The new #OMB rules would transform funding decisions. I don't know where I would be without #NSF funding. Thanks @agu.org for providing a way to submit comments about the latest set of disastrous OMB rule changes. Deadline Aug 24th #resist agu.quorum.us/campaign/dvw...

Submit your comment now to help stop NSF from implementing harmful grantmaking changes

A new proposed rule would rewrite the terms of U.S. science at NSF. Submit a comment today to fight back.

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New special collection just went live! Happy to chat about it, but the short version of benefits are: rolling publications (as ready) and increased citations (by being “grouped”) and multiple involved AGU journals! Got gateway papers coming? Think about submitting your work here!

U.S. Scientific Ocean Drilling@us-sciod.bsky.social · 2d ago

Check out this special collection Call for Papers! If your research involves IODP expeditions to the North Atlantic and Arctic gateway, consider submitting your work. agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/hub/journal/...

Vought is using the NSF to weaponize research grants in service of the President’s agenda. Register for our webinar to learn about the key NSF changes, analyze their implications and draft strong public comments: zurl.co/uZgiw Then leave your public comment: zurl.co/IutuN

The diarrhea lettuce company, Taylor Farms, uses slave labor contracted from the Arizona Dept. of Corrections. The backbreaking labor is often performed by imprisoned Mexican nationals who would be otherwise ineligble to work in the US. They are paid $1.50 an hour.

The Diarrhea Lettuce Company Has Been Linked to Forced Labor

The lettuce-producing Taylor Farms was linked to the widespread use of prison labor before its involvement in a cyclospora outbreak.

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Vought is using the NSF to weaponize research grants for the President’s agenda, and we are not letting it slip by quietly. 🧵

Thoughts on the various Trump administration proposals to revamp US science funding - and what they all have in common:

The Assault On Science Funding Continues

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America's R1 universities educate ~8–9 million students (undergraduate + graduate) -> more than 1/3 of U.S. college students (vs. the ~0.6% of Ivies). Undermining this system threatens the institutions that train our workforce and drive scientific innovation. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

An American research crisis with real human consequences

Ivy League universities have dominated recent news headlines, having become popular targets for critics of higher education. But the threats they face—cuts to federal research funding, assaults on aca...

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US science is being turned over to Peter Thiel, who will kill it. Trump installed one longtime Thiel lieutenant as his science advisor. Now another Thiel lieutenant, Jim O'Neill, will head NSF. Both are the least-qualified ever, with NO science training. They're picked because they serve Thiel. 1/

Trump’s NSF pick is a stranger to its research community

Jim O’Neill will need to build ties, say former agency leaders

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Once you understand that this is a model of science written by non-scientists who hate universities but love venture capital and redirecting money to political allies, everything makes a lot more sense. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/22/u...

Trump’s Plan for Science: More Money for A.I., Less for Universities

Michael Kratsios, President Trump’s science adviser, proposed overhauling how the government funds research. Democrats said Mr. Trump’s actions had weakened science.

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New AGU travel grants for post-doctoral to attend Fall Meetinh Crossposted with @openvibe.social

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🚨 New for 2026! 🚨 Postdocs can now apply for the AGU26 Postdoctoral Travel Grant to help cover costs of attending the AGU Annual Meeting in person! 👉 Applications are due 12 August: spklr.io/63328EPNKE #AGU26 #Postdoc #Grant #ScienceFunding

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Ok, now, tell me they're not implementing the presidential budget that *was not passed by Congress* with a 50% cut to NSF. Go on. grant-witness.us/funding_curv...

AI slop degrading online citizen science databases :-( 🧪 #birds www.theguardian.com/environment/...

AI-altered images on birdwatching forums putting research at risk

Experts warn increase in enhanced photos on birding platforms creating fake sightings, threatening credibility of tool used by scientists

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Twice a year, Hawai'i experiences a strange moment where the sun appears to be exactly overhead & anything that is completely vertical casts no shadow. Let's learn about Lāhainā Noon, subsolar points & 'Kau ka lā i ka lolo', meaning "the sun rests on the brains."

Have you already made comments? Maybe called your reps? Great!! Now tell your friends, tell your family. Tell personal stories of what science does to help you and yours! 🧪

Stand Up for Science!@standupforscience.net · last mo.

