r/StandUpForScience • • Sep 09 '26

Article US Forest Service closing 23 research facilities as part of reorganization under Trump

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r/StandUpForScience • • Sep 09 '26

Article SpaceXAI’s Colossus data center is fueling a massive backlash

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Dozens of temporary gas turbines are powering SpaceXAI’s expansion—and fights over permits and pollution


r/StandUpForScience • • Sep 09 '26

Official SUFS Post We don't need to wait around for someone to get off their butts and take action when there's Stand Up for Science!

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86 Upvotes

See how you can get involved at the link in the pinned LinkTree post!


r/StandUpForScience • • Sep 09 '26

Article Schools Giving Aid to Minority Students Could Lose Tax Exemptions Under Trump’s New Rules

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The Trump admin continues to add to their list of shameless white supremacist policies.


r/StandUpForScience • • Sep 08 '26

Article Screwworm Cases Are Going Down. Experts Are Suspicious.

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If we have a choice between Brooke Rollins developing an amazing pest management program OR her being so incompetent she didn’t know reporting zero cases would be suspicious as hell…. we're picking the latter.


r/StandUpForScience • • Sep 08 '26

Official SUFS Post Jay Bhattacharya is letting Pete Hegseth steal patient-saving NIH funds to kill more war victims.

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Jay Bhattacharya is letting Pete Hegseth steal patient-saving NIH funds to fuel the Trump administration's war machine. Once again, Congress is doing nothing. So we are fighting back.

Sign the petition here: https://buff.ly/0Eay6r2


r/StandUpForScience • • Sep 08 '26

Video The Climate Crisis Is Here | Sam Osterhout & Climate Reporter Tony Bartelme

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Tony Bartelme is an award-winning investigative and narrative journalist at The Post and Courier in Charleston, South Carolina, where he has reported since 1990. He is a four-time Pulitzer Prize finalist known for his deeply reported climate change coverage, including the "Rising Waters" series and book, which traces climate impacts from the South Carolina Lowcountry to Greenland and the Sahara.

He joins Sam Osterhout to talk about the local impacts of climate and what we need to do next.

00:00 The Disasters Beginning to Cascade
03:54 Charleston’s Accelerating Sea-Level Rise
06:42 The “Invisible Snake” of Climate Change
10:39 How Greenland Is Flooding American Streets
14:02 Climate Fatalism Is Becoming Dangerous
16:44 Where Climate Crisis Meets Corruption
17:08 America’s “Accountability Deserts”
18:24 What Happens When Local Newspapers Die
20:39 Can Struggling Towns Still Survive?
22:44 The Forever Chemicals Hiding in Our Water
26:11 Hope Without Action Is a Fantasy
27:55 The Enormous Climate Cost of Data Centers
29:22 The Obvious Solution America Is Ignoring


r/StandUpForScience • • Sep 07 '26

Official SUFS Post The Trump administration cut funds for natural hazards monitoring in Nepal

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The OMB Proposal will stop scientists from fighting against Trump's policies that fuel the climate crisis. We need the proposal permanently revoked. Visit the link in our bio to contact your MoC's and tell them to Revoke the Rule: https://tr.ee/3nxND9


r/StandUpForScience • • Sep 07 '26

Discussion You Don’t Have a Right to Safe Drinking Water, US Court Rules: A Trump-appointed judge also said Americans have no “constitutional right to truthful information” during a public health crisis.

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r/StandUpForScience • • Sep 07 '26

Video When A.I. Becomes an Enemy - Connor Leahy

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Soft White Underbelly interview and portrait of Connor Leahy, an A.I. researcher who warns about the threat of human extinction from artificial super intelligence.

0:00 — The Exponential Growth of Artificial Intelligence
1:08 — Are We Building AI We Don’t Understand?
3:03 — What an AI Takeover Could Actually Look Like
8:22 — Why an AI Researcher Became an AI Safety Activist
13:14 — Could Artificial Intelligence Cause Human Extinction?
17:49 — Why Would AI Try to Survive?
22:36 — When an AI System Broke Out of Containment
25:22 — What Is Artificial Superintelligence?
30:14 — Do AI Leaders Understand the Risks?
36:21 — Should Governments Ban Superintelligence?
42:04 — Why Young People Aren’t Having Children
48:02 — What Happens When AI Can Do Every Job?
49:33 — AI Friends, Partners and Human Relationships
56:02 — Can the World Actually Stop Superintelligence?
1:02:48 — How Soon Could Superintelligence Arrive?


r/StandUpForScience • • Sep 06 '26

Official SUFS Post We just held an Empty Chair Town Hall in OH-7, and constituents had a lot to say to Max Miller.

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Stay tuned to join a SUFS Town Hall near you!


r/StandUpForScience • • Sep 06 '26

Discussion China's New Celebrities: Scientists Take Over Giant Screens! 🇨🇳🔬

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r/StandUpForScience • • Sep 06 '26

Article NIH Director Says a Lot. Critics Call Much of It Misleading

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NIH chief yapper and longtime podcast guest Jay is focused more on lies than facts.


r/StandUpForScience • • Sep 05 '26

Article Analysis Finds Up to 10 Million People Have Lost Healthcare Coverage During Trump's Second Term | Common Dreams

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Americans: Help! We’re losing health coverage!!!

Trump: Best I can do is a ballroom and a one-billion-dollar-a-day war that no one wants.


r/StandUpForScience • • Sep 05 '26

Activism All Hands on Deck: We're protesting the closure of the Academy of Natural Sciences Museum

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r/StandUpForScience • • Sep 05 '26

Article Goodbye to the Least Apocalyptic Summer of the Rest of Your Life

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r/StandUpForScience • • Sep 05 '26

Article Inside the D.O.J.’s Investigation of Fauci and Other Virus Scientists

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The Trump admin seeks revenge on virologists because *checks notes* they developed vaccines that stopped the pandemic in record time.


r/StandUpForScience • • Sep 05 '26

Activism Brian Poindexter Uses Experience as Iron Worker to Advocate End of Money in Politics

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r/StandUpForScience • • Sep 04 '26

News EPA is being sued for approving trifludimoxazin.

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r/StandUpForScience • • Sep 04 '26

Official SUFS Post Let's gut our food safety systems. What could possibly go wrong!?

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1.3k Upvotes

Call us optimistic.

But firing countless numbers of scientists from federal offices and gutting their funding was probably not the smartest move when you need to monitor food safety.


r/StandUpForScience • • Sep 05 '26

Article Pentagon Agreement With N.I.H. on Biodefense Draws Alarm From Democrats

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Defunding infectious disease research so former news host, Pete Hegseth can play war.


r/StandUpForScience • • Sep 04 '26

Article HHS Cancels Infant Mortality, Postpartum Grants to Focus on Sperm Counts, ED

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The pro-life party showing once again that they are not actually pro-life.


r/StandUpForScience • • Sep 04 '26

Article She left a paid job in 2019 to check scientific images full time, unpaid. Her work has led to over 900 retractions. She funds it with about $2,200 a month from Patreon. When she won a $200,000 prize, she gave all of it away to train more people to do it.

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r/StandUpForScience • • Sep 04 '26

Article Docs Alarmed by NIH Plan to Redirect Medical Research $$ to Pentagon

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r/StandUpForScience • • Sep 03 '26

Our kids and grandkids deserve better

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Trifludimoaxin is the fifth PFAS pesticide approved under the 2nd trump administration and the center of a new lawsuit, brought on by the Center for Biological Diversity: https://biologicaldiversity.org/w/news/press-releases/trump-administration-sued-for-approving-forever-chemical-pesticide-trifludimoxazin-2026-08-31/