"the bill would reduce monthly fruit and vegetable benefits from $52 to $13 for breastfeeding mothers and from $26 to $10 for young children."

Megathread about responding to new OMB grant funding rules (feel free to add/link more!) I was collecting these for me, but figured I'd round 'em up for everyone 🧪 What's the problem? arstechnica.com/science/2026... elizabethginexi.substack.com/p/summary-of...

I keep saying it but nobody is doing it better than this guy right now.

I had dinner w/pharma people a while ago and asked if they are discussing internally, the collapse of science. The response was “yeah, all the time. But we figure that the pipeline is about a decade long and we’ll have made our money and be retired by the time it completely collapses”. Me: ……………..

At the BLOOM science and music festival in Copenhagen, there are giant tardigrades and I guess that’s all I need to say about just how magnificent the event is 😊

Calling all Scientists! Research Administrators! Deans! Fans of Science! No one is coming to save us. Here is your assignment. I have written a step by step, easy to understand "how-to" document to help you comment on the proposed OMB rule. elizabethginexi.substack.com/p/what-we-ne...

Male flame bowerbirds (Sericulus ardens) New Guinea, build elaborate structures called bowers rather than traditional nests. These bowers act as "bachelor pads" or courtship stages to attract females. Once the female mates, she will build a separate, standard nest to raise her chicks

Reports of an explosion heard around Boston are believed to be a significant bolide/meteor entering the atmosphere, a very large flash was detected by GOES-19 satellite that does not correlate with active thunderstorms. https://t.co/MSDGX6ZnMA

Comments are now open. You can comment here: www.regulations.gov/search?filte... Note that even if the administration goes ahead with this abomination, the comments are essential to aid subsequent litigation! 2/2

An organization like FIRE is going to look at this and conclude the problem is with faculty, who are insufficiently heterodox, and not with the fact that one political party has made it their goal to dismantle my profession and everything I do. Why would we vote for those who openly hate us?

This is bad. Bad for researchers. Bad for science. Bad for universities. Bad for professional associations. For example: 1. Every award would be vetted by political appointees, who could overrule peer reviewers and deny the award if it doesn't advance the president's priorities. 1/🧵

Summary of Key Changes in OMB’s Proposed Federal Financial Assistance Rule. Russell Vought is going destroy American Science. elizabethginexi.substack.com/p/summary-of...

You may not "do politics" as a scientist, but politics is doing you. Might as well start fighting now! events.standupforscience.net/stand-up-for...

I'm so glad that Dr. Jackson "feels fine"...I don't. OMB proposed new regulations that do the following: - Active Grants Can Be Terminated at Any Time, for Any Reason (§200.340) - Broad Prohibition on International Scientific Collaboration (§200.220) 1/x www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...

BREAKING: New proposed OMB regulation, applying to all federal grants, requiring grant reviews by senior political appointees and re-emphasizes that "peer review remains advisory and does not replace agency discretion". #standupforscience public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2026-10817.pdf

This is a substantial power grab by OMB. Comment period starts tomorrow. Here are two relevant excerpts. 1/3

Y’all done pushed @dereklowe.bsky.social over the edge! He’s fed up! www.science.org/content/blog...

A Russian drone that was part of an overnight attack on Ukraine crashed into an apartment building in eastern Romania, injuring two people, Romanian authorities said Friday. n.pr/4a1inOR

The eyes have it elifesciences.org/digests/9651...

PLEASE HELP SPREAD THE WORD AND SUBMIT YOUR INFORMATION IF THIS IS YOU. With no transparency, documentation is a team sport.

You can view the 18 UC Berkeley suspensions and some other recent terminations in the Grant Witness database. (I am not, though, sharing specifics of grants that are held at OAM unless I have PI approval.) grant-witness.us/posts/2026-0...

Scoop: NSF has been quietly blocking new funds and grants to four top universities: Duke, Harvard, Princeton, and Yale. Dozens of proposals from PIs at these universities—and their collaborators—have been stuck at the Office of Award Management awaiting finalization for months.

(2) The plan is, indeed, to have an RFI to collect input. THIS IS A HUGE SHIFT IN NIH PRACTICES. FOLKS NEED TO THINK ABOUT THIS AND PREPARE TO WEIGH IN. 3/3

This is Daisy. She just learned about the tooth fairy. Wanted to make sure they knew that she has teeth. Just in case. 12/10 (IG: daisythegoldiee)

Project 2025 proposed converting NIH to block grants, which means each state gets a proportional cut, regardless of merit. If you wanted to conceal the fact that block grants, (aka “geographic diversity”?) required funding science there was judged by experts to be inferior, this makes sense.

