Cathie Klapperich
@cathieklapperich.com
Scientist. Women’s health. Writing a book to share the crazy realities of this work with you all. Figuring out how to protect reproductive rights without getting hacked. If you make me laugh out loud, I’ll follow you. https://www.cathieklapperich.com/
I'm glad the Boston alligator found warmer waters.
November 14, 2025 at 11:56 PM
I'm glad the Boston alligator found warmer waters.
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If you have tenure at Texas A&M and aren't maliciously emailing the president a dozen times every day to ask if you can say this or you can say that, then what's the point in having tenure?
COLLEGE STATION, Texas (AP) — Texas A&M adopts policy requiring professors to get OK from school president to discuss certain race and gender issues.
November 13, 2025 at 11:18 PM
If you have tenure at Texas A&M and aren't maliciously emailing the president a dozen times every day to ask if you can say this or you can say that, then what's the point in having tenure?
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A bad thing is unfolding at NIH this week: It looks like the Trump administration is trying to replace key civil servant scientific leaders, the Institute Directors, with political hires. These directors control the NIH budget, tens of billions.
A bit of a video explainer here: 1/ 🧪
A bit of a video explainer here: 1/ 🧪
November 13, 2025 at 10:31 PM
A bad thing is unfolding at NIH this week: It looks like the Trump administration is trying to replace key civil servant scientific leaders, the Institute Directors, with political hires. These directors control the NIH budget, tens of billions.
A bit of a video explainer here: 1/ 🧪
A bit of a video explainer here: 1/ 🧪
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hasn't been enough reporting on his creepy science funding, tbh.
The Epstein stuff is always so amazing to me because it's like "yes he was a sex criminal but if you can get past that, he was also an avowed eugenicist"
November 12, 2025 at 8:25 PM
hasn't been enough reporting on his creepy science funding, tbh.
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/u...
Epstein Alleged in Emails That Trump Knew of His Conduct
www.nytimes.com
November 12, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/u...
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I don’t know who to backchannel…but before you, uh, go public with how hard it was to be, uh, in the Obama White House because so many demands…maybe, uh, read the room. People are trying to hold a whole ass republic together at the moment. Kvetch after.
November 12, 2025 at 1:05 PM
I don’t know who to backchannel…but before you, uh, go public with how hard it was to be, uh, in the Obama White House because so many demands…maybe, uh, read the room. People are trying to hold a whole ass republic together at the moment. Kvetch after.
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Wife and I are self employed over 60 with one son still on our insurance. Our monthly will go from around $800 to over $2500 for a bronze plan.
November 11, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Wife and I are self employed over 60 with one son still on our insurance. Our monthly will go from around $800 to over $2500 for a bronze plan.
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Doing a classroom observation of a colleague today. I tried explaining the academic promotion process to a friend and he thought I was joking.
#academicsky
#academicsky
November 11, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Doing a classroom observation of a colleague today. I tried explaining the academic promotion process to a friend and he thought I was joking.
#academicsky
#academicsky
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Well that got intense - you can see CBP threatening to mace someone and also threatening to teargas them on 22nd and Sawyer.
CPD had about 40 bodies on the north end of the street guarding the feds.
CPD had about 40 bodies on the north end of the street guarding the feds.
November 8, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Well that got intense - you can see CBP threatening to mace someone and also threatening to teargas them on 22nd and Sawyer.
CPD had about 40 bodies on the north end of the street guarding the feds.
CPD had about 40 bodies on the north end of the street guarding the feds.
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It’s literally so easy to boycott Starbucks
November 7, 2025 at 4:58 PM
It’s literally so easy to boycott Starbucks
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Authoritarian tactic #1: Control information and suppress dissent. An authoritarian regime works to control the public narrative—and to suppress facts, evidence, and information that threaten its power or agenda.
Attacks on Science
Disappearing data. Silenced scientists. We've tracked threats to the federal scientific enterprise for decades.
www.ucs.org
October 30, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Authoritarian tactic #1: Control information and suppress dissent. An authoritarian regime works to control the public narrative—and to suppress facts, evidence, and information that threaten its power or agenda.
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As expected, unfortunately.
If ever you needed a reason for never using GISAID ever again (as a data producer or data user - we're both), look no further.
Time to move on to more trusted and transparent solutions.
If ever you needed a reason for never using GISAID ever again (as a data producer or data user - we're both), look no further.
Time to move on to more trusted and transparent solutions.
October 31, 2025 at 1:41 AM
As expected, unfortunately.
If ever you needed a reason for never using GISAID ever again (as a data producer or data user - we're both), look no further.
Time to move on to more trusted and transparent solutions.
If ever you needed a reason for never using GISAID ever again (as a data producer or data user - we're both), look no further.
Time to move on to more trusted and transparent solutions.
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Hundreds of residents of Oxford, Mississippi, turned out at a No Kings protest against the Trump administration on Saturday, Oct. 18, 2025. Here are some photos of those who showed up and the protest signs they carried.
Photos: No Kings Protest in Oxford, Mississippi
Hundreds of residents of Oxford, Mississippi, turned out at a No Kings protest against the Trump administration on Saturday, Oct. 18, 2025.
buff.ly
October 21, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Hundreds of residents of Oxford, Mississippi, turned out at a No Kings protest against the Trump administration on Saturday, Oct. 18, 2025. Here are some photos of those who showed up and the protest signs they carried.
