"Decisions can be reversed, but rebuilding will require knowing what was lost, what survived, and what has been restored. Behind those records are studies that might have improved a treatment, data that could have warned of an outbreak, and programs patients counted on for care." A beautiful […]

We at @grantwitness.org have just released the Lost Funds tracking tool documenting $177B in terminated U.S. grantmaking for research, disaster aid, health, and more: https://apnews.com/article/trump-administration-federal-grants-cuts-edbdf9f49b1235bf38834417ef8dc130. Data pipelines built with […]

we at @grantwitness.org have a 🔥 new website cataloging the terminations of thousands upon thousands of federal grants. it's hard to overstate the effects: destabilizing American scientific research, health care, the economy, not to mention countless promising careers in #science […]

AHRQ awards are being mass terminated. If you've received a termination notice for an AHRQ grant, please let us (Grant Witness) know! https://grant-witness.us/submit-nih-ahrq.html #AHRQ #HHS #Research #HealthResearch #Science

"[t]his spending pattern reveals an agency not investing in the future. Rather, it appears that NSF is spending to meet its legal obligations while actually clearing the decks with a plan to be a much smaller, different agency." https://grant-witness.us/posts/2026-06-30-nsf-tale-of-two-charts/ […]

"You do not need to be an expert or a lawyer to submit a comment. You just need to describe, in your own words, what is at stake for you and your community if federal grants can be canceled for no stated reason by the White House." Ever driven on a highway or bridge? Ever visited a museum or […]

come down to the #nyc public interest tech pop up at the oculus today at 3 PM where i will demo our #python tool to help pennsylvanians petition to restore their #voting rights after convictions: https://nycpitpopup.org/find-us/

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Finding Your Way to the NYC PIT Pop Up at The Oculus The NYC PIT Pop Up is located at the Oculus World Trade Center in Downtown Manhattan, right in […]

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i never really liked jupyter's default dark theme, so i decided to drop my own: pip install jupyterlab_theme_melon https://github.com/ursulams/jupyterlab_theme_melon/blob/main/README.md #python #rstats

not the freshest, but answers nonetheless. #adventofcode day 5 solution in base #rstats: https://gist.github.com/ursulams/22608ddfb5acb8c4ff6614b3aa945585

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sorry elves, gotta roll your own tonight. 🚬 my one-star #adventofcode day 4 solution in base #rstