The number of NIH competitive awards is down 50% from 2025, and down ~70% from prior years. Even if they catch up by the end of the year, only wealthy institutions can bridge these huge funding gaps.They're killing science-and violating the constitution-by weaponizing the bureaucracy

The Washington Post@washingtonpost.com · 4mo ago

Through March 31, the number of grants awarded by the National Institutes of Health is down by more than half compared with the same period last year, a Post analysis found. There are also fewer grants focused on women’s health, cancer and mental health, the analysis found. https://wapo.st/48dWJWX

Do you have a paper on financial decision-making? Want to present research & hike? Does Bozeman in early August sound good? The Financial Decision-making Conference is Aug 6-7! Submission deadline April 20. The call for papers is here: fdmconference.pages.dev#cfp

I don't think people fully appreciate how apocalyptic things are for US science. I haven't had any new funding since 2024, but I'm still ok since typical grants are for three years. This means next year I will be completely out of funding and will have to fire everyone in the lab. It's not great.

Jeremy Berg@jeremymberg.bsky.social · 5mo ago

NSF Update through March 13, 2026 1/2

On the table: the first-ever interstate water transfer on the Colorado River! Could be a valuable precedent for more flexible management in the future

Sammy Roth@sammyroth.bsky.social · 5mo ago

San Diego has so much desalinated water, it might sell some of its supplies to Arizona and Nevada cities strapped by megadrought on the Colorado River: www.latimes.com/environment/... via @ianjames.bsky.social

A reminder to East Coast based media. Here in Bozeman winter just never came.

Peter Gleick@petergleick.bsky.social · 5mo ago

The hot in the west was hotter than the cold in the east was cold. #climatechange

There's no such thing as a best fruit. All types of fruit run from terrible to life-affirming. All preferences across varieties vanish in the face of within-variety differences in quality.

Gourd@jaredsnyder.bsky.social · 5mo ago

I'm sorry but I can't help myself: the best fruit discourse is poisoned by conflating "average one you get at the grocery store" with "best you've ever had.". The classic example is peach, the average grocery store peach is dogshit and the best you've ever had is a transcendent experience

I love this America so much. I am aware that I am in a constant fight, one with existential stakes but which will not be conclusively resolved, to determine whether the America that exists is the one I love or the one people like Rubio love. But it is a fight to which I am wholly committed.

jamelle@jamellebouie.net · 6mo ago

i’ll end this little brainstorm by just asking what it is, exactly, that the MAGA right likes about the United States, since it explicitly rejects those things that make this nation distinctive — its pluralism, its revolutionary heritage and egalitarian aspirations, and its republican institutions

Should we be climate adaptation optimists? A nice new paper by Matt Burgess, Matt Kahn, and colleagues argues yes. I'm not so sure. Optimism is not a plan, and we need a plan. Some thoughts: www.stanfordecholab.com/blog/should-...

Should we be climate adaptation optimists? — ECHO: Environmental Change and Human Outcomes Lab | Stanford University

by: Marshall B , with helpful feedback & additions from Andrew W and Chris C Yes, argues a recent working paper by Matt Burgess, Patrick Brown, Matt Kahn, and Roger Pielke Jr.  The pa...

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Alex Pretti was an ICU nurse serving veterans. He died trying to protect protestors being assaulted. A group of anonymous & masked men fired chemicals into his face, beat him, disarmed him, and shot him in broad daylight in front of witnesses. Then his government smeared him & defended his murder.

Air pollution is incredibly bad for human health. It causes a large share of chronic disease and deaths. This is one of the strongest empirical findings in all of economics and epidemiology. The EPA saying it's "uncertain" is not based in science. It's a pretext.

Kyle Meng@kylemeng.com · 7mo ago

Human health benefits are by far the largest benefit from most environmental regulations. By not monetizing these benefits moving forward, the Trump EPA is essentially saying there are no human health benefits to reducing air/toxic/climate pollution, improving drinking water quality, etc. 1/

Human health benefits are by far the largest benefit from most environmental regulations. By not monetizing these benefits moving forward, the Trump EPA is essentially saying there are no human health benefits to reducing air/toxic/climate pollution, improving drinking water quality, etc. 1/

E.P.A. to Stop Considering Lives Saved When Setting Rules on Air Pollution

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Call is open! Submit your abstracts for the BIG SKY WORKSHOP on the Economics of Agriculture and the Environment June 18-19, 2026, in Bozeman, Montana, hosted by Montana State University and PERC. Travel funding available for grad students www.bigskyworkshop.net/abstract-sub...

"This is about whether the Fed will be able to continue to set interest rates based on evidence and economic conditions—or whether instead monetary policy will be directed by political pressure or intimidation."

Federal Reserve@federalreserve.gov · 7mo ago

Video message from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell: www.youtube.com/watch?v=KckG... www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/s...

