Meg Doerr

I’m Still Your America Hey, patriot. It’s been a week. As ICE spreads terror through the streets, and Teacup Eichmann presided over the murder of yet another innocent civ...

"I forced the shape of English onto resisting tongues and then dared to call it 'broken.'"

SCIENCE IS UNDER CENSORSHIP. “WOMEN” “VACCINE” “EQUITY” “ADDICTION” FROM PEN AMERICA’S LIST OF WORDS BANNED FROM FEDERAL GOVERNMENT WORK.

Science cannot thrive when censorship shuts down research. Shutting down research doesn't make people healthy. Help us impeach & #RemoveRFKJr by visiting standupforscience.net/impeach-rfkjr .
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1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken.

Hundreds of kids are still detained.

We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵

Sarah Brayne, Sarah Lageson
and Karen Levy have a nice paper on “surveillance deputies.” Ring wants to deputize your pet dog. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

So uh Ring just up and said they've got a huge centralized private surveillance network they can leverage all at once huh

From the bestskeeting author of the Bluesky-famous six-week Bad Bunny 101 comes this essential close reading of the halftime show! 🧵

Disturbingly detailed analysis of my first rewatch incoming

I'd watch a muppet show movie where the muppets infiltrate an academic conference.

ICE mobile app scans protester's face, revokes her TSA PreCheck status If you're protesting ICE, it might be a good idea to wear a mask.

ICE mobile app scans protester's face, revokes her TSA PreCheck status
www.sfgate.com/travel/artic...

REMINDER! Webinar: Bringing Community Priorities into Big Health Data Research this Thursday 2pmET/11amPT

Trump’s America.

People are missing a big thing about the saga of the detained 5-year-old. When Vance calls the father an "illegal alien" it seems to reflect a little-known Trump admin move that attempts to nullify asylum claims before they are even heard.

This policy is a horror:

newrepublic.com/article/2056...

On his trip to MN yesterday, Vance said DHS wasn’t targeting people based on race.

Not only is that false, remember, this Admin took a case to SCOTUS specifically arguing they should be allowed to do that.

Trump’s SCOTUS ruled in their favor.

Don't be fooled by their lies.

Fact-Checking Trump On Greenland https://theonion.com/fact-checking-trump-on-greenland/

The NIH's MYF policy in 2025 resulted in 4000 fewer grants and fellowships that touched every area of biology and medicine; continuing it in 2026 would be disastrous for science, technology and health in the United States 🧪
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

A valentine that says You Make My Jaw Drop, then the inside that says "With their mouths closed, pelical eels are long and skinny. When they open their mouths to grab food, they can balloon out to engulf animals much larger than they are" then the back has a little snailfish that says "Take action to help animals in the deep sea by slowing down climate change ang vocally opposing deep sea mining

Hey cuties. You need a valentine set right now, I can tell. It's only $20. You get 20 of them, 4 designs, & each one has a little fact inside.

I need a little more cashflow into Skype a Scientist to do the amount of shit I want to do this year. These valentines are a good start!

SquidFacts.net

This line graph illustrates the percentage change in agency staff levels from the previous year for nine major U.S. federal scientific and health organizations between the fiscal years 2016 and 2025. The agencies tracked include the CDC, Department of Energy, EPA, FDA, NASA, NIH, NIST, NOAA, and NSF. For the majority of the timeline between 2016 and 2023, the agencies show relatively stable fluctuations, generally staying within a range of +5% to -5% change per year. However, there is a dramatic and uniform plummet starting in the 2024–25 period. Every agency depicted shows a sharp downward trajectory, with staffing losses ranging from approximately -15% to over -25%. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) shows the most significant decline, dropping to roughly -26%, while the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) shows the least severe but still substantial drop at approximately -15%.

This is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again.

www.nature.com/immersive/d4...

Many thanks to our academic collaborators Astha Kapoor, Anouk Ruhaak, Jasmine McNealy, Joon-Ho Yu, Maile Taualii, Melissa Creary, PhD, MPH, and Samuel A. Moore, and community expert leads Odia Kane PhD, MPH, David Andres Emery, Kalei Glozier, and Andrea Downing for their work on the project!

Feel free to share with friends and colleagues who may be interested. We hope to see you there!

This webinar may be especially relevant for people working in research ethics and ELSI, community-engaged research and design, research regulation and oversight, and for biorepository or big data researchers interested in the social and ethical impacts of data reuse.

In this session, we will:
- Discuss the motivation behind CHIRON
- Share our three-year process for developing CHIRON
- Hear from community collaborators who co-developed CHIRON
- Share key findings from the CHIRON pilot studies
- Introduce the refined version of CHIRON: the CHIRON Discussion Kit

CHIRON is the result of a three-year, community-engaged research and design effort, including co-design with community collaborators, piloting with researchers and oversight boards, and collaborative analysis of findings.

📅 Date: January 29th
⏰ Time: 11am PT / 2pm ET
📍 Location: Zoom (registration required)
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🔔 Upcoming Webinar: Bringing Community Priorities into Big Health Data Research

Introducing CHIRON (Community Health Interests for Researchers & Oversight Networks), a discussion toolkit designed to support researchers and oversight bodies in thinking through community impacts of data reuse.

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We are looking for advanced PhD student interns! Spend 12 weeks scratching a research itch in our Cambridge Massachusetts lab. Closes January 17.

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It’s the “season of love and giving”…but this year, doesn’t it seem more like a “season of fear and taking”? Like many of you, I’ve been saddened by the human impact of draconian government budget cuts and how angry many housed Americans are at unhoused Americans.

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COVID Vaccines Slashed Kids’ ER Visits by 76 Percent, Study Finds A report published by the CDC reaffirms the effectiveness of COVID vaccines at preventing severe disease in children

COVID vaccines slashed ER visits by 76% in kids 9 mos-4 yrs, and 56% in older kids, CDC's latest MMWR report found (reposting with story): www.scientificamerican.com/article/covi...

The New Yorker’s Isaac Chotiner Interviews Santa Claus For several centuries, Santa Claus has been one of the most prolific mythical gift-givers in the world. Formerly known as Saint Nicholas of Myra, a...

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Australia just recorded zero cervical cancer cases in women under 25 for the first time since records began in 1982. The amazing result of HPV vaccination.