Rita Balice-Gordon

Terry Moran was right and wrong. Right on the sentiment - absolutely a truth teller - but wrong to break the 4th wall between journalists and their subjects.

Harvard Will Not Comply With a List of Trump Administration Demands Federal officials said Harvard must enact “merit-based reform” in hiring and admissions and report international students who broke rules, among other steps. Harvard called the demands unlawful.

Finally, a university says “enough.” I hope others, chickenshits that many of them are, follow suit. In the immortal words of the Govenor of Maine, “see you in court.”

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/14/u...

Can’t emphasize this enough: if you’re feeling overwhelmed by the debased assault on our country, the antidote is connecting with other people in the flesh who are feeling the same way. There are millions of us.

Look, folks, this is it. The entire ballgame. Either we're a Republic of laws & the Constitution, or we have a dictator. This is fascism, & the impeachment vote should be happening today. Every single university president in the country should be out, in front of microphones, condemning this.

Duh, Ann.

To President Zelenskyy, From Embarrassed Americans Please help the voices of the American people reach President Zelenskyy, the people of Ukraine, the US Government, and the world.

This cause is close to my heart - please sign: sign.moveon.org/petitions/to...

To President Zelenskyy, From Embarrassed Americans Please help the voices of the American people reach President Zelenskyy, the people of Ukraine, the US Government, and the world.

This cause is close to my heart - please sign: sign.moveon.org/petitions/to...

As of today, a new term has entered our language. A “rubio” is a spineless lump of nothing. Example: Don’t be such a rubio.

Democracies stand with Ukraine.

“Muna Therapeutics, a biotech company based in Denmark, Belgium and the US, discovers and develops medicines that protect the brain and slow or stop the progression of neurodegenerative diseases, which affect cognition, behavior and quality of life for millions of patients and their loved ones around the globe. Muna’s most advanced potential medicine for Alzheimer’s disease was enabled by more than 25 years of discovery-led research conducted by scientists and clinicians across the EU and around the globe, and will be in human safety testing in 2025,” said Rita Balice-Gordon, CEO Muna Therapeutics.

Today we feature @ritabg.bsky.social, CEO #MunaTherapeutics (Denmark, Belgium & US), a company that develops #therapies that slow or stop devastating neurodegenerative diseases incl. #Alzheimer’s & #Parkinson’s

#FundamentalResearch for #EUcompetitiveness

EU-LIFE #innovation ➡️ eu-life.eu/innovation

PLOS statement on recent US Executive Orders and scientific integrity - The Official PLOS Blog Since its founding over twenty five years ago PLOS has been dedicated to advancing open science, ensuring that knowledge is accessible to…

Bravo @plos.org!

US exec orders "stand in direct conflict with our core values, our mission, edit policies"

"PLOS will not compromise on issues of scientific rigor & editorial integrity... we seek diversity because more expert voices make for better science"

theplosblog.plos.org/2025/02/plos...

Opinion | Trump’s Misguided Strategies for Peace in Ukraine In their silence, Republicans are betraying the Ukrainians, national security and their own party’s values.

President Trump's approach to the war in Ukraine is a reversal of the last three years, the editorial board writes, "but also a repudiation of a nearly eight-decade core belief that the United States was safer in a world where it stood against aggression and authoritarianism and for freedom."

Saving Democracy: 3 Urgent Steps We Must Take Now Trump and Musk are following a dangerous blueprint. If we don’t act, history will repeat itself.

Good info in this article about how to be proactive:

open.substack.com/pub/donovanw...

Many are asking: “What can I do now?”

Here’s a revised and expanded list of actions you can take, in rough order of importance. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/more-on-what-you-can-do

Good morning!

Would you add me to the Academic Research Moms group on bsky? I’m a newbie here but was part of the group on FB.