In August, Jay Bhattacharya said “Training future biomedical scientists” was the 1st priority for his version of NIH. But talk is cheap. Let’s see how JB’s doing. 🤔 NIH supports trainees mostly via fellowship (F), training (T), and career development (K) awards. Here are funding curves for each.🧵

Why do the Japanese like their buns askew (2026)

BAMENDA MENTIONED 🇨🇲

Boards Of Canada have shared a new track, ‘Tape 05’, fuelling further speculation around the duo’s first album since 2013’s Tomorrow’s Harvest... buff.ly/vqXmLt5

basic absurdities aside, the original prompter has no idea what they're talking about - "raised soft palate" would make you sound like you have a head cold, not "bright, sunny, inviting" - the nose would be totally plugged shut.

We're over half way through the Fed fiscal year. AHRQ FY26 appropriation: $345M Amount obligated to date: $0 New AHRQ funding curves up at Grant Witness: grant-witness.us/funding_curv... AHRQ supports work to lower healthcare costs and improve outcomes. This is what Trump is unlawfully gutting.

I wish this were a bit. Science and antiscience are not the two sides of science. Much of the criticism you are receiving is because people were not born yesterday and they actually are familiar with disinformation campaigns and science denial

a b-schooler puts together a panel featuring jay bhattacharya and emily oster and imagines they have something useful to say about rigor (which they don't have) in the social sciences. incredible, no notes, can't wait for jay to somehow justify gutting SBE

Here’s an idea for “improving science” - don’t appear on panels with anti-science ideologues like Jay Bhattacharya and Emily Oster.

Making tenure count, for MSNOW I wrote about my employer, The University of Iowa, creating a center for intellectual freedom. It's a reactionary project built on decades of conservative propaganda about higher ed.

Now would be a great time to reconsider that 46% cut to NASA’s science budget for FY2027.

Our PhD student Kennedy Orwa, who studies applications of AI to health care, was hastily deported today to Kenya along with his 13-year-old son without opportunity to speak to legal counsel. King 5 reports that he held a valid visa that was rescinded without explanation.

Hi I'm reaching out from Saga to let you know she'd love to be put in a well and left there, can we work together to see that it happens?

We do now know the NSF is proceeding with dissolving the Social and Behavioral Sciences Division. Congress might reverse it, but it is now already underway. YOU CAN NO LONGER SUBMIT FUNDING PROPOSALS TO SBE. Program officers are being moved to different parts of the agency. Call your Congress member

📉 FY2026 is worse. NIH has made 10,195 awards so far. NSF has made 613. Six hundred thirteen. Congress appropriated the money. The agencies are not spending it. Grant freezes. NOFO collapse. Staff RIFs. Review cancellations. You can win the budget fight and still lose the funding war.

🚨 Congress held NIH and NSF budgets roughly flat. Scientists celebrated. Here is what actually happened. NIH awarded 4,641 fewer grants in FY2025 than the 4-year avg. New awards dropped 14%. Over $1.3B never reached investigators. NSF awards fell 22%. The money was there.

www.microsoft.com/en-us/micros... is it good to build an entire economy and software infrastructure on this

While that is stated as rumor, the graph tells it all. #NSF has awarded only 613 grants this fiscal year. That's compared to almost 3,000 by this point in FY '24. Congress and the courts both moved hard against this, but it's irrelevant. The White House has the "power of the purse" now. 3/x

NSF's Social, Behavioral and Economic Directorate has awarded only 16 grants since October. No big budget cuts went through. No freeze. The courts have acted to keep funds flowing at every turn. The money just isn't going out. Why...? 1/x source: grant-witness.us/funding_curv... 🟦🧠 #academicsky

Zero Americans benefit from this. All of us, every Conservative and every Liberal American, are watching our future hobbled. Shattering a treasured national asset: our former status as the top destination for global talent, hard-wrought by generations of visionary Republicans and Democrats.

Extreeemely late to the party, but finally used energy gathered from sabbatical + HSP excitement to create a bluesky account!

Interesting. Mixed feelings, but interesting. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Hi everyone! As Chair of the Local Planning Committee for ICPhS 2027, I am excited to share with you the ICPhS 2027 website, hot off the press! Between the website and social media, you should find all you need to plan your trip to beautiful Victoria BC! ➡️ icphs2027.ca

The US government collected over $1 billion in immigration fees then refused to process the applications. No denials. No refunds. Just silence. This is the largest fee fraud in the history of the American immigration system. Here's what's happening. 🧵

French General Richoux being frank about Trump

As I return from spring break, I have a very busy week involving international travel and proctoring midterms - so naturally part of my glasses just cracked and fell off for no clear reason

don't know what everyone is up in arms about, from my prior readings on thermodynamics (see attached) this is fine

Just read the abstract 🫠 via Alexander Magazinov. I don't believe he is on Bluesky.

Here is the spreadsheet DOGE had ChatGPT produce, to determine which grants were too DEI www.historians.org/wp-content/u...

Last year, this guy (left) from DOGE used ChatGPT to find NEH grants that were too “DEI” for Trump, and canceled them, including mine, as shown by the letter I received last April (right). Huge new NYT article on the back story link below

I realise this is like focusing on kitchen hygiene in the Titanic at this point, but: the LLM the NEH asked "Does the following relate at all to DEI?" (!) usually - though inconsistently - cited language documentation and preservation as grounds for grant termination. ("Yes" => "Defund")

hashtag linguistics

Secretary Hegseth announced this afternoon that DOD will cease ALL graduate study by military personnel at universities including MIT, all the Ivies, Stanford, etc because such schools teach "the enemy's wicked ideology" to officers. thehill.com/policy/defen...

I regret to report that I am going to have to go full Luddite in my teaching and assessment

It was a great pleasure and a honor to act as the co-supervisor for Mariana Martins’ dissertation about the emergence of a new Sign Language in Guinea Bissau, for which she received the doctorate yesterday. The book is available open-access.🧵 www.lotpublications.nl/creating-a-s...

I want my money back

🗃️ Tyler Austin Harper’s insane Andrew Mellon Foundation hit piece, which of course @theatlantic.com was happy to print, has rightfully pissed off everyone in the Humanities. As someone who works in higher education funding, here is a 🧵 on why this article is even more infuriating than you think.

I really appreciate when you can tell a student wrote their own work and definitely not an LLM Problem: identify what's wrong w/ the statement "Indo-Eur. languages are the most complex because they have lots of morphology" 🐦🐦 1/2

it's already hard enough to deal with students cheating; this is potentially a *much* worse problem. why have we not nipped this in the bud by (say) mandating watermarking in LLMs?

Review: A concise summary of the work's core contributions to demonstrate understanding, and an objective assessment of its strengths and weaknesses. Reviews should also check for clarity, proper formatting, and ensure the methodology and conclusions are valid, ...

The 12th World Congress of African Linguistics (WOCAL12) will be held at the University of Vienna, 7th - 10th July 2027. Abstracts due 30 May 2026 univie.eventsair.com/wocal2027/ #WOCAL12 #WOCAL2027 #linguistics

Don't give anything an Emmy until it's as good as this.

Very high density of brand new sentences in this piece

One of every thousand American residents has been taken into custody by ICE in the last year.

Some knowledge that was new to me while writing this review with my colleagues: 1. The respiratory system, i.e. how thorax and abdomen work together is very different in young infants 2. Empirical data on the coordination between motion and breathing are very limited

The current regime took a week to abolish USAID, which is three times as old and was not in the news every day for brutalizing children