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Jasper Verplancke

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MD-PhD student at Boston University 🧠 face perception, working memory, cell types 🧬 prev. Uni of Oxford & BU Men’s Soccer ⚽️ from Brussels 🇧🇪

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🚨 It’s time to flood the zone.

NIH scientists just took a huge risk speaking out. Now it’s our turn.

📜 Read the Bethesda Declaration
✍️ Sign the Public Letter of Support
👯‍♀️Follow NIHers doing the work: @nihvigils.bsky.social

Read and sign here 👉 www.standupforscience.net/bethesda-dec...

09.06.2025 12:06 — 👍 457    🔁 255    💬 3    📌 35
Front-page-style graphic titled “BREAKING NEWS” with photos of RFK Jr. and Dr. Bhattacharya in front of a government hearing chamber. Text reads: “NIH Scientists Sound the Alarm as Health Research Faces Historic Threat” and “NIH Employees Send Trump Cronies Scathing Wake-Up Call.”

Front-page-style graphic titled “BREAKING NEWS” with photos of RFK Jr. and Dr. Bhattacharya in front of a government hearing chamber. Text reads: “NIH Scientists Sound the Alarm as Health Research Faces Historic Threat” and “NIH Employees Send Trump Cronies Scathing Wake-Up Call.”

🚨BREAKING: 300+ NIH employees call out the harm of censorship & politicized science in scathing email to Bhattacharya, demanding an end to political interference, a lift on funding freezes, & rehiring of fired staff whose work saves lives.

This is historic - insiders are blowing the whistle.
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09.06.2025 12:03 — 👍 4353    🔁 1413    💬 40    📌 73

something that stands out about this is just how cheap it is for us to have world-leading scientific capacity

we spent ~6.75 trillion last year, and the combined budgets for NIH, NSF and NASA are barely more than 1% of that

what an incredible waste to lose it all for a drop in the bucket

31.05.2025 16:19 — 👍 2289    🔁 854    💬 45    📌 19
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"Science is an investment.

We will put forward a new 500 million package for 2025-2027 to support the best and the brightest researchers and scientists from Europe and around the world."

— President @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu at the ‘Choose Europe for Science' event at La Sorbonne 🇫🇷

05.05.2025 10:16 — 👍 975    🔁 305    💬 35    📌 49
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Europe’s choice is clear.

To put science at the heart of its economy.

To become the home of scientific freedom and collaboration.

And to welcome talent from all over the world.

I’m glad to present the first elements of our Choose Europe Initiative.

→ europa.eu/!TTbWbJ

05.05.2025 10:00 — 👍 4087    🔁 983    💬 124    📌 138
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Our cover this week.

24.04.2025 13:46 — 👍 49346    🔁 10537    💬 1295    📌 794

Year of Step 1 of the Boards, finishing M2, and starting my PhD 😮‍💨

29.12.2024 12:55 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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