AltNIH4Science - Science Crisis News
Accounts to follow to understand what's happening now in US science and politics. NIH. Trump. Musk. NSF. Vought. Remote work. RIF. Grant NoAs. FACA Committees. Senate UC. MAGA, and Project 2025. A lot is happening. Follow this group and send your colleagues here to bluesky to do the same.
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@walkerbragman.bsky.social
He/Him. Dad. Journalist: public health, disinformation, & dark money. JD, ADHD, occasional cartoonist. Co-founder of Accountability Journalism Institute. Accountabilityjournalism.org Signal: walkerbragman.44 Reporting: https://www.importantcontext.news
@normornstein.bsky.social
Political scientist, co-host of Words Matter podcast, contributor to The Contrarian
@perrybaconjr.bsky.social
Government and policy writer. Views are my own. perry.bacon@washpost.com. https://www.washingtonpost.com/newsletters/follow-perry-bacon-jr/
@willbunch.bsky.social
National opinion columnist, Philadelphia Inquirer; author of After the Ivory Tower Falls; free weekly newsletter at inquirer.com/bunch
@laurahelmuth.bsky.social
Freelance writer, editor & consultant. Formerly at Scientific American, Washington Post, National Geographic, Slate, Smithsonian & Science. Past president of National Association of Science Writers. Birder.
@repjasmine.bsky.social
Former public defender, now U.S. Congresswoman, proudly serving the good people of Texas’ 30th Congressional District. ✊🏾
@espiers.bsky.social
NYT opinion writer, Slate Money co-host, Dem messaging consultant, NYU prof, former EIC The New York Observer, Dealbreaker founder and Gawker founding editor. Brooklyn via Bama. Rednexican. Striver with no chill. https://linktr.ee/elizabethspiers
@mashagessen.bsky.social
Columnist at The New York Times. Distinguished Professor at Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism, City University of NY. Author at Riverhead Books
@kimlanelaw.bsky.social
Tracking autocratic legalism around the world from Princeton University.
@dangaristo.bsky.social
science journalist | good physics, bad physics, and sometimes ugly physics Signal: dgaristo.72 Email: digaristo@gmail.com
@maxkozlov.bsky.social
science reporter covering biomedical research at Nature | proudly Ukrainian 🇺🇦 maxkozlov.com signal: mkozlov.01
@alexwitze.bsky.social
Science journalist and correspondent for Nature (she/her). Reach me at alexwitze.01 (Signal) or witzescience (@gmail.com) or awitze (@protonmail.com).
@noupside.bsky.social
✍🏼Studies influence, propaganda, adversarial abuse @Georgetown. Writes @Lawfare, The Atlantic. 📖 Invisible Rulers: The People Who Turn Lies Into Reality — on influencers, online crowds, &bespoke realities (invisiblerulers.com) 🦹🏻♀️ Twitter Files supervillain
@jfallows.bsky.social
Reporter and writer: https://fallows.substack.com/ and https://www.ourtownsfoundation.org/ One-time speechwriter, long-time pilot, longer-time husband of linguist/writer Deborah Fallows. Note same wristwatch in the two photos, more than 50 years apart.
@jamellebouie.net
The real jbouie. Columnist for the New York Times Opinion section. Co-host of the Unclear and Present Danger podcast. b-boy-bouiebaisse on TikTok. jbouienyt on Twitch. National program director of the CHUM Group. Send me your mutual aid requests.
@brianbeutler.bsky.social
Off Message, Politix.fm; Formerly: Crooked Media, TNR, TPM; www.offmessage.net/subscribe
@holdenthorp.bsky.social
Editor-in-Chief of Science and Professor of Chemistry and Medicine at George Washington University. Opinions not those of AAAS. https://www.zotero.org/holdenthorp #ActuallyAutistic
@jeremymberg.bsky.social
Husband, Father and grandfather, Datahound, Dog lover, Fan of Celtic music, Former NIGMS director, Former EiC of Science magazine, Pittsburgh, PA
@mjsdc.bsky.social
Senior writer at Slate covering courts and the law. Dad to one toddler and several other animals.
