Through March 31, the number of grants awarded by the National Institutes of Health is down by more than half compared with the same period last year, a Post analysis found. There are also fewer grants focused on women’s health, cancer and mental health, the analysis found. https://wapo.st/48dWJWX

"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."

This morning, I posted two important stories based on insider information from the FBI and SCOTUS, published in @theatlantic.com and @nytimes.com respectively. This doesn’t happen by accident. The source(s) have to know they’ll be protected, even if the reporters are threatened with jail.

I thought foxes went into the Fox Boxes. Have I been doing Bear Boxes in Washington State all wrong?

War is logistics.

This seems like those odd circular funding/GPU purchase deals going on in #AI but with Cylon trucks.

U.S. Senator Tina Smith announced her intention to hold the Senate floor to protest legislation that would remove protections for the Minnesota Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness.

For the fourth year in a row, WA has declared a drought emergency. This is not normal. Climate change is here and now — and we need to urgently address it.

was once New Amsterdam.

Just rewatched that. Truly inspired! The Mel Books scenes as the governor hit really hard though. What at the time was satire doesn’t seem funny now.

I quite happily live in a neighborhood where most people do not share my religion, where multiple languages are represented, and where people have come from a lot of different countries. Bigoted assholes always assume everyone else actually shares their bigotries.

Orion's main parachute has deployed. The spacecraft has a system of 11 chutes that will slow it down from around 300 mph to 20 mph for splashdown. Get more updates on the Artemis II blog: Original post

The whole MAHA ethos -- the attitude that the key to health is better individual choices -- runs counter to any public health perspective that centers broad social collective approaches, which includes vaccines and structural changes. They're just incompatible mindsets.

I’ve been warned that by engaging in politics, I might undermine myself as a scientist. Or worse, reduce the trust that people have in me or scientists as a whole. This latter point is the thesis of a recent article by Byron Hyde: link.springer.com/article/10.1... I disagree for multiple reasons.

For some rare cheer: Tulips (taken on Thursday) in the Victoria Embankment Gardens

Another example of refusing to collect data whose results you don’t like: Forest Service Will Close Research Stations That Study Wildfire Risk www.nytimes.com/2026/04/03/c...

Trans rights are human rights. This Transgender Day of Visibility, we honor the resilience of transgender and nonbinary Americans and celebrate their incredible courage.

Discworld QOTD, from Feet of Clay

Discworld QOTD, from Feet of Clay

📸: @seattletimes-rss.bsky.social

WEST #Seattke #NoKings

THIS THIS THISITY THIS THIS I've been seeing more fake stuff getting passed around lately. Take a sec to check the actual source!

If you don’t care about this now, you will when you’re dying from a disease that would have been treatable

There are a whole bunch of reasons to turn out for #nokings tomorrow but here are maybe the top two: 1) huge turnout is a signal to republicans edging away from Trump and puts steel in Dem spines. 2) least we can do to honor bravery of Minnesotans who turned the tide

1. No 2. Is this going to be like some kind of reverse Xeno's paradox where the deadline gets farther and farther into the future until it just...sort of...disappears?

What? I--I--what?

NASA worldview imagery of the Sierra Nevada February 20 March 2 March 9 March 22

One of my favorite Pratchett quotes.

The unprecedented heat wave currently enveloping the western U.S. could portend intensifying drought, water shortages, strong summer heat and intense wildfires later this year, scientists warn. My story: 🔏https://www.eenews.net/articles/alarm-bells-early-western-heat-wave-foreshadows-future-danger/

Publishers say they’re blocking the Internet Archive because of AI scraping. But shutting out a nonprofit library won’t stop AI—it will damage the public’s best record of the web.

This is horrible and more evidence that the administration is not fulfilling its duties. #science #funding

Apropos.

psssst here's a secret: trans people are just people most of them are pretty cool honestly because surviving while trans in this timeline sort of forges them into diamonds awesome, autonomy-grabbing diamonds transphobes are petty weird losers this has been my ted talk

A striking weather contrast will soon unfold across the West Coast as buckets of rain and feet of mountain snow are on tap for the PNW, while true summerlike heat is anticipated in CA. Monthly temp records may be threatened in Yosemite, while Mt Rainier contends with its wettest March in years.

It was an inspiring event!

Not unpopular in my neck of the world! #Seattle

TODAY. Take Back our Science Rally. Don't take this administration's assault on science sitting down. Get to a rally: fight2win.standupforscience.... #StandUpForScience #March7 #Rally #science #savescience

#Yakima! Join your local National Day of Action Rally TOMORROW, Saturday, March 7th!!! Not in Yakima? No worries! We have 50 cities with rallies, find your local rally at standupforscience.net/march7 #March7Yakima #March7 #standupforscience #science #rally zurl.co/LojYQ

US transit data is out today, and Seattle's Link remains one of the fastest-growing rail systems in the nation, with ridership up 9% in the wake of the extension to Federal Way Ridership should increase even further at the end of this month when the 1 & 2 lines are connected🧵

Gender-affirming care remains legal and protected in the state of Washington. Last year, our team secured a preliminary injunction blocking two executive orders that threaten to end federal funding to medical institutions providing gender-affirming care.

This weekend, on March 7, @standupforscience.bsky.social is leading protests in 25 locations. Scientists had warned about the replacement of evidence over ideology and the damage it would cause. Everything that I was worried about came true. 🧪 www.scientificamerican.com/article/stan...

Getting ready to stand up for science this Saturday in #Seattle! Eager to see @jamesian.bsky.social and many others there! www.instagram.com/p/DVbcIqwASzr/

Kind of like facts derived from rigorous scientific research!

When someone says „Scientists do not want you to know“ you can dismiss everything from there on. Scientists want you to know. They are desperate that you know. They can’t shut up about what they found out and want you to know.

A new large-scale study provides strong long-term evidence that HPV vaccination effectively prevents invasive cervical cancer, particularly when administered at younger ages. www.bmj.com/content/392/...

This is a problem if you want a functioning publicly funded scientific research program.

This all seems very very bad

I traveled across Iran in 2004 as a very young person. It's a beautiful country w/mountainous geography reminiscent of Colorado or Montana. Everywhere I went, people seemed eager to reassure me "we hate your government, not you." In our own hell, we are now experts at making that same distinction.