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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 15h

And the danger of that wealth is amplified by the power we've allllowed it to buy.

Power to influence elections.
Power to mold institutions.
Power to move markets.
Power to manipulate media.
Power to punish anyone who tries to challenge or question their power.

Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 2d

The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $6.6 trillion.

The entire bottom 50% of America is worth just $4.2 trillion.

Read that back.

When 400 people control more wealth than half a country’s population, we have a very serious problem.

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Bita Moghaddam @bita137.bsky.social · 2d

This is profoundly sad. We lost a true pioneer in the field of psychiatry

Sincere condolences to his family friends and collaborators

Owen Muir, M.D., DFAACAP (he/him) @owenmuir.bsky.social · 3d

A eulogy for my friend Nolan Williams.

open.substack.com/pub/thefront...

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Brian Lovett @lovettbr.bsky.social · 13d

While this experience feels like a disruption to me in many ways, it was also eye opening.

I want to name that my lab did *not* close because we weren’t doing well, it was a casualty of a siege on science by the federal government.

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 1d

This is a powerful account from a PhD student whose fellowship was terminated by NIH because it was part of a "diversity" program without any other considerations or understanding of what the program or the students were actually doing.

undark.org/2025/10/09/o...

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NIH Student Grant Cancellation Will Weaken Scientific Innovation

The termination of federal F31 diversity fellowships puts many graduate students in a bind — and U.S. science at risk.

undark.org

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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 6d

Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE

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taber @kvetch.gay · 4d

Incredibly cool: "half of the species responded to the end of the eclipse by singing a dawn chorus despite the 'night' lasting only a few minutes" is mind-blowing! The whole paper is free to read:

Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 5d

I have to fan-girl for a minute here. My friend @rosvall-lab.bsky.social built an app to gather data on bird behavior during the 2024 solar eclipse. 10,000+ citizen scientists contributed (including my kids), and the resulting paper was published in Science today!

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Total solar eclipse triggers dawn behavior in birds: Insights from acoustic recordings and community science

On 8 April 2024, a total solar eclipse disrupted light-dark cycles for North American birds during the lead-up to spring reproduction. Compiling more than 10,000 community observations and artificial ...

www.science.org

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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 4d

The Administration

- raised taxes on clean energy with one big beautiful bill

- is stopping or making clean energy projects harder to be built

- is raising prices on materials with tariffs

- all while AI is spiking electricity demand

They are stopping supply while demand goes up

It’s a crisis

jael holzman @jael.bsky.social · 4d

SCOOP: The Bureau of Land Management says the largest solar project in Nevada — the Esmeralda 7 mega-farm — has been canceled

The news was quietly dropped via a sudden website update with no public word from any of the companies involved or a statement from the agency

@heatmap.news

Esmeralda 7 Solar Project Has Been Canceled, BLM Says

It would have delivered a gargantuan 6.2 gigawatts of power.

heatmap.news

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Mike Feigin 🥯 @mikefeigin.bsky.social · 6d

“Could?” Let me be clear. A $100,000 H1B will kill our ability to do world class science in the US.

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Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 7d

The scenes out of Chicago should outrage us all. These federal agents are out of control, committing senseless acts of violence & putting everyone at risk.

American citizens are being detained & brutalized.

This kind of immigration "enforcement" shouldn't be acceptable to anyone.

Immigration agents become increasingly aggressive in Chicago

Activists, residents and elected leaders say increasingly combative tactics used by federal immigration agents are sparking violence and fueling neighborhood tensions in the nation’s third-largest cit...

www.pbs.org

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Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 6d

"We should be exceedingly clear: There is no crisis in Chicago that requires the National Guard. To the extent that there is civil instability in Chicago it has been caused by Trump’s surge of federal agents into the city and their lawless assault on the citizens of Chicago."

Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 6d

NEW: "I don’t like sending out 'emergency' newsletters, but I’ve had my eye on the situation in Chicago all day....This moment has elevated the crisis so that it is no longer just a conflict between the federal government and a state, but between two states."
www.thebulwark.com/p/emergency-...

Emergency Triad: The Chicago Rubicon and What Comes Next

We aren’t at the worst-case scenario yet. But if you squint, you can see it looming out there, just over the horizon.

www.thebulwark.com

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Jena Doom @truedrdoom.bsky.social · 8d

As someone who experienced PPH with my last baby, I am so glad to see this initiative to prevent maternal deaths. It is shockingly common and can happen to anyone. There is so much more we can do to provide life-saving care to mothers worldwide!

International Rescue Committee @rescue.org · 8d

Ahead of the first-ever World Postpartum Haemorrhage (PPH) Day, we're proud to announce the launch of a new global initiative to address the preventable causes of maternal and newborn deaths in crisis-affected settings.

Learn more: www.rescue.org/press-releas...

On the First World Postpartum Haemorrhage Day, IRC Announces Partnership with Rt. Hon. Dame Jacinda Ardern to Prevent Maternal Deaths in Crisis Settings | The IRC

Ahead of the first-ever World Postpartum Haemorrhage (PPH) Day, marked on October 5, the International Rescue Committee (IRC) is proud to announce the launch of a new global initiative—Safer Births in...

www.rescue.org

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Karen Benjamin Guzzo @karenguzzo.bsky.social · 10d

I missed this earlier this week, but the Directors of NIAID, NICHD, NIMHD, & NINR were all fired. The NIAID Director, Mazzaro, was likely fired in retaliation for speaking out against the anti-vaccine moves made by the administration.

