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Where U.S. science has been hit hardest after Trump’s first year The Trump administration has slashed the number of grants from the National Institutes of Health, with far fewer focused on women, cancer and mental health.

Those of us doing research related to women’s health have been hit particularly hard by the govt’s sabotage of the NIH. I spoke to WaPo for this piece, as painful as it was to discuss the reality my lab is facing. www.washingtonpost.com/science/2026...

As a recipient of federal grants from #NIH (for now! 😭) that funds research in my lab, I'd like to sincerely thank American taxpayers on #TaxDay for investing in scientific research that lays the foundation for medical and technological innovation in this country and keeps us ALL safe and healthy

cannot like this emphatically enough

Pace of ecology drives the tempo of visual perception across the animal kingdom Nature Ecology & Evolution - Using phylogenetic comparative methods across 237 species from disparate phyla, the authors show that species with fast-paced ecologies have higher temporal...

Our new paper is now out showing how time perception in animals is linked to their ecology. Using data from 237 species we show temporal perception is faster in species that fly and pursuit predators www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🌐

Putting a lot of work into a grant that probably won't get funded due to lack of funding in NIH/NSF. So I'm curious scientists: what work were you excited about that didn't get funding?

Non-scientists, this is the work we are missing out on in the US when we don't fully fund NIG/NSF/USDA/etc

hamtaro?

this particular line is maybe the best statement of purpose i have seen for those of us who want a more militant opposition to this administration

I am very proud of Ilhan Omar, and when I lived in Texas we were also very proud of Joaquin Castro. It matters a lot.

yeah, I was also coming to say this. we can't be protesting 24/7 but we sure are trying to look after our communities 24/7, fraying attention and all.

also, there's the "you brought X to a protest?" shit, and again: no, you *prepare* for protests, you just have to be constantly vigilant for ICE.

Live updates: Top Border Patrol official Bovino expected to leave Minneapolis as Trump sends Homan to the state | CNN Tom Homan is headed to Minnesota after the fatal shooting of ICU nurse Alex Pretti in an encounter Saturday with federal agents deepened outrage over the Trump administration’s surge, part of its nati...

Even if Bovino gets fired, ICE has to go.
Even if Noem is out, ICE has to go.
Even when Trump leaves office, ICE has to go.

As protests grow and ICE's popularity drops, we may see concessions and leadership changes, like Bovino's departure. ICE still has to go.
www.cnn.com/us/live-news...

Following the Kent State massacre in May 1970, a Gallup poll showed that 58% of Americans thought the shootings were justified. The night *before* the killings, Ohio's GOP governor described the student protesters this way: "They're the worst type of people that we harbor in America."

biased because I live in powderhorn park, but the rent relief fund there is doing good work and distributing money effectively as far as I can tell from the people I know. if I was gonna pick one, that one feels safe to me.

The pro-ICE church is worse than you think Cities Church in St. Paul is the persecutor, not the persecuted

I looked into Cities Church, which was protested for having an ICE agent as a pastor.

You already thought they were right-wing. But they're far worse than you thought.

They're ground zero for the "empathy is a sin" idea, among others.

www.salon.com/2026/01/26/p...

DFL Party Statement on Trump and Bondi's Attempt to Extort Our State Voter Rolls "Donald Trump and Pam Bondi are demanding access to Minnesotans’ voter rolls in exchange for relieving us from the federal siege we are under," said DFL Party Chair Richard Carlbom. "Let us be direct: Fuck off."

Let it freeze! We're a lot better at coping with it than ICE is, after all.

I gotta say, I am so grateful to have my manitobahs as I gear up for tomorrow's march. I have all these other plans for layers on layers, but at least my feet will be toasty warm!

I met an absolutely lovely academic who asked whether my department back home is affected by ICE -- a question dramatizing how little info is getting out.

For the record, the small example I chose:

My dept has a carpool to pick up grad students of color who can't safely commute to campus alone.

The kind of people who are horrified at what is happening here and find it deeply un-American are, maybe counterintuitively, the kind of people who are MORE likely than average to know and remember historic abuses. It is their determination to rise above them that gives them moral strength!

People who say this are clearly speaking aspirationally about a shared American creed they hold dear. “Have you heard of the Trail of Tears?” is not a very helpful response, because they probably have and the priority right now is moral opposition to fascism and not fake-educating each other.

This is probably the most accurate description.

Someone in their mid-50s today told me that this is the first time he had thought about or been affected by politics. And that guy is actively guarding buildings and his coworkers from ICE.

They expect - they NEED - the people they threaten to fall in line, like the law firms and universities and media companies and billionaires and Congress did. If you say “No, make me,” they simply do not have a Plan B. TRUMP DOES NOT HAVE ENOUGH GUYS TO MAKE YOU.

My favorite example of pleasure activists in action right now are the folks at @smittenkittenmn.bsky.social in Minneapolis.

Two things that I have not successfully conveyed to people without deep Minnesota ties are the scale and extent of the ICE occupation (a word I don't use lightly), and likewise of the community resistance.

Being faculty in Minneapolis right now is a never-ending round of horrible what-ifs.

The semester starts on Tuesday. I’m terrified for the safety of my students, colleagues, & myself.

We’re trying to prioritize safety. But the fact is if people with guns show up on campus, what can we really do?

This is an Underground Railroad style operation. This is what I mean that we should study UR history, tactics, and strategy.

This exactly. Look, you handle fuckers like this by calling their bluff and showing up anyway. You don't do it stupidly, you arm yourself or take steps to neutralize violence if you can, but you don't let threats dictate the grounds you play on either. Fuck that.

Just so people outside of MN know - a lot of the US citizens getting “arrested” by ICE never get processed at Whipple. They are roughed up during the arrest and then often dropped off miles from where they were picked up. It means we don’t know the true scale of what ICE is doing based on ICE stats

The other thing is, in 2020, the locus of anger was internal, which is destabilizing. But this time, we ARE UNDER ATTACK. We are INVADED. All my neighbors are friends. All the feds are the enemy. No one wants to turn their rage on local streets or businesses; we are, specifically, protecting them.