Heather Sims
@heathersims.bsky.social
Loves owls, ice cream, and democracy. (She/her)
Mike’s imaging center is standing up for science.
We serve 250 scientists annually. Research cores rely on institutional support and NIH Indirects to support skilled staff and keep our doors open. We STAND UP FOR SCIENCE due to the huge impact funding losses will have. We cannot advance together without the research cores. @umasschan.bsky.social
March 20, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Mike’s imaging center is standing up for science.
My 5 accomplishments this week:
1. Taught group fitness classes at 3 gyms, because movement plus socialization equals healthy minds and bodies.
2. Spent quality time with friends and family.
3. Attended several Indivisible meetings for inspiration and motivation.
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1. Taught group fitness classes at 3 gyms, because movement plus socialization equals healthy minds and bodies.
2. Spent quality time with friends and family.
3. Attended several Indivisible meetings for inspiration and motivation.
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February 28, 2025 at 3:46 PM
My 5 accomplishments this week:
1. Taught group fitness classes at 3 gyms, because movement plus socialization equals healthy minds and bodies.
2. Spent quality time with friends and family.
3. Attended several Indivisible meetings for inspiration and motivation.
(1/2)
1. Taught group fitness classes at 3 gyms, because movement plus socialization equals healthy minds and bodies.
2. Spent quality time with friends and family.
3. Attended several Indivisible meetings for inspiration and motivation.
(1/2)
How to Crash the US Economy 101.
The Dow doesn’t love it, but Russia and China do.
The Dow doesn’t love it, but Russia and China do.
February 22, 2025 at 11:59 AM
How to Crash the US Economy 101.
The Dow doesn’t love it, but Russia and China do.
The Dow doesn’t love it, but Russia and China do.
Here’s a summary of what the cuts to NIH grants means for medical research.
This is an excellent overview of the situation with NIH: www.reddit.com/r/NIH/s/zWFB...
From the NIH community on Reddit: Simply the End
Explore this post and more from the NIH community
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February 20, 2025 at 12:20 AM
Here’s a summary of what the cuts to NIH grants means for medical research.
Reposted by Heather Sims
The cost-saving claims don’t hold up. Every dollar in NIH research grants generates $2.46 in economic activity, research shows—a total of $93 billion in 2023 alone.
“It’s incredible to me that we would give up this thing that has such obvious societal benefits,” says biologist Mark Peifer.
“It’s incredible to me that we would give up this thing that has such obvious societal benefits,” says biologist Mark Peifer.
America will pay dearly for the NIH’s mindless war on wokeness and DEI
Colleges, businesses, patients, students, workers, and US excellence will all suffer—and for what?
www.motherjones.com
February 17, 2025 at 4:25 PM
The cost-saving claims don’t hold up. Every dollar in NIH research grants generates $2.46 in economic activity, research shows—a total of $93 billion in 2023 alone.
“It’s incredible to me that we would give up this thing that has such obvious societal benefits,” says biologist Mark Peifer.
“It’s incredible to me that we would give up this thing that has such obvious societal benefits,” says biologist Mark Peifer.
Local protest - Worcester City Hall, noon on Monday February 17th.
Worcester Indivisible is hosting a protest on Monday, President's Day, at noon outside Worcester City Hall. Join us in solidarity, fellowship, and resistance! Can't wait to see you there!
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February 16, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Local protest - Worcester City Hall, noon on Monday February 17th.
Reposted by Heather Sims
Reposted by Heather Sims
I'm 100% in favor of getting rid of waste and fraud.
Can President Elon please explain to us how research into chemo drugs and cancer treatments is now considered wasteful?
He can't. Because it's all BS and lies. Dismantling the NIH like this will kill people.
Can President Elon please explain to us how research into chemo drugs and cancer treatments is now considered wasteful?
He can't. Because it's all BS and lies. Dismantling the NIH like this will kill people.
February 14, 2025 at 1:27 AM
I'm 100% in favor of getting rid of waste and fraud.
