🌎 What can Earth’s vital signs tell us about our changing planet? Join Scripps glaciologist @helen-amanda.bsky.social on Sept. 3 at The Exploratorium Museum's After Dark in San Francisco as she shares how NASA’s new EDGE mission will map our planet in unprecedented detail. https://bit.ly/4zRlbJN

After Dark: Pale Blue Dot | Exploratorium Museum Event

Take a step way back and see our planet in context: a tiny yet dynamic system in a vast cosmic neighborhood.

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If you are in the Bay Area this Thursday evening, please come along to my public talk @exploratorium.bsky.social

Scripps Institution of Oceanography @scrippsocean.bsky.social · 2w ago

🌎 What can Earth’s vital signs tell us about our changing planet? Join Scripps glaciologist @helen-amanda.bsky.social on Sept. 3 at The Exploratorium Museum's After Dark in San Francisco as she shares how NASA’s new EDGE mission will map our planet in unprecedented detail. https://bit.ly/4zRlbJN

Better late than never seeing this post. Thank you so much @schiff.senate.gov!

Sen. Adam Schiff@schiff.senate.gov · 7mo ago

Congratulations to Dr. Helen Fricker of UC San Diego on being selected to lead a satellite mission for NASA! This groundbreaking research will help us better understand and protect our changing planet. California’s scientists continue to push American innovation forward.

Children are actually dying from measles again in the US. All because their parents bought into the MAGA/MAHA misinformation that goes against decades of medical science. Preventable deaths, unprevented.

The Trump admin has deleted hundreds of valuable data sets on vital health & education data sets - such as sexual & emotional violence against children - all because they don’t “align with the admin’s priorities". 🧪 Read at: tinyurl.com/nhhz77un

Dr. Anthony Fauci urges Americans not to accept "Normalization of Untruths".

Throughout history, persecuting scientists for saving lives is a frightening marker for the collapse of a society.

The report’s outlook for the future of science also does not mention some key research areas, such as climate change and public health. Neither is research in social sciences included. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

What’s missing from the White House plan for the future of US science

To realize ‘a new golden age for science’, the United States needs open borders and must properly fund studies in the social sciences, public health and the humanities — not just research in technolog...

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Trump, Vought, and RFK Jr's version of "using AI in science" apnews.com/article/cali...

White House admits it used keywords to kill billions worth of California research grants

Federal agencies that terminated more than a thousand research grants at the University of California last year admitted that they used keywords related to diversity, gender, vaccine hesitancy and COV...

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www.nytimes.com/2026/07/16/u...

White House Faces Stiff Pushback on Subjecting Grants to Political Review (Gift Article)

Academics, city leaders and congressional lawmakers number among the thousands to urge the Trump administration to reconsider a plan to assert more control over grants.

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The OMB pushback against science is only making our community stronger. A total of 500M comments on the docket. Consider the zone flooded and the community more empowered than ever. Never give up.

Read the Comment submitted in opposition to the OBM rule by the ACLU. www.aclu.org/documents/ac...

It is not just science! This will affect you. elizabethginexi.substack.com/p/this-new-o...

This new OMB Rule Is Bigger Than Science. Much Bigger.

This image was generated by Google AI (Gemini)

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Have you submitted your comments on the OMB rule? If that goes forward, it's kind of game over for research in the US. Trust me when I say this is an existential issue. siodata.github.io/sio-omb-event/ Deadline is Monday.

HEAR YE, HEAR YE! We are doing a virtual and accessible event on Monday (the OMB rule deadline day)! @standupforscience.net BE THERE OR BE SQUARE!

Stand Up for Science!@standupforscience.net · 2mo ago

Monday, July 13th is the LAST DAY that you can leave a public comment on Russell Vought's science-destroying OMB Grant Proposal. Join us from 2 - 3PM ET to learn what comes next, hear from experts, and learn how the proposal will affect you. Register at the link in our bio or go here:zurl.co/tH8hn

Imagine a world where political appointees can terminate grants on a whim w/o accountability. It doesn't just affect science, but also food pantries, transit, hospitals, & schools. Dr. Elizabeth Ginexi put together this 2-pg flyer describing how you can fight back: drive.google.com/file/d/1ppq4...

Happy 250th birthday, USA 🇺🇸! In Germany we’re very grateful for the big role of the US in liberating us (my then teenage parents!) from authoritarian rule. I’m deeply concerned that now the US is sliding toward authoritarian rule, including suppressing science. www.carbonbrief.org/prof-ben-san...

