Do not eat paint chips, Mr. Metaxas.

Ahem, I was unaware that Somerset County, New Jersey, was a borough of New York City

"I still love what I do,” she said. “But it’s time to step aside and make resources available for the up-and-coming junior people who want to do what I do, especially right now" news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...

at this point i think we can stop calling it “highly unusual”

Grant submitted! Paper accepted! 🍾 🎉 Allez les bleus! 🇫🇷

I’m particularly proud of my growing ALT text skills 🤭

Lack of training is not the issue, Chuck. The ICE agent who murdered Renee Good was an Iraq war vet with 2 decades of experience in ICE and Border Patrol. The issue is lack of accountability that allows agents to murder people without facing charges.

“Academics can be very annoying…but it’s better that you have some contrary people in the corner who have a little bit of independence to say, ‘Hey, historically, when you’ve done the things that we’re seeing now, it has not worked out well for society,‘ and bring that knowledge to the table.”

Chickens say good morning and thanks for commenting on the federal register.

Really excited about our new paper. The 2nd author Carlos Nava Cruz started as an UG, was supported by an diversity NIH supplement, & is completing his masters. C. elegans model for functional analysis of conserved ADPKD variants in cilia, EVs, & signaling academic.oup.com/genetics/art...

Let's learn a lesson from the nearly 500K of us who mobilized to comment on the OMB rules. We can leave the sidelines, take action and it can make a difference. After 15 months of inaction, our scientific societies finally woke up and mobilized members. It doesn't stop there 1/n

PHASE ONE of our fight against the OMB rule is complete and YOU ALL SHOWED UP!!! HALF A MILLION COMMENTS is WILD. We absolutely exceeded our goal of 100,000! So, what happens next??? Welcome to PHASE TWO: Pressure and Preparation! 1/x

Thanks to an EXTRAORDINARILY generous donor, we have a DONATION MATCH up to ONE MILLION DOLLARS!!!! If you’re wanting to donate, now is the moment. It will support our legal and Hill efforts to stop this awful rule. 5/ Standupforscience.net/donate

You've still got three hours to submit a comment. The why and how are in Ginexi's article below. The fast and easy way is to use this tool, from FASEB:

Watching these bears is soooooo relaxing

This is great! You can really see that the Heritage Foundation's 2549 form letters are the only ones supportive of these ridiculous rules

Dashboard with analysis of comments & github source link omb-financial-assistance-comments.netlify.app

🧪If you’re feeling defeatist and tempted to brush this off because you think they’ll ignore it, know that it can still move the needle for legislators and serve as evidence in future legal challenges. It doesn’t have to be profound. I posted my call to reject these proposed changes, you should too.

After submitting your comment: CONTACT YOUR CONGRESSIONAL REPRESENTATIVES “Congress can override the rule through the appropriations process. They can write into statute a requirement to follow peer review and best scientific practices. In this way, Congress can stop the attacks on science.”

Not just research and science. ALL federal grantmaking (think: education, transportation, parks, water infrastructure, healthcare, public health practice), which undergirds state & local economies and is factored into credit agencies' assessments of governments' creditworthiness.

LAST DAY to submit your comment for the proposed OMB rule changes! I submitted mine this weekend, took under 30min (mostly bc I got on a roll typing out impacts to process my anger…and then editing into more eloquent reasoning lol)

341,699 comments as of yesterday. Today is the deadline. Your voice impacts the future of US research & science. Please submit a comment if you haven't already.

Composing a decision letter and deciding on reviewer comments to be addressed/overruled is THE single most important task for which we have editors, IMO. If you get a decision from a journal with zero guidance and a laundry list of unreasonable reviewer demands, the journal editor has FAILED.

If you really feel like I should make more money, you can send it to me here ko-fi.com/1626SLXL3044F and I will be grateful

Huh - many of the 'comments' in favor of OMB's thing use the same language. So hoping these will all be lumped together. Here's an excerpt from mine- couldn't help going on a mini-rant.

