Holy cow. NSF canceled the Major Research Instrumentation program call this year. This is not the rug being pulled out from under US science. This is the whole foundation. www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...

I don’t have a lot of ways to support federal agency staff but you better believe I just answered a panel request in record time. They deserve better and I wish we could do more than leave voicemails with representatives expressing that. 🧪

Aside from attacks on appropriations, the administration cuts US science by preventing the NSF and other agencies from distributing the funds. As far as I can tell, they are not taking a chainsaw to these agencies. They are putting them in a blender. www.scientificamerican.com/article/trum...

I was in the NSF building once. I went to serve on a review panel: I and six other scientists put aside our own work to travel to the NSF HQ and evaluate our peers' research proposals, working together for two intense days to prioritize support for the most impactful new science. I'll miss it.

SPT-3G D1 Webinar: CMB TT/TE/EE power spectra and cosmology from 2019-2020 observations from SPT-3G Main Field - Now Live!!! youtu.be/TRJ5sfAwnao @NSF @doescience @UChicago #NSFfunded #DOEfunded #Antarctica

New detectors are installed on the new 90 GHz receiver at our Chile site! Go team!!

The new array of 90 GHz detector modules is assembled in Chile. Ready to go into the new telescope! #NSFfunded

Despicable. Trump’s goons are roughing up and handcuffing @padilla.senate.gov as he tries to ask a simple question. This is what dictatorship looks like. Watch:

Holy cow. 86% of Republicans support using the military to advance the administration's aims in a US city. From the NYTimes polling 1000 citizens

"Microwave signals from the cosmic dawn are famously difficult to measure ... Overcoming those obstacles makes this measurement a significant achievement," said JHU professor and project leader @tamarriage.bsky.social. hub.jhu.edu/2025/06/11/t...

💫 Here is a new JHU Hub article by Hannah Robbins to accompany the @aas.org‬ ApJ publication of our first optical depth measurement! 💫 #NSFfunded hub.jhu.edu/2025/06/11/t...

🎉 Just published in ApJ! Our paper on the first measurement of the reionization optical depth with ground based data! 🎉 We already have twice as much data in the can, so hopefully we'll have an updated result soon! #NSFfunded iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3...

"If you saw all this in any other country — soldiers sent to crush dissent, union leaders arrested, opposition politicians threatened — it would be clear that autocracy had arrived." "This Is What Autocracy Looks Like www.nytimes.com/2025/06/09/o...

Go team!

Q: "Could we really see active duty Marines on the streets of Los Angeles?" Johnson: "I don't think that's heavy handed." Q: "You don't think sending Marines into the streets of an American city is heavy handed?" Johnson: "We have to be prepared to do what is necessary."

Coco Gauff telling the ball kids “you guys are awesome!” and that of course they can touch the cup. There are different levels of winning; opening space to lift up others is the top.

Hot take. The government isn’t subsidizing university budgets. Universities are lending subsidized expertise to research and development that contributes to the public good. It’s called partnership.

Don't always agree with Brooks, but this resonated and gripped me. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/29/o...

"Some [Chinese students] also have deep admiration for America’s professed values of openness and diversity. But they must reckon with the fact — made clearer by the Trump administration every day — that many in the United States may not share that admiration." www.nytimes.com/2025/05/29/w...

Richard Bond and George Efstathiou have won the Shaw Prize “for their pioneering research in cosmology, in particular for their studies of fluctuations in the cosmic microwave background”. 🧪⚛️ ow.ly/C9MY50VZVGm

So much damage control to do now. What a destructive move.

Trump posted a video in which Gaza is entirely ethnically cleansed & replaced by a luxury resort devoted to Trump. I know there's a lot going on, but everyone should really take a moment to reflect on this.

Do you know when the EPA declared greenhouse gasses to be harmful? In 2009.   These science-denying ideologues are literally taking us back in time and trying to wreck our ability to fight the climate crisis and ensure clean air and water for the American people. We must stop them.

Finally some equity from the regime -- not stopping at axing folks who "work on protecting poor and minority communities that face disproportionate levels of pollution," but also getting rid of those who protect all Americans.

I just finished listening to "America Last" by Jacob Heilbrunn. It does a good job of tracking far-right authoritarianism to the early 1900s. Pub'ed Feb 2024, it's spooky how the rhetoric of the right up to then is being executed verbatim now. For listening, I recommend libro.fm ❤️

✨Awesome progress!✨ Our high-school intern Jerome and mentor Carol Chan with Jerome's device to measure the heat 🌡️ of radiation entering the telescope receiver! Great job Jerome and Carol! 🚀 #NSFfunded!

Another extremely effective and impactful program preparing the next generation for scientific careers is undermined, to the detriment of the students and America’s future. “All of the students who became involved with H2O last fall continued into the spring semester and remained STEM majors.”

Sometimes you just have to do the measurement.

Letter-of-recommendation season returns, and once again I'm thankful for places like University of Chicago that do not require numerical rankings of students in addition to the letter. Students should be judged on their accomplishments, not some vague notion of their ranked intellectual ability etc.