A remarkable policy insight buried in here: India (part of WHO's SE Asia), mandates that health warnings should accompany ANY display of tobacco use... including characters in films and TV shows.

Admin seems to understand that outbreaks only matter politically if voters understand their origin and scale. If illness comes unexpectedly and seemingly at random, disease becomes a personal problem.

Extremely good news

The number of tobacco users has dropped from 1.38 billion in 2000 to 1.2 billion in 2024. Since 2010, the number of people using tobacco has dropped by 120 million – a 27% drop in relative terms. @who.int @ashorguk.bsky.social @asthmaandlung.org.uk #LungSky #RespEd www.who.int/publications... /n

Really appreciate this paper — an impactful, timely, and straightforward look at the potential impacts of major cuts to the world’s largest source of scientific funding. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Excited and honored to among these lucky scholars. Excited to spend the next four years exploring the health implications of digital media in Vienna! www.oeaw.ac.at/en/news/harv...

Please RT 2 new positions in the lab as postdoc & PhD! Interested in stress, pain, or reward? This project has it all! We are a friendly but ambitious group. Oslo is a capital city on the fjord & bordered by forest, great urban & outdoors opportunities: 💃 ⛷️ 🚣 🎭 🎶 www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

New York Times story with profiles of researchers whose grants were terminated. [Gift Link] www.nytimes.com/2025/08/24/o...

We wanted post-publication peer review. We got post-award grant review.

My technically unsophisticated #BlueSkyHack is to 'like' every post on my feed that features garden veggies, wildflowers, or birds. This has meaningfully improved my digital life. Gardeners and birders of BlueSky, thank you for your service.

Telling my wife how the conference is going

The National Science Foundation plans to abruptly end operation of the RV Nathaniel B. Palmer, the sole U.S. research ship capable of braving the farthest reaches of Antarctica and the Southern Ocean. scim.ag/4mB8LOX

🌊❄️🧪 🇦🇶 Please share: We have learned that the National Science Foundation is moving ahead with plans to decommission the U.S. Research Vessel/Ice Breaker Nathaniel B. Palmer this October. If you care about Antarctic research, please read on (1/n)

For anyone on the Communication job market this year S. Rutherford McEwan has put together an excellent spreadsheet for 2025-2026 openings. Highly recommend checking it out (whether you're applying or hiring): docs.getgrist.com/rHppfvPrMDQd... #commsky #academicsky #communication

Two days after deadly Texas floods, the agency struggled to answer calls from survivors because of call center contracts that weren’t extended. This is so horrifying I made a bar graph www.nytimes.com/2025/07/11/c...

**US-CAN Doctoral Excellence Award @WesternU -$160,000 to 25 PhD students for up to 4 years. - Must've had offer rescinded/cancelled from US school. -Expedited admission process. -Feel free to reach out, if interested in a PhD in inorganic chem! www.forbes.com/sites/michae...

Truly devastating. “if Congress approves the cuts to the agency proposed by the White House, the number of early-career researchers it supports could fall by 78%—from 95,700 undergraduates, graduate students, and postdocs during this fiscal year to 21,400 in 2026.” www.science.org/content/arti...

1/2 Cannabis researchers: We’ve developed new instruments to help standardize self-reported cannabis data. - Cannabis Use Questionnaire (CUQ) - Core Assessment Battery on Cannabis (CABC) Both are free to download (Qualtrics, REDCap): www.cannabisandhealth.org

Planning my life so I might one day have the problems of this northern Wisconsin cabin.

With this vote, Congress makes ICE the highest-funded federal law enforcement agency in history, with more money per year at its disposal over the next four years than the budgets of the FBI, DEA, ATF, US Marshals, and Bureau of Prisons combined.

