There will always be a birb to fit every situation and tonight’s first birb is this one

THIS

at least he didn't do something truly reckless like try to forgive student loans

My dad will be on this tomorrow night! Weather and climate science are so important. We rely on so much basic & applied science for forecasts, disaster preparedness, climate resilience, and more. ⛈️🌀🌡️🌤️ Tune in to learn more! #StandUpForScience #FundScience #ScienceSavesLives

Our paper just came out in Science Advances showing the chemicals in the air in Imperial Beach (many aerosolized from the polluted Tijuana River). Thanks to the entire team--especially to Prof. Nate Slade and his (then) graduate student (now Dr.) Adam Cooper. today.ucsd.edu/story/tijuan...

Not Antisemitism (according to MAGA): - Firebombing a Jewish governor‘s house during Passover - Doing a Sieg Hitler salute - Eating dinner with neo-Nazis Antisemitism (according to MAGA): - Saying Israelis and Palestinians deserve rights and dignity - Using freedom of speech on campus

Look smart, save money #sciart

I say this every time de-extinction comes up: it makes no sense to devote science to bringing back extinct animals when we can’t be bothered to keep extant ones alive in the first place.

“From April 14-18, select UBC graduate programs at UBC Vancouver will re-open their applications for US citizens to be considered for Sept 2025 or Jan 2026 entry - they are ready to provide quick admissions decisions for these applicants“ #gradstudent #gradschool www.grad.ubc.ca/us-applicant...

“Experts dispute claims dire wolf brought back from extinction”

The NIH-funded Haskell-KU Bridges Program was terminated. It was one of the longest running programs of its kind, placing >130 Native American students into STEM labs over the last ~25 years. So many alums spoke of this program as being the entry point to their interest, and later, careers in STEM.

NEW: The Trump administration swiftly cancelled dozens of international student visas Friday at Stanford and University of California campuses, including UCLA, UC Berkeley and UC San Diego. One UC San Diego student was taken into custody at the border for deportation: www.latimes.com/california/s...

Can confirm this is the case at NIH 🧪🦠

Heyo. To all my fellow young and/or early-career scientists (especially fellow feds), in case you're not hearing it from your supervisors and mentors right now: - You matter. - Your work is important. It is not a waste. - Your energy and your ideas are needed. - You are the future.

"They'll take your guns, so vote for us," said Republicans. You still have guns. "They'll take your jobs, so vote for us," said Republicans. Trump just cut 200,000 jobs. "They'll take your freedom, so vote for us," said Republicans. Republicans are imprisoning people illegally. /

This new study, which found that PM2.5 from wildfire smoke increases mental health emergency department visits, was funded by a grant from NHLBI. And the disparities it uncovered are just the kind of thing that would make obviously important research a target now.

Petabytes of critical government research that is marked for possible deletion cannot be archived because of technical and legal restrictions, meaning it is very likely to be lost forever: www.404media.co/nih-archives...

Millions of people showed up around the US to protest all the illegal shit that the Trump administration is doing.

Interesting. Senate votes 51-48 to revoke the "national emergency" Trump declared to unlock the (probably unconstitutional) power to impose these tariffs. The House could end this (specific) madness right now.

"Should we do something? It feels like we should do something. Hopefully, I’ll feel more like I can dedicate the brain space to that just as soon as I finish my work, which is tuning this glockenspiel."

To be(e) fair, researchers know a lot of reasons it *might* be happening. They’re just not sure which one is worst, or what to do about it. And they probably all just got fired anyway. 🤷🏼‍♀️

Patriotism isn't worshipping and defending everything your country does. That's called Nationalism. Being a patriot requires you to point out when we aren't living up to our stated values. When we falter. It's being a steward. We are not living up to the spirit of 'America' right now.

A Republican speaks up.

Not to self: Do not fly to the San Francisco Bay Area.

