Ken Miller
@kenmiller.bsky.social
Theoretical Neuroscientist, Columbia University
New White House plan for science and technology released yesterday www.whitehouse.gov/releases/202... 1/9
OSTP Director Releases Landmark Report and Recommendations for Renewing American Scientific Discovery
WASHINGTON, DC – Today, Assistant to the President and Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) Michael Kratsios
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@hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social You say Mamdani has to patch things up with the Democrats? You think you own the Democrats? The Democrats are the people who vote Democratic and the people they vote for. If your candidates lost, *you* need to patch things up with the candidates Democrats chose.
I just submitted a comment on the proposed new OMB rule, which is very dangerous fo rUS science. I urge you to consider doing the same. You can do so very easily at this web page: fight2win.standupforscience.net/campaign/164... A short comment is fine but write in your own words. More info follows..
Stand up for Science
Stand up for Science
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hmmm ... they quoted me in this article, saying some meaningless enthusiastic stuff (some of which I'm not sure i said?) but they sure dropped the main points i was trying to make, which can be found in this thread: bsky.app/profile/kenm...
The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · last mo.HHMI’s Janelia Research Campus will close two of its programs dedicated to rodent work, @thetransmitter.bsky.social has learned. #neuroskyence By @callimcflurry.bsky.social www.thetransmitter.org/community/ex...
Indeed. NAS President says main changes science needs are design grad programs more with & for industry, run basic research, by robots/AI not grad students, & only problem with OMB proposal to eviscerate/fatally politicize science is increasing PI paperwork. Could there be deeper failure to moment?
Kevin Mitchell@wiringthebrain.bsky.social · 2mo agoJesus, this is all so, SO disappointing and depressing. What is the National Academy even for, if it can't meet this moment?
I followed these instructions to comment on the new proposed (disatrous) OMB rule - super helpful! Please take the time to write a specific, personal comment!!!
elizabethginexi.bsky.social@elizabethginexi.bsky.social · 2mo agoCalling 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...
I miss this guy, even tho I haven't seen much of him since i left UCSF 22 yrs ago. A true original, thinking so outside the box that boxes disappeared, kind and generous, & pioneered much of modern pain and addiction research. www.thetransmitter.org/pain/in-memo...
In memoriam: Howard Fields, pain research pioneer
Over six decades, Fields mapped out the circuits of both pain and addiction.
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Excellent summary of how Vought’s proposed rule will destroy science. Please be ready to comment tomorrow, call Congress, tell your friends. If you’ve been waiting for the right moment to speak up, that moment is now.
elizabethginexi.bsky.social@elizabethginexi.bsky.social · 2mo agoSummary of Key Changes in OMB’s Proposed Federal Financial Assistance Rule. Russell Vought is going destroy American Science. elizabethginexi.substack.com/p/summary-of...
"An email from NIH’s National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) to research-center grantees, seen by Science, requires their institutions to promise that U.S. authors of papers NIH has flagged because of foreign co-authors will not collaborate with them in the future."
Carl T. Bergstrom@carlbergstrom.com · 3mo ago“Units of the NIH are privately directing grantees to request permission in advance for any co-authorship with a scholar affiliated with a foreign institution, even if all the work was done in the United States.” Grantees also told to remove papers with foreign authors from progress reports.
NEW: A serious staffing shortage — of the Trump admin's own making — is delaying the agency's ability to send billions to universities around the country, leaving labs reeling in the meantime. “I thought we were at rock bottom”, a senior NIH official said. “We are below rock bottom now.”
NIH staffing shortage could slash number of new grants issued this year
Some units at the US funding giant are so understaffed, they are focusing on mandated grant renewals rather than new awards.
nature.com
Feeling overwhelmed with all of this. LISTEN. Another Louisiana resident (Marshawn is the only name we have) testifies against the state’s racial gerrymander, speaking truth to power up and down the hearing room and predicts how this story will end. Speak your truth, fight and believe.
If you've ever sought NIH funding, do this now www.bioniclab.org/news/request...
B.I.O.N.I.C. Lab - Request for Information NIH
Subject: NIH Strategic Plan RFI (NOT-OD-26-047), deadline May 16. 5 minutes of your time matters. Colleagues, NIH is developing its Strategic Plan for FY 2027-2031 and has issued an RFI (NOT-OD-26-0...
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"Starving Gaza" "Today, the prolonged food shortage in the Strip barely makes the news — after all, we have already seen worse." "The reality in Gaza undermines the future and security of us all." Lee Mordechai and Liat Kozma [The authors are at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.]
