Robin Stephens, PhD

A lot of people are learning that cowardice won’t save them in real time. Might as well be brave.

Turkey’s Erdogan Fires Statistics Chief After Record Inflation The president of the Turkish statistical institute, Sait Dincer, was removed from office and replaced by Erhan Cetinkaya, who had been deputy president of Turkey’s Banking Regulation and Supervision A...

um. www.wsj.com/world/middle...

Same for NPR I think, right? Donating still a thing

Postdoctoral fellow (m/w/d) – Sterile Inflammation & Epigenetics - Bonn, Nordrhein-Westfalen (DE) job with Universitätsklinikum Bonn | 12841086 The University Hospital Bonn (UKB) is a maximum care hospital with more than 1,300 beds. Our more than 9,000 employees take on tasks in research, t...

We are hiring. Join us if you like the topic. Also, we’re nice and dedicated people here @immunosens.bsky.social @unibonn.bsky.social 🥸 Exiting times ahead in #immunosky & #retroelements
Funded by @erc.europa.eu

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Since the media isn't covering this, these killer grocery prices, are real.

I haven't seen the media screeching about the high cost of living lately...

GOOD NEWS! For the FIRST time ever, and after MORE THAN 30 YEARS of HIV vaccine clinical trials, researchers have developed a vaccine that has SUCCESSFULLY generated TIER 2 broadly neutralizing antibodies (bnAbs) against HIV and BLOCKS viral infection in vaccinated PEOPLE. Let’s talk about that! 🧪🧵⬇️

Take Action — STAND UP FOR SCIENCE

It’s my birthday. Fight lies with science.

@standupforscience.bsky.social was started by @cdelawalla.bsky.social in February 2025 in response to Trump's attacks on the institution of science.

Take action today — and tell them I sent you!

UCLA research grants suspended after Trump administration faulted campus for antisemitism The Justice Department issued UCLA a notice of violation for not responding “adequately” to complaints about antisemitism.

It's not just Ivies. The administration is now trying to shut down pretty much all science at UCLA.

calmatters.org/education/hi...

From the no shit dept care of NYT: "One of the primary goals of the Trump administration’s tariffs have been increasing U.S. manufacturing jobs. But in recent months, we’ve seen manufacturing jobs fall, including by 11,000 positions in the July data released today."

Thanks! came here to say this!

It might clear the full Senate intact. Under House reconciliation though? Let’s hope…

A Running List of Policies Rejected From the Republican Megabill (Gift Article) So far, the parliamentarian has determined that dozens of provisions do not pass muster to be included.

This list is horrific, glad there is Some Limit!! A Running List of Policies Rejected From the Republican Megabill www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

My grandfather was an early SCUBA diver, he had to make his own gear including making a wetsuit from tires. He lived in New Jersey and helped the cops find evidence that the mafia dumped in the harbor 😂

#OceanChat

Who is being asked to self-deport?1 million who used CBP One as “parolees,”, more than 500,000 from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela and roughly 1 million with Temporary Protected Status—from Venezuela, Afghanistan, Honduras, others—are at risk of losing their legal status or already have.

Bethesda Declaration — STAND UP FOR SCIENCE Support NIH Staff Now!

I wanted to show support for these brave public servants and to allow others, including the scientific community, to join me. In partnership with @standupforscience.bsky.social‬, we have a way for you to do that... www.standupforscience.net/bethesda-dec...

New NIH Notice rescinding the no DEI, no Israeli boycott term and condition added to NIH grants (covers the whole university)

This is what Williams refused to sign and declined all federal funding.

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The #BethesdaDeclaration stories are now up on the front pages of both the New York Times and the Washington Post.

Thanks again to the brave folks at NIH who stood up and worked together to make this happen.

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See the Countries Under Trump’s New Travel Ban: List, Map and Charts (Gift Article) Restrictions on travel will affect people from more than a dozen countries worldwide.

Travel ban is racist and overkill for several non-problems www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Trump’s stunning streak of losses in lower courts Read more here.

While Trump has seen some success in the Supreme Court, a recent study found that he lost a whopping 96% of his cases in lower federal courts, with judges across the political spectrum ruling against him.

www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

3x and 350 cases to go www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/u...

"Evil" is an insufficient word to describe the racist fascist Nazi fucks causing this devastation.

BREAKING: The president's budget request just hit Congress, which could usher in a dark age for NASA space science.
Congress has the final say, but you can help shape the outcome by adding your name to our global petition.
This is just the start of our fight.
Sign the petition: planet.ly/petition

ICE Agents Arrest at Least Seven Immigrants as Courthouse Blitz Continues Some agents wore masks that shielded their faces, while government attorneys involved refused to give their names.

Total insanity, this is becoming a lawless, unpredictable nation. www.thecity.nyc/2025/05/29/i...

TODAY!

Wednesday, May 28th: #BIBPSResearch

Join us at 12pm PST (3pm EST) for the "Biophysics of Structure: From Protein Folding to Growth Dynamics " with McKenze Moss at @NotreDame and Dr. Trevor GrandPre (@myphysicsvoyage) at @phybiofunc

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Thursday, May 29th: #BIBPSLife

Dr. Alisha ‘Jonesy’ Jones, a James Weldon Johnson Assistant Professor of Chemistry at @nyuniversity in the Department of Chemistry, will take over our @blackinbiophys.bsky.social account and share her #PI life

#BIBPSWeek
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Friday, May 30th: #BIBPSSpotlight
We will wrap #BlackInBiophysicsWeek 2025 with #BIBPSSpotlight

Join us for our Q&A Webinar with Dr. Chrystal Starbird (@drstarbird) and learn about her life, career, and STEM advocacy work at 12pm PST.

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@realDonaldTrump I am considering taking Three Billion Dollars of Grant Money away from a very antisemitic Harvard, and giving it to TRADE SCHOOLS all across our land. What a great investment that would be for the USA, and so badly needed!!! 2.14k ReTruths 8.64k Likes May 26, 2025, 8:27 AM

FYI to media outlets, you're misleading your readers if you repeat this at face value.

There's no lawful way for him to redirect these grants elsewhere. It's a lie to distract from how the GOP budget guts educational funding, including Pell Grants at trade schools.

Restoring Gold Standard Science By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including section 7301 of title 5, United

tl;dr — this EO co-opts the language of open science to implement a system of political control wherein presidential appointees are given broad latitude to designate any number of reasonable scientific activities and inferences as scientific misconduct, and to penalize those involved accordingly.