The US government lost more than 10,000 STEM PhDs last year, according to an analysis by Science of newly released OPM data, with 11 departures for every hire. And many OPM calls "voluntary" separations were probably pushed. www.science.org/content/arti...

Fun piece for @science.org that pretty much wrote itself. Interview with AP photographer Lindsey Wasson telling the story of being the one to tell a disbelieving Mary Brunkow that she’d just won the @nobelprize.bsky.social Prize in Medicine— www.science.org/content/arti...

The Vera Rubin Observatory will change everything. Seeing wider, deeper, and faster. Investigating everything from dark energy to Planet 9. Here's all you need to know. 🔭🧪 @science.org @vrubinobs.bsky.social www.science.org/content/arti...

One of the best takes I’ve read about why Nov. 5 unfolded as it did — www.nytimes.com/2024/11/08/o...

“It’s like having somebody who believes the Earth is flat as head of NASA.” Scientists respond to RFK Jr's nomination as head of U.S. Department of Health and Human Services: www.science.org/content/arti... (by @meredithwadman.bsky.social and Jocelyn Kaiser.)