tl,dr; Scientists no longer allowed to use federal funding to publish, attend meetings, or talk to the public. They cannot collaborate internationally. Grants can be cancelled for any reason, at any time, political appointees have a final say over what gets funded, and who gets funded.

They said the exact same thing about cryptocurrency and NFTs bsky.app/profile/gwen...

Even or especially if you're not Catholic, this is a big part of why the Pope's thoughts about AI are worth paying attention to

The contemporary Catholic tradition calls this "integral ecology": as Francis writes, “the cry of the earth and the cry of the poor” cannot be separated.

"These have become the new 'rare earths' of power: vital data which, once aggregated and analyzed, can be used to train predictive models, guide investment strategies, anticipate crises and, above all, determine who and what is deemed to matter."

"Even today, colonialism assumes new forms. It no longer dominates only bodies, but appropriates data, transforming personal lives into exploitable information." The pope calls biometric information and other personal data the new "rare earths" of imperial extraction cc @lifewinning.com

"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."

"Magnifica Humanitas" tackles the social, economic and political challenges associated with artificial intelligence. n.pr/49kjKrN

“The pursuit of greater profits cannot justify choices that systematically sacrifice jobs, because the human person is an end, not a means, and the economic order must remain subordinate to human dignity and the common good.” -Pope Leo in #MagnificaHumanitas

Yes, please! #2026MMM

Some old guy telling a story to his grandkids in 2070: "So I injected saline in my balls, which was the style at the time"

here you go! happy (mini) Independence Day 🎊 www.idownloadblog.com/2026/01/30/t...

That's the most punk haircut on a ciliate I've ever seen.

OMG, no one tell @natickbobcat.bsky.social about this. www.facebook.com/share/r/1Ecj...

First, they taxed the private jets And I did not speak out. fortune.com/2026/05/16/n...

As a guy with half a trillion dollars, I have lots of options: 1. Enjoy a 100% stress-free life doing whatever I please in unfathomable luxury all over the world with people of my choosing 2. Have 87 meltdowns a day on a website

If you see this, post your getaway vehicle

You otter know how to identify river otters! #2026MMM

#2026MMM THE ERMINEA SHOP IS WORKING!!!

“It was kind of snarling at me and making the typical wolverine noises for a second,” he said. #2026MMM

“We solemnly vow to dismantle systemic barriers to inclusion—such as shared governance, apolitical job searches, and the discriminatory practice of vetting ideas—and to ensure that all viewpoints, however dubious, enjoy equal footing in the academy.”

“No educator would require students to smoke cigarettes to learn about nicotine’s ill effects on their health…If the medium is the message, then using generative AI in a course on climate change or sustainability might end up teaching the wrong lesson.” —Debra J. Rosenthal

"By leveling the intellectual playing field, we seek to achieve a more democratic university to bring about a less democratic world."

"For too long, the university has ignored the wisdom of the donor class and hired based on academic excellence. Regrettably, this has led to the underrepresentation of discredited viewpoints in elite higher education." www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/wer...

If you at the Cultural Evolution Society meeting this week - come check out Dunstan Matungwa presenting on Tanzania’s extraordinary contributions to anthropology and the priorities of Tanzanian scholars for the future of cross-national collaboration. 🇹🇿 🌍 🌎 🌏

New review and meta-analysis of animal impacts on ecosystem function🖥️ 🌳 🌍 👇️ buff.ly/RTz1S0m

FWIW, I don’t think the major problem in my field, or related ones, is that people need to move faster & produce more. I read a lot of papers as part of the job, and I’m increasingly convinced we’d benefit from fewer papers and better ones, not more mediocre work produced ever more “efficiently.”

One side is like “can we disenfranchise all the Black voters by this weekend” and the other is like gotta follow the rules that govern the rules that control the rulebook

"to our campus community" emails be like "canvas is down; we are monitoring the situation" "scary legislation is getting passed; we are monitoring the situation" "ppl are getting kidnapped; we are monitoring the situation" "ppl are getting shot; we are monitoring the situation"

What happened in US science & higher ed. 🧪 May 7,2026 - Canvas hack - delays to J1 visa program - major win in lawsuit over DOGE-terminated NEH grants & more buttondown.com/liminalcreat...

But when will he launch his OnlyFans? www.npr.org/2026/05/08/n...

I think the fact that Iran apparently blew the shit out of our expensively defended Gulf bases and the regime that refused to embed journos for the first time in our history covered that up should be a much bigger story.

Over/under on how long until faculty somewhere get an admin email blaming them for grades not being submitted because they didn't preemptively download student work from Canvas in case of a global hacker attack

Not finals week in NZ, but can confirm our Canvas-based course management system is down. Building global single points of failure into dozens of countries' education systems via huge edtech providers is such a great idea /sarcasm.

Kind of surprised that this hasn't been bigger news. It's finals week for a whole lot of universities, and yet, Canvas (a learning/grading platform used by ~9,000 schools globally) is currently inaccessible because of a pay-or-have-your-data-leaked hack. www.insidehighered.com/news/tech-in...

We are all watching the same movie today

A tale in two acts... SO FAR. #CanvasDown #Instructure #HackAttack

This is terrible.

How to NOT rescue a stranded whale. jfc. #2026MMM

#scicomm 🧪📣

Weaponized Opossums #2026MMM www.tampabay.com/news/environ...

hacked and hewn canvas courses into AI slop is the educational equivalent of snorting sugar packets for nutrition.

No food here, only sticks. 🎥Bart Coppens

hacked and hewn canvas courses into AI slop is the educational equivalent of snorting sugar packets for nutrition.

Say what you will about agentic AI replacing lots of jobs, but I want to hear about how industry is going to handle when human managers of agentic AI start sexually & romantically harassing their AI staff creating a bizarro hostile work environment for human peer bystanders... is HR ready?