Holy COW. Text analysis of comments on the OMB rule: overwhelming opposition, overwhelmingly not form letters. (But 9 in 10 comments supporting the rule ARE form responses, LOL) Whatever happens next, folks have stepped up.

I'm re-re-posting this significant article: "The open-source archive now contains more than 500,000 digitized photographs, identification papers, diaries, maps, films, and letters, many of which were collected directly from Palestinian families and might otherwise have been lost forever."

"Rescued data has to be collected, and then it has to go somewhere; it has to be validated, described, made findable, & kept accessible." The systems that do that work are assumed to exist… or invisible in the funding picture entirely. investinopen.org/blog/data-re...

There is no plan or budget model w/o foreign students There is no plan or budget model w/o NSF/NIH/Title VI/FLAS/etc. federal funding There is no plan or budget model with further state budget cuts There is no plan or budget model with further state government caps on tuition There is no plan

So long and thanks for all the cores

This review really goes for the jugular.

Dems have to run on this hard. Do not let the RFK types try to spin what his own party just signed off on here. Actual Monsanto, the comic book villain of Adbusters days, was shielded from liability over poisoning Americans. I don't care if it's slopulism: this Supreme Court wants you dead.

i think it is great that conservative students functionally work as a volunteer stasi for republican politicians and conservative media

"...the future of the world’s largest open-access digital library for biodiversity literature is under threat. ... we only have funding, we estimate, until the end of 2027,” .... “It would be just horrendous – devastating, really – to lose it after coming so far and unlocking so much.”

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.

[screams/sobs/contemplates other career paths]

The computer lost the mandate of heaven when the humble, helpful "program" was replaced with the insidious "app"

The Spurs still have a chance if Mike Pence does what’s right

hey quick question, am I having a stroke

Wonderful news! Journal of Research on Research is launched. "if you are a researcher who researches any aspect of research, then this is the journal and community for you." Worth reading the whole editorial for a transparent and thoughtful account of this amazing community-driven effort.

Striking to me how little reporting there is on this rule proposal, which is maybe the biggest change to American governance in almost a century. And this reporting is … weak. www.npr.org/2026/06/03/n...

I swear to god this is real.

🚨 Speak up for science🚨 Proposed House cuts: 20% to NSF, 17% to NASA Science—putting research, STEM education, and critical data at risk. 🌎 ✉️ Tell your Senators to reject these cuts 📢 Share & act now👇 agu.quorum.us/campaign/162...

another day, another story about the administration's war on knowledge itself, all in service of allow its corporate patrons free rein to rob us blind and poison our world www.nytimes.com/2026/06/01/c...

Her post also includes detailed and exceptionally helpful suggestions about how to craft the most effective comment, with some detailed examples for scientists or those who support science. 🧪

A higher ed attorney presented to our college council and said don’t think cuz it backed down a bit in some ways that this administration isn’t building a more aggressive, stealth agenda against higher ed. Including accreditation and ramping up staff and resources to bring cases against schools.

"It is not enough to… celebrate the benefits of innovation, if they are built on a chain of exploitation that remains deliberately hidden. If technology promises emancipation, yet produces new forms of global subordination, it stands in contradiction to the fundamental principle of human dignity."

Worried about the situation in Cuba? This slow-cooker ropa vieja will make you feel like you're in Old Havana.

congratulations, graduates. i'm honored to speak at your commencement. this is a proud moment for you, your family, and your friends. the future is in your hands. and the most important task of the future is to feed the Gaping Maw (students start booing, one student yells "fuck the gaping maw")

<3 our students <3

BREAKING: SB 2471 has been signed into law! It’s the first of its kind in the nation and renders the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision irrelevant in Hawaii. This is a win for the movement to get big money, especially dark money, out of politics.

Ha! I promised my students I’d try to get their comments on the record and I’m so pleased we succeeded. Thanks to Emmy Martin for what I think is a very good article on the Canvas hack. www.chronicle.com/article/the-...

This was on the bulletin board at my local ace hardware and I’m going to show it to anyone who ever asks me if Iowa City can really measure up to Hollywood in terms of opportunity

(I make a "mouth" with the side of my hand and draw little eyes above it) Richard Dawkins: hmmmm (I put lipstick around the "mouth") Richard Dawkins, suavely: well hello

this fuckin guy

It's like 10,000 spoons When all you need is a knife It's like meeting the man of your dreams Then meeting his miniature wife

when we mourn le guin, we mourn one of our greatest writers & thinkers. but we also mourn one of our all-time greatest haters

I dumped some feelings in a blog post about teaching DH right now. mackenziekbrooks.info/update/2026/...

Starting July 1 there will be new limits on student loans for MLS students under the limited understanding of what fits as a "professional" degree. This limit is going to further restrict access to the field. I haven't seen anywhere near enough discussion of this (truthfully, none) by pro orgs. 📚

The animorphs covers weren’t doctored photos. They just found kids that could do that

The FY 2027 NASA budget request hides its science cuts by omitting mission names instead of explicitly zeroing them out. We did the work and found 54 missions cancelled in this proposal. This is another extinction-level event for NASA science. Full list: planetary.org/save-nasa-science

Trump Once Again Zeroes Out IMLS Budget for 2027. It’s Time to Take Action. For the sixth time, the Trump-Vance administration aims to dismantle and defund the Institute of Museum and Library Services. What to know & what to do right now: bookriot.com/2027-imls-bu...

The TikTok girlies (gender neutral) are hatching a plan to all buy copies of communion by hooks on Vance's release date. I will be participating.

Take me down to Paradox City Where Schrödinger lives with his undead kitty

NSF's Social, Behavioral and Economic Directorate has awarded only 16 grants since October. No big budget cuts went through. No freeze. The courts have acted to keep funds flowing at every turn. The money just isn't going out. Why...? 1/x source: grant-witness.us/funding_curv... 🟦🧠 #academicsky

Happy Trans Day of Visibility ❤️🏳️‍⚧️❤️

as a reminder, this listserv exists to be used solely for the purpose of new raptor identification, which is why it is called the add hawk committee

doctor doctor gimme the news ive got an unworn pair of baby shoes

NEW: The Institute of Museum and Library Services is now accepting applications for its 2026 grant cycle. But this time, it has unusually specific criteria: It “particularly welcomes” projects that align with President Donald Trump’s vision for America.

"The propaganda is going to get a lot worse and more pervasive before it gets better... our tax money was given to a private business actively destroying our public education systems, [and] none of the grant money allocated for libraries and museums will go to actual libraries and museums."