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Ms. Rachel grew up on Mister Rogers. Now she’s carrying on his legacy. The YouTube star wants her audiences — adults and children alike — to see the humanity of all people.

“Speaking out for kids in this situation is more important than my career.”

More people need to internalize this.

U.S. Quietly Drafts Plan to End Program That Saved Millions From AIDS

“Congress has shown that they want PEPFAR’s work to continue, it has broad support, and yet the administration is determined to plow ahead and shut it down regardless,” said Asia Russell… “This proposal is a death warrant, and countless people will die if it is allowed to go forward”

This 4th, I can’t stop thinking about how many lives will be hurt by Trump’s catastrophic bill.

But I’m also thinking about the incredible ways people stand with, protect, and serve their communities.

The most patriotic thing we can do today is help our neighbor. It’s more important now than ever.

Farewell to USAID: Reflections on the agency that President Trump dismantled July 1 is the official end date for the agency that President Trump dismantled. We talk to four former top officials about this milestone event.

Four former USAID officials reflect on this loss. Thank you Andrew Natsios, @deankarlan.bsky.social Susan Reichle and @agawande.bsky.social #USAIDforever

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Oppose H.R. 1, the "One Big Beautiful Bill Act" (UPDATED 6/28) - Cloture Invoked - Final Senate Vote Early Next Week ⭑ 5 Calls Updates June 28, 2025: The Senate has voted 51-49 to invoke cloture for H.R. 1. The final Senate vote to pass the legislation is expected by early …

Well, now it’s time to call our representatives, especially for those of us in purple districts. For once, somebody actually picked up the phone. I told the staff member that I oppose the bill because of how it would massively increase the deficit, as well as its impact on Medicaid.

Proposed cuts could have ‘catastrophic effect,’ 110 biomedical, health sciences industry leaders tell Congress Proposed cuts will have “a catastrophic effect on the advancement of biomedical and biotechnology capabilities in the United States,” more than 100 leaders of biomedical/health sciences companies tell...

Much appreciated support from biotech execs and investors 🙏

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My dad was counsel to Pres. Johnson and helped implement the Great Society, one of the greatest anti-poverty initiatives in history. Now republicans want to rip away vital health care from millions to give tax breaks to millionaires. I won’t forget my dad’s legacy and #WeWontGetOverLosingMedicaid

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New OnlineFirst (OA) article: "Market Devices and the Assetization of Neglected Diseases: A Case Study of Leishmaniasis Drug Development" by Mady Malheiros Barbeitas #neglected #tropicaldiseases #publicprivatepartnerships #leishmaniasis journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

the destruction of chattel slavery is one of the great accomplishments in our nation's history and the reason conservatives hate celebrating it is because doing so legitimizes the black counter-narrative of the united states

“What kind of ancestors do we want to be? With every action or inaction, we help decide how the future will unfold. What principles and commitments do we want to adopt for a democracy that doesn’t yet exist? How will we cast our votes for a society we won’t live to see?”
— Astra Taylor

WATCH: “I WAS AN INTERPRETER IN AFGHANISTAN FOR 3 YEARS.”

ICE grabs a man whose name they don’t even know at his immigration hearing, shackles him, expedites his removal.

Q: Why would anyone ever help our military again? — Trump is endangering and weakening our military.

My family owes everything to America's acceptance of a refugee named Nicholas Pritzker on its shores over a century ago.

My story, however, is not unique — our state and nation have been strengthened by people from across the globe seeking freedom, opportunity, and refuge here.

ChatGPT is down but The Museum of English Rural Life still stands, proving once again that Silicon Valley cannot compete with the history of rural England and its people.

I Was an Undocumented Texas College Student. I’m Not Going Anywhere—and Neither Is Our Movement. Lawmakers lacked the political courage for a floor vote at the Capitol on the Texas Dream Act, so state leaders took a coward’s path.

This was never about “protecting” college seats for U.S. citizens. ... It has always been about fear—about sending a chilling message to undocumented youth that they are not welcome, no matter how long they’ve lived here, how hard they’ve worked, or how much they’ve already given back.

The Gutting of America’s Medical Research: Here Is Every Canceled or Delayed N.I.H. Grant Some cuts have been starkly visible, but the country’s medical grant-making machinery has also radically transformed outside the public eye.

"Tanner, a chemist at the Univ. of Mississippi working to develop a novel approach for treating glioblastoma, was notified in April that the grant was terminated.

“I would like to cure brain cancer,” Dr. Tanner said. “I think that's not particularly controversial.”

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Opinion | 13 students on what studying history taught them about the present Progress can be undone. There’s plenty we don’t know. But change is possible.

“The past isn’t a frozen moment but a site of competing possibilities: What could be done, what was allowed & what was punished…History is not only about events that occurred, but also about boundaries that defined what responses to those events were thinkable“ www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/int...

