Censoring words, suppressing research, and silencing scientists doesn't change reality. Climate change will affect everything from intensifying weather patterns to disrupting our global supply chains. Treating it as "That-Which-Must-Not-Be-Named" will only make us woefully unprepared.

Goodbye, Disney+!

every conservative accusation is a confession

Meanwhile Dowd gets fired for giving an accurate account of Kirk's actions and words. This is a dangerous game the peeps in charge are playing.

We have a bit of a natural experiment here. Compare the tone, quantity and duration of Charlie Kirk coverage with that of the two Dem lawmakers gunned down in their homes in Minnesota 6 months ago. May be revealing.

Reminder: At the start of his legal career, RFK Jr. failed the bar, was forced out as a D.A., and got arrested for heroin. Without the Kennedy name, that story ends there.

Spread the word 😃 Our department has an open position at the Assitant Professor level 🌱

Quelle surprise

PUBLIC ADVOCACY IS A PRIORITY over RESEARCH

“This is not normal, and I think a lot of people don’t see the damage that is being done.”

There is a lot less news reporting coming out of Gaza since Israel killed the entire Al Jazeera team of journalists.

Please repost and amplify ! We are hiring a faculty position in Evolutionary Genetics in the Biology Department at U of South Carolina! Check us out and come be our colleague! sc.edu/study/colleg... Deadline for applications is Oct 1 #AcademicJobs #EvoBio

OMFG release the Epstein files you ferociously stupid clowns

Michigan State University, Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior Presidential Postdoctoral Fellowship. eeb.msu.edu/initiatives/...

People in Los Angeles have been protesting 24 hours for 2 weeks straight and no news outlet is covering it! 8/8/25

Devastated to see the NSF postdoctoral research fellowship in biology archives. This is a transformative creative opportunity and a path to the professorship for many (including myself). Postdocs are highly trained and often in the newest techniques which spur innovation. www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...

An aid worker in northern Gaza tells NPR that people are starving, water is scarce and basic supplies are out of reach. He warns thousands could die in the coming days if nothing changes.

How to stop this: 1. Don't look away 2. Call your member of Congress (whether they're DEM/GOP/IND) and give them an earful 3. Keep doing that over and over

The eff

But the Epstein files.

I really want us to sit and consider that the Department of Justice is using their time and resources to read faculty senate statements that support having a diverse faculty. www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-t...

“More than 140 employees of the National Science Foundation have signed a letter denouncing what they described as efforts to undermine one of the country’s main science funding agencies. … Out of fear of retaliation, all but one of the employees’ signatures are redacted.”

Letter to Representative Lofgren - Appeal to Defend Civil Service Protections and the Mission of the NSF

Got this email today that NSF is canceling the annual meeting for plant genome research (PGRP) awardees. I’m really sad that I’ll miss out on this amazing networking opportunity :(

Andry José Hernández Romero, I remember you, even if I do not know how to articulate my horror, rage, & sorrow at your treatment by my government. No one has heard from you in 124 days. As vigil, I’m posting a photo or video of you every day until you are returned from El Salvador.

This.👇

The next Trump #protest is Thurs. July 17: 'Good Trouble Lives On' with maps, locations in my latest for @fastcompany.com www.fastcompany.com/91366137/goo... #justice #goodtrouble #resistance @indivisible.org @50501movement.bsky.social

ART OF THE DEAL! 4D CHESS! ARE WE TIRED OF WINNING?

My sister had her student status suddenly cancelled a few months back and she can’t get a hold of anyone to reinstate it. She’s faced with having to start paying back thousands of dollars in loans despite being in law school full time with several semesters left. These clowns are ruining lives.

I don't know who needs to know this, but Pro Publica has an online thing that will format a letter to your US health insurance company to demand the records behind a claim denial. (which the insurance is then legally required to provide in most cases) projects.propublica.org/claimfile/

BOTTOM LINE: There's good reason to have optimism about science $. That's important as fuel!! But don't let up on gas pedal. Major cuts still on table (e.g., 23% to NSF). And lots of awful general provisions too, separate from $ amounts. It's early & this is malleable. SO KEEP CALLING!!

I woke up this morning to a BBC report about a deadly Israeli air strike against a water station in Gaza, where mostly women and children lined up for H2O. reut.rs/3UfTxSZ

#Trump #Distractions

All the MAGA infighting over the Epstein files comes down to this: Trump knew this was a popular issue with his base, so he ran on it. Loudly and daily. Now he wants to bury it because he and his friends and his donors are probably implicated. Release the files.

Donald Trump is ripping away America’s role as a world leader in science and innovation. Cuts to health care breakthroughs. Cuts to tech development. Cuts to energy research. How is this America first?

No news on NIH yet because that's a different appropriations subcommittee. But the House is currently scheduled to markup NIH's budget during the week of July 21. See here: appropriations.house.gov/schedule

🚨 BREAKING 🚨 The National Science Foundation has sent an email out to its members to collect signatures for a dissent declaration similar to the NIH’s Bethesda Declaration and the EPA’s Declaration of Dissent. This comes on the heels of Lee Zeldin putting 139 EPA declaration signers on admin leave

LET’S GOOOOO I AM WITH YOU MY BROTHERS AND SISTERS IN CHRIST

3/3 But this is still an encouraging early sign that Congress (or at least a bipartisan committee in the Senate) DOES NOT WANT TO SLASH SCIENCE FUNDING. But we also need to keep up the pressure too!!! So continue calling your reps especially if you're in an appropriations state or district.

Want the US government to NOT destroy science and technological innovation? You think astronomy makes America great? Call Senator Jerry Moran (202) 224-6521 He is the chair of the committee that will create NSF and NASA funding bill tomorrow. Tell him to fully fund NSF astronomy and NASA.

This issue is freaking out the MAGA-Verse. Keep it going and REPOST. open.substack.com/pub/mdavis19...

What do your maternal instincts tell you about Trump and his Epstein file adventures? If you don’t trust your instincts, consider the $88M E.Jean Carroll assault settlement… Or his cringe lust for Ivanka… Or the teen pageant voyeurism… Or him biting his bottom lip in a room full of young girls…

I can't stress enough how close U.S. science is to the cliff. "Numbers released in May by the National Science Foundation (NSF) indicate that if Congress approves the cuts to the agency proposed by the White House, the number of early-career researchers it supports could fall by 78%" (@science.org)

The speed and scope of the squandering of the credibility of legacy media in the United States is one of the really stunning stories of our time.

#SaveScience #SaveNSF

All - please call your senators TODAY and TOMORROW MORNING to save the future of science in America. The administration is proposing a 3.9 billion dollars for NSF for fiscal year 2026, which is almost a 60% cut from the 9 billion dollars in 2024. The appropriations in the senate happen tomorrow. 1)

A friend of my compared gutting of federal agencies to a wrecking a car: if you remove 30% of the parts of the car, it does not go 30% slower. It stops working.

Caroline Light, Harvard professor & AAUP member: “Not in my name.” Hands off our students. #DefendHigherEd

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