Today is Sinai Postdoctoral Organizing Committee-UAW’s 7th day on the picket line, as the first postdoc researchers in the private sector to walk out on strike. As Shawn Fain said, “You produce scientific breakthroughs, so you deserve record gains. Groundbreaking research should mean groundbreaking contracts.”

Never dreamed big enough that a voice like Shawn Fain would advocate for postdocs and all higher ed workers "Groundbreaking research deserves groundbreaking contracts"

.President Donald J. Trump can’t launch airstrikes in Yemen without congressional approval. This is illegal and violates Article I of the Constitution. The people do not want more of our taxpayer dollars going to endless war and the killing of civilians. Stop the bombing and do better by us.

We hear rats are making quite the impression these days. 🐀 Fall down the rat hole, from the comforts of home, with rodent-themed artworks kept squirreled away in the Art Institute's collection.

We urgently need Biden and congress to pass an oil and natural gas export ban to bring down prices for American families

What’s missing in today’s immigration debate is this. Hardly anybody in power is pushing back on GOP fear mongering about immigrants by making the case for how they benefit our country. Instead, most Democrats are letting the GOP win the narrative. We’re all worse off for it.

Matt Hourihan Tim Clancy Divyansh Kaushik U.S. National Science Foundation Mark Muro AAU Perhaps the "CHIPs & Science Act" should be renamed the "CHIPPING Away at Science Act" for instead of seeing increases in science funding as was promised, we are actual seeing real & significant cuts. This comes at the very time when China has announced major new S&T investments.

And while I'm at it: more research funding to translation is not the way. No amount of translational initiatives will do for gene editing what staring at some weird repeats in the genome of a random bacterium did, nor for eye disease what toying around in a physics lab did

The proposed reduction in funding levels for U.S. National Science Foundation would be disastrous for #AmericanScience. Why would Congress try to cut investments in our scientific competitiveness while China continues to grow its capacity for innovation? chemistryworld.com/news/us-scienc…

If you're keeping score at home, this is an important distinction: only the CHIPS side of CHIPS & Science Act has actually been funded/appropriated. The #science research funding just falls farther and farther behind. Case in point: FY24 CJS U.S. National Science Foundation levels. Fund #AmericanScience

What you call it when Congress cuts science funding instead of topping it up

READ: Op-ed by Ranking Member Rep. Zoe Lofgren on major cuts forced by extreme MAGA Republicans in the recent minibus, which slashed budgets at premiere science & tech agencies like U.S. National Science Foundation & National Institute of Standards and Technology, offering up our tech leadership to China on a silver platter. thehill.com/opinion/congre…

This could be one of the most exciting samples to investigate here on Earth with our most powerful analytical arsenal! But then again, each sample collected so far could potentially be revelatory! We need to bring these back to Earth. #MarsSampleReturn

Great that the students from Stony Brook University & others attending the @AAAS #MakingOurCASE workshop spoke to Congress on why U.S. National Science Foundation & other govt sponsored research is important. We must #FundAmericanScience; who better to make the case than the nation's future scientists & engineers!

The Economist China’s success is built on resources: financial, infrastructure, human. This investment is expected to continue, while we flail against short-sighted cutbacks.

No one talks about how many thousands of dollars Joe Biden has saved me on student loan repayments. My july payment will be less than half of what my june payment was

And for the record, current appropriations feature a greater than $9 billion shortfall below the CHIPS targets for the DOE Office of Science, NSF and NIST in FY 2025. That's massive.

TOMORROW: an unprecedented coalition of 10 national labor unions representing millions of higher ed workers will announce a collective vision of how a Kamala Harris administration can ensure our nation’s democratic future through a renewed federal investment in higher education.