🚨 NASA scientists warn: critical equipment at Goddard Space Flight Center could be discarded during the shutdown, jeopardizing decades of Earth & space science missions. 📢 Act now: agu.quorum.us/campaign/146... #sciencepolicy #saveNASA

Can confirm

“China is now making more money from exporting green technology than America makes from exporting fossil fuels.” economist.com/leaders/2025...

Personally I have never used an LLM to: - review a paper - review a grant - mark student assessments These are tasks I do not pass to LLMs because I am getting paid to do them and because I was asked to provide my individual professional judgement on their quality

Happy Critical Infrastructure Fail Day to those who celebrate!

This is the equivalent of a permanent snowstorm where it will take the system a few weeks to reach equilibrium

Trump’s university backlash drives US researchers towards Europe on.ft.com/3Lq2xnr

Even as the anti-vax lobby erodes public trust, new evidence confirms that "immunizations against Covid-19, RSV, and influenza have shown consistent effectiveness & safety and are associated with a substantially reduced risk of hospitalization & severe disease" www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

Happy critical infrastructure fail day to those who celebrate www.tomsguide.com/news/live/aw...

Basic research is the foundation of American prosperity www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Great article about how TEEs are providing much less security than folks believe they will. arstechnica.com/security/202...

So proud to support this exciting public-private-academic partnership in #quantum #QIS #tech #workforce development! wnyt.com/top-stories/...

Are solid-state batteries about to kill combustion engines for good? apple.news/ALyZNGmLjTYy...

Are SBIR-funded inventions more likely to make it to market? ssti.org/blog/recent-...

America’s Quantum Manufacturing Moment warontherocks.com/2025/10/amer...

Renewables are a masterclass in learning-by-doing. Each doubling of deployment cuts costs via experience curves: better manufacturing, finance & supply chains. Result: Solar now cheapest new power in many regions Falling battery costs enable flexibility Electrification gets more attractive

My one general axiom is that innovators are not found at tech conferences.

Austria has lured what it calls 25 "top researchers" away from U.S. institutions including Harvard, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Princeton with grants set up in response to the Trump administration's funding cuts targeting universities. www.reuters.com/world/austri...

Brookhaven National Laboratory @brookhavenlab.bsky.social director JoAnne Hewett resigns www.newsday.com/long-island/...

When I say the US has bet its post-pandemic economy on AI while China has bet its on green energy, this is what I mean: Here, AI related companies account for 75% of S&P 500 returns since ChatGPT's launch. In China, green tech accounts for one quarter of GDP growth.

75% cure rate when none existed. mRNA ftw www.bbc.com/news/article...

I think often about how many of the pictures of slaves were taken a short walk from my home in Alexandria, VA. The pens of the slave dealers were still here on Duke St when the Union Army arrived in 1861.

Share your favourite black and white movie

Except… Cosmic radiation is a thing.

We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.

Just another tricky day

Instead of coming here and having families, paying taxes, and starting businesses, they'll stay in India.

And Three Days of the Condor

Proud of you sis hfcompanies.com/hoffmann-med...

She threw 100 mph in every episode, every scene.

Choreography and merriment for everyone!

Honoring Fred Schauer today: www.law.virginia.edu/event/rules-...

Speaking of how awesome vaccines can be, I just learned that Denmark is close to wiping out leading cancer-causing HPV strains after vaccine roll-out #VaccinesSaveLives

Join us on Sept 15 for a webinar w/ the U.S. National Science Foundation on NSF Regional Innovation #Engines, a new model of place-based S&T investments promoting industrial strategy Feat @brookings.edu @slaughteram.bsky.social @repbillfoster.bsky.social & others www.newamerica.org/center-educa...

House Joins Senate in Rejecting Drastic NIH Cuts Pushed by Trump www.aip.org/fyi/house-jo...

For those asking, my American Revolution lecture course is free online here: oyc.yale.edu/history/hist...

FABBS is hiring a short-term Tech Policy Fellow to focus on behavioral science and AI (link below). Share with early career policy wonks @ilpfoundry.bsky.social @asa-scipol.bsky.social @scipolguy.bsky.social @abankston.bsky.social @matthourihan.bsky.social @snapcoalition.bsky.social #scipoljobs

At a tech conference. Hill I’ll likely die on: getting rid of the cliches “moonshot” and “valley of death”. Just stop it.

I get sent AI-generated written garbage every single day riddled with obvious errors and shoddy grammar. Correcting said garbage (essentially rewriting it) churns up tens of thousands of dollars of client resources for negative results.

NEW STUDY: Types of science🧪 articles shared on Bluesky: Health 29% Social 25% Physical 23% Life 23% arxiv.org/pdf/2507.18840 Worth reading--lots of other insights! Lately, I've been sharing our new article on global religious decline www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🚨 Major shake-up in NSF funding for K-12 STEM ed: Caps proposals at $750K max for 3 years. Prior cap used to be $5M up to 5 years for some programs. Archives several existing programs (DRK-12, AISL, CSforAll, TD, parts of ECR:Core). Combines into broad program with much lower expected # of awards.

They reopened Three Mile Island to make Excel even worse defector.com/it-took-many...

1. The philosophy of science sometimes gets an unearned reputation as a purely academic exercise that offers little by way of concrete tools for advancing research. This is wrong. And today, as we grapple with how AI is changing the nature of scientific activity, it's desperately wrong.

Really interesting look at how the rise of AI-mediated cheating could bring back handwriting, and the implications of that for students and teachers alike. (I wrote all my assignments in cursive through my sophomore year of high school fwiw lol.)

Event: Advancing University–Philanthropy Partnerships for Sustainable Research www.nationalacademies.org/event/45471_...

When you compare Chat-GPT and other LLMs to human beings, especially experts and artists, it sucks. When you compare LLMs to Clippy, autocomplete, "if you would like to pay a bill, say 'billing' or press 2," or even Watson on Jeopardy, it's impressive. Absurd overhype is negatively polarizing.

I was congressional affairs at NSF and nobody was allowed to even view a proposal package. In my time all NSF leg affairs staff were civil servants. Very rare.