Amanda B Braley

Taught Lucas how to count crowds yesterday. Start with a group of five. Then make it 10. Then make it 25. Now make a group of 100. How many 100s do you see here? We both came up with between 8,000-9,000 in Beaverton, OR on 6/14/2025.

This article covers just one of many invaluable STEM pathway programs at OHSU succumbing to capricious, shortsighted federal edicts.

While not reflected by current and proposed federal science grant spending…

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55 years ago today, 4 students at Kent State University were killed for protesting the Vietnam war.

Allison Krause, 19
Jeffrey Glenn Miller, 20
Sandra Lee Scheuer, 20
William Knox Schroeder, 19

We must stand against war, militarism, and government attacks on protest.

“There is incredible work going on. This is not it."

“The difference here is that there are ethical challenges in enrolling patients into a placebo group when an effective vaccine exists, potentially putting them at harm from a preventable illness,”- Dr. Reshma Ramachandran
@reshmagar.bsky.social

Read more:
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Policy Notice: Implementation of Standard 15% Indirect Cost Rate

It's Fustilarian Friday, so today NSF is announcing that they, too, are slashing overhead rates to 15%.

www.nsf.gov/policies/doc...

The plan is to break the parks, claim they must be privatized, take them from the American people and give them to their friends.

The Public Broadcasting Act of 1967 created the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. I reread it today; nothing in the law allows a president to defund PBS and NPR. In fact, Congress specifically sought to insulate public media from political pressure.

NIH cancels participation in Safe to Sleep campaign that decreased infant deaths NIH has cancelled its participation in Safe to Sleep, a 30-year campaign to prevent babies from dying in their sleep

Seems a bit at odds with the mission statement. www.statnews.com/2025/04/30/n...

'Fighting to breathe': Whooping cough surges as vaccination rate falters There have been 8,064 reported cases of whooping cough in the U.S., compared with 3,835 for the same time in 2024, according to CDC data.

🧵Measles isn’t the only vaccine-preventable disease making a comeback.

Whooping cough is surging.

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#USDA reports that another #H5N1 #birdflu infected dairy herd has been detected in Arizona, the state's third.
The cumulative national total is 1,032 herds in 17 states.
www.aphis.usda.gov/livestock-po...

How Democrats and Republicans cite science: study reveals stark differences Democratic-led congressional committees and left-wing think tanks reference research papers more often than their right-wing counterparts.

Democratic-led congressional committees and left-wing think tanks reference research papers more often than their right-wing counterparts.

https://go.nature.com/4jIVQtf

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URGENT ACTION FOR NSF GRANTEES.

For current & recent (since 2020) awards, archive your award history this afternoon/tonight. Screenshot/download/print your work in research.gov & alert your partners.

We have credible threats to integrity of awards tracking systems (via @jeremymberg.bsky.social)

Can confirm that our IMLS docs were removed after our grant was terminated. The whole awardee search functionality disappeared. Mess

US students. Looking to apply to graduate school? Had an offer rescinded recently? The University of British Columbia in Canada will re-open the application portal in some departments for US students from April 14-18.
Details: www.grad.ubc.ca/us-applicant...
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So weird to see colleges promoting their USNWR grad school rankings today like grad students aren’t being disappeared by their government.

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Let me be clear: Trump's tariffs are a TAX that the American people will pay on everything they buy.

Trump's tariffs are pushing us toward a painful recession.

Don't forget: Republicans joined Trump last week to cheer and clap for his tariffs.

An issue regarding NIH is that program officers & grant officials were RIF'ed so they can't respond to routine communications about grants admin - like $ not yet transferred- which means they can't send $, which means they are selectively & with no strategy, cutting grants that they haven't “cut.”

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I may be tired and a little hoarse, but as I said again and again on the Senate floor, this is a moment where we cannot afford to be silent, when we must speak up.

A boy in a green shits sits on a statue of a large fluffy dog. His Boppa stands behind him.

A baby Asian elephant stands by her mother. The baby barely is as tall as Mom’s belly

A boy in a jacket rides a wooden toy horse. His nana is behind him.

Grandparenting in Oregon: Spring Break 2025 edition. Stopped at Cascades Locks and found this statue of Seaman the Lewis and Clark expedition dog and a visit to the zoo to see Tula-Tu while she’s still little.

Ouster of FDA’s Peter Marks alarms a biopharma industry that saw him as an ally Will Peter Marks' ouster from the FDA change how pharma industry engages with the Trump administration?

Pharma and biotech shaken by Peter Marks' ouster from #FDA. “It signals the very infrastructure we rely on to evaluate, approve, & monitor life-saving medicines — & to protect patients from harm — is at risk of collapse.” www.statnews.com/2025/03/29/f...

So let me get this straight—Trump’s nat sec adviser added a JOURNALIST to a group chat on classified Yemen strike plans?? This isn’t a group project, it’s national security.

They screamed “Lock her up” over emails, but leaking war plans is cool now? Make it make sense.