This is more than the NSF social sciences division - now on the chopping block - awarded in grants last year. Think about that: a single AI company has the money to fund more social science research than the US govt.

Hetan Shah@hetanshah.bsky.social · 6d ago

Anthropic AI research fund offers $5m - $30m for social science research on themes of AI impact on workers; transition initiatives; income support; building worker stakes; and wider evidence on public investments. Total fund of $200m available www.anthropic.com/news/economi...

The AABA is currently accepting proposals for Invited Symposia for the 96th Annual Meeting in Philadelphia (March 31-April 3, 2027). Information on preparing and submitting a symposium proposal is available at the link below. The submission deadline is Monday, August 17, 2026, at 11:59 PM PDT.

96th Annual Meeting Invited Symposia - AABA

The deadline for Invited Symposium proposals is August 17, 2026, at 11:59 p.m. Pacific Daylight Time (PDT) The Symposium Proposal portal is now open! Please […]

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If you have an academic in your life, please be gentle with them this weekend because they're probably freaking the fuck out.

Joseph M. Adelman@jmadelman.bsky.social · 5d ago

Because the 1st is a Saturday, “How is it August already?!” will be observed today, Friday, July 31, 2026. Please panic accordingly.

It broke the brain of so many people in the US because so many of them had already been primed by a deliberate partisan attempt to undermine the expertise of scientists and scholars

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Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽@needhibhalla.bsky.social · 6d ago

“Understanding the Covid-19 pandemic as a catalyst for right-wing backlash is misleading because it’s too passive: it’s more appropriate to see it as a battle that those on the right set out in order to undermine liberal democracy.”

Shot

Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽@needhibhalla.bsky.social · 6d ago

“The pandemic was a global phenomenon, but it seems to have broken the US in a unique way. Other countries had more serious lockdowns without entering a political psychosis.”

99% of the time, when someone accuses you of selective outrage, it’s a way of politically demobilizing you and shutting you up “Why are you angry about data centers instead of fast fashion” isn’t about making you care about fast fashion. It’s about shutting you up about data centers And visa versa

I LOVED this book!

Matthew Cobb@matthewcobb.bsky.social · last wk.

22 years ago today, Francis Crick died. You can read about his life, his brilliance and his failures in my biography, available in hardback in the UK and USA (and as an audiobook and ebook) and soon in a chonky UK paperback.

Speaking of jobs, I have a paper to write while it's still summer. LOL

I feel this. Someone who takes their responsibilities seriously and has committed to teaching four days a week would 100% get my vote. It speaks to character and tenacity, but also skill and ability. Teaching adults and older kids builds incredible people skills. I hope he will win!!!!!!

Hot take about Kansas politics incoming.

The more I age the more I think it's really important for people to try, and KEEP trying: 1. One thing they are very good at. 2. One thing they are average at. 3. One thing they are ACTIVELY BAD AT. I really do think never sticking with a thing you suck at makes your empathy atrophy.

🧵It's been a tough few days for #Archaeology and #HistoricPreservation in the US. ACHP released proposed regs changes to S106 on FRIDAY EVENING. They have betrayed all committments to an established timeline or collaboration with preservation partners. The proposed changes subordinate NHPA to NEPA;

Good work #ScienceSky #AcademicSky #MedSky 🩺 🧪 Now we scream bloody murder at our Reps until Vought and co are fired. Now, we keep pressing, keep being that pain in the ass to legislators, until we rebuild our research funding infrastructure. We rebuild it better, more robust, MORE diverse.

Mark Peifer (He, him)@peiferlabunc.bsky.social · 3w ago

Let's learn a lesson from the nearly 500K of us who mobilized to comment on the OMB rules. We can leave the sidelines, take action and it can make a difference. After 15 months of inaction, our scientific societies finally woke up and mobilized members. It doesn't stop there 1/n

And elect new leaders who EXPLICITLY commit to rebuilding federal science and humanities funding infrastructure, like @colinmcroberts.bsky.social !

