Erin the Librarian

Call Congress for our libraries. Show up for our libraries. American library association.

ALA is deeply concerned by reports that IMLS is sending notices to libraries claiming to cancel grants that are required by law. This harmful action will disrupt libraries' ability to serve their communities.
Tell Congress to protect library funding: bit.ly/CallCongressForLibraries
#ForOurLibraries

"The system proposed by NIH cannot accomplish its stated goal of cutting costs while maintaining a high-quality national research system." - Choi et al.

The U.S. National Institutes of Health’s recent decision to impose a 15% cap on facilities and administrative cost reimbursements is misguided and damaging, argue the authors of a new #SciencePolicyForum. scim.ag/423AbVX

Apparently, you can't say or write "cancer moonshot" or "peanut allergy" without permission if you work at the National Cancer Institute. 🤷‍♂️ www.propublica.org/article/nati...

USDA freezes federal funding for Maine university system This is the second time in less than a week that the Trump administration has pulled funding from higher ed institutions suspected of not following his policies.

USDA Suspends All Grants for University of Maine System

This is the second time in less than a week that the Trump administration has pulled funding from higher ed institutions suspected of not following his policies. #HigherEd #EDUSky #AcademicSky bit.ly/41ZOHOv

We participated! We did get dinner from a locally owned restaurant (where our neighbor was our server) and paid cash. Avoiding target, Amazon, Walmart and the like at all costs for the foreseeable future.

Did you know that there were campaigns during World War 2 in the Gulf of America? No?
Because it is the Gulf of Mexico.
You might want to email listcomments@loc.gov and let them know that this isn't rewrite history day.
What happens at LOC will find its way to your local library.
(Be kind to them.)

Wayback Machine playback (and other functions) is down because of a power outage induced hardware failure.

We are working to address this issue and bring the services back up ASAP.

Thank you for your support and patience!

The good news: CDC's webpages have been restored following court orders.
The bad news: many have this despicable banner attached to them. We will be getting into misconceptions in gender ideology in a later post. For now, we are hurt and ashamed, and we stand with the LGBTQIA+ community.

Thank goodness for the American Medical Association. Here is their YouTube page. Please share far and wide. Right now bird flu is spreading throughout our country and most people have no clue. Please stay updated and bookmark this page for your health and well-being.

www.youtube.com/@americanmed...

1. Today the NIH director issued a new directive slashing overhead rates to 15%.

I want to provide some context on what that means and why it matters.

grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

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Opinion | There Is No Going Back The president’s opponents, whoever they are, cannot expect a return to the Constitution as it was.

Yeah so the Constitution isn’t really in effect right now

Workers at NASA Told to ‘Drop Everything’ to Scrub Mentions of Indigenous People, Women from Its Websites "This is a drop everything and reprioritize your day request," a directive "per NASA HQ direction" stated.

NASA workers were told to "drop everything" and spend their time scrubbing mentions of women in leadership, indigenous people, and environmental justice from the web: www.404media.co/nasa-dei-dro...

A lawsuit has been filed against an Arkansas county judge who fired a librarian after she opposed efforts to ban books.

www.usnews.com/news/us/arti...

list of banned keywords

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

Reminder: Musk’s staffers are using space characters to identify information leakers. Before sharing any information, please use a checker to detect and remove these. Avoid directly leaking images; instead, request that the information be rewritten and the image recreated

Well the award for most cowardly, boot-lickingest academic society has squarely gone to the American Society of Microbiology, who has taken down features of various non-white scientists. Absolutely pathetic behavior. Those articles are now coming up as “under review”. Truly sickening cowardice here.

Trump is considering executive action to dismantle the U.S. Department of Education

BREAKING NEWS: CDC orders mass retraction and revision of submitted research across all science and medicine journals. Banned terms must be scrubbed. Any unpublished manuscript mentioning certain topics, including gender and "LGBT," must be pulled or revised.

Erasing the words doesn’t erase the ideas or the people, but it does erase important scientific data with which participants entrusted us so that they could be represented, too. It’s devastating. From @jeremyfaust.bsky.social insidemedicine.substack.com/p/breaking-n...

Please share: We’ve received word that Elon Musk’s staffers are using space characters to identify information leakers. Before sharing any information, please use a checker to detect and remove these.

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The Trump administration has placed two top security chiefs at the U.S. Agency for International Development on leave after they resisted turning over classified material in restricted areas to Elon Musk’s staffers. America, please stand with us—we are fighting to defend this country!

Octavia Butler's vision of the future feels eerily familiar today. Her words remind us: change is constant, but so is resilience.

More (recently deleted) CDC guidelines available here!

FYI - Wegmans frozen chicken nuggets have been recalled. We definitely had a bag. Can return for a full refund.

1,100 EPA employees have been notified of imminent termination.

Call To Action 🚨 CALL TO ACTION 🚨 Contact your county commissioners and demand answers. We deserve transparency and accountability in decisions that impact our community. Here’s what you can do: 1. Call and email ...

Rhea Young, director of
Libraries in Montgomery Cty TX, was fired for refusing to accept a conservative book
banning agenda. Help fix this with me? Actionable steps here: docs.google.com/document/d/1... #booksky

Trump orders USDA to take down websites referencing climate crisis Websites offer only error messages on Thursday after president demands agriculture department shutter sites

We knew this kind of stuff was coming, but it doesn't make it acceptable.

Purging science is an attack on democracy.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

CDC Purging Its Website After Trump Orders Agency removed certain pages related to gender issues, HIV, and that said 'pregnant people'

Found this list of #CDC webpages that have disappeared (along with links to archived versions). From @medpagetoday.bsky.social
www.medpagetoday.com/publichealth...

Trump administration purges websites across federal health agencies Research and basic information on subjects ranging from tuberculosis surveillance to adolescent health disappeared from federal health agency websites.

BREAKING NEWS: Research and basic information on subjects ranging from tuberculosis surveillance to adolescent health disappeared from federal health agency websites.