Kevin Lee

SLEEP! Yes Amita Sehgal! Also super fascinating connections to brain aging.

It’s a beautiful piece of music!

White House stalls release of approved US science budgets The US Congress rejected sweeping cuts to science agencies. But the NIH, the NSF and NASA have had their spending slowed.

Congress rejected massive cuts to US science budgets for 2026, but much of the money still isn’t flowing to researchers.

The culprit? The White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) is quietly slow-walking the release of funds. 🧵👇

Every day Vought withholds $ from these agencies is a day where a grad student doesn’t get funding, a day where a postdoc has to look for work elsewhere, a day where early career scientists lose gap funding with a fundable grant sitting on this clowns desk. We’re losing a generation of scientists.

Private money cannot replace public funding of science Who should pay for American science? In the current political climate, many are looking to the private sector to compensate for cuts in public funding. At the Harvard School of Public Health—particula...

My latest:

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Next column will address needed guardrails for private funding of science, esp. in light of #Epstein/ #Summers etc.

This photo shows Stand Up For Science CEO Colette Delawalla speaking at the Future of Science Summit.

On 4 Feb Stand Up For Science hosted our first Future of Science Summit with science and policy leaders, science advocacy orgs, and Hill staffers. We’re addressing the current destruction and creating community and dialogue for building a future science ecosystem that better serves more people.
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I am excited to be running the New York City Half Marathon on March 15th with CASA-NYC! I’m raising $2,000 for children and youth involved in the NYC foster care system. More info about the team and to donate casa-nyc.org/nyc-half-mar...

a black bird is standing on a ledge on a balcony . ALT: a black bird is standing on a ledge on a balcony .

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Mayor Mamdani joins a crowd of nurses on strike.

Mayor Mamdani waves to a crowd while wearing a red scarf.

A crowd of nurses raises their hands while on strike.

Nurses show up in our darkest moments. 9/11. The pandemic. Every illness and emergency. Their worth is not negotiable. Fair pay, safe conditions, dignity now. NYC stands with nurses and demands good faith bargaining for justice and care for all.

sad but true

@standupforscience.bsky.social appreciation thread
Science Fight Club is important and necessary for two reasons:

1. Science has become incredibly political, as identity politics took over ALL politics.

2. Scientific institutions don't typically "fight"
and look where that got us. 🧪

"I was part of a system trying to make people’s lives better. To me, that was a good reason to get up in the morning."

Nature’s 10: Ten people who shaped science in 2025 A fired public-health official, a mosquito breeder and a baby with a smile seen around the world. These are just a few of the remarkable people chosen for Nature’s 10.

And congrats to @cdelawalla.bsky.social, founder and CEO of @standupforscience.bsky.social, who is one of Nature's "Ones to watch in 2026"!

Delawalla has been focusing on building resistance to the US government’s targeting of the nation’s scientific enterprise ahead of the 2026 midterm elections.

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Announcing UHF's Health Equity Fellowship program, empowering clinicians with space and time and training, in partnership with community organizations, to advance equity in health care! Please Share!

Join us tomorrow!

Opinion | I Understand MAHA’s Appeal, but It Threatens My Life

Powerful essay. Read and share widely. I Understand MAHA’s Appeal, but It Threatens My Life www.nytimes.com/2025/11/11/o...

Medical Research Funding: Timeline — Unbreaking How the administration is breaking the government, and what that means for all of us.

We have a new timeline up today on our Medical Research Funding page, documenting the onslaught of political, legal, and bureaucratic attacks on medical research since January:

unbreaking.org/issues/medic...

Crick-knacks

The male genitalia of an 𝘈𝘦𝘥𝘦𝘴 𝘢𝘭𝘣𝘰𝘱𝘪𝘤𝘵𝘶𝘴 mosquito

What does mating look like when you only have a single shot at getting it right?

Very excited to share our work on an almost-invisible female control, rapidly evolving mating recognition systems, and species that break the rules and take over the world. IN MOSQUITOES>

A big part of why the White House's destruction feels so visceral is that it's emblematic of a much broader pattern of wantonly chopping up our shared national patrimony and selling it for parts

It's a great story and an excellent documentary. I was especially struck by the parts about discussions with the Cambridge city council. What did you take away from the viewing?

The next best thing to bring there is this 🧵!

Congratulations! Hammer 10th floor collab! 😀

Important lesson here 👇

LOL hardly. But I love a challenge and your post made me check it out!

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Who burgled the Louvre? Right answers only.

Great article! Inspiring.