Cynthia Moncada Reid
@cynthiamoncadareid.bsky.social
PhD Candidate at Harvard studying auditory neuroscience 🧬 🇲🇽🇺🇸
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I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
July 3, 2025 at 6:58 PM
I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
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JUST IN: Harvard has designated its newly filed suit against the Trump administration as related to one filed earlier in April by Harvard professors. So, it will be initially assigned to the same judge, Allison Burroughs, an Obama appointee. Doc: www.harvard.edu/research-fun...
www.harvard.edu
April 21, 2025 at 9:47 PM
JUST IN: Harvard has designated its newly filed suit against the Trump administration as related to one filed earlier in April by Harvard professors. So, it will be initially assigned to the same judge, Allison Burroughs, an Obama appointee. Doc: www.harvard.edu/research-fun...
Reserving Fullbright Scholarships for married women or mothers LITERALLY is DEI. $5k is such a fucking joke that it’s offensive. God forbid women in this country finally have mandatory paid maternal leave and affordable child care.
The Trump administration is assessing ways to persuade women in the U.S. to have more children, as a movement grows on the right to reverse declining birthrates and push conservative family values. Some pitched ideas include cash baby bonuses and menstrual cycle classes. nyti.ms/4jh3UAR
April 21, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Reserving Fullbright Scholarships for married women or mothers LITERALLY is DEI. $5k is such a fucking joke that it’s offensive. God forbid women in this country finally have mandatory paid maternal leave and affordable child care.
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As of today, the NIH is saying it will deny funds to institutions that have any DEI programs.
Segregationists are so threatened that marginalized people *may* have opportunities for advancement that they are willing to shut down universities and the scientific enterprise over it.
Segregationists are so threatened that marginalized people *may* have opportunities for advancement that they are willing to shut down universities and the scientific enterprise over it.
NIH bans all future grants to universities with DEI programs or Israel boycotts
NIH prohibited the awarding of new grants to institutions that have DEI programs or boycott Israeli companies
www.statnews.com
April 21, 2025 at 8:22 PM
As of today, the NIH is saying it will deny funds to institutions that have any DEI programs.
Segregationists are so threatened that marginalized people *may* have opportunities for advancement that they are willing to shut down universities and the scientific enterprise over it.
Segregationists are so threatened that marginalized people *may* have opportunities for advancement that they are willing to shut down universities and the scientific enterprise over it.
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I talked to a student yesterday about a conversation she had with a program officer, who told her--NIH will fund research on "health disparities" but not "health equity." At first that seemed odd. Then I remembered--a disparity frame makes White people *less* willing to care about unequal health. 1/
April 12, 2025 at 5:15 PM
I talked to a student yesterday about a conversation she had with a program officer, who told her--NIH will fund research on "health disparities" but not "health equity." At first that seemed odd. Then I remembered--a disparity frame makes White people *less* willing to care about unequal health. 1/
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Forcing people to pay $130 for a passport in order to vote is just a Jim Crow poll tax by another name.
It is blatantly unconstitutional.
It is blatantly unconstitutional.
April 10, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Forcing people to pay $130 for a passport in order to vote is just a Jim Crow poll tax by another name.
It is blatantly unconstitutional.
It is blatantly unconstitutional.
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Columbia’s reward for bending over backward to comply is *checks notes*
$700 million in more funding freezes.
www.science.org/content/arti...
$700 million in more funding freezes.
www.science.org/content/arti...
NIH freezes all research grants to Columbia University
Amid negotiations with Trump, the university could risk losing nearly $700 million
www.science.org
April 9, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Columbia’s reward for bending over backward to comply is *checks notes*
$700 million in more funding freezes.
www.science.org/content/arti...
$700 million in more funding freezes.
www.science.org/content/arti...
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The hits just keep coming. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
NSF slashes prestigious PhD fellowship awards by half
US National Science Foundation announces lowest number of Graduate Research Fellowship Programme recipients in 15 years.
www.nature.com
April 8, 2025 at 11:40 PM
The hits just keep coming. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Trump admin just forced NIH to rescind its scientific integrity policy… straight out of the playbook of authoritarian regimes. When fascists gain power, they don’t ban science outright—they bend it to their will. Here, “aligned” science is *controlled science*.
grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
NOT-OD-25-080: Rescission of the Final Scientific Integrity Policy of the National Institutes of Health
NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: Rescission of the Final Scientific Integrity Policy of the National Institutes of Health NOT-OD-25-080. OD
grants.nih.gov
March 30, 2025 at 2:15 AM
Trump admin just forced NIH to rescind its scientific integrity policy… straight out of the playbook of authoritarian regimes. When fascists gain power, they don’t ban science outright—they bend it to their will. Here, “aligned” science is *controlled science*.
grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
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Kseniia Petrova, a Russian scientist at Harvard Medical School, was detained at Logan Airport after returning from France and sent to an ICE detention in Louisiana, The Insider reports.
A big critic of Putin and the war in Ukraine, she may now be deported to Russia.
A big critic of Putin and the war in Ukraine, she may now be deported to Russia.
March 27, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Kseniia Petrova, a Russian scientist at Harvard Medical School, was detained at Logan Airport after returning from France and sent to an ICE detention in Louisiana, The Insider reports.
A big critic of Putin and the war in Ukraine, she may now be deported to Russia.
A big critic of Putin and the war in Ukraine, she may now be deported to Russia.
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All of them...
February 24, 2025 at 3:42 AM
All of them...
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The thing about destroying NIH is NIH’s scale in medical research just dwarfs everyone else.
For ex, in 2023 the American Cancer Society gave out $64.5 million worth of grants. Sounds big, right?
But NIH’s budget was $49 billion. With a B.
Kill NIH and the floor drops out of US science.
For ex, in 2023 the American Cancer Society gave out $64.5 million worth of grants. Sounds big, right?
But NIH’s budget was $49 billion. With a B.
Kill NIH and the floor drops out of US science.
HHS might as well be wrapping a wire around a piece of metal and running a current through it and see what happens.
February 20, 2025 at 3:06 AM
The thing about destroying NIH is NIH’s scale in medical research just dwarfs everyone else.
For ex, in 2023 the American Cancer Society gave out $64.5 million worth of grants. Sounds big, right?
But NIH’s budget was $49 billion. With a B.
Kill NIH and the floor drops out of US science.
For ex, in 2023 the American Cancer Society gave out $64.5 million worth of grants. Sounds big, right?
But NIH’s budget was $49 billion. With a B.
Kill NIH and the floor drops out of US science.
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How it feels trying to get work done:
What Procrastination Really Feels Like GIF
ALT: What Procrastination Really Feels Like GIF
media.tenor.com
January 27, 2025 at 7:04 PM
How it feels trying to get work done:
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I’m an NSF panel reviewer that was scheduled to meet today. Just got notice that all NSF panels were canceled today. I reviewed some innovative proposals in support of students. Devastating if these scholars don’t get to do this work. For the love of science & students I hope this is just a delay.💔
January 27, 2025 at 2:45 PM
I’m an NSF panel reviewer that was scheduled to meet today. Just got notice that all NSF panels were canceled today. I reviewed some innovative proposals in support of students. Devastating if these scholars don’t get to do this work. For the love of science & students I hope this is just a delay.💔