It is really striking that the word that's come up the most in these last six months of covering science policy is "uncertainty." I am hearing it over and over and over again.

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Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Indirect Costs (But Were Afraid to Ask) I have been working on this post for some time. Lots of data, analysis, and some policy recommendations. goodscience.substack.com/p/everything... Questions and comments welcome.

Hi #chemsky! I'm looking for examples of U.S. labs that have closed, moved overseas, or otherwise been lost in the last year. If this is you or someone you know, please reach out: [email protected] or LDattaro.73 on Signal.

We’re on strike today! Support our fight for a fair contract by NOT visiting the @propublica.org website or engaging with ProPublica stories today. Tell ProPublica’s management you won’t cross the picket line: actionnetwork.org/petitions/te...

Earthset from Artemis II. I am overcome.

A group of 17 leading public health researchers and advocates from the US, Canada, and Europe are calling on regulators around the world to treat the widely used herbicide glyphosate as hazardous and limit or eliminate its use to protect public health: cen.acs.org/food/agricul... #chemsky🧪

Researchers looking for NIH funding in 2026 will likely find increased competition and politicization. Some are choosing to find other support instead. #chemsky 🧪

In a survey of NIH-funded scientists, 25% said their research had been impacted a great deal or a fair amount by a move away from foreign subawards. www.statnews.com/2026/03/27/n...

Thanks so much to @kristinsainani.bsky.social and @reginanuzzo.bsky.social for having me on Normal Curves to talk about the research on autism and epidurals and why there is almost certainly no link. Also, epidurals rock. www.normalcurves.com/epidurals-ar...

A year after NIH began cutting thousands of grants, researchers are starting to figure out who was affected and what was lost. The cuts hit women and early-career researchers particularly hard, according to a new paper. cen.acs.org/policy/resea...

Great run through of where things stand at NIH and in the broader scientific community currently from @ldattaro.bsky.social cen.acs.org/policy/resea...

The National Institutes of Health received a small appropriations bump for fiscal year 2026, but concerns beyond spending levels abound. Read more: cen.acs.org/policy/resea... #chemsky 🧪

Congress gave NIH its money. But there's a lot more to science funding than a budget. I dug into it for @cenmag.bsky.social. cen.acs.org/policy/resea...

A nationwide STAT survey of NIH-funded researchers reveals that, a year after Donald Trump's return to the White House, many scientists are reeling. www.statnews.com/2026/03/19/n...

My attempt to explain-like-I'm-5 the OMB apportionment fiasco - how did I do?

Whoa

"It was a striking example of something that happens more than the public sees: rigorous investigative reporting often arms lawmakers with facts that help them hold officials to account." Love this point from @banikarim.bsky.social @columjournreview.bsky.social www.cjr.org/laurels-and-...

Hey #chemsky and chemsky adjacent academics. I would like to find and download my father's doctoral thesis. It's been forever so I forget how to do it... And free would be great.

ICE has arrested and detained a Nashville journalist who reported stories critical of ICE. She’s married to a U.S. citizen and has been seeking asylum here after fleeing death threats in Colombia because of her journalism there. They’ve already sent her to Louisiana.

I'm looking to talk to journalists who are not AI evangelists but who are experimenting with using AI in their journalism work (but not for writing!). If this is you and you'd be willing to chat about it, DM me here or email me at megangreenwellprojects at gmail?

Really smart and important angle from @policyhound.bsky.social www.science.org/content/arti...

This is such a fascinating and well-reported story.

Scientists and policy experts say that by revoking the endangerment finding, the Donald J. Trump administration has reached a dangerous milestone in dismissing, ignoring, or directly contradicting scientific information in its policy decisions. cen.acs.org/policy/chemi... #chemsky 🧪

Hi #chemsky! If you're navigating the NIH grant application process right now—or if you decided not to—I'd love to hear from you. Email: [email protected] Signal: LDattaro.73

More than half of people who receive antibiotics to treat appendicitis do not see their disease come back 10 years after the initial illness, a new study shows. https://www.sciencenews.org/article/antibiotics-appendicitis-no-surgery

In a tiny bit of good news, long-term followup on the first trial of antibiotics for appendicitis shows that fewer than half of participants ended up needing surgery, even a decade later. My latest for @sciencenews.bsky.social www.sciencenews.org/article/anti...