@aoc.bsky.social
Waitress turned Congresswoman for the Bronx and Queens. Grassroots elected, small-dollar supported. A better world is possible. ocasiocortez.com
@pbump.com
Washington Post: Columnist Newsletter: "How To Read This Chart" Book: "The Aftermath" Email: philip.bump@washpost.com Signal: pbump.11
@popstarlab.bsky.social
Biophysical Society, Past President | Scientist and Professor | Mentor and Learner | ExtraVagant Granny
@ivancalcantara.bsky.social
PhD Candidate in Neuroscience at NIH & Brown University • circuits, physiology, social behavior • he/him 🏳️🌈🇵🇭
@meredithwadman.bsky.social
Biomedical policy and climate-and-health reporter at Science. Author of The Vaccine Race. Book lover. History lover. Dog lover. Dual U.S.-Canadian citizen, proud Vancouver native. Signal me at: meredithwadman.13
@jamesheathers.bsky.social
please science correctly if you do i will buy you a small cake and we can be friends the book: forensicmetascience.com
@joho.bsky.social
I love vaccines, animals, and my wife, who set up this profile. https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/we-want-them-infected/
@dereklowe.bsky.social
Medicinal chemist / chemical biologist, author of “In the Pipeline” at http://science.org/blogs/pipeline. derekb.lowe@gmail.com and on Signal at Dblowe.18 All opinions are mine; I don’t speak for my employer in any way.
@lisamjarvis.bsky.social
Chicago-based health & science columnist for Bloomberg Opinion @opinion.bsky.social. Writing about public health, medicine, emerging technologies (Crispr!), biotech & pharma. opinions=mine, She/her. Signal: lisajarvis.77
@leahgreenberg.bsky.social
Co-founder and Co-Executive Director of Indivisible. I'm here to win AND make friends.
@paulwaldman.bsky.social
Columnist for MSNBC and The Daily Beast. Formerly: Washington Post, The Week, American Prospect. Host of The Cross Section podcast and author of The Cross Section newsletter: paulwaldman.substack.com
@sbagen.bsky.social
Personal account. Personal views. Frank G. Millard Professor of Law, University of Michigan Law School & Arlene Susan Kohn Professor of Social Policy, University of Michigan Ford School of Public Policy. Former General Counsel, HHS and OMB.
@epopppp.bsky.social
Professor @ a large Midwestern univ. Wrote a book about economists + policy, one about academic science + policy. Temporarily on the "government is breaking" beat, but I'd rather be posting about public utility debates from 1906. I support 🏳️⚧️ rights.
@angierasmussen.bsky.social
Virologist. PI at VIDO, University of Saskatchewan. Co-EiC of Vaccine. 🇺🇸 in 🇨🇦. Emerging viruses, pathogenesis, zoonosis, host responses, dogs, football, off-color language. Opinions my own.
@raskin.house.gov
Proudly serving Maryland's beautiful Eighth Congressional District and leading House Judiciary Committee Democrats in Congress.
@ddayen.bsky.social
Executive editor, The American Prospect. Author, Chain of Title and Monopolized. Tips at ddayen-at-prospect-dot-org or Signal at ddayen.90
@michaelemann.bsky.social
Scientist/Author/Speaker; Presidential Distinguished Prof/Director Center for Science, Sustainability & the Media/Vice Provost for Climate, U. Penn; National Academy of Sciences; Royal Society; Tyler Prize
@science.org
The world's leading outlet for cutting-edge research in all areas of science. https://www.science.org
@vermontgmg.bsky.social
Journalist & Historian. Director, @aspencyber. Fmr ed, @PoliticoMag & @washingtonian. Author of "Watergate: A New History" and "The Only Plane in the Sky" and other books. garrett.graff AT gmail OR ProtonMail. Doomsdayscenario.co
@prospect.org
Ideas, Politics & Power: The American Prospect is an independent political magazine. We cover Washington and beyond like no one else does. Subscribe: https://prospect.org/membership
@davelevitan.bsky.social
Deputy editor, Splinter, covering various horrors. Previous: Grid, bylines all over before that. Author: NOT A SCIENTIST: How politicians mistake, misrepresent, and utterly mangle science (2017, WW Norton). Davelevitan{at}gmail.com Signal: @davelevitan.26
@joshtpm.bsky.social
Founder & reigning monarch at TPM. Lapsed historian. Hand tool woodworker. Jew.
@carlbergstrom.com
UW biology prof. I study how information flows in biology, science, and society. Book: *Calling Bullshit*, http://tinyurl.com/fdcuvd7b LLM course: https://thebullshitmachines.com Corvids: https://tinyurl.com/mr2n5ymk I don't like fascists. he/him
@donmoyn.bsky.social
Policy Professor, Ford School, University of Michigan. Irish immigrant. Administrative burdens guy. Free newsletter, Can We Still Govern?: https://donmoynihan.substack.com
@ryanlcooper.com
Managing editor at The American Prospect, cohost and producer of the @leftanchor.bsky.social podcast https://www.patreon.com/leftanchor Newsletter: https://www.ryanlcooper.com/
@dahlialithwick.bsky.social
Lois Lane for the courts and broken tigger Slate, Amicus, MSNBC, NYT bestseller Lady Justice
@altnih4science.bsky.social
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 Signal: altnih4science.79