"I was thrilled to be on an exchange semester overseas, but I saw it as just a detour from my imagined career path. I didn’t realize I was already pedaling toward a different life—one that would make me reassess how to achieve a fulfilling research career." https://scim.ag/46EZ2kj

Satellites could reveal the secret burial grounds of Mexico’s murder victims | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

U.S. will fulfill Biden-era pledge to provide HIV prevention breakthrough to millions | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

Florida plans to nix vaccine mandates. How well do they work? | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

Pushed out by Trump, New Jersey ecologist launches bid for Congress | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

How a Ph.D. is like riding a bike | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

NIH director orders new review of grants in outline of top research priorities | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

Giraffes are four distinct species, major report confirms | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

Facing ‘impossible’ workload, USDA struggles to oversee lab animal welfare | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

NIH director orders new review of grants in outline of top research priorities | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

Why a top economist discounts Trump’s claim U.S. jobs data are ‘rigged’ | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

Scientific fraud has become an ‘industry,’ alarming analysis finds | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

Researchers’ chances of winning a grant from the National Institutes of Health have dropped under a new policy. scim.ag/4f7uew2

Random cat facts can increase the odds an LLM gets a math problem wrong by as much as 700% (To be fair to the AIs, cats are pretty confusing). That and more of the best in @science.org and science in this edition of #ScienceAdviser: www.science.org/content/arti... 🧪

So what makes a climate assessment? In short: not this new Energy Dept report, which rehashes contrarian greatest hits with areas of known uncertainty -- that climate scientists talk about all the time. It's all a little grim. Who needs 721 authors when you have 5?

The National Institutes of Health’s budget, and structure, would be preserved under a Senate bill for the 2026 fiscal year.

Hidden features of volcanic “lava bombs” have been caught on video. Learn more: scim.ag/478PIqq

NSF plans abrupt end to lone U.S. Antarctic research icebreaker | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

Odds of winning NIH grants plummet as new funding policy and spending delays bite | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

The Senate just posted the report language of its FY26 science appropriations bill. This text lays out what they want done and carries the force of law if it is included in the final spending bill. It's a line-by-line refutation of Trump's proposed budget for NASA and NOAA.

Senate panel raises hopes that NSF will restore killed grants | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

Over 8 years, sharks attacked 30 people around Reunion, killing 11, accounting for an extraordinary 18.5% of known global shark fatalities over that period -- and spurring an urgent research effort. www.science.org/content/arti...

“The new law will negatively affect further international collaborations of Russian chemists and other scientists, as many of them will prefer not to participate in such projects amid the fears of possible attention from security services,” says one chemist www.science.org/content/arti...

Exclusive: NIH suspends dozens of pathogen studies over ‘gain-of-function’ concerns | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

A key Senate spending committee has joined its House of Representatives counterpart in rejecting deep cuts that President Donald Trump’s administration proposed for research at the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) for the 2026 fiscal year that begins on 1 October www.science.org/content/arti...

In 2000, China-based scholars produced just 671 AI papers, but in 2024 their 23,695 AI-related publications topped the combined output of the United States (6378), the United Kingdom (2747), and the European Union (10,055). www.science.org/content/arti...

A hybrid moa created through genetic engineering would not be “a taonga [treasured] species, and it does not revive ancestral relationships with the moa just because it kind of resembles one,” notes one observer. www.science.org/content/arti...

Judge orders NIH to restore hundreds of grants cut under Trump | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

The members of RFK Jr.’s new vaccine committee have published little on vaccines | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

Congress shows first signs of resisting Trump’s plans to slash science budgets | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

Exclusive: NIH documents reveal inconsistencies in grant terminations as agency reviews 3200 more | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

“It is a difficult time:” Mpox continues to spread in Africa but vaccination efforts are falling far short. www.science.org/content/arti... (by @cohenjon.bsky.social)

‘Devastating.’ NIH cancels future funding plans for HIV vaccine consortia | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

Dozens of active and planned NASA spacecraft killed in Trump budget request | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

China is quietly preparing to build a gigantic telescope | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

Will NSF’s flagship training program survive under Trump? | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

To boost nuclear power, Trump orders controversial rewrite of radiation safety rules | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

The unsanctioned 20 May event was not a protest against the policies of President Donald Trump’s administration. “We just wanted to show our appreciation for all the advances in science that NSF has funded over the years,” said an organizer. www.science.org/content/arti...

NHI Director on layoffs: “I actually don’t have any transparency in how those decisions were made, and actually I’m quite upset about that. It would be nice to have had some say.” www.science.org/content/arti...

NEW: Proponents of the technology claim it is near-infallible. But multiple scientific and legal experts say BEOS rests on scant evidence. an actual case,” says one scientist. | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

NEW: “We’ve been fighting for decades to increase participation by people from these groups. And now they’re seeing that there may not be a place at the table for them. It’s frightening.” | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

More context: Our tracker (grant-watch.us) currently lists 877 terminated NIH grants. We have 820 rows in the tracker, but some rows list multiple grants. As of yesterday, NIH RePORTER listed 807 NIH grants specifically at Harvard. So we're looking at over 1600 formally terminated NIH grants now.

Kennedy, Trump’s health chief, confronts criticism and praise from U.S. lawmakers | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

“I hope that my decision to resign, and my willingness to speak publicly about it, will draw attention to the serious governance challenges now facing the NSF.” | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

Another scoop from Jeff Mervis (@policyhound.bsky.social): NSF's ~1400 grant terminations have disproportionately affected PIs from groups underrepresented in science: women, racial & ethnic minorities, & those with disabilities. 1/3 www.science.org/content/arti...

“The lived experience of a scientist right now is terrifying.” | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

NEW: NSF slashes number of ‘rotators’ and well-paid managers as part of restructuring | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

Exclusive: NSF faces radical shake-up as officials abolish its 37 divisions | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

Exclusive: NSF faces radical shake-up as officials abolish its 37 divisions | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

Europe pledges €600 million to lure foreign researchers, vows to protect scientific freedom | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...