Have you already made comments? Maybe called your reps? Great!! Now tell your friends, tell your family. Tell personal stories of what science does to help you and yours! 🧪

🚨 HEADS UP: If you haven't submitted a comment on the OMB proposal yet, there's still time - but it's running out! There are only 9 days left to push back against Russell Vought's attempt to give political appointees unprecedented control over federal research funding. Take Action: zurl.co/FNfgR

RIP Joides Resolution. Thanks for the holes (and sediment from them!)

OUR BIG TAKEAWAYS: - The Dems pressed Vought on the proposed OMB Rule - DeLauro critized the admin for trying to make federal grants pass a political loyalty test. Vought denied this characterization, but refused to commit that OMB would respect Congress's constitutional power of the purse. 🧵:

If you have not yet, please join us in taking action against the latest OMB proposal, here: fight2win.standupforscience.net

This is a tremendous piece by Judy Stone at @forbes.com. This new OMB rule is going to hurt communities from coast to coast. Federal grants are not just about research! www.forbes.com/sites/judyst...

Musk says not a single person has died due to him axing USAID. Sadly, part of my job involves tracking aid spending. So here’s a thread with just some of the people who lost their lives because of USAID cuts

Climate.us is officially live! After NOAA ended Climate.gov’s day-to-day operations in 2025, former team members built Climate.us to carry that work forward. Their explanations and graphics have always stood out to me as clear, accessible, and transparent. I’m really looking forward to this reboot.

So happy and proud to see this paper out in @natcomms.nature.com today! We show that traces of human DNA can persist on cave walls for thousands of years. Absolutely fantastic work by the wonderful Alba Bossoms Mesa at @mpi-eva-leipzig.bsky.social and a great team! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The Trump administration just paid Invenergy $765 million to cancel four wind projects. That brings the running total to roughly $2.5 billion in taxpayer money spent to stop energy from being built. Think about that. At a time when electricity demand is rising,

Attempted tech capture will almost certainly accelerate if Jim O'Neill is confirmed as NSF Director. O'Neill is a former Managing Director in the Thiel-verse. The "stranger to research" is not an accident. Building ties is key if you want to support university-led research, but not if you don't.

More terrible news for science in the US: NSF slashing physical sciences funding by 30% and halting all pending awards — www.science.org/content/arti... 🧪 🔭 ⚛️

So the US National Science Foundation (NSF) is diverting a large amount of public money for basic science into areas of science that already well funded by investors and for profit companies. This will continue to undermine the pipeline of trained scientists and engineers from higher education. 🧪

“The agency appears to be defying a congressional directive in the final FY 2026 appropriations bill that “No [NSF] directorate shall receive more than a 5 percent reduction relative to the fiscal year 2024 enacted level.” That language was meant to address… a concern that now appears prescient.”

Punching Peter in the face until he dies to pay Paul: 🧪 www.science.org/content/arti...

NSF's grantmaking is miserly when compared to recent years, but when compared it to the historical record, we see it's a radical break from the long-term consensus of investing in scientific innovation. grant-witness.us/posts/2026-0... #NSF 🧪

A paper in Nature describes plague outbreaks dating back to around 5,500 years ago documented in hunter-gatherer communities from southeast Siberia. The findings, based on an analysis of ancient DNA, may be the oldest-known evidence of the plague and could shed light on its origins. 🧬🏺🧪

I'm looking for a post-doc to work on the interaction between past hydrological changes and vegetation in a disturbed peatland, using paleoecological and modelling approaches. The post-doc duration is 18 months and start date is any time before Jan 2027. DM if you are interested / have questions! 🌿🧪

The collab you didn’t know you needed! To celebrate the start of the 2026 FIFA World Cup, @garlab.bsky.social presents to you the 7 gar species of North America! ⚽️🐟🌎 1/5

The broader implication extends beyond flowering plants. Many famous "rocks vs. clocks" debates may not require choosing sides. The challenge is finding better ways to let fossils and molecules speak to each other. Link to our latest: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Red alert: The OMB regulations could disable science permanently open.substack.com/pub/holdenth...

The Administration's Office of Management and Budget (OMB) released a proposed rule that would politicize federal science grantmaking, replacing scientific rigor with ideological gatekeeping. AGU President Brandon Jones on why it's important to make your voices heard: spklr.io/6011E3zfZ

OMB must answer substantive comments. It can batch and dismiss form letters. So make yours impossible to average away: "[200.340] I'm in year 3 of a 5-year PhD funded by an R01. This rule means my advisor's grant can end before I defend." One section. One fact. One consequence.

