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When science is sidelined, people are harmed.

Science and Democracy Under Siege 🧪
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Documenting Six Months of the Trump Administration’s Destructive Actions
Scientist gathered in protest. One prominent sign reads: WE (drawing of a heart) SCIENCE
July 23, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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davidimiller.bsky.social Dr. David Miller 🏳️‍🌈 @davidimiller.bsky.social · May 22
🧪 Detailed data viz NYT article, out today, on the extent of funding cuts at the National Science Foundation.

This "broken pie chart" is neat & new to me: Powerfully shows the slowdown in new NSF awards across areas.

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
May 23, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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#OpenToWork:
How laid-off US scientists are coping with shattered careers
www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Unemployed researchers face some tough career choices as they flood the job market after the Trump administration’s cuts to science.
Demonstrators protested over cuts to science jobs and funding in Washington DC in March.Credit: Tierney L. Cross/Bloomberg/Getty
May 23, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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As the second Trump administration sends U.S. science into upheaval, countless researchers are fighting for their futures

U.S. scientists’ lives and careers are being upended.
Here are five of their stories
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Sketch portraits of the scientists highlighted in the article.
May 5, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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People in solidarity all over the world!
March 7, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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People Rising Up to Resist Trump Policies
March 7th
March 7, 2025 at 1:01 AM
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People all over the world

The University of Bordeaux joins the Stand up For Science movement, which warns of the US offensive against research institutions, and invites its scientific communities to express their support on the occasion of the 07/03 movement #StandUpForScience
univbordeaux.bsky.social Université de Bordeaux @univbordeaux.bsky.social · Mar 5
L'université de Bordeaux s’associe au mouvement Stand up For Science, qui alerte sur l’offensive aux États-Unis contre les institutions de la recherche, et invite ses communautés scientifiques à exprimer leur soutien à l’occasion du mouvement du 07/03 - + d'informations : standupforscience.fr...
March 5, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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Admirable people with great integrity!

Thank you, Kit 👏
Integrity is choosing your thoughts and actions based on values rather than personal gain
March 5, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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People contributing to your community
March 4, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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US science is under threat
― now scientists are fighting back

Researchers are organizing protests and making their voices heard as Trump officials slash funding and lay off federal scientists.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
A crowd turned out in New York City on 19 February to protest against the Trump administration′s cuts to research funding.Credit: Erik McGregor/LightRocket/Getty
March 4, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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March 7th

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Science belongs to EVERYONE!
"Science is an integral part of culture. It is not this foreign thing done by an arcane priesthood. It's one of the glories of the human intellectual tradition." - Stephen Jay Gould
March 3, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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People working on all kinds of security
jrspringman.bsky.social Jeremy Springman @jrspringman.bsky.social · Mar 2
My grant was one of those terminated. Our team included political and climate scientists using machine learning/language models and a unique corpus of high quality media from developing countries to model the effects of climate change on climate adaptation, political stability, and conflict. (1/2)
kakape.bsky.social Kai Kupferschmidt @kakape.bsky.social · Mar 2
NEW: The Minerva Research Initiative, established by the Pentagon to fund social science relevant to national security, is being gutted. Dozens of researchers studying threats from extremist groups, misinformation or climate change have received notices that their grants are being terminated.
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March 3, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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People benefitting your community
ljrissler.bsky.social Leslie Rissler @ljrissler.bsky.social · Mar 2
The National Science Foundation benefits communities in every state.
NSF fact sheet
March 3, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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robertpatalano.bsky.social Bob Patalano @robertpatalano.bsky.social · Mar 3
Fantastic thread on the importance of NSF and exploratory research and the benefits of applied science.

Just think about how much we now know about human evolution because of the thermophilic bacterium Thermus aquaticus and PCR.
March 3, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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"If you are neutral on situations of injustice...
you are on the side of the oppressor."

