Top senators consider blocking the OMB rule. 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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Film you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Star Trek, Star Wars, LOTR, Marvel, Disney, or Ghibli.

Back To The Future: Marty McFly & Doc Brown Celebrate

ALT: Back To The Future: Marty McFly & Doc Brown Celebrate

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Allison Gill@muellershewrote.com · 7d ago

Film you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Star Trek, Star Wars, LOTR, Marvel, Disney, or Ghibli.

Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't nirvana, soundgarden, pearl jam, or alice in chains.

Alex Merz 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇺🇦@merz.bsky.social · last wk.

Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't nirvana, soundgarden, pearl jam, or alice in chains.

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The Assault On Science Funding Continues

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120 Minutes was essential - I taped it many times to ensure that I could hear/see again all the interesting stuff that they weren’t playing the rest of the time

K8 Hagen 🦂@thathagengrrl.bsky.social · 3w ago

RIP - thanks for the tunes + the vision, Dave! consequence.net/2026/07/dave...

This is awful and so sad

Atul Gawande@agawande.bsky.social · 3w ago

More signs of resurging HIV after USAID’s closure. African Neonatal Network reported at IMNCH (a global health conference): HIV+ pregnant women ↑50% & those not on antiretrovirals ↑>300%, year-on-year, across 22 hospitals in 5 nations. @vtoxfordnetwork.bsky.social

Four hours left. Do it. Two or three paragraphs of your own text are enough.

Alex Merz 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇺🇦@merz.bsky.social · 3w ago

There are only a few hours left to comment on the proposed OMB rule that would eviscerate American science. This is the single best summary, and guidance for how to write a comment, that I have seen. PLEASE submit something, even if it is only 2 or 3 paragraphs.

Maybe Scott Jennings can get Lindsey Graham on the phone to confirm the death of Lindsey Graham?

let this be a lesson to deal with your feelings of gender anxiety and masculine inadequacy with a hobby or therapy or something and not a high stakes senate election

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Check out this paper from my friend Francis, they developed an method for isolating native capsids and identified previously unknown mechanisms of viral protein and RNA incorporation. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Capsid and integrase play essential apposing roles in viral ribonucleoprotein assembly during HIV-1 core morphogenesis

HIV-1 virions harbor a core composed of a conical shell of capsid proteins that encases the viral ribonucleoprotein complex (vRNP). The vRNP is compos…

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OMB has proposed a new rule change. And, as @jvl.bsky.social describes it, it's goal is to disappear people and ideas. lnk.thebulwark.com/4uWvDvW

They Want to Disappear You

How OMB will politicize the federal grant system with this one weird trick.

lnk.thebulwark.com

Fauci’s last act of public service should be to sue all these motherfuckers for every penny.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last mo.

CNBC's Joe Kernen absurdly claims to an agreeing Rand Paul that Fauci "orchestrated the pandemic"

The Trump administration is moving to weaken environmental protections for oil, gas, and coal companies operating on public lands. Today the Interior Department has proposed cutting drilling fees and loosening methane pollution requirements,

Trump is 80 years old and unhealthy, he’s one foot in the grave but all his enablers? They still have a whole life ahead of them and we all have a responsibility to make sure each and every one of them spends that remaining time in prison.

Embedded in this appalling story about censorship by the ADA is a reminder that a formerly well respected scientist, Rick Woychik, sold out to sell the MAHA agenda & was representing NIH/MAHA at the meeting. When colleagues sell out we need to highlight their perfidy www.science.org/content/arti...

Holden Thorp is an institutionalist. He's been a university chancellor, provost, now EiC of Science. When institutionalists pull the fire alarm, we listen, because the call to action he issued this week exposes the dire nature of the threat we are facing. 1/ www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Another red alert for American science

Although research has bipartisan support in the US Congress, and trust in science is above 75% across the country, the Trump administration seems as determined as ever to mortally wound the nation’s s...

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I am grateful for every person taking action to prevent these f*cking a**holes from rewriting history

Tom Joscelyn@tomjoscelyn.bsky.social · 2mo ago

It’s no big surprise that Trump’s DOJ is deleting all of the January 6th press releases from its website. Here’s the thing: I downloaded all of them in Feb. 2025 (that’s right, more than a year ago) suspecting that they’d do just that. And we’re working to post them all online, as are others.

What's really astonishing is not the far right authoritarian party doing this, but the near-total lack of <loud public collective action> by university chancellors & presidents to oppose this existential crisis. Almost impossible to overstate how total a failure of leadership this is.

Katie Mack@astrokatie.com · 2mo ago

It’s truly astonishing to see how comprehensively the US government is tearing down every part of the system that has made it up until now a world-leading power in science, research, and technological development. The entire world will suffer from this wanton destruction.

Excellent summary of how Vought’s proposed rule will destroy science. Please be ready to comment tomorrow, call Congress, tell your friends. If you’ve been waiting for the right moment to speak up, that moment is now.

elizabethginexi.bsky.social@elizabethginexi.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Summary of Key Changes in OMB’s Proposed Federal Financial Assistance Rule. Russell Vought is going destroy American Science. elizabethginexi.substack.com/p/summary-of...

I am so tired of these disgusting, selfish people who don’t believe in humanity. It cost us next to nothing to provide aid that could help contain this type of epidemic.

There Is No Spoon@neumahn.bsky.social · 2mo ago

The shame of it is that Trump's failure is America's failure.

Trump’s Iran War Was a Failure

And a few Republican senators admitted it—for a moment.

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“Memorial Day reminds us that it is possible to sacrifice for people you disagree with, and that unity does not require total alignment.”

The Bulwark@thebulwark.com · 2mo ago

"This assembly of souls did not rush into battle with a copy of the Constitution snug in every breast pocket, all of them compelled to fight by an identical love for a single, shared understanding of democracy and liberty." And that's part of America.

Yeah, I know. I know. Print is dead. This is still a thrill for me.

Hands up if you know what they're talking about.

It’s pretty surreal to see my name on this list… I am so fortunate to be at the Cold Spring Harbor Retroviruses meeting this week celebrating with the best community of scientists Wins are harder to come by these days and this is a big help for keeping motivated!

Burroughs Wellcome Fund@bwfund.bsky.social · 3mo ago

BWF Announces the 2026 Investigators in the Pathogenesis of Infectious Disease www.bwfund.org/news/bwf-ann... #bwfpath

Most people at NIH who comply do so out of fear or a misguided (IMO) sense that this is the best way to save science & NIH. Then, a few over zealously leverage the recent changes into career opportunities: www.nytimes.com/2026/05/18/w... And then of course there’s Jay Bhattacharya himself.

Actually, Democracy Dies in H.R.

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Jared Polis is so completely full of shit. His commutation of Tina Peters' sentence has nothing to do with freedom of speech. What a joke. What an insult to the law-abiding citizens of Colorado. What an assault on free and fair elections. An embarrassing profile in cowardice.

Piece is from two months ago. Abrupt pushback in March forced him to delay. Now it’s apparently time for accountability. Paywall has been removed, and it’s up to @coloradodems.org now…

Brian Beutler@brianbeutler.bsky.social · 3mo ago

It is, in fact, necessary. www.offmessage.net/p/impeach-ja...

Glad to see the attack on scientists getting traction at broadly focused media outlets. Sh*t is bad, folks

The Bulwark@thebulwark.com · 3mo ago

"The issue for MAHA isn’t the science per se, but the scientists. The issue isn’t evidence, but a conviction that whatever mainstream researchers think must by definition be wrong."