A record percentage of U.S. law school students landed legal jobs soon after graduating in 2025, according to data released Wednesday by the American Bar Association, despite reduced hiring ​for government and public interest jobs reut.rs/48KpWJa

Very informative post from Elizabeth Ginexi about NIH grant delays. elizabethginexi.substack.com/p/the-execut...

Sigh, terrible that I don't even need sourcing, I know this quote so well. The cite for this is in the alt but you can also learn about it's context here. theintercept.com/2022/08/25/s...

New study estimates annual mortality rates among individuals detained by ICE from fiscal year 2004-January 19, 2026, summarizes age & cause of death patterns. 🛟😷 health policy sociology demography lawsky idsky polisky

If you think legislation that targets “low enrollment degrees” only impacts the humanities please look at this list. Degrees in chemistry, math, physics, political science, data analytics, psychology and economics are being eliminated. ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/04/16/o...

1/ 🧵 Last week, data on fertility and birth rates for 2025 was released. As news networks started reporting on it, this clip started making the rounds on socials. Now, I think most people will agree with me that a drop in teen pregnancy is a good thing. But when we zoom out, there is a bigger trend.

Since the beginning of Operation Metro Surge in Minnesota, thousands of Minnesotans have lost income. MPC members Nick Graetz and Yusra Murad used multiple scenarios to estimate the increase in 'rent-debt'. They expect the burden to continue to grow. https://bit.ly/4sr9X9R

“We scientists are used to sticking to our knitting. But I began realizing that science needed defending,” says @samwang.bsky.social. @nature.com talked to researchers running for office who say the "science is above politics" era is a failed business model.

This is a handy little website if you want to keep track of how things are going with science funding. sciencespending.org#overview

A shocking new poll result: Many Americans somehow don't have a favorite dinosaur. And only 6% give the correct answer (triceratops). Check out YouGov's new polling on Americans and dinosaurs: yougovamerica.substack.com/p/whats-your...

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.

The NSF GRFP is now out! There are 2,599 awardees, which is the most ever—and a big shift from last year which initially halved awardees (1,000 awardees + an additional 500). I've thrown together a plot to break down the changes by field. www.research.gov/grfp/Awardee...

My husband, repeatedly: “How can they do this? How can it be so precise??” SCIENCE. Publicly funded science.

I love this essay by @jasonmfletcher.bsky.social I try to be very honest with students about some of the many (MANY) “lottery-winning” moments in my career trajectory. Here’s just one: 1/

I love me an article that pushes back on low fertility panic by talking to demographers like @karenguzzo.bsky.social and @philipncohen.com. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/04/09/u...

CONGRESSIONAL AXN NEEDED!! “Congress should provide a right to immediate judicial relief to keep federal grants from being unlawfully cut off. …Congress should [allow] action in federal district court seeking immediate… relief against an unlawful termination or withholding of a federal grant.”

I thought maybe state schools in the NCAA tournament would have more in-state players. They did, barely. I thought higher seeds would have fewer in-state players due to recruiting, but they didn’t. Correlated to seeding? The number of foreign-born players. www.howtoreadthisch.art/r/2cdfea22?m...

Here you go... You can always check yourself at grant-witness.us/funding_curv...

I hadn't seen this before. This is pretty remarkable. Earth and Moon in one NASA photo. ht @astrokatie.com

This is an excellent statement of scientific values that we should all strive to uphold. 🧪🧠🤖 Sharing from @suryaganguli.bsky.social , who said this is the Stanford Med affirmation that all their PhD grads sign. 1/

This is hilarious because it implies that her husband DID call her while she was in space on the ISS to ask her help in looking for something. 💀🌌

More context on this #Artemis II image: * This is the night side, lit by moonlight. You can see city lights in Spain & Portugal, & a sliver of day at lower right * The Sun is entirely behind Earth, which makes it a kind of solar eclipse, but w/ Earth doing the eclipsing instead of the Moon: ☀️🌍🚀🌕

Another big surprise contained in today's budget proposal: A government wide ban on using federal funds for "expensive" scientific publishing. This shows the issue is a “broader conversation happening across the government” beyond just the NIH, says @csmarcum.bsky.social.

The federal housing agency wants to shift money away from permanent housing and toward programs that impose sobriety and other conditions. Advocates warn that would push many back into homelessness. n.pr/4coVAgz

In the just-up “Ending Birthright Citizenship,” @vanhookjenny.bsky.social & @nicolekreisberg.bsky.social determined that Latinos would account for ~80% of “unauthorized” births & Asians would experience the greatest relative impact of the Exec Order. @pop.psu.edu read.dukeupress.edu/demography/a...

