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Hey #Chicago! It's time to take a stand for #science. Rally on March 7 at noon at the Federal Plaza. Start making your signs!
Info standupforscience2025.org/chicago-il/
RSVP (optional) eventbrite.com/e/stand-up-f... #standupforscience #scienceforall
Info standupforscience2025.org/chicago-il/
RSVP (optional) eventbrite.com/e/stand-up-f... #standupforscience #scienceforall
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Anna Vlasits retweeted
Breaking news: Thousands of researchers and their supporters, including recently fired federal workers, have gathered across the U.S. in response to layoffs and funding cuts ordered by the Trump administration. scim.ag/3FlSKvz
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Snowy day in Chicago but still got out to protest against cuts to science funding! #StandUpForScience
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I am out of X but this time we need to use each available communication spot to Stand UP for Science. Despite the weather the Chicago scientific community (including prospective young PhD students) gathered today to show that science is for everyone.
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Anna Vlasits retweeted
I’m Standing Up for Science today in Chicago against the shameful, destructive, and illegal funding cuts by President Trump and Elon Musk. Researchers at National Institutes of Health find breakthrough treatments and cures. They deserve support—not attacks.
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To everyone in the U.S. standing up for science today, calling for policies that support science, not suppress it: we’re with you! Cutting science doesn’t just harm scientists – it harms society as a whole. #StandUpForScience
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I'm hosting a speaker this week - Phil Parker!!
Join us Thursday, 2/27 for a #LINSeminar featuring Dr. Phil Parker (Rutgers University)! lin.uic.edu/events/lin-sem…
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Join us Thursday, 2/27 for a #LINSeminar featuring Dr. Phil Parker (Rutgers University)! lin.uic.edu/events/lin-sem…
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The first paper out of the Snell lab is live! This review was led by my postdoc Dr. Nichelle Jackson. We dove into the cerebellar contribution to dystonia, specifically focusing on Purkinje cell and cerebellar nuclei dysfunction and calcium handling.
frontierspartnerships.org/journals/dysto…
frontierspartnerships.org/journals/dysto…
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This is illegal. The courts put a restraining older on halting NIH funding and the federal register is making an end-run around that, killing new grants or renewals.
Unchallenged, it’ll lead to layoffs of scientists & support staff. Will disrupt nondilutive biotech funding too.
Unchallenged, it’ll lead to layoffs of scientists & support staff. Will disrupt nondilutive biotech funding too.
A large portion of grants awarded by the U.S. National Institutes of Health cannot be funded for the foreseeable future because of an indefinite hold on submissions to the Federal Register, according to an email reviewed by The Transmitter.
By @avaskham
thetransmitter.org/funding/federa…
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A large portion of grants awarded by the U.S. National Institutes of Health cannot be funded for the foreseeable future because of an indefinite hold on submissions to the Federal Register, according to an email reviewed by The Transmitter.
By @avaskham
thetransmitter.org/funding/federa…
By @avaskham
thetransmitter.org/funding/federa…
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Finally, someone is reporting on how funding of new NIH grants is effectively frozen due to an administrative block 👇
Grants already submitted cannot be reviewed, and grants already reviewed with excellent scores cannot be funded. This is the opposite of "efficiency".
Grants already submitted cannot be reviewed, and grants already reviewed with excellent scores cannot be funded. This is the opposite of "efficiency".
A large portion of grants awarded by the U.S. National Institutes of Health cannot be funded for the foreseeable future because of an indefinite hold on submissions to the Federal Register, according to an email reviewed by The Transmitter.
By @avaskham
thetransmitter.org/funding/federa…
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Please keep sharing these stories. These people's voices need to be heard.
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Stand Up For Science 2025 Announces National Day of Action: March 7, 2025 👇👇👇
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Thousands of workers were fired from CDC, NIH, & other agencies, even if they had excellent performance reviews. These are people with critical jobs like monitoring disease outbreaks or developing cancer drugs. Their salaries are a miniscule % of the budget. This makes no sense.
Anyone supporting mass layoffs should read this thread from fired federal workers. These are real people.
"I make $50k a year & work to keep drinking water safe. The richest man in the world decided that was an expense too great for the American taxpayer."
reddit.com/r/fednews/comm…
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Anna Vlasits retweeted
Anyone supporting mass layoffs should read this thread from fired federal workers. These are real people.
"I make $50k a year & work to keep drinking water safe. The richest man in the world decided that was an expense too great for the American taxpayer."
reddit.com/r/fednews/comm…
"I make $50k a year & work to keep drinking water safe. The richest man in the world decided that was an expense too great for the American taxpayer."
reddit.com/r/fednews/comm…
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@philbriggsVett justify firing probationary workers like this? What that says is that policy changes are needed, training, perhaps more people to manage the issue. But that’s not what they are doing. They are looking for the word “probationary” and sending terminations. If your plan is to “welhis like there are both sides it’s already wrong.
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The NIH’s new imposed standard indirect cost rate threatens life-saving brain and behavior research that benefits millions of Americans. SfN, with other scientific organizations, urge reversal of this policy and implore Congress to protect critical research infrastructure.
Read the full statement: bit.ly/4jVJnCL
Read the full statement: bit.ly/4jVJnCL
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