All the Mamdani-backed candidates seem to have won tonight. Huge.

Big props to Brad Lander on winning his primary. Dude has done the moral thing many times and put his body on the line against ICE. He even came to Minnesota during the ICE Occupation to see the injustice firsthand. It’s nice to see moral courage rewarded by voters.

My friend's NSF CAREER received the highest possible score (Excellent, Excellent, Excellent: High Priority) and it was rejected today. This would have been my friend's first extramural award, 5 years after starting their lab, exactly when grant $ is make or break for an Assistant Professor's career.

In the announcement issued immediately after Trump launched the war in Iran, he declared, “We’re going to destroy their missiles and raise their missile industry to the ground. It will be totally, again, obliterated.” It was the first of five objectives. 109 days later:

This is kinda wild actually

Wow. Iran gets sanctions relief, the release of frozen funds, the ability to export oil, and a $300 billion reconstruction fund. The U.S. gets a reiteration of the vague promise Iran won’t develop a nuke. Hard to imagine a more thorough capitulation.

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“.. the agreement has not yet achieved the core goals he laid out three months ago “.. Back then, Mr. Trump said the United States intended to .. ‘topple its theocratic leadership and liberate its people’ ..” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/06/15/w...

Not to mention the stock market reacts EVERY SINGLE TIME as if whatever nonsense about Iran Trump tweets is actually true.

You are only a real New Yorker if you grew up in the sewers under the city with your Italian-named brothers and were raised by a mutant Japanese rat and trained in the martial arts.

They’re packaging it like this so it looks like a shallow trend, but Gen Z has gone through two financial crises, a pandemic, rising fascism, active shooter drills since they were toddlers, and are now being told by the oligarchy they’re to be replaced by robots. Socialism is the logical conclusion.

Congratulations to everyone who said it would get this bad. Your prize is watching everyone who disagreed now claim no one could have predicted it would get this bad.

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This is absurd. The administration's proposal would sacrifice the post-war American research system that sparked unprecedented scientific advancement in favor of an ideological loyalty test that would reduce groundbreaking scientific discovery to a game of bureaucratic compliance. #academicsky

This rules. Absolutely the funniest possible outcome. The president of the United States filling in as the headliner of a concert because Milli Vanilli canceled.

Of all the harm this administration has done to US science, today's proposed changes to the way federal grants are awarded and administered is the most damaging yet. The text of the federal register document is impenetrably tedious by design, so here's an excellent summary of what it says.

President of MIT not mincing words today in @statnews.com www.statnews.com/2026/05/27/s...

(1) Overall impact scores will be binned into THREE bins: Top 25%, 25-50%, and >50%. (2) Overall impact scores will be retained but will NOT BE SHARED with program officers, advisory councils, or institute/center/office (ICO) leadership. 2/3

I hope to God this is not true

If we're gonna make everything else about R01s horrible now couldn't we at least make modular budgets like $425k? Almost nobody proposes less than that anyway.

Synapses Bloom (Allagash collab) and Forevermore at Threes Brewing in Brooklyn. Great way to spend a rainy Sunday!

God, it rules so much that he skipped his son's wedding because he was so busy, only to sit around making posts about Hulk Hogan.

Philly take note from David Byrne! As a cyclist myself this also drives me absolutely bonkers youtu.be/-J3ydoAC708?...

The likelihood of another US-Israel bombing campaign against Iran or a US military action against Cuba just went up.

More of this from university leadership please!!! www.wsj.com/opinion/get-...

Wondering why the NIH has such a slow pace of grantmaking this year? Here’s my breakdown. elizabethginexi.substack.com/p/the-execut...

NBC News' Steve Kornacki breaks down how progressive candidate Chris Rabb won Pennsylvania's 3rd Congressional District amid a field of other candidates with a range of endorsements.

It's the Rabbture. Big win. The Democratic establishment and AIPAC threw everything at Rabb and he still won.

There is a new Democratic Socialist in Congress. DSA congratulates our member Chris Rabb on his election for Pennsylvania’s 3rd Congressional District. This victory would not have been possible without the work of thousands of working class people across Philadelphia organizing for a better world.

🙌 🙌 🙌 DSA FTW!!

A relentless takedown, by @maxkozlov.bsky.social @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/d41...

In other words, despite all the happy talk and propaganda there is no end in sight to this so Republicans have to pile on more debt in addition to increasing the national debt with the cost of the war, more military spending, a fortune for ICE, and a ballroom.

Heading to NYC in a couple weeks, is this worth $75? www.axs.com/motionpictur....

Boomer scientists are all in on AI for grants and data analysis in a completely unthoughtful and likely dangerous way. Big trouble coming.

Again this should inspire wall-to-wall media coverage for months. The crowning achievement of the Civil Rights Movement is dead. Black people just lost all of their remaining political power in the South. This is a monumental moment in American history that simply isn't being treated as such.

quickest way from my experience to shut down the elite trope is to ask if academics are the elite, then why are college football coaches paid more than the professors?

New results published in the New England Journal of Medicine finds Moderna’s mRNA flu vaccine gave more protection against illness than the standard flu shot in a Phase 3 clinical trial.

“Historically, allowing regimes to collect lists of Jewish people has not boded well for their safety.”

I have a lot of mixed emotions about the news. I am happy to return to my colleagues & grantees, to public service. I am worried about being expected to censor grants. I feel vindicated, as my reinstatement proves false the lies an HHS official and NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya spoke about me.

This was fitting news to receive on May 1, international workers day. I will be returning to work on Monday after being kept on retaliatory administrative leave for 5 months and 3 weeks. I return along with the brave Katrina Declaration signers from FEMA, also reinstated this week. 🧵1/?

The president of Cornell backed his car into a student and a recent grad after a campus debate on Israel-Palestine. Then he lied about what happened in an email claiming he'd been the victim of harassment. Then, magnificently, Cornell's student newspaper found a video of the incident

I keep thinking about the ease with which they cancelled elections over the last 24 hours

From #ScienceUnderSiege (by @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social & yours truly):

The Epstein Cover-Up Goes All The Way To The Almost Top. theonion.info.

“I think that the scientific community and NSF employees and people who wanted the board to speak up were right,” she says. “We should have been speaking up all along.” www.nature.com/articles/d41...