Kennedy Fires N.I.H. Scientist Who Filed Whistle-Blower Complaint

www.nytimes.com

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Melissa Ryan @melissaryan.bsky.social · 12d

I always pay attention to what stories People Magazine and other consumer media outlets cover. That's how you can tell that something has broken through the usual political and news bubbles. This horrific Chicago story has broken through. people.com/ice-agents-o...

ICE Agents Rappel from Helicopter in Overnight Chicago Raid, Dragging Kids from Beds to U-Hauls

Overnight on Tuesday, Sept. 30, federal agents from different agencies raided an apartment building on the South Side of Chicago, pulling men, women and children — some of them allegedly naked — from ...

people.com

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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 11d

“In her complaint, the scientist, Dr. Jeanne Marrazzo, who had directed the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, objected to Trump administration actions, alleging that they had endangered research subjects, defied court orders and undermined vaccine research.”

Kennedy Fires N.I.H. Scientist Who Filed Whistle-Blower Complaint

www.nytimes.com

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Dana Miller-Cotto @damcotto.bsky.social · 13d

Were also hiring a tenure track Assistant Professor of disparities and educational policy. Due October 30th. aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF04211

Assistant Professor — Disparities and Education Policy – Berkeley School of Education

University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!

aprecruit.berkeley.edu

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Dana Miller-Cotto @damcotto.bsky.social · 13d

We’re hiring! The Berkeley School of Education is hiring a tenure track Assistant Professor of AI and STEM education. Due 10/23. aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05125

Assistant Professor (N/T) - Using AI and the Learning Sciences to Advance STEM Teaching and Learning: K12-Higher Education - Berkeley School of Education

University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!

aprecruit.berkeley.edu

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Jena Doom @truedrdoom.bsky.social · 15d

Program officers are science heroes!! 🤩

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Pam Davis-Kean, PhD @umpamdk.bsky.social · 15d

Thank you all the program officers at NIH that persisted through the 2025 fiscal year and were able to fund 99% of the total FY2024 budget. I know this has take a toll on everyone at NIH. Thank you for supporting important health and behavior science and helping to keep the U.S. a leader in science.

Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 15d

The fiscal year ends tomorrow.

Here are results from NIH Reporter downloaded an hour ago.

The total amount of funding committed for FY2025 at this point is 99.0% of that for FY2024. The same difference could be due to a variety of technical factors.

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$A graph showing the fraction of annual grant funding committed for NIH for fiscal years 2015 to 2025. The fiscal year 2025 lagged behind but then caught up over the last two months.$

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Jena Doom @truedrdoom.bsky.social · 18d

Making this announcement so close to the deadline when many second years have been planning their applications for months is unconscionable.

Science Magazine @science.org · 18d

NSF today released instructions for the next round of applicants to its Graduate Research Fellowship Program. A key group—second-year Ph.D. students—is no longer eligible, and students who are still able to apply will face an unusually narrow timeframe. https://scim.ag/3KlQkQk

‘Completely shattered.’ Changes to NSF’s graduate student fellowship spur outcry

The announcement comes months later than usual, leaving many would-be applicants stranded

www.science.org

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Laurel Joy Gabard-Durnam @laurelgd.bsky.social · 26d

If you're looking for an evidence-based vaccine schedule for your child, please consider this one since the CDC is not a reliable source in 2025 anymore:

Alyson Smith @pedsaly.bsky.social · Aug 28

American Academy of Pediatrics vaccine schedule for newborns - 18 yrs is the one to use. Just published August 19, 2025 ❤️ downloads.aap.org/AAP/PDF/AAP-...

American Academy of Pediatrics Recommended Child and Adolescent Immunization Schedule
Table 1 for Ages 18 Years or Younger, United States, 2025
Published August 19, 2025. View full document and notes here: https://downloads.aap.org/AAP/PDF/AAP-Immunization-Schedule.pdf

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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.bsky.social · 27d

You asked for it! We delivered Quack-O-Grams to our members of Congress urging them to #ImpeachRFK, and get that Quack out of office!

There's still time for you to get in on this fluffy, feathery action: Send your own duck at zurl.co/W1ZnB and keep the momentum going! 🦆

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Jena Doom @truedrdoom.bsky.social · 27d

Come be my colleague! We’re hiring a tenure-track assistant professor of developmental psychology at the University of Denver. Please share with anyone on the job market this year! jobs.du.edu/en-us/job/49...

Details - Assistant Professor, Developmental Psychology CAHSS | University of Denver

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Dr. Allison Master @allisonmaster.bsky.social · Sep 9

This is Texas higher education now, and anyone applying for faculty positions here should be aware.

Dan Hirschman @asociologist.bsky.social · Sep 9

Texas A&M’s President just removed a dean and department head from their positions after they supported a professor whose lesson on gender was challenged by a student. www.kbtx.com/2025/09/09/a...

A&M Dean removed following student complaints over curriculum

The Department of Justice has also acknowledged the situation and said it would be investigating.

www.kbtx.com

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Jena Doom @truedrdoom.bsky.social · Sep 2

I wish you the best during your treatment and recovery!

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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · Sep 2

Public health today is under attack, but nobody is rushing to save it

Why?

When public health works, NOTHING happens - bad things are prevented and nobody even knows

Because the successes are not visible, people take it for granted

Public health must communicate our successes

We must be visible

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