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Scientists had to change more than 700 grant titles to receive NIH funding. Health disparities researchers fear what’s next The titles of more than 700 multi-year NIH grants have been changed this year, according to an analysis by Jeremy Berg, a former agency official

Absolutely chilling story by @aniloza.bsky.social on censorship in grant titles at NIH and how researchers are complying and sometimes fighting back. "They are trying to make people afraid to use the word equity," said one program officer. "It's highly effective." www.statnews.com/2025/10/29/n...

The depth of the shame of a country this wealthy and abundant allowing its people to go hungry is impossible to measure. The fact that a handful of people could fix this by paying their fair share of taxes while still remaining obscenely wealthy makes it even worse.

Goodall transcribes field notes by lamplight in Tanzania’s Gombe Stream National Park c.1960

The open use of federal funds as a blunt force object to get universities, cities, and other entities in line is criminal. Those are tax payer dollars! And so much capitulation! Dbjdonfonifbinrondondonodnonfonfoninfonfin

They were phenomenal in Cleveland on Friday. Enjoy the show!

tweet that reads "the student that does not cheat has internalized the moral code of the oppressor."

Dress it up in progressive language but you're cheating yourself by not doing the work. This is the worst thing about AI: millions of students refusing to learn, taking zero interest in the world around them, empty in mind and heart. Your punishment is the person you will become.

If you're a Marine or other service member being mobilized to Los Angeles and you'd like to apply for conscientious objector status, call the GI Rights Hotline to get some guidance on your options:

1-877-447-4487

The comment period for this ends in 3 DAYS. Please leave a comment telling them EVERYONE should be able to get covid boosters.
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Welp... Ohio. THE VL ERSEY BE TOLEDO CONTACT SUBMIT A STORY In compliance with S81, UToledo is suspending admissions beginning with the 2025-26 academic year to the following undergraduate programs: • Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in Africana Studios • Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in Asian Studies • Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in Data Analytics • Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in Disability Studies • Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in Middle East Studies • Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in Philosophy • Bochelor of Arts (B.A.) in Religious Studios • Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in Spanish • Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in Women's and Gender Studios Al these programs remain available as minors for stud In compliance with SB1, UToledo is suspending admissions beginning with the 2025-26 academic year to the following undergraduate programs: • Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in Africana Studies • Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in Asian Studies • Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in Data Analytics • Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in Disability Studies • Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in Middle East Studies • Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in Philosophy • Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in Religious Studies • Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in Spanish • Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in Women's and Gender

Gov. DeWine just signed SB1, a law ending “DEI” in Ohio public higher ed.

Now that it’s law, U of Toledo just killed the following BA programs:

• Africana Studies
• Asian Studies
• Disability Studies
• Middle East Studies
• Philosophy
• Religious Studies
• Women's/Gender Studies

And…

• Spanish

A list of all agencies and programs the Trump administration is seeking to eliminate. An accessible PDF is available from altCDC. Email altcdc1@pm.me.

HHS Eliminated Programs - Updated

Here is an updated list of all programs eliminated in the 2026 HHS Budget. Reach out if you have information or clarity on the cuts.

These cuts will impact Every Single American.

Email altcdc1@pm.me for PDF and xlsx.

Federal grants are direct investments in work that is deemed useful for the public interest. Advancements in science, medicine, the humanities all take work. That work has costs. The government for decades deemed it strategic to advance the public good by underwriting such expenses.

The lesson for universities is you may as well fight back. You'll lose the money either way. The only question is whether you keep your dignity.

What will happen is that by early September, RFK will declare vaccines cause autism, they will outlaw vaccines, children will get sick, and they will still develop autism. Not that this is entirely predictable or anything.

Justice Sotomayor with a bone-chilling dissent today: “The implication of the govt’s position is noncitizens AND US citizens could be taken off streets, forced onto planes, confined to foreign prisons with no opportunity for redress…This Nation's laws is designed to prevent, not en-able, their rise.

Protests aren’t the only tool in the anti-authoritarian toolkit, but they’re incredibly important. Protests help us see each other; they make it feel safer to refuse to obey the dictator, and make it more possible for us to organize mass non-cooperation.

It’s an essential step in the process.

This is a great listen

Why ‘Everything is Tuberculosis’ with John Green Podcast Episode · Why Is This Happening? The Chris Hayes Podcast · 04/01/2025 · 55m

Really enjoyed my conversation with @chrislhayes.bsky.social about why tuberculosis is (still) happening. What a joy to be in the presence of such a smart, curious individual. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/w...

This is, in large part, pandemic revenge.

As far as these oligarchs are concerned, all science does is tell them stuff they cannot do.

They can't keep spewing carbon.

They can't keep businesses open as usual when millions are dying.

They have concluded that research is the enemy of profit.

Mass layoffs are underway at the nation's public health agencies Employees across the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services have begun receiving notices of dismissal in a major overhaul expected to ultimately lay off up to 10,000 people.

Today's HHS layoffs include researchers, scientists, doctors, support staff and senior leaders, leaving the government without many of the key experts who have long guided U.S. decisions on medical research, drug approvals and other issues. #medsky #healthpolicysky apnews.com/article/heal...

The CDC has literally been gutted today.

There’s no need for “April Fools” when reality is a nightmare for every human on this planet.

Thousand of scientists fired.
Entire departments erased.

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RFK Jr Announces SAMHSA Closure - Addiction Treatment and Behavioral Health Brace for Big Changes with AHA  — Behavehealth.com On March 27th 2025, RFK Jr, head of the Health and Human Services Department in the Trump Administration, announced that SAMHSA will effectively cease to exist.

My goodness- all the infrastructure for supporting addiction treatment gone in one fell swoop. This will not make America Health Again. behavehealth.com/blog/2025/3/...

The CDC Has Been Gutted Thousands of CDC employees who worked on things like preventing HIV and lead poisoning have been told they were subject to a reduction in force. Experts say people will die.

NEW: Thousands of CDC employees who worked on things like preventing HIV and lead poisoning have been told they were subject to a reduction in force. Experts say people will die.

My friend @booker.senate.gov has been on the floor for quite awhile now.

So I went to go help.

Securing your phone before entering the USA. 🧵
At CDC we travel around the globe to confront health threats and have never worried about returning home. Yet more researchers, including US Citizens, are having their phones searched at Customs.

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The speed at which American universities & companies are giving up on DEI is a dead giveaway that they were never serious to begin with

Trump officials will screen NIH funding opportunities Staff at biomedical agency worry about political interference in setting priorities

"... [DOGE] will review each draft notice to ensure the research that will be funded [by the NIH] aligns with the priorities of President Donald Trump’s administration ..."

What people in every part of higher education need to understand is that Republicans now want to do to universities what they’ve tried to do to labor unions: erase them from the institutional landscape. The question is how much you want to collaborate in your own destruction.

I’m a former IIE Fulbright recipient. I hope to see a statement from Fulbright about the detention of Rumeysa Ozturk, doing doctoral research at Tufts’ Child Study and Human Development program. Her work addresses childrens’ media. She is the co-founder of an independent children’s media initiative.

The evil at your door The deportation action as regime change

Language used by individuals associated with the federal government who deported people without trial or due process to a concentration camp in El Salvador, defying a court order, has a specific resonance that, historically, has been used to change regime type.
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