HOLY SHIT UCONN

For #NSF and #NIH watchers, Grant Witness now has interactive data on numbers of grants and total funding obligations, broken down by institute and directorate, new awards and non-competitive renewals. The stranglehold on new awards is still a disaster. grant-witness.us/funding_curv...

There have been no federal funding opportunities in the infectious disease space for close to 1.5 years. A while back, a few "forecasted" opportunities popped up, however, all of those just went the way of the dodo 👇 Good read on what's happening here: elizabethginexi.substack.com/p/inside-the...

At Kennedy Space Center astronauts have to take elevators to the top of launch pad towers in order to enter their space capsules before lift off. This is the elevator panel at Pad 39A.

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

More on the NIH funding opportunity graveyard from Liz Ginexi. NIH has stopped the vast majority of funding opportunities. Some were officially terminated. Others are many months overdue, a death by delay, including congressionally mandated programs. elizabethginexi.substack.com/p/inside-the...

Hear ye, hear ye!!! All applicants and/or reviewers for NIH: update to late submission policy, end of continuous submission!!! Because recruiting reviewers wasn’t hard enough. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

It is a great deal of work for scientists to serve on review panels. There are few perks. Maybe an honorarium that pays for one day of meals. They spend hours reading each application (n=10+ apps). And now they don’t even get the dog treat of having some extra time to write their own applications.

My version of this curve (for all awards). The rate of award making appears to have flattened during March, perhaps due to the OMB limitations (now relieved) in combination with staffing shortages. 2/6

NICHD issued one NOFO in 2025. One. Despite publishing an intent to issue over a dozen. This is a disturbing trend, w/ NIH implying that nofo’s detract from the best ideas. Despite only ~15% of grants a year are funded by targeted NOFOs. Nofos allocate funding under- addressed scientific issues.

The John F. Kennedy Library Foundation said it chose to honor Twin Cities residents “for risking their lives to protect their neighbors and immigrant community members from an unprecedented federal law enforcement operation."

lots of jarring statistics and heartbreaking stories I could share from this story, but this particular anecdote made me tear up when @jonathanwosen.bsky.social first shared this story with me For more details from our survey of ~1000 nih-funded researchers, read the report below

Biomedical researchers breathed a collective sigh of relief after the White House loosened the purse strings that had hindered the U.S. National Institutes of Health from spending its 2026 budget on research grants. https://scim.ag/4uTZpCT

This is *very* cool... www.space.com/astronomy/as...

OMB has posted the full-year apportionments for NIH. openomb.org/file/11511545 I believe this means that NIH now has the spending authority to fund grants! There may be nuances and I will be tracking these as best I can.

Good Morning! Dislike sportsball? Still like winning? We've got you: March Madness for outbreak nerds! 8 crazy investigations published in MMWR are going head to head, each more unhinged than the next. You've got til 2pm to vote for the first bracket in the post below. bsky.app/profile/altc...

Wondering why NIH and NSF aren't making new grants? We explain what's happening at OMB. www.science.org/content/arti...

Another interesting NIH data set. NIH has posted the funding data by location (state, congressional district, organization) for fiscal year 2025. report.nih.gov/award/index.... 1/6

Bhattacharya is abt to testify in front of the House approps committee ~Halfway into the fiscal year the agency is behind on spending (again) There isn't one culprit — more involvement from OMB, staffing issues, and adjusting to new priorities are all at play www.statnews.com/2026/03/17/n...

3/3 In conclusion, while FACA may induce mild somnolence, it protects the integrity of advisory committees. This isn’t just paperwork: following the rules builds public trust, supports science, and ultimately saves lives. Good night, and may all your records be complete.

We Study Mass Shooters. Something Terrifying Is Happening Online. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/17/o...

This Russell Vought, trying to usurp the power of the purse. Congress and the people have made it abundantly clear that they want to fund science. But Vought keeps trying to steal those funds. www.science.org/content/arti...

In 2025, NIH institutes entered 391 total funding announcements into grants.gov . Only 120 of them were actually posted and opened for applications. That means 271 announcements (69% of planned) were written, reviewed internally, entered into the system, and then blocked at the final approval stage.

www.npr.org/2026/03/11/n... "This is exactly the scenario that kept me up at night. An irrecoverable loss of the entirety of our personal data. Once that data has 'left the building', you cannot close Pandora's box again"