Can President Elon please explain to us how research into chemo drugs and cancer treatments is now considered wasteful?
He can't. Because it's all BS and lies. Dismantling the NIH like this will kill people.
Can President Elon please explain to us how research into chemo drugs and cancer treatments is now considered wasteful?
He can't. Because it's all BS and lies. Dismantling the NIH like this will kill people.
His daughter has cystic fibrosis, but he’s cutting funding to people who are working on treatments for CF. No wonder his wife divorced him.
Incredible: Russ Vought’s daughter has cystic fibrosis and benefits from a “miracle drug” made possible by the National Institutes of Health—an agency Vought now aims to gut as part of the Project 2025 attack www.motherjones.com/politics/202... Scoop from @motherjones.com’s @metrauxjulia.bsky.social
Project 2025 is gutting medical funding that helped Russell Vought's own kid
Its architect's daughter has cystic fibrosis—and benefits from a "miracle drug" backed by an agency he's attacking.
www.motherjones.com
February 12, 2025 at 11:31 AM
His daughter has cystic fibrosis, but he’s cutting funding to people who are working on treatments for CF. No wonder his wife divorced him.
Reposted by Heather Sims
Incredible: Russ Vought’s daughter has cystic fibrosis and benefits from a “miracle drug” made possible by the National Institutes of Health—an agency Vought now aims to gut as part of the Project 2025 attack www.motherjones.com/politics/202... Scoop from @motherjones.com’s @metrauxjulia.bsky.social
Project 2025 is gutting medical funding that helped Russell Vought's own kid
Its architect's daughter has cystic fibrosis—and benefits from a "miracle drug" backed by an agency he's attacking.
www.motherjones.com
February 12, 2025 at 1:42 AM
Incredible: Russ Vought’s daughter has cystic fibrosis and benefits from a “miracle drug” made possible by the National Institutes of Health—an agency Vought now aims to gut as part of the Project 2025 attack www.motherjones.com/politics/202... Scoop from @motherjones.com’s @metrauxjulia.bsky.social
Reposted by Heather Sims
Elon—the richest man on Earth—is gutting the world’s largest provider of food aid. He could end world hunger single-handedly and still be the richest man alive. But he won’t.
Instead, he spent 40 million on Super Bowl ads attacking USAID!
Stand with USAID: share this counter-ad…
Instead, he spent 40 million on Super Bowl ads attacking USAID!
Stand with USAID: share this counter-ad…
February 10, 2025 at 12:16 AM
Elon—the richest man on Earth—is gutting the world’s largest provider of food aid. He could end world hunger single-handedly and still be the richest man alive. But he won’t.
Instead, he spent 40 million on Super Bowl ads attacking USAID!
Stand with USAID: share this counter-ad…
Instead, he spent 40 million on Super Bowl ads attacking USAID!
Stand with USAID: share this counter-ad…
Reposted by Heather Sims
I stand with the trans community. Pass it along.
February 9, 2025 at 12:45 PM
I stand with the trans community. Pass it along.
Reposted by Heather Sims
Hey Bluesky 👋
I'm Jim McGovern, Congressman for the Second District of Massachusetts and someone who believes in this country and wants us to stand up for human rights at home and around the world.
I'm excited to be here. Let's get going.
I'm Jim McGovern, Congressman for the Second District of Massachusetts and someone who believes in this country and wants us to stand up for human rights at home and around the world.
I'm excited to be here. Let's get going.
February 4, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Hey Bluesky 👋
I'm Jim McGovern, Congressman for the Second District of Massachusetts and someone who believes in this country and wants us to stand up for human rights at home and around the world.
I'm excited to be here. Let's get going.
I'm Jim McGovern, Congressman for the Second District of Massachusetts and someone who believes in this country and wants us to stand up for human rights at home and around the world.
I'm excited to be here. Let's get going.
Stopped by my congressman’s office this morning to register my objection to this week’s tariffs and trade wars; and to express my concern about the Treasury Department’s data breach by randos with no security clearance.
