A leading American research lab is slated to lose its critical supercomputing facility, according to a letter released by the National Science Foundation.https://cnn.it/3MoF7zU

As a historian of science, I was raised to think rejecting science was a pathology of anti-democratic governments. Well, this might be the proof of that. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/c...

The revised Schedule F policy, finalized last week, will kick in next month. It could reclassify career government scientists—potentially those involved in grantmaking at agencies like NIH and NSF—into at-will employees, and would strip them of whistleblower protections.

Isn't it super random that all of the "anti-woke" cancel culture academics who all leaned into transphobia and race science later in their careers all seem to be connected through Jeffrey Epstein?

Pretty Cute Watching Boston Residents Play Daily Game Of ‘Big City’ https://theonion.com/pretty-cute-watching-boston-residents-play-daily-game-o-1819574643/

Internal emails show Department of Energy's debunked climate science report was reviewed by scientists internally, who found it "biased," "misleading," and "hypocritical." Contrarian authors tailored their work to ensure it focused on weakening climate regulations. www.eenews.net/articles/doe...

Congratulations to Hongmin (Maria) Yu who successfully and expertly defended her thesis "Exploring Atmospheric Autoxidation of Organic Emission from Volatile Chemical Products". Thanks to @jessekroll.bsky.social, and @caltech.edu Profs Mitchio Okumura, and Rick Flagan for serving on her committee.

“You can feel your brain getting smoother as you watch it.”

Academics vying for a spot in Epstein‘s world. There are so many. I feel the need to make a thread, so I don’t keep confusing them. 1/

Great interview — especially since had I assumed that whoever invented the Oddy Test must've passed away a long time ago. (...Of course, up until Tuesday I also thought that about Philip Glass, so this has been quite the week.)

@agu.org has a tool to help you submit a comment to NSF on the importance of NCAR: agu.quorum.us/campaign/154... #SaveNCAR

New at Can We Still Govern: NIH scientist @markhisted.org reviews the damage done to American biomedical science in the last year and looks ahead: "Scientists should not be political partisans, but they should be partisans for liberal democratic principles."🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/american-b...

"I understand that terrible AI systems are technically terrible, but I’ll be damned if they’re not confident... What naysayers don’t seem to realize is that people respond better to a confident liar shouting out answers than a polite expert. Women can back me up on this."

We have a new paper out today, looking more in detail at the potential air quality impacts of Stratospheric Aerosol Injections, finding them more driven by climatic feedbacks than by deposition. This is the 1st questions one receives when discussing this, so really important to explore in depth!

How many STEM Ph.D.s were lost from the U.S. federal government last year? My colleagues @mghersher.bsky.social and @policyhound.bsky.social dug into a recent data release to find the answer. A @science.org exclusive. www.science.org/content/arti...

Years from now, it'll be difficult to explain the things people in media were wailing about before all this. Sophomores writing underconsidered op-eds about cultural appropriation. Protests against demagogues on campus. YA drama. "Mobs" on Twitter. These were the threats to free society.

Attention folks in the weather, climate, disaster, wildfire, and Earth science communities: NSF has just published a new "Dear Colleague" letter inviting feedback (by Mar 13) on the proposal to dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). www.nsf.gov/funding/...

We are proud to announce that Environmental Health Perspectives (EHP), a globally respected journal with a rich legacy as a premiere source for the environmental health sciences community, has joined the ACS Publications portfolio. Read our announcement: buff.ly/Tc1m9Xp

Yesterday it was cows using tools, today its penguins using satellite imagery.

Writing is thinking Outsourcing the entire task of writing to LLMs will deprive us of the essential creative task of interpreting our findings and generating a deeper theoretical understanding of the world.

Found on LinkedIn alongside text describing how PCR works. 😂. #TeamMassSpec #massspectrometry #science #badai

i think this MLK day the thing to focus on is the strategic focus and tactical brilliance of the civil rights movement and the way it was laser focused on a set of achievable goals

Every obsessive critic of "wokeness" embodies the actual qualities that they attribute to "wokeness." In this case, the mentality that any obstacle you encounter is discrimination bsky.app/profile/park...

Things are grim right now but as a reminder of who we are and why we fight, this is the US Women’s figuring skating champion.

This is a HUGE win…and one that happened because we ~collectively~ said “NO!” But AAAS coming in and saying on record to the NYT “Science is doing ok. Things are not bad at all…” is baffling. If things are hard for you as a scientist, please share in the comments. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/10/s...

Excellent article from @chadtopaz.bsky.social, debunking the newest right-wing proposal to make faculty hiring more "merit-based". Chad (very generously!) accepts their premise that test scores are good metrics for faculty merit…then shows statistically that their proposal simply cannot work.

A reminder - before Trump, MAGA, Musk and Fox rewrote history - that this is what the entire country agreed had happened five years ago today:

I'll take it 😎

We are proud to announce the formation of the Chemical & Engineering News Guild. We represent staffers across the editorial and operations teams at C&EN. 1/6

I extremely hate the policies and personality of Donald Trump to an insane degree but I’d be offended if China sent in team to kill a bunch of our civilians and military personnel and kidnap our leader and his wife and then declare that they now “ran” the United States, this isn’t hard

oh shit tomorrow is circle back day already

This from @booker.senate.gov

Taking a break from Venezuela Doomscrolling to note how fun it is that that DMS, cysteine, and other biomarker organosulfur species can be formed abiotically ( Work by Ellie Browne and coworkers: iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3... www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... )

Cancer research costs too much but we have the money to run Venezuela

[wakes up] “I’m sorry, what”

“A concept known as the Szilard point … describes the threshold at which the total cost of competing for a grant equals (or surpasses) the value of the available funding … GenAI for Africa, a funding call from the European Union’s Horizon Europe programme, probably crosses that threshold.”

If 2025 didn't stop you nothing will

30 years ago today, December 31st 1995, the last ever Calvin & Hobbes comic strip was published. Even now, I still find it so poignant & moving.

THE DAY CARES ARE LOCKED BECAUSE YOU MADE A GENERATION-LONG EFFORT TO MAKE IT AS EASY AS POSSIBLE TO KILL THE CHILDREN INSIDE THEM YOU ABSOLUTE FUCKING GHOULS

i am losing my mind over this listing that staged a condemned philly trap house with AI

Truly Universal Outlet xkcd.com/3186/

Really great piece, covering everything wrong with the far right's push to remake higher education, and more importantly with the media's coverage of those efforts.

This is the logical and inevitable conclusion of the last decade of elite media "free speech" discourse.

Happy 14th anniversary to this youtube video

“Clearly, the ever-widening gulf between you and your employees has blinded you to some basic facts about reindeer anatomy, so here’s a quick science lesson, boss man: shiny noses reflect light; they are not themselves sources of light.”

let’s just assume anyone worth over $100 million hung out with epstein and banish them from society

Journal article: “the data are available on request” The data: