Time for a thread on all the @standupforscience.net action tools! Site: www.standupforscience.net Action Center: fight2win.standupforscience.net SUFS OMB Overview: www.standupforscience.foundation/policy-and-a... SUFS Guide to Public Comments: www.standupforscience.foundation/policy-and-a...

Controversial though this take may be, I think scientific journals shouldn't publish brain puzzles that can only be decrypted by using the largest-scale machine to generate child pornography ever created in the arc of human civilization

The White House Office of Management and Budget is moving to take more control of billions of dollars in federal grants. Critics say the proposed change would jeopardize the integrity of U.S. science. n.pr/4uNA78T

My summary of OMB's proposed Federal Financial Assistance rule was based on 22 years as an NIH Program Official and the damage I saw to science funding would be. I want to widen the lens now: scientists are not the only ones who should be alarmed. elizabethginexi.substack.com/p/this-new-o...

NCAR just won in court! A US district judge in Colorado has prohibited NSF from taking #NCAR apart, specifically in spalling off its supercomputing center in Wyoming. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... Our earlier story on this and why it matters: www.nature.com/articles/d41... 🧪

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.

TWICE today I've been told "we are going to be recovering from this for generations..." NO, WE ARE NOT. This stuff is really bad, but it's nowhere NEAR as bad as it could get. We are ~40% into the demo of a complete kitchen renovation... DAILY DOSE OF HOPE INCOMING!!!! 1/?

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.

A day after The Late Show ended, Colbert hosted an episode of public access program Only In Monroe, reviving his 11-year-old gag. How bad is CBS/Paramount taking it? They issued copyright complaints for a show they don't own. 🤣 CBS would hate it if you watch here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DlF...

There is so much poetry in Stephen Colbert celebrating his finale on the exact stage where the Beatles changed culture in 1964. Singing "Hello Goodbye" surrounded by his family, his band, and his crew before Paul McCartney flipped the final power switch. This was the perfect full-circle goodbye!

Sooooo... Several people shared this slide with me. NIH is apparently working on a new parent mechanism called an RP1. I have many questions (and only a few answers). (EPMC is the NIH-wide Extramural Program Management Committee co-chaired by Jon Lorsch). 1/4

Decades-long campaign powered by patient perspectives results in switch from PCOS – a name that caused confusion and undue suffering – to PMOS

New York streets belong to New Yorkers, and Soccer Streets are for the kids. We’re turning the block outside your school into a car-free playground and World Cup celebration. Now until June 26, you’ll find Soccer Streets in front of 50 public schools across all five boroughs. Let’s play!

I love to start the day with a good 404 error, and this one is *really* good.

Saturday night scrabble! Yes!

Are you worried about hantavirus? Well research on this virus and other emerging infections is disappearing in real time, right now. My Yale colleague just lost $5 million, which the National Science Foundation (NSF) has refused to release to his group. It is so twisted and sick.

Update on NIH funding including multi-year funding. Here is the overall progress in terms of the number of projects (as opposed to the fraction of appropriated funds). The fiscal year 2026 curve lies below those for earlier fiscal years. 1/4

On fashion’s big night out, we turned the lens onto the garment, retail, warehouse, and delivery workers who make the fashion industry possible. Read the full piece: bsky.app/profile/mayo...

May the Fourth be with YOU, from the Obama Presidential Center. Opening June 19.

This was fitting news to receive on May 1, international workers day. I will be returning to work on Monday after being kept on retaliatory administrative leave for 5 months and 3 weeks. I return along with the brave Katrina Declaration signers from FEMA, also reinstated this week. 🧵1/?

@audreyhendricks.com & co of @hggadvances.bsky.social's latest article present CCAFE, a new method to derive case & control allele frequencies when they're missing from GWAS summary statistics—thus expanding the utility and reusability of genomic data: https://bit.ly/4mRtbEq #ASHG #HumanGenetics

Want to do cool secondary analyses with GWAS summary data but need case and control allele frequencies? CCAFE is here for you! Huge kudos to super star first author Hayley Stoneman!