I heard from several sources yesterday that NIH is planning to release a Request for Information (RFI) that apparently will include this: Scores and percentiles for NIH grant applications will not be shared with applicants although they will be provided to NIH program officers and staff. 1/3

We will no longer have access to evidence of peer review if this happens. This means when grants are pulled by political minders, we will not have evidence of political influence in the granting process with which to go to Congress who funds the work from the taxpayers.

To explain this for my non-science followers. Such a proposal would be to create a black box around review of scientific proposals - this reduction in transparency is what you would do if you wanted to make political or partisan decisions about funding and not scientific ones

A kind guy came home from work with a super timid stray dog . The pup had been living outside his job site and was extremely scared of people. They took him to the vet (no microchip found) and slowly helped him come out of his shell with love and patience. ❤️

This is Nacho. He has big feelings. Every stuffed animal he owns is very aware of this. 14/10 (IG: nacho_thekneadydog)

Rail improves transit access for everyone - especially people too poor to own cars. It's good for the environment. It relieves traffic congestion. Our US passenger rail infrastructure is already crap - imagine even LESS funding! So go sign this quick letter to your reps. I did. 🚆

Dude, your boss is currently trying to steal $1,776,000,000 from the Treasury. And that’s just *one* of his scams. You people have ZERO self-awareness.

A day after The Late Show ended, Colbert hosted an episode of public access program Only In Monroe, reviving his 11-year-old gag. How bad is CBS/Paramount taking it? They issued copyright complaints for a show they don't own. 🤣 CBS would hate it if you watch here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DlF...

It's now finalized, proofed and published. Yeah! In @elife.bsky.social: Sexual dimorphism in sensorimotor transformation of optic flow doi.org/10.7554/eLif...

A fossil nervous system meets modern neurobiology. We found that a living comb jelly preserves neural architecture remarkably similar to those inferred from Cambrian fossils over 500 million years old 🤩. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

A livestream of a volcano in the Philippines captured a meteor crashing to Earth today. What are the odds? Mayon Volcano, Location: Albay, Luzon, Philippines

NIH funded peeps: This is insane and coming for us.

i visited DSHB @dshb-antibodies.bsky.social 2 years ago, incredible how such a critical community scientific resource is run so efficiently, economically and humbly. they maintain 1000s of mAbs at cost, and are fully self-supported from just a couple lab rooms!

By the way, @dshb-antibodies.bsky.social is a non-profit that sells quality antibodies to many proteins at exceptionally reasonable prices, without AI generated faux-validation images. Check them out. dshb.biology.uiowa.edu

Excited to see our new preprint out--Thread coming later this week. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

NYT reporting that a proposed Trump-backed memorandum with Iran would reportedly release $25 billion in frozen Iranian assets www.nytimes.com/live/2026/05...

We feel so validated: empiric proof about the gaslighting of "there's no hiring freeze" Thank you to the citizen who scraped USAJobs job postings Now we can see posting trends for the entire U.S. gov, all of HHS, and CDC Guess who has hardly posted any jobs despite being vastly understaffed...

Look again! That's a common baron caterpillar (Euthalia aconthea) sitting on its favorite food source, a mango leaf. This little guy, native to India & Sri Lanka, has perfect camouflage so long as it stays perfectly centered on the leaf's midrib. (📷: SatyamRajput004)

NEW: The transcript of today's sealed hearing in the "Broadview Six" case IS IN. Read it here: cst.brightspotcdn.com/95/75/a403b7...

HOLY SHIT prosecutors kicked off grand jurors and then re-presented the case against the Broadview 6, then altered the grand jury transcripts to hide it from the judge. www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...

🚨🧪🧵URGENT INPUT NEEDED: NIH asks input for next strategic plan-including emphasis on non-animal models (NAMs) to replace animals. Per NIH insider, anti-animal responses now outnumber scientists 200-700x. Please please provide input. Deadline: May 26, 11:59 PM ET. grants.nih.gov/news-events/...

Life hack from a marine biologist: When your blue sea dragons need a little snack, remember that they never evolved to swim, so you have to drive the Portuguese man-o-war around and pick them up like a little bus 🎥 by me during field work :)

1. Number of stories about Trump buying and selling hundreds of millions of dollars in stocks in the first three months of 2026: CBS: 0 CNN: 0 Fox News: 0 NPR: 0 PBS: 0 Politico: 0 Semafor: 0 Business Insider: 0

BREAKING: Harry Dunn and Daniel Hodges, two law enforcement officers who clashed with Jan. 6 insurrectionists, have sued to block the Trump 'slush fund'. They're asking a federal judge to find the creation of the fund illegal and reverse any transfers that Treasury has made to DOJ to implement it.