If you don't know @jeremymberg.bsky.social you should. He's a hero for our times. Scientist, former institute director at #NIH, former editor-in-chief for @science.org. He is what public service is about. None of the current Administration leaders even come close to his contribution to science.

Please share with anyone who cares about NSF support for graduate students and take 30 seconds to sign and leave a comment. The deadline for the 2025 Graduate Research Fellowship Program is about one month away and literally no one can apply. #NSFGRFP jasonjwilliamsny.github.io/grfp2025/

On October 6, please join me, @richardsever.bsky.social, @rachelzamzow.bsky.social, and @gabestein.com for a virtual panel: how can we make sure open science advances not just science itself, but society’s understanding of, trust in, and willingness to invest in research? Register here:

“We are at such a dangerous and delicate moment in American history. The onus is on all of us to reject the fantasy of civility in favor of repair. This country is broken, but that need not be permanent.” @roxanegay.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/09/24/o...

It is representative of a *profound* failure of a country that this group of people are up there talking about medicine and science at all

The future of @cibss.bsky.social @uni-freiburg.de is about teamwork, curiosity, and collaboration across disciplines. We are thrilled to be in this together @kraftlabfr.bsky.social @archaellum.bsky.social @kleinevehnlab.bsky.social !

Of all the stupid things that this regime has done, this is right up near the top. Postdoctoral researchers come to the US on H-1B visas. This will further destroy the US science enterprise. Stupid stupid stupid.

My latest post over on Unprofessoring: some thoughts about witnessing, creating community, and a pitch for @unbreaking.org 🍤

I smashed repost too fast. I believe in this ethos down to my bones. We cannot make the things we need alone, but we can make fantastic, indie projects together. Everything I’ve done for a decade is in this vein. And I think @unbreaking.org might just be the project of a lifetime.

Call for a tenure-track position at our Department of Plant Molecular Biology in Lausanne! We are searching for promising early-career researchers in the broad field of plant-organismal interactions. Deadline: November 30, 2025 - Please re-post! career5.successfactors.eu/career?caree...

Ta-Nehisi Coates remains clear-eyed as ever on the subject of Ezra Klein and a punditry eager to wash whiteness. “…the hard question must be asked: If you would look away from the words of Charlie Kirk, from what else would you look away?” www.vanityfair.com/news/story/c...

I realize this is either a terribly bad time to post about this or an increasingly relevant one, but if you're having a tough time caring about work tasks with so much else happening, I'd love to hear about how that's showing up for you, and what (if anything) has helped:

📢Panel Announcement: The Journey of Plants through Black Botanist Join us for an inspiring and educational panel exploring the profound connections between plants, people, and the powerful legacy of Black botanists throughout history and today. Register here: buff.ly/D0t0mgb

Each Friday, I summarize what is happening to American science & higher ed. 🧪 This was Week 34: - UC Berkeley feeds the administration a list of targets - Dept of Ed rescinds $350M from minority serving institutions - faculty firings at Texas A&M & so (SO) much more buttondown.com/liminalcreat...

wrote on charlie kirk for the newsletter this weekend

I changed my course content from the published description and from the syllabus almost every year in response to new data, political changes, my own education. This is *exactly* about academic freedom. #academicsky

I need people to also understand that faculty have been harassed like this - specifically with staged protests and secret recordings- for decades The ESCALATION (and this matters!) is the president so pathetically caving and firing the dean and department head

Here is a website from the Senate Committee on Appropriations that is tracking all the 🧪 research and training funding, over $410 billion, being held up by the Trump administration. Read it and weep (not in a good way). www.appropriations.senate.gov/trumps-unpre...

Don’t say “Dems aren’t doing anything.” There’s just little attention to the courage of these Missouri Dems resisting the extreme gerrymandering of Republicans desigmed to increase Republican numbers in the House. www.kfvs12.com/2025/09/05/m...

