Garek B.
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People have been asking for action items. Yes!
There is one very important action for everyone for the next 10 days: Demand your Senators bring the Senate to a halt. Maximal obstruction.
Details in this thread:
There is one very important action for everyone for the next 10 days: Demand your Senators bring the Senate to a halt. Maximal obstruction.
Details in this thread:
The bad NIH director nominee, Jay Bhattacharya, will likely be voted on the week of Mar 25th. (see below)
That gives us abt 10 days to yell at Democratic Senators and tell them to bring the Senate to a halt by objecting to all future unanimous consent agreements.
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That gives us abt 10 days to yell at Democratic Senators and tell them to bring the Senate to a halt by objecting to all future unanimous consent agreements.
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March 17, 2025 at 11:54 PM
People have been asking for action items. Yes!
There is one very important action for everyone for the next 10 days: Demand your Senators bring the Senate to a halt. Maximal obstruction.
Details in this thread:
There is one very important action for everyone for the next 10 days: Demand your Senators bring the Senate to a halt. Maximal obstruction.
Details in this thread:
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This is horrible to post, but I may as well post it. We are essentially shutting down research operations in my group, which is focused on treatments for pediatric brain cancer. I’m a well funded investigator, and there’s no choice. Science can’t function without the stability of NIH
March 15, 2025 at 5:32 PM
This is horrible to post, but I may as well post it. We are essentially shutting down research operations in my group, which is focused on treatments for pediatric brain cancer. I’m a well funded investigator, and there’s no choice. Science can’t function without the stability of NIH
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Also this. Please Please Please, if you’re a fed who would be affected by this (or if you just care in general- you should there will be wider impacts) call your representatives!
Federal offices should stay put.
www.the-independent.com/news/world/a...
Federal offices should stay put.
www.the-independent.com/news/world/a...
Getting out of DOGE? Federal agencies given deadline to come up with plans to exit DC
‘You go around Washington and see all these buildings with the Department of Education. We want to move education back to the states, where it belongs,’ Trump said at a Cabinet meeting
www.the-independent.com
March 2, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Also this. Please Please Please, if you’re a fed who would be affected by this (or if you just care in general- you should there will be wider impacts) call your representatives!
Federal offices should stay put.
www.the-independent.com/news/world/a...
Federal offices should stay put.
www.the-independent.com/news/world/a...
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NEW: Senator Marshall (R-KS) RUNS AWAY, fleeing his own town hall after being asked about DOGE firing Veterans. MAKE HIM GO VIRAL.
March 1, 2025 at 6:21 PM
NEW: Senator Marshall (R-KS) RUNS AWAY, fleeing his own town hall after being asked about DOGE firing Veterans. MAKE HIM GO VIRAL.
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💥ATTENTION FEDS💥
All the termination letters going out that we've seen use "inadequate performance" as the reason for termination. SAVE YOUR PERFORMANCE EVALUATIONS. Tell your friends who aren't on bluesky! Probationary employees can't be fired for "poor performance" if their performance is not poor
All the termination letters going out that we've seen use "inadequate performance" as the reason for termination. SAVE YOUR PERFORMANCE EVALUATIONS. Tell your friends who aren't on bluesky! Probationary employees can't be fired for "poor performance" if their performance is not poor
February 19, 2025 at 1:39 AM
💥ATTENTION FEDS💥
All the termination letters going out that we've seen use "inadequate performance" as the reason for termination. SAVE YOUR PERFORMANCE EVALUATIONS. Tell your friends who aren't on bluesky! Probationary employees can't be fired for "poor performance" if their performance is not poor
All the termination letters going out that we've seen use "inadequate performance" as the reason for termination. SAVE YOUR PERFORMANCE EVALUATIONS. Tell your friends who aren't on bluesky! Probationary employees can't be fired for "poor performance" if their performance is not poor
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This has to be stopped. Like, tonight.
Musk’s DOGE seeks access to personal taxpayer data, raising alarm at IRS
Musk’s DOGE seeks access to personal taxpayer data at IRS
www.washingtonpost.com
February 17, 2025 at 2:00 AM
This has to be stopped. Like, tonight.