‘Half the tree of life’: ecologists’ horror as nature reserves are emptied of insects A new point in history has been reached, entomologists say, as climate-led species’ collapse moves up the food chain even in supposedly protected regions free of pesticides

“We’re talking about nearly half the tree of life disappearing in one human lifetime. That is absolutely catastrophic.” www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Proposed federal budget could lead to over 51,000 deaths. 8,811 deaths annually due to the bill’s failure to extend the Affordable Care Act’s enhanced premium tax credits. 11,300 deaths annually due to the loss of Medicaid or Affordable Care Act Marketplace coverage. 13,000 deaths annually due to the rollback of nursing home minimum staffing requirements. 18,200 deaths annually due to low-income seniors losing prescription drug subsidies. Source: Analysis by researchers at Yale University and the University of Pennsylvania in response to the federal budget reconciliation bill.

Enacting a House-passed federal budget reconciliation bill could mean millions of people disenrolled from Medicaid & ACA Marketplace coverage, resulting in as many as 11,300 deaths annually, according to a new analysis.

Other provisions could mean a total of 51,000 deaths annually.

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quote on a dark blue and purple background from Sudip S. Parikh, CEO of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), criticizing proposed cuts to science funding in the FY26 U.S. federal budget. The quote reads: “If enacted, the FY26 budget request would end America’s global scientific leadership. The cuts to science would imperil our nation’s future health, security and prosperity. This budget proposal stands in stark contrast to the President’s call for a renewed commitment to American scientific leadership. Congress has demonstrated a bipartisan commitment to investment in research and must do so again to answer the President’s call.” The quote is attributed to Sudip S. Parikh, CEO of AAAS and Executive Publisher of the Science family of journals. The AAAS logo appears at the bottom right.

I don't think anyone outside of universities, pharma and biotech, independent research institutions have any idea of what is happening right now. If you haven't sounded the alarm among your friends, family and colleagues, now is the time to do it.

A small Montana town grapples with the fallouts from federal worker cuts Science is an economic driver in Hamilton, Mont., thanks to Rocky Mountain Laboratories, a federal research lab. Now, layoffs and funding cuts are having an impact in this town far from Washington.

Science is an economic driver in Hamilton, Mont., thanks to Rocky Mountain Laboratories, a federal research lab. Now, layoffs and funding cuts are having an impact in this town far from Washington.

On the Cusp of Eliminating HIV | Hopkins Bloomberg Public Health Magazine The Rakai Health Sciences Program transformed global AIDS policies and cut new cases by 90%. How will its storied research and clinical legacy continue?

I was lucky to work w/the @rhsp-ug.bsky.social team years ago. A remarkable program; please read about them. Unconscionable that their work is imperiled given funding cuts.
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Thx @kategrabowski.bsky.social, David, Gertrude, & @globalhealthnow.bsky.social

F.D.A. Poised to Restrict Access to Covid Vaccines

From the comments: “I would not qualify for the COVID vaccine under these new regulations, but… I regularly visit my octogenarian parents in their retirement home, I work with young children… I should be able to get the vaccine to help minimize transmission and keep those around me safe.”

This is about UK universities but the parallels to US universities are very clear. And in the US, our Land Grant university model breaks the ivory tower barriers down even more, through Cooperative Extension (funded by USDA) and USGS climate science centers.

Opinion | The Science I Would Be Doing if I Weren’t in ICE Detention

“I’ve asked a colleague to share some of the images from NoRI with The Times. Maybe if people see them, they will understand why I want to get back to work. Until now, no one outside our lab has seen these images…that we hope will provide greater understanding of how organs age and diseases develop”

4 12x18 inch posters on a brick and concrete wall. The top left is pink and says funding science saves lives, written in microbes, next to a microscope. The one on the right says Biology is bigger than binaries, with a fish, a lily, and a bee. The bottom left says Protecting wildlife starts wtih you, with a bunch of adiorable woodland creatues in yellow, white and black, including an owl, fungi, a... um. weasel? salamanders, butterflies, slugs, and a rotting log. The bottom right says Will our oceans thrive or nosedive the choice is yours, with the ocean represented in a circle, half of which is dead and half of which is alive, including kelp and a mackerel

4 artists & 3 scientists created a series of posters to communicate some of the science issues most important to us.

These posters are made to be shared!

We're selling them in 4-packs, so YOU can share them outside of the science circles where we hang out online.

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"In the field of Science and Technology Studies, our responsibility is not merely to study what is happening... [but rather work as part of an engaged and situated knowledge practice." Read this from @siobhanfgm.bsky.social in @tapuya.org 👏👏

Rural health study is told it’s losing federal funds, and other major heart studies are worried A federal health study that was examining the high burden of chronic disease in rural areas learned its funding has been cut off.

Another devastating cut to research that would help people. “Vasan Ramachandran is baffled. A cardiologist and veteran of the famed Framingham Heart Study, he is struggling to understand why a similar study he brought to life in 10 rural counties across four Southern states is facing elimination.”

‘We are flying blind’: RFK Jr.’s cuts halt data collection on abortion, cancer, HIV and more Fired workers and outside experts say the cuts leave the nation more vulnerable to health threats.

The mass layoff of federal employees wiped out key public health data programs—tracking everything from STIs to cancer. Experts warn we’re flying blind. No plans to preserve the data, no one to carry the work forward. This isn’t transparency.

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