The UK government’s research grant agency wants to cut grant processing times from 195 days to 90. Meanwhile, the Australian equivalent, has increased it from 195 days to at least 435 (DP26 vs. DP27). This is for comparable, “applicant led grants”. Make it make sense.

“To accommodate the expected funding withdrawal, programme officers…are being required to pull back proposals that have already passed peer review and have been recommended for funding….[M]any of the researchers who submitted those proposals had already been informed” www.nature.com/articles/d41...

A new OMB rule would allow the executive branch to cut scientific research funds on behalf of corporate interests and against marginalized people. Please submit public comments before the deadline on Monday July 13. This link gives excellent instructions: www.faseb.org/science-poli...

The Seth Moulton/Ed Markey primary is instructive because Markey has some of the same factors that sunk Janet Mills in Maine (approaching 80, longtime state party fixture, right on the border of liberal and progressive), but Moulton did the Newsom Shuffle and Mass voters are saying "FUCK NO"

Way to go, Gabriela! www.canterbury.ac.nz/news-and-eve... 🧪🌍

UPDATE: We learned that the folks behind Project 2025, are encouraging their base to write comments in favor of the rule. This suggests our efforts are working and they are shaken. IT ALSO MEANS WE NEED TO GO OUT WITH A BANG. MAKE YOUR COMMENT TODAY!!!

Deep-sea anglerfish blur sex so thoroughly that the male fuses into the female and shares her bloodstream. If the Court wants to legislate based on "biological sex," the ocean would like a word about how messy that actually is. #marinelife

TWO WEEKS!! You have two weeks left to help us STOP VOUGHT from destroying American Science. If you haven't submitted a comment yet, there's still time - we need everyone in this fight. Take action here: zurl.co/tVzMR

In a rare move, a bipartisan group of US senators passed legislation prohibiting the Trump administration from dismantling a multimillion-dollar research project studying ocean currents and climate change impacts. But many other programs crucial to understanding climate change remain at risk.

The Monterey Bay Aquarium PROUDly presents “Otter This World,” written and performed by Monét X Change with special guest Trinity the Tuck.

Climate.us is officially live! After NOAA ended Climate.gov’s day-to-day operations in 2025, former team members built Climate.us to carry that work forward. Their explanations and graphics have always stood out to me as clear, accessible, and transparent. I’m really looking forward to this reboot.

Scathing statement from @sciamunion.bsky.social on @springernature.com's decision to sell Scientific American just days before the NLRB will count votes in its election: "We should call this action what it is—blatant union-busting" www.wgaeast.org/wgae-scienti... @wgaeast.bsky.social

Basic science funding slashed to free up funds for ~6 labs to get up to $300 million apiece.

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Guys, getting angry and shouting at your representatives about this stuff can absolutely work. Keep it up.

Don’t forget to take action on the proposed OMB rules! Public comments, contacting your societies or environmental nonprofits, contacting your Congresspeople, etc.

🌐 From Planning to Implementation: How will #AntarcticaInSync work in practice—and how can people contribute? Your expertise ensures the framework works for the people using it! Discuss observational priorities, coordination opportunities, logistics, data interoperability, & more Join 🔽

Paper alert: southern right whale - tohorā food+microbiome study led by Aashi Parikh: Poo DNA from NZ🇳🇿 Aus🦘South Africa🇿🇦 calving grounds + 🇿🇦 feeding ground 🐳 eat LOTS: Decapoda (incl. 🦀 🦞-larval/small ones probably), Copepods, krill Microbiome 🦠links to diet onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

UL Lafayette biologist’s research hooks a whale of a story louisiana.edu/news/ul-lafa... My university's coverage of the work.

And too often we see this as putting the U.S. at a disadvantage, as if some other country will do all the research instead. Much of it won’t get done. It’s planetary loss.

Russell Vought has a plan for science, but so do we. Join the fight by taking action against the latest OMB grant funding proposal at the link in our bio, or go here 👉 zurl.co/m6icR #StandUpForScience #Science #OMB #Vought #SaveScience

If you missed my SOOS webinar and want to see some cool footage of whales bubble net feeding in Antarctica, check it out here!

Australia: Australian researchers to have access to A$155 billion Horizon Europe fund from 2027 as deal inked (subscriber content): www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-aust...

