Trump and Vought are now breaking both sides of spending law. They’re illegally not spending where the law requires them to spend, and they’re illegally spending where they don’t have the money to spend. What we have is an appropriations king. Spending “deals” are meaningless under that setup.

🧪Excited to co-present this @standupforscience.bsky.social event next week with UW's Dr. Ryan Kelly We'll cover how to effectively engage in public comments, to help shape public policy at all levels, federal to local. Attend in person or virtually! RSVP: act.standupforscience.net/events/power...

Fuck that noise. Federal workers deserve our respect and pay. And more than that: it's the law. "Shall be paid...at the earliest date possible after the lapse in appropriations ends" 31 U.S. Code § 1341 (c)(2): uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?p...

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 10mo ago

Johnson: "It's true that in previous shutdowns, many or most furloughed employees have been paid for the time they were furloughed, but there is new legal analysis - I don't know the details, I just saw a headline - but there are some legal analysts saying that might not be appropriate or necessary"

I got fed up with Vance’s lies, so I made a video addressing a few of them: -Why are ED wait times long? (Hint: it’s not immigrants) -Are “illegal aliens” getting health insurance through the government? (Not since 1996) -What about emergency Medicaid? (This goes to hospitals, not patients)

A tale of two states and Trump's shakedown of higher ed: TEXAS: Oh goody, yes, we love to strip away academic freedoms to serve Trump's wishes. CALIFORNIA: Eat shit. Any university who signs the letter will lose state funding.

Republicans had what was a strong shutdown position: We want to keep the govt open, Dems have demands. They had traded this for Vought's position, which imo is much riskier, since it is based on an obvious lie about the need to make cuts. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/shutdown-h...

“American science, the gold-standard and world-leading science and innovation enterprise, is being destroyed….Congress has a rare moment of leverage to check Trump’s executive overreach and it must stand up and do so.” - @markhisted.org, NIH neuroscientist www.nature.com/articles/d41...

This US government shutdown is different: what it means for science

President Trump’s budget office lays out guidelines for mass lay-offs across the federal government.

nature.com

📣 Calling 2nd-year grad students and their mentors: You just abruptly lost the ability to apply for the NSF grad research fellowship. Join ~900 others (and growing!) in signing @omfishient.bsky.social's petition to reverse that. [Or reshare this petition if you're not directly impacted]

📣 🧪 Update: #GRFP petition went to #NSF and OSTP (w/ the growing* comments list) yesterday. We are now working to get these impacts in front of Congress, so PLEASE keep signing/sharing the petition! *nearly 900! @danielbolnick.bsky.social @joshuasweitz.bsky.social @jasonwilliamsny.bsky.social

Lauren Kuehne@omfishient.bsky.social · 10mo ago

🧪 Were you one of the many thousands of STEM students (and mentors) impacted by the sudden change in #NSF #GRFP eligibility last week? We created a petition to NSF leadership and Congress to reverse the changes - please sign and share your stories here!! laurenkuehne.github.io/grfpChanges/

One blatant violation of the Hatch Act after another:

WIRED@wired.com · 10mo ago

SCOOP: At 9:35am on Wednesday, the first morning of the US government shutdown, employees at the Small Business Administration (SBA) received a template from human resources for their suggested “out of office” email. They were advised to blame the Democrats.

Advice: download PDFs of any documents you might need from government websites. The NIFA website went offline during the government shutdown during my PhD

Dr. David Miller 🏳️‍🌈@davidimiller.bsky.social · 10mo ago

In that vein, NSF's shutdown plans just went public: nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/files/nsf-sh... Already-funded projects can continue. And proposals can be submitted. But don't expect a response from a program officer during the shutdown.

Needed to take a bit of a social media break for personal reasons, but hopping back on say: At awe of the civil servants at NSF, NIH, etc. While Vought uses their jobs/livelihood as a political pawn re: shutdown, their first instinct has remained: how do I support the communities of scientists?

I might play this as my alarm every morning for the next month

New: More than two weeks after a court order ruled the Trump administration's termination of 1000+ grants illegal, Harvard's research funding is still frozen—with one exception. On Wednesday, NSF reinstated both Harvard's grants and access to funds. My reporting:

Harvard vs Trump: research funds still mostly frozen despite court win

US funding agencies might violate a judge’s ruling if they continue to withhold money.

nature.com

Exactly this

Here are the _public_ email addresses for the reporters and the standards editor listed on the WSJ site. Standards editor: David.marcelis@wsj.com Journalists who wrote the article: james.fanelli@wsj.com sadie.gurman@wsj.com Politely and peacefully demand a retraction and an apology.

