and/or are contrarians who have dedicated their careers not to finding ways to make the world a better place, but tearing things down instead

This but also having your hard work and research questioned by economists who think they are epidemiologists

‘Science needs defending’: record number of researchers run for office in US mid-terms Many Democrats making the switch to politics are motivated by the Trump administration’s cuts to science — whereas energy and AI are a pull for some Republicans.

“We scientists are used to sticking to our knitting. But I began realizing that science needed defending,” says @samwang.bsky.social.

@nature.com talked to researchers running for office who say the "science is above politics" era is a failed business model.

same deal in science.

Too many scientists are into self-flagellation, blaming what scientists did as opposed to attacks from the far right authoritarian party.

“Trump regime“ - @doggett.house.gov

Russell Vought‘s attacks on biomedical research are terrible. The public hates how he destroyed cancer research.

Hammer on this!

Right. Govt does this. Public funding does this, it helps build a fair system of social cooperation.

That’s why MAGA wants to destroy govt

Part of the reason we are here is the Trump administration has sought to destroy both immigration and good STEM and academic jobs, which do a lot to create innovation and future good, stable jobs.

Creating good honest work for young people means rebuilding public funding for many things

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Bhattacharya is not a friend to science. The sooner the scientific community (and members of Congress!) realize this, the better shot we have to save science.

This article positions Bhattacharya as a defender of science, pushing back against Russell Vought’s OMB.
www.politico.com/news/2026/04...

This isn’t about differing political opinions. It’s about a man who has presided over the destruction of American biomedical research. Bhattacharya deserves no homecoming @stanforduniversity.bsky.social. He should be shunned forever. Good riddance.

Living through Trump's time bomb A whole civilization may not have died, but something within us certainly did.

link previews are working again on bluesky so click this one and read it

With Trump planning to bomb Iran's bridges and power plants, it seems that infrastructure week is finally here.

Thanks to @drugmonkey.bsky.social for elaborating.

Also we want to distinguish between fine, longstanding CSR processes (reorganizing study sections as science evolves, see below)…

and this, a bad change that helps Project 2025 (believing that review doesn’t need science expertise 😡).

"they don't want people with expertise - they want SROs to be limited as to how long they interact with a particular scope of research and that community"

"the dysfunction of the place [CSR] is incredible"

Hearing from #NIH sources the peer review office (CSR) is being broken.

"They [top of CSR] want ppl with zero expertise in the review area to run review. I heard they don't want people to be "distracted by the science." (??)
It's crazy to think a person can run good review for any kind of science."

I think there is another lesson here: this regime takes some very big swings that, even as they get WILDLY slapped down, allow cover for other bad decisions that nonetheless get legitimized.

What if Dems did something similar for the good, PROGRESSIVE, things some of us want?

apoirolyb.bsky.social @apoirolyb.bsky.social Right now, the Universities are controlled by the Left, which is as bad as the Extreme Right!! 2:54 PM • Mar 26, 2026

Very likely a spam account, and the good thing is you can not only block them, but first click through to see their followers and block everyone that follows them too.

“Rightwing billionaires want to privatize NIH and use it to control universities.“

We’ve been saying this since Jan 2025

This is a war against universities and truth itself, and 🧪 and scientific leaders must wake up to that before it’s too late.

Trump and rightwing billionaires are enemies of education, science, and media because they are enemies of truth.

NIH grant terminations affected women scientists more than men, study finds A new paper shows that women, particularly those early in their careers, have been disproportionately affected by NIH grant terminations.

When I retired only around 25% of Full Professors in STEM were women. I was proud be one of them, and to support the success of fellow women in STEM through mentoring.

This was not an organic process. It took hard work and persistence.

And now The Regime is setting us back decades.

The US slashed research for cancer, Alzheimer’s, mental health — and nearly everything else Revealed in one chart.

This is a national disgrace and it should cost Bhattacharya his job at NIH.

It should result in him being ostracized from academia for the rest of his career.

www.vox.com/future-perfe...

The Great Barrington Declaration is one of the most wrongheaded, shortsighted, cruel, callous, and villainous arguments ever made.

Literally ever.

Representing the interests of big business, its authors ought to be remembered in infamy. So too should their allies.

A picture of Russell Vought wearing an adorable pink and gold birthday party hat, with balloons and a birthday cake. The caption reads: "Help Us give OMB Director & Project 2025 author Russell Vought the birthday he deserves." The bottom of the photo has a link to impeachvought.com

Help NIH staff give OMB Director & Project 2025 author Russell Vought the birthday he deserves.

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The Institute for Humane Studies, which has historically been tied to Charles Koch, has created this “liberalism” project.

Not a single person of color in its leadership.

Also noting that Lewis Powell was later appointed to the Supreme Court by Nixon. SCOTUS has been a reactionary institution for decades

#science

Trump NIH is doing bad stuff

This administration is committing Watergate level crimes multiple times per week—and those are the ones we know about. It’s crazy to think about what else will come out after.

It’s absolutely essential these criminals are held responsible for their crimes. We must end elite impunity.