🌊 Recording now online! How do humpback whales adapt to a changing Antarctic ecosystem? 🐋 @jennyallen13.bsky.social explores the rise of bubble-net feeding in the Antarctic Peninsula and what it reveals about ecosystem change. ▶️ youtu.be/vIDh5HvoArc

We have to end his power in November. It is life or death.

Why ocean science is still one of the worst-funded scientific fields worldwide www.southernfriedscience.com/why-ocean-sc...

Good morning! Not often you get to ask a scientist if they think some bumblebees are stupid, but here we are. www.scientificamerican.com/article/bumb...

I'm so tired

“Days after the U.S. said it would kill a network of ocean monitors, European officials pledged to invest more in their version, calling it a “necessity.”” Good. 🧪🦑🌎 www.nytimes.com/2026/06/03/c...

Calling all Scientists! Research Administrators! Deans! Fans of Science! No one is coming to save us. Here is your assignment. I have written a step by step, easy to understand "how-to" document to help you comment on the proposed OMB rule. elizabethginexi.substack.com/p/what-we-ne...

US researchers are opposing political veto powers over individual grants👇 It's not just their fight. They supported our calls for changing our ARC legislation in 2023. It worked, but Liberals, Nationals & One Nation have vowed to reinstate political veto powers here. Support your US colleagues!

🧵 Public science in the US has taken some heavy hits over the last year, but the White House OMB is proposing a series of changes that will result in a TKO for science as we know it unless we fight back. Here's what's happening, and why it matters. 1/n

NEW: A lot of bad has happened to American science over the last year but nothing comes even close to what’s about to happen if we don’t speak out in opposition to the OMB rule changes and I hope @aaas-socsci.bsky.social @apsphysics.bsky.social and others will launch public campaigns about this. 🧪🔭⚛️

It’s truly astonishing to see how comprehensively the US government is tearing down every part of the system that has made it up until now a world-leading power in science, research, and technological development. The entire world will suffer from this wanton destruction.

Frontiers | Blue whale song recorded by ocean bottom seismometers reveals distributions and behavior of late foraging season males in the northeast Pacific www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.... 🧪🦑🌎

Probably shouldn't have let a handful of weird business perverts unwind the cultural miracle of American research universities

Scoop: NSF has been quietly blocking new funds and grants to four top universities: Duke, Harvard, Princeton, and Yale. Dozens of proposals from PIs at these universities—and their collaborators—have been stuck at the Office of Award Management awaiting finalization for months.

Well holy crap. Erin Brockovich (yes, the same one the led the Hinkley, CA toxic groundwater lawsuit in ‘93) launched a website tracking AI data centers across the US and the ecological impacts to the environment and drinking water. MN is riddled with them. www.brockovichdatacenter.com

It continues to amaze me that academic publishers have some of the largest profit margins in the world, and because they rely on the unpaid labour of experts, the entire field is routinely slowed like a turtle stampeding through peanut butter.

#DECRA applicants, the rejoinder period begins on Monday (25 May). You'll get reports from "detailed assessors" – people in your general field, but not necessarily experts on your specific research. Reports will appear in your RMS portal, normally around 11am Canberra time (but it varies).

ANNOUNCEMENT: We’ve released a National Competitive Grants Program (NCGP) update with information on additional rounds of 2 existing schemes in 2026. Read more: www.arc.gov.au/news-and-pub...

Trump’s “weaponization fund” and ban on future IRS audits is his latest impeachable offense—using the machinery of government and billions in taxpayer dollars to reward allies, pay off insurrectionists, and shield himself, his family, and associates from accountability. Impeach now.

I am not remotely a lawyer, but I think if you agree to review a manuscript for a press and then feed that manuscript into AI without the permission of the author, the author should be allowed to sue you into poverty.

"Toxic" is an understatement - NO ONE fucking likes him here except a few racist politicians and millionaires.

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Another Budget week gone &, overall, I'd say Australian research is worse off than last week. Maybe medical research is a bit better off. CSIRO's on slightly firmer footing ("but we'll sack everyone anyway"). University-based research? "Research translation"? Stuffed. No $. No plan. No research.

‘More radical’ approach urged to cope with rising research grant bids. Universities must help ‘limit the flow’ of applications as funders grapple with volume, experts say. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-r...

You need to know that Australia makes money off whales and our marine environment. Whales are BOTH environmentally AND economically important to Australia. I look forward to seeing funds allocated to science and marine sectors 🐋 #budget #money #whale #tourism #pov