When I was little, the U.S. military came to our home at gunpoint and took me and my family away. We were imprisoned for years in barbed wire camps simply because we were Japanese American. I have spent my life telling that story, hoping it would never be repeated.
we are living in “The Hunger Games”
Somewhat oddly, the Trump regime's initial moves to cut science funding went very broad. This is catalyzing solidarity & advocacy around the value of science (see comms featuring cancer cures & tech innovation). But their next move may be to try to drive a wedge b/w "good science" & "bad science".
I have tariffed
the penguins
that are on
Heard Island
and which
you were probably
assuming
did not export goods
forgive me
they were taking advantage of us
so cunning
and so cold
NCCDPHP Division of Reproductive Health Division of Population Health BCSB EPI branch Prevention Research Translation Branch Office of Smoking and Health NCHHSTP Division of TB elimination -Communication, Education, and Behavioral Studies Branch PBEMB GLOBAL Division of HIV and TB Communications Branch SPIN SPICE PBEMB MCHB HIDMSB EHSRB Scientific Integrity Branch NCEH Division of Environmental Science/Practice Asthma and Air Quality branch NCIRD ISD/Partnerships NIOSH Miner safety Health effects lab division Respiratory health division NCBDDD Office of the Director Disability Health NCIPC Division of Violence Prevention Division of Injury Prevention OD Office of Health Equity OCOO Office of Human Resources
New — Here is a running list of Dept. of Health and Human Services (HHS) offices that have either been fully eliminated or gutted into non-functionality as a result of today's mass firings (provided to me directly by a CDC staffer):
“Is any criticism of the government a deportable offense” should really not be a hard question to answer
This is why I post about the silence towards #trans people right now, and *especially* #TransInSTEM
They are immediately terminating grants researching transgender issues, and without a chance of reapplying:
"...no modification of the project could align the project with agency priorities."
#STEM
Depressing for a lot of reasons, but I'm finding some amusement in trying to backwards-engineer their search terms based on what's included that is hilariously not "Woke DEI." So far:
- chemistry grants presumably tagged because of cis/trans isomers
- microbiome grants that include the word colonize
Hearing that the DOGE chaos hurricane is hitting HUD soon, and the plan is to devastate federal housing funding. Let's be clear: this would cause a cascade of catastrophic impacts nationwide, shutting down housing and dumping families into the street.
Absolutely. Dozens of them. See also www.chronicle.com/article/were...
The Trump admin has cancelled the panels that approve NIH grants, & is also banning scientists from communicating with the public, attending conferences, and hiring.
NIH is the largest funder of biomedical research in the world. This will severely halt the development of many lifesaving treatments.
Would love to be added! I'm a postdoc at Duke working on kilohertz-frequency electrical stimulation for nerve block + pain relief.
Hi! I'd love to be in the Science feed; I do work in neuroscience. See google scholar page here: scholar.google.com/citations?us...