People have already memory-holed how critical #TeslaTakeDown was. It was the earliest decentralized set of protests in the second term as early as Feb 2025 at a time when most people were shell-shocked and Dem leadership was cowering and capitulating. And it pushed Elon out of the WH.

the ai industry unleashing genai into the public & expecting society (academics, policy makers & cso) to find solutions is like big oil polluting oceans & expecting individuals to clean it up 👇🏾 approaches are important but we need sustainable solution that tackles prob from th root: regulate big AI

The largest forest research organization in the world, the US Forest Service's R&D branch, may lose up to 74% of its sites under a planned reorganization. Researchers on the ground and former officials shared many thoughts with Nature's News team: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

NPR story about multi-year funding, few NOFOs, and delays with me, Elizabeth Ginexi, and @docsirianni.bsky.social www.npr.org/2026/05/05/n...

say it with me fellas 🗣️ the ocean of truth washes over the pebbles with every wave, and they rattle and clink with the most wondrous din 🗣️

Every year, I mentor students who spend weeks submitting to Hertz (unless I can dissuade them). And every year, these shameful stats 😡 1) rich-get-richer while 2) disingenuously stealing the time of thousands of students, who believe it's about merit of their work @bakerdphd.bsky.social

This week I got to witness a demo of acoustic fire suppression in Concord, CA. Experts I spoke with still have a lot of questions. Read my latest for @arstechnica.com : arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026...

Colette Delawalla launched Stand Up for Science to push back against the Trump’s cuts to medical and scientific research

Over 28,000 young people signed on for a Seattle Public Library card, which enables access to e-books even if they don't live in Seattle. The program was started by Brooklyn Public Library to expand service in communities impacted by censorship.

The Trump administration actively dismantling American leadership in science, a nihilistic legacy that will stretch for years as long as political ideology supplants evidence as the basis for policy making, oversight, and funding. 🎁 wapo.st/3P3DSY2

Breaking: Trump has fired the membership of the National Science Board, which is oversees NSF. I have confirmed separately with multiple now-former members of NSB.

NEW: NSF has been funding research at a fraction of its historic rate. Last week, the agency finally began distributing money to its directorates and is now likely to pick up the grantmaking pace. But these allocations also amount to substantial cuts across the sciences. My reporting:

Happy #EarthDay 2026! Bioluminescence at Rialto Beach, Olympic Natl Park, Washington 📸Mathew Nichols

This morning, my tween snuck on my computer and...left me these gifs, to greet the day. I figured I'd do what I could to pass it on! #parentingjoy #puppyGIFs #notpolitics #haihooman

The Infowars news is funny, yes. But more importantly, it is an outright rebuke of Alex Jones' evil. It's testament to the strength and resilience of the Sandy Hook families who survived this bullshit for more than a decade as well as the Onion, which didn't give up on this for the last 18 months.

Page from Charles Darwin's notebooks - Tree of Life A sketch of an evolutionary tree describing the relationships among groups of organisms

#FridayFundingFrustration #STEM Anyone have takes - worth even applying to #NSF these days? I've got: ✔️mature idea/fit ✔️partners ✔️open solicitation But am I just wasting a month, to write/submit? @colincarlson.bsky.social @hormiga.bsky.social @noamross.net @jeremymberg.bsky.social

Thune should immediately call the Senate back into session. Trump’s unhinged threats to commit massive war crimes against Iranian civilian targets show an increasing mental and moral instability we can’t ignore.

These are the rantings of a bloodthirsty lunatic. It is sick beyond measure to threaten to wipe out an entire civilization. This is not what the American people want. It is well past time for the Republican Congress to join Democrats and put an end to this war.

"At an internal all-hands meeting on Friday, NSF leaders announced that they would dissolve the agency’s Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences directorate based on the budget request, according to two NSF staff members who shared information anonymously in order to speak freely"

Here is my Claude Skill for bringing some evidence guardrails to doing a health question/evidence review. It has many opinionated design decisions, and I have written a pretty lengthy README to share the thinking behind it: github.com/DrCatHicks/i...

The Atlantic muscles in on @nytpitchbot.bsky.social ...

Just so you understand, this is as if you prepared for argument in front of a panel that included Cookie Monster, and Cookie Monster asked you a question about cookies, and you had not thought about cookies in advance.

🆕 A global review of global science on the societal impacts of #river & #wetland restoration. Studies from 6 continents show that restoration delivers major gains for #water security, flood risk, food security, climate mitigation, cultural values & biodiversity. wwf.panda.org/discover/our...

New research! Noise-induced annoyance & sleep disturbance from aircraft training at Naval Air Station Whidbey Is. @uwenvironment.bsky.social @omfishient.bsky.social @sounddefenseall.bsky.social @quietcommunities.bsky.social doi.org/10.1121/10.0... Paper: www.researchgate.net/publication/...

