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#Pittsburgh and particularly CMU campus and Oakland area gearing up for TFG visit
A fair bit of #StandUpForScience #Indivisible organizing going on - besides student protests
#standupforscience
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"Climate scientists in the United States are to be cut off from satellite data measuring the amount of sea ice — a sensitive barometer of climate change — as the U.S. Department of Defense announces plans to cancel processing of the data for scientific research."
"The changes are the latest attacks by the U.S. government on science and the funding of scientific research in an effort to slash the budget to enable tax cuts elsewhere. Already, these attacks have seen the Goddard Institute for Space Studies and the National Science Foundation evicted from their offices, references to climate science removed from websites, funding of data for hurricane forecasts cancelled, and dozens of NASA missions under threat and their project teams asked to produce close-down plans as the space agency's budget is slashed."
https://www.standupforscience.net/
#science #Standupforscience
#climate #Trump #Project2025 #Musk #research #NSF #NOAA #NWS #NASA
STAND UP FOR SCIENCESTAND UP FOR SCIENCE
The US Environmental Protection Agency placed 139 employees on administrative leave after they signed a “Stand Up for Science” petition using their official titles and EPA positions.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/07/epa-workers-speak-up-for-public-health-then-trump-officials-sent-them-home/ #EPA #ScienceMatters #StandUpForScience #TrumpAdministration
Mother JonesEPA workers stand up for public health. Then Trump officials sent home.The document criticizes the agency for “undermining the public trust."
Scientists got bacteria to turn plastic waste into everyday painkillers (paracetamol)!! From trash to medicine - how cool is science! 
#ScienceMatters #StandUpForScience #ResearchSky #AcademicSky
Everyday painkiller made from ...
www.nature.comEveryday painkiller made from plastic — by E. coliStudy highlights potential for sustainable synthesis of paracetamol.
It feels like bad news keeps coming one after another… Kicking #NSF out of their building?
#ScienceMatters #StandUpForScience
#ResearchSky #AcademicSky
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Bluesky Social · Dan Garisto (@dangaristo.bsky.social)NEW: NSF will be kicked out of their building. Announcement will be made tomorrow by HUD Sec. and Governor of VA. HUD will take over the NSF building over the next two years.
NSF staffer: "There is no planning for NSF, no identified future location, appropriation for a new building or a move."
A diplomatically phrased but clear warning from the International Science Council.
"the International Science Council appeals to all decision makers to ensure
that the principles of science and its institutions are protected, and that
international scientific cooperation is maintained and ideally strengthened."
https://council.science/statements/international-scientific-collaboration-vital-yet-vulnerable/
International Science Council · International scientific collaboration: Vital yet vulnerable - International Science CouncilAs global challenges grow more complex, the foundations of international scientific collaboration are increasingly under threat. In this statement, the International Science Council's Governing Board underscores the urgent need to protect and strengthen global cooperation in science - essential not only for advancing knowledge and innovation, but for safeguarding the wellbeing of people and planet alike.
Today the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies celebrates its 85th birthday - founded in 1940 during, and in part because of, WW2 it reminds us that the pursuit of knowledge, science and scholarship is important and worthy of support even in the darkest of times. A message that sadly needs repetition today.
I can safely say Amanda speaks for most of us involved in research. The recent EOs are crippling U.S. research communities - we must act now!
#AmandaFinn #USPol #StandUpForScience #AcademicFreedom #ResearchSky #AcademicSky
Amanda Finn | In Defense of Ed...
Santa Clarita Valley Signal · Amanda Finn | In Defense of EducationI didn’t grow up dreaming of being a scientist. I grew up around hardworking people who believed in education as a path to a better life. Both my mother and […]
As a classicist, I think there's a lot we can learn from ancient cultures. But miasma theory has been debunked by science. So why are some politicians, like US Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr, still wedded to it?
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So many people coming forward to speak up for #Science
Scientists, grant administrators, long retired professors from Pitt Med school, undergraduates and grad students from #Pitt and #CarnegieMellon
Non scientists too
They kept coming up! So awesome. One undergrad (here for summer research) mentioned how hopeful this gathering and speakers made her.
(Won't post their pics/faces here - but it was super encouraging)
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No drizzle - nice sunshine this evening at the #MellonInstitute steps here in #Pittsburgh for the #StandUpForScience Vigil
We have a poster board with names of cancelled grants at #CarnegieMellon and #Pitt and paper for people to write down why they do, or how they've been affected by cuts to #Science or why it's important to them
Lots of sidewalk chalk messages from people too.
Continuous trickle of people coming up to speak for few minutes.
#AltText added now via @altbot
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Crowd estimate is 10K for the downtown #Pittsburgh #NoKings Protest (see 
). Nice!
There are still two others later today - near Mellon Park and one in the South Hills, Mt Lebo area.
There's also the Vigil at my work building this evening. Off to that in a bit
#StandUpForScience
Op-ed in today's #Pittsburgh Post Gazette by my colleague.
Carrie McDonough: Money for Pittsburgh steel, but not for Pittsburgh science
Employees of the NIH have signed on to the Bethesda Declaration, in protest of the authoritarian cuts to science funding. You can sign on in support of them here (including anonymously): https://www.standupforscience.net/bethesda-declaration
#StandUpForScience #uspol #science
STAND UP FOR SCIENCEBethesda Declaration — STAND UP FOR SCIENCESupport NIH Staff Now!
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Dr. Lucky Tran ( @luckytran )
posted a moving video where Jenna Norton (NIDDK Program Officer and one of the NIH signers of the Bethesda Declaration) explains more about why she signed.
Worth watching!
I made an attempt at writing up a transcript, I will try to post it as replies to this thread later.
https://med-mastodon.com/@luckytran/114654606036577698
#USPol #StandUpForScience #NIH
#Research #PublicHealth #Bethesda #Resist
Add your voice and support - #StandUpForScience support for NIH Bethesda declaration
https://actionnetwork.org/forms/add-name-bethesda-declaration/
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The Bethesda Declaration: A Call for #NIH and #HHS Leadership to Deliver on Promises of Academic Freedom and Scientific Excellence. From #StandUpForScience.
https://www.standupforscience.net/bethesda-declaration
The declaration is signed by 21 Nobel laureates, more than 300 NIH employees, and a growing number of others. I just signed and you hope you will too. Here's the signature form.
https://actionnetwork.org/forms/add-name-bethesda-declaration
STAND UP FOR SCIENCEBethesda Declaration — STAND UP FOR SCIENCESupport NIH Staff Now!
Science matters, research matters!
#UCBerkeley #ScienceMatters #StandUpForScience #ResearchSky #AcademicSky #USPol
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Bluesky Social · Stand Up for Science! (@standupforscience.bsky.social)Scientists at UC Berkeley have filed a lawsuit against the Trump admin, accusing of politically motivated cuts to funding.
“I think that if we fight back and we show that our laws still work, it means something to people,” says Sabeeha Merchant, Berkeley professor.
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@tktk.bsky.social
https://zurl.co/xnJgg
Vigil for #Science next week
#Pittsburgh #StandUpForScience