Leah@leah.myatproto.social · 3w ago

Good work #ScienceSky #AcademicSky #MedSky 🩺 🧪 Now we scream bloody murder at our Reps until Vought and co are fired. Now, we keep pressing, keep being that pain in the ass to legislators, until we rebuild our research funding infrastructure. We rebuild it better, more robust, MORE diverse.

Holy COW. Text analysis of comments on the OMB rule: overwhelming opposition, overwhelmingly not form letters. (But 9 in 10 comments supporting the rule ARE form responses, LOL) Whatever happens next, folks have stepped up.

Karen R. Lips@karenrlips.bsky.social · 3w ago

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“The opposition is overwhelmingly grassroots rather than orchestrated. Form letters make up only about 16 percent of all comments (roughly 8,400 comments across 210 distinct campaigns), and only about one in eight opposing comments came from a form-letter campaign...

Tech Policy Press@techpolicypress.bsky.social · 3w ago

Using an open-source pipeline to read every comment on OMB's proposed grants rule that could have significant impact on science and technology research funding, Christopher Steven Marcum and Abigail Haddad find the verdict "clear and lopsided": ~94% oppose it.

There is still time to submit your comment and tell the government that you don't want US research to be completely destroyed by politicians meddling in individual grants. You can submit your comments here: www.regulations.gov/commenton/OM...

Rebecca Solnit@rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 4w ago

Comments due by Monday on the attempt to politicize science/aka kill American research as we know it. Do it at the link (counter the ton of Heritage-foudnatoin-prompted comments): www.regulations.gov/document/OMB...

Most of the federal agency science budgets goes into the salaries of students and trainees, and the decision to take that money and instead give it to industry and already rich venture capitalists is fundamentally a decision to have many fewer scientists and do far less science in the future.

After submitting your comment: CONTACT YOUR CONGRESSIONAL REPRESENTATIVES “Congress can override the rule through the appropriations process. They can write into statute a requirement to follow peer review and best scientific practices. In this way, Congress can stop the attacks on science.”

Sam Wang@samwang.bsky.social · 3w ago

To stop the Project 2025 takeover of science, public comments are half a plan. But they won't get us all the way there. Here's the second half of the plan - and what you can do: samwang.substack.com/p/building-h...

⚠️ I just learned that Bucky will be for sale once he is a little older and weaned etc etc. I'd love to buy him myself but I can't afford a horse, lol. If you are a Horse Person, this might be useful information!

Jennifer Raff@jenniferraff.bsky.social · 4w ago

In case anyone needs a timeline cleanse….here is Bucky.

Behind-the-scenes 🧵 on this story revealing that the American Museum of Natural History in New York is holding thousands of hair samples taken from Native Americans, including children at residential schools - despite knowing their names. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/08/a...

Decades Late, Museum Scrambles to Return 2,700 Native Remains

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🐘 check out our newest paper from Liang Bua! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... Did H. floresiensis hunt Stegodon? 🔪 Did they also had control use of fire? 🔥 We tested these early claims of complex behavior using taphonomy, experimental archaeology, and zooarchaeology of the Stegodon assemblage.

If you ever wanted to know how the money works in traditional publishing works, I wrote a non-scary explainer for you. Don't be afraid of algebra! www.agentsandbooks.com/how-the-mone...

Here’s some more pics of Bucky looking cuuuuuuuute

In case anyone needs a timeline cleanse….here is Bucky.

every day the bar is on the literal fucking floor

Check your timeline to see if the people you follow are of the “we fucking told you so” variety or of the “well, how could we possibly know?” variety and correct course if necessary.

I've been doing sexual harassment and assault research and advocacy work since 2012. If there's one thing people need to understand is that everything, literally everything, is stacked against the victim. Every one who comes forward risks their reputation, identity, safety, and more. 1/2