Dr. Nicole Else-Quest
@n-e-q.bsky.social
STEM education researcher, compulsive baker, puzzle enthusiast, noob birder, & superstitious NY Mets fan (but not in that order)
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Breaking @propublica.org: Bukele of El Salvador has become one of Trump’s favorite authoritarians, and Trump touts him as a foe of MS-13. But a US investigation has found evidence he has colluded with the gang, even paying it for votes.
www.propublica.org/article/buke...
www.propublica.org/article/buke...
“Delay, Interfere, Undermine”
President Donald Trump has praised Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele as a crime fighter, but new reporting based on interviews and documents reveals how senior Salvadoran officials have impeded a U.S....
www.propublica.org
June 12, 2025 at 9:41 AM
Breaking @propublica.org: Bukele of El Salvador has become one of Trump’s favorite authoritarians, and Trump touts him as a foe of MS-13. But a US investigation has found evidence he has colluded with the gang, even paying it for votes.
www.propublica.org/article/buke...
www.propublica.org/article/buke...
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NEW: The Trump administration said their research did not "enhance health, lengthen life, or reduce illness."
Thousands of scientists disagreed.
We heard from +150 researchers impacted by the NIH grant terminations on what is being lost in the cuts. 🧵👇
projects.propublica.org/nih-cuts-res...
Thousands of scientists disagreed.
We heard from +150 researchers impacted by the NIH grant terminations on what is being lost in the cuts. 🧵👇
projects.propublica.org/nih-cuts-res...
Shattered Science: The Research Lost as Trump Targets NIH Funding
The Trump administration cut research funding that sought cures for future pandemics, examined the causes of dementia and tried to prevent HIV transmission. More than 150 researchers shared with ProPu...
projects.propublica.org
June 12, 2025 at 12:30 PM
NEW: The Trump administration said their research did not "enhance health, lengthen life, or reduce illness."
Thousands of scientists disagreed.
We heard from +150 researchers impacted by the NIH grant terminations on what is being lost in the cuts. 🧵👇
projects.propublica.org/nih-cuts-res...
Thousands of scientists disagreed.
We heard from +150 researchers impacted by the NIH grant terminations on what is being lost in the cuts. 🧵👇
projects.propublica.org/nih-cuts-res...
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The disparity btwn what’s actually happening in Los Angeles and the way it’s being mischaracterized is one of the biggest stress tests of modern media in recent memory. Botted socials, AI, old clips, declining literacy—it’s like seeing a broken emergency response system hit by a storm.
June 10, 2025 at 9:57 PM
The disparity btwn what’s actually happening in Los Angeles and the way it’s being mischaracterized is one of the biggest stress tests of modern media in recent memory. Botted socials, AI, old clips, declining literacy—it’s like seeing a broken emergency response system hit by a storm.
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In seeking to reshape elite universities, the Trump administration is using several tactics, including freezing federal grants and contracts, and threatening colleges' tax-exempt status. https://n.pr/4l23AGU
All the ways the Trump administration is going after colleges and universities
In seeking to reshape elite universities, the Trump administration is using several tactics, including freezing federal grants and contracts, and threatening colleges' tax-exempt status.
n.pr
June 10, 2025 at 11:51 AM
In seeking to reshape elite universities, the Trump administration is using several tactics, including freezing federal grants and contracts, and threatening colleges' tax-exempt status. https://n.pr/4l23AGU
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HAPPY PRIDE 🏳️🌈
Under Trump, research using terms like “Trans,” “LGBTQ,” & “Gender identity” is being defunded. These terms reflect real people who deserve science that includes them.
Stand with us to protect LGBTQ+ science from political erasure.
grant-watch.us/nih-data.html
@rcmedphys.bsky.social
Under Trump, research using terms like “Trans,” “LGBTQ,” & “Gender identity” is being defunded. These terms reflect real people who deserve science that includes them.
Stand with us to protect LGBTQ+ science from political erasure.
grant-watch.us/nih-data.html
@rcmedphys.bsky.social
June 1, 2025 at 3:22 PM
HAPPY PRIDE 🏳️🌈
Under Trump, research using terms like “Trans,” “LGBTQ,” & “Gender identity” is being defunded. These terms reflect real people who deserve science that includes them.
Stand with us to protect LGBTQ+ science from political erasure.
grant-watch.us/nih-data.html
@rcmedphys.bsky.social
Under Trump, research using terms like “Trans,” “LGBTQ,” & “Gender identity” is being defunded. These terms reflect real people who deserve science that includes them.
