MeoriseQindove

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So excited to learn that this passed in the California Assembly yesterday! Great work by @sagaftra and @bauerkahan!! 🙌
https://legiscan.com/CA/text/AB412/id/3100490

Next stop: California Senate next month -- let's do this!

Mastodon has taken the strategic decision not to accept venture capital investments for growth, but rather restructure to a European non-profit organisation. 👏

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/05/evolving-the-team/

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My sister is having a hard time sleeping at night.

So if you live in a red or swing state, please write or call your congresspeople to advocate for reinstatement of staff and funds to the NIH and CSC.

My sister and I appreciate for your advocacy – for science!

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...the chemical waste from their lab in a safe manner, instead of flushing it into the drain. They have buildings that are expensive to power due to the presence of fume hoods, lots of machinery and freezers and equipment.

They are all working long hours for a cause that they believe in.

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...it is unclear if it could be funded, since advisory councils are not currently meeting. 

In addition to freezing meetings of the advisory councils, the government is also threatening to reduce their indirect cost rate, capping it at 15%. My sister also pays people to remove…

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...complete another 2 years of postdoctoral training and then provide 3 years of funding to start a new lab, to effectively launch her career.

Her grant has not yet been reviewed (it should have been reviewed in February) and even when it is reviewed,...

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...from around the world.

Her research on cerebral palsy is funded by the NIH, specifically the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke. She has 3 currently funded research grants. She employs a postdoc researcher who has applied for a grant that would allow her to…

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Want to advocate for science? I have a personal story about my sister and a specific call to action.

My sister runs a research lab at a university on the East Coast studying cerebral palsy. She employs a staff of around a dozen people and intentionally recruits and hires a very diverse staff…

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Mail room assistant taking a break. #caturday #catsofmastodon
I went to Denmark this week and showed folks how Musk was using Snapchat microtargeted ads on Gaza to divide and deter in battleground states via 404 coverage and they were horrified while I also reassured them that the GDPR is a shield from this kind of toxic data abuse. It’s like building climate crisis resilience infrastructure.