After seeing more than a few dismal responses from universities in the current dismantling of science in the U.S., I want to applaud this email from the chair of my alma mater, the University of Washington Astronomy Dept. 🔭

(Email is too long for alt text, so I will copy-paste in replies)

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Seattle folks: I'm giving a (free) public lecture Feb 24, where I'll explain what our team's decade of research on online rumors & disinformation reveals about the once-alternative media ecosystem that is driving the rise of right wing populism around the world. www.washington.edu/facultystaff...

For those asking where the Dems are, I might suggest: the right didn’t wait on the Republicans. They plotted the course & the Republicans followed, at first in small packs, but eventually all falling in line. The left may have to do something similar. Don’t wait on “the Democrats”. Show them the way

Senate Republicans' partisan budget resolution would toss programs like SNAP and Medicaid into the woodchipper—all in service of passing tax giveaways for the wealthiest Americans.

Nearly HALF A BILLION DOLLARS of food is rotting because of Trump and Elon’s illegal USAID freeze.

Food that would have fed hungry children and saved lives — being wasted. www.cbsnews.com/news/usaid-t...

I'm walking into a major Budget Committee markup and I'll be voting NO against Senate Republicans' pro-billionaire, anti-middle class budget blueprint today.

This is what amounts to an ILLEGAL & indiscriminate funding cut for research centers everywhere. It will mean shuttering labs across the country, layoffs in red & blue states, and derailing lifesaving research on everything from cancer to opioid addiction.

We all need to speak out to save lives.