White House Drafting Executive Order To Reshape U.S. Quantum Policy thequantuminsider.com/2026/02/04/w...

Impoundment looms www.chronicle.com/article/how-...

Why Great Innovations Fail to Scale hbr.org/2026/03/why-...

Pentagon Announces Senior Officials for Six Critical Technology Areas www.cto.mil/cta-senior-o...

The agreement splits off the DHS spending bill from the package while funding the agency for two-weeks at current levels. www.reuters.com/world/us/dea...

IMO a lot of this accelerating innovation stuff is the desire for quick wins and not actual lasting results.

Common recommendations were a more stable federal funding environment with fewer regulatory hurdles. www.aip.org/fyi/science-...

Big smackdown of the minibus on the Senate floor: It fails 45-55, w/ 8 GOP nos and all Dems opposed R nos Budd Johnson Lee Moody Paul Rick Scott Tuberville Thune was also a no, but that's for procedural purposes of being able to bring bill up again quickly if there's a deal

In 2024, states spent approximately $2.6 billion on research and development, an amount that has increased by 47% since 2015. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

New and Competitive renewals These are still be made VERY slowly. Only 75 awards have been made through 1/23/26. These are now from 7 institutes and centers (NIA (45), NINDS (16), NIDDK (5), NIDCR (4), NIDCD (2), NHLBI (1), and NCATS (1)). 3/3

Not sure who needs to hear this, but if gas supply gets tight during a winter storm, it's better to send gas to power plants to generate electricity for heat pumps than to send gas to furnaces/boilers. A heat pump run on entirely gas-fired electricity uses about 35% less gas than a gas furnace.

Study finds AI adopters have published three times more papers, received five times more citations, and reach leadership roles faster than their AI-free peers. But science as a whole is paying the price. www.science.org/content/arti...

This is the fhree-bill appropriations minibus (Defense, LaborH and THUD) passed by the House last week.

AAU commissioned report finds universities on average are reimbursed less for indirect research costs than private contractors and federal laboratories. www.aau.edu/newsroom/lea...

There are >1,000 H1-B's at TX public universities which include: SW TX Medical (228), Texas A&M (214), UT MD Anderson, (171), UT Austin (169), and Texas Tech (149). Will be felt in applied fields where Texas leads such as medicine and advanced manufacturing. H/T @williamthomas.bsky.social

There are >1,000 H1-B's at TX public universities which include: SW TX Medical (228), Texas A&M (214), UT MD Anderson, (171), UT Austin (169), and Texas Tech (149). Will be felt in applied fields where Texas leads such as medicine and advanced manufacturing. H/T @williamthomas.bsky.social

Texas Halts Hiring of H-1B Workers at State Colleges, Agencies www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

The U.S. government lost over 14 percent (10K+) of all STEM Ph.D.s since the start of last year www.science.org/content/arti...

New OMB memorandum allows agencies to utilize software bills of materials (SBOMs) rather than the universal attestation framework developed under the Biden Administration after the SolarWinds attack compromised multiple U.S. agencies. www.nextgov.com/cybersecurit...

Congress Pushes Back on Trump Indirect Cost Caps www.aip.org/fyi/congress...

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has lost more than one-third of its workforce since January 2025 www.cybersecuritydive.com/news/cisa-ac...

Lycos and Ask Jeeves also down

As the Trump administration seeks to reshape US research and development, it has substantially scaled back and restricted what science the country pursues and the workforce that runs the federal scientific enterprise. www.nature.com/immersive/d4...

Including such language in an appropriations bill itself is not a good idea. It would open the package up to being ruled out of order opening up all sorts of undesirable results, including killing the entire bill or the language itself.

Quantum computing for lawyers open.substack.com/pub/bfswa/p/...

Trying to protect everything from everyone all the time is a good way to drive yourself crazy. This is why we threat model. Here is EFF's Surveillance Self Defense guide to putting together your security plan, also known as threat modeling: ssd.eff.org/module/your-...

Electricity generated by coal plants fell by 1.6% in China and by 3% in India last year thanks to a boom in clean energy adoption. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Hey! @wired.com is doing a bunch of hiring. Here we go with a thread of five great jobs, with a few more coming shortly: 1) We are hiring a senior editor for our science desk, which means you get to work with geniuses like @timmarchman.bsky.social @mollytaft.com and @emilymullin.bsky.social

Funding for NSF is tied directly to the overall figure for domestic discretionary spending. That has been the case for decades and has not changed, even in the current environment.

As predicted bsky.app/profile/view...

Final FY 2026 agreement rejected the massive cuts proposed by the Administration but will still reduce science funding overall. The NSF top line is down 3.4% to $8.75 billion with research flat funded, STEM education down 20%, and facilities up 7.3%. www.aip.org/fyi/congress...

Similar to budget cycles the first time around

Micron set to break ground on $100 billion megafab near Syracuse, New York on January 16th www.romesentinel.com/news/micron-...

Updated civilian quantum research legislation introduced in Senate. The five-year extension would establish new NIST and NSF quantum centers, add NASA for the first time and create new prize challenges, among other priorities. viewfromarchstreet.com/2026/01/08/n...

One of the international organizations from which Trump withdrew the U.S. is the Global Forum on Cyber Expertise, which helps build multilateral ties that allow countries to fight hackers together. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential... thegfce.org

Appellate court rules policy violated NIH regulations and congressional funding language www.reuters.com/world/trump-...

Wall Street’s biggest banks made more money financing green projects than they did from working with fossil fuel companies for a fourth straight year, even as they faced ongoing pressure to pull back from the business

Weather Report Live at Montreux 1976 youtube.com/watch?v=3l65...

Wishing everyone a happy and peaceful 2026 from Arch Street!!

Wishing everyone a happy and peaceful 2026 from Arch Street!!

The National Science Foundation starts 2026 with a new management structure that affects every scientist with--or applying for--NSF funding. Here's what you need to know. www.science.org/content/arti...

I ran into Dave Grohl grabbing a slushy at the Quaker Lane 7Eleven in Alexandria.

Upstate New York cinema canon The Last of the Mohicans Drums Along the Mohawk Ironweed Synecdoche, New York Nobody’s Fool Slap Shot The Last Seduction

Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn’t Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, or Alice In Chains.