Starting in Spring or Summer 2027 K99/R00 (under its new activity code KT1/R00) will only be available to US citizens, permanent residents, and non-citizen nationals. I am hearing this from many program officers, but NIH has yet to make an official statement to my knowledge.

He serves in the branch that the Constitution specifically charges with the duty of removing the President for criming.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterday

Cornyn: "There's nothing we could do to rein in the president"

3. The “devastating takedowns of scientists for the crime of contradicting government scientists…”, you say? Did he miss what Republicans are doing to Dr. Fauci and many others? 4. Thanks to the person who texted this to me to get me going this morning.

Let’s unpack this post by NIH and CDC Director and self-made victim Jay Bhattacharya. 1. This was not misreporting. This is what RFK Jr. said in his interview. 2. Free speech was not “suspended”. If it had been no one would know who Bhattacharya is.

This may dramatically slow down the attacks on science. It also provides a template for how to prevent the federal government from becoming a patronage state. It’s a big deal!

Politico@politico.com · 3d ago

Senate finalizes funding patch that would block Trump’s grant overhaul

Happy birthday to Jay Bhattacharya claiming Florida was protected right before Delta ripped through

*Graphic novel of the week! 'Queers at the Table', edited by @aketchum22.bsky.social and Megan J. Elias, brings together dozens of artists and writers to explore how food and queer culture are intertwined through comics, essays, and recipes 🍽 @arsenalpulp.bsky.social @mcgill.ca

Tech-bro enclave collapses; the sun sets on free-flow protein: Srinivasan’s ideology was a draw for Pranit Garg, a 29-year-old digital nomad who moved here in March, but his favorite part was the gym and all-you-can-eat protein. “Come for the vision,” he said. “Stay because you’re getting jacked.”

Jeff (Gutenberg Parenthesis) Jarvis@jeffjarvis.bsky.social · 4d ago

"Participants complained about moldy rooms, dead nightlife and not enough women—a downside familiar to Silicon Valley." Heh. Gift link. Ballaji Srinivasan Wanted to Start a New Country. An Actual Country Got in the Way. www.wsj.com/tech/a-tech-...

OUT TODAY, the AAUP just released the first comprehensive account of how the Trump administration has taken the same playbook it's used on law firms & foreign governments & turned it on American universities. US higher ed has, in effect, become a target of a massive extortion racket. 🧵

New Report on Extorted Compliance Charges “Massive Extortion Racket” Against Higher Ed

A new AAUP report, "Extorted Compliance: A Threat to Institutional Autonomy, Academic Freedom, and Shared Governance," exposes how the Trump administration has extended its pay-to-play approach to gov...

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for a very long time the republican party has been moving towards people who actually believe the slop they consume instead of people who view it as a tool, but the slop has been moving as well the fox news grandpas are now being outflanked by the groypers in the fever swamps

Adam Serwer@adamserwer.bsky.social · 4d ago

Not only did they absolutely beg for this, they made it so that “merit” was synonymous with being white so now you’re stuck with precisely the kind of moron who believes that. www.politico.com/news/magazin...

Scam artists? In the private investment world? A bleak future indeed.

Futurism@futurism.com · 4d ago

Careful who you trust your billions of dollars with.

it really bears repeating over and over and over that the child who allegedly had her collarbone broken by her congressman dad is the granddaughter of SENATOR bernie moreno who has refused to stand up for her, or for his daughter who was allegedly abused, too. what a sick fuck.

a republican congressman allegedly broke his two-year-old daughter's collarbone and he somehow hasn't been run out of congress. there really is no bridge too far for these ghouls.

‘Platner on steroids’: Max Miller abuse claims have Republicans silently sweating

The Ohio lawmaker denies the allegations as an Aug. 5 deadline to drop off the ballot approaches.

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“Arnold [Fdn] gave money to Nosek… and to Ioannidis to build MRIC. He also funded … science reform projects that popularized the replication ‘crisis’ framing and cast doubt on the trustworthiness of science….” Political economy of thinktanks! I am here for this.. A short 🧵

Jeff Lockhart@jwlockhart.bsky.social · 5d ago

I wrote about science funding, science reform, and anti-science agendas. scatter.wordpress.com/2026/07/31/s...

why are you introducing the idea that this software "has spiraled out of human control" before you've informed your readership these hacks occurred because the companies didn't air gap their automated hacking software or conduct tests in truly secure environments?