Y'all I'm IN THIS STUDY!!! Really I'm in it! I haven't been unblinded and I still don't know what I got but there's ME! Just a tiny little data point. www.sciencenews.org/article/lyme...

“What I didn’t know was that measles can cause long-term complications. A child can seem fine while the virus slowly replicates in her brain… Because both Britain and the United States are confronting outbreaks, I am sharing my story. Parents should know just how dangerous this disease is.”

In August, Jay Bhattacharya said “Training future biomedical scientists” was the 1st priority for his version of NIH. But talk is cheap. Let’s see how JB’s doing. 🤔 NIH supports trainees mostly via fellowship (F), training (T), and career development (K) awards. Here are funding curves for each.🧵

Upshot: 🟢 JB says scientist training is his #1 priority. 🔴 Yet, this fiscal year so far, training-related grants are down over 80% from expected levels. Guys, you can’t do science without scientists. JB gets an F (but not an F grant... ba-dum-tss) More funding curves at Grant Witness:

Absolutely incredible. NASA Astronaut Reid Wiseman, who commanded Artemis II, took this footage from the far side of the Moon with his iPhone. Watch with sound on.

"Pancreatic cancer mRNA vaccine shows lasting results in an early trial: Scientists caution that more research is needed, but nearly all of the patients who responded to the personalized vaccine are still alive six years later."

For all those still feeling the moon joy—Artemis II was brought to you by public schools and publicly funded science. Copy that! 👩‍🚀🚀💕 *All four astronauts went to public schools!

This is a fantastic photo #ArtemisII

The four humans who have traveled the furthest from Earth. (Via NASA.)

This plot needs a few more data points. The decline is mostly being driven by covid with one slightly lower than average point after, which could be an uptick from Covid. Will be interesting once a few more points are out to see whether this is actually a dramatic decline.

Iconic Photo

New published photo this morning from #ArtemisII, "Moonjoy" images.nasa.gov/details/art0...

Thankful to Brian and his team for doing this important work, then giving clear and actionable advice: www.cell.com/hgg-advances... link.springer.com/article/10.1...

A star scientist showed that better genetics lessons could reduce racism. It was the death knell for his career. Thank you, @mmolteni.bsky.social for sharing Brian's story. He is a generational talent, indeed, and has inspired my own educational activities deeply. www.statnews.com/2026/04/07/b...

Whoa 🤯 The Moon, in full eclipse, with the #Artemis II Orion spacecraft. Part of the Moon and spacecraft are lit by Earthshine, and both Saturn and Mars are visible to the lower right. Incredible. Details: images.nasa.gov/details/art0...

A star scientist showed that better genetics lessons could reduce racism. It was the death knell for his career The loss of Brian Donovan’s grants and job speak volumes about federal funding priorities — and academia www.statnews.com/2026/04/07/b...

“We’ve lost out on the ability to continue to improve this work to make it more effective, and to explore how to apply it to other areas…There are a lot of different ways that genetics has been used to justify prejudice and…that human-made social categories interface with biological categories“🧪

Earthset from Artemis II. I am overcome.

Some discussion on Artemis II broadcast about how dark the Moon is compared to Earth. Here's a really nice look at the two together from the same camera -- the Moon isn't white, it's dark brown www.planetary.org/space-images...

“We challenge this generation and the next to make sure this record is not long lived ❤️”

We are so, so small. #Artemis

After taking time to connect with the Pretti family and with their consent, we are honored to share that we have created the Alex Pretti Nursing Scholarship. For those interested, you can learn more and make a gift here: crowdfund.umn.edu/campaigns/Al...

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What are you talking about? There's nothing wrong with AI fact-checking!

Amazing to realize that every single one of us, save four, are in this photo.

NEW: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has taken steps to block or delay promotions for more than a dozen Black and female senior officers across all four branches of the military, according to nine U.S. officials familiar with the process.

I can't believe Katherine Johnson used to do these sorts of calculations and simulations BY HAND. I'm flabbergasted.

Can’t wait to watch with my family!