Happy St. Patrick's Day, New York.

Attention Science Communicators! We are conducting a survey on the landscape of science communication & need your help gathering experiences. Please send this to #SciComm ppl you know. We want to get as thorough a sense of the state of the field as we can. umiami.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Breast cancer mortality dropped 58% from 1975 to 2019. Localized, early detected breast cancer has a 99% 5 year survival rate. Modern mammogram tech was developed by NASA for telescopes. Last year, RFK Jr. cancelled 87 research grants on breast cancer. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/16/u...

"Your steadfast commitment to our strategic mission, despite the multiple tramplings, maulings, and other encounters we shall henceforth refer to as 'terminal networking opportunities' has not gone unnoticed." www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/a-m...

Happening today at 5 pm PT/8 pm ET!

Hello! One month from today I’m releasing my new book about our majestic universe, which thinks with poetry, quantum physics, relativity, Zhou kingdom philosophy, galaxies, particles, Akan aphorisms, Black feminism, Star Trek, Alice in Wonderland. AND it’s for all readers. 📚💙 Please preorder it! 🧵

Trying to make sense of an aircraft’s movements during a conflict? Context is everything. That’s why we built Turnstone, an open source tool that searches historical flight data to allow researchers to explore flight patterns over time and in specific locations. www.bellingcat.com/resources/20...

Next week, capstone students in the ENVS class I'm teaching will present "Environmental Impacts of Large Data Centers" Most data centers don't get an EIA, so we have to DIY it - come hear their research on 3 proposed centers! @carlbergstrom.com @wolvendamien.bsky.social @meadekrosby.bsky.social

When someone says „Scientists do not want you to know“ you can dismiss everything from there on. Scientists want you to know. They are desperate that you know. They can’t shut up about what they found out and want you to know.

I know there is a lot, but this really does break a part of me. It is so lawless on so many levels — and each individual boat strike is a choice.

“Trump and his allies’ [voting] rhetoric is the type of “red-alarm fire that people need to take very seriously,” said Washington Attorney General Nick Brown, who leads the Democratic Attorneys General Association’s election protection working group.” Read more at www.politico.com/news/2026/02...

Finally, SCOTUS reaffirms what we've known all along, Trump's tariffs are an unconstitutional tax on the American people. Over the last year, working people paid an average of $1,000 more because of these tariffs. And Trump has no plan to put that money back in your wallet.

Thinking through what my #NoKings protest sign will look like for 3/28 and it might be this Thomas Paine quote. Because my sons will be better than the men who came before them. #No👑

"signs that NSF may be retreating from its initial position that the rejected proposals “will not be considered further.” One student who received an RWR email tells Science that NSF rejected their first appeal but their second resulted in being told that the proposal “is being actively reviewed.”

About NSF GRFP's being rejected without peer review: [from submitted info to Grant Witness] "12 RWRs as involving ecology, six in cell biology, five in psychology, four in neuroscience, and 14 in other subfields of biology" www.science.org/content/arti...

This is a genuinely huge, sweeping victory today for the University of California—or rather, for us, its faculty, acting through our faculty associations, while the UC itself maintained a strict policy of deer-in-headlights silence. The Trump admin has given up its appeal of a powerful injunction:

For my money, the way thousands of regular people are self-organizing to resist data centers is one of the most cautiously hopeful stories going right now. www.themountaineer.com/news/no-cryp...

I don’t really know what I expect in posting this, but maybe some people see it and can learn from it. I’ll call it “lessons from an unwilling immigration attorney.” 1/

And more reporting on a historic program that is increasingly unsettled, with late-breaking changes to criteria, fewer awards, applications returned without review, and more: via @jonathanwosen.bsky.social for @statnews.com www.statnews.com/2026/02/11/n...

we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad

👀 What if I told you there was a hidden art gallery scattered across the country? What if I told you some of its treasures had vanished? What if I told you that I found them? A project three years in the making (🎁 gift link):

The central arguments in this new Opinion are premised on what appears to be a reasonable opening and title "A tale of many twos" In this case the "twos" represent a division of who Thorp believes (or would like his reader to believe) are involved in confronting cuts to science.

NSF GRFP applicants (and mentors): Was your application Returned Without Review and deemed ineligible despite fitting in the allowed topics? 1) Write NSF 2) Write your Congressperson 3) CC us at [email protected] so we can compile + follow up Details and template at grant-witness.us/grfp-letter

American schools in 2024 spent $30 billion on education technology, with limited (or negative) results. "Imagine if all that money had gone into teachers instead" www.economist.com/united-state...

Judge Biery signed the order with a photo of Liam and two bible verses: The first is "But Jesus said, Suffer little children, and forbid them not, to come unto me: for of such is the kingdom of heaven." The second is simply "Jesus wept." Astonishing thing for a judge to do.