Stand with us to protect LGBTQ+ science from political erasure.
grant-watch.us/nih-data.html
@rcmedphys.bsky.social
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It's Friday Night, which means Trump's weekly science bloodbath.
BUT WHY DOES HE DO THIS ON FRIDAY NIGHTS?
Simple: He's a coward!
Americans overwhelmingly support science! His attack on science is unpopular and he wants to bury it in the news cycle.
Not on our watch.
#StandUpForScience
BUT WHY DOES HE DO THIS ON FRIDAY NIGHTS?
Simple: He's a coward!
Americans overwhelmingly support science! His attack on science is unpopular and he wants to bury it in the news cycle.
Not on our watch.
#StandUpForScience
May 31, 2025 at 12:12 AM
It's Friday Night, which means Trump's weekly science bloodbath.
BUT WHY DOES HE DO THIS ON FRIDAY NIGHTS?
Simple: He's a coward!
Americans overwhelmingly support science! His attack on science is unpopular and he wants to bury it in the news cycle.
Not on our watch.
#StandUpForScience
BUT WHY DOES HE DO THIS ON FRIDAY NIGHTS?
Simple: He's a coward!
Americans overwhelmingly support science! His attack on science is unpopular and he wants to bury it in the news cycle.
Not on our watch.
#StandUpForScience
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🚨🚨 Friday night news drop from National Science Foundation!! 🧪
NSF just released its detailed budget request for next year: nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/files/00-NSF...
We knew it was going to be bad...and it lives up. Guts direct NSF support for a **quarter million people**
🧵 on some highlights...
NSF just released its detailed budget request for next year: nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/files/00-NSF...
We knew it was going to be bad...and it lives up. Guts direct NSF support for a **quarter million people**
🧵 on some highlights...
May 30, 2025 at 11:16 PM
🚨🚨 Friday night news drop from National Science Foundation!! 🧪
NSF just released its detailed budget request for next year: nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/files/00-NSF...
We knew it was going to be bad...and it lives up. Guts direct NSF support for a **quarter million people**
🧵 on some highlights...
NSF just released its detailed budget request for next year: nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/files/00-NSF...
We knew it was going to be bad...and it lives up. Guts direct NSF support for a **quarter million people**
🧵 on some highlights...
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AERA and other scientific societies sent a letter to Congress today expressing concern about imminent threats to NSF’s structure and operations. The letter urges Congress to use its oversight authority to ensure the NSF can carry out its statutory mission. aas.org/sites/defaul...
May 30, 2025 at 5:07 PM
AERA and other scientific societies sent a letter to Congress today expressing concern about imminent threats to NSF’s structure and operations. The letter urges Congress to use its oversight authority to ensure the NSF can carry out its statutory mission. aas.org/sites/defaul...
Who’s surprised that a crusader for pseudoscience cites fake sources?
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ummmmm...fake sources, mischaracterization of findings, made up research studies doesn't sound like "Gold Standard Science" to us.
But what do we know? We are just a lowly, grassroots community of the world's leading scientists. 🐸☕
#foolsgoldscience
#standupforsciece
www.notus.org/health-scien...
But what do we know? We are just a lowly, grassroots community of the world's leading scientists. 🐸☕
#foolsgoldscience
#standupforsciece
www.notus.org/health-scien...
The MAHA Report Cites Studies That Don’t Exist
The Trump administration’s “Make America Healthy Again” report misinterprets some studies and cites others that don’t exist, according to the listed authors.
www.notus.org
May 30, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Who’s surprised that a crusader for pseudoscience cites fake sources?
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Tell us you don’t care about poor people without saying you don’t care about poor people…
Joni Ernst, at her town hall last night.
When the crowd said people will die due to Medicaid and SNAP cuts, she said: "well we all are going to die." 🫠🫠🫠🫠
When the crowd said people will die due to Medicaid and SNAP cuts, she said: "well we all are going to die." 🫠🫠🫠🫠
May 30, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Tell us you don’t care about poor people without saying you don’t care about poor people…
With recent moves like this, CFPB no longer protects consumers.
Under the Biden administration, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau finalized a rule barring medical debt from appearing on credit reports. Now, the agency is siding with the credit industry groups suing to have the rule vacated.