- Desmond Tutu
March 3, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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People dedicated to heroic achievement and saving lives.
Dr. Collins noted that when he was recruited to the institutes, and through many of the years that followed, “investment in medical research was seen as a high priority and a nonpolitical bipartisan effort — saving countless lives, relieving human suffering and contributing substantially to the U.S. economy.”
March 1, 2025 at 10:41 PM
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zacklabe.com Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · Feb 27
Last Tuesday, I was set to give a talk on 'climate change in the Northeast' at a retirement home but had to cancel due to hourly job threats.

After nearly two weeks of overwhelming uncertainty, today it happened. I was fired from my dream of working at NOAA. I'm so sorry to everyone also affected.
March 1, 2025 at 10:24 PM
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People using science to save lives... everyone's life.
Stand Up For Science poster March 7, 2025 Washington, DC and nationwide
February 28, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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People whose mission is to protect the public
rissarwx.bsky.social Dr. Larissa @rissarwx.bsky.social · Feb 27
All probationary federal employees at NOAA’s EMC that’s responsible for keeping all US weather model systems running have been fired with 1 hours notice. And that includes me and colleagues. We will not go quietly because we care about the NOAA mission to protect the public.
February 28, 2025 at 12:03 AM
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emzconk.bsky.social Emily Conklin @emzconk.bsky.social · Feb 27
Hearing that hundreds of people have been laid off at NOAA through a scientist friend who is not affected. I am furious and devastated and exhausted- and I don’t even work for NOAA. This includes scientists at the weather service, protecting our ocean resources, working with coastal communities.
colehood.bsky.social Cole Hood @colehood.bsky.social · Feb 27
I just got fired from NWS . This email is all I know. Read if you want.
February 27, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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murray.senate.gov Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · Feb 23
Gregg is a former Marine and Forest Service ranger. He's saved the lives of hikers dangling off a cliff or going through cardiac arrest, and he's bravely fought forest fires to save small rural towns.

100% of his salary is paid by WA state.

Elon fired him. Share his story.
February 24, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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People working hard but loving it!
icy-pete.bsky.social Dr. Peter Neff @icy-pete.bsky.social · Feb 20
Let’s not lose all of this. Defend our investments in publicly-funded science. We love the National Science Foundation & want to keep doing world-leading science in Antarctica and elsewhere. Thanks to all who have worked, do work, and will work at NSF.
February 21, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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👇 Smart, dedicated people.
iwashyna.bsky.social Jack Iwashyna @iwashyna.bsky.social · Feb 20
Over on LinkedIn, the head of the Executive Secretariat of the NIH -- a central part of NIH leadership 🧪🩺-- resigned with a lettter worth reading