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A woman in Wyoming has been hospitalized with #H5N1 #birdflu, WY's health dept announced Friday. Likely exposure was to backyard poultry. Wyoming said #CDC confirmed the infection, though CDC did not add it to its H5 page today. Not clear if this is B3.13 or D1.1. health.wyo.gov/wyomings-fir...
Wyoming’s First Human Bird Flu Case Confirmed - Wyoming Department of Health
Wyoming’s first case of H5N1 avian influenza in a human has been confirmed in a Platte County older adult, according to the Wyoming Department of Health (WDH). The woman represents the third confirmed...
health.wyo.gov
February 15, 2025 at 4:10 AM
A woman in Wyoming has been hospitalized with #H5N1 #birdflu, WY's health dept announced Friday. Likely exposure was to backyard poultry. Wyoming said #CDC confirmed the infection, though CDC did not add it to its H5 page today. Not clear if this is B3.13 or D1.1. health.wyo.gov/wyomings-fir...
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Dear federal scientists: If you have been affected by the probationary firings and would be willing to speak with Science, please reach out to me by email (klangin@aaas.org) or on Signal. We can guarantee annonymity.
February 14, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Dear federal scientists: If you have been affected by the probationary firings and would be willing to speak with Science, please reach out to me by email (klangin@aaas.org) or on Signal. We can guarantee annonymity.
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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.
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
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.
Public pushback is what can stop them now. Please help 🧪. Scientists are in all 50 states, including in red areas.
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Some other reports say that agencies have a hard deadline of Tuesday at 8PM to fire probationary employees. Some agencies affected by the “purge” so far includes USDA, U.S. Fish and Wildlife, Department of Energy, Veterans Affairs, Department of Education, and OPM itself. (Not and exhaustive list).
February 14, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Some other reports say that agencies have a hard deadline of Tuesday at 8PM to fire probationary employees. Some agencies affected by the “purge” so far includes USDA, U.S. Fish and Wildlife, Department of Energy, Veterans Affairs, Department of Education, and OPM itself. (Not and exhaustive list).
The young bagger dude at Kroger had a nametag that read 'Baggins'.
February 9, 2025 at 3:42 PM
The young bagger dude at Kroger had a nametag that read 'Baggins'.
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NIH cuts billions of dollars in biomedical funding, effective immediately. The move halts a large slice of money for most universities and research institutions virtually overnight, imperiling vital research in everything from cancer to heart disease. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
NIH cuts billions of dollars in biomedical funding, effective immediately
The move halts a large slice of money for most universities and research institutions virtually overnight, imperiling vital research in everything from cancer to heart disease.
www.washingtonpost.com
February 8, 2025 at 4:15 PM
NIH cuts billions of dollars in biomedical funding, effective immediately. The move halts a large slice of money for most universities and research institutions virtually overnight, imperiling vital research in everything from cancer to heart disease. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
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On reflection, some analysis of the Trump NIH funding cuts tonight.
1. The indirect rates are unequal. But they’re not very unequal. Harvard 69%, Wayne State 55%, Texas A&M 54%, Vanderbilt 58%. Some of this variation is justified based on cost-of-living in different places.
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1. The indirect rates are unequal. But they’re not very unequal. Harvard 69%, Wayne State 55%, Texas A&M 54%, Vanderbilt 58%. Some of this variation is justified based on cost-of-living in different places.
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February 8, 2025 at 1:42 AM
On reflection, some analysis of the Trump NIH funding cuts tonight.
1. The indirect rates are unequal. But they’re not very unequal. Harvard 69%, Wayne State 55%, Texas A&M 54%, Vanderbilt 58%. Some of this variation is justified based on cost-of-living in different places.
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1. The indirect rates are unequal. But they’re not very unequal. Harvard 69%, Wayne State 55%, Texas A&M 54%, Vanderbilt 58%. Some of this variation is justified based on cost-of-living in different places.
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White House budget proposal may slash NSF funding from 9 billion to 3 billion a year.
White House budget proposal could shatter the National Science Foundation
“This kind of cut would kill American science and boost China.”…
arstechnica.com
February 7, 2025 at 12:03 AM
White House budget proposal may slash NSF funding from 9 billion to 3 billion a year.
Well, I guess I'm here now.
February 1, 2025 at 4:16 AM
Well, I guess I'm here now.