I want you to notice how the New York Times does not think it's important to mention that both the OpenAI and Anthropic "AI gone rogue" hack events were completely avoidable and caused by human error

Anthropic Says Its A.I. Systems Broke Into Computers at 3 Organizations (Gift Article)

The disclosure followed OpenAI’s report last week that its own artificial intelligence had hacked into the network of an online library.

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it's an old claim frequently repeated (including by academics) that academics live in an Ivory Tower producing scholarship of interest to no one, ignoring the needs/desires of the public; centrists spice this up by adding "leftist" before "academics" and "scholarship," without saying much that's new

It's a fundamental misunderstanding of MAHA to think that experts can capture and steer it. The core of it is a rejection of expertise in service of pure egotism. These people will kill their own children to maintain the buzz they get from thinking they're smarter than the medical establishment.

The Atlantic@theatlantic.com · 2w ago

A lot of people in public health believe that MAHA is “nothing more than a subversive anti-vaccine, anti-science syndicate,” but the movement is an opportunity that the public-health sector “cannot afford to squander,” Craig Spencer argues:

"Please buy our wine and bourbon again."

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2w ago

Peter Navarro claims that Canadian officials are "some of the most dishonest people I've ever met. They stab you in the back ... they're screwing us"

Just a dog and his luggage in an Austrian train station 😍

News outlets that covered the US-Saudi nuclear deal without mentioning that Jared Kushner, Trump’s top foreign policy advisor, is getting paid by the Saudi government: WSJ NYT AP Reuters CNN NBC ABC CBS The Guardian Semafor Washington Post Fox News New York Post BBC Newsweek MS NOW

A nuclear deal for the Saudis. A media blackout for Kushner’s corruption.

On Wednesday, the Trump administration signed a 30-year nuclear agreement with Saudi Arabia that paves the way for the kingdom to enrich its own uranium.

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Especially when the "reproducibility crisis" has been disproven - scientists falling for this disingenuous criticism repeatedly and it being used to defend science is exhausting to have to point out every time

I've been lightly tracking the Vannevar cosplay once I realized their "the 30s to 50s were the best!" mantra was colliding with their pretend love of objectivity and positivism

Carl T. Bergstrom@carlbergstrom.com · 2w ago

4. His role as Trump's science advisor and head of OSTP aside, Kratsios has no scientific experience whatsoever. His degree is a BA in politics, and his main credentials are as a Thiel apparatchik. So when he compares himself to Vannevar Bush… Kratsios is not a Vannevar. He isn't even a George W.

I can’t take people falling over themselves to be even-handed when the people releasing these reports are mustache-twirling cartoon supervillains

once again I am asking for a democratic party that actually does what republicans claim they will do

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2w ago

Trump: "The Democrats are gonna terminate the filibuster as soon as they have a chance and then they're gonna approve DC and Puerto Rico as states. They get 4 more senators, 12 more congressmen, like 40 electoral votes ... you don't want to see me cry."

it does actually sound like taylor farms and the white house teamed up to try and blame taco bell for the outbreak. unprecedented corruption

Jessica Nix@jessicanix.bsky.social · 2w ago

NEW: As cyclosporiasis cases jumped, the company linked to the outbreak - Taylor Farms - effectively delayed a recall that mounted in consumer confusion. Gift link for @business www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

cons are mystified about popularity of socialism in abstract in US but forgot that they called everything to the left of stormfront 'socialism'

Remember when NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya said there were no banned words and NIH Program Officers were making them up? Here’s the proof he lied: apnews.com/article/cali... I know, Jay Bhattacharya lying is not news. But it’s still really validating to have the admission.

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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Check out this either somewhat significant or highly significant factoid.

American Statistical Association History of Statistics @hos-asa.bsky.social · 2w ago

Few statisticians know that Frank Yates, pioneer of experimental design, is responsible for the annoying practice of indicating 3 tiers of statistical significance by stars (*p ≤ 0.05, **p ≤0.01, ***p ≤ 0.001). He soon regretted it and “vehemently opposed its unthinking use”. And here we are.

NSF physical sciences, geosciences, engineering, social sciences on track for a 33% budget cut, never mind Congressional intent.

Dan Garisto@dangaristo.bsky.social · 2w ago

And here's the spending breakdown across directorates, relative to the average from FY21–25 at this point in the year: NSF avg. - 74% BIO - 79% CISE - 110% ENG - 65% GEO - 65% MPS - 67% EDU - 26% SBE - 69% TIP - 105% O/D - 131%