A lot of people claimed that this stuff would make it easier to be more transparent. Results here seem to say the opposite…

Gary Collins@gscollins.bsky.social · 2d ago

NEW PAPER in the @bmj.com: “Reporting completeness of clinical trials evaluating large language model interventions in medicine: systematic review” Underreporting of LLM specific methodological details, protocols, data, code, and harms Read the paper here www.bmj.com/content/395/...

Great analysis by @michaeldgreen.phd . It’s a start, for addressing impacts on early career researchers over the past two years. Still, these are new grants. How many grants are active total, with the cuts of 2025? We also need to make sure NIH is supporting high impact science with this money…

Michael D. Green, PhD@michaeldgreen.phd · 6d ago

Was bothered enough by this that I did some of my own sleuthing. Do these graphs tell you that supporting early-career researchers is a “high priority”? Not to me! Trend surely isn’t terrible, but this cannot be celebrated w/o consideration of all the crap that happened last year.

Lots of ink being spilled about where you should/shouldn’t post. Use social media however you see fit, where you feel safe. Many (including myself) have a safer experience posting on Threads or BlueSky compared to X. FOMO culture pushes people to feel that they NEED to be somewhere.

John Gruber@gruber.foo · 3d ago

I'm sure this one won't make anyone angry.

Another week of pain and suffering

A must read. "Then, overnight, she became one of the more than 95,000 Black women who were fired or laid off from the federal government as result of massive job cuts implemented by Elon Musk and the Department of Government Efficiency"

I Scare You Like Sound Dog@chadstanton.blacksky.app · 5d ago

“Although she knew intellectually that it wasn’t about her, one refrain kept going through her head: “I didn’t deserve this. Why did this happen to me?”

Starting to get some studies where ppl are testing AI in consequential environments with real data instead of simulations. Single-armed feasibility study from folks at Google, BIDMC, and Harvard. Initial results promising (w/ old models). @thelancet.com www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Was bothered enough by this that I did some of my own sleuthing. Do these graphs tell you that supporting early-career researchers is a “high priority”? Not to me! Trend surely isn’t terrible, but this cannot be celebrated w/o consideration of all the crap that happened last year.

Michael D. Green, PhD@michaeldgreen.phd · 7d ago

This is misleading. Comparing ‘26 to a 10-year average is a poor choice. Interesting to claim a “record # of early career awards”issued solely from R01 ESI grants. What about Ks, or I dunno every other award type that early career ppl get… @grantwitness.org @noamross.net @jeremymberg.bsky.social

Was bothered enough by this that I did some of my own sleuthing. Do these graphs tell you that supporting early-career researchers is a “high priority”? Not to me! Trend surely isn’t terrible, but this cannot be celebrated w/o consideration of all the crap that happened last year.

Michael D. Green, PhD@michaeldgreen.phd · 7d ago

This is misleading. Comparing ‘26 to a 10-year average is a poor choice. Interesting to claim a “record # of early career awards”issued solely from R01 ESI grants. What about Ks, or I dunno every other award type that early career ppl get… @grantwitness.org @noamross.net @jeremymberg.bsky.social

One month of scolding Claude left before he jumps out the screen and tries to kill me 🥀🥀🥀

Hayden Field@haydenfield.bsky.social · 7d ago

Exclusive: Anthropic is updating its usage policy for the first time in over a year. The new rules prohibit sustained "abusive or cruel behavior" towards Claude & add new restrictions about propaganda campaigns, surveillance & weapon development. www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

This is misleading. Comparing ‘26 to a 10-year average is a poor choice. Interesting to claim a “record # of early career awards”issued solely from R01 ESI grants. What about Ks, or I dunno every other award type that early career ppl get… @grantwitness.org @noamross.net @jeremymberg.bsky.social

Looking forward #STATSummit ! Lots of big-time folks will be there, so I was honored to be invited to talk about my experiences (+ some things I’m willing to talk about that others are unable to). @aniloza.bsky.social and the team @statnews.com are great reporters as well! You should follow them!

anil oza@aniloza.bsky.social · 7d ago

Really excited for our @statnews.com summit next week, after our prep calls yesterday I am so excited to take the stage for these two talks about the state of research under the Trump administration

One of the companies that thought kissing the ring would buy them favors FYI

The Associated Press@apnews.com · 7d ago

BREAKING: Vance says Microsoft is being suspended from a program to apply for green cards for H-1B visa workers, accusing the company of fraud.

JAMA: The Need for Cardiology News Coverage jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... "...to the cardiovascular specialists who benefited from a golden age of medical journalism: please continue to speak with the dwindling pool of reporters committed to clarity, fairness, and truth..."

