M. Elise Lauterbur

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✨ The Bernhardt Lab at the University of Guelph is recruiting graduate students for 2026! Join us! We have several fully funded grad positions available ✨

Please spread the word!

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#CSEE2025

Congratulations to my postdoc Nasreen Broomand for being awarded an #NSF #PRFB to investigate Pathogen-Host Genomic Interactions as Drivers of Invasion Success! @uvmvermont.bsky.social

Pizza night at the lab!

Lauterbur EvoEco Lab at the @uvmvermont.bsky.social Student Research Conference last Wednesday. Featuring Jenna Lopez (2nd year, CALS), Avery Redfern (3rd year, Rubenstein), and Finn Flynn (2nd year, CAS).

Dems ask Trump admin to explain Khalil’s arrest, calling it ‘playbook of authoritarians’ More than 100 House Democrats sent the letter to Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and Secretary of State Marco Rubio.

The recent detention of Mahmoud Khalil because of his political advocacy is a direct violation of the First Amendment.

We are joining members of Congress in demanding answers about this outrageous abuse of power.

“Not only is silence in the face of mounting authoritarianism morally objectionable…IT’S NOT WORKING... We must learn from the past. We cannot remain silent in the face of authoritarian attacks on our peers, even if they have not yet come for us.”
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

March 12, 2025 Trump’s 25% tariffs on all aluminum and steel imported into the U.S.

"Republicans just passed a measure saying that for the rest of this congressional session, “each day…shall not constitute a calendar day” for the purposes of terminating Trump’s emergency declaration [re tariffs]" heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/march-12-2...

Musk Retweets ‘Hitler Didn’t Murder Millions’ Message Amid Ongoing Nazi Controversy Musk and Tesla have faced heightened criticism since the billionaire made a gesture likened to a Nazi salute during an inaugural event in January.

There was never any doubt... but here it is. Keep up the boycott. #Nazi #Swastikar

Everyone--EVERYONE--in higher education has to understand that this is Trump's plan for you, too: federal control over scholarship, curricula, discipline, admissions--everything. They want you to submit. Your only other option is to stand up, together.

Dear all, Because of your help shining light on this all 15 were reinstated today. This is a huge win for science - When We Fight We Win!!!

🧵Censor, purge, defund - how Trump is following the authoritarian playbook on science & universities.

This isn't chaos - it's deliberate & well-established methods.

I've mapped 40 actions into 3 categories covering attacks on science, attacks on universities and international collaboration.

1/16

NIH Grants Fueled $95 Billion In FY 2024 Economic Activity, Finds New Report National Institutes of Health grants generated almost $95 billion in economic activity nationwide in FY 2024 according to a new report by United for Medical Research.

New report shows that NIH grants fueled $95 billion in economic activity and 407,782 jobs in 2024.

That's not to mention the countless lives that biomedical research has saved.

Show me a better investment than that.
www.forbes.com/sites/michae...

The attacks on universities are speeding up, not slowing down

The university sector *must* band together and stop acquiescing in advance (looking at you Columbia)

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🚨 Everyone needs to call their Dem Senator right now. They are starting to cave.

Tell them:
1. Vote NO on Cloture
AND
2. Vote NO on the Republican spending bill.

Don’t let them pivot to reconciliation. GOP doesn’t need Dem votes on that and they know it.

TODAY is the showdown.
🤳🏽: (202) 224-3121

Eight things scientists can do right now to stand up to the Trump administration’s attacks on research, public health, and the environment A guest post by Dr Anne Toomey, author of the book "Science with Impact: How to Engage People, Change Practice, and Influence Policy".

Some helpful info for science advocacy!

christinapagel.substack.com/p/eight-thin...

ACTION ITEM

I was chatting with a young scientist who expressed concern re the multiplicity of ongoing issues

Over the course of our conversation, we arrived at the idea of a DASHBOARD where issues could be tracked

If anyone is interested in helping with this (ideally with expertise) please DM me

Indeed, a White House official told The Free Press that the basis for targeting Khalil is being used as a blueprint for investigations against other students. Khalil is a "threat to the foreign policy and national security interests of the United States," said the official, noting that this calculation was the driving force behind the arrest. "The allegation here is not that he was breaking the law," said the official.

NEW: White House says the arrest and deportation of student activist & legal US resident, Mahmoud Khalil, is a blueprint for more.

The final line here is chilling. The White House specifically says Khalil was not breaking the law.

No evidence, no due process, no crime. He was just disappeared.

a photo of a few hundred protesters gathered in NYC

A crowd has gathered for the NYC protest against the illegal ICE arrest of Columbia grad student Mahmoud Khalil. Protesters are chanting and calling for his immediate release.

Multiple helicopters overhead.

*not charged with a crime*

UVM Achieves Prestigious Carnegie R1 Designation, Joining Highest Level of U.S. Research Institutions | Office of the Vice President for Research (OVPR) | The University of Vermont

www.uvm.edu/ovpr/news/uv...

Amazing turnout for yesterday’s Stand Up for Science march in Burlington, Vermont! 💙🔬🧪 #standupforscience #sciencesaveslives

Stand Up For Science march, Burlington VT

👇🎯 The public isn't going to understand this, unless the presidents of R1 universities around the country <loudly> & <collectively> get out into the public square & start explaining this & calling out the existential threat to the entire 🇺🇸 university system. The silence is deafening right now.

They want to keep it quiet, so you know what to do.

Organizers estimate more than 2,000 showed up at Washington Square Park today for #StandUpforScience2025
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 “ Without facts, we're really just in the dark with regard to what the consequences of our actions are ... science really gives us a way to move forward and build that prosperous future that I think we all want to see.” —Mike Wong

In today's episode, we check in on the Stand Up for Science rallies that spread to 32 cities.

Listen here 🎧:

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100s of people at the Stand up for Science rally in Washington Square Park. They’re holding signs in front of the Wash Square arch

Lots of people at the rally in New York!
Josh Dubnau from Stony Brook gave the speech the moment demands: attacks on science funding are bad, but they’re downstream of fascism, and we need to fight the fascism even when we’re not the targets

Columbia University professor and Nobel laureate Martin Chalfie: “I strongly believe in DEI!”

Demonstrators gather in NYC and across the nation in the name of science.

March 7, 2025

#standupforscience2025 @standupforscience.bsky.social

Thousands gather across U.S. and world in Stand Up for Science events Scientists and their supporters rallied across the country in response to layoffs and funding cuts ordered by the Trump administration

Science, not Silence! Thousands gather across U.S. and world in Stand Up for Science events | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti... #standupforscience2025 #sciencenotsilence

‘Scientists will not be silenced’: thousands protest Trump research cuts Researchers at Stand Up for Science rallies voice defiance against the policies of US President Donald Trump’s administration.

🚨🧪 We’ve been talking to scientists at rallies today across the country in DC, Boston, Seattle, and NJ. Here’s why scientists are “Dismayed, depressed, disgusted” and what they’re doing about it

🧵 ⤵️ for more
#StandUpforScience #StandUpforScience2025
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