Shonna McBride

Bad Bunny holds a football that says Together, we are America.

Unidos somos América.

The red flags of quackery
#quack #quackery

Things you can do: Vote early and volunteer to be a legal observer

Every American needs to watch this:

Postdoctoral Research Fellowships in Biology (PRFB)

Holy shit: it's an RFP for the NSF Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Biology (PRFB). Hello old friend www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...

Lysenkoism 2.0 continues: Podcast Jay wants to turn NIH into the “research arm” of MAHA NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya has recently said that he wants to transform the NIH into the "research arm of MAHA" and a "central driver of the MAHA agenda." Lysenkoism 2.0 continues apace at NIH.

Because they have said it. 3/ sciencebasedmedicine.org/maha-podcast...

Important info from @cato.org about how immigrants contribute to our country:

"The US immigrant population generated more in taxes than they received in benefits from all levels of government every year from 1994 to 2023."

Facts matter.

The risks of standing up are real, but not as high as people seem to think (based on data).

The risks of NOT standing up are real, and higher than most people seem to think, both for themselves and for the whole enterprise.

Now more than ever, it matters!

@standupforscience.bsky.social

Trump Is Making America Stupider How MAGA is purging scientists and other skilled workers from both the private and public sectors.

"It was not inevitable. It was a choice. It’s the Great American Brain Drain, courtesy of MAGA."

www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-is-m...

We're back for round two. We're taking back our science. I am fighting for science and democracy. March 7th, 2025. Washington, DC. standupforscience.net/march7

Mark your calendar!!! @standupforscience.bsky.social IS BACK FOR ROUND TWO.

Join us in DC on March 7th!
www.standupforscience.net/march7

Want to host an event in your area?? AMAZING...go sign up:
fight2win.standupforscience.net/sign_up/14434/
#standupforscience

“We are a Minneapolis 2nd grade Brownie Troop of 12 including trans and neurodiverse youth and 75% BIPOC kids. We want to go to summer camp and try horseback riding! During the current ICE occupation we need your support more than ever...”

And that’s how I ordered 4 boxes of thin mints.

Rice students expose ICE raids with new interactive map It's a nationwide digital spotlight on ICE arrests and detention centers.

It's a nationwide digital spotlight on ICE arrests and detention centers.

Ossoff: "This is a seismic event. This should have people across the country absolutely shook. This is a huge deal. This is an FBI raid on the Fulton County Elections office ... This is a shot across the bow at the midterm elections. He tried to steal power when he lost it in 2020."

This Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) program is funded by the National Science Foundation to create "points of entry" for students interested in research. Students apply from across the country to spend 10 weeks in Bozeman, Montana this summer (May 26, 2026 - August 1, 2026). Admitted students are paired with a faculty mentor, who serves as an advisor for a student's summer project. Each student receives a stipend ($7000 for 10 wks). Travel compensation, room, and board are also provided. Our program leverages MSU’s unique microbiology expertise, focusing specifically on microbes living with little or no oxygen (like those in the hot springs of nearby Yellowstone). Low oxygen microbes are essential to human and ecosystem health. They influence (or control) such processes as the breakdown of food in the GI tract, removal of toxins from our bodies and the environment, and production of greenhouse gases. They are also models for understanding the origins of life on this planet, and the potential for life on other planets. A key goal of our program is to recruit students from schools with limited research infrastructure. Being in Montana, a state with a vibrant Native American community, we are particularly interested in applications from students at tribal colleges. However, ANYONE with an interest in microbiology - or biology/science in general - can and should apply. If willing and able, please share/tweet/spread the word far and wide. Applications are due February 14, 2026. Full details can be found through our website http://www.montana.edu/mbi/reu/

Friends, please help spread the word about our microbiology REU program at Montana State University.
www.montana.edu/mbi/reu/

Each student receives a stipend ($7000 for 10 wks). Travel compensation, room, and board are also provided.

Details in the attached pic--Feb 14 deadline
🧫🧪🦠#microsky

Doctors are ignoring new federal vaccine recommendations | CNN The American Academy of Pediatrics on Monday released its updated recommendations for what vaccines children should get. It’s a routine revision, hardly different from last year’s recommendations, but...

The American Academy of Pediatrics has released its updated recommendations for children's vaccine.

The AAP continues to recommend all 18 vaccinations.

It carries more significance this year: More states & doctors are relying on it instead of the controversial new schedule from RFK Jr's CDC.

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Picture of the a plaque at the German Resistance Memorial in Berlin.

You did not bear the shame.
You resisted.
You bestowed the eternally vigilant symbol of change by sacrificing your impassioned lives for freedom, justice and honour.

— The German Resistance Memorial in Berlin

“.. He cared about people deeply ..,” said Michael Pretti, Alex’s father. “He thought it was terrible, you know, kidnapping children, just grabbing people off the street. He cared about those people, and he knew it was wrong ..”

@washingtonpost.com
www.washingtonpost.com/national/202...

CANVAS Core Curriculum: A Guide to Effective Nonviolent Struggle | ICNC You may also be interested in: A Guide to Nonviolent Activism (Ekta Parishad)Ekta Parishad is a mass-based peoples’ movement for land rights with an active membership of 250,000 landless poor and is r...

We are not the first people, or the first country, to suffer under a tyrannical government that does not respect our lives, or our rights.

There is a method for how to effectively resist, and eventually topple, such a regime. We can learn from others who came before us.

This is my favorite guide.

pretty catchy tune 🎵

Large brick wall with a tiny white signat the base of the wall that says "Slavery was real"

"Slavery was real"

Tiny sign at the base of a brick wall that, until yesterday, held panels about the people enslaved by George Washington.

Presidents House, Philadelphia.

My quote of the day

Where you see wrong or inequality or injustice, speak out, because this is your country. This is your democracy. Make it. Protect it. Pass it on.

Thurgood Marshall

All in a year’s work. RFK Jr.’s relentless assault on vaccines has been wildly successful for the anti-vaccine agenda and detrimental to us all. A rundown of what he has managed to accomplish in such a short time should terrify everyone. A 🧵

Exclusive: key NIH review panels due to lose all members by the end of 2026 Thirteen of the agency’s advisory councils, which must review grant applications before funding is awarded, are on track to have no voting members.

This whack-a-mole f@#kery game is really getting old

Key NIH review panels due to lose all members by the end of 2026 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

NASA quietly ends financial support for planetary science groups The U.S. space agency will quit funding several independent science advisory groups this year

"This is such a strange decision with no clear rationale. None of it really makes sense.”

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My quote of the day

I must uphold my ideals, for perhaps the time will come when I shall be able to carry them out.

Anne Frank

Dr. Gladys West, Mathematician Whose Work Made GPS Possible, Dies at 95 ALEXANDRIA, VA — Dr. Gladys West, the pioneering mathematician whose work laid the foundation for modern GPS technology, has died. She passed away

Dr. Gladys West, the pioneering mathematician whose work laid the foundation for modern GPS technology, has died. She was 95.

My quote of the day

Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable... Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals.

Martin Luther King, Jr.