The Need for Cardiology News Coverage

This Viewpoint discusses the challenges and importance of medical journalism, particularly for specialties such as cardiology.

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U.S. Citizen scientist here. Will this “new” initiative come with terminations and renegotiations too?

Noam Ross@noamross.net · last wk.

Trump announced $100M to train U.S. citizen scientists only. www.bloomberg.com/news/article... These are not new funds. NSF underspent its education funds by $100M this past year. Of course, it pales in comparison to the $560M lost due to terminated NSF education grants: grantwitness.org/nsf 🧪

another year where all the science nobels went to men, as was the case in 2024 much of this piece, about the structural barriers women face in doing innovative research and receiving credit for it, holds up (I think) www.statnews.com/2024/10/11/n...

Men won all the science Nobels this year. There's an even bigger problem

The Nobel's gender gap reflects larger barriers faced by women in science

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97% famously a very high number

Jenna Norton@jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · last wk.

97% of surveyed health equity scientists reported changing/ planning to change their science in response to Trump's ideological war on diversity, equity & inclusion. Changes included: - Language: 84% - Research question: 56% - Topic: 50% - Stopping entirely: 19% osf.io/preprints/so...

Red eye flight + flu shot today. #gluttonforpunishment

"We'll probably have flying cars in 2026" 2026: Triple-checking online stock images to make sure people don't have 7 fingers.

Courage is contagious. pittnews.com/article/2034...

Pitt professors join class-action lawsuit against NIH, alleging it censored scientific research - The Pitt News

The lawsuit, filed on Sept.16, alleges that NIH, the world’s largest public funder of biomedical research, is unconstitutionally censoring scientific research in relation to requiring a list of keywor...

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It is an unbelievable honor to accept the 2026 Nobel Prize for Posting

About to listen to luxury rap the entire flight while sitting in seat 52B

Ran is cooking with: ‘the only data point I have about this candidate is this: “they had an important task that could determine the rest of their career, but it required a little effort and personal reflection, so they used AI to complete it.”’

Ran Blekhman@blekhman.bsky.social · 2w ago

My inbox is being flooded with fully AI-generated emails from prospective students. I tried to work out why I can't bring myself to read them, and ended up with some thoughts and advice for writing cold emails in the age of AI. My new post: blekhman.substack.com/p/why-i-am-n...

One of the most striking things from an essay in @theatlantic.com from an employee at OpenAI who resigned last week. Empathy and humility are absent from so many these days. Really appreciate this message. www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

In the Biden administration, l led the team that developed what was arguably the first White House “AI safety” framework, the AI Bill of Rights. David Robinson, author of this forthright and sobering essay about risk culture at OpenAI and in Silicon Valley was on that team.

Adrienne LaFrance@adriennelaf.bsky.social · 2w ago

New just now in The Atlantic: David Robinson resigned this week. He was among the longest-tenured employees at OpenAI—and oversaw safety reports on 12 frontier launches. He is very worried: “The time for trial and error is over.” You can read his essay here: www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

The fiscal year is over. The dying Social, Behavioral, and Economic division of NSF ended up awarding 90 total grants this year, as opposed to ~700-800 in recent past years. Source: grantwitness.org/nsf/analyses...

I appeared alongside the CEO of @aaas.org on the WSITY podcast, where we spoke about the future of science. Politics currently undermine that future in ways that many will not immediately see, but the long-term results will be devastating if we don’t change course and demand more.

I appeared alongside the CEO of @aaas.org on the WSITY podcast, where we spoke about the future of science. Politics currently undermine that future in ways that many will not immediately see, but the long-term results will be devastating if we don’t change course and demand more.

Gr8 chart here from @jaspar.bsky.social of @statnews.com Thankfully for NIH awards, it’s possible to evaluate claims like “we want to support early-career scientists” with data. The data does not support that claim.

Jonathan Wosen@jonathanwosen.bsky.social · 2w ago

What did NIH spend its budget on this fiscal year, and how has that changed due to Trump administration priorities? @aniloza.bsky.social, @jaspar.bsky.social, and I teamed up for @statnews.com to look at the agency's grants data. Here's what we learned 👇 www.statnews.com/2026/10/02/n...

What did NIH spend its budget on this fiscal year, and how has that changed due to Trump administration priorities? @aniloza.bsky.social, @jaspar.bsky.social, and I teamed up for @statnews.com to look at the agency's grants data. Here's what we learned 👇 www.statnews.com/2026/10/02/n...

NIH awarded all its grant funding, but delayed and opaque decisions stymied researchers

The NIH continued reducing grants involving health disparities, race, and ethnicity but made little progress toward other administration priorities in the 2026 fiscal year.

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