STAGGERING: This new study of 133 countries is the first to estimate the impact of all USAID’s work. In 2 decades, it has saved *92M* lives. Current cuts, if not reversed, are forecast to cost up to *14M* lives thru 2030. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

I lived in Puerto Rico the summer of 2017, when the island endured the rapid "double tap" of Hurricanes Irma and Maria. We *lived* on satellite data in those weeks --- impossible to overstate how essential moment-to-moment updates were in our planning and prep. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/c...

Just in: NIH staff have been instructed to REINSTATE these ~900 grants to comply with the court order, per sources. This comes after staff were also directed to cease any further terminations. You can see the lists grants to be reinstated in my post below.

NSF is getting kicked out of its headquarters to build a parking garage, an executive dining hall, and maybe a gym for the HUD secretary

HUGE win if this holds.

For those who feel safe to go, #NoKings Denver is just going on just a few blocks from #ica25

Deeply stoked to share our new paper in @journal-of-comm.bsky.social, showing warning labels reduce intentions to share posts that promote cannabis edibles. Based on our fMRI data, we suggest labels might interrupt the pre-conscious processes that lead users to see these posts as self-relevant.

you gotta help w/ this

Feeling very “bad luck Brian” today—featured in the Times as the face of a cohort of jobless desperates.

Question for #birdsky — our neighborhood Sandhill Cranes have adopted a gosling to raise along with their colt this year. The gosling has done well but seems to be learning to walk like a crane. Any idea what this means long-term for this goose? Will it always act as a crane? Will it survive?

If you burn down a forest, you don't miss out on lumber for just that season. You have to replant all the trees, nurture them, and wait for them to grow. The science and research budget cuts happening now are wanton, senseless arson. Recovery, if it ever happens, will take generations.

📣 New Comment on reporting of research with #Adolescents and #Youth engagement as part of the @thelancet.com Commission on #AdolescentHealth Comment here 👉 www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... #YouthHealth #MedSky @jasonmnagata.bsky.social Lancet Commission here 👉 bit.ly/4k14Vgo

Federal grants: it's SO much worse than you know. The idea that only ideologically radical grants were cut is a profound lie. Funds were cut, stalled, AND HHS is not paying bills even if awards were NOT cancelled. The $ stopped, illegally and without explanation grant-watch.us/posts/700-ne...

A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope

I don’t think it’s hyperbole to describe this moment in US science as apocalyptic. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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.

Researchers who have had grants terminated--tell your story! The #DefendResearch team is collecting testimonials about this impact of #censorship on research that we will use as part of a toolkit for contacting elected officials. #NSF, #NEH, #NIH www.defendresearch.org/testimonials

NIH just posted a Notice with the new Terms and Conditions... grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

The dismantling of American science. NSF CAREER grants are extremely competitive and help early career scientists establish their labs and independent lines of research. Such a loss!

🚨 NEW: Crowdsourced database of #NSF grant terminations. 🚨 We've been able to collect info on >110 cancelled grants that were cancelled on Friday. Thanks to all the researchers who reported over the holiday weekend. 🧪 airtable.com/appGKlSVeXni...

If you’re comfortable, here’s a form to submit info on terminated NSF grants for greater collective transparency and insight among grantees: Kudos to @scott-delaney.bsky.social for putting together. airtable.com/appGKlSVeXni...

Policymakers and technologists alike are stuck in a “solutionism” trap—but particularly with AI, we need to focus on intervention, not “solutions.” New essay by moi: www.techpolicy.press/we-need-an-i...

Grateful to report that despite our world’s many, many, *many* troubles, moose still exist.

Such a sad story by @sedensky.bsky.social

I don’t even know how this could be presented as being in service of anything other than hindering scientific progress.

Some personal news — my partner and I eloped to Antarctica! On December 20, about three minutes south of the Antarctic Circle, my partner and I exchanged wedding vows in front of the captain, crew, and passengers of the SH Vega. We are married!

Let me tell you a story – one of the more haunting I’ve seen in 20 years of journalism. It’s about greed, death and denial. It took two years to unravel one doctor’s myth, a hospital’s complicity in creating it, and a documented trail of suspicious deaths…🧵