Fire alarm from the Fed Chair, explicitly calling out political intimidation from the president. The Fed never, ever releases videos speaking directly to the American people like this. Interfering with the Fed is the road to instability and inflation much worse than we've seen since Covid.

Federal Reserve@federalreserve.gov · 7mo ago

Video message from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell: www.youtube.com/watch?v=KckG... www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/s...

Land sparing's global "brutal math" is inescapable: from 1961-2020, global population grew 2.6x and agricultural output increased nearly 4x, but total ag land grew by only about 7.6% and croplands by 20-25%. www.ers.usda.gov/amber-waves/.... 8/

My New Year's resolution is improve how I start Bluesky threads. I forget to announce what they're about. So: please check out this thread if you're either highly critical or gung-ho about the merits of the Green Revolution, "land-sparing" and maximizing yields using industrial agriculture.

Matthew Hayek@matthewhayek.bsky.social · 7mo ago

I liked this conversation. I recommend it. But, in the hopes that listening to it doesn't just reaffirm people's prior attitudes, I want to highlight where @mikegrunwald.bsky.social & @adamcalo.bsky.social seem to talk past each other, regarding what causes deforestation, where and at what scale. 1/

Finally caring about the federal budget deficit after spending nearly my entire adult life wanting more deficit spending Exactly what textbooks say you should do as conditions change... But sounds like I'm just getting more fiscally conservative as I age

Like the real reasons I suspect most people are upset, this article is supposedly about "affordability" but is actually entirely about housing People complain about the price of eggs but eggs don't ruin your hope of a secure middle-class life. Housing does. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/20/u...

These Young Adults Make Good Money. But Life, They Say, Is Unaffordable.

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This is a terrible development. The Administration is destroying the scientific institutions that helped make America great. It will take years to rebuild from this.

USA TODAY@usatoday.com · 8mo ago

Exclusive: The Trump administration is moving to dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Colorado, according to a senior White House official, taking aim at one of the world's leading climate research labs.

ryan cooper@ryanlcooper.com · 8mo ago

"America is crying out for a coherent national water policy, and states would be an obstacle to this no matter how their boundaries were drawn." prospect.org/2025/12/12/c...

I agree apple pie is not very good when it isn't made with pears and Kerrygold butter

Save the date! Announcing the 2nd Annual... ** BIG SKY WORKSHOP ** on the Economics of Agriculture and the Environment Hosted by @montanastate and @PERCtweets in Bozeman, MT, June 18-19, 2026 Call for abstracts in January. Travel funding available for grad students More info: bigskyworkshop.net

Summers called this female Chinese economist “peril.” “Yellow peril” was partially built on the claim that Chinese women were sexually immoral threats. That logic fueled the Page Act of 1875, which barred Chinese women by presuming they were prostitutes, even before the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act.

Prof Dynarski@dynarski.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Summers conferred with Epstein frequently about how to extract sexual favors from a Harvard econ grad (AB '04, PhD '09) The grad is from China Epstein and Summers referred to her by the codename "Peril" Racism and sexual exploitation in one efficient package bit.ly/3LHpin8

This isn’t actually a thread of different posts. It’s all just different cultivars of a single post

💧 Small-scale irrigation supports farmer livelihoods but can strain groundwater resources. How do we strike a balance? Join us on Oct 23 for a session on Balancing Small-Scale Irrigation Solutions with Ram Fishman & @hagertynw.bsky.social. Register: go.cega.org/registerATAIwebinar

📢 Out now in the September 2025 issue of #JAERE! 📢 "Industrial Water Pollution and Agricultural Production in India" by Nick Hagerty ( @hagertynw.bsky.social ) and Anshuman Tiwari. Read it here: buff.ly/oAalYIW 📈📉 #Econsky

For people in Bozeman! We're voting on a ballot initiative this fall that sounds good but would cause some huge problems (Precautionary disclaimer: we wrote this as private citizens, not representing our employer) www.bozemandailychronicle.com/opinions/gue...

Kelsey Larson, Nick Hagerty & Justin Gallagher: WARD would hurt housing, environment

The WARD ballot initiative claims it will encourage sustainability and support affordable housing in Bozeman.

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Out today in JAERE! We measure water pollution released at India's industrial clusters. Does it hurt agriculture? Surprisingly: Not by much Come for how we published a paper of null results & with no regression tables Stay for new ways to proxy for crop yields & map hydrological relationships 🧵

🔥BLS Staff: "We will publish reliable data, no matter how inconvenient the results... Acting Commissioner is a respected career professional. There are no other political appointees at BLS... will remain accurate & nonpartisan... if that ever changes, the professionals will tell you." #StandWithBLS

I don't like it but HIGH FREQUENCY, IN-PERSON assessments are the only way college students are going to learn anything this semester www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/o...

Opinion | Students Hate Them. Universities Need Them. The Only Real Solution to the A.I. Cheating Crisis.

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