I see ties in my future 🔥🔥🔥

First barrier: minimization of women’s pain. The pain caused by the tenaculum was not considered important or severe enough to prioritize innovation in its replacement

Tell me again that science is not innovating? /s

If anyone is looking for a postdoc/staff scientist with experience in evolutionary genetics, computational biology/bioinformatics, and/or various omics methods (RNA-seq, Ribo-seq, LC-MS/MS), I'm still looking! (1) doi.org/10.1126/scie... (2) doi.org/10.1073/pnas... (3) doi.org/10.1371/jour...

Playing games to motivate myself to do a third set. Lifted over a ton in the first two sets. Ooooooooooof

107,000 comment so far. Make your voice heard.

Working on my comment now. This tool is useful, but there is a mistake with at least one paragraph citation. It is §200.461 that refers to publication costs not §200.405.

This letter generator is extremely helpful!

For folks asking why bother commenting because the OMB won't care: comments help build cases for the courts by explicitly laying out harms. That's why it's really important to have your comments be as specific as possible. Also, contact your senators and reps! They actually do care about this.

While I wish this had become "mainstream" sooner, it's not too late. @activistevenings.bsky.social, et al in Brookline were handing out QR codes with THIS action as the focus at the Coolidge Corner rally today

I just used this and filed my formal complaint. As @barrlab.bsky.social said, it was super easy. Just note it needs to be under 5000 characters - boy could I go longer... please if you haven't already, please submit a comment!📝

Here is the comment I posted commenting on the OMB Rules about federal funding. My is jut an example: It's key to personalize it and this tool from @faseborg.bsky.social helps one do so. Do it NOW--the future of American science is at stake www.faseb.org/science-poli...

Posted my comments opposing OMBs proposed rule. It was so easy, using this great letter writing tool of @faseborg.bsky.social www.faseb.org/science-poli... Did you submit yours yet? The deadline is soon - July 13. This is essential to save science and research in the US.

🎉 New/updated preprint! From 🌟 GS Kirsten Judge + Most neuronal cilia form during development. Can adult neurons rebuild damaged cilia? Are functions restored? Does regrowth use different pathways from ciliogenesis? Answers (in C. elegans): Yes, yes, and partly. 1/6 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

3 artists at my last event asked me "where i got those little prints made with the mats and the plastic," and I'm like "I paint each one by hand, trim it, buy the mats and backing boards, mount them, and buy the plastic sleeves" and they did not like that answer LOL

Matted a bunch of new ones yesterday during Spain v. Belgium #multitasking

And it got blown back into the fence so she’s going to leave it for the duration. Interesting note - they are not allowed to drink alcohol during typhoons even if not on duty.

“It’s pretty fucking windy” she says

Waiting to hear from kiddo how Bavi is treating Okinawa. Must be exciting on the 12th floor of her apartment building.

is it bad when the journal feels this way?

"There won’t be more discoveries, and we’ll just stop at what we already know." @cantlonlab.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/07/10/c...

really think that if democrats hold any chamber of congress next year that a condition of passing a budget is the removal of russ vought, who has a genuinely tyrannical vision of presidential power and is a focal point of the lawlessness of the trump administration

🚨 By July 13, submit your public comment to OMB on their proposed rule “Regulation for Federal Financial Assistance.” OMB won't extend the deadline. Science is at risk. OMB needs to hear factual, data-based examples of the impact of the changes. Comments must be submitted at buff.ly/MIzDI0h. 🧵⬇️

"Irish Blessing" by Brittany Ruocco, Sr. PM May your funding always flow like rivers to the sea, May the hiring freeze thaw gently, setting new positions free. May your results be ever significant, your p-values stand the test, May your lectures fill the hall, and your students give their best.

"The university model may have to change." @neilshubin.bsky.social Listen to your inner fish.