Russell Vought is breaking apart the National Center for Atmospheric Research, which has led advances in whether and climate science. Some of its components will transfer to private companies, part of larger efforts to privatize science.
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/13/c...
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Chicago getting ready to stand up for Science!
NEW: The bad news about international-student enrollments at American colleges just got worse. An exclusive @chronicle.com analysis of just-released State Department data shows new visa issuances in the summer of 2025 dropped by more than a third. www.chronicle.com/article/the-...
Fun to see @standupforscience.bsky.social on local news here in Chicago last night!
If you squint you can see me speaking at least year's rally. I'll be up there again today, Federal Plaza at 1PM!
STAND UP FOR SCIENCE
TODAY.
Take Back our Science Rally.
Don't take this administration's assault on science sitting down.
Get to a rally: fight2win.standupforscience....
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#March7
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You had questions about the Take Back our Science Rally, and we have answers! If you have more, drop them in the comments. We'll keep posting more as they roll in. See you March 7th!
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HEY YOU!!! There's research WE NEED to PROTECT!
How you ask? We are rallying NATIONWIDE on SATURDAY, MARCH 7TH to SAVE SCIENCE, PROTECT HEALTH, and DEFEND DEMOCRACY!
Join us by visiting standupforscience.net/march7 to find your local rally, volunteer, host a local rally, or host a pop-up protest!
#chicago Come out this Saturday 1pm at Federal Plaza to Stand Up for Science! Bring your friends! Bring your kids! Being your bench mates! @standupforscience.bsky.social
We've got a righteous lineup of speakers, it's going to be 🔥🔥🔥
Spread the word!
Mazel Tov!
I’m visiting Chicago for the Fly Meeting and I am trying to wrangle fellow attendees to go to the SUFS rally a mile away… Jack Szostack is on the schedule here.
Nicole Amor. 39 years old. Mother of two. Days away from returning home to Minnesota. 💔
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The Take Back our Science Rally just 5 days away. FIVE DAYS AWAY! Washington DC and Nationwide. Join at local rally, or start your own pop-up rally! Details at: standupforscience.net/march7
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After 5 years of developing, a new preprint from the lab - introducing our workflow for comparative insect connectomics, aimed at democratizing connectomics. @erc.europa.eu @lundvision.bsky.social @biologylu.bsky.social Read it here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
"never been seen" - maybe not by humans, but I bet species with UV cones in their retinas can see it!
Our new paper is now out showing how time perception in animals is linked to their ecology. Using data from 237 species we show temporal perception is faster in species that fly and pursuit predators www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🌐
So, while we are in the street standing up for science and the scientists who can’t risk standing up for theirselves…you’re what? In your lab? Keeping your head down in “resistance”?*
*ppl at risk are not included in this!!!
Do better. Grow a spine.
Maybe science organizations don’t want to play outside game. FINE. 1. Apologize to your people for not responding well & 2. Support some activists who are doing the dirty work you can’t be bothered to do.
Not a SINGLE science org or society has donated to @standupforscience.bsky.social
@jenna-m-norton.bsky.social said it perfectly: now is the moment for people in power to get up and do a little multitasking for the folks in our scientific ecosystem who are most at risk because of the attack on science and democracy.
It’s a privilege to get to keep your head down while ICE…
The fundamental flaw with @holdenthorp.bsky.social’s argument is thinking that organizations and people can only do one thing at a time (even though he is really close to acknowledging it!)
Let’s break it down, bc I’m tired of this. 🧵
(cred: @ianlmorgan.bsky.social)
Vision Science makes the front page of NYT!!
featuring work from @neurofishh.bsky.social and @denilsson.bsky.social with comments from Berkeley's own @karthikshekhar.bsky.social
#visionscience
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/23/s...
Nice to chat with @neilsteinberg.bsky.social at the Sun Times about the next @standupforscience.bsky.social rally coming up on March 7!
Read here
chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2...
Get mobilized here:
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"Scientific expertise from the top all the way down to bench scientists has been lost .." How Kennedy dismantled public health agencies with almost no positive achievements to show for it.
bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
@lisamjarvis.bsky.social @opinion.bloomberg.com
The Chicago local chapter of @standupforscience.bsky.social is organizing a rally on March 7. It's more urgent than ever to Stand Up for Science in the US! Join us
NSF Update
Funding curve overall. A little bit of progress in the past week, but only a little bit.
Now by Directorate...
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The chief of NIAMS, Lindsey Criswell, has told her staff that her 5-year leadership appointment had not been renewed, meaning 16 out of 27 NIH institutes and centers will be operating without a permanent director. https://scim.ag/4cr5wHI
The collapse of curiosity driven research has occurred in STEM too. Everything has to be outcomes focused - cure disease, grow better crops, etc. But so much of what humanity has discovered is from "basic" curiosity-driven science. I'm hugely in favor of funding curiosity in every discipline.