Call your reps -- blue, red, purple, it doesn't matter -- about the proposed OMB science funding rule. The house can stop this. Let them know it matters for your district.

In the next Ignite, join @katharinehayhoe.com and @globalecoguy.bsky.social as they explore what it takes to connect, communicate climate science, and where to look for meaningful action. REGISTER TODAY! https://bit.ly/4uh69sN

Who would have guessed it? www.science.org/content/arti...

Russell Vought, Director of the OMB, has issued a set of proposed changes that would dramatically alter federal grant funding. However, we can each take action to prevent these from taking effect. Here's how, a 🧵 🧪 1/n www.science.org/content/arti...

Megathread about responding to new OMB grant funding rules (feel free to add/link more!) I was collecting these for me, but figured I'd round 'em up for everyone 🧪 What's the problem? arstechnica.com/science/2026... elizabethginexi.substack.com/p/summary-of...

🔗 This is part of the "Your Tax Dollars At Work" series on federally funded research that sounded ridiculous but generated enormous returns. Full series archive: bioniclab.substack.com/notes #YourTaxDollarsAtWork

I have submitted a comment opposing Russell Vought's latest attempt to destroy US science; focusing on how it would have prohibited everything I have worked on for the last 20 years. And I will keep telling my members of Congress to block this. Do likewise, USA. bsky.app/profile/chan...

tl,dr; Scientists no longer allowed to use federal funding to publish, attend meetings, or talk to the public. They cannot collaborate internationally. Grants can be cancelled for any reason, at any time, political appointees have a final say over what gets funded, and who gets funded.

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. 🧪🔭⚛️

Assistant Professor position in paleontology @uugeo.bsky.social 🤩 🐚 🌊 🧪 ⚒️

"The regulations seek to codify that Trump officials have the right to keep doing what they started last year: canceling thousands of grants that they said didn’t align with the president’s priorities, and shooting down new ones for the same reason."

so, this is deeply, deeply horrifying thedreydossier.substack.com/p/i-found-a-...

Hello media people there is a whole library of images you can use to report on the current heatwave instead of melting ice creams and deck chairs. See Climate Visuals: climateoutreach.org/what-we-do/c...

because I know y’all can’t click and read

UVic is hiring a Terrestrial Plant Ecologist Assistant Professor! Come join our department! We're nice and Victoria is awesome. www.uvic.ca/science/biol...

Eew

On NSF’s postdoc page, the biology and earth science fields have been completely eliminated; the only remaining fellowships are in math, astronomy, engineering, and “entrepreneurship.” Weird choice not to support research on the life support system for 8 billion people. www.nsf.gov/funding/post...

📡 The NAS Earth Science Decadal Survey 2028–2037 (ESAS 2028) is underway! On a compressed 2-year timeline, the Call for Experts is now live: volunteer or nominate someone for the Steering Committee. Also, keep an eye out: an RFI for White Papers drops next week. 🔗 tinyurl.com/4afyw82e

@yaleclimatecomm.bsky.social has curated elections-related resources, drawing from their signature Climate Change in the American Mind survey, to help local and national US reporters dig into voter sentiments about climate change and climate action.

Unearthed reports reveal that RFK Jr. fired every full-time CDC cruise ship sanitation inspector ahead of the Hantavirus cruise ship outbreak. www.cbsnews.com/news/cdc-cru...

Today is Red Dress day, a time for us to reflect on the fact that: -3 in 4 Indigenous women experience violence in their life, and that although we make up 2% of the population -40% of trafficking victims are Indigenous women. -murder is the 3rd leading cause of death for Native ♀️ #MMIW #MMIWG

The newly released Sierra Nevada Atlas is a collection of maps, geospatial datasets, and associated text that presents geologic map layers, geophysical layers, economic geology layers, neotectonic features, and geochronology for the Sierra Nevada. www.conservation.ca.gov/cgs/sierra-n...

DOGE cut 13% of weather balloon launch sites. Remaining offices delayed morning launches due to staffing cuts. Kansas got 30 minutes warning before EF-2 tornadoes. For decades they've had hours. The NWS said no tornado threat then five hit NOAA says forecasting hasn't been impacted. Kansas disagrees

#WeekendReading: Tangunan et al.'s short but insightfull peice on on the uncertainties behind Earth’s timelines. 🧪⚒️ Link: https://pastglobalchanges.org/publications/pages-magazines/pages-magazine/138913