Clara Han

The Society for Medical Anthropology and Medical Anthropology Quarterly have merged online. We will be launching initiatives that can take advantage of the new site. Our associations and societies are more important than ever in sustaining knowledge today and for future generations.
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18F was doing exactly the type of work that DOGE claims to want – yet we were eliminated shortly after midnight. Read our letter to the American people:
18f.org

I keep receiving these emails full of enthusiasm about the 50 alleged NIH study sections that will be (but really are not yet) on the federal register. Folks, council meetings are on an INDEFINITE hold. There is no grant happening. Let's focus on the issue at hand.

Tesla Takedown | Take action at Tesla showrooms everywhere. The stakes couldn’t be higher. No one is coming to save us—not politicians, not the media.

Wow, there are currently 86 different planned #TeslaTakedown actions listed at teslatakedown.com. Just incredible how much momentum we've built over just two weeks!

Keeping this momentum growing is critical to the strategy, so find your local event, start one yourself, and bring all your friends!

Rubio terminated 5800 USAID contracts – more than 90% of its foreign aid programs – in defiance of the courts.

Here’s a list of just some of the lifesaving awards that were terminated. Nearly all were Congressionally mandated. They’ve saved millions of lives. 🧵

The Trump administration kills nearly all USAID programs The Trump administration is terminating thousands of foreign assistance grants and awards, according to a court filing. The move effectively guts the six-decade-old agency.

We'll post more on this in the future, but for now just sharing the devastating news that >90% of USAID contracts have been cut, including those for HIV medications, food kitchens, etc.

People WILL die as a result.

www.npr.org/sections/goa...

Trump 2.0: an assault on science anywhere is an assault on science everywhere US President Donald Trump is taking a wrecking ball to science and to international institutions. The global research community must take a stand against these attacks.

We are heartened by this call to action in Nature, one of the most respected journals in science. It urges the global scientific community to speak out on behalf of those being censored and support research as the US government shifts away from its historic leadership
www.nature.com/articles/d41...

On March 7, STAND UP FOR SCIENCE! Rally and protest. Washington DC and nationwide. Get more info here: standupforscience2025.org
Please forward to spread the word. #standupforscience2025 #sciencenotsilence #scienceforall #WomenInSTEM @standupforscience.bsky.social

Healthcare is a human right, and this is unacceptable.

$2,000,000,000,000. Two TRILLION Dollars. That's an incredible amount of lost healthcare.

Call your representatives today. Email your representatives today. Speak out. www.house.gov/representati...

The Extreme Legal Theory Behind Trump’s First Month in Office The unitary executive theory upends our understanding of the Constitution.

Defending Trump’s power grab with the “unitary executive theory” is just a fancy way of claiming the president can rule the executive branch like a monarch. This argument has no basis in history or the Constitution.

CDC Shutters PRAMS Program on Maternal and Infant Health The Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System (PRAMS) is a federal data collection...

CDC Shutters PRAMS Program on Maternal and Infant Health talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/cdc-s...

I am sad to share that all Retirement & Disability Research centers have been ordered to stop work. My fellowship will no longer exist, and the work of so many talented researchers and dedicated staff will be cut short.

www.ssa.gov/news/press/r...

Handwritten notes on a metal table at the National Science Foundation, 2/18/25. The messages include "You deserve better! Thank you!"; "Thank you colleagues! This RIF is WRONG. These orders are immoral & illegal"; and "Your service will forever be remembered and deeply valued - ENG directorate".

This morning, the US National Science Foundation fired 168 employees, approximately 10% of its workforce, for no cause other than they were the agency's most recent hires. 🧪

Co-workers are leaving supportive messages before they have to clear out of the building at 5 p.m. Sent to me by a source ⬇️

I am one of more than 750 political scientists who signed this statement "express[ing] our urgent concern about threats to the basic design of American government and democracy" drive.google.com/file/d/1lGk2...

New from me for @thetransmitter.bsky.social:

#neuroskyence 🧪

Mass firings decimate U.S. science agencies White House dismissals and rationale challenged by dismissed scientists and lawsuits

More and more scientists are joining the ranks of fired federal workers—and fighting back through protests, appeals, and legal challenges.

Hey scientists, if anyone out there wants to do this but is unsure about writing for a newspaper/the public, I'm a professional science writer and would be happy to work with you on your piece.

Health Data Preservation Project AHCJ is part of a growing coalition working to conserve and protect vital health data that was removed from federal websites.

From the @healthjournalism.org - about disappeared federal health and environmental justice-related data; what happened, where you can find the data and how you can help #disappeareddata
healthjournalism.org/resources/he...

Our two papers on abortion bans and fertility/infant mortality are now out.

In 14 states w/ abortion bans, fertility increased 1.7% and infant mortality increased 6%.

Key takeaway is that these impacts were disproportionately felt among those w/ greatest structural disadvantages.

Links below.

The SAVE Act Could Stop Millions of Women From Voting. Here’s What You Need to Know The bill would make it harder for women, people of color, young voters, and other marginalized groups to register to vote.

“If a married woman hasn’t paid $130 to update her passport —assuming she has one, which only about half of Americans do— she may not be able to vote in the next election if the SAVE Act becomes law,” @wendyweiser.bsky.social tells Glamour

The ABA supports the rule of law. Read full message: www.americanbar.org/news/abanews...

American Ethnologist | AAA Ethnology Journal | Wiley Online Library Click on the title to browse this issue

The new issue of American Ethnologist (@amethno.bsky.social, 52.1, Feb 2025) features a forum titled "I was Wrong" featuring contributions from Veena Das, Hugh Gusterson, Carole McGranahan, Gil Hizi, Erin Routon, Meredith G. Marten, and Laura A. Meek. 1/3
#AnthroSky #Anthropology

YouTube video by friendsofUSAID Save Foreign Aid

Thank you to everyone who stands with USAID. Share far and wide. Unfortunately we don’t have $40 million to buy up ads during the Super Bowl. Even if we did, we’d use it to support the U.S. economy while feeding kids around the globe.

#StandWithUSAID
#SaveForeignAid

m.youtube.com/watch?v=PqUE...

8. Finally, Trump and Republicans are going to do everything they can to divide us. Divide science and the humanities, divide red state and blue state universities, divide NIH extramural and intramural, divide us on race and gender and class.

The way we rebuild science is to stick together. /end

Opinion | To Obey Trump or Not to Obey The voluntarily surrender of the public’s power is how autocracies are built.

In which there are many reasons to obey and one not to. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/08/o...

Research universities are often the largest employers in their region. They are often the primary health care providers to communities. This funding shift will not only reduce US research leadership, it will put working people out of work and reduce healthcare access.

Excellent 🧵 on this evening's NIH announcement of a dramatic reduction in indirect rates for research institutions, which amounts to a generational restructuring of the US research and development ecosystem. These cuts are effective immediately, not just for new grants but for existing ones.

The Continuing NIH/NSF Crisis, Part II

I’m going to run a series of posts about the NIH/NSF/etc. troubles concurrently with my usual science posts. I can’t and won’t ignore the former, but I need the latter for mental equilibrium.