Thanks, Senator Markey!

Senator Ed Markey@markey.senate.gov · 4w ago

OMB’s proposed rule is the latest attempt by the Trump administration to weaponize federal funding for their own partisan and destructive goals. It is illegal and would irreparably harm recipients of federal funding and the people they serve. We must ensure it is scrapped entirely.

We should never take these people seriously when they talk about "free speech on campus," ever again.

NPR@npr.org · 4w ago

The Trump administration's executive orders have meant that administrators are questioning what art can — and can't — be seen on campus.

Antisemitism is structurally necessary to Elon Musk’s politics, because he is desperate to brand himself an insurgent against the powerful elite, but as the world’s first trillionaire, he needs a definition of “elite” not rooted in wealth or corporate ownership.

Joel S.@joelhs.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Elon Musk is apparently going with "the Lancet study that proved I am responsible for the deaths of millions of children was concocted by the evil Jewish puppet master." Because Elon Musk is ideologically a neo-Nazi.

This amount would fund the US National Science Foundation for a decade. 🧪

Pentagon seeks $80 billion from Congress for Iran war

The Pentagon has told lawmakers it needs roughly $80 billion, mostly to cover the cost of the war in Iran.

apnews.com

Scientists in Atlanta were stopped from criticizing the Trump admin at a scientific conference, so let me do it here: Trump is destroying biomedical research in America, and it will take decades to get back on track.  Spread the word. Stand up for science.

I’m sure FIRE is concerned about this kind of academic cancel culture?

The Hechinger Report@hechingerreport.org · 2mo ago

Researchers fear political screening after abrupt cancellations

I was struck when I corrected data for inflation and population growth. In no way is Trump policy a correction of some overreach. The Biden years were middling for science funding in the 21st century. This is retrenchment to a time before most Americans were born. grant-witness.us/posts/2026-0... 🧪

NSF's grantmaking is miserly when compared to recent years, but when compared it to the historical record, we see it's a radical break from the long-term consensus of investing in scientific innovation. grant-witness.us/posts/2026-0... #NSF 🧪

The NSF is on Track for its Worst Year in Generations – Grant Witness

Throttling of science funding is utterly unprecedented and radical when compared to the past 50 years.

grant-witness.us

When we fight, sometimes we win!

Jenna don't doxx me bro@zinelib.bsky.social · 2mo ago

My NEH grant was reinstated. Thank you to everyone who pushed back against the Trump administration to make that happen. When we fight, we win! zines.barnard.edu/news/neh-cha... When college presidents cave, we lose!

Nearly 5000 clinical trials, including more than 1000 cancer treatment tests, face termination under proposed federal regulations, a new analysis by the science advocacy group Stand Up for Science has found www.scientificamerican.com/article/prop...

Proposed White House regulations could kill 5,000 clinical trials, analysis finds

The Trump administration is mulling new rules that would give political appointees final say on research grants

scientificamerican.com

The people elected to office this November will make decisions that shape the future of healthcare & cancer research. Whether you’ve voted in every election for years or this is your first time heading to the polls, now is the time to check your voter registration status! Check now ⬇️ #CancerVotes

Are you registered to vote?

Check your voter registration status to find out.

fightcancer.org

$765 million of your tax dollars being paid to *not* develop wind power.

Trump Pays $765 Million to Kill 4 More Offshore Wind Leases

The deal with developer Invenergy includes a commitment to build geothermal generation in addition to natural gas.

heatmap.news

Biomedical progress brought to you by NIH funding and mRNA technologies.

The Cancer Letter@cancerletter.com · 2mo ago

The story of daraxonrasib is a reminder that these basic research functions of the federal government are essential to our growing ability to treat cancers. https://cancerletter.com/clinical/20260605_1/

New @nberpubs: "Before the Exodus? Young Scientists and the Future of US Science" www.nber.org/papers/w3533... "The fraction likely to stay in the United States fell by 21 percentage points" 😔

Sigh. A reminder that age-related social media bans require recording people’s age which means adding a layer of surveillance that makes vulnerable communities unsafe and creates a chilling effect on freedom of speech and particularly political speech.

