I don't think people are ready for this kind of joke yet.

WHEN WE FIGHT, WE WIN. It's time to APPLY HEAVY PRESSURE. Call you Senators NOW: fight2win.standupforscience.net/campaign/omb... I know, everyone hates calling. But this is CRITICAL. Make the calls today! (Use our super easy autodialer tool linked above) www.politico.com/live-updates...

Top senators consider blocking Trump’s grant shakeup in spending stopgap

It’s now “up to leadership” whether to head off the controversial changes, Sen. Susan Collins said.

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After a month of no internet at home, we have internet at home. And my work computer came, and it’s a dark blue Macbook. I guess I may shed a single human tear

Room on Fire was The Strokes' magnum opus: fun, sexy, very tight, leans into that Casablancas can texture if he tries, and the band's technical talents. The new record leans into that, too, but in a self-winking way. Casablancas wears his Californian divorcee in New York surprisingly well

Wow, I really am threatening my status of an indie icon (I have only just heard that the Strokes released an album, and I found out by reading the Guardian)

So my two alma maters and my new place of employment joined this? Grand

elia ayoub@ayoub.bsky.social · 3w ago

Jesus. 35 UK universities quietly- without debate - joined the Ministry of Defence’s “Battlefield Alliance” which seeks to “reorientate academia towards Defence and National Security” They’re destroying the social sciences and humanities while militarising the institutions

Wanna feel old? This is what the members of Run the Jewels look like now.

So far, the account has had about 2,900 visits and 112 subscribers, generating about $650 in tips, well short of what Dr. Blumstein said was required to continue the research for the foreseeable future. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/25/s...

‘OnlyMarms’: Marmots Are on OnlyFans to Raise Money for Research (Gift Article)

A team of scientists uploaded videos of the squirrel-like rodents in the wild on the adult-content site OnlyFans to raise money amid government budget cuts.

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History colleagues: for those of you who still have jobs (😢) & are updating your teaching notes/syllabi for the Fall, a reminder that free, open-access materials on teaching the Black Death are already available. Your students are pandemic survivors. Give them the narratives they need. Links ⬇️.

I read through the whole piece (solidarity to the PI and her team), but, under the logic non-alignment spelled out in the termination letter, all of genetics work makes no scientific sense

Science Magazine@science.org · 2w ago

Exclusive: NIH, which 1 year ago was slammed by a federal judge for illegally terminating more than 1700 grants funding research on health disparities and other politically sensitive issues, is again killing ongoing projects on those topics. Learn more: https://scim.ag/4pF6Mvy

We’re all born naked and the rest is extended phenotype

The whole thread is worth it (it also made me cry)

tony romm@tonyromm.bsky.social · 2w ago

NEW: In a stunning admission, the Trump administration admitted in court documents that it canceled billions in energy grants to states "based solely" on politics -- and whether that state was represented by Democrats and backed Harris in 2024. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/24/b...

A reminder that UC _faculty_ and Faculty Associations — not the universities themselves nor their administrators — are waging this battle in court, demonstrating great bravery and moral clarity.

White House admits it used keywords to kill billions worth of California research grants

Federal agencies that terminated more than a thousand research grants at the University of California last year admitted that they used keywords related to diversity, gender, vaccine hesitancy and COV...

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1. We—@eduede.bsky.social, @mjcrockett.bsky.social, Kevin Gross, and I—have a new preprint on the arXiv today, based on ideas that emerged during an @sfiscience.bsky.social workshop in November 2024: The unintended consequences of large language models as a labor-augmenting technology in science.

The unintended consequences of large language models as a labor-augmenting technology in science

As a labor-augmenting technology, large language models (LLMs) have the potential to accelerate scientific activity across the research pipeline. But even if LLMs perform on par with human experts at ...

arxiv.org

How often are multiverse analyses implemented, not just cited/discussed? How are they implemented? 🧵 New preprint on the uptake and implementation of multiverse-style analyses 👇 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Uptake and Implementation of Multiverse-style Analyses Across 613 Studies

Empirical conclusions can depend on the many individual choices researchers make when analyzing data. Multiverse-style analyses address this by computing results across a set of specifications rather ...

biorxiv.org

We left the US three weeks ago. The mattress has poking springs and has made my back pain not get any better. I am in pain lying in bed on the new mattress that is still pretty firm but nothing is poking me and I may get my first good sleep of the last month. I may cry little Sanrio character tears?

Jellybean is HOME. She's glossy, alert, vocal, stoned, restless, and very relieved to be home. She wasn't able to move much at the vet so she is stumbling a little as the big dose of gabapentin wears off. With pain meds for us to give her, this was $1600 sans taxi fares. Paypal.me/thelionmachine

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Lev Mirov@thelionmachine.bsky.social · 2w ago

We just shimmied over $203/$1400. I can't sleep because Weency is Very Unhappy that Jellybean isn't home yet. Jellybean should be ready to come home in the next 5 hours. She's recovered completely, which is such a relief. Paypal.me/thelionmachine

I feel like I got to the depths of Pubmed reading for this literature review pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32341129/

Eggs, sugar, grated bones: colour-based food preferences in autism, eating disorders, and beyond - PubMed

In 1913, eccentric French composer Erik Satie wrote a fragmentary, diary-like essay where he depicted a strikingly rigid diet consisting solely of white foods: eggs, sugar, coconuts, rice, cream chees...

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

the most realistic scene in Jurassic Park is when two scientists make a questionable decision — traveling to an undisclosed location with a strange man — on the promise of three years of modest funding

New paper out now 🥳 When psychologists discuss generalisability, they often refer to vague notions of representativeness. We provide an accessible intro to the total survey error framework as a tool to reason about this more rigorously. w @taymalsalti.bsky.social @ruben.the100.ci >

End of first week in the new job, still no internet in my house, and I feel really tired still. Any tips from academic peeps on the transition if I cannot go on holiday immediately?

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First day at a new job and I feel terrified

Since 2018 we've been raising funds for RAICES with a fragrance called Abolish Ice, meant to evoke warmth and safety: smoked toffee and patchouli with coffee bean, caramelized oudh, clove, and bourbon vanilla. blackphoenixalchemylab.com/collections/...

Most stagnant fund today, last donation 🚨 July 8 🚨: Hamza is young journalist who recently left Gaza to attend university abroad. He needs support for medical care, due to the genocide's toll. @pipagaopoetry.bsky.social https://chuffed.org/project/164494-support-hamza-with-medical-bills

OUR WORK IS NOT DONE. In unusual move, NSF issued a request for information on plan to conform grant policies to the proposed (unfinalized) OMB rule. Plan includes changes to grant termination provisions & disallowing publication costs. Comments due August 24. www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...

Agency Information Collection Activities: Comment Request; National Science Foundation Proposal/Award Information-NSF Guidance on Financial Assistance

The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) is announcing plans to renew and revise its collection for its financial assistance policies and procedures. In accordance with the requirements of the Paper...

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No statement from Mitch McConnell on the sudden passing of his senate colleague? So much for decorum

One thing you can definitely say about Lindsay Graham is that he was, at one point, alive

Are we at the point of the weather where I get into Australian gothic