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Great resource to connect early career folks with more senior scientists looking to hire postdocs! 🧪

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.

A map of the US with the states the republican senators are from marked in red and states the democratic senators are from marked in blue: Senator Susan Collins (Republican - Maine) Senator Mitch McConnell(Republican - Kentucky) Senator Lisa Murkowski(Republican - Alaska) Senator Lindsey Graham(Republican - South Carolina) Senator Jerry Moran(Republican - Kansas) Senator John Hoeven(Republican - North Dakota) Senator John Boozman(Republican - Arkansas) Senator Shelley Moore Capito(Republican - West Virginia) Senator John Kennedy(Republican - Louisiana) Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith(Republican - Mississippi) Senator Bill Hagerty(Republican - Tennessee) Senator Katie Britt(Republican - Alabama) Senator Markwayne Mullin(Republican - Oklahoma) Senator Deb Fischer(Republican - Nebraska) Senator Mike Rounds(Republican - South Dakota) Patty Murray(Democrat - Washington) Richard Durbin(Democrat - Illinois) Jack Reed(Democrat - Rhode Island) Jeanne Shaheen(Democrat - New Hampshire) Jeff Merkley(Democrat - Oregon) Christopher Coons(Democrat - Delaware) Brian Schatz(Democrat - Hawaii) Tammy Baldwin(Democrat - Wisconsin) Chris Murphy(Democrat - Connecticut) Chris Van Hollen(Democrat - Maryland) Martin Heinrich(Democrat - New Mexico) Gary Peters(Democrat - Michigan) Kirsten Gillibrand(Democrat - New York) Jon Ossoff(Democrat - Georgia)

Are you from one of these states? Then we need your help to save American science!

The Senate Appropriations Committee will be marking up the President's Budget Request for science on Wednesday. People have been saying the proposed cuts "decimated" US science, but that's wrong: they are apocalyptic

People forget that checking racial boxes in the United States is first and foremost an exercise in resource distribution and not a moment to tell your diary how you feel about your family history

And it has been a project, a white supremacist project, to make people think it’s about individualism

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Washington, D.C., has a population roughly equivalent to Alaska's.

And it has zero senators. If D.C. had senators, the GOP megablil bill would have failed today.

Instead, Murkowski got carve-outs and money for Alaska, and then voted to subject DC to the bill

I've seen some science folks react with relief that the current reconciliation bill doesn't cut NIH spending- of course this is a good thing. But we can't stand by and say this isn't our fight - there's a lot in here that will affect biomedical scientists and some really bad stuff for the country 🧵

Report finds five north country hospitals at risk if Republican Medicaid cuts pass Congress Five hospitals in the north country could be faced with steep cuts to their operating revenues if the budget bill Republicans are pushing through Congress right now passes, according to

Eleven rural hospitals in New York are highly threatened with closure if the medicare/medicaid changes in the current budget bill pass. Of those 11, five are local to my region. This is the bill that our Congressional Representative Elise Stefanik strongly supports.

yes. I'm an alumni (cough not so recent cough). I have many complicated feelings about UVA and my time there, but uh they're going to run the school into the ground

what the fuck

even if you aren't aware of it, you are probably friends or colleagues with someone whose parents weren't citizens when they were born in the United States

Advice distilled from an NSF PO:

Apply for NSF funding this year. Because NSF's current policy is to forward-fund active projects (e.g. pay down their mortgage on the future years of funding), there are plausible budget scenarios where NSF has a LARGE budge to spend next fiscal year (on your grant)

The left better start figuring out how to weaponize today's decision rather than just (rightfully) criticizing it.

- Go back into Judge Kaczmaryk's court to dissolve all of his nationwide orders.

- Pass gun bans and insist any order applies only to plaintiffs.

Trump Justice Dept. Pressuring University of Virginia President to Resign The Justice Department has demanded that James E. Ryan step down to help resolve a civil rights investigation into the school, three people familiar with the matter said.

The Justice Department has demanded that the president of the University of Virginia resign to help resolve a civil rights investigation into the school’s diversity, equity and inclusion efforts.

I don’t think most UVA employees are particularly loyal to Jim Ryan. But regardless of their personal attitudes towards Ryan and UVA as an institution, they don’t want UVA to be led by incompetent, ignorant hacks openly intent on destroying public institutions.

After ruling, with anger in his voice, Judge Young:

"This represents racial discrimination. And discrimination against America's LGBTQ community. That's what this is. I would be blind not to call it out. My duty is to call it out. And I do so."

🚨 BREAKING: Nearly 4 months the NIH cut its first grants, a judge has ruled that the directives and process that led to cuts are arbitrary and capricious.

"The explanations are bereft of reasoning — virtually in their entirety... unsupported by [facts]."

Each of them are VOID and ILLEGAL, he says.

5yo was meh about the protest until the ice cream man showed up and the dump trucks started blowing horns. Now he wants to know when the next one will be 😂

I told you we’d be back

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senate panel line of questioning that there's no competition in applying for/getting NIH funding

Pretty! My kid found a click beetle at the playground this weekend & made me check to make sure it wasn't an 'in-face species' (we've been learning about invasive bugs) so we didn't have to squish it 😂 They'll be thrilled to know about the clicking part!

New NIH Notice rescinding the no DEI, no Israeli boycott term and condition added to NIH grants (covers the whole university)

This is what Williams refused to sign and declined all federal funding.

grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

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If you weren't angry enough already, here are the rates of non-competitive renewals through May.

4008 Non-competitive renewals were due to be funded in May.

The total funded was 99!

Some is due to terminations, but most is due to slow grant making due to DOGE review and other impediments.

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NIH staff and biomedical community sound alarm about agency politicization, funding slowdown In test of NIH director’s support of dissent, NIH staff sign Bethesda Declaration urging reversal of grant cuts and freezes

Breaking news: Staff at the National Institutes of Health have issued a declaration calling on their director to depoliticize the agency and reverse spending cuts.

Our Trans Health Study Was Terminated by the Government. The Effects of Abrupt NIH Grant Cuts Ripple Across Science and Society. On top of canceling the trans health study, losses include millions of dollars the NIH has already spent and the next generation of scientists whose work has been cut short.

NEW: Our Trans Health Study Was Terminated by the Government. The Effects of Abrupt NIH Grant Cuts Ripple Across Science and Society.

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How to Protest Safely: What to Bring, What to Do, and What to Avoid If you’re planning to hit the streets, here’s what you need to know.

Americans are taking to the streets and showing up in US cities by the thousands to protest a plethora of President Donald Trump’s second-term policies—from trans rights to travel bans from foreign nations and deportation policies.

This is a WIRED guide on how to best protest safely.

Between this & the FlyBase grant being terminated & lord knows what else - Harvard’s preeminence means that a lot of “upkeep & dev” grants for essential resources for international bio/biomed research were hit hard by targeted cancellations at one university

Incredible to get so many people on *Harvard’s* side, what’re they gonna do to get us all rooting for Duke basketball somehow

OPT is the program that allows foreign students graduating with STEM degrees stay and work for up to three years. Because of the oversubscribed H-1B lottery, OPT is one of the main ways that foreign students manage to transition to jobs in the US.

Ending it would destroy a major STEM pipeline.