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fromthelabbench.bsky.social
Let’s do this.

#scicomm #sciart #science #federalscience #firedfeds
March 6, 2025 at 9:31 PM
flemmywallstein.bsky.social
Hi. I'm Amy. Today's NSF's 75th anniversary, so I made a video: youtu.be/xnt2V4ygBG0
#ScienceMatters #NSFExcellence #AmericanInnovation #NSF #FederalScience #SciencePolicy #NSFRotator #PublicService #WeAreNSF
#SaveNSF #NSF75 #Scienceat75 #ISupportNSF #FundNSF
lastnsfhistorian
YouTube video by Amy Rodgers
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May 11, 2025 at 12:50 AM
tosinfadeyi.bsky.social
DC Federal Science Workers! Join us next week :) Spread the word, and invite your #fedsci friends

#federalscience #stopdoge
ucs.org Union of Concerned Scientists @ucs.org · May 21
Join UCS @fedworkersunited.bsky.social @enviroprotnet.bsky.social and Branch 4 for a Federal Science Workers Happy Hour on May 27 at 6pm.

Info + RSVP: act.ucsusa.org/435Y3ZI
A promotional flyer titled “Federal Science Workers Happy Hour” announces an event at Busboys and Poets (The Davis Room), located at 450 K St. NW, Washington, D.C., on Tuesday, May 28, from 6:00–8:00 P.M. The background features a glass beaker filled with a dark liquid next to a white coffee mug on a wooden table. The event is sponsored by the Union of Concerned Scientists, the Environmental Protection Network, the Federal Union of Scientists (FUN) Network, and an organization with a blue circular logo containing three white lines and a green stripe. Photo credit: Ben Moreland/Unsplash.
May 21, 2025 at 8:04 PM
electricbluesfan.bsky.social
9/11 Similar drastic cuts are proposed for the NIH, with leaked documents showing a planned 44% reduction to its $47 billion budget. During Trump's first term, Republicans rejected many science cuts, but it's uncertain if they'll do so again.
#NIHfunding #FederalScience
May 3, 2025 at 5:55 AM
drbigbeef.bsky.social
1) Had four brilliant thoughts
2) wrote three of them down (turns out 4th wasn't original)
3) Assisted three states and three territories get their science right
4) Argued with the new version of ArcMap
5) got one step closer to saving the planet
#federalscience
February 23, 2025 at 1:30 AM
hiv-i-base.bsky.social
Several US activists and @zackieachmat.bsky.social from TAC call for resistance to the US assault on #HIV care and #HIVresearch:

i-base.info/htb/51125

@jidjournal.bsky.social‬ @thelancet.com

#HIVsky #HIVtreatment #FederalScience #NIHfunding #PEPFAR #USAID #PEPFARSavesLives #SouthAfrica
Colourful i-Base graphic. The main text reads: HIV activists in the US and South Africa resist Trump’s policies. “We won’t allow history to repeat itself.” At the top is a URL: I hyphen base dot info. At the bottom it says, subscribe by email. A smaller, tilted square graphic on the right, reads: HTB news. 2025. HIV treatment, prevention, access, and more. The colours used in the image are two shades of magenta, royal blue, lime green, teal, dark orange, light blue, lilac, mustard, orange, dark blue, red, and white.
June 4, 2025 at 7:15 PM
resist47.news
Scientists are opposing a proposed OMB plan that would restructure federal grant-making and place significant funding authority under political appointees.

resist47.news — up-to-date resistance news.

#resist47 #ScientificResearch #GrantFunding #AcademicFreedom #FederalScience
‘Complete shock and dismay’: scientists unite against Trump’s $1tn grant attack
via US news | The Guardian — OMB proposal would upend entire grant-making system – and put vast sums into hands of political appointees It was a late Friday afternoon in Boston when Harvard School of Public Health professor Nancy Krieger, a social epidemiologist, received an email that would reshape the next year of her life. It was from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) – her nearly $1m grant to study how discrimination affects population health was canceled. Continue reading...
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July 20, 2026 at 11:49 AM
napawash.bsky.social
The role of scientists with @nasonline.org‬ President Marcia McNutt. #datadriven #goodgovernment #federalscience

youtube.com/shorts/E1OiG...
The Complicated Role of Federally Supported Science #shorts #science #government
YouTube video by National Academy of Public Administration
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July 16, 2025 at 1:21 PM
electricbluesfan.bsky.social
5/13 Trump's attacks have escalated dramatically.

Union of Concerned Scientists counted 402 "attacks on federal science" in just six months of his second term.

Nearly DOUBLE the count from his entire first term.
#Escalation #FederalScience
August 3, 2025 at 10:47 PM