Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪
Facts & strategy, in an authoritarian takeover.
Rightwing billionaires want to privatize NIH and use it to control universities.
We work to cure diseases like cancer.
Pers views. #science #medicine
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- Marc Andreesen received government funding from NSF to create Mosaic.
- (6/11) The internet exists because we invested in science. Decades before it changed the world, the NSF laid the groundwork for the internet—funding research, building networks, and connecting universities. Without public investment, there would be no world wide web. www.nsf.gov/impacts/inte...
- TOMORROW at NIH, with Senator @alsobrooks.senate.gov. 1pm. Be there if you care about US science!
- 👇 Things at #NIH are far worse than have been reported. NIH and NSF have been effectively overthrown by people that hate science. The hostile takeover is complete at the top. The question now is how scientists are going to fight back. This is one step:
- Reposted by Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪Most new cancer therapies are increasingly ones that boost adaptive immunity to the tumor. Ain’t no T cells or B cells in flies
- Hearing buzz about the efforts to get rid of animal studies shedding light on human disease. The Trump admin has elevated Nicole Kleinstreuer to the head of DPCPSI to replace Tara Schwetz. What are people hearing about Kleinstreuer? Is she a Trumper? Or merely compliant?
- Got a message: “In lieu of the now-canceled Bhattacharya town hall, current NIH workers will be meeting their fired colleagues at the visitors’ center entrance to gather and share snacks. 1pm today.”
- Reposted by Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪"Words are just noises that you [Trump nominees] make with your mouth to make other people do what you want." @dereklowe.bsky.social with an exceptionally insightful piece we all should read. It's good to see biomedical science arriving to where climate ppl like @volts.wtf have long been. 1/ 🧪
- Reposted by Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪I could not have said this more beautifully than you did, @nickhartphd.bsky.social. Fellow colleagues through @asa-scipol.bsky.social , @cwstat.bsky.social , and @enar-ibs.bsky.social, we know your work is amazing. You are enough. You are worthy. You make America great. #statssky #rstats
- profiles in courage
