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Federal budget cuts threaten the work of neuroscientist with Martin County roots | Opinion
Sarah Heilbronner is a proud product of Martin County schools. However, federal budget cuts threaten important work she's doing in brain research.
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Neuroscientist Sarah Heilbronner is a proud product of Martin County schools in Florida 🌴. However, federal budget cuts threaten important work she's doing in brain research. 🧪🏠
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Please join @spiantado.bsky.social at @caltech.edu today for an in-person ScienceHomecoming event with The Caltech Y
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November 10, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Please join @spiantado.bsky.social at @caltech.edu today for an in-person ScienceHomecoming event with The Caltech Y
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Steve’s invited to present Science Homecoming to the American Mathematical Association @sciencehomecoming.bsky.social
Join this free workshop on Nov 12 with Steven T. Piantadosi of Science Homecoming and learn the how-to's and beneficial impacts of communicating the importance of scientific research to your local community through opinion pieces. Register today. Link in comments.
November 5, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Steve’s invited to present Science Homecoming to the American Mathematical Association @sciencehomecoming.bsky.social
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Join this free workshop on Nov 12 with Steven T. Piantadosi of Science Homecoming and learn the how-to's and beneficial impacts of communicating the importance of scientific research to your local community through opinion pieces. Register today. Link in comments.
November 3, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Join this free workshop on Nov 12 with Steven T. Piantadosi of Science Homecoming and learn the how-to's and beneficial impacts of communicating the importance of scientific research to your local community through opinion pieces. Register today. Link in comments.
November 4, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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Here's the newest piece in the @nytimes.com "Lost Science" series. @emilyanthes.bsky.social talks to a scientist who was learning about the minds of elephants--and how to use those insights to help the animals coexist with farmers. Gift link: nyti.ms/3KXVSAG
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October 16, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Here's the newest piece in the @nytimes.com "Lost Science" series. @emilyanthes.bsky.social talks to a scientist who was learning about the minds of elephants--and how to use those insights to help the animals coexist with farmers. Gift link: nyti.ms/3KXVSAG
Conservation biologist Tabor Whitney learned to value nature in Colorado’s forests. Now her federally funded work protecting the Colorado River Basin and building resilience against drought, wildfire, and water scarcity is at risk of being cut. 🧪🏠
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Whitney: Protecting what makes Vail great means supporting federal funding for science
I am one of the lucky few to grow up in Vail. My childhood was surrounded by nature and adventure. Living in Maloit Park in Minturn meant that my backyard was essentially a forest, one...
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October 15, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Conservation biologist Tabor Whitney learned to value nature in Colorado’s forests. Now her federally funded work protecting the Colorado River Basin and building resilience against drought, wildfire, and water scarcity is at risk of being cut. 🧪🏠
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Just a reminder that if you are a scientist wondering how you can communicate the value of federally-funded scientific research outside of your bubble, @sciencehomecoming.bsky.social is here to help you pitch and publish in your hometown newspaper
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October 8, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Just a reminder that if you are a scientist wondering how you can communicate the value of federally-funded scientific research outside of your bubble, @sciencehomecoming.bsky.social is here to help you pitch and publish in your hometown newspaper
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🧪Excited to co-present this @standupforscience.bsky.social event next week with UW's Dr. Ryan Kelly
We'll cover how to effectively engage in public comments, to help shape public policy at all levels, federal to local. Attend in person or virtually!
RSVP: act.standupforscience.net/events/power...
We'll cover how to effectively engage in public comments, to help shape public policy at all levels, federal to local. Attend in person or virtually!
RSVP: act.standupforscience.net/events/power...
October 7, 2025 at 3:36 PM
🧪Excited to co-present this @standupforscience.bsky.social event next week with UW's Dr. Ryan Kelly
We'll cover how to effectively engage in public comments, to help shape public policy at all levels, federal to local. Attend in person or virtually!
RSVP: act.standupforscience.net/events/power...
We'll cover how to effectively engage in public comments, to help shape public policy at all levels, federal to local. Attend in person or virtually!
RSVP: act.standupforscience.net/events/power...
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@sciencehomecoming.bsky.social has tools for finding local newspapers and writing for them!
