"I was sympathetic to members of the scientific establishment who played it carefully during last year’s budget negotiations. Getting the budget deal done was crucial. But that was then. The red light is now flashing. All hands, report to stations." www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Oof.

For those of you who haven't given up

“I’m not being rude. You know what was rude? Black Thursday was rude.” www.nytimes.com/2026/06/01/b...

CONCEPTS OF AN AGREEMENT THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER

Exciting news! Prof. Janet Currie will be giving a keynote/book talk at the 2026 SITE Health Inequality Conference at Stanford, 8/31–9/1. A pioneer in health economics, Janet's work has shaped the field. #EconSky #HealthEconomics #SITEStanford Submit here! economics.stanford.edu/site/paper-s...

"The evidence on the ground is overwhelming: Violent settlers in the West Bank have attacked Palestinians with impunity & Israeli security forces are increasingly complicit. Israel’s de facto annexation of the West Bank has pushed Palestinians into shrinking enclaves" www.nytimes.com/2026/05/26/o...

Ban "respectively" Yeah I said it

gddmn everything that gurl touches turns to gold, Marcy Alsan with another home run

"What OMB is proposing is not a reform of grants management. It is a complete political control apparatus layered over every stage of the federal science funding lifecycle."

"In all cases, NIH recipients should report foreign co-authorship to the funding Institute or Center as soon as they are aware of it to determine what steps, if any, need to be taken." 🥸 grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

"Both reviewers felt Chiu’s paper should reference two of Gadekallu’s own articles and two others from one of Gadekallu’s collaborators. One provided a link to the Google Scholar profile for the collaborator: 'Visit this profile and cite related papers.'" 😂

Editor malpractice. (Friends don't let friends submit papers to BMC Public Health)

These mfkas

Who would have thought all the ex-Twitter-ex-BlueSky'ers were lurking on LinkedIn just waiting for a publication on saturation before coming out of the woodwork to pounce, like, or retweet

Fax sent to a random fax machine in a coffee room is HIPAA compliant as long as it has a cover sheet telling people not to look

🖕🖕🖕🖕 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

"You don’t have to be perfect to be a hero; you just have to do the right thing when it matters most." CC: everyone who could have voted for impeachment but did not

Sanction people who submit manuscripts with hallucinated citations, legal filings with hallucinated case law, etc. Sometimes gatekeeping is good www.nytimes.com/2026/05/25/u...

My youngest kid: "if you eat salami you'll die of heart disease. I know, let's feed all the bad guys salami"

wtf is a 'non compensated faculty position'

I understand why people might have an incentive to submit AI slop to journals (publications, comic of the realm etc). But what is the incentive to submit AI slop to preprint servers? www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Day one all this shhhtte gets reversed. Increase my taxes to pay for it www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

"The poll found very little awareness of the so-called “abundance” movement, which calls for making it easier for the government and the private sector to build more housing and energy. " Oof. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/22/u...

"How can you trust the sources? Don’t they have axes to grind and a bias against Israel?" 😂

Day 1: Big Beautiful Demolition Bill, raise my taxes to pay for it

"Online platforms such as LinkedIn can help you to maintain these connections over time." 😂

Lol so they let him back in? profiles.ucsf.edu/vinayak.prasad

👀

"She was handcuffed behind her back throughout the birth. The handcuffs did not come off before the baby was born. To have her defense attorney depict it in that way completely erodes and misrepresents the reality in the courtroom that night, which was complete violence. "

I KNOW WHO I'M VOTING FOR, Y'ALL iaphs.org/about-iaphs/...

"momentary burst of sanity" 😂 www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/nih-...

Dafq are those 5%

Taiwan Strong 💪