Prof Ben Santer: Trump administration is ‘embracing ignorance’ on climate science - Carbon Brief

In an interview with Carbon Brief, Santer says the Trump administration is “engaged in a systematic attempt to dismantle climate science”

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We regret that our event on Extreme Heat: Improving governance and strengthening action around the world has been cancelled due to the red extreme heat warning issued by the UK Met Office. Our apologies to everyone who was planning to attend the event.

"We encourage nurses, educators, researchers, and the general public to join us and submit public comments on Docket OMB-2026-0034 before July 13, 2026, urging federal officials to reject these policies." www.commondreams.org/opinion/poli...

Politics Should Never Decide Who Gets Care | Common Dreams

The Office of Management and Budget’s proposed rule putting political appointees in charge of healthcare-funding decisions threatens the patients we serve.

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WHEN WE FIGHT WE WIN! (Gift link) When we don’t capitulate, when we flood the zone, when we raise our voices together, when we say NO!, we win. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/18/c...

Trump Administration Backs Off Plan to End Ocean Monitoring

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This is precisely what happens when you have an administration who has zero qualified scientists on staff and denies science.

We have not done enough to convey the value to society and return on investment of science. @drshepherd2013.bsky.social has an idea on a way to do this: R&D labels on everything. Not only would this raise science literacy but also would show what went into every day items we all take for granted.

Marshall Shepherd @drshepherd2013.bsky.social · 4mo ago

I posted yesterday about a short-sighted public service announcement airing in Atlanta and DC urban radio saying space exploration was wasteful. It inspired me to write this. Please share and also let me know what you think. www.forbes.com/sites/marsha...

Scientists: Noone is coming to save us. We have to save ourselves. Here is your assignment.

elizabethginexi.bsky.social@elizabethginexi.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Calling all Scientists! Research Administrators! Deans! Fans of Science! No one is coming to save us. Here is your assignment. I have written a step by step, easy to understand "how-to" document to help you comment on the proposed OMB rule. elizabethginexi.substack.com/p/what-we-ne...

MARK YOU CALENDAR for our EMERGENCY SCIENCE MEETING June 2nd at 4pm ET. We will be giving an overview of the rule and assigning EVERY SCIENTIST IN AMERICA their marching orders. Register at the link in our bio, or go here: zurl.co/YVcXc #Science #StandUpForScience #OMB #SaveScience #Research

🚨UPDATE: We will launch our action center on this issue tomorrow. 📣JOIN US: Emergency Science Meeting (Virtual) June 2nd at 4pm et. Details to come. Our Policy Team has read through the entire 400 page hot mess express from Russ Vought...here are the high level details. A Thread🧵 1/x

Stand Up for Science!@standupforscience.net · 4mo ago

BREAKING: New proposed OMB regulation, applying to all federal grants, requiring grant reviews by senior political appointees and re-emphasizes that "peer review remains advisory and does not replace agency discretion". #standupforscience public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2026-10817.pdf

Important read for US scientists and others who care

elizabethginexi.bsky.social@elizabethginexi.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Summary of Key Changes in OMB’s Proposed Federal Financial Assistance Rule. Russell Vought is going destroy American Science. elizabethginexi.substack.com/p/summary-of...

New, from me: He turned the part of Lincoln into the party of Trump, and has broadly succeeded in turning the US federal government into a personalist regime. Here are seven signs that personalism has come to define the second Trump administration. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/scenes-fro...

Scenes from a personalist regime

Seven signs that Trump has embedded personalist leadership in American government

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NASA has just released a call for Proposals for filmmakers, documentarians, songwriters, storytellers, poets, and others to submit proposals to partner with the agency by Tuesday, June 30. www.nasa.gov/news-release...

Call for Creatives: NASA Seeks Help Illuminating Mission Storytelling - NASA

As NASA pushes the boundaries of exploration and innovation for the benefit of humanity, the agency is looking for partners to share mission stories covering

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Less than 800 NSF grants awarded over the first half of the fiscal year for the entire country. Previous years were already over 2-3k awards by now. It is not particularly overdramatic to say we are seeing the death of federally funded science research in the United States.

Brandon Bishop@brandontbishop.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Welcome to the last half of the US federal fiscal year. Here is where we're at with National Science Foundation--the agency that funds basically everything other than biomedical research at American universities--grant numbers. grant-witness.us/funding_curv...