Here's the assignment folks. Write op-eds for your local papers and campus newspapers too. Just. Say. No. This is a classic authoritarian move and risks the future of higher education and science and innovation in the US. Speak out today. No time to lose. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/o...
Opinion | Trump’s ‘Compact’ With Universities Is Just Extortion
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October 3, 2025 at 1:09 PM
@sciencehomecoming.bsky.social has tools for finding local newspapers and writing for them!
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Coincidentally, another group published results today on a very similar question: What research wouldn't have gotten done had the NIH's budget been cut by 40%, as Trump proposed?
Under that scenario, NIH-funded research on more than half of 557 drugs approved 2000-2023 would have never happened!
Under that scenario, NIH-funded research on more than half of 557 drugs approved 2000-2023 would have never happened!
What if NIH had been 40% smaller?
Replaying history with less NIH funding shows widespread impacts on drug-linked research
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September 25, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Coincidentally, another group published results today on a very similar question: What research wouldn't have gotten done had the NIH's budget been cut by 40%, as Trump proposed?
Under that scenario, NIH-funded research on more than half of 557 drugs approved 2000-2023 would have never happened!
Under that scenario, NIH-funded research on more than half of 557 drugs approved 2000-2023 would have never happened!
Participation has been outstanding at every level, across diverse science fields. We’ve published nearly 300 articles in local hometowns. 🧪🏠 Write yours today with help here:
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September 17, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Participation has been outstanding at every level, across diverse science fields. We’ve published nearly 300 articles in local hometowns. 🧪🏠 Write yours today with help here:
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Have you written to your home community to tell them what’s going on? They likely are unaware of the consequences 🧪🏠
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Researchers: Pennsylvania out nearly $40 million in NIH scientific grants after federal cuts • Pennsylvania Capital-Star
Around 112 scientific grants in Pennsylvania from the National Institutes of Health have been impacted by cuts or freezes instituted by the Trump administration, according to a group of researchers an...
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September 17, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Have you written to your home community to tell them what’s going on? They likely are unaware of the consequences 🧪🏠
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“Universities are the incubators of medical breakthroughs.” Long Island native Sam Cermak, now a biomedical PhD student at Northwestern, studies how chronic pain rewires the brain and fuels opioid addiction. Progress takes years, but has already saved many lives 🧪🏠
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September 9, 2025 at 11:50 AM
“Universities are the incubators of medical breakthroughs.” Long Island native Sam Cermak, now a biomedical PhD student at Northwestern, studies how chronic pain rewires the brain and fuels opioid addiction. Progress takes years, but has already saved many lives 🧪🏠
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Here is a link to share, to spread the news about the importance of science for healthcare
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September 3, 2025 at 12:47 AM
Here is a link to share, to spread the news about the importance of science for healthcare
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For his hometown in Montana, Nick Weber, PhD reminds his hometown that science once cured “black measles” and Rocky Mountain spotted fever—proof that investment in research saves lives, then and now. 🧪🏠
I recently got an opinion piece published in my hometown newspaper. bitterrootstar.com/2025/08/from...
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#McClintockLetters #SciComm #DefendResearch
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#McClintockLetters #SciComm #DefendResearch
From black measles to breakthroughs: why science matters - Bitterroot Star
by Nick Weber, PhD, scientist at the Center for Applied Medical Research, University of Navarra, Pamplona, Spain In the early 1900s, the Bitterroot Valley experienced waves of measles outbreaks. Thi...
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September 3, 2025 at 7:45 AM
For his hometown in Montana, Nick Weber, PhD reminds his hometown that science once cured “black measles” and Rocky Mountain spotted fever—proof that investment in research saves lives, then and now. 🧪🏠
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9 CDC Directors going back to 1977 speak out. What RFK Jr has done to our nation’s public health system "should alarm every American."
It "is unlike anything we have ever seen at the agency, and unlike anything our country has ever experienced." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
It "is unlike anything we have ever seen at the agency, and unlike anything our country has ever experienced." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
Opinion | We Ran the C.D.C.: Kennedy Is Endangering Every American’s Health
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September 1, 2025 at 11:23 AM
9 CDC Directors going back to 1977 speak out. What RFK Jr has done to our nation’s public health system "should alarm every American."
