BREAKING: Scientists are staging a “science fair” in the lobby of a Congressional building to tell elected officials about the critical knowledge the US will lose because their research grants have been canceled.
"If you look at a long period of time, a lot of our increase in living standards seems to be coming from public investment in scientific research."
The devastating cuts to science funding aren't just academic, they threaten our livelihoods and wellbeing. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/30/b...
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FYI, I collected links to what the IMLS funds in most of each of the US states and they're in here so you can know on a state and sometimes even local level what is going to be severely impacted very very soon.
SCOOP: DOGE notified the Institute of Museum and Library Sciences (IMLS) today that the entire staff is being put on administrative leave effective immediately, I’ve learned from an agency source.
They’ll be cancelling huge swaths of grants/contracts and starting a Reduction in Force (RIF).
Trump and Musk are absolutely destroying Indian colleges, which are federally funded as part of the government's trust obligation to tribes. Haskell, which is here in Lawrence, is the oldest Indian college in the US. DOGE even fired the women's basketball coach, during the season!
“Together, these actions will make people in the United States and around the world less prosperous and more vulnerable.”
“We at Nature denounce this assault on science. And we encourage the global research community, wherever they can, to voice their opposition.”
Peer review and revision. The system is working!!!
California State University - the largest public system in the country w 23 campuses - announced it is now “AI powered.” All while laying off hundreds of faculty and shuttering whole depts due to yet another (Democratic Party I should add) austerity budget
It’s so long!!
Should taxpayers be funding transgender comic books through USAID? By Letters to the Editor February 5, 2025 Comments To the Editor: The most recent liberal apoplectic panic revolves around the issue of the USAID or the United States agency for international development. This agency is a liberal slush fund intended to spread liberal ideology to foreign countries. Examples are: • $1.5 million to “advance diversity equity and inclusion in Serbia’s workplaces and business communities” • $70,000 for production of a “DEI musical” in Ireland • $2.5 million for electric vehicles for Vietnam • $47,000 for a “transgender opera” in Colombia • $32,000 for a “transgender comic book” in Peru • $2 million for sex changes and “LGBT activism” in Guatemala • $6 million to fund tourism in Egypt • Hundreds of thousands of dollars for a non-profit linked to designated terrorist organizations — even AFTER an inspector general launched an investigation • Millions to EcoHealth Alliance — which was involved in research at the Wuhan lab • “Hundreds of thousands of meals that went to al Qaeda-affiliated fighters in Syria” • Funding to print “personalized” contraceptives birth control devices in developing countries • Hundreds of millions of dollars to fund “irrigation canals, farming equipment, and even fertilizer used to support the unprecedented poppy cultivation and heroin production in Afghanistan,” benefiting the Taliban. David O’Rourke Parkwood
Today in unexpected "of course #GraphicMedicine is political" web alerts.......
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A large crowd of protestors holding pro-immigration, anti-Trump signs march down the freeway in Los Angeles.
Protestors line the street holding anti-deportation signs while a classic low-rider car drives past.
Anti-Trump immigration protests in DTLA, 2-2-25.
Kentmere Pan 100 / 80mm / Mamiya 645
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If this grant "freeze" holds, it is essentially a hostile takeover by Trump of Congress's authority to allocate federal resources.
This single action makes every federal grant subject to individual approval by one of Trump's political appointees.
It's sheer chaos.
Gift link:
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NIH funding supports the vast majority of all biomedical research in the United States. Virtually every advance in American medicine and biological science comes from NIH. This is a blow against American science.
Call Congress, 202-224-3121.
