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@ecolechio.bsky.social
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Graduate programs ceasing admissions in the US due to funding being cut off is going to cause a really interesting predicament for private industry when companies want to hire trained researchers in 4-5 years.
March 1, 2025 at 11:35 PM
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A reminder for these times.
March 1, 2025 at 10:24 PM
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Absolutely
February 23, 2025 at 3:21 AM
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🚨 WANT TO HELP US STAND UP FOR SCIENCE? 🚨

Here's a little update on where we're currently at with the planning process!

Is your state red or grey & you want to see an event happen? Fill out our volunteer form or share with a friend! airtable.com/app4h5wUssMG...

#standupforscience2025
February 22, 2025 at 5:19 AM
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Does your child want to go to college, want to go to med or grad school? The new cures for diseases, new technologies that we depend on come out of universities. #Trump, #Musk, #Vought are now killing higher education. If you haven't been paying attention, this would be a good time to wake up.
February 22, 2025 at 10:45 AM
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TRUMP: The NCAA has complied immediately. That's good. But I understand Maine -- is the governor of Maine here?

JANET MILLS: Yeah I'm here

TRUMP: Are you not gonna comply?

JM: I'm going to comply with state and federal law

T: You better do it bc you're not gonna get any federal funding at all
February 21, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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So.

It has officially happened. I have been officially let go from my position at CDC. I wasn’t a probationary employee. I had stellar performance reviews every year.

I’ll be ok. But please understand that many worked HARD to get into these positions and were doing great public health work.
February 21, 2025 at 8:14 PM
I am begging for a diagram of Reaper metabolism #elevationmovie
February 21, 2025 at 10:48 PM
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BREAKING: They called them heroes. Then they cut their healthcare. Trump and Musk just gutted funding for the 9/11 first responders’ health program—forcing layoffs and slashing care for those who risked their lives. This is a national disgrace.

thehill.com/policy/healt...
February 19, 2025 at 5:02 AM
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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
February 12, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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SENIORS UNITE YOUR Social Security and Medicare are going to be in the hands of a lunatic who wants YOUR money. IRS info, same lunatic. MEDICAID will be in his hands GONE. WE DID NOT ELECT THIS MAN/CHILD. ARE THEY TRYING TO KILL US ALL. ANSWER: YES, the weakest will perish
February 18, 2025 at 12:12 PM
This is inexcusable
Want to go visit the national parks this year?
Sorry.
The reservation system is shut down, EMT personnel are gone, so don't get hurt or lost. No one can clean the bathrooms or cabins, so they'll be closed. Rangers are fired.

www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...
Yosemite halts camping reservations, with no timetable for their return
Yosemite halts camping reservations, with no timetable for their return at a time when federal employees are being laid off
www.sfchronicle.com
February 18, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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I’m angry; you should be too. Call your member of Congress every day until they stop this hemorrhaging of scientific and clinical expertise. #Musk #Trump #Vought are making us less safer and making us sicker. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/u...
Trump Cuts Target Next Generation of Scientists and Public Health Leaders
A core group of so-called disease detectives, who track outbreaks, was apparently spared. But other young researchers are out of jobs.
www.nytimes.com
February 18, 2025 at 12:14 PM
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so Bobby will make sure black children get the opportunity to get "re-parented" and sent out to some farm somewhere.
Even the most disturbing RFK Jr. headline always manages to have a detail inside creepier than you could have imagined. I’m sorry, did you just say Black kids should have a chance to get “re-parented”???? Gift link wapo.st/4hW2xGI
February 17, 2025 at 10:27 PM
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This is devastating. The NIH plays an important role in coordinating trials across the country.

Do you have a loved one in a clinical trial? It might be stopped due to these cuts. Call your representatives! Let them know you care about science and developing life saving treatments!
Got word that several NIH employees in a group working on cancer clinical trials got terminated via email this evening.

“The [cancer research] trials will literally not be able to function without us.”

Trump and Musk are killing cancer research. 🧪
February 16, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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Picked up these two volumes for the #WomenInSTEM Bookshelves at #AAAS2025. It’ll be tough to dethrone Neuenschwander’s Noether book from my heart as it’s one of my all time favorites but always happy to see her covered! #BookSky #AstroSky #MathSky
February 16, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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The Trump NIH is banning hires of new students and postdocs. This is devastating for NIH research and will result in a lost generation of researchers at the institution.

Heard from a applicant today: "A lot of people are banking their entire careers on the [NIH student programs]..."
#NIH 🧪
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February 10, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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On the 40th anniversary of the Bhopal disaster, survivors demanded justice, rightful compensation, and long-term care and rehabilitation. cen.acs.org/environment/... #chemsky🧪
Editorial: Bhopal must not be forgotten
The 1984 disaster in Bhopal, India, remains one of the most chilling cases of corporate carelessness, government inaction, and human suffering
cen.acs.org
February 15, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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We're seeing continued censoring from the administration of scientific and clinical information including this crucial webpage from FDA of "Approved Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategies (REMS)" which serve as critical programs for drug safety. No explanation, no notice. #MedSky
February 15, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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Dr. Bertagnolli: We need everyone here engaged in preserving U.S. science. Every STEM discipline contributes to human health.

We are being challenged, but we deliver, and we’re not going away. “Science is magic that works!”

@AAASmtg
@AAAS2025
February 15, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s idea of efficiency is stopping research on curing cancer.
February 14, 2025 at 1:59 AM
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Termination notices going out this afternoon to more than 300 employees of the National Cancer Institute. Access likely ends today. Four weeks paid leave and that’s it.

Strong power move for Team Cancer.
February 14, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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It’s been buried in all the news today, but every scientist in the US should pay attention to this:

Mike Lauer went out on a limb for us all, sending out a memo saying institutes should start awarding grants. And it looks like Trump/Musk fired him for that. 🧪
NEW: In a further sign of turmoil at the NIH, Mike Lauer, who oversees the agency's $39 billion extramural budget that goes to research outside the NIH, has resigned effective tomorrow.

This comes after top NIH official Larry Tabak abruptly retired yesterday.
February 14, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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Yes. This is the message that every scientist should be getting out right now: “Trump/Musk are killing cancer research” — it’s a political slam dunk.

Public pushback is what can stop them now. Please help 🧪. Scientists are in all 50 states, including in red areas.
In its totality what's happening at HHS & NIH is a Musk/Trump effort to shutdown almost all cancer cure research in the US. No more new cures. Cancer's brand is really in the dumps. It polls terribly. This is a political argument that is straightforward to make. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/nih-a...
NIH and Its Agencies Are Being Smothered
In recent days I have been inundated by reports out of HHS...
talkingpointsmemo.com
February 14, 2025 at 5:50 PM