“There’s so much fraud in the [Medicare] system” says with a straight face the Senator during whose tenure as CEO of Columbia/HCA Healthcare the company committed & pled guilty to the largest fraud in Medicare history and paid a $1.7 billion fine. Excuse me while I find something to set on fire.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 10h ago

Rick Scott: "We want people to get healthcare, but ... "

He block is temporary, and can be renegotiated in the final funding bill. Keep pushing back.

Politico@politico.com · 3d ago

Senate finalizes funding patch that would block Trump’s grant overhaul

I mean technically “grass is like humans beings” in that competition to spread seed has led to some wildly exagerated morphologies but I’m almost positive that this wasn’t what he meant.

At #Botany2026, I was hoping to start recruiting for my lab group. If you are interested in polyploidy and population genetics, please reach out.

at least Nigeria ended up in the same region. you'll never believe where they put Cameroon and Ivory Coast lmfao

Eric Geller@ericjgeller.com · 6d ago

"A US government map of Africa mislabeled every country during a state department presentation at a global conference in Brazil this week, causing a stir among attenders who took screenshots and posted them online."

📣Journalists--The @ntbgarden.bsky.social journalism fellowship is being held in Miami, Florida for the first time this fall! Get your applications in.

Apply for the National Tropical Botanical Garden's Environmental Journalism Program at The Kampong in Miami - National Tropical Botanical Garden

Offered in Miami, Florida November 8-14, 2026 The Hawai‘i-based National Tropical Botanical Garden (NTBG) is […]

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Some wild p-hacking & hilariously bad stats in S2E13 of ER: "Benton...you're going to Paris to present the clamp-and-run study. Simon did a chi-square analysis of our result. Our P-value was. 06, which means we're one successful outcome away from statistical significance."

@noamross.net i think grant witness made another congressional hearing? www.nytimes.com/2026/07/22/u...

Is this real life?

I haven’t worked or slept in a month for THIS?!?

Limited audience, I know, but omg JONAS

www.insidehighered.com/news/governm... it’s official: four year limit for student visas. Can apply to USCIS to extend if necessary but case-by-case decision. Also must depart 30 days after concluding program (previously 60). This will wreck so many departments, collaborations, research programs…

Trump Administration Finalizes Limits on Student Visas

International students previously could stay as long as their program lasted. The Trump administration is ending that 1978 policy.

insidehighered.com

Funny Graceland sendup but what makes this A+ is its spoof of broader trends: 80s boomer-pop's Scramble for Africa (Simon, Byrne et al) AND the Magical Negro theme that ran thru such period pieces as U2's Rattle & Hum, Billy Joel's "River of Dreams," &—of course, supremely—TOTO I bless the rains...

The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) has been gutted under this administration, and now its grantees are receiving termination letters en masse. Please help us report by submitting your grant and spreading the word! 🧪

Scott Delaney@scott-delaney.bsky.social · 3w ago

‼️ AHRQ is in the midst of a mass grant termination event. We (at Grant Witness) need your help to launch a tracker ASAP. If you received an AHRQ termination notice--or if you know of someone else who did--please submit information about the grant here: grant-witness.us/submit-nih.h...

AHRQ is cancelling research grants Researchers across the country are receiving official notices that AHRQ is ending grants that had already gone months without funding open.substack.com/pub/ahsituat...

Because parking the bus in world cups has historically worked out so well for england.

It’s the comma that kills me.

Joe G@eastendjoe.bsky.social · 3w ago

I must’ve been going to the wrong libraries all my life.

New job--please share! Looking for a postdoc to deep learning methods for identifying plant species from drone imagery. The two year position offers a salary of $78,000 and the option to be based in Boise, Idaho, or Burns, Oregon. For more info: caughlinlab.com/join-the-lab/ #postdoc #drones #ai

Florida faculty: good news.

North Carolina Conference of the AAUP@ncaaup.bsky.social · 4w ago

Even the Trump judges are not having Ron's bullshit www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Essa virada histórica da Argentina torna a nossa eliminação ainda mais vergonhosa. A seleção brasileira foi eliminada sem parecer minimamente disposta a evitar esse resultado. Vexame, sim.

i hate everything

This is better than the birth of my children

I stand by this.

Emilio M Bruna@brunalab.bsky.social · last mo.

MPASI/VOZINHA 2028 🇨🇩🇨🇻

I thought “this can’t be real” but sure enough - every link on the “Home Cooling” splash page is broken. www.energy.gov/home-cooling

Home Cooling

Choosing the most effective cooling options for your climate saves money and improves comfort.

energy.gov

Jason Scott@textfiles.com · last mo.

I'll summarize this: Mamdani asked NYers to keep air conditioning at 78 degrees. A wave criticism hit online. A MSNBC broadcast pointed out the US Department of Energy recommends that 78 degree figure. Immediately after, the US Department of Energy deleted 6,000 web pages related to energy saving.

Sad to report that my colleague Dr. Jim Hamrick - a giant in the early study of plant population genetics, though in these 2017 photos he was contributing to the understanding of *barnacle* diversity - has passed.

MPASI/VOZINHA 2028 🇨🇩🇨🇻

Link to the list of flagged terms: media.nature.com/original/mag...

Max Kozlov@maxkozlov.bsky.social · last mo.

NIH grants have been under political scrutiny since early 2025. But what does the screening process actually look like? What is being flagged? I spent a month digging into leaked docs and emails. We've published the 235-word list that are being flagged by an internal AI tool. And so much more. 🧵

Tomorrow marks the start of the major annual conference for tropical biologists and those of us based at Florida’s public universities can’t attend because doing so would violate state law. www.atbc2026.org

🚨New publication alert🚨 Life starts as a 👾strategy-game under pathogen pressure: grow or fight. We show that 🐸investing ⚡energy into growth during mild 🦠infections can 📈increase fitness, but whether this pays off depends on the ☀️❄️season they hatch. #coqui #chytrid #PuertoRico #science #infection

Journal of Animal Ecology@animalecology.bsky.social · last mo.

New research📖 Playing it safe at early life stages: Balancing energy allocations to maximize fitness under seasonal pathogen dynamics🧪 🦠 🖥️ 🔎 Find out more: buff.ly/XofOXf2

Just pulled this Panini sticker!!!! Cabo Verde Blue Sharks for life. 🇨🇻