Wonderful news. A salutary reminder of the absolute benefits of scientific progress, and the absolute evil of conspiracist bollocks. Huntington's disease successfully treated for first time www.bbc.com/news/article...

I feel like a pretty good rule of thumb is don't take drug advice from someone who can't pronounce the name of it.

Posts claim Charlie Kirk once introduced Kyle Rittenhouse as "a hero to millions." That's true. ✅ www.snopes.com/fact-check/c...

Things were better when computer was in room. Now everywhere is computer. This is bad. Computer should never have escaped room.

This is precisely the kind of government coercion that the First Amendment was designed to prevent — and media companies need to start standing up rather than capitulating to it.

You know things are rough when the AAUP's advice on how to use social media is just "set all your accounts to private."

Discovering computer as an adult makes you go crazy. Discovering computer as a baby makes you go crazy. In all of human history, there will only ever be one generation to discover computer at the correct age: 13

Post a team you would send instead of Bongino and Patel.

⚒️ 🧪 A M8.8 earthquake just ruptured the subduction zone offshore Russia’s Kamchatka peninsula. This is one of the world’s truly huge earthquakes, and a triggered tsunami is currently traveling across the Pacific ocean. This same fault ruptured on July 20th in a M7.4, and last August in a M7.1.

Silicon Valley VCs sit atop a system where federal and state governments spent more on basic research of all kinds than most other countries in the world combined, and then take the ideas that come out of that and take it the last mile. An important function, but they disproportionately benefit.

Is Marc Andreessen a thin-skinned lower-tier villain who lost it when people pushed back against his views or suggesting regulating his businesses. Or is he a real man of the people, deeply concerned about the regular Trump voters in places like Iowa and Wisconsin?

During the subcommittee markup of the Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies, Sen. Jerry Moran (R-KS) announced that the bill contains 33.9 billion for science agencies (NASA & NSF) which would keep funding steady. ~8 min mark. Full meeting tomorrow.

Are folks on here putting explicit statements about AI use in science (I'm specifically thinking about writing and coding) in research group expectations documents? I'm thinking about doing this and would love some examples of others' policies!

BREAKING: Judge denies NSF's 15% indirect rate plan. Like the DOE and NIH attempts, it too has now been rejected by courts. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

BREAKING: A federal judge ruled all transgender and intersex people can obtain passports that align with their gender identity while the case against President Trump's executive order proceeds. While this is good news, we will continue fighting until this executive order is blocked permanently.

The planned lands for sale include significant chunks of the Colorado Trail and the CDT, and almost all the major ski areas in Colorado.

The craziest thing about this fight between Trump and Elon Musk is that Republicans are trying to take away health care from 16 million people to pay for tax cuts for billionaires.

I want to remind everyone that without Elon Musk, we wouldn't be in this situation where our academic institutions, science enterprise, and democracy are being dismantled, and millions of additional people around the world are going to die. We want both of them to lose horribly in this fight.

The failure of the National Academy of Sciences USA to make a clear and unequivocal statement about the disastrous Trump administration science policies — it lets all of us down and dooms them to eventual irrelevance.

ELON MUSK IS STILL A NAZI

When I was stuck in LA traffic as an undergrad, I'd call people until I found someone near a computer who could look at the sigalert website and tell me if there was a different combination of highways I could take that was less jammed.

I had a proposal declined by NSF today that was ranked Highly Competitive (the highest category) and had only minor weaknesses listed in the panel summary. Pretty demoralizing yo.

Musk should be asked about this in every interview he does now and forever. To ignore it is a dereliction of duty. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...

Gold standard science

"It just really comes as a shock that such accomplished intellectuals, who’ve spent their entire careers pushing the upper bounds of human achievement, could be judgy about a machine that runs the entirety of human imagination through a shredder and glues together what comes out."

New axis labels have dropped

this is a letter to the editor from a high school track runner who came in second to a trans girl in a race. her state house rep in maine started talking about it. so she wrote this: www.pressherald.com/2025/05/14/r...

The Early Career Workshop for Geoscience faculty needs our help! It helped me (& many others) learn to balance teaching, research, & planning for the future when I was just starting out. Now the NSF grant funding the workshop has been terminated. Donate here! nagt.org/nagt/get_inv...

NSF’s entire Division of Equity for Excellence in STEM (EDU/EES), which “aims to provide opportunities for individuals from all backgrounds to actively participate and excel in STEM disciplines” and some of it congressionally mandated, was just notified they will be RIFed. www.nsf.gov/edu/ees/about

Things are bad

My AY 24/25 sabbatical is almost over (😭) so I have an AI take to share about it. My primary research goal this year was to become fluent in R so I could translate my substantial set of research code from Matlab into R. I can't tell you how many times folks told me to just use ChatGPT. 1/4

Saturday morning vibes

UPDATE: We have data on >1000 terminated #NSF grants at grant-watch.us. Thanks to all who have been contributing data the past few days. We've also added a "Reports" section with some analyses. For NSF, we see that the STEM education directorate has been absolutely pummeled.

Hey extroverts, not everyone else is like you, some of us are frankly exhausted by airplane small talk. The big headphones, hoody up, and mask on are all how I am begging you to leave me alone. It's not about convenience, it's about respect!

🚨 Our terminated NSF grant tracker now includes 434 grants that were terminated last Friday. We think this is all of them for now. Link to the tracker: airtable.com/appGKlSVeXni... Huge credit to @noamross.net for this. Contact me via Signal at sdelaney.84 for questions or corrections.

Me providing feedback on mentee writing rn

“Here’s the truth: White Americans — white men especially — who didn’t need to compete against a broad-based pool because of gender and racial discrimination…have long been the original beneficiaries of race and gender-based affirmative action in this country.”

🧪 Tip: You have the right to contest a grant termination, even though NSF says you don't. 🧵 On Friday, NSF terminated 402 grants (per Musk's DOGE). The notification letters had one of the most egregious violations of fed regulations I've seen so far in these cases: "not subject to appeal"

🚨Report your NSF grant terminations! 🚨 We are starting to collect information on NSF grant terminations to create a shared resource as we have for NIH. The more information we collect, the more we can organize, advocate, and fight back! Please share widely! airtable.com/appGKlSVeXni...

I think it’s fine to bully people for reading Harry Potter in 2025 actually If you want to read your old Harry Potter books, you should do it in secret and shamefully - you know, in the way that J.K. Rowling wants to force trans people to live.

*primal screaming*

Zoom is so down right now that status.zoom.us won't even load for me. Afternoon of meetings cancelled, time to go lay outside in the grass??

Amazing work, 10/10.

Cost of housing is a serious issue in Summit County, but the reason for proof of *local* employment is that otherwise affluent vanlifers from the front range would take up all the parking spots and resources so they could ski without driving home or staying at a hotel. This framing is harmful.

I appreciate this thread for identifying a bunch of supposedly liberal bike haters to block

- Nestlé-Glaceau Institute for Public Fluoridation Research - Caltech Jet Propulsion Laboratory: A Subsidiary of SpaceX - The University of Texas Football Team, LLC

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Tariffs xkcd.com/3073

My own personal cheeses