It "is unlike anything we have ever seen at the agency, and unlike anything our country has ever experienced." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
It "is unlike anything we have ever seen at the agency, and unlike anything our country has ever experienced." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
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Schumer, Jeffries propose strongly-worded letter to counter RFK Jr.'s purge at the CDC.
August 29, 2025 at 3:14 AM
Schumer, Jeffries propose strongly-worded letter to counter RFK Jr.'s purge at the CDC.
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You spelled ENDANGERING wrong, @nytimes.com.
“Pushing the boundaries” is a *positive* frame implying unconventional innovations. There are no innovations here. Just medieval anti-science populist attacks on some of best methods of truth seeking we have.
“Pushing the boundaries” is a *positive* frame implying unconventional innovations. There are no innovations here. Just medieval anti-science populist attacks on some of best methods of truth seeking we have.
August 30, 2025 at 12:22 PM
You spelled ENDANGERING wrong, @nytimes.com.
“Pushing the boundaries” is a *positive* frame implying unconventional innovations. There are no innovations here. Just medieval anti-science populist attacks on some of best methods of truth seeking we have.
“Pushing the boundaries” is a *positive* frame implying unconventional innovations. There are no innovations here. Just medieval anti-science populist attacks on some of best methods of truth seeking we have.
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RFK Jr. ordered the NIH’s Integrated Research Facility in Frederick to stop all research on serious infectious diseases yesterday at 5:00 PM.
They study pathogens like Ebola there. You may be familiar with it from The Hot Zone.
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They study pathogens like Ebola there. You may be familiar with it from The Hot Zone.
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RFK Jr.'s HHS Orders Lab Studying Deadly Infectious Diseases to Stop Research
NIAID's Integrated Research Facility is one of the few federal facilities charged with studying Ebola. Tuesday afternoon, all of its work was put on indefinite pause by Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s departm...
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April 30, 2025 at 10:45 PM
RFK Jr. ordered the NIH’s Integrated Research Facility in Frederick to stop all research on serious infectious diseases yesterday at 5:00 PM.
They study pathogens like Ebola there. You may be familiar with it from The Hot Zone.
www.wired.com/story/hhs-ni...
They study pathogens like Ebola there. You may be familiar with it from The Hot Zone.
www.wired.com/story/hhs-ni...
Where the Science Homecoming authors are from…so far 🧪🏠
August 29, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Where the Science Homecoming authors are from…so far 🧪🏠
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Seema Shah and Kingsley Osuala write about all the lives saved by science in Detroit, “NCI funding has helped research institutions develop better detection methods, contributing to a 34% drop in cancer mortality since 1991.” 🧪🏠
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August 25, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Seema Shah and Kingsley Osuala write about all the lives saved by science in Detroit, “NCI funding has helped research institutions develop better detection methods, contributing to a 34% drop in cancer mortality since 1991.” 🧪🏠
@princess-vimentin.bsky.social
www.detroitnews.com/story/opinio...
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Seema Shah and Kingsley Osuala write about all the lives saved by science in Detroit, “NCI funding has helped research institutions develop better detection methods, contributing to a 34% drop in cancer mortality since 1991.” 🧪🏠
@princess-vimentin.bsky.social
www.detroitnews.com/story/opinio...
@princess-vimentin.bsky.social
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August 25, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Seema Shah and Kingsley Osuala write about all the lives saved by science in Detroit, “NCI funding has helped research institutions develop better detection methods, contributing to a 34% drop in cancer mortality since 1991.” 🧪🏠
@princess-vimentin.bsky.social
www.detroitnews.com/story/opinio...
@princess-vimentin.bsky.social
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One reason scientists should WRITE ✍🏻 to small towns and suburbs is that people FORGOT what all science does for them. Interview with @sciencehomecoming.bsky.social
How is science fighting back against attacks in the US? The project @sciencehomecoming.bsky.social encourages researchers to publish in local newspapers in their hometowns. The goal: remind people of the value of science 👇
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August 25, 2025 at 11:17 AM
One reason scientists should WRITE ✍🏻 to small towns and suburbs is that people FORGOT what all science does for them. Interview with @sciencehomecoming.bsky.social