happy July 1 to all the academics whose main reaction to the day is “oh no the summer is almost over already”
Faye Norby
@fayenorby.bsky.social
Cardiovascular epidemiologist -University of Minnesota. 1000-mile Iditarod Trail Invitational champ. Ultrarunning, dogs, wild places, northern lights, wood spoons, heart health, & human-powered pursuit of the ineffable.
This is the NIH grant screening disfavored words list published by Nature: media.nature.com/original/mag...
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DHS's Operation Metro Surge hurt Minnesota's leisure and hospitality industry in Jan-Mar 2026, destroying: - 4,600 jobs, - 3.8 million work hours, - $71 million in wages. New analysis by me & @aaronrosenthal.bsky.social @northstarpolicy.org northstarpolicy.org/leisure-and-...
Hundreds of immigrants with valid work permits were detained in Minnesota during Operation Metro Surge. These are some of their stories.
The government gave these Minnesota immigrants permission to live and work here — then detained them • Minnesota Reformer
Willi Rondon was arrested in his apartment parking lot by immigration agents nearly six months ago. His wife, Genesis Mendoza, was in the passenger seat and their 2-year-old son in the back. Rondon d...
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I'm trying out some small CO2 monitors for an upcoming experiment. Aranet4 $190, Inkbird Plus $43, Vitalight $40, Airspot $163 (received free) agree, but I need to try at higher levels. NDIR sensors are good to within 50 ppm. Tradeoffs: price, size, battery life, connectivity.
Minneapolis celebrates spring with a parade of giant handmade socialist puppets and a festival where people row the sun across the lake. This year's Mayday festival was today, and I'm going to try to share some photos and videos (many taken by others) to try to explain it for my non-local friends.
Sharing this screen grab from a friend at NIH (with permission). This is a checklist program officers have to complete before a grant can be awarded. The first question: "Is this grant All Clean/Clear in the NIH Text analysis Tool?" 🧵1/3
Doctor, wife of acting U.S. attorney general appointed to NIH advisory council www.statnews.com/2026/04/26/k...
Doctor, wife of acting U.S. attorney general appointed to NIH advisory council
An integrative medicine doctor who is the wife of the acting U.S. attorney general has been named as a member to one of the advisory councils that provides critical funding recommendations to the NIH.
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Me agreeing to a new project knowing full well it’s gonna add stress 🇲🇽
Pulitzer-worthy reporting here from Minnesota immigrant news @sahanjournal.bsky.social. 70+ children detained during Operation MetroSurge. 30 sent to Dilley. Two dozen held >20 days, a Flores violation. 7 still detained as of March 10. ~20 have been deported. sahanjournal.com/immigration/...
ICE detained more than 70 Minnesota children, data reveals
Immigration officials detained more than 70 Minnesota children between Dec. 1 and March 10, a Sahan analysis of court records and federal deportation data shows.
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New York Times article about the slow pace on NIH grant making as well as enforcement of political constraints. [Gift Link] www.nytimes.com/2026/04/22/s... 1/4
Pace of N.I.H. Funding Slows Further in Trump’s Second Year
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The White House’s April 3 budget proposal would reduce NSF & NIH funding significantly. Our analysis shows that the U.S. stands to lose $35 billion in economic activity and 150,000 jobs nationwide. See impacts on your local community: scienceimpacts.org #SCIMaP #NIH #NSF #SciencePolicy
In August, Jay Bhattacharya said “Training future biomedical scientists” was the 1st priority for his version of NIH. But talk is cheap. Let’s see how JB’s doing. 🤔 NIH supports trainees mostly via fellowship (F), training (T), and career development (K) awards. Here are funding curves for each.🧵
This is the Boundary Waters. It's a million acres of wilderness with 1,000s of lakes with water so clean you can drink it. Today, the Republicans in the Senate are trying to sell it out to a foreign mining company. Call your senators today at (202) 224-3121 and tell them to vote no on HJR 140.
Absolutely stunned that the Society for Epidemiologic Research chose John Ioannidis to deliver the conference keynote in the Year of Our Lord 2026.
Have you served on an NIH study section (or thought about serving)? Did you know that that the small perk of being able to submit your own applications after the deadline has largely been revoked? grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
NOT-OD-26-064: Update of NIH Late Application Submission Policy and End of Continuous Submission
NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: Update of NIH Late Application Submission Policy and End of Continuous Submission NOT-OD-26-064. NIH
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wow, looks like a rough patch for stocks AND bondis
FOLKS we had so many great humans fulfilling 300 or so t-shirt orders for mutual aid fundraiser. This community comes together so brilliantly, I was overwhelmed with generosity. And if you ordered a shirt it should be there this week!
La Tortilla brought the truck to our neighborhood weekly starting early in the pandemic. We’ve visited them most weeks since. Our 2 y.o. calls our local brewery “the taco truck” because they’re one and the same to him. We know their family, they know ours. Please support this community institution.
Mara Brust@marabrust.bsky.social · 5mo agoLa Tortilla has brought so much joy to our family's lives. Let's support theirs.
Lovely night in Minneapolis astride the Great River. At right is the original United States as defined by the 1783 Treaty of Paris, at left is the 1804 Louisiana Purchase. All of this was once Dakota land.
Heather Cox Richardson has a larger audience than almost any dudefluencer. More informed. Better values & policy preferences. And yet there are no profiles, no elevation or lionization, because there's *nothing* US media is less interested in than middle-aged lib women. No diner interviews for them.
My NIH update Let me start by saying again how glad I am that NIH is now posting these curves on the Reporter front page. It is satisfying that leading by example from outside has led to this change and (I hope) reflects a commitment for NIH_leadership™ to hold itself accountable for this. 1/6
Another great take from Liz Ginexi on why NIH’s move to choke off NOFOs is bad for science. open.substack.com/pub/elizabet...
The NOFO Graveyard
A Response to NIH's Defense of Its Vanishing Funding Opportunities
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EXCLUSIVE: Surveillance video obtained by an activist shows Liam Conejo Ramos and his father being taken to a detention center in Texas via a Delta Airlines flight, the morning after ICE allegedly used the boy as bait. gillianbrockell.com/video-proves...
Video proves Delta flew Liam Ramos and his dad to ICE detention center
Three plainclothes federal agents can be seen boarding a Delta flight while guarding the 5-year-old boy and his father, right under unsuspecting passengers’ noses.
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If you aren't keeping up with the Iditarod this year, here is a good reason to: Four mushers are Alaskan Native: Kevin Hansen, Inupiaq; Ryan Redington, Inupiaq; Kaiser, Yup’ik; and Jody Potts-Joseph. Another, Jesse Terry, Anishinabe, is Indigenous from Canada. #Uglydogs ictnews.org/news/iditaro...
IDITAROD 2026: A musher on a mission - ICT
Jody Potts-Joseph wants to encourage young Alaska Natives to travel the way of the ancestors
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AFTERNOON SHIFT UPDATE: The morning and mid-day crew got us to 80% of our initial goal in about 8 hours! If you haven’t ordered, the WE KEEP US SAFE shirts & stickers are very much still available & thanks to everyone who’s purchased/promoted. we-save-us.cheddarup.com
David Brauer@dbrauer.net · 5mo agoMinneapolis WE KEEP IS SAFE t-shirts/stickers site is NOW LIVE: we-save-us.cheddarup.com The shirts honor everyone who resisted ICE; all $ after shipping/making costs go to Lucy Laney school mutual aid in N Mpls. Buy as much as you want; you have to add shirts to cart 1 at a time (sorry). Please RT!
