Prob bc he is one of them??

The proposed Trump budget is brutal, unless you’re the military or Homeland Security.

Here’s what gets cut:
- State Department: -84%
- National Science Foundation: -56%
- EPA: -54%
- HUD (housing): -44%
- Labor: -35%
- Interior: -30%
- Health & Human Services: -26%
- NASA: -24%
- Education: -15%

Open Letter from Social Scientists Condemning the Trump Administration’s Disastrous Actions on Foreign Aid To sign this letter, please fill out this form. To: Marco Rubio, U.S. Secretary of State Rep. Mike Johnson, Speaker of the House Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, House Minority Leader Sen. John Thune, Senate ...

If you are a social scientist or trainee, please sign and share this open letter calling on the Trump admin to reinstate global health funding and programs. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

NYT headline: “Kennedy Advises New Parents to ‘Do Your Own Research’ on Vaccines” Subheader: “In an interview with Dr. Phil, the health secretary offered false information about vaccine oversight and revealed a lack of basic understanding of new drug approvals.”

“And I’m like, what do you mean, you ‘do your own research’? You running a double-blind study in your living room, dawg?”
- A guy walking ahead of me with his friends on a NYC sidewalk in 2021, also my favorite overheard dialogue of the entire pandemic

V good v interesting

White House Proposal Could Gut Climate Modeling the World Depends On Potential funding cuts for NOAA and its research partners threaten irreparable harm not only to climate research but to American safety, competitiveness, and national security.

NEW: The total loss of NOAA’s office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research —a nerve center of global climate science, data collection and modeling — represents a setback for climate preparedness that experts warn the nation may never recover from.

By @abrahm.bsky.social

On today’s episode of me googling “Did the Nazis [fill in the blank]”…

…yes, they did. In 1933.

Funding cut for landmark study of women's health The Women's Health Initiative, begun in the 1990s, has made many important discoveries. Now funding to collect more research data will end in September.

⚠️ A few important pieces of health news this week:

1. The longest-running longitudinal study of women's health (which has helped us figure out how to prevent cancer, reduce osteoporosis, reduce perimenopause symptoms, and more) has essentially been shuttered.

www.npr.org/2025/04/23/n...

👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

AND data analytics lmao

Federal research cuts impact local economies, and stall progress.

Publish an opinion piece in your hometown paper on June 16th to SPREAD THE WORD about how scientific research contributes to the everyday health and wealth of the general public.

#McClintockLetters

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Kitten update bc too cute to handle

US FDA suspends milk quality tests amid workforce cuts The Food and Drug Administration is suspending a quality control program for testing of fluid milk and other dairy products due to reduced capacity in its food safety and nutrition division, according to an internal email seen by Reuters.

they want you sick and preferably dead www.reuters.com/business/hea...

A Call for Constructive Engagement | AAC&U A Call for Constructive Engagement

This is great but can we define constructive engagement? Do you mean university mutual defense pacts like Michigan State and other faculty senates recently voted for? Bc that is the ~constructive engagement~ we need.

200 university presidents signed: www.aacu.org/newsroom/a-c...

@msnbc.com @npr.org @washingtonpost.com @nytimes.com @science.org @politico.com @salonnewsroom.bsky.social I know there’s a lot going on but we’re even more screwed than we already are if we stop training a generation of scientists

As bird flu hits cattle herds in U.S., scientists say these H5N1 factors worry them most Bird flu infections have been rare among people, but the pathogen is evolving, which has scientists worried about a possible pandemic.

As the H5N1 bird flu virus mutates and rapidly spreads through American cattle herds — a first for the U.S. — doctors and veterinarians are fearful that if the virus is left unchecked, it could spiral into a possible pandemic. https://cbsn.ws/4ionCJG

For no particular reason, here is a link to a PDF of "Foodborne Illness-Causing Organisms in the US," a handy chart listing organism, common name, time to onset, usual symptoms & sequelae, duration, and likely sources. #FoodSafety

You saw the video of the ICE agent breaking a car window near the border, right? He wasn’t an ICE agent. He’s the founder of Veterans on Patrol, a FAR-RIGHT MILITIA patrolling the border for migrants. They’re basically deputizing militias to act as federal agents. This is dangerously out of control

Not where I expected to get the deets on what happened at NLRB but happy to have them bc holy shit!

A whistleblower's disclosure details how DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data A whistleblower tells Congress and NPR that DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data and hid its tracks. "None of that ... information should ever leave the agency," said a former NLRB official.

It certainly looks like Elon Musk’s henchmen stole all the data from the agency which protects workers rights, tried to cover it up, and then threatened to kill the guy who blew the whistle on it.

Serious question: is there ANY good reason why the front page of NYT does not say “CONSTITUTIONAL CRISIS”

Hell yeah

CDC denies help for lead poisoning in Milwaukee schools due to layoffs The CDC rejected a request for help "due to the complete loss" of their lead poisoning experts.

Trumpism is anti-science. Here's frightening proof of what happens when his #DOGE hackers gut the #CDC as he installs a dangerously unqualified #RFKJr to run #HHS - kids die.

www.cbsnews.com/news/milwauk...

Documents reveal Trump’s plan to gut funding for Nasa and climate science Critics say Nasa faces ‘extinction-level event’ with budget plan, with climate research funding also to be slashed

Just a reminder that Germany led the world in science until the Nazis came to power and fired, exiled, and/or killed all the non-Nazi scientists, which was most of the scientists 🧪 www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

Where Students Have Had Their Visas Revoked The Trump administration has quietly revoked hundreds of student visas across the country, wreaking havoc on the system.

This is all on Rubio & Trump. These expulsions--and that's what they are--have been subject to no due process or verification of claims of the Secretary of State that these young people are "lunatics." This is autocracy in action--whims that destroy lives. www.insidehighered.com/news/global/...

All praise to @apha.org for being the first major organization to call for this. #RFKJr is a public health menace.

I hope this can also be an indicator about how far we could swing things progressively in the next 10 years 🤞🏻

RFK Jr on Fox ln: “By September we will know what has caused the autism epidemic and we will be able to eliminate those exposures” as he invests federal dollars in “science” about vaccines being linked to autism

What to do if the Insurrection Act is invoked With the Insurrection Act looming, now is the time to learn how it might unfold and the strategic ways to respond.

Two things I am worried about this morning (among many others ofc): the insurrection act being invoked on April 20th and RFK manufacturing evidence to limit access to or ban vaccines by September

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