NEW INFO HAS REVEALED that the 28-year-old Mexican man killed while running from ICE last week was just visiting on short tourist visa—and already had a plane ticket to go home. newrepublic.com/post/213277/...

Useful information as many of us make tentative plans about whether and how our labs will be funded this year. This policy has been disastrous and we will lose labs simply based on when they applied or came up for renewal. You can look at specific ICs, funding mechanisms and grant activity.

HI HELLO. Mitch McConnell and Tom Kean got longer medical leaves (with literally zero transparency and fully funded healthcare) than I, and most women get after having a baby…including having a baby via major surgery 💁🏻‍♀️

Wait I’m sorry what www.wsj.com/politics/nat...

The relationship between testosterone and grip strength, an index of physical formidability, in a representative sample of US adult men (point sizes are survey weights). 🧪

We are given only a limited number of truly perfect summer days in our time on Earth. One of the more insidious cruelties of fossil fuel greed is how it slowly strips those days from us, more and more throughout our lifetimes, perhaps without us even realizing what we have lost.

“Some 10,000 people across 20 Iranian villages” are without water, per Al Jazeera.

This Day in Labor History: July 18, 1899. New York newsboys went on strike over newspaper companies forcing them to pay for their unsold papers. The Newsies Strike got national attention, both because of its target and for exposing the terrible poverty of the young boys forced to sell papers!!

I’m still working to understand the full implications of this ruling rejecting (one of) the admin’s motions to dismiss and saying NEW priorities can’t be used to terminate previously awarded grants: www.politico.com/live-updates... But it’s definitely good news.

Every time they make it harder for foreign students to study here, they're just jacking up the tuition costs for American students and robbing America of incredible new talent too.

The US built the greatest talent magnet ever, attracting the smart, skilled, and striving. They’d come to study, then stay and build things here, or leave with positive impressions and fruitful connections. Helped make the US wealthy and powerful. Then America chose to throw it away. And for what?

The costs of international student exclusion will be vast and permanent. It will harm all Conservative Americans and their children; it will harm all Liberal Americans and their children. It is the exact opposite of what our tech-driven economy needs. I summarize my research at @piie.com —>

Yesterday the US Administration supercharged its explicit effort to bar international students from staying in the US after graduation. All Americans should know: 1/3 of *all* STEM PhDs working in the US are immigrants who graduated from US universities, then stayed. www.piie.com/index%2Ephp/...

A reminder: The US, by being the largest historical CO₂ emitter, has caused $10 trillion in global climate damage since 1990. A quarter of this impact is felt domestically, but it disproportionately affects poorer countries.

Are you a kick-ass designer who can help make scientific information about climate change and climate solutions come to life? If so, we’re hiring! drawdown.org/careers/seni...

Casually threatening mass rapes

Congrats we just made it impossible to come here for a PhD www.bostonglobe.com/2026/07/16/m...

So that’s TWO ex-wives, two daughters and an immediately family member that he physically abused and/or threatened. Just an insane story

The most anti-legal immigrant administration ever just made it illegal for international students to transfer schools or change majors or shift any "educational objective" in their 1st year and for graduate students **at any point** ever, at all. There is no legal basis for this

to hear Trump tell it, American elections were completely corrupted while he was president and he was helpless to stop it, then they were cleaned up by Biden ahead of Trump's victory in 2024, and now that Trump is president again they are once again becoming third world caliber

a powerfully relevant story to tell: "To bring all their stories to life, Romero de Pablos and her colleagues dug into 13 public and private archives of 'depuracíon; files documenting how JAE members were vetted for their political, religious, and intellectual alignment with Franco’s values." 🧪

The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) has been gutted under this administration, and now its grantees are receiving termination letters en masse. Please help us report by submitting your grant and spreading the word! 🧪

‼️ AHRQ is in the midst of a mass grant termination event. We (at Grant Witness) need your help to launch a tracker ASAP. If you received an AHRQ termination notice--or if you know of someone else who did--please submit information about the grant here: grant-witness.us/submit-nih.h...

"Nearly five women are murdered in America every day by a current, former or estranged intimate partner." ssri.psu.edu/news/intimat... The men who kill strangers almost always practice on women they know first. Imagine what society would look like if we gave a shit about those women.

Finally - we've taken the logical step to question whether every other person in Georgia was really elected or not. punchbowl.news/article/sena...

