Red alert for student visas: Education groups warn that new international enrollments at American colleges could fall by more than 30 percent unless the State Department deals with a serious bottleneck. chroni.cl/41ikMAn

Memory Constraints in Uncertainty Misestimation: A Computational Model of Working Memory and Environmental Change Detection www.mdpi.com/2227-7390/13...

It's been a disappointing week. www.science.org/content/arti...

Trump just revoked the ability for foreign students to enroll at Harvard. Every foreign student, which is in the thousands, enrolled for next year at Harvard will not be able to continue studying if this isn't challenged in court. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/22/u...

This is very cool. grist.org/science/brea...

Exclusive: National Science Foundation staff were told today that the agency’s 37 divisions—across all eight directorates—are being abolished and the number of programs within those divisions will be drastically reduced.

I am so excited that this is now out. An absolutely **mammoth** amount of work, please give this thread a read ⬇️💪💪

Hou, Man, Hamilton, Muthusekaran, Johnykutty, Zadeh, MacNeil: "All Roads Lead to ChatGPT": How Generative AI is Eroding Social Interactions and Student Learning Communities https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.09779 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2504.09779 https://arxiv.org/html/2504.09779

History of happiness Our Idea of Happiness Has Gotten Shallow. Here’s How to Deepen It. We used to have a very different understanding of what it means to live well. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/03/m...

This article highlights an underappreciated type of harm from AI products. Many critiques worry about harms to users. A common rebuttal: users enjoy these products, & we ought to respect their autonomy & experiences. But here, AI products harm users' loved ones, who never signed up for this.

BREAKING: NSF has frozen all grant funding, as of yesterday. It's unclear when they will resume funding awards, or why the pause has been put in place. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Francis Collins: “Reckless decisions will disrupt a noble institution with a stunningly positive track record, drive young scientists to leave the country, and damage the future health of the nation." www.science.org/content/arti...

New at Can We Still Govern: An anonymous NIH employee maps out the GOP budget gameplan to permanently gut our most important science agency. Impoundment, delay and red tape will create artificial "savings" that become the new benchmark for NIH budgets. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-nih-bu...

BREAKING:The National Science Foundation (NSF) has put a cork in its grantmaking pipeline after billionaire Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) set up shop at the agency this week. | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

They are further consolidating control over the priorities of federal science funding.

The White House sought extensive oversight and the ability to make sweeping changes to Harvard’s governance, admissions and hiring practices, directives that the university called unlawful and unconstitutional.

Good ideas — and impactful tools — don’t just come from rich, Western nations, says Aleksandra Lazić, a social scientist in Serbia https://go.nature.com/4cPMVUd

New Paper! I'm truly excited to share @natematias.bsky.social and my new Policy Forum in Science published yesterday. We evaluate science's ability to address technological harms, and offer recommendations for what could be done to improve on the status quo: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Important Policy Forum in @science.org on the desperate need for a rigorous basis for research on the harms of social media and phones. Too much conjecture out there on very little signal. @candiceodgers.bsky.social www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

NEW: Entire scientific fields have been wiped out by the nearly 800 grants cancelled at NIH, finds a @nature.com analysis of the unprecedented cuts. About half of all 2024 NIH projects related to LGBT+ health or vaccine hesitancy — gone. See the other topics and US states hardest hit here:

How NOT to respond when science is under existential threat

Devastating news for my colleagues, my students, my community, for the state of New York, and for the entire world. Of course, they will not stop here.

Long-standing training grants for underrepresented minorities have been canceled under Trump’s NIH. By @claudia-lopez.bsky.social #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/funding/excl...

New story from @dangaristo.bsky.social on the NSF grad fellowship cuts: A key point: “GRFPs are one of the most cost-effective ways for NSF to give out money,” Evans says, because the outcome is a trained, promising young scientist and it’s relatively inexpensive.

