We worked closely with @murray.senate.gov and team on this rule. She’s great, she had EXCELLENT staff, and thank you to her and the team.
Senator Patty Murray@murray.senate.gov · 1h agoTrump & Russ Vought proposed a rule to take every federal grant in America hostage. They don't care about making our tax dollars work better—they just want them to work for Trump. Well, Democrats BLOCKED their corrupt rule, and I'll be fighting to kill it permanently.
Insurgent Candidate Victories Highlight Growing Movement Against Corporate & Elite Power: John Nichols
Insurgent Victories Highlight Growing Movement Against Corporate & Elite Power: John Nichols
Voters went to the polls in Kansas, Michigan, Missouri, Virginia and Washington state on Tuesday. We continue to look at the results of those primary elections, with The Nation’s John Nichols calling ...
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Bessent: "Here at the Treasury, I had $168 billion of tariff revenues that we're gonna have to refund. So when the Democrats scream, "Oh, the refunds should go back to the American people!', well, the American people had it, it was in the Treasury and it was paying down the debt."
This is exactly why grassroots bottom up movements are so incredibly important. Because wow if there is one thing you can count on its leaders and major orgs capitulating. The higher ed ecosystem is made weaker by leaders like Ron Daniels. What exactly are we hoping to achieve here?
Gregg Gonsalves@gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 2d agoSo Trump and McMahon now are trying the velvet glove approach to get universities to submit. It’s just a watered down version of the compact they tried to impose last year. No self-respecting university should comply. 1/ www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/u...
I couldn't even include everything in this piece (e.g., I got copies of presidential correspondence from AAU member institutions during the Red Scares from the archives) because my benevolent editor had already let me go way over my word limit. I wish they had learned from their past actions.
Gregg Gonsalves@gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 2d agoOn the day that Barbara Synder, Douglas Girod and Ronald Daniels and the @aau.edu capitulated to the Trump administration, it's worth looking back at history. First. The Red Scare. @aau.edu was there to bend the knee to Senator Joe McCarthy and HUAC. 1/ www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...
The Trump admin is back with version 2.0 of its higher ed compact. The reason is simple: The first one failed. Compact 2.0 lacks egregious elements of its predecessor. That’s a victory & affirms that the answer to authoritarianism is organized resistance—not compliance. www.aaup.org/news/new-com...
New Compact Shows Resistance Works, but Fight for Higher Ed Isn’t Over
The Trump administration is back with a second version of its higher education compact. As with its predecessor, the best path forward is for higher education workers to organize and demand that their...
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On the day that Barbara Synder, Douglas Girod and Ronald Daniels and the @aau.edu capitulated to the Trump administration, it's worth looking back at history. First. The Red Scare. @aau.edu was there to bend the knee to Senator Joe McCarthy and HUAC. 1/ www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...
How Elite Colleges Aided Censorship During the Red Scares
Powerful organizations during the Red Scares crafted a world where “academic freedom” was conditional on political allegiance.
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Time to add another formerly respected institution to the garbage pile, this time @aau.edu, which just worked with the Trump admin to endorse resegregation in high education, embedding MAGA fraudsters as faculty, and banning student expression. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Nature did a short piece on our preprint about how LLMs will affect the practice of science; my more detailed thread is below.
Scientists using LLMs will ‘do more, less well’, modelling study predicts
Research suggests that the combination of incentives to publish and the use of large language models will lead to more papers, but they will be less refined.
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Carl T. Bergstrom@carlbergstrom.com · 2w ago1. We—@eduede.bsky.social, @mjcrockett.bsky.social, Kevin Gross, and I—have a new preprint on the arXiv today, based on ideas that emerged during an @sfiscience.bsky.social workshop in November 2024: The unintended consequences of large language models as a labor-augmenting technology in science.
Here's some good news: harassment and intimidation can backfire: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Republican disenfranchisement bid drives Black voters to polls, study finds
Black voters in south motivated to turn out by Republican push to redraw maps after supreme court ruling
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The U.S. is facing a major outbreak of the foodborne disease cyclosporiasis. @drdebhoury.bsky.social, the former chief medical officer at the CDC, says funding cuts to the public health agency have “left our country hampered in being able to detect and respond to these outbreaks.”
Hey quick question @nasonline.org + NAM are you guys going to say anything to defend the man who you presented the Public Welfare medal to while he is getting smeared by anti-science knuckleheads or nah? Silence isn’t just betrayal at this point its actively contributing to scientific backsliding.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last wk.lmaooooo -- Bernie Moreno asks Fauci to apologize to Laura Ingraham (who is standing behind Fauci) and other right-wing grifters
Dr. Anthony Fauci urges Americans not to accept "Normalization of Untruths".
The persecution of Dr. Anthony Fauci—and it is persecution—is about two things: 1) Donald Trump’s ego: Fauci refused to embrace Trump’s reopening push in 2020 and hydroxychloroquine, which the president blames for his loss (a loss he still can’t accept). 2) The right’s larger war on public health.