NY Knicks fans expressing Textile joy!!! @shastingssimon.bsky.social

New Yorkers singing Empire State of Mind

Listened to an NPR story this morning about mass child starvation in Senegal without a single mention of Elon Musk, the guy who gleefully created the conditions for the mass starvation

Mainstream media is 24/7 saturation of poor people committing petty crimes. Shoplifting out of control! Venezuelan thugs are stealing your apartment! Meanwhile billionaires are genocidal serial killers and treated like the pillars of our society

Denny Carter@dennycarter.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Listened to an NPR story this morning about mass child starvation in Senegal without a single mention of Elon Musk, the guy who gleefully created the conditions for the mass starvation

When we fight, we win sometimes!

John Hanger@jrfhanger.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Hooray! Trump’s DOJ is giving up on defending the president’s wind permitting moratorium. DOJ filed a motion to dismiss its appeal of a federal court’s December decision vacating the order to halt wind energy approvals. 16 Blue states sued & won! heatmap.news/sparks/trump... #energysky

A trillionaire isn’t a success story. it’s a policy failure.

When the world's first trillionaire is an actual ideological neo-Nazi who is personally responsible for 750,000 unnecessary deaths, it's hard to blame young people for concluding that capitalism simply does not work.

Pop Base@popbase.tv · 2mo ago

Elon Musk has become the world’s first trillionaire as SpaceX becomes a publicly traded company. Shares opened at $150, setting valuation at $1.96 trillion.

Looks like CA policymakers have read about the mid transition by @shastingssimon.bsky.social and @gruberte.bsky.social !!!

Justin Gerdes@justingerdes.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Read about the @calenergy.bsky.social program @buildingdecarb.org's @panamaredhat.bsky.social calls "the biggest building decarbonization program in the universe." www.quittingcarbonmedia.com/california-i... via @quittingcarbon.bsky.social 🔌💡

The land of habermas didn’t come to play? 🥸

Nick Fleisher@nickfleisher.bsky.social · 2mo ago

As a linguist working on semantics/pragmatics, this is super interesting. AI summaries are something akin to utterances, and a speaker bears responsibility for their utterances

Remember, AcademicSky: Always run your federal grant proposals through the chabots with the prompt, "Would any American oligarch object to this project?" While any chatbot says yes, self-censor any of your ideas any chatbot flagged as potentially objectionable. Finish this loop before submitting!

Also RFK Jr is a straight-up eugenicist so he doesn’t really see a point in people with cancer surviving and enjoying their lives. For him, it’s just culling the weak out of the herd.

Alex Wenzel@alexwenzel.bsky.social · 2mo ago

They were ok with the NIH functioning as an R&D subsidy when no one really noticed. What they can't accept is the high-visibility of the mRNA platform and its history. It's a very public contradiction of their individualistic worldview. They'd rather millions die than allow it to succeed. (2/2)

I have cancer. mRNA technology is already being used to develop some of the next cancer cures. He’s condemning some current and many, many, many future cancer patients to early, preventable deaths.

The UnPopulist@theunpopulist.net · 4mo ago

Kennedy canceled $500 million in mRNA research and announced no new mRNA projects will ever be initiated—killing the technology that produced the fastest vaccine rollout in human history.

🧵 Public science in the US has taken some heavy hits over the last year, but the White House OMB is proposing a series of changes that will result in a TKO for science as we know it unless we fight back. Here's what's happening, and why it matters. 1/n

Universities, allocating millions for Civil Discourse Incubators and edgelord faculty lines: "Surely this will save us!" Vought: *asserts veto power over all scientific research*

Mark Copelovitch@mcopelov.bsky.social · 2mo ago

What's really astonishing is not the far right authoritarian party doing this, but the near-total lack of <loud public collective action> by university chancellors & presidents to oppose this existential crisis. Almost impossible to overstate how total a failure of leadership this is.

What's really astonishing is not the far right authoritarian party doing this, but the near-total lack of <loud public collective action> by university chancellors & presidents to oppose this existential crisis. Almost impossible to overstate how total a failure of leadership this is.

Katie Mack@astrokatie.com · 2mo ago

It’s truly astonishing to see how comprehensively the US government is tearing down every part of the system that has made it up until now a world-leading power in science, research, and technological development. The entire world will suffer from this wanton destruction.