1/ I'm starting the holiday weekend off with some good vibes. I’m not giving bad news any headspace right now, so let's pause and celebrate some public health wins that have happened recently!

When it’s hot out like this, the electricity grid is stressed in the afternoon and evening. One easy way to shift your electricity use to overnight when demand is low: if you have a dishwasher and need to run it over the next day or two, use the delay setting to have it run after midnight.

Balogun can still play against Belgium if Gianni Infantino has the courage to do what’s right

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In Massachusetts they’re nano bubblahs

The National Science Foundation is on track for its worst year in over half a century. grant-witness.us/posts/2026-0...

"Two solar facilities built on rehabilitated agricultural land were restored with native plants. Argonne researchers observed pollinators thrive." Solar power, when smartly built, can improve agriculture *and* provide clean, pollution-free, low-cost energy. www.anl.gov/article/inse...

Ukraine launches TrophyLab: they are opening access to captured russian weapon technologies for our global partners. Every missile, drone, and vehicle seized on the battlefield is now a source of knowledge for the free world.🧵 1/2 trophylab.mod.gov.ua/en/

NSF announcement is out: NSF "appreciates the concerns raised by the range of stakeholders that have informed us they rely on data from the [OOI.] Effective immediately, NSF will not proceed with further removal or descoping of equipment from the remaining arrays." www.nsf.gov/news/update-...

Danfoss Power Solutions plans to establish new operations near Utica, New York, creating up to 300 new jobs by the end of 2027. www.semiconductor-digest.com/danfoss-powe...

Assessing how AI increases cybersecurity risks Next week, the National Academies will release an SME report and host a webinar that will examine how recent advances in generative AI and agentic systems are reshaping the field of cybersecurity. viewfromarchstreet.com/2026/06/18/a...

Assessing how AI increases cybersecurity risks On June 24, the National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine will release Implications of Recent Advancements in Artificial Intelligence for… https://viewfromarchstreet.com/2026/06/18/assessing-how-ai-increases-cybersecurity-risks/

New update from NSF: "Effective immediately, NSF will not proceed with further removal or descoping of equipment from the remaining arrays and will continue operations including planned maintenance."

NSF plans to announce today that it will pause efforts to dismantle the Ocean Observatories system, while convening an expert panel to determine its future, per NYT. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/18/c...

Danish semiconductor firm Danfoss Power Solutions set to add 300 jobs near Utica, New York to make liquid cooling components for data centers. www.timesunion.com/business/art...

ROME deserved at least three or four more seasons. Great cast, excellent concept. Top 10 prestige TV.

This would have been a great congressional nerd game show episode

Someone made a chart of where in America the highest concentrations of each team's diaspora pop live and Massachusetts is well represented!

New record high for US battery manufacturing volumes in May.

This pit of fire has been burning for 55 years. And there’s something ALIVE at the bottom of it! 1/7 ⚛️🧪

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The proposed rule by OMB would disallow various costs that grants currently cover and direct agencies to give preference to institutions with lower indirect cost rates. www.aip.org/fyi/white-ho...

The Social Science Research Network Has Jumped the Shark open.substack.com/pub/professo...

1. How common is LLM use in scientific publishing, and how does it vary across field, publisher, journal prestige, author demographics etc.? @kylesiler.bsky.social has new paper in PNAS that addresses this question on a massive scale: 7.3 million papers from Elsevier, PLOS, MDPI, and Frontiers.

The nominees: John Cazale: Godfathers, etc M. Emmet Walsh: Slapshot, Blade Runner, Raising Arizona, Blood Simple Harry Dean Stanton: Cool Hand Luke, Alien, Repo Man, Godfather II Robert Shaw: Jaws, A Man for All Seasons, The Sting, From Russia Javier Bardem: No Country, Dune I, Dune II, Collateral

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Clippy breaks bad

I remember getting briefed at CERN by the American detector science team and they said that most PhDs in high energy physics were employed in finance.

Worth repeating: most corporate R&D is, "make the widget 4% cheaper than last year."

Nope -- it's up to *all* stakeholders to better understand the needs/objectives/incentives of the others in the innovation system. In short--basic research for novelty, engineering for feasibility, and business for utility.

Organizations can enhance privacy and security on their devices by installing Privacy Badger, EFF’s free, open source browser extension that automatically blocks trackers. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

Tomorrow evening at the Library of Congress, I'll be in dialogue with Above the Law's David Lat, legal scholar Eugene Volokh, and ACLU attorney Emerson Sykes about the current state of free speech in America. Free and open to the public (registration required): the-nxtlevel.com/campaigns/vi...

Groin Pull Derby sponsored by Icy Hot

Big progress vs cancer, folks. The kind of event curves from randomized trials that we've not seen before for a couple of the most deadly cancers. Congrats to the oncology research community for getting these trial done.

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Seeking a $54 billion arsenal of killer drones, Pentagon turns to former hobbyists www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Jackson: "NSF’s flagrant disregard of its own mechanism for receiving and considering stakeholder and public feedback further illustrates the arbitrary and capricious nature of the agency’s decision."

Breaking: Judge Jackson blocks NSF from dismantling NCAR. www.courtlistener.com/docket/72496...

“Scientists alone can not defeat an anti-science machinery they did not create. What we can do is ask for help. Give guidance. Start acting and hope others will join” open.substack.com/pub/protagon...

Umm guess everyone memory holed the 2018 Strava scandal in Afghanistan

Every single outbreak, we see the same pattern of response - Rich nations tell themselves that everything will be fine if they just ban travel and close their borders - Politicians make knee-jerk reactions to appease their base, ignoring everything scientists tell them

Slow Down (Larry Williams cover) Paul Butterfield, harmonica and vocals David Sanborn, Alto Saxophone Mac Rebenack (Dr. John), keyboards Levon Helm, Drums Bearsville Studios, Woodstock, New York, 1977 youtube.com/watch?v=NwVH...

What was a weird thing that happened in the ‘80’s? Well…someone wrote and recorded a song about diplomacy. And it ROCKED. youtu.be/B544fVj1v_s?...

Scoop: NSF has been quietly blocking new funds and grants to four top universities: Duke, Harvard, Princeton, and Yale. Dozens of proposals from PIs at these universities—and their collaborators—have been stuck at the Office of Award Management awaiting finalization for months.