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We are taking legal action to ensure Adelita Grijalva is sworn in. I will not allow Arizonans to be silenced or treated as second-class citizens in their own democracy.
Press Release: www.azag.gov/press-releas...
Press Release: www.azag.gov/press-releas...
October 21, 2025 at 11:08 PM
We are taking legal action to ensure Adelita Grijalva is sworn in. I will not allow Arizonans to be silenced or treated as second-class citizens in their own democracy.
Press Release: www.azag.gov/press-releas...
Press Release: www.azag.gov/press-releas...
Still on Facebook? If so, why?
At the request of the U.S. Department of Justice, a Facebook group used by nearly 80,000 people to report sightings of federal immigration agents in the Chicago area has been taken down by the social media giant Meta, Facebook’s parent company.
Facebook suspends popular Chicago ICE-sightings group at Trump administration’s request
The group, "ICE Sighting-Chicagoland," has been increasingly used in the last five weeks of President Donald Trump’s intense deportation campaign to warn neighbors that federal agents are nearby.
trib.al
October 15, 2025 at 1:13 AM
Still on Facebook? If so, why?
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Very bad: OSU unilaterally cancelled the registration of grad students attending the joint conference of the National Society of Black Physicists and the National Society of Hispanic Physicists. And OSU won't fund recruiting at the Society for Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in Science.
Ohio State changes policy on group conferences after Trump administration threats
A federal investigation into potentially discriminatory practices at Ohio State prompted the university to change its policies regarding conferences.
www.dispatch.com
October 14, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Very bad: OSU unilaterally cancelled the registration of grad students attending the joint conference of the National Society of Black Physicists and the National Society of Hispanic Physicists. And OSU won't fund recruiting at the Society for Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in Science.
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The executive is usurping a core Article I function, this should be treated with the same amount of alarm as if he declared he's disbanding Congress, because that's functionally what he's doing/done
October 14, 2025 at 3:11 AM
The executive is usurping a core Article I function, this should be treated with the same amount of alarm as if he declared he's disbanding Congress, because that's functionally what he's doing/done
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If you live in Everett, Mass. and have any information about the 13-year-old boy abducted by ICE, please message me on Signal at marisakabas.04
October 13, 2025 at 8:15 PM
If you live in Everett, Mass. and have any information about the 13-year-old boy abducted by ICE, please message me on Signal at marisakabas.04
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Tomorrow about a third of Perseverance rover staff will be laid off, despite the mission being the penultimate step in a decades long effort to bring samples back from mars.
Reckless, needless budget cuts intended to hinder the pursuit of knowledge.
Reckless, needless budget cuts intended to hinder the pursuit of knowledge.
October 13, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Tomorrow about a third of Perseverance rover staff will be laid off, despite the mission being the penultimate step in a decades long effort to bring samples back from mars.
Reckless, needless budget cuts intended to hinder the pursuit of knowledge.
Reckless, needless budget cuts intended to hinder the pursuit of knowledge.
More inflatable costumes, please.
One great aspect of iconic inflatable costumes (aside from how they instantly undermine propaganda about war zones) is that it's useless to arrest the person wearing one. Cuffing a frog would make law enforcement look pathetic. And carting one off just guarantees that more will show up the next day.
October 12, 2025 at 9:27 PM
More inflatable costumes, please.
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I cannot tell you what it means to get this shout out from someone I have looked up to for my entire career. Thanks, Steve. 🙏
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October 3, 2025 at 12:17 PM
I cannot tell you what it means to get this shout out from someone I have looked up to for my entire career. Thanks, Steve. 🙏
When the camera turns around after she flips him off and the whole class is behind her. Goals.
Wow, the University of Washington's Psych 201 class does *not* play
go fuckin Huskies
Nazi UW students fuck off
go fuckin Huskies
Nazi UW students fuck off
October 2, 2025 at 11:48 AM
When the camera turns around after she flips him off and the whole class is behind her. Goals.
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This is a ratfuck to keep the case alive in a very friendly venue, and potentially end telemedicine prescriptions of abortion pills nationwide. *1 in 4* abortions reported in the US last year were done with mifepristone via telehealth
NEW: Judge Matt Kacsmaryk transferred ongoing lawsuit against the FDA over abortion drug mifepristone to the Eastern District of Missouri. (Trump DOJ said AGs of Missouri, Kansas, Idaho couldn't sue in TX.) Denies motions to intervene from AGs of TX, FL, LA
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
October 1, 2025 at 1:35 AM
This is a ratfuck to keep the case alive in a very friendly venue, and potentially end telemedicine prescriptions of abortion pills nationwide. *1 in 4* abortions reported in the US last year were done with mifepristone via telehealth
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“To us, masks are associated with cowardly desperados and the despised Ku Klux Klan. In all our history we have never tolerated an armed masked secret police.”
- Judge William Young, September 30, 2025
- Judge William Young, September 30, 2025
September 30, 2025 at 9:41 PM
“To us, masks are associated with cowardly desperados and the despised Ku Klux Klan. In all our history we have never tolerated an armed masked secret police.”
- Judge William Young, September 30, 2025
- Judge William Young, September 30, 2025