signal or text at 202-599-7124
January 28, 2025 at 2:48 PM
I'm looking to connect confidentially with people who work at OPM.
I will protect your identity.
Contact me via Signal or text at 202-599-7124
I will protect your identity.
Contact me via Signal or text at 202-599-7124
Reposted by Casey Cazer
It is very easy to call your representatives’ offices. They have to log your calls and the call numbers are meaningful. You don’t even have to try to convince anyone; just call and tell them your concerns. They are there to represent you. Let them know what that means. www.usa.gov/elected-offi...
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Use USAGov’s Contact Your Elected Officials tool to get contact information for your members of Congress, the president, and state and local officials.
www.usa.gov
January 28, 2025 at 2:16 PM
It is very easy to call your representatives’ offices. They have to log your calls and the call numbers are meaningful. You don’t even have to try to convince anyone; just call and tell them your concerns. They are there to represent you. Let them know what that means. www.usa.gov/elected-offi...