This is a good pithy explainer by @cdelawalla.bsky.social, founder of @standupforscience.net on OMB's proposed rule that affects federal funding. It impacts cancer research, clinical trials, women’s health, climate change, how scientists disseminate information at conferences & public.🧪

Ultimately, this is an all hands moment. Every action, no matter how small, helps push the defense of science and free expression forward. This is one of the most direct ways people can influence executive action, and it doesn’t have to be difficult.

🧪 If you want more information on the OMB rule, here is a video that corresponds to @elizabethginexi.bsky.social’s substack. open.substack.com/pub/elizabet... A must read for every American, as this affects you.

A frustrating false choice. As we've shown—with actual maps!—Democrats can target many Republican seats while respecting the VRA, even if SCOTUS no longer does. www.the-downballot.com/p/how-democr...

🔬 The OMB just proposed rules that would let political appointees override peer-reviewed science funding decisions. As physicians & informaticists, this hits home. Comment period closes July 13. → fight2win.standupforscience.net #StandUpForScience #Medicine #PublicHealth

In this newsletter I outline important actions to take. 1. Submit a comment opposing the rule change. 2. Contact state legislators to ensure states are engaged with the impact at the state and local level. 3. Contact members of Congress. 4. Spread awareness. This rundown is a great source:

Heading home from MUOAA in Montréal. This was my first time in Quebec and I had a wonderful time! Big thanks to Thomas Preston, Miriam Freedman, Andreas Zuend, and @andrewpault.bsky.social for a great conference.

yeah, what are you supposed to do? read?? what you're citing?? come on now.

I posted a legal theory on Bluesky on Friday night and by the end of the weekend, Hakeem Jeffries was talking about it with Virginia Democrats.

SCOTUS in 2022: Five months before Election Day is too late for Louisiana to redraw its GOP House map that harms Black voters. It must wait until 2024. SCOTUS in 2026: Louisiana may cancel its imminent primary—where >40,000 already voted—to enact basically the same old map that harms Black voters

If anything is going to push Democrats to finally accept Supreme Court reform, it's gotta be the past two weeks talkingpointsmemo.com/news/supreme...

State supreme court justices play a critical role in defending your rights and freedoms, which is why the election happening in Georgia right now is so important. Make sure you have a plan to vote for Jen Jordan and Miracle Rankin.

There are thousands of maps that were protected by the VRA until Callais. If you're looking just at Congress, you're missing 99% of the story. If Virginia Beach decides to ditch its district map (required under a VRA suit) and revert to at-large elections, that can't be "offset" elsewhere.

I say it again and again: Because we don’t learn the real history of this country, we do not understand what this country is capable of. After 1870, 22 Black men served in Congress. By 1901, because of racist SCOTUS rulings, electoral coups and election cheating and violence, there were none.

Joe Kernen comes close to having a coronary on air as Pete Buttigieg dogwalks him all over the Squawk Box studio about Trump's economic mismanagement and inflation

Ann Arbor #GoBlue #2026Champs

How long can four doctors hold a grudge over one B+ they received in college? A longitudinal study.

Slaughtering our golden goose: massive budget cuts for US science proposed again by Trump administration www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Every Michigan fan right now.

Current status:

And if you want to learn much more about this cool new thing in energy -- say it with me, everybody -- listen to this Volts pod:

I'm so excited by & curious about this experiment -- basically Ann Arbor is standing up a second, municipal power utility, devoted to clean energy, to operate alongside its IOU. Unique in the world, far as I know:

Oh yeah, in case you haven't bookmarked it yet, our special election Big Board is the original recipe. We've been tracking these races like a hawk for a decade—accept no substitutes! Dems outperforming 2024 presidential results by an average of 13 points.

NSF Update through March 13, 2026 1/2

Fact check: True.

“How do you get penalized for playing a tough schedule by not making the NCAA Tournament?” Specifically mentioning Auburn… Because you won barely half the time! And if we based the field on schedule strength, it would be full of SWAC and MEAC teams!

