Excellent, concise summary of the threats of recent OMB proposal and suggested action items. DEADLINE TO SUBMIT PUBLIC COMMENTS IS JULY 13, 2026 AT 11:59 PM EASTERN TIME elizabethginexi.substack.com/p/what-we-ne...

While regulations.gov incorrectly lists this action as "closed for comments", you can submit your comments directly here: www.regulations.gov/commenton/OM... My response is below, but don't feel that you need to draft anything nearly so long-winded. A short statement will also be very helpful.

Updated GRC Developmental Biology 2027 flyer/poster with the latest roster of invited speakers. 🌱🐟🧬🐭🪰🧪🧫 Come join us to discuss the latest in #devbio at the Renaissance Tuscany Il Ciocco Resort, Jan 17-22 ! #GRCDevBio2027

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. 🧪🔭⚛️

TL;DR: We've identified more than 100 cases of apparent manipulation in Thermo Fisher Scientific's antibody verification data. @sholtodavid.bsky.social @johanduchene.bsky.social reeserichardson.blog/2026/05/28/h...

Absolutely horrifying thread:

Of all the harm this administration has done to US science, today's proposed changes to the way federal grants are awarded and administered is the most damaging yet. The text of the federal register document is impenetrably tedious by design, so here's an excellent summary of what it says.

reposting for @jacobuzman.bsky.social

Quick takes: 1. Share this widely. 2. Not sharing scores REDUCES transparency. 3. Whatever the merits of a plan (on paper), it is imperative to recognize who is making the decisions. This is not a good-faith negotiation w/good-faith actors. We need more transparency & expert input, not less.

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.

When your best friend texts you “wake up, new encyclical dropped.

Evidence of off-target probe binding affecting 10x Genomics Xenium gene panels compromise accuracy of spatial transcriptomic profiling

PL retweet. Developmental Biology Course (Quintay). More information: biodesarrollo.unab.cl

Roses are redde Noble are the manatees For a bettir future Teach artes and humanityes

So many warning signs. I don’t see any other big strategy except that every country needs to sign up to a One Health approach to monitoring animal populations and identifying human infections asap.

GET IN, DORKS! It's a watershed moment and we need YOUR HELP. 1/x @standupforscience.net was asked by independent members of the National Academies to support their letter to Congress calling for the reinstatement of the National Science Board. #saveNSB 🔗 www.standupforscience.net/nasem-letter...

I finally visited Ripped Bodice, the incredible romance bookstore in Brooklyn, and it was a feast for the eyes and mind, but this sign especially 🌷💃🏼👩‍❤️‍💋‍👩🌸🧞‍♀️💘🧚🏾‍♀️

Canvas, the Strait of Hormuz for American education

QOTD from my student regarding the hack: They need to unfuck this by 5pm or keep it broken for a week and cancel finals. Regardless, I’m gonna go have tea and fried things.

All 22 members of the board that advises and oversees the US National Science Foundation (NSF), a leading funder of basic science, were fired on 24 April without explanation. go.nature.com/42tkCGv

Breaking: Trump has fired the membership of the National Science Board, which is oversees NSF. I have confirmed separately with multiple now-former members of NSB.

I am looking for near UV (~350nm wavelength) LED lights for indoor plants to supplement the light spectra of our plant growth shelves. Any recommendations? #PlantScience

Don't be shy to take on a little two-week side project. These five months will be the most precious three years of your academic journey.

@disabilitystor1.bsky.social oh goody this one is gendered female and named after the history of science’s Patron Saint of Having Your Work Ripped Off and Unrecognized By Dudes

This is the culmination of SIXTEEN YEARS of dogged work by everyday Hungarians. You think that felt hopeless sometimes? I'm sure it did. 👏 Don't 👏 give 👏 up 👏

Texas Tech is expanding its prohibition on "gender and sexual orientation" topics to include faculty research and student theses and dissertations. Our chancellor wants to censor the truth because he knows it topples the hateful ideology of MAGA. Knowledge is power, so they plan to destroy it.

There's a reason I highlighted Texas A&M in my column series on the Red Scares. Yet, they remain a member of the AAU in good standing. Sharing with the text of the resignation letter in the alt

I have grown to love Iranians from afar.

While every day is a great day to buy books by bell hooks, June 16 (Vance's release date - also Bloomsday!) will be particularly fine ....

Today, MSF is going public with something we've been fighting behind closed doors for months: Gilead will not sell us their new HIV drug, lenacapavir. The sticking point isn't even price, they just refuse to sell. Open letter linked + explainer 🧵1/ www.doctorswithoutborders.org/latest/gilea...

Thank you for making No Kings 3 the biggest day of mass protest that America has ever seen. #NoKings

American science has been the envy of the planet since World War II but it has recently gone into decline. The Trump administration vandalized US scientific institutions, suspended research grants in bulk and put entire lines of cutting-edge research on ice. www.theatlantic.com/science/2026...

REMEMBER YOU WERE SLAVES IN THE LAND OF EGYPT YA DUMB MFERS

I hope no one needs an MRI this year. The world's largest producer of liquified helium is in Qatar and is shut off. We just got a notice that our supply for the year will be at least cut in half. No one could have predicted this (unless they thought about it).

pure comedy gold ....

reposting for @jacobuzman.bsky.social - birding is safer, no?

What’s crazy is that this really drives home what critics of AI have been saying: these AI products that companies push out and make us pay for have largely been trained and made from the free,unpaid,and public labor of people collecting data for them. And the ppl are completely unaware of this

Our @statnews.com survey of NIH-funded researchers drew nearly 1,000 responses from 45 states (plus DC and Puerto Rico). Here's a short thread on 5 scientists' whose labs and lives have been deeply impacted by federal policies 🧵

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026... “I think all of us in academia have an obligation to speak out and protest when our rights are being trampled on. And that’s what’s happening here.”

In 20 years, ‘Sinners’ will still mean something. That’s my opinion

terrific thread -

Best Twitter riposte of the day. I suspect there's snow in the mix, too.

This is what ecocide looks like.

Novartis has settled a lawsuit by the estate of Henrietta Lacks that alleged the pharmaceutical giant unjustly profited off her cells, which were taken from her tumor without her knowledge in 1951 and reproduced in labs to enable major #medical advancements, including the polio vaccine.

This thread is exactly what I needed this morning -

The destruction of schools and universities is an attempt to destroy the possibility of imagining a future. Judith Butler, Barnard College, Feb. 28, 2026 (paraphrased)