This is akin to Trump raiding the National Parks Service in order to pay for his Reflecting Pool disaster. (Which he has done). Take something that works remarkably well, and divert resources to cronies to deliver something the public did not ask for.

The Trump Admin is attempting to seize sweeping authority to condition or terminate grants for programs, initiatives, & research it doesn’t like. This clearly exceeds their authority, and we urge them to withdraw this rule. Congress—not the President—wields the power of the purse.

OUR WORK IS NOT DONE. In unusual move, NSF issued a request for information on plan to conform grant policies to the proposed (unfinalized) OMB rule. Plan includes changes to grant termination provisions & disallowing publication costs. Comments due August 24. www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...

RNA Society also made a comment: www.rnasociety.org/full-text-of...

American Chemical Society statement on the OMB rule can be read here: www.acs.org/policy/washi...

Great example of corporate and individual corruption- and how corporate actions can render insurance you pay for useless

Essential & timely analysis via @techpolicypress.bsky.social on the massive public response to the White House's proposed OMB rule that would politicize grants, science, and federally funded research, including comment analysis dashboard. www.techpolicy.press/the-public-r...

Not just research and science. ALL federal grantmaking (think: education, transportation, parks, water infrastructure, healthcare, public health practice), which undergirds state & local economies and is factored into credit agencies' assessments of governments' creditworthiness.

Me: Time for the Harry Lime speech about Switzerland Group chat: Centuries of peace and prosperity produces 220 goalless minutes.

For folks asking why bother commenting because the OMB won't care: comments help build cases for the courts by explicitly laying out harms. That's why it's really important to have your comments be as specific as possible. Also, contact your senators and reps! They actually do care about this.

Harry Kane looks like the big city guy that gets dumped in every Hallmark Christmas movie.

Helpful form to help craft comment for submission regarding OMB rules, deadline July 13!!

Want to learn about the OMB rule? We gotchu: www.standupforscience.foundation/policy-and-a... Never written a public comment before? We gotchu: www.standupforscience.foundation/policy-and-a... Need some moral support? We gotchu (fri @ 2pm et): events.standupforscience.net/stand-up-for...

There are many comments up on the OMB rule but there are now many that claim to be in favor of the rule and they are well written and anonymous- claiming to be tenured professors worried about waste fraud and abuse. We need as many real, unique comments as possible that show how bad this rule is

Monday is the deadline for public comment! The Heritage Foundation has been mobilizing its members to leave comments in favor of the rule change, so every unique comment matters (don’t use a form letter or copy/paste—similar comments are batched and treated as one).

“Public forums are dead, replaced by private chatbot conversations. Stack Overflow is no longer a place where you can expect to find answers. Instead those answers live in the private, conversational data that belongs to large tech companies.” Yes. This a new platform control of info.

Don't think I'd ever seen a photo of Jim Steinman before, but weirdly he looked *exactly* how I would always have assumed he would look.

If students are simply uninterested in the core bargain of a class like this, it’s hard to know what to do. You teach the material because you think it’s important they know it; they don’t give a shit, but want the credential; and the university wants their money. Your main option is “pretend”.

The first big story I ever wrote in enviro journalism was about the secret lobbying push to destroy these monuments for resource extraction How time passes

A great post by @zekehausfather.com that addresses the denial chestnut that warming in the early 20th century, when CO2 hadn't increased that much, somehow disproves modern warming. As you probably can guess, that argument is BS.

It was an absolute JOY to be in Vienna to see my colleague David Grunwald be awarded the @izfs.bsky.social George Streisinger Award! David gave us an inspiring reminder of who we are as a community, how we got here, and what we can accomplish when we work together. #zebrafish #EZM2026

2/2 Women messing with men’s heads du jour again: Judith & Abra packing up after successful assassination of Holofernes, 1625, by Artemisia Gentileschi.

Update of my NIGMS funding estimates/data. Thanks to @needhibhalla.bsky.social for pointing to some FY2025 numbers showing funding rates. Funded grant # are from Reporter. FY2026 is in progress. A few points 1/

The heaviest downpours in the Great Lakes and Northeast US are now ~50% more intense. It’s not coincidence, it’s climate change. The graph below shows the increase in global water vapor relative to the 1950-1980 baseline. It’s in standard deviations. It’s gone from -2 to now 4+ sigma. That’s a lot!

EGYPT: We're up 2-0 in the WC RO16! CHOTINER: But what if Argentina scores three goals? EGYPT: I'm sorry, what now?

USMNT stages I hope they win I hope they go down fighting I hope they make it respectable I hope they make this less humiliating I hope they are good in 20 years

I think it was Tony Adams who once said you learn more from your defeats you do from your victories, and if that’s true the USMNT just learned a lot

They said

MATCH RESULT i frew up

Our new preprint @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social, led by @katsuminami.bsky.social‬ et al.! 🎉 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Machine learning-assisted Repli-Histo labeling and single-nucleosome imaging reveal distinct transcription-dependent chromatin constraints across euchromatin and heterochromatin.

this match is following the plot arc of Aliens, that was the drop ship exploding

HE DID IT AGAIN!!!

Clam it De Cuyper

but,,, but it literally is a jersey. The point of the painting is that it wasn’t a pipe, it was a PICTURE of a pipe-

Belgium found America's weakness: jerseys that look like Fruitopia bottles

Cold records are vanishing. There are half as many as there would be without climate change. Heat records are occurring 4x more than you'd expect without greenhouse gas pollution.

this might look like a "the worst person you know just made a great point" situation, but it's really more like a "the worst person you know has devoted his life to criticizing his main rival in the worst person you know contest" www.politico.com/news/2026/02...

The difference between ref last night in Paraguay-France and tonight was extreme. What a classic

That’s some tuff business by England

Somebody use this time wisely and go get the Elgin marbles

COCAINE HELICOPTER AIN'T GOT NOTHING ON THIS

This game is on just absolute uncut meth

Pickford made the save and mid-flight grabbed the post to keep his head from hitting it, I’m floored

Fletcher and Hargreaves are good because they aren’t homers - and this isn’t even Fletcher’s main gig- that’s Red Bull Soapbox racing

I think at the end of the day this is very bad and the red card was improperly given for sure. The biggest damage being done imo is the trump administration setting the narrative it intervened. FIFA not commenting only muddies the water. We dont know if they started looking before or after this call

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Blessings to the person who referred to Haaland as “Norwegian megafauna”.