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Sure, AI may be an environmental disaster and produce mid outcomes in cases where it doesn't straight up lie, but at least it's extremely unprofitable.

New op-ed in @nature.com: The Trump administration's assault on freedoms and the rule of law is an existential threat to US science. We urge scientists to speak out in defense of freedoms, not just funding. With Andrea Liu @upenn.edu and Sidney Nagel of UChicago! www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Eventually, we will all have to choose where we stand or don't stand.

Almost definitely going to happen at NSF.

Moderna’s Super-Vaccine for Flu and Covid Works—Now Politics Could Sink It gizmodo.com/modernas-sup...

1. After getting some further insight into changes at NSF (thanks to those who reached out), I deleted a previous post where I tried to make sense of Cheatham's memo as reported in the Science story below.

We did it y'all! We've been working on this for .. well, like, forever. We finally did it! We can stop science now. www.sciencealert.com/scientists-w...

The physicist Sidney Nagel delights in solving mysteries of the universe that are hiding in plain sight. @walkingthedot.bsky.social reports: www.quantamagazine.org/finding-beau...

This is such a disaster. And the silence of the so-called papers of record on the dismantling of American science is indefensible.

Trump’s NIH ignored court order, cut research grants anyway arstechnica.com/health/2025/...

I don’t mean to alarm anyone, but the orcas now have two F/A-18 Hornets

Calling all science advocates!! Carlos Brody+ are creating a searchable database of tangible science benefits, and they need you. publicusaresearchbenefits.com They are asking for suggestions - from brief to lengthy. The database is state-searchable, so all 50 states. Please spread the word!

HOLD THEM ACCOUNTABLE: 19 states + DC are suing Trump admin over illegal & unconstitutional dismantling of HHS. “…this administration has fired scientists, closed labs, shuttered lifesaving programs, without rhyme, reason, or any legal authority,” said NY AG James. www.cnn.com/2025/05/05/h...

Worse than anyone could have possibly imagined.

Under RFK Jr., ‘Make America Healthy Again’ means junk science like ‘survival of the fittest.’ Read more from @laurenleffer.bsky.social: www.theverge.com/health/66136...

This was shared by program managers on LinkedIn tonight. What I said there: "The NSF is a model for research support that every other agency aspires to. Faculty around the country learn very quickly just how dedicated program managers are to their jobs and just how fair the review process is." 1/2🧪⚛️

Slash R&D, kill the economy. “It is going to be a decline forever,” said Ignacio González, one of the study’s authors. “The U.S. economy is going to be smaller.” www.nytimes.com/2025/04/30/b...

This 1938 pro-science manifesto defended democracy against fascism 2025 doesn't mark the first time that science has been under attack from fascist politics. This classic 1938 manifesto by 1000+ scientists is more relevant today than ever. bigthink.com/starts-with-... #science #physics #astronomy

New paper: a simple idea to create structures whose mechanical properties can be adjusted dramatically by changes in geometry, published in Soft Matter. pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...

‘Matthew Memoli, then the acting director of the NIH, sent instructions to urgently “fund research” into “regret and detransition following social transition”’ Bhattacharya and RFK are producing a political autism/vax study… 1/ www.theatlantic.com/...

Just saw an internal announcement from a major university that new funding requests from new NIH/HHS NOAs(Notice of Awards) are temporarily paused while they assess changes to the Civil Rights Protection section of grants policy statement. What have you hear from your universities?

This is a disaster for US science whose impacts will be felt *well* beyond a decade. The uncertainty is bad but the actual actions are worse. I have some really dark thoughts about what I think they are doing here and how bad this could get.

Ah yes, the government asking Jews to register as Jewish, in the name of protecting the Jews. No way that could go wrong www.nytimes.com/2025/04/23/n...

🙏 We need your help 🙏 The government continues to cancel grants at both NIH and NSF to censor science it doesn't like. We're tracking terminations to organize and advocate. Please report your terminated grants: NIH: forms.gle/J2znQ7y7YpeP... NSF: airtable.com/appGKlSVeXni... w/ @noamross.net

I don’t intend to capitulate early, etc etc, but imagine the worst likely scenario for science - collapse of foreign students and budget cuts of 1/3-2/3 for all basic science, arbitrary funding delays and so on. What does science look like from now on in the US and world? Ideas?

oh fuck there's been an E. Coli outbreak and the Trump administration essentially hid it

Hey Bluesky, I was interviewed about the attacks on science for NPR’s All Things Considered. Listen, below! www.wbur.org/news/2025/03...

So inspiring to hear my mentor, Detlef Lohse (@poftwente.bsky.social), share his scientific journey in this @thelhseries.bsky.social! His thoughts on curiosity, mentorship, and the "puzzle solving" joy of science resonate deeply. A must-watch! Always so much to learn. bit.ly/3DXBixh

"An emergency rally has been called for 5:30 p.m. Wednesday at Powder House Square in Somerville to protest a Tufts international graduate student being taken into custody Tuesday by federal authorities." www.cambridgeday.com/2025/03/26/p...

We cannot be revoking visas just because someone expresses an opinion that disagrees with the whims of one or a handful of people. I couldn’t be more disgusted.

Was just reading John Quincy Adams' oral arguments before SCOTUS in the Amistad case and this part seems, uh, pretty relevant

"Yes, there’s danger in opening our gates to this statue. But there’s also danger in keeping it out… the danger of eroding the sanctity of the gift-giving process."

"On October 8, 1931, a law went into effect requiring every Italian university professor to sign an oath pledging their loyalty to the government of Benito Mussolini. Out of over 1,200 professors in the country, only 12 refused. All of them were immediately fired." www.chronicle.com/article/what...

RFK Jr.’s organization is using the family of the 6-year-old girl who died of measles to convince other parents NOT to vaccinate. This is completely disgusting and is a symptom of our post-truth society. The head of HHS is undermining evidence-based science and further victimizing this family.

WTF are we even doing here? We have to be more responsible than this. futurism.com/universe-tra...

uh, if APS was trying to convince soft matter people to keep going to March meeting, they have just made a terrible mistake. #apsmarch

The perfect metaphor for what the Supreme Court did to this country with Citizens United v. FEC.

well. that's cheerful.

we are closer to this cliff than people realize Trump has already falsely accused Chuck Schumer (!!!) of being a "Hamas supporter" at any point Trump likes, this could go from rhetoric to the official position of the Executive branch

“First they came for the…” Look, everyone has their own deals, I get it. But eventually mysterious “Antifa” is gonna be listed as terrorist organization and then it’s slippery slope towards everyone that says Trump bad is Antifa. This is the shit to care about and now is the time to care about it

"When Volterra refused to take the oath of allegiance to the Fascist Government in 1931, which was required of all tenured and contracted professors, he was forced to leave the University of Rome." mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/...