Jason Sharp

please don’t text me war plans, because I’m actually at capacity right now and I don’t think I can hold appropriate space for you. do you have someone else you could reach out to?

Trump: COLUMBA IS AWFUL
Columbia: [slaps student]
Trump: COLUMBIA IS ANTISEMITIC
Columbia: [kicks student in groin]
Trump: NO MONEY FOR COLUMBIA LOL
Columbia: [punches brown student in nose]
Trump: WE WILL CLOSE COLUMBIA
Columbia: [reaching for another student] okay this time it will work

NIH ban on renewing senior scientists adds to assaults on its in-house research Policy follows firings of tenure-track scientists and suspension of training programs

The NIH is being gutted. 🧵

www.science.org/content/arti...

President Musk wants federal employees to share 5 things they accomplished this week. Here's mine ⬇️

Ps. Don’t worry Elon every day I’m going to fight against your billionaire con man agenda to slash Medicaid & SNAP while you give billions in tax cuts to yourself & your friends.

VA Research Funding Slashed Though not as prominent as the NIH, VA researchers play a major role in advancing basic health science. Hundreds of projects have been cut.

NIH cuts are getting the press, but VA research is getting slashed too. What do we lose when VA research goes away? Here's some greatest hits: The nicotine patch, invention of the cardiac pacemaker, first successful liver transplant, development of the CAT/CT scan

prospect.org/health/2025-...

we’re watching elon musk trying to run the government like a business by being that shitty boss everyones had at one point in their life and i hope this is an evergreen example of why “running the government like a business” might be the dumbest ideological statement out there

This morning at Dept of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) HQ in DC as mandatory return to office began, this video played on loop for ~5 mins on screens throughout the building, per agency source.

Building staff couldn’t figure out how to turn it off so sent people to every floor to unplug TVs.

FEDERAL RESEARCH LAB SCIENTIST IN 1965: After five years and seventy million dollars we have invented a new type of plastic that prevents communists from being able to climb ladders too fast
FEDERAL RESEARCH LAB SCIENTIST IN 2025: My cure for cancer was shelved because it might benefit Hispanics

Report: You Live In An Embarrassing Country WASHINGTON—According to a new report published Wednesday by the Pew Research Center, you live in a deeply embarrassing and barely functional country. “Our latest research and statistical analysis show...

Report: You Live In An Embarrassing Country

Graduate student admissions paused and cut back as universities react to Trump orders on research In response to Trump science policies, universities are accepting fewer graduate students than normal and freezing positions, STAT has learned.

NEW: Trump actions on science may affect a generation as pauses + cuts in graduate admissions begin. “We had just flown them out, we told them we love you, we want to admit you, and then everything just stopped." "It's freezing everybody into inaction."
www.statnews.com/2025/02/19/t...

Oh my god I’ve been on a sourdough kick and I didn’t even consider the bad omen that was

an important aspect of this to remember is that the misinformation isn’t an accident, they know they’re lying. that’s the intention. if they can anger and rile up their base with claims that are exaggerated they’ll continue to fuel them to gain power. they want us to live in a post-truth world

This is why clinicians working with children (or anyone for that matter) cannot afford to be politically neutral

AOC has them sputtering mad because she’s educating people on constitutional rights. You don’t see them freaking out at Jeffries for talking about egg prices.

Told my friends match day is on Friday lmao 😭

Are the Trump team’s actions affecting your research? How to contact Nature Use this form to share information with Nature’s news team, or to make suggestions for future coverage.

Use this form to tell us how the new US administration is affecting your research, or suggest future coverage

https://go.nature.com/4aYn9Me

I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again: an administration (and its supporters) who believe that they are not limited by the rule of law have no moral or philosophical claim to the protection of the rule of law. “The law is whatever we say it is” warrants the same in response.

For those of you interested in pulling excellent papers from this journal, I have created a public collection: www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/myncbi...

Screenshot of ARCR website that reads "This site can't be reached"

The peer-reviewed NIAAA journal, Alcohol Research: Current Reviews, and all of the previously open access papers published in the journal have been removed from the web. arcr.niaaa.nih.gov/about-arcr

I wonder how sites like this can be viable if folks can flood them with tons of useless input.

This February, we honor and celebrate Black History Month. SCCAP continues to be fully committed to supporting and promoting equity, diversity, and inclusion for all our members.

#sccap53 #inclusionmatters #equalityforall #blackhistorymonth

Open (public) sessions of NIDA and NIAAA Advisory council meetings scheduled for this week are both cancelled. Keep making calls folks.

nida.nih.gov/about-nida/a...

I know you've seen that list of words the NSF is said to be flagging. I know you feel despair. Yes, fascism is a terrible thing. But, it is here.

Here is an opportunity to make our scientific problem of jingle/jangle, our strength.

:)

A quick reminder: For every $1 of research funding, NIH generated $2.46 in economic activity. This includes funding jobs in all 50 states. This isn't a red/blue thing: 8.9 jobs per $1M in CA & 12 jobs per $1M in GA. #AcademicSky #PhDSky #MedSky #HealthSky #healthequity #SciComm
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Dog sitting is the best 🥰

Okay where are the clinical psych folks at ??