Gillian Branstetter@gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Transgender people are owed a retraction and apology from @wsj.com. The lie has already become canon to millions and it seems the least they could do.

If I don't see multiple ~media reporters~ columns about the extraordinarily irresponsible Wall Street Journal report from yesterday morning — and their extensive promotion of that inflammatory report — you all should just pack up and go home.

Appreciate the timeline cleanse 😂

Merriam-Webster@merriam-webster.com · 11mo ago

‘Booty’ and ‘butt’ are synonyms. ‘Call’ and ‘dial’ are synonyms. But, a ‘booty call’ and a ‘butt dial’ are VERY different things.

FIGHT FOR SCIENCE RALLY ‼️🧬💪 ⏰WHEN: Weds, Sept. 17th at 8am ET 📍WHERE: 1200 New York Ave NW, Washington DC 🔗📲JOIN US at the LINK in BIO, or in the REPLIES BELOW ⬇️

👎 BOO: Federal judge just denied a preliminary injunction to reinstate terminated NSF grants (link below). Also allows Trump admin to still apply the lawless new "priorities" to pending NSF proposals, at least for now (www.nsf.gov/updates-on-p...). A thread... (with call to action for Congress) 🧵

What's going on with politically-motivated terminations of federal grants? How should social psychologists react and respond? Where do we go from here? No good answers but join me and other affected researchers for a virtual discussion next Friday.

Franki Kung@frankikung.bsky.social · 11mo ago

FYI - New @spspnews.bsky.social session on Navigating Uncertainty: A Community Conversation on Research Funding Challenges Friday, September 19 2 - 3 PM ET (free and virtual) Sign up: community.spsp.org/events/sNhWo...

A student told her professor “President Trump’s laws state that there are two genders,” and that the lesson was “illegal” for contradicting that. It’s not. Executive orders are not laws. Compliance with authoritarianism will not protect universities. Either we stand up for our missions or we fall.

Dan Hirschman@asociologist.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Texas A&M’s President just removed a dean and department head from their positions after they supported a professor whose lesson on gender was challenged by a student. www.kbtx.com/2025/09/09/a...

Join @aeraedresearch.bsky.social tomorrow, September 10, at 2 p.m. ET for an informational webinar about the AERA-NSF Grants Program! The AERA-NSF Grants Program is accepting proposals for both Dissertation and Research Grants through Oct. 6. Registration required: aera.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

AERA@aeraedresearch.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Register for the AERA-NSF Grants Program informational webinar happening this week on 9/10 at 2pm ET to ask questions and learn more about the application process! aera.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Chaired law professor at NYU its.law.nyu.edu/facultyprofi... When people who've devoted their careers to the law start talking like this...

SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in a college applicant's file is blatantly unconstitutional ALSO SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in targeting whom to detain and deport is cool cool cool

oh noooo

Christie Aschwanden@cragcrest.bsky.social · 11mo ago

I've seen a lot of incorrect uses and understandings of p-values, but this one made me do a literal LOL. It's a hilarious example of how a certain type of smug person who writes letters to the editor to take issue with news stories can get things so, so wrong. cdapress.com/news/2025/se...

RFK pressured her to *pre approve* panel recommendations for a panel that had not actually met! "Once trusted experts are removed and advisory bodies are stacked, the results are predetermined. That isn’t reform. It is sabotage."

public health guy@publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 11mo ago

gift link to dr. susan monarez’s piece in the wall street journal this morning.

Join us in 30 mins as RFK Jr. testifies at this morning's Senate hearing — we will be posting updates live. #ImpeachRFK www.c-span.org/event/senate...

New statement: IDSA, APHA and partners call for RFK Jr. to resign: "Our country needs leadership that will promote open, honest dialogue — not disregard decades of lifesaving science, spread misinformation, reverse medical progress and decimate programs that keep us safe." bit.ly/3JOgDya

Key initial win in court for Harvard and academic freedom!! Ruling based on free speech rights under 1st Amendment. Judge ruled that distinguishes the case from recent Supreme Court decision on NIH grant terminations. "This is not Calvinball." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Veena Dubal@veenadubal.bsky.social · 11mo ago

AAUP-HARVARD, AAUP, & UAW WON THE HARVARD CASE!!!! storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...