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Assistant Professor @ UIC, @ijr-uic.bsky.social | Director of @the-matters-lab.bsky.social | Pediatric Digital Mental Health Researcher | Mom | Order Muppet | Will happily soapbox about equity any day
TAKE BACK our SCIENCE RALLY TODAY. DON'T TAKE THIS SITTING DOWN. STAND UP FOR SCIENCE standupforscience.net/march7
TODAY.
Take Back our Science Rally.
Don't take this administration's assault on science sitting down.
Get to a rally: fight2win.standupforscience....
#StandUpForScience
#March7
#Rally
#science
#savescience
Thank you, @aniloza.bsky.social for covering @standupforscience.bsky.social since it's inception!
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So I guess it was either World War III or drag queens reading books to our children.
Stand Up for Science National Day of Action tomorrow March 7th around the nation. Standupforscience.net/march7
Public pressure and threat of impeachment helped get Noem out. This is why we are pushing for impeachment of RFK, because that kind of pressure works.
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#standupforscience
#savelives
#removerfkjr
#GoTeam! 🙏
@standupforscience.bsky.social pulls every lever www.statnews.com/2026/03/06/s... @statnews.com
"...we think people care about science. We think people care about biomedical innovation."
"We think that people care about not getting polio. Like, it’s really simple. That’s our strategy."
US health officials are trying to delay a regional World Health Organization meeting that would confirm the loss of its measles elimination status until after the midterm elections in November.
This is a reckless, accountability-dodging move that puts politics over public health.
1908: the Lancet, one of the most respected scientific journals, calls for 18 age limit on reading in bed amidst a moral panic surrounding children becoming "addicted" to novels, which were "designed to keep kids hooked" and destroy their attention/mental health
In a scathing review, the top US medical journal's editorial board warned that the "destruction that Kennedy has wrought in 1 in office might take generations to repair." n.pr/3N9Foa8
Federal funding for US biomedical research is moribund.
Since October 1 2025, NIH is -80% in new grants and -70% in values (total dollars).
Labs are closing down and researchers are leaving science.
To what end?
Sweet home, Chicago 💚
For the first time in league history, the WNBA generated enough revenue in 2025 to trigger revenue sharing with players. Players will receive $8 million.
The union will also pay out $9.25 million from revenue generated from its group licensing program.
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rock with lichen
listen, girls need pockets because we need a place to put cool rocks and shit
I’m happy to announce the UCSF Gender Psychiatry Program is expanding!
We are looking to hire a new faculty pediatric psychologist to join our team. Please share with your networks!
aprecruit.ucsf.edu/JPF05944
thinking of all the clinical and counseling psych students on match day 🫶🏼
14 yrs ago i matched to the best place for me, even though i wanted to stay close to home. my spouse didn’t match on his first try and the year after made him way stronger. regardless of what your outcome was, you got this 💜
In his confirmation hearings, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told U.S. senators that he would not cut funding for vaccine research or change the nation's official vaccine recommendations. He did both. n.pr/46QDn9p
✨Yesterday our “User-Centered Design of Digital Health Tools” class at @yalesph.bsky.social had the honor of Dr. Ihudiya Finda Williams being our first guest speaker this semester. Dr. Williams spoke about accessibility considerations for designing digital health tools, and how access isn’t agency.
This is giving me señor Rogers vibes and I am very here for it
You ever sit back and just think about what an enormous impact puppets have had on your life? It’s pretty wild if you really give it some thought.
Me when I saw Pedro Pascal during the halftime show
Bad Bunny’s performance began in the plantation, featured broken electric poles, and ended by centering a hemispheric understanding of “América”—among many other things—and some Anglo journalists are like “his performance wasn’t political.”
This is why we need to be telling our stories.
SCIENCE IS UNDER CENSORSHIP. “WOMEN” “VACCINE” “EQUITY” “ADDICTION” FROM PEN AMERICA’S LIST OF WORDS BANNED FROM FEDERAL GOVERNMENT WORK.
Science cannot thrive when censorship shuts down research. Shutting down research doesn't make people healthy. Help us impeach & #RemoveRFKJr by visiting standupforscience.net/impeach-rfkjr .
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When you’re out shopping for that special someone this Valentine’s Day, remember flowers wilt and chocolates get stale but rolling library ladders are forever
Trust me, the woman of academia are not at all surprised by the number of academic men orbiting Epstein.
Virginia State Senator Louise Lucas is just a delight on every level
Top of the photo in white text reads: "BREAKING OVER 680 NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES MEMBERS, INCLUDING 10 NOBEL PRIZE LAUREATES, ENDORSE IMPEACHING RFK JR." Below that in black text is a statement reading: "We, the undersigned Members of the National Academy of Medicine, the National Academy of Sciences, and the National Academy of Engineering, writing in our private capacities, endorse the Articles of Impeachment introduced in the House of Representatives on Dec 10, 2025 by Representative Haley Stevens." Below that is the red "STAND UP FOR SCIENCE " logo. Below that is a link in white text reading: "standupforscience.net/impeach-rfkjr".
BREAKING: Over 680 members of the National Academy of Sciences, Medicine, and Engineering have endorsed articles of impeachment against RFK Jr.
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Our founders, though deeply flawed, understood that democracy requires an informed citizenry and a government accountable to it people. That’s why the press is the only profession protected by the Constitution. It’s also why autocrats and oligarchs seek to control and destroy it.
Oh look, Podcast Jay lied to Senate.
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CHICAGOANS!!!!
Voting is open for the annual snowplow naming contest. And “Abolish Ice” is one of the options.
You know what to do (vote): chicagoshovels.org
The arrests of Don Lemon, Georgia Fort, and Jamael Lundy are unacceptable and a clear violation of the Constitution.
This is a dangerous abuse of power that threatens the rights of every single American.
They must be released immediately.