#attackonscience
RFK Jr. speaks in authoritarian gobbledygook where every pair of words is like matter and antimatter—poof, gone on contact. “Don’t trust scientists about science”? His sentences self-annihilate before they even land. @rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social #attackonscience #attackontruth #attackondemocracy
RFK Jr: We need to stop trusting the experts... Trusting the experts is not a feature of science or democracy, it's a feature of religion and totalitarianism.
October 16, 2025 at 4:04 AM
Just the first #TheThreeBodyProblem book. Suddenly the #Trump administrations #AttackOnScience makes sense!
June 8, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Yesterday's team building exercise started with considering survival/escape items on a deserted island and ended with everyone agreeing that we didn't want to leave. So... that's ten epidemiologists who prefer the conditions of Castaway to the US. #publichealth #braindrain #AttackOnScience
March 29, 2025 at 1:04 PM
You will be hearing about IDCs. This is a great primer. #AttackOnScience
February 8, 2025 at 1:09 AM
It is not just the #KeelingCurve but a whole network of stations and calibration labs that have been operated by #NOAA as a service for humanity for decades.

Shutting it down would be like destroying a piece of art like the #MonaLisa: irreplacable once it is gone. A nightmare! #AttackOnScience
Must-read @thebulletin.org article by Eric Morgan & Ralph Keeling: The Keeling curve, which has continuously tracked atmospheric CO2 levels for *67* years, has always been vulnerable to funding ebbs and flows—but under Trump II, is facing its most dire threat yet

thebulletin.org/2025/05/how-...
How the dismantling of NOAA threatens the Keeling Curve
How the Trump administration's dismantling of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration threatens the Keeling Curve, an iconic measure used in climate change research. As explained by the so...
thebulletin.org
May 6, 2025 at 2:54 PM
In US, MN ranks #1 in oats; #3 in spring wheat; #9 in barley. $380M in #wheat exports alone.

Scientists are needed to support farmers producing these crops!

What's the future of #agriculture if we dismantle #AgriculturalScience research?

#PlantScience #USDA-ARS #AttackOnScience #PlantPathology
Tough day for small grains research in the Twin Cities. Myself and four scientist colleagues have all been let go from the USDA because we haven't completed our 3 year probationary period - effectively gutting the Cereal Disease Lab.
Taking a few days to be sad before I think about what comes next.
February 17, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Science (and science policy, and conservation) friends, I need your help!

We are collecting *specific, clear* examples of harms caused by the Trump administration's attacks on science, to be included in an open letter.

Can be links to news stories/social media posts. 🧪🦑🌎 #SciComm #SciPol
February 21, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Many people from the #USDA were terminated yesterday/today. A place where agricultural research is done to support agricultural production. Scientists, research assistants, custodians.

This is unacceptable.

#PlantPathology #PlantScience #USDA-ARS #AttackOnScience
February 14, 2025 at 8:04 PM
February 5, 2025 at 5:55 AM
npr.org NPR @npr.org · Feb 8
The National Institutes of Health has dramatically changed its grant-making terms by limiting how much it will disperse for costs such as equipment and administration.
NIH announces new funding policy that rattles medical researchers
The National Institutes of Health has dramatically changed its grant-making terms by limiting how much it will disperse for costs such as equipment and administration.
www.npr.org
February 8, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Yesterday, I met @davidho.bsky.social at #EGU25. We briefly talked about the #attackonscience in the #US. The recent developments at #NSF are just devastating.
May 3, 2025 at 7:25 AM