RFK Jr.: "This is crazy talk! You're making stuff up!" RFK Jr.: "You're making things up to scare people, and it's a lie!" Sen. Hassan: "Every time you make an accusation, it's kind of a confession, Mr. Kennedy." We couldn't say it better. 🎤💥

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We won!! “Defendants used antisemitism as a smokescreen for a targeted, ideologically-motivated assault on this country’s premier universities … Their actions have jeopardized decades of research and the welfare of all those who could stand to benefit from that research.”

BREAKING: Last night, the Harvard faculty chapter of the AAUP and the national AAUP filed a lawsuit & TRO to block the Trump administration from illegally demanding that we keep quiet and change how we teach and research at the point of a financial gun. actionnetwork.org/user_files/u...

I set up my perfect little office at the National Humanities Center today and then promptly sat down and cried. This is what it has all been for.

I just wanted to quickly note that this piece was an all-women effort, start to finish. From the reporters to the witnesses and even the lawyer who reviewed it, seven women working in different capacities were able to bring this story of gross malfeasance to life. Proud The Handbasket can do this.

Each Friday, I write up the impacts to science 🧪& higher ed. This was Week 32: + Chaos & courage as CDC Director Monarez fired & 4 top leaders resign + FDA limits COVID vax eligibility, pharmacies restricting access + pocket rescission, sad research shut downs & more buttondown.com/liminalcreat...

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#USAnotRFK!

This goes for scientific manuscripts, too, you know—what if we read them outside a “find the mistakes” mindset? 🧪

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There's something oddly comforting in the Fall 2025 semester starting with a faculty-wide email, to which multiple professors replied-all to be removed from the list, followed by multiple faculty asking everyone not to reply-all, followed by multiple profs replying-all to be removed from the list. 🤌

Insisting on expertise over ideology is not “politicizing” science. The ideologues installing scientific and governmental policy that is contradicted by evidence and data are. By emphasizing ideology over expertise, THEY have made arguing for expertise and evidence-based decision making partisan.

The August issue is now fully online, with a beautiful cover that might be a nostalgia trigger for some of us (young people can find an explanation in the Editorial): www.nature.com/nplants/volu...

It can now be told: Joshua tree is CAM

New post about Lysenko and Bhattacharya from @angierasmussen.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/rasmusse...

I have been struggling how to think about the distinctions that the leadership at the NIH has been making about how to handle racial and gender disparities, both at the level of health outcomes and professional outcomes and I think it comes down to professional issues like this

To answer the question - he is indeed selling something: doubt. Just like all the other merchants of doubt, *casting doubt* benefits the powerful. In this case, this entire group's objective is to cast doubt on science, public health, and collective action in the face of enormous challenges.

I’ve been up all night dealing with fraud, but as I wait for the next credit agency to open, pls consider adding your name to this letter by @standupforscience.bsky.social @cdelawalla.bsky.social calling for the impeachment of RFK Jr. We knew he would kill people, and he already has. He must go.

I have a PhD in Genome Sciences and 16 years of experience as a science communicator And my job has turned into copying and pasting citations into pubmed to check if they're AI hallucinations How is this increasing efficiency??? Watching the destruction of science makes me want to cry

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I’m proud to present the main work from my postdoc, 3+ years in making from scratch, my ultimate #MimulusPropaganda up till now: The Moment That Symmetry Breaks. #plantscience #development #imaging #microscopy 🧪🌸🔬 w. Captain Yaowu & @biancatash.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Any plant biologist with a funded NIH R35 MIRA ESI willing to share their proposal with me? THANKS. #PlantSciences

While many institutions are capitulating to Trump, my favorite scientific societies are fighting back. Aug 1 @ascbiology.bsky.social, @asm.org, @asbmb.bsky.social, & @faseborg.bsky.social jointly filed an expanded amicus brief with the Supreme Court in American Public Health Association v. NIH 1/n

This!

It's a weird day for those of us who were only allowed to watch PBS as kids.

New: The Corporation for Public Broadcasting says it is shutting down cpb.org/pressroom/Co...