SCOOP: Less than 1 month before Trump came out against a new bridge connecting Michigan with Canada, the billionaire owner of an existing bridge donated $1M to the Trump-backed super PAC, MAGA Inc. with @matinastevis.bsky.social

According to the Louisiana Democratic Party, Chasity Martinez got outpsent by a 3-to-1 margin in tonight's election yet still turned in a 37-point overperformance—and a victory.

The administrators of Columbia, Penn, Brown will do their best one day to gaslight us into believing they did the best they could, but it’s harder when others made different choices.

Blue wave watch: Democrat flips Trump +17 Texas Senate seat in 32-point swing www.gelliottmorris.com/p/blue-wave-...

BREAKING: Texas Democrat Taylor Rehmet just won a *massive* landslide to flip a deep-red Senate district. He's up by 14 points in a Trump+17 seat—an overperformance of more than 30 points. How did he do it? Here's our full writeup:

The @nytimes.com Lost Science series continues. Here's my Q&A with a scientist who was studying how wildfire smoke threatens human health when the EPA decided that her research was no longer a funding priority. Gift link: nyti.ms/4jhpw14

You seem to have heard correctly

Hearing this is payback for Colorado not honoring Trump/Peters ‘pardon’

National Security Advisor Pelt to Ohio State, but about 13-10s

Ohio State to Michigan, "You can't beat me 13-10 again." Michigan, "no...[points at massive bison in the background] but he can."

Postdoc opening: airborne NH3 measurements Join our team! The UMN atmospheric chemistry group is recruiting a postdoc to collect and analyze airborne NH3 measurements as part of NASA FarmFlux. See z.umn.edu/aw67 for details, & contact Julieta ([email protected]) and I ([email protected]) with questions!

To Arctic explorers out there!,this article journals.ametsoc.org/view/journal... just got published in BAMS! It provides highlight of CHACHA project! @biometlab.bsky.social @paulstoy.bsky.social @eliebz.bsky.social @profdesai.bsky.social @andrewpault.bsky.social @ametsoc.org

A Quick Take on Team Cave’s Big Win talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/a-qui...

Thanks Faye for sharing this

The David Sinclair award went to absolute powerhouse of aerosol science Jonathan Reid And Jason Surratt @surrattairchemlab.bsky.social was recognized by many generations of of his group members and AAAR for his excellence in teaching, mentoring and training 💖💖 #AAAR2025

All-time great plenary this morning on aerosol monitoring networks in the US and globally by Ann Dillner #AAAR2025

Hearty congratulations to Celia Faiola and Coty Jen, joint recipients of the Kenneth T. Whitby award for excellence in aerosol research by an early career researcher #AAAR2025

Plenary speaker Chris Hogan shares some eye-opening thoughts on the Knudsen number at 8 AM #AAAR2025

If the Supreme Court killed the Voting Rights Act by early January, Republicans in several Southern states would likely have enough time before the 2026 elections to re-gerrymander their congressional maps and target Black Democrats whose seats are currently protected by the VRA

Very happy to see this paper out! This has been a fun collaboration between @mcneill-lab.org and the Grassian group at UCSD. We are moving closer towards model representations of this intriguing size dependent microdroplet chemistry. Modeling by @sandhyasethuraman.bsky.social !

A ton of effort goes into tracking special elections on our Big Board, so we're always grateful when people cite us by name and link us. This data—especially the presidential results, which we calculate by hand—doesn't grow on trees! Ds now running 15.7 pts ahead of 2024. In 2017-18, it was D+10.6.

Today, the San Diego County Board of Supervisors proclaimed September 9, 2025, to be “Dr. Kimberly Prather and Dr. Paula Stigler Granados Day” in the County of San Diego. Supervisor and Scripps alumna Paloma Aguirre authored the proclamation. Congrats to @kprather.bsky.social and Paula!