Hearing from a source:
"A friend at NCI lost 3 outstanding staff (their words) and tweeted about it. She was suspended for 2 days. No idea how her tweet was flagged."
This is for all the people asking us why it's hard to tell what's happening at NIH. Retaliation is real.
Itβs truly insane that the economy is in a free fall and the president, who doesnβt drive, is spending his time giving a PR boost to the car brand of his billionaire buddy.
Downloaded my old Twitter archive, and I am struck by what a simple and pleasant place it was in 2008. Sad to see what happened.
Cutting the legs out from a generation of young scientists just can't end well.
Disgraceful.
Sign that reads: "If it doesn't challenge you it doesn't change you"
Old Twitter Post Reshare (12:46 PM Β· Sep 1, 2023)
Is the plan to keep our heads down and hope this passes?
For people always talking about free speech, using the power of the Federal budget to suppress language they don't like seems about par for the course.
Still not seeing the corruption. Just a lot of unemployed Park Rangers, Aid Workers, and Medical Researchers.
Hopefully it's a bit more friendly of a place.
Finally inspired (or at least properly motivated) to pull the plug on Twitter and set up shop here.