Perhaps newly relevant today… back in the 1930s, a West Point professor/librarian fought back against efforts to ban books on the New Deal. warroom.armywarcollege.edu/articles/the... Same prof would later be forced to explain to McCarthy’s staff about why the library there had books on Marxism.

This is the moment when everyone realises their X account is just a sweet box of data to feed Elon’s pet AI

"It has become clear that truth and transparency are not desired by the Secretary, but rather he wishes subservient confirmation of his misinformation and lies” www.bbc.com/news/article...

📣 Across the U.S., cuts to federal funding for health research are projected to cause losses of $16B and 68,500 jobs. How will YOUR area be impacted? Excited to share SCIMaP, a website that our team has created to communicate the impact of funding cuts. #PsychSciSky #MedicalSky scienceimpacts.org

Incredibly NOT The Onion: The “Restoring Truth & Sanity to American History” order directs Vice President JD Vance to eliminate what he finds “improper” from the Smithsonian Institution, including its museums, education & research centers, and the National Zoo www.washingtonpost.com/history/2025...

NEW: Signal has never been permitted on White House or Pentagon devices, but incoming Trump officials started using it when the Trump-Vance transition refused government IT help to avoid record-keeping laws and kept using it after Inauguration Day. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Working with an interdisciplinary team, we have developed a website to communicate how the White House's proposed cuts to health research would cause losses of $16B and 68,500 jobs. Find out how your community may be impacted. Explore more at SCIMaP: scienceimpacts.org a 🧵

This is a very important point. Breathlessly vague headlines and summaries of these executive orders created for the executive powers it does not have. This kind of press contributed to authoritarian regime change.

Most of the towns in the part of South Texas where I live—the Río Grande Valley—are partly underwater as we live through some of the heaviest rain in more than a century, breaking records going back to 1911. No one was ready. With government weather alerts being dismantled, the cost will be high.

My grandparents were natural born German citizens. Until they weren't. I have copies of their documents, stamped "cancelled" by the government.

NEW: Trump cuts are threatening a standards laboratory who's work on atomic spectra undergirds the entire modern economy. The lab is run by just seven federal employees who have been paying out-of-pocket for their own coffee since 1973. www.npr.org/2025/03/26/n...

AOC: I want to live in an America that guarantees healthcare to every person. I want to live in an America that has a living wage for every person I want to live in an America where you have free speech to express yourself and not be afraid of being put on a list or deported.

A friend drove two hours today for her breast cancer chemotherapy only to learn it was canceled due to NIH cuts. Clinical trial ended midstream. No treatment, no restart, no plan, no information. Her bro-in-law's chemo was also canceled.

A friend of my compared gutting of federal agencies to a wrecking a car: if you remove 30% of the parts of the car, it does not go 30% slower. It stops working.

I know this first hand. When I was a child, my entire community was branded as spies and sabateurs, justifying our internment inside barbed wire camps for years without due process, trial or charge.

Distributed Acoustic Sensing is a pretty exciting development in geophysics. One of my graduate students is using the technology for studying a slow-moving landslide in the UK. 🧪⚒️

I've taken thousands of people on a day of shark research, and everyone has a blast! If you're looking at this and thinking "oh I wonder if this is as fun as I think it will be," the answer is yes! Join us. It's a fun adventure for you, and vital fundraising for us.

“A New York Times review of the flight data showed that none of the planes in question landed in El Salvador before the judge’s order and that one of them did not even leave American soil until after the judge’s written order was posted online.” www.nytimes.com/2025/03/17/u...

Breaking News: The EPA plans to eliminate its scientific research arm, firing as many as 1,155 chemists, biologists, toxicologists and other scientists.

Absolutely horrifying.

“Tell us what you are doing at your job” “Now, we’re going to take away essential tools you use to do your job, like buying supplies and traveling to your test sites to do your job.” “Now tell us again what you are doing.” 😣

Suppression of climate data built up by decades of hard working scientists dedicated to measuring and understanding planetary health. Removing facilities that measure climate change will not change US exposure to its catastrophic consequences 🔥🌀🌊🌪️

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