Annika Enloe, M.S.

yeah I'll incorporate AI into my workflow. the workflow of my butt

Tuberculosis Spawning in Crowded, Dirty ICE Detention Centers Doctors and medical researchers expect more outbreaks of infectious disease as the Trump administration crams thousands more people into miserable conditions.

Unsurprising but horrifying. Wherever there are people forced into crowded living conditions, there will be tuberculosis. Wherever people are dehumanized, there will be tuberculosis. prospect.org/health/2025-...

The CDC shooting was public health’s Jan. 6 “In RFK Jr.’s America, it will never be safe to practice public health or medicine," write an epidemiologist and a former CDC staffer.

NEW 🚨 The violence is the point. Elected Dems must call for widespread resignations (RFK, Bhattacharya, Prasad) in response to the CDC shooting. Public health must demand this of them, and the public must demand that of us. With @publichealthguy1.bsky.social in STAT: www.statnews.com/2025/08/15/c...

'Hell on Earth': Venezuelans deported to El Salvador mega-prison tell of brutal abuse Deported under a little-known wartime law, more than 130 Venezuelans were sent from the U.S. to a maximum-security prison in El Salvador. Now released, several tell NPR they endured beatings, sexual abuse, and near-total isolation.

Deported under a little-known wartime law, more than 130 Venezuelans were sent from the U.S. to a maximum-security prison in El Salvador. Now released, several tell NPR they endured beatings, sexual abuse, and near-total isolation.

PLAN C: Abortion pills by mail in every state Plan C is an information resource for self-managed, at-home abortion with pills. Learn how people in the U.S. are accessing abortion pill options online.

Everyone should be preemptively getting a hold of birth control, Plan B, and abortion pills. Everyone.

Plancpills.org

A small grey bird with black eyes and a black beak perched in the red limbs of a manzanita shrub.

An out of focus, in motion, small, grey bird zooming above the limbs of a manzanita bush.

bushtit posing nicely vs bushtit doing what bushtits normally do. seen on your public lands 🪶

Same in Yosemite, Kings Canyon/Sequoia, Redwood, Joshua Tree, and every other national park in the country. Behind the scenery, many critical programs and activities are being dismantled, with serious, long-term consequences for park resources.

this is not okay. this needs to be fought tooth-and-nail. National Monuments are how we protect places until they can be made into national parks, or units which are too small or remote for a NP. they're also how we can protect sections of OGA lands like the Misty Fjords NM in Tongass.

ILL/ILB library staff are the real heroes of basically all research, especially humanities research.

Just insane to watch us, as a society, actively opting to let decades of knowledge and progress rot, not out of poverty, but out of a mix of apathy and malice.

White House looks to freeze more agency funds — and expand executive power The latest move targets more than $30 billion in spending at EPA, the National Science Foundation and other agencies.

NEW: The White House is quietly ordering agencies to freeze billions of dollars in additional funding for the EPA, Interior, Ag, National Science Foundation and more as part of a strategy to make cuts to education, climate, etc permanent and weaken role of Congress. www.eenews.net/articles/whi...

Daily Beans Fundraiser - Whistleblower Aid Daily Beans Listeners Fundraiser for Whistleblower Aid The American rule of law has survived many challenges, but now faces one of the most serious threats in our history. Checks and balances within o...

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does feel like we shouldn't overlook the fact that amid all the extremely funny shit the richest man in the world in no uncertain terms announced that his wealth is responsible for republicans' control of government and that they, and the president, should be beholden to him

Another Orwellian EO-this one allowing politicians to control & "correct" scientific info. @ucs.org: "What’s being demanded here is an unwinding of scientific integrity policies, under the misleading name of “Gold Standard Science,” to serve the values and priorities of the current administration."

They're literally doing the meme

If you burn down a forest, you don't miss out on lumber for just that season. You have to replant all the trees, nurture them, and wait for them to grow.

The science and research budget cuts happening now are wanton, senseless arson. Recovery, if it ever happens, will take generations.

San Diego neighborhood makes ICE agents retreat

Some difficult news from the team: In NSF's FY25-26 Budget Request to Congress, we learned that our program will take a whopping 50% cut - meaning that in September, we'll be $1.25m short of an operating budget that currently supports a cohort of seven PhD students, four postdocs, and three full-time staff. Verena is one of the largest and last pandemic prevention-focused programs in the United States: since 2020, we've supported the training of over 60 postdocs, graduate students, and undergraduates. Our researchers have established unique laboratory resources for studying animal immune systems, and discovered new antiviral immune adaptations in bats; developed risk assessment algorithms for wildlife and livestock viruses, and diagnostic algorithms for viruses like dengue, Ebola, and Zika; and quantified the effects of climate change, deforestation, and factory farming on spillover risk. Everything we develop is 100% open source, and our data has supported the research of nearly 150 external researchers in 21 countries to date. We have three months to make up our budget shortfall. Every dollar spent on Verena supports not just our team, but the community of researchers who use our data, code, and resources. You can help us by sharing this post, and reaching out if you're able to support a unique and vulnerable program. Or just head over to viralemergence.org, and take a look at what we do. 🦟 🦇 🦠

An update from the team on the uncertain future of our program and the impact of NSF budget cuts. Please share and reach out 🦠

NIH Director, Jay Bhattacharya, has long been affiliated with (ie funded by) the “Family Research Council,” an advisory group on Project 2025, which is identified as a hate group and primarily promotes anti-LGBT causes and opposes things like PrEP, HPV vaccination, sex education, and civil rights.

NSF, NASA and NIH budgets per year, inflation adjusted from 2000-2025 along with the proposed cuts. NSF includes research component only. Massive cuts across all sectors, well below support spanning 25 years.

How bad will it be? Catastrophic.

Proposed cuts to #NSF, #NIH, and #NASA will set the US R&D landscape back 25 yrs+, cause economic and job loss now, and undermine innovations to come.

But, this is the WH's *proposed* budget.

Speak up now before it is too late.

(inflation adjusted $-s below)

Trump’s Proposed Budget Would Cut the Ecosystems Mission Area and Much of Its Work From bee science to understanding the impact of a warming world on plant life, here’s what the Ecosystems Mission Area does.

Trump’s Proposed Budget Would Cut the Ecosystems Mission Area and Much of Its Work www.nytimes.com/2025/05/31/c...

Restoring Gold Standard Science By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including section 7301 of title 5, United

Couched in all those sciencey sounding words is that the people who believe the Earth is 6k years old will be appointing officers at each agency to evaluate if research is “Gold Standard Science” or not. They will have the power to call anything fraud.

www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

Flier for the talk

Inspired by Vietnam-era activism, Stand Up For Science is hosting a series of teach-ins around the USA this summer, focusing on the importance of science and science funding. I’m doing one May 30th in Silver Spring. Many of you should consider doing one too, and I’m happy to help you plan it 🦑🧪🌎

Redefining "harm" in the Endangered Species Act could undo decades of habitat protection for threatened species. The public has until May 19 to comment on the Trump Administration proposal to exclude habitat destruction from the definition. An ecologist and a law professor explain: buff.ly/Lguz0su

The Real Mastermind Behind Trump’s Imperial Presidency Elon Musk is the face of DOGE, but Russell Vought is the brains. He’s been planning such a crusade since well before Project 2025.

THIS guy is who should be named on your protest signs, calls to Congress, & in every headline.

Russell Vought.

If you’ve wondered how such an incompetent administration is destroying gov’t at speed or why they are killing off all science, this authoritarian Christian nationalist is your answer. 🧪

RFK Jr. said multiple times during his house and senate hearings today that no scientists have been fired from federal agencies. Our reporting has shown that hundreds, if not thousands, of scientists have been let go from NIH/CDC/FDA

"Women are PIs on 58% of the canceled grants, although they are PIs on only 34% of all active NSF grants.

Similarly, Blacks are PIs on 17% of the terminated grants, although they make only 4% of the total pool. Hispanic PIs and those with disabilities were twice as likely to lose a grant."

U.S. scientists’ lives and careers are being upended. Here are five of their stories As the second Trump administration sends U.S. science into upheaval, countless researchers are fighting for their futures

Sad, Sad, Sad, and shocking:
U.S. scientists’ lives and careers are being upended. Here are five of their stories @science.org @standupforscience.bsky.social www.science.org/content/arti...

Collapsing bird numbers in North America prompt fears of ecological crisis – research Study using citizen data finds three-quarters of nearly 500 species in decline, with steepest trend in areas where they once thrived

"Bird populations across North America are falling most quickly in areas where they are most abundant, according to new research, prompting fears of ecological collapse in previously protected areas." www.theguardian.com/environment/... #ornithology #citizenscience