Starvation Story — Witnessing the Gaza War
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Tennessee's already done it, and Alabama, Louisiana, & Florida are racing to do it. Back to the pre-voting-rights-act all-white South in terms of both federal and state legislatures.
Ari Berman@ariberman.bsky.social · 3mo agoBreaking: Tennessee Republicans pass new 9-0 gerrymander after SCOTUS destruction of Voting Rights Act eliminating state’s only majority-Black district & last Democratic seat. Splits Memphis, which is 63% Black, into 3 districts to disenfranchise Black voters. Quite literally a return to Jim Crow
More details on the firing of the National Science Board. The NSF now has no director, deputy director, or board. They have issued almost no new awards in 2026. The plan appears to be to completely destroyed the agency. The details are horrifying and have Russ Vought written all over them.
Board Ouster Raises Further Concerns About NSF’s Future
The White House axed all members of the board overseeing the National Science Foundation Friday, leaving the agency with no board, director or deputy director. It finally provided a reason Monday afte...
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Trump has threatened to destroy Iranian civilization in 3.5 hours. Could be nuclear, or non-nuclear; could be he'll back down. Just an incredibly frightening moment. Dems in House & Senate should be issuing unified statement: this is genocide and military must disobey illegal orders. But they won't.
Academic friends, It's beyond heartbreaking to watch what's unfolding in Iran & the region. A few of us drafted an open letter calling for protection of civilians & of educational, research, medical & cultural institutions. Please read & sign if you agree: sites.google.com/view/protect... #IranWar
Protect Academic Life in Iran
We, the undersigned academics and researchers from around the world, express our profound concern over recent military strikes on Iran, the retaliatory responses, and the reported impact on civilian l...
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Tell Your State To Pass This Model Law to Protect Your Elections From ICE. NOW. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/tell-...
Tell Your State To Pass This Model Law. NOW.
I’ve gotten a number of helpful responses to my post from earlier...
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Opinion: Sinners was by far the best film of the year. But it was a film of black experience & music, straight and direct and without an ounce of bending over to make whites feel more comfortable. One B A Another was a white film, with a powerful black women for 1/3 who was mostly white men's 1/
I just uploaded @jasonparis.bsky.social 's recording of the segment CBS News pulled from "60 Minutes" to YouTube:
WATCH: Segment CBS News Pulled From "60 Minutes"
YouTube video by Phil Lewis
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I've been told Sameer Project is the "gold standard" for sending aid to Palestinians. Of many projects, this one is to keep Gazans warm this winter: shelter, warm clothing, blankets. Now they're in tattered tents w nothing, w/ Israel blocking aid entry despite ceasefire. chuffed.org/project/1491...
RETURN HOME x The Sameer Project
"GIVE WARMTH TO GAZA" this Winter season...
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Ketanji Jackson issues a stay on the order forcing Trump to fully pay SNAP now? WTF? Here's a good explanation: she's making the best of a bad situation, forcing things to move quickly; if she didn't do it, the rest of the court would have, and would have let everything slow walk thereafter.
Alt National Park Service@altnps.bsky.social · 9mo agoWe wanted to share this to help people understand what’s going on. It was shared by Jay Kuo and written by Steve Vladeck a clear, straightforward breakdown of the SNAP situation.
Isn't it amazing that IL was never limiting aid entry, never deliberately inducing hunger/starvation, or denying medical supplies so medical care couldn't function, no drugs, anesthesia/analgesia, proper sterilization; yet when there's a ceasefire Israel can suddenly "allow" 600 trucks/day to enter?
So outrageous. Head of Kamal Adwan Hospital, "detained" by IL since Dec, held w/o charges at ILi torture ctr Sde Tieman, beaten, tortured, held in solitary confinement, starved, lost >40kg (~90 lbs), denied med treatment. They'll eventually claim he's Hamas but if so they'd have charged him.
mosababutoha@mosababutoha.bsky.social · 10mo ago⭕️ BREAKING: CNN reports that Israel will not release Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya as part of the ceasefire deal. “The occupation refused to release Dr Hussam Abu Safiya,” a Hamas official told CNN on Friday. 💔💔💔💔
This is the professor at Rutgers who studies fascism and anti-fascism, got doxxed by some rt-wing group, was getting death threats, and decided to move to Europe.
Mark Bray@mark-bray.bsky.social · 10mo ago“Someone” cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second. We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’
Haaretz wrote Hebrew-only article re IDF soldiers with PTSD from Gaza combat experiences. Various awful testimonies, including this from a sniper who daily served at GHF aid sites, w job to shoot any of the desperate unarmed people who crossed an invisible line. www.haaretz.co.il/news/magazin...