The CFPB wanted medical debt to be left off credit reports. That's changed under Trump
Under the Biden administration, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau finalized a rule barring medical debt from appearing on credit reports. Now, the agency is siding with the credit industry grou...
www.npr.org
May 26, 2025 at 10:27 PM
With recent moves like this, CFPB no longer protects consumers.
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tl;dr — this EO co-opts the language of open science to implement a system of political control wherein presidential appointees are given broad latitude to designate any number of reasonable scientific activities and inferences as scientific misconduct, and to penalize those involved accordingly.
Restoring Gold Standard Science
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including section 7301 of title 5, United
www.whitehouse.gov
May 24, 2025 at 9:28 PM
tl;dr — this EO co-opts the language of open science to implement a system of political control wherein presidential appointees are given broad latitude to designate any number of reasonable scientific activities and inferences as scientific misconduct, and to penalize those involved accordingly.
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Hundreds of National Science Foundation staffers turned out for a group photograph to celebrate the besieged agency’s 75th anniversary—despite efforts by NSF officials to prevent the picture from being taken. scim.ag/4jcGpIt
Is a photo subversive? NSF staff overcome obstacles to 75th anniversary portrait
Management tried to quash outpouring of support for beleaguered agency
scim.ag
May 23, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Hundreds of National Science Foundation staffers turned out for a group photograph to celebrate the besieged agency’s 75th anniversary—despite efforts by NSF officials to prevent the picture from being taken. scim.ag/4jcGpIt
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I am a staunch free speech supporter. But after ten years of freaking out about woke students deplatforming right-wing speakers, I don't have the energy to pivot to criticizing a fascist president for launching an all-out attack on free expression at universities.
May 23, 2025 at 4:54 PM
I am a staunch free speech supporter. But after ten years of freaking out about woke students deplatforming right-wing speakers, I don't have the energy to pivot to criticizing a fascist president for launching an all-out attack on free expression at universities.
Today’s the last day to comment!
Don’t let OPM institutionalize the politicization of #science!
#savensf
Don’t let OPM institutionalize the politicization of #science!
#savensf
8/ Add your voice! Public comments have been steadily increasing!
Be sure to include this info in your comment:
Agency name: Office of Personnel Management,
Docket ID: OPM-2025-0004
www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...
Be sure to include this info in your comment:
Agency name: Office of Personnel Management,
Docket ID: OPM-2025-0004
www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...
Improving Performance, Accountability and Responsiveness in the Civil Service
The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) is proposing a rule to increase career employee accountability. Agency supervisors report great difficulty removing employees for poor performance or misconduc...
www.federalregister.gov
May 23, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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And BOOM! Here's the official preliminary injunction. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
It orders:
Prospective relief: HALTS further firings, cutting programs, reorganization plans, etc. at NSF, HHS/NIH, Energy, etc.
Excerpt below.
Retrospective relief: Not yet, while it's on appeal.
It orders:
Prospective relief: HALTS further firings, cutting programs, reorganization plans, etc. at NSF, HHS/NIH, Energy, etc.
Excerpt below.
Retrospective relief: Not yet, while it's on appeal.
May 23, 2025 at 2:58 PM
And BOOM! Here's the official preliminary injunction. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
It orders:
Prospective relief: HALTS further firings, cutting programs, reorganization plans, etc. at NSF, HHS/NIH, Energy, etc.
Excerpt below.
Retrospective relief: Not yet, while it's on appeal.
It orders:
Prospective relief: HALTS further firings, cutting programs, reorganization plans, etc. at NSF, HHS/NIH, Energy, etc.
Excerpt below.
Retrospective relief: Not yet, while it's on appeal.
These radical cuts will not make America great.
The National Science Foundation is awarding new grants at the slowest pace in at least 35 years. The funding decreases touch virtually every area of science — extending far beyond the diversity programs that the Trump administration says it wants to cut.
Trump Has Cut Science Funding to Its Lowest Level in Decades
The lag in funding extends far beyond D.E.I. initiatives, affecting almost every area of science: chemistry, computing, engineering, materials and more.
www.nytimes.com
May 22, 2025 at 8:35 PM
These radical cuts will not make America great.