February 3, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Stopped by my congressman’s office this morning to register my objection to this week’s tariffs and trade wars; and to express my concern about the Treasury Department’s data breach by randos with no security clearance.
Reposted by Heather Sims
Everything is extremely chaotic but the best info we have so far suggests that Trump’s “stop funding” EO would cover:
Medicaid
ESSA funds
IDEA
Snap
School meals
WIC
Head start grants
Child care block grants
Pell grants
Student loans
Higher Ed grants
Housing vouchers
CTE
Devastating beyond words.
Medicaid
ESSA funds
IDEA
Snap
School meals
WIC
Head start grants
Child care block grants
Pell grants
Student loans
Higher Ed grants
Housing vouchers
CTE
Devastating beyond words.
January 28, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Everything is extremely chaotic but the best info we have so far suggests that Trump’s “stop funding” EO would cover:
Medicaid
ESSA funds
IDEA
Snap
School meals
WIC
Head start grants
Child care block grants
Pell grants
Student loans
Higher Ed grants
Housing vouchers
CTE
Devastating beyond words.
Medicaid
ESSA funds
IDEA
Snap
School meals
WIC
Head start grants
Child care block grants
Pell grants
Student loans
Higher Ed grants
Housing vouchers
CTE
Devastating beyond words.
Reposted by Heather Sims
If we’re going to take on Trump, Republican extremists, and move our country forward, the Democratic Party needs to be stronger. I'm running for Chair of the Democratic National Committee to unite the party, fight everywhere, and win. Join me. 🧵
Unite. Fight. Win.
YouTube video by Ben Wikler
www.youtube.com
December 1, 2024 at 2:14 PM
If we’re going to take on Trump, Republican extremists, and move our country forward, the Democratic Party needs to be stronger. I'm running for Chair of the Democratic National Committee to unite the party, fight everywhere, and win. Join me. 🧵
If you haven’t already done so, please add Heather Cox Richardson to your Follow list, and read her daily Letters from an American.
January 22, 2025 at 1:02 PM
If you haven’t already done so, please add Heather Cox Richardson to your Follow list, and read her daily Letters from an American.
Reposted by Heather Sims
January 20, 2025
January 20, 2025
The tone for the inauguration of Donald J.
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com
January 21, 2025 at 7:30 AM
January 20, 2025
“Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.”
Martin Luther King Jr.
Martin Luther King Jr.
January 20, 2025 at 12:47 PM
“Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.”
Martin Luther King Jr.
Martin Luther King Jr.
Good question.
Ok, I’m a bit confused. How could Trump override the TikTok ban today when the 20th Amendment says he is not President until his inauguration tomorrow?
January 20, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Good question.
Would you hire this man?
January 16, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Would you hire this man?
Reposted by Heather Sims
January 15, 2025:
January 15, 2025
It is somehow fitting that President Joe Biden’s farewell address to the nation, scheduled for 8:00 Eastern time tonight, was overshadowed today by the dramatic announcement that after months of negot...
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com
January 16, 2025 at 7:27 AM
January 15, 2025:
“It also states that women’s health care should address the needs of men, families, and communities. While focusing on women’s health care, the resolution, does not state, why or how men or families are related to the care of women’s health.”
www.ktalnews.com/news/politic...
www.ktalnews.com/news/politic...
Republican representatives introduce bill targeting women’s healthcare
While this resolution aims to be one for women’s health care, there are questions on whether this covers all of women’s health or just a bi-partisan view of women’s health at the …
www.ktalnews.com
January 10, 2025 at 12:34 PM
“It also states that women’s health care should address the needs of men, families, and communities. While focusing on women’s health care, the resolution, does not state, why or how men or families are related to the care of women’s health.”
www.ktalnews.com/news/politic...
www.ktalnews.com/news/politic...
Reposted by Heather Sims
January 9, 2025
January 9, 2025
Family members, friends, and political leaders gathered today at the Washington National Cathedral to honor the life of former president Jimmy Carter, who died on December 29 at age 100.
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com
January 10, 2025 at 6:38 AM
January 9, 2025