Our lab at Pitt is looking to hire a technician. Ideal candidate would be a recent graduate with some cell biology skills, looking to expand their experience before applying to a PhD program in a couple of years. If you are this person, interested in DNA replication, please email me. moiseevalab.com

everything is gender

Just published: The new edition of my newsletter for journalists (and anyone else) interested in biodiversity, the ecological crisis and nature-based solutions to climate change. 🌏🧪 thenaturebeat.substack.com/p/nature-bea...

Trump wants to cut the NSF by over 50%. The future of American innovation is at stake. Help stop the madness, spread the word with the new Stand Up For Science microflyer! #StopTrump, #SaveTheNSF www.standupforscience.net/microflyer3

PHASE ONE of our fight against the OMB rule is complete and YOU ALL SHOWED UP!!! HALF A MILLION COMMENTS is WILD. We absolutely exceeded our goal of 100,000! So, what happens next??? Welcome to PHASE TWO: Pressure and Preparation! 1/x

Among other things the idea that the President gets to decide what the "policy" of the United States is when there are laws on the books saying otherwise is infuriating and unconstitutional ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

This morning in Biddeford, Maine, ICE agents fatally shot a Colombian man who was authorized to work in the U.S. and had an SSN. He may have been ordered to leave the country, but even if so, the penalty for not complying is NOT DEATH. It’s not even a criminal offense; it’s a civil one.

Trump doesn’t force people to do bad things. All he did was show people they could get away with being horrible if they really wanted to, and a lot of powerful people decided they didn’t need to pretend anymore. Especially those in influential positions who could push back but did not.

Our new commentary rdcu.be/ftx6h in @natecoevo.nature.com written with folks from @inaturalist.bsky.social and @cornellbirds.bsky.social shows that use of AI to manipulate existing or create new wildlife images undermines the huge value of vast citizen science databases. 🌍🪰🪶 #Ornithology 🧵 1/10

In my @newrepublic.com debut, I argue that Dems' good faith efforts to spare voters from the worst of HR1/OBBBA may backfire by obscuring for voters how reckless a law it was. This will demand that Dems effectively communicate & take victory laps over burden reduction newrepublic.com/article/2125...

I've long argued that one of the biggest problems with the Democratic Party (in which I've been registered since my 18th birthday) is its assumption that voters can connect the dots. They pass great laws & assume low info voters can see how great they are. We cannot afford to make this mistake again

Do you get whats coming? #SolarHockeyStickOfHope @katemac.bsky.social @thepolycrisis.bsky.social open.spotify.com/show/78cVf8D...

Folks have enjoyed these when I've posted them in the past. Enjoy this minute of baked goods (sound on) www.reddit.com/r/Satisfying...

political candidates should be tripping over themselves to run on this message (and we know why they aren't)

this is basically like a colony

Think. About. This. The U.S. Treasury receives the revenue from most of Venezuela’s exports, then disburses it gradually to Venezuela through the country’s private banks…. Mr. Rubio and his team set the conditions on what that money can be spent on, and by whom. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/11/u...

You know what this place really needs? A 30 foot high rusting steel fence to serve as a symbol of our national xenophobia, running right through the middle of a unique natural area established in 1944 as a bi-national peace park & ecological collaboration with Mexico. 😔 (📷: Far Flung Outdoors)

Guys I can’t keep doing this independently. I need a job. If you know of a place—advocacy, OSINT org, think tank, left media, etc—where I could take this work in-house, pls let me know. I admire the folks making independent work for them, but I am collapsing under the weight and the lack of impact.

If any other natural disaster generated a body count of 14,000 we'd hear about it, and likely nothing else, for weeks and months. When a heat wave does it, it's a blip. There are three reasons for this, and they all derive from the dull, unspectacular, un-cinematic way heat kills people.

WTF⁉️‼️⁉️ www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

Donations have stalled :( So many sad little bubbles. Colorless. Empty. From Upstate New York and Connecticut to Hawaii. Fill a bubble today 🥺 givebutter.com/USS2026

Mom, Dad & their 19 babies drinking some water from a backyard pond. These are Gambel's Quail (Callipepla gambelii) in the Catalina Foothills of Arizona. Let's ask why they drink via the 'sip-and-tilt' method... (📷: Desert Critters of Arizona via YT)

Folks, no one has a RIGHT to higher office. OK? You aren't "canceling" anyone when you decide NOT TO SUPPORT THEIR QUEST FOR MORE POWER. Please let's be SERIOUS. This is not what is meant by "no one is disposable." I'm begging people to focus and use your brains. That man can still make a LIVING.