It was an absolute privilege to have interviewed one of my intellectual north stars @orbenamy.bsky.social on the @cognitations.bsky.social podcast. Another bucketlist dream checked off!! As always, she provides nuanced, thoughtful answers that reflect empathy for various stakeholders in this debate

My PhD student @adigitaltanay.bsky.social released an episode of his podcast Cognitations interviewing ... me. One of the toughest interviewers I've had! You can listen to it here: open.spotify.com/episode/6L7q... He will feature some other team members next, so do give the podcast a follow 🤳

New WHO #MentalHealth guidance provides all countries with practical tools to strengthen policies & services. It tackles social factors that affect mental health like poverty & housing, ensures people with lived experience have a voice, & promotes rights-based care. Learn more: bit.ly/4lgVjjk

We polled Nature readers to ask if they were thinking of leaving the US for jobs abroad. Three-quarters of them (who said they were US-based scientists) said yes. 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

75% of US scientists who answered Nature poll consider leaving More than 1,600 readers answered our poll; many said they were looking for jobs in Europe and Canada. www.nature.com/artic...

Oh, there's an English version as well! DW reports about misconduct at Max Planck Institutes: www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5nE...

Science is under threat in the US. @elife.bsky.social have commissioned a series of articles discussing the implications and what we can do. The first three articles are now live. More to follow: elifesciences.org/articles/106... elifesciences.org/articles/106... elifesciences.org/articles/106...

The U.S. has neglected its public-health infrastructure in recent years. Now, the Trump administration is actively destroying it, Katherine J. Wu writes:

Social-media bans won’t work — there are better ways to keep kids safe Planned bans —such as in Australia — should be replaced with research and resources to educate parents and carers about the best ways to manage their children’s use of social media. #SocialMedia www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Universities around the world have reported seeing an uptick in applications from U.S.-based researchers, who face an increasingly uncertain climate under President Donald Trump’s administration. scim.ag/4ibvP4T

With a heavy heart, I've decided to suspend all academic travel to the USA for me and my lab. Given the escalation of tensions and uncertainties, it seems to be the wisest move. To our US colleagues, please be certain that we will continue to do what we can to support you. Science is global.

NEW 🧵 Is human intelligence starting to decline? Recent results from major international tests show that the average person’s capacity to process information, use reasoning and solve novel problems has been falling since around the mid 2010s What should we make of this? www.ft.com/content/a801...

Mike spotted this before the rest of us. 🫡 Publications from 2025 are shared more on Bluesky than on X/Twitter.

This story starts connecting the dots between the many ways the Trump admin's moves are *already* disrupting science + research nationwide, from climate to health to econ depts. A real team effort w/weather, health + higher ed reporters @bloomberg.com (gift link): www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

The largest private employer in Baltimore just lost $800 million in federal contracts and grants. This recession is going to be a doozy.

Columbia scientists reel as Trump administration cancels grants, hitting broad suite of research www.statnews.com/2025/03/11/c...

The bill, which was approved today by the U.S. House of Representatives and heads next to a Senate vote, includes 20 percent less BRAIN Initiative funding than last year. By @avaskham.bsky.social www.thetransmitter.org/funding/u-s-...

Study-Abroad Funding Is Paused, Leaving Some Students Stranded The Trump administration stopped State Department funding for scholarships like the Fulbright. Weeks later, it is still unclear when it may resume. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/07/u...

"In an unprecedented move, the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) has begun mass terminations of research grants that fund active scientific projects because they no longer meet 'agency priorities'" www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Research on #HealthEquity is under attack ⬇️ "Exclusive: NIH to terminate hundreds of active research grants Studies that touch on LGBT+ health, gender identity and DEI in the biomedical workforce could be terminated" www.nature.com/articles/d41...

"NOAA firings hit the birthplace of weather and climate forecasting" Dismissed researchers were IMPROVING severe weather predictions www.science.org/content/arti... 🧪 🌊

Facing an uncertain financial future, many U.S. neuroscience Ph.D. programs are admitting fewer students. The Transmitter spoke with 20 programs about how the recent changes are affecting their admissions processes. By @claudia-lopez.bsky.social @callimcflurry.bsky.social bit.ly/41ptnk1

DOGE moves to cancel NOAA leases on key weather buildings www.axios.com/2025/03/03/d...

Francis Collins, the NIH Director for 12 years, led the Human Genome Project and other NIH efforts for 32 years, resigned today. Key words from his resignation letter www.nytimes.com/2025/03/01/u...