BREAKING: The EPA revokes scientific finding that greenhouse gases endanger the public health, removing a key basis for the climate change fight.

#SaveThePost, Jeff Bezos.

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

A staggering statement from former Washington Post editor Marty Baron: "This ranks among the darkest days in the history of one of the world's greatest news organizations."

An Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) rule on emissions from gas turbines is the latest development in a staunch shift in how the agency evaluates the costs and benefits of regulations, analysts say. cen.acs.org/policy/chemi... #chemsky 🧪

#Journorequest: I'm looking to speak to women who use AI chatbots like ChatGPT for health questions and guidance. If you're open to chatting, please send me a message or email. Thank you! [email protected] 🧪🧠💬

Read the Save HHS open letter! www.savehhs.org/letter-we-wi...

What do you do when you know how to work with biological materials and are experts in 3D printing at small resolutions? Create this 10 µm long elephant inside a living cell, of course. Read more: cen.acs.org/materials/3-... #CENChemPics #chemsky 🧪

Trump has been in office for one year. We at @nature.com did a deep dive looking at the administration's disruption of science in numbers. Take a look—the numbers are staggering. By me, @dangaristo.bsky.social, Jeff Tollefson, @kimay.bsky.social, & help from @noamross.net @scott-delaney.bsky.social

The conference (agreement between House and Senate) appropriations bill that includes HHS and NIH was released this morning. www.appropriations.senate.gov/news/majorit... 1/5

Cancer cells not only kill, they also steal. Specifically, they steal mitochondria of immune cells and in this way weaken the immune defense. The main benefit for the tumor cells is that the mitochondria help immune evasion and mobility towards lymph nodes. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Cancer might evade immune defences by stealing mitochondria www.nature.com/articles/d41...

In a first, a preprint describes the genetic architecture of autism in a large cohort of African Americans. By @ldattaro.bsky.social www.thetransmitter.org/spectrum/com...

@nature.com commentary on @cp-cellmetabolism.bsky.social discovery that tumors hijack energy-producing organelles from immune cells to aid in infiltrating lymph nodes www.nature.com/articles/d41... www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

I'm looking to get in touch with scientists in Minnesota. Best ways to reach me are here or LDattaro.73 on Signal. Thanks! #chemsky #neuroskyence

Cancer cells use mitochondria stolen from immune cells to spread and escape detection go.nature.com/4qsV86K

New from me @nature.com: Cancer cells seem to be using immune system mitochondria to evade detection and spread to the lymph nodes (which are packed with immune cells that should be able to destroy cancer). Please insert your own powerhouse-of-the-cell joke here. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

How is AI changing how we communicate and how can we use its tools more ethically? Join us at MIT on Feb. 27 for this important conversation about journalism, free speech, and public discourse -- all currently under threat. Please share; all are welcome.

Congress has reconciled appropriations bills that fund science. But there's still lots of uncertainty around which science will get funded and how. My latest at @cenmag.bsky.social cen.acs.org/policy/resea...

Congress released reconciled versions of three appropriations bills that will set funding levels for key federal science agencies. Despite minor cuts, Senate Appropriations Committee chair Susan Collins (R-ME) says the bills will “spur scientific research.” cen.acs.org/policy/resea... #chemsky 🧪

Letter sent to @vtdigger.bsky.social! It should go without saying that journalism needs journalists.

Counting the costs of our broken #FoodSystem, in #PublicHealth and environmental conditions

My latest! Even $3 trillion is likely an underestimate, due to the difficulties in calculating these costs, sources told me.