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UC Berkeley researchers team up for first-of-its-kind lawsuit over Trump funding cuts University of California staff members hope to use a class action lawsuit to restore their research funding.

“It makes a really powerful statement that the professors themselves are stakeholders and that it’s just not the institutions alone...It’s a way of saying, ‘Well, if you’re slow to the battlefield, we’re going to get there first.’”

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this is a direct attack on the LGBTQ+ community

or Northwestern.

We are opening our summer mentoring program! You do not need to be an AWIS member to join, and the program is FREE and runs from June-September 2025.

More information and sign-up links here: www.awis-chicago.org/featured/men...

#WomenInScience #WomenInSTEM

National Science Foundation Terminates Hundreds of Active Research Awards (Gift Article) The agency targeted grants focused on diversity, equity and inclusion, as well as research on misinformation.

@katrinamillerphd.bsky.social & I took a look at over 400 active National Science Foundation grants that got killed in the past few days. Here's our story (gift link) nyti.ms/4jp4aOx

Harvard President drops the mic on Trump admin threats to cut them off — saying that’s not how “Veritas” works.

This is a huge moment for institutional resistance to Trump and DOGE’s war on public science.
#StandUpForScience
#StandUpToTrump

Read more below! 👇

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From the organizers: "Biotech Networks is pleased to announce our first event in the US Midwest in Chicago during the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) meeting on April 28th 2025."

Check it out below!

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NEW: the admin has killed collective bargaining for a number of federal agencies

I unironically use my local library a lot. Ebooks, audio books, physical books, the seed exchange, the meeting spaces?? Passport services?? Citizenship and English classes? I grew up in the teen hangout area as a housing insecure youth with a bad parent. Libraries are important, I'm pissed

Please please PLEASE fight for museums and libraries, they are such good things, we cannot possibly have a society without them

White House withdraws Trump's pick Dave Weldon as CDC director pick The White House is withdrawing President Donald Trump's nomination of Republican former congressman and vaccine critic Dave Weldon to serve as director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, a source briefed on the matter said on Thursday.

Trump just withdrew the bad CDC nominee after public blowback about the measles vaccine.

Scientists, we can achieve the same with the bad NIH nominee. Public pressure can force out Bhattacharya.
Your voices are needed now. Please take action. 🧪

In leu of NIH cuts at Columbia, many folks are asking why aren't universities using endowment funds to support the research mission of their faculty scientists?

Inspired by @jeremymberg.bsky.social bluetorials here are a few of the reasons that is not a sustainable option

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Join Civic Saturday Evanston for a conversation about diversity!

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#WomenInScience #WomenInSTEM

Scientist of the Month - AWIS Chicago Nominations are open! The AWIS Chicago "Scientist of the Month" is an area scientist who promotes the advancement of women in the fields of science, technology, and engineering (STEM). This monthly se...

Did you know? At AWIS Chicago, it's Women's History Month all year round!

We run quarterly articles, a podcast, and a zine featuring current and historical women in STEM. Check it out on our website: www.awis-chicago.org/scientist-of...

#WomenInScience #WomenInSTEM #WomensHistoryMonth

Join us for AWIS-CAC Walks, monthly networking walks through summer 2025!

First walk is Sunday, April 27 from 10:00 - 11:00 am.
Meet at 225 N LaSalle St, Chicago, IL 60601.

www.awis-chicago.org/event/awis-c...

#WomenInScience #WomenInSTEM

We’re hosting monthly networking walks all summer long! Come meet other women in science in the Chicagoland area, have a coffee, and enjoy the sunshine! 🧬🏃‍♀️

Gutting the Department of Education will impact everything from internet access to school buses.

Let’s not make it harder to learn.

Why we organized ‘Stand Up For Science’ - Nature Human Behaviour In the USA, the Trump administration has signed executive orders that impose censorship on key areas of scientific research, strip government scientists of their jobs and reduce federal funding for sc...

Why did we organize Stand Up for Science? 🧪☀️⬇️

Read more in our Q&A in @naturehumbehav.bsky.social, out today!

Link - www.nature.com/articles/s41...

@leslie-bern.bsky.social
@emmalovesscience.bsky.social
@cdelawalla.bsky.social
@jpflores.bsky.social
@samschuelstein.bsky.social

I haven’t seen enough discussion coming from university leadership about elevating the importance of scientific communication in this new reality. Most of the public doesn’t even know what the NIH is or does.

Yes. Journalists should note this:
Every science or tech student, age 5-35 today, is looking at the destruction of their career prospects due to Trump and Musk.

We should be interviewing those students and talking about the impact to their lives.

science, not silence

#standupforscience

Crowd at Lincoln memorial

The @standupforscience.bsky.social DC rally is on.

What we are hearing from around the country:
"this is big!"
"biggest rally I have seen around here in years and years"

The public cares about medical research--and students, GenZ, and other people too are ready to stand up.

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Bluetorial:

The announcement to move scientific review out of the institutes and centers into the Center for Scientific Review (CSR) and its potential consequences

I've been thinking a lot about that bumper sticker which says "everything looks like a conspiracy theory when you don't understand how anything works" and folks it's pretty obvious to me that the people in power right now have absolutely no desire to understand how anything works.

Under the U.S Constitution, the President is very explicitly not a king. The President's wishes and decrees do not magically become law.

now tell me why a Representative’s office has the time to call my mom’s office saying they were accused of being “inefficient” by a woman who cussed my mother at work saying her mid-five-figure disaster relief payment was insufficient

DOGE Is Inside the National Institutes of Health’s Finance System At least three people linked to Elon Musk’s DOGE task force have access to NIH systems that control budgets, procurement, and more, according to records and internal documents viewed by WIRED.

Reminder to NIH leadership:

Giving Musk’s people access to NIH systems (like NBS) may well be illegal and you don’t have to do it.

Your goal now is to DELAY. Public opinion is shifting. Do not let the DOGE bros kill grants and research by altering the finance systems.

www.wired.com/story/...

Natural compounds target the M23B zinc metallopeptidase Mpg to modulate Neisseria gonorrhoeae Type IV pilus expression | mBio Neisseria gonorrhoeae is a global health burden with high transmission rates and multidrug resistance. N. gonorrhoeae encodes a Type IV pilus (T4p), which is a major colonization and virulence factor....

I’m so excited to share some of my recent work! Infectious disease research is currently under attack, but regardless, the science we do is important.

U.S. early-career researchers struggling amid chaos Uncertain funding, government firings, and distressed universities hit vulnerable groups especially hard

“There’s going to be a missing age class of researchers that will reverberate for years.” scim.ag/3ERRLDo

U.S. early-career researchers struggling amid chaos Uncertain funding, government firings, and distressed universities hit vulnerable groups especially hard

“What part of diversity, equity, and inclusion do you have a problem with?”
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