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🧪 Trump Has Cut Science Funding to Its Lowest Level in Decades! Call your reps, especially if they are Republicans! We must #resist #StandUpForScience www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Trump Has Cut Science Funding to Its Lowest Level in Decades
The lag in funding extends far beyond D.E.I. initiatives, affecting almost every area of science: chemistry, computing, engineering, materials and more.
www.nytimes.com
May 22, 2025 at 1:44 PM
🧪 Trump Has Cut Science Funding to Its Lowest Level in Decades! Call your reps, especially if they are Republicans! We must #resist #StandUpForScience www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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🧪 Detailed data viz NYT article, out today, on the extent of funding cuts at the National Science Foundation.
This "broken pie chart" is neat & new to me: Powerfully shows the slowdown in new NSF awards across areas.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
This "broken pie chart" is neat & new to me: Powerfully shows the slowdown in new NSF awards across areas.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
May 22, 2025 at 3:59 PM
🧪 Detailed data viz NYT article, out today, on the extent of funding cuts at the National Science Foundation.
This "broken pie chart" is neat & new to me: Powerfully shows the slowdown in new NSF awards across areas.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
This "broken pie chart" is neat & new to me: Powerfully shows the slowdown in new NSF awards across areas.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Federal grants: it's SO much worse than you know. The idea that only ideologically radical grants were cut is a profound lie. Funds were cut, stalled, AND HHS is not paying bills even if awards were NOT cancelled. The $ stopped, illegally and without explanation
grant-watch.us/posts/700-ne...
grant-watch.us/posts/700-ne...
Over 700 and $1.7 billion in previously undisclosed grant terminations published by NIH – Grant Watch
grant-watch.us
May 21, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Federal grants: it's SO much worse than you know. The idea that only ideologically radical grants were cut is a profound lie. Funds were cut, stalled, AND HHS is not paying bills even if awards were NOT cancelled. The $ stopped, illegally and without explanation
grant-watch.us/posts/700-ne...
grant-watch.us/posts/700-ne...
If this new OPM rule is finalized, the qualified, apolitical civil servants who refuse to turn science into propaganda will be fired.
Comments close on Friday 5/23!
Make your voice heard and #SAVENSF !
🧵
Comments close on Friday 5/23!
Make your voice heard and #SAVENSF !
🧵
May 21, 2025 at 5:28 PM
If this new OPM rule is finalized, the qualified, apolitical civil servants who refuse to turn science into propaganda will be fired.
Comments close on Friday 5/23!
Make your voice heard and #SAVENSF !
🧵
Comments close on Friday 5/23!
Make your voice heard and #SAVENSF !
🧵
Publicly-funded science is in our national interest!
These cuts sabotage our economic growth and undermine our potential for technological and educational innovation.
These cuts sabotage our economic growth and undermine our potential for technological and educational innovation.
The NSF helped fund the tech in your phone, the models that forecast deadly storms and 268 Nobel prize-winners.
The Trump Administration has proposed cutting its budget by 55% – and 1400+ grants are already terminated.
The Trump Administration has proposed cutting its budget by 55% – and 1400+ grants are already terminated.
Unprecedented cuts to the National Science Foundation endanger research that improves economic growth, national security and your life
The Trump administration has terminated hundreds of federal grants that support engineering, biology, geology, computer science, STEM education and much more.
buff.ly
May 20, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Publicly-funded science is in our national interest!
These cuts sabotage our economic growth and undermine our potential for technological and educational innovation.
These cuts sabotage our economic growth and undermine our potential for technological and educational innovation.
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🧪 Basic science boosts the economy:
"The proposed dismantling of NSF [and NIH] raises an urgent question: do these cuts actually save money or merely delay spending until the bill gets larger?
The answer is clear: these cuts will cost the economy billions."
"The proposed dismantling of NSF [and NIH] raises an urgent question: do these cuts actually save money or merely delay spending until the bill gets larger?
The answer is clear: these cuts will cost the economy billions."
Trump’s NIH And NSF Cuts Estimated To Cost The U.S. Economy $10 Billion Annually
Economists find public R&D drives a quarter of U.S. productivity growth — and pays for itself
www.forbes.com
May 19, 2025 at 4:33 PM
🧪 Basic science boosts the economy:
"The proposed dismantling of NSF [and NIH] raises an urgent question: do these cuts actually save money or merely delay spending until the bill gets larger?
The answer is clear: these cuts will cost the economy billions."
"The proposed dismantling of NSF [and NIH] raises an urgent question: do these cuts actually save money or merely delay spending until the bill gets larger?
The answer is clear: these cuts will cost the economy billions."