The NSF proposal is a tool for Vought to implement his OMB Proposal's restrictive and ideologically driven regulations on university grants. Register for the webinars to learn about the key NSF changes and draft strong public comments: zurl.co/67X9s And, leave your public comment: zurl.co/T8Ogb
A 7-year-old wants to go to school. A 9-year-old begs to leave. A 12-year-old is told to drink the water that's making children sick. These are children imprisoned at Dilley under Donald Trump. I am demanding Trump #ShutDownDilley and free the children.
“NSF has now pulled back $300 million from two of its divisions: mathematics and physical sciences, and computer and information science and engineering. Programme officers…at the NSF, have pulled back 150 proposals that have already passed peer review to free up the money”
Dan Garisto@dangaristo.bsky.social · 2w agoWhite House science policy captured headlines this week, with the announcement of awards for its flagship AI program, Congressional hearings, and a Vannevar Bush-esque report "Science: A New Golden Age." We fashioned the news into one big story—incl. key updates at NSF. Reported w/ Kaia Glickman:
The racist backlash to Chris Nolan’s Odyssey is a kind of stolen valor, an attempt by the right to claim credit for achievements they had nothing to do with in order to justify racial hierarchy in the present. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
The Fear of Black Greeks
White people don’t own the accomplishments of ancient Greece.
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"Scientists — not political appointees — should decide what research gets funded. That’s the only way to ensure that the United States upholds its reputation as the leader of scientific innovation." - Dr. Neena Qasba, UCHC-AAUP @aaup.org @aftct.bsky.social
Scientists, not politicians, should decide what research is funded
By Dr. Neena Qasba
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Just received this from NSF. Water scarcity threatens energy production? Are you fucking kidding me? Energy production threatens water availability. Full stop.
The "suspected fraud" was identified from AI searches on Medicaid payments. The number one target for "fraud" is in-home-services. Tens of Millions of Americans rely on at home care, much of which is provided by family members funded through Medicaid. 🧵 zurl.co/C3eJJ
Cliff notes: When Dr. Manly tries to discuss addressing health equity, he belittles her by saying we don’t have “magic fairy dust” When she asks about renegotiations slowing things down, he says that’s not happening much anymore. 🐂💩
Theresa Kim, PhD, MS@tyk314.net · 2w agoScroll to about 4 hours and 35 minutes. Dr. Manly comes in with a great question. Our director gaslights her and the entire #NIH community. Pass this around. It is public. Don't let this continue. Hold Dr. Bhattacharya accountable.
Next time someone accuses me of “making science partisan” I’m going to throw the physical NYT edition of this article at their head. These people are operating in bad faith…we have a mountain of evidence. (Gift link) www.nytimes.com/2026/07/24/b...
Trump Administration Admits Canceling Grants to States That Did Not Vote for Him (Gift Article)
Federal officials said in court documents that they halted billions of dollars in funding for energy projects to states “based solely” on whether they backed President Trump in the 2024 election.
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It's not about trust in science or higher ed. It's about corruption, cronyism, brute force, hatred by authoritarians (stop calling them populists) for independent thought, knowledge. Derek Lowe from Science Magazine nails it. This is all BS. To say otherwise is to make excuses for these monsters.
Astonishing. RFK Jr. adds 8 members to a 6 member FDA advisory panel. 6 of them were sellers of peptides, and the 7th a compounding pharmacist. In an 8-6 vote with all 8 votes coming from these new panel members, the panel approved 4 peptides against the objections of FDA scientists.
FDA Panel Supports Lifting Restrictions on Four Peptides (Gift Article)
In an all-day hearing, the agency’s scientists argued against allowing broad access to unproven drugs that the agency had banned three years ago.
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DORKS, YOUR MISSION, SHOULD YOU CHOOSE TO ACCEPT IT 🧵 NSF’s implementation of the OMB rulemaking right now stands at 43 comments. This is really bad. This is the agency’s implementation of the OMB rule. @standupforscience.net has updated our action center: fight2win.standupforscience.net
If Congress does not hide elephants in mouse holes, then it did not grant NSF the authority to implement sweeping regulatory control over American institutes of higher education (IHEs) through an information collection. Proud to share the @standupforscience.net org comment on the NSF rule.
Stand Up for Science Foundation Comment Response to National Science Foundation Guidance on Financial Assistance (NSF-2026-OTR-0001) — Stand Up for Science Foundation
The proposed NSF GFA goes far beyond a routine grant administration update, effectively creating a major regulation that expands federal control over colleges and universities without clear authorizat...
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Double dose of products from the @standupforscience.net Foundation policy institute this morning. @irenesufs.bsky.social with her analysis of the contents of the National Science Foundation Guidance to align with OMB rulemaking.
Here is What You Should Know About NSF’s New Guidance on Financial Assistance — Stand Up for Science Foundation
On June 24, 2026, less than one month after the Office of Management and Budget released its proposed revisions to the Uniform Guidance on federal financial assistance—the National Science Foundation ...
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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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