🚨 HEADS UP: If you haven't submitted a comment on the OMB proposal yet, there's still time - but it's running out! There are only 9 days left to push back against Russell Vought's attempt to give political appointees unprecedented control over federal research funding. Take Action: zurl.co/FNfgR

🚨 HEADS UP: If you haven't submitted a comment on the OMB proposal yet, there's still time - but it's running out! There are only 9 days left to push back against Russell Vought's attempt to give political appointees unprecedented control over federal research funding. Take Action: zurl.co/FNfgR

RIP Joides Resolution. Thanks for the holes (and sediment from them!)

Randall Munroe@xkcd.com · last mo.

Holes xkcd.com/3266/

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OUR BIG TAKEAWAYS: - The Dems pressed Vought on the proposed OMB Rule - DeLauro critized the admin for trying to make federal grants pass a political loyalty test. Vought denied this characterization, but refused to commit that OMB would respect Congress's constitutional power of the purse. 🧵:

Stand Up for Science!@standupforscience.net · last mo.

🚨OMB Director Russell Vought is about to testify before the House Committee on Appropriations, Subcommittee on Financial Services & General Government! 🚨 We'll be live skeeting the hearing - follow along below!! 🧵:

If you have not yet, please join us in taking action against the latest OMB proposal, here: fight2win.standupforscience.net

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This is a tremendous piece by Judy Stone at @forbes.com. This new OMB rule is going to hurt communities from coast to coast. Federal grants are not just about research! www.forbes.com/sites/judyst...

How The OMB Rule Could Hurt You And Your Town

The OMB proposal threatens scientific research and ALL federal funding for states, cities, and nonprofits. It politicizes ALL funding. Call your reps and write an objection.

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Musk says not a single person has died due to him axing USAID. Sadly, part of my job involves tracking aid spending. So here’s a thread with just some of the people who lost their lives because of USAID cuts

Climate.us is officially live! After NOAA ended Climate.gov’s day-to-day operations in 2025, former team members built Climate.us to carry that work forward. Their explanations and graphics have always stood out to me as clear, accessible, and transparent. I’m really looking forward to this reboot.

Climate.us Home

independent, nonprofit, and immune to politics

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So happy and proud to see this paper out in @natcomms.nature.com today! We show that traces of human DNA can persist on cave walls for thousands of years. Absolutely fantastic work by the wonderful Alba Bossoms Mesa at @mpi-eva-leipzig.bsky.social and a great team! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Investigating ancient human DNA preservation on cave walls and in rock art - Nature Communications

Ancient DNA can be preserved on materials from archaeological floor deposits such as bones, sediments and artifacts. Here, the authors investigate whether Palaeolithic wall art can preserve human DNA ...

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The Trump administration just paid Invenergy $765 million to cancel four wind projects. That brings the running total to roughly $2.5 billion in taxpayer money spent to stop energy from being built. Think about that. At a time when electricity demand is rising,

Attempted tech capture will almost certainly accelerate if Jim O'Neill is confirmed as NSF Director. O'Neill is a former Managing Director in the Thiel-verse. The "stranger to research" is not an accident. Building ties is key if you want to support university-led research, but not if you don't.

Trump’s NSF pick is a stranger to its research community

Jim O’Neill will need to build ties, say former agency leaders

science.org

Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽@needhibhalla.bsky.social · last mo.

tech capture of the NSF: “it allows NSF to make awards to nontraditional recipients such as a limited partnership or a venture capital firm, some of which might have been created solely for the purpose of receiving the NSF award.”

More terrible news for science in the US: NSF slashing physical sciences funding by 30% and halting all pending awards — www.science.org/content/arti... 🧪 🔭 ⚛️

Exclusive: NSF slashes research programs to support new tech initiative, insiders say

Unexpected shift in funds has meant sharp drop in grants this fiscal year

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So the US National Science Foundation (NSF) is diverting a large amount of public money for basic science into areas of science that already well funded by investors and for profit companies. This will continue to undermine the pipeline of trained scientists and engineers from higher education. 🧪

Science Magazine@science.org · last mo.

Exclusive: The National Science Foundation is trimming this year’s budgets for hundreds of its traditional basic science programs by roughly 20% to 30%, even though its overall budget is down just 3%. https://scim.ag/4xY2KCm

“The agency appears to be defying a congressional directive in the final FY 2026 appropriations bill that “No [NSF] directorate shall receive more than a 5 percent reduction relative to the fiscal year 2024 enacted level.” That language was meant to address… a concern that now appears prescient.”

Science Magazine@science.org · last mo.

Exclusive: The National Science Foundation is trimming this year’s budgets for hundreds of its traditional basic science programs by roughly 20% to 30%, even though its overall budget is down just 3%. https://scim.ag/4xY2KCm