Grad student with SNAP @AAASmtg shares what it was like when her grad advisor became a #FiredFed last year and she realized people in community had no idea what researchers do. She and others started op-ed training sessions (now in 45 states and Puerto Rico). #SciPol #SciComm #Grassroots
Spicing it up on #FedFriday with an old family pic with the OG #FiredFed, @jamescomey.bsky.social.
We just dropped another trailer for Forking Off, which is launching October 1st.
Due to our deferred resignations, we're not doing paid promotions and would greatly appreciate grassroots sharing.
Happy #FederalFriday! Enjoy a fresh trailer for the upcoming Forking Off podcast by two former FBI intelligence analysts who decided to get the fork out of government service.
Respect to the OG #FiredFed, @jamescomey.bsky.social. We miss you!
#ComeysHomeys #AltFed
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We talked to @johndospassosc.bsky.social, grandson of late American novelist John Dos Passos and former NOAA #SciComm contractor, about his current #FiredFed life which involves managing the Dos Passos literary estate, pursuing creative writing projects, and looking for a job. @savenoaa.bsky.social
Thanks the Fancy Comma podcast for interviewing me for her #FiredFed series. We covered so many issues: the Trump Administration's assault on federal workers, John Dos Passos, the U.S.A. trilogy, E.E. Cummings, the Lost Generation, and the Spanish Civil War. www.youtube.com/watch?v=5CCr...
@jimmykimmel.com Now that the administration has put you on admin leave, I'd like to extend you honorary #FiredFed status and invite you to join other former feds on the @forkingoff.com podcast where we'll be talking about our departures from public service. Colbert can come too, if he wants. 🫠
While #RFKJr testifies on “trust in science,” FDA, CDC & NIH comms teams are gone. #FiredFed Chanapa explains on Ep. 4 why cutting #scicomm is a loss for us all.
#PublicHealth #TrustInScience #Senatehearing
🎧 Full episode: Fired Fed: Losing a Dream Job, Losing Public Trust
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Tray of white chocolate and pistachio cookies
We sold out last night! I got kind of emotional because like…I’m just some lady who makes cookies in her tiny kitchen! I create the cookies my family & I want to eat, & I’m still surprised other people like them too!
#baking #bakery #smallbusiness #maryland #firedfed #cookies
I was so happy to be included in this story by @nbcwashington.com this week about my cookie business!
www.nbcwashington.com/video/news/l...
#baking #cooking #food #firedfed #HHS #NIH #DOGE
Music To Get Fired To, an article I published yesterday to my SubStack about being a #firedfed and the soundtrack during these last five months of employment purgatory, featuring Sepultura, @stevenwilsonhq.bsky.social and my favorite band @hammockmusic.bsky.social
Speaking as an illegally #FiredFed he needs to not ever say again any bullshit about “protecting federal employees “
"As a #firedfed, I wish a very sincere F--- You to all the worried DOGE staff, and warm Hope The Door Slams Your D--- Off On The Way Out," environmental toxicologist and former federal employee J.C. Rallo wrote on the platform.
“Hope the door slams on your dick on your way out”, quote by JC Rallo
#firedfed
Speaking as a #firedfed that is absolutely a lie. They sent that email to EVERYONE, intentionally. They didn’t care who left their jobs. It’s in the same spirit as deportions, they just wanted BIG NUMBERS.
It's the "This is fine" meme, but instead it says "I'm #OpenToWork!"
Researchers on LinkedIn right now:
(It's me, I'm the researcher)
#firedfed #opentowork #linkedin #jobsearch #thisisnotfine #academicsky
For federal workers, contractors, or grant recipients interested in contributing their personal story to the Impact Map, testimonials are being collected here: theimpactproject.org/share-your-s...
#FiredFed
When comments are made to eliminate your agency, when they put barriers around doing your job and hurt the partners you work with and love, how long do you last? I want to hold on, but my family needs security too, caught between idealism and pragmatism. #altgov #firedfed
Science friends!
I am compiling ideas of Things You (Yes You) Can Do for Science to make a little zine.
Please help brainstorm!
Here is what @jessica-arend.bsky.social and I have come up with so far (Thread):
#SciComm #Science #AcademicSky #FiredFed
Still no word from my agency today about reinstatement. As much as it sucks to be left in limbo right now, I fully support a #governmentshutdown if it means standing up to the Republicans' plan to shred the federal government. #FiredFed
More events (and an organization) that may be of interest to women in the #FiredFed crowd - Women in Bio welcomes folks in the life sciences, and they have events lined up in DC, Baltimore, Frederick community.womeninbio.org/clubs/view/c...
Illustrative feature of Kelsey Hopland, a woman with long brown hair and a lab coat on. She was working as a health science policy analyst. In a speech bubble she says “I contributed to life-saving research for Alzheimer’s, a devastating condition that has affected my own family.” She studied Microglia for her PhD, the immune defense of the central nervous system. She is an avid crafter.
Our first scientist feature is out as part of our effort to highlight the importance of the work of #firedfed scientists!
This features Kelsey Hopland, PhD, illustrated by Lia Ferguson! #sciart
Please enjoy and share. If you want to contribute, learn more:
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This must be popular - it looks like it’s waitlist signups now #FiredFed
Networking & Job Fair
for Recently Displaced Federal
Research and Associate Scientists - March 31st, Germantown, MD biotrac.com/mc_biotech-2/
More business card art while I figure out what to do next in this #firedfed life
Is there a #firedfed bluesky follow list going on anywhere?
To all my #sciart and #scicomm and #firedfed folks - I’m working with several volunteer science artists on a series of illustrated profiles of recently dismissed fed scientists and science communicators. If you want to help here are details! www.linkedin.com/posts/fromth...
I am interested, and if you are a #FiredFed, maybe you are too.
Hey pals, if you are a #firedfed, Coursera is offering some training for Federal Workers in Transition. I'm definitely going to take advantage of what I can.
www.coursera.org/enterprise/f...