www.linkedin.com/posts/nathan...
February 18, 2024 TO: Dr. Matthew Memoli, Acting Director, NIH CC: John Burklow, Chief of Staff, NIH Julie Berko, Director, OHR, NIH FROM: Nathaniel James Brought, Director, ES, NIH SUBJECT: Resignation Dear Dr. Memoli, On July 3, 2001, I stepped off a bus on Marine Corps Recruit Training Depot Perris Island. Scared out of my mind, I stood on a pair of freshly painted yellow footprints, raised my right hand, and recited the oath of enlistment: I, Nathaniel James Brought, do solemnly swear that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; and that I will obey the orders of the President of the United States and the orders of the officers appointed over me, according to regulations and the Uniform Code of Military Justice. So help me God. For the last 23 years, 7 months, and 15 days, I like to believe I have faithfully carried out the duties of each office to which I've been appointed in my military and civilian service to this nation. That Service has taken me from the Marine Corps to 3 different federal departments, spanned 3 continents, included service in one war zone, and has included: • For the Marine Corps and the National Security Agency, I worked on intelligence operations at the highest classification levels using bleeding edge intelligence tools to ensure America's special operators put boots-to-asses on America's enemies overseas (including commendations crediting my work for the kill or capture of dozens of terrorists), ensuring America's policy makers were able to track the movement of dangerous dual nuclear technology across international borders, and monitored the flow of terrorist financing across the international banking system. • Utilized information from all-source intelligence to ensure the continued security of America's homeland from international and domestic threats. • Worked with some of the finest lawyers in the world to ensure America's security operations were effective, while upholding the rights of all those who interacted with them. • Ensuring that America's rural communities had access to programs like rural development loans, farm aid, and that America's children wouldn't be hungry as they sat in their classrooms and tried to learn. • Most recently, and frankly most dear to my heart, working with each of you here at the National Institutes of Health to advance the future of science and medicine. Not for Americans. Not for any one group of people. But for ALL of humanity. I am unbelievably proud to be able to say that there are Americans who are alive, and terrorists who are not, because of the work I've done to serve this nation. I am proud to say that my service to this country has allowed me to ensure that my children have never faced the struggles of poverty that I grew up with. That service didn't begin because of some great altruistic impulse or drive. I didn't grow up saying "I want to do the great work that needs to be done to weave the fabric of America and ensure her people are not only safe, but healthy." Frankly, that service began because I was poor, and I was inspired. I grew up as a free lunch kid who lived in project housing. It was my fellow Americans who made sure I wasn't hungry in class and that I had enough food to excel academically the way I did. It was Americans who had more than we did that made sure I had good schools to attend where I could learn things that expanded my mind. As I approached the end of high school, I dreamed of going to college and figuring out how to make a living that would allow me to do more tha… to go to college. I knew my grades weren't good enough to compete for scholarships with kids who were as smart as me but also had private tutors and didn't have to work after class to be able to drive their brand-new cars to our school each day. So, I gave up. I nearly failed my senior year of high school with an attendance failure, even though I only needed two classes to graduate. I didn't see the point. What was the point of learning calculus? So it would be that much harder when my dream of being a brain surgeon died not because I was incapable, but because I didn't have the means to make it come true? I resigned myself to being one of the working poor. I resigned myself to needing a spinal fusion before I was 50, like my father, because he literally broke his back trying to make his dreams come true. The example of my father didn't inspire me at that time. It reminded me of the futility of trying to escape the rung of the social ladder I had been born onto. No matter how smart or "gifted and talented" I may have been, I saw no path that led me to a place where I could realize my potential. So, instead I accepted that it would be wasted. Ultimately, the reason I find myself here today, rather than in the place I saw as my only end, is because of another young man who committed to serving his country. Shamefully, I do not remember his name, but there was a young corporal from the United States Marine Corps who had been assigned as a recruiter in Reading, Pennsylvania at that time. This man spoke to me about my plans for my future during lunch one day at school. I told him I planned to do what my father had done. Work hard jobs until my body broke down, maybe start a struggling business, and try to do what I could to stay above the poverty line and off welfare. I told him I hoped to be successful enough that my kids never had to watch me use food stamps at the grocery store. It had been hard to watch my mom go through that. How sad is that? I was a smart young 18-…
February 20, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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All people are touched by this, and we are all in this together!
lemoustier.bsky.social Dr Rebecca Wragg Sykes @lemoustier.bsky.social · Feb 18
🧪 Yet more vandalism against the global scientific community - NSF might be in America, but its research, networks and impact reach far beyond. British & European scientific bodies should stand up for their colleagues.
ljrissler.bsky.social Leslie Rissler @ljrissler.bsky.social · Feb 18
Colleagues, including my partner, with years of service at the agency. Some Permanent POs reclassified as Probationary. Exceptional scientists who were former professors at major institutions, and came to NSF to serve the community and ensure science thrives in the US.
February 20, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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"Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much."
- Helen Keller
spiantado.bsky.social steven t. piantadosi @spiantado.bsky.social · Feb 18
Join us in supporting NIH and NSF in local papers across the country!
cantlonlab.bsky.social CantlonLab @cantlonlab.bsky.social · Feb 18
Join us! Science Homecoming helps scientists reconnect with communities by writing about the importance of science funding in their hometown newspapers. We’ve mapped every small newspaper in the U.S. and provide resources to get you started. Help science get back home 🧪🔬🧬 🏠

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February 20, 2025 at 7:31 PM