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This group gathered in front of the New York Public Library NYPL holding signs with many of the BANNED WORDS that the Trump regime is forcing on Universities with threats of loss of funding.
#BannedWords
Write your local University & ask them what they are doing about anti-DEI.
#HandsOff

The Chapel Hill community came out in full force today to tell Republicans to keep their #HandsOff our jobs, our healthcare, our rights, and our democracy 🩵🪧 #GDTBATH

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🚀 Big reveal! Introducing our interactive table on NIH grant terminations, supercharged from the original Google tracker! 📊👇

Help us uncover which NIH grants are tagged for termination and why! 🕵️🔍

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#HealthEquity #MedSky #PublicHealth

Brilliant work -- thank you to you and your collaborators for building this!

This is what service to country looks like. Thank you, @booker.senate.gov 🩵

Way to go! You are making a difference 🥳

Proposed cuts to #NIH indirect costs would cost North Carolinians 2,884 jobs and $668M in economic activity.

Economic losses in the #ResearchTriangle and neighboring counties:
• Alamance: $29M
• Chatham: $19M
• Durham: $220M
• Granville: $10M
• Orange: $140M
• Person: $10M
• Wake: $124M

#NCPol 🧪

Yes, it's very upsetting how tax cuts for the wealthiest directly impacts America's deficit and our ability to fund programs that make life livable for the rest of us.

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This is an extremely helpful resource for communicating how these cuts would impact local economies. Thank you to the team!

Launching clinical trials is expensive. Research teams hire staff, purchase equipment and supplies, build databases, write protocols, navigate regulatory approvals... this all costs money.

Recent #NIH grant terminations create waste by preventing return on taxpayers' investment in science. 🧪

Yes. The situation at NIH is worse than the public realizes.

The #NIH is on track to be effectively ended as a funder of evidence-based research within a year.

That is not an exaggeration. The firings and consolidation announced today will create a new, MUCH worse NIH.
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I was so bummed when Jamboard got axed. If your workplace has a Microsoft license, I've found MS Whiteboard to be a decent substitute.

How to delete genetic data from 23andMe • Log into your 23andMe account. • Go to your Profile, then tap Settings. • Scroll to the "23andMe Data" section at the bottom of the page and click View. • If you want to download your data, select what you want. • Scroll to the "Delete Data" section and click Permanently Delete Data. • Confirm your request: You'll receive an email from 23andMe, and click the link in the email to confirm.

23andMe declared bankruptcy and the company is gonna be sold off for parts. That includes your DNA information and the only amount of control you have is to delete your info immediately. It’s very simple to do.

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@bluegrrl83.bsky.social You can support small businesses while you're at it! Here's a link to view lots of anti-Elon bumper sticker options through Etsy 🫶🏻 www.etsy.com/search?q=ant...

my NIH grant was terminated today - the grant that pays my rent and my bills and my loans and my health insurance - because I study how to improve the lives and wellbeing of queer people #episky #medsky

I hate that this happened to you, your team, and your study 💔 Your work MATTERS and this is totally unjust.

There is no scientific rationale to this. There will be no economic benefit to the country. These are scientists who are finding out that overnight they can no longer pay staff and students—you know, people who have bills to pay, mortgages, kids.

Tesla Recalls Nearly All Cybertrucks Over Stainless Steel Panels Falling Off (Gift Article) The recall of about 46,000 vehicles includes all models that were manufactured from November 2023, when the Cybertruck was first produced, through February.

Seeing that nearly all of Tesla's #cybertrucks have been recalled brought the biggest smile to my face today.

Sometimes we have to search hard for the wins, and sometimes they fall in front of us. Like a rusty cybertruck panel. 🤭

Just throwing it out there—now is a great time to schedule preventative care appointments or get a thorough check-up. We’re in uncertain times with an administration that shows little regard for science or public health. That means it’s more important than ever to be proactive about your well-being.

Cheering y'all on from North Carolina. The world desperately needs quality research, and it breaks my heart that the American government is actively dismantling our academic and scientific institutions.

Cis folks: we need to do a better job of communicating to Dems in Congress that #TransRights are a priority to us and will impact our votes in future primaries.

Opinion | There’s a Name for What Trump Is Doing to Trans People: Denationalizing (Gift Article) The message is that we are a threat to the nation. The subtext is that we are not of this nation.

📰 Insightful column by @mashagessen.bsky.social:

"The reason you should care about this is not that it could happen to you but that it is already happening to others. It is happening to people who, we claim, have rights just because we are human."

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I'm going to share the post of a family friend who has late stage cancer and will be directly affected by cuts to NIH. She is speaking out during the time she has. She wants people to know the human cost. Her name is Caroline. This is her post:

Like thousands of Americans, my job of improving national health through medical research depends on NIH grants. I love my job. Please take tangible action to protect American research.

#ncpol

Screenshot of OpEd "First They Came For Columbia" from The Harvard Crimson showing White House illuminated in red, white and blue.

"Not only is silence in the face of mounting authoritarianism morally objectionable, but, as the Columbia case suggests, it’s not working.

Remaining silent will not protect us."

www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

Absolutely superb and important piece by Professors @stevelevitsky.bsky.social and @ryanenos.bsky.social
The only way to fight authoritarianism is to fight together. Strongest institutions in the front.
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...