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Save Our Signs Save Our Signs: Celebrate All-American History

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BREAKING: Scientists are staging a “science fair” in the lobby of a Congressional building to tell elected officials about the critical knowledge the US will lose because their research grants have been canceled.

NIH scientists call on director to protect biomedical research In a public letter, hundreds of scientists expressed their dissent to the Trump administration's policies affecting the National Institutes of Health and called on its director to support the agency.

"It's a horror show. We're under attack in every way all the time," says Sarah Kobrin, who has worked at the National Cancer Institute for more than 21 years. "We're told we're worthless. We're told we're cheats.… They're breaking things that won't be repairable."

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It’s an Ugly Day in America’s Neighborhood Let’s Gentrify Donald Trump’s Neighborhood of Make-Believe

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Mr.E on Substack We need to make this old ad VIRAL.

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Given the recent devastation to US #entomology, this thread is a resource list for aspiring entomologists or those who’ve lost jobs. I invite others to add links they think might help. I won’t pretend this is easy, but there’s no better time to start. Open below to read: 🧪 #AcademicSky #science

Spanish cousins of boll weevils?

With 23AndMe going belly up, anybody who used them may have their genetic data sold to the highest bidder, to do with as they please. There is a way out - the linked article shows how you can delete your data from their database. DO IT NOW! archive.is/iNFaf

Why we must defend science, social science and medicine from attacks on diversity Indie SAGE comes out of retirement

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Opinion | It’s Not Nature. It’s Not Nurture. It’s a Möbius Strip. (Gift Article) Obesity, education, smoking: In more and more cases, we’re finding a nature-nurture feedback loop.

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Public Service Legal Response Center Connecting lawyers with opportunities to support federal workers

Opportunity to volunteer: public service legal response hub! #AltGov #SaveAmerica

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Mite it be @ the Internet Archive?

Yes. It. Does.

All the folks who exited NBC today. Seen together, hoo boy. Message received.

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A military vet and a scientist were securing America's food system. Trump fired them More than 10,000 federal employees who had yet to complete their probationary periods have been fired by the Trump administration, including those who work to protect American agriculture.

One of the entomologists who was fired and one of the dog trainers who helps train dogs, among other things, to keep insect pests out of the country. #entomology Worth a listen! 🧪

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'There is no one left': Custer Gallatin National Forest workers reeling from job losses The cuts weren’t isolated. Across the seven ranger districts that comprise the Custer Gallatin National Forest, Knight said she has heard of at least 32 terminations as of Monday.

As a result, she said, just three full-time employees remain in both the Yellowstone and Bozeman ranger districts to manage 19 rental cabins, 60 bathrooms, 21 campgrounds and other infrastructure spread across 1 million acres.

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NSF workers who didn't get fired this morning are sending angry emails to NSF management. Here's one of them:

The start of a stellar career! Your service has had a huge positive impact on so many, Mike!! ✨💫💛✨

Make your calls. Go to your town halls. Ask your state and local officials what they are doing under state and local law. Rest. Hydrate. Make soup for the hungry. Don’t let people tell you that you’re doing it wrong. Not a sprint. Not a marathon. A relay. Find your team. Thank you.

If you’ve already started calling it the Gulf of America instead of the Gulf of Mexico, you should have no trouble with someone’s preferred name and pronouns.

The dire consequences of science without DEI "We are very much at risk of losing an entire generation of researchers."

So, so proud of this collaboration with @jackiefmogensen.bsky.social and so grateful to so many scientists—especially early career researchers—who spoke with us.

“It is just common sense that in order to have the best science, we need the broadest, most inclusive environment for scientists.”

“It’s a free for all": When ICE comes for a community What a human geographer observed in one county during the first Trump administration and lessons for the next term.

"When the rubber hit the road and ICE came to town, it’s not what the community actually wanted. That’s what will start to happen in other places if Trump 2.0 is more successful than Trump 1.0 was at pulling off mass deportation."

Trump, Musk, and the GOP aim not just to destroy public education, but also to destroy our ability to measure the impact on kids of their destruction

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Slashing NIH funding while calling it ‘fake news’ is peak Trump gaslighting. This isn’t just a budget cut—it’s an attack on medical research, life-saving treatments, and scientific progress. America can’t afford this ignorance.

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Destructive Banality: NIH Indirect Costs Move Sounds Boring, Could Kill You Splinter is your home for news and opinions that challenge power in our political and economic system that's becoming more unhinged each and every day.

My latest from inside NIH as well as universities that get its funding. I think it is important to say clearly what moves like this will actually do to people.

they are stealing data from the american people and depriving us of the transparency that we are entitled to by law. none of this is legal and not a single federal employee has any reason to comply.

Governance of Indigenous data in open earth systems science - Nature Communications Using the National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON) as an example, this perspective discusses actions that recognize the sovereign rights of Indigenous Peoples and support better research across ...

New publication alert! Check out our paper on the “Governance of Indigenous data in open Earth systems science” co- led by myself and Dr. Katie Jones. www.nature.com/articles/s41...