Kristin Buss

We are experiencing an assault on science unparalleled by anything I’ve seen in my life. It’s not one issue or another anymore, the entire institution is under attack by the most powerful individuals in the country.

This Friday, where will you be?

standupforscience2025.org

Jeff Bezos’ Washington Post would not run this ad. This is the power of oligarchy.

Thank you for your dedication to science!

Let's be very clear:
Gutting science/education sectors and calling it 'cost-savings' is manipulative and false.
The truth: People in ALL states will lose jobs, cures for your diagnoses will be delayed, tuition costs will spike.
The world depends on US Science and Ed and both will suffer severely.

Under fascism, no one is safe.

Universities stayed quiet as the admin targeted DEI & foreign aid, censored research, etc.

Now, they face devastating cuts to indirect cost rates, threatening research & operations.

Silence won’t protect institutions. It won’t protect people; it never does.

NIH slashes overhead payments for research, sparking outrage Move to cut indirect cost rate to 15% could cost universities billions of dollars

The National Institutes of Health plans to severely cut the percentage of its grant money that can be used for overhead costs rather than research.

Civil Service Strong: Resources for Civil Servants Effective. Impartial. Resilient. The civil service comprises dedicated, nonpartisan federal employees who work tirelessly across the country and around the world to ensure the effective delivery of go...

If you’re a government employee, thank you for your service & here’s a resource you may find helpful. Stay strong. www.civilservicestrong.org

A diverse flight crew of a gay guy, a Black man, and a woman

A gay guy, a Black man, and a woman walk into a flight deck— that’s not the beginning of a joke, but just a regular day at work! There was so much DEI on this plane that we could hardly get in the air. Luckily my limp wrists were able to wrestle the heavy jet back to the ground 💅🏼

He's not blaming DEI, he's blaming women and non white people.

The Madness of Robert F. Kennedy. Jr. The depth of his extremism has not been fully conveyed to the public.

The media has failed the public on a crucial matter: the derangement of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., writes @davidcorn.bsky.social.

News reports often describe him as a vaccine skeptic when he is far more dangerous than that.

Exactly!

The Trump Administration’s action to suspend all federal grants & loans will have a devastating impact on the health and well-being of millions of children, seniors on fixed incomes, and the most vulnerable people in our country.

It is a dangerous move towards authoritarianism.

Scientists have ~36 hours to mobilize intense pressure on 8 republican senators to oppose leadership of #RFK at HHS (which controls #NIH). This is a critical, direct way to say no to the chaos and reign in Trump admin. Each essential state below w/ journalists & senate contact. 1/many 🧵

This is only the beginning.

Why Bishop Mariann Budde Wanted to Speak to Donald Trump “If you know what people are thinking about when they’re coming into church on Sunday morning, it’s very important to acknowledge that,” Budde says.

“You don’t have to be a person of faith to trust that innate human capacity to channel love, goodness, and real strength into our own lives and into the world.” A conversation with Reverend Mariann Budde.

This is what we mean when we talk about corporate greed: Starbucks gave its CEO $96 million for just 4 months of work. Meanwhile, Starbucks is refusing to offer a raise of more than 50 cents an hour to 12,000 union workers.

That's unacceptable. Starbucks must end their greed.

This second Trump administration is more emboldened than the first in pursuing a racist, white supremacist & nativist agenda.

This isn’t surprising. What’s disheartening is the sheer cowardice & complacency of so many institutions & elites in the face of this blatant attempt to turn back the clock.

"Blatantly unconstitutional": Trump’s attack on birthright citizenship is off to a bad start The legal battle over the plan to change more than 100 years of precedent is already starting.

“I’ve been on the bench for four decades. I can’t remember another case where the question presented was as clear as this one is. This is a blatantly unconstitutional order. Where were the lawyers when this decision was being made?”

PS: The judge blocking Trump's order? Appointed by Ronald Reagan.

Study sections are the review panels that allocate NIH research grants. They bring in experts from around the country and have to be scheduled many months in advance; they provide the funds that keep the nation's biomedical research going.

It's hard to overstate the disruption this causes.

Today I was supposed to attend day two of a truly harmless NIH workshop about how to get grants, do science, etc. It was canceled abruptly mid-session w/ colleagues were in the middle of flash talks. Poof. The NIH disappears in a cloud of orange smoke. We need to be talking about a general #strike

Such a fun book! The second (Everyone on the train is a suspect) was also a great listen.

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Four years ago I wrote my inaugural poem The Hill We Climb. Both when I wrote it and performed it, I did so while continuously reflecting on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr and Coretta Scott King’s legacy.

It all feels like a family with a genuinely abusive family member choosing to just carry on with the holiday traditions, hoping to create normalcy through sheer will and denial.

I love this so much!

At the inauguration, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson wore a distinctive collar adorned with cowrie shells, which are believed to offer protection from evil in African traditions.

This choice mirrors the late Justice Ginsburg’s practice of using collars to convey a message.

I used to like Greenday. Now I love them!

Developmental Psychology APA's peer reviewed journal, Developmental Psychology advances knowledge and theory about development across the life span.

We have two upcoming special issues at Developmental Psychology with open calls for letters of intent.

Please do submit, as we are excited to continue providing leading and lively science in the pages of the journal.

www.apa.org/pubs/journal...

The two calls:

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@apajournals.bsky.social

Monday.

We need this today more than any other day.

Think of him sometime during this day.

Think of only him.

RIP MLKJr

Be special. Be nice. Be helpful. Be able. Be beautiful. Be kind. Be confident. Be positive. Be patient. Be determined. Be prepared. Be ready.

Take no shit.

Male victimhood ideology driven by perceived status loss, not economic hardship, among Korean men Research published in Sex Roles suggests that male victimhood ideology among South Korean men is driven more by perceived socioeconomic status decline rather than objective economic hardship.

Despite patriarchy's persistence, growing numbers of men believe they have it worse off than women. And, new research shows this "male victimhood" ideology is most common among men who aren't facing hardship. Which means what they're really feeling is status loss. 1/
www.psypost.org/male-victimh...

Domestic abuse and a drinking pledge: What Pete Hegseth refuses to answer Would Hegseth resign if he reneged on a no-drinking pledge? Is domestic abuse disqualifying? Democrats hit at the absurdity of confirming a nominee plagued by allegations.

For Hegseth, it was his refusal to answer key questions related to those accusations—whether domestic abuse is a disqualifying factor for the job or if he’d resign if he reneged on a drinking pledge— that proved equally damning.