Geoff Swanson

it’s even more demoralizing when the history you’re repeating is history you were around for the first time

Today I had the honor of speaking in front of nearly 3000 people today at the Woodland #NoKings rally. WE FEAR NO KING BECAUSE WE DONT HAVE ONE ✊🏾✊🏾✊🏾✊🏾 let’s gooooooo

Opinion | The Science I Would Be Doing if I Weren’t in ICE Detention

Gut wrenching. gift link. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/13/o...

AOC: We must acknowledge the terrifying moment we are in right now. What we are hearing and seeing with our own eyes is, in fact, happening. We are watching our neighbors, students, and friends being fired, targeted, and disappeared. It is real.

NIH freezes all research grants to Columbia University Amid negotiations with Trump, the university could risk losing nearly $700 million

If you're still not convinced that the goal is to both get rich and make Americans dumb and compliant by forcing universities to close, may I interest you in the freezification of ALL Columbia University grants? www.science.org/content/arti...

Nobel laureate: I owe America my success. Today, its scientific future is in danger | CNN Dr. Ardem Patapoutian says he watches “with deep sadness as the United States’ remarkable scientific enterprise, which took generations of hard work and national investment to build, faces a concerted...

Published an op-ed for @cnn.com: “Nobel laureate: I owe America my success. Today, its scientific future is in danger.”
A personal reflection on what’s at stake as science funding gets slashed. I’d be grateful if you could amplify both in and beyond the science world.
www.cnn.com/2025/04/09/h...

Trump Officials Freeze $1 Billion for Cornell and $790 Million for Northwestern The funding pause amid civil rights investigations into both universities sharply escalates the Trump administration’s campaign against elite colleges.

University presidents, the time is now! Unshackle the general counsel's office! File all the lawsuits! Release the faculty upon the op-ed sections! Write to your alumni, parents, and donors! You have nothing to lose but a tiny percentage of your enormous endowments... www.nytimes.com/2025/04/08/u...

Massive turnout for Hands Off! in Chicago.

Donald Trump may want to call this ‘Liberation Day,’ but there’s nothing liberating for those who are grappling with the high costs of food, housing, and utilities.
 
Tariffs are a tax – a tax on working families, a tax on groceries, and a tax on other everyday necessities.

The former ambassador to Denmark for the United States, Rufus Gifford, posted this video on his Facebook account:

Ht: @hpsc24.bsky.social

Northwestern University Neuroscience program had outstanding offers rescinded.

Very sorry to hear Katie. Your students deserve better.

Kidnapped for writing an Op-Ed. Insane.

From interview of Lee Bollinger, 1st Amendment scholar who served as dean of @UMichLaw, president of @UMich, and president of Columbia University.
www.chronicle.com/article/were...

My Senator. What a tool. Absolutely failed to rise to the moment and then puts out the bullshit justification. Illinois we can do better.

Lifelong Democrat who will never vote for you again. What a disgrace.

This has to be a joke. Illinois Democrat, used to support Durbin, but that all stopped today. What a pathetic show of weakness. All talk no spine. We need Senators who lead not buckle under to a lawless administration.

I don’t understand why the president is allowed to spout nonsense about colonizing another country and the 25th amendment isn’t being invoked in addition to all the other horrors this is insane. It’s absolutely insane. It isn’t funny or even weird.

Columbia is only the first. Academic research under attack on so many fronts.

Justin Trudeau gave the exact kind of press conference today that we have been waiting for from our Democratic leaders. Watch it and learn from it. No gimmicks, no stunts, no script, no platitudes, no slogans, no games. Just straight talk, honesty, sincerity and facts.

Live updates: Trump cuts short talks with Ukraine’s Zelenskyy after Oval Office blow up Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy met with President Donald Trump in Washington, seeking backing for Ukraine's security against any future Russian aggression.

President Trump’s simpering fealty to Vladimir Putin and Russia is embarrassing and dangerous.

Illinois stands with Ukraine, and so should the White House.

US officials ordered to issue permanent visa bans on trans athletes based on sex markers Exclusive: State department memo directs officers to bar those deemed to misrepresent birth sex on applications

WTAF Tuesday edition.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Science under siege: Trump cuts threaten to undermine decades of research Sweeping layoffs, funding freezes and executive orders have provoked outcry among federal researchers and their university partners, who fear that science itself is under siege.

Reaching out to all Americans through the media to explain how decreasing funding of the NIH will have irreversible harm for developing therapies for all diseases. Please spread the word to your families and friends and contact your congressional representatives.
www.nbcnews.com/science/scie...

The NIH Memo That Undercut Universities Came Directly From Trump Officials NIH officials said they were given no advance warning and less than an hour to post the memo publicly.

It’s @katherinejwu.com with the receipts.

The NIH memo undercutting the NIH came directly from Trump officials.

www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...

Every study section due to start on the 20th has been canceled/postponed. That's ~30 panels listed on the CSR site.

Trump Tracker: Firings, lawsuits, and U.S. science in chaos Follow President Donald Trump’s impact on U.S. research and science globally

A freeze on meetings of expert panels that peer review grant proposals at the National Institutes of Health is kicking in this week.

Follow Science’s coverage of President Donald Trump’s impact on U.S. research and science globally. ⬇️ scim.ag/40XtSSi

Hello to Shanti Pal!

I'm on ZRG1 IVBH on March 4/5. I contacted with the SRO last Friday 2/14. He didn't explicitly state that it was taking place but did encourage us to submit reviews.

Attending #BPS2025? Want to know more about tangible steps you can take to challenge the attacks on science in the U.S.? Please attend an Emergency Town Hall Meeting on Tuesday at 1:30! @biophysicalsoc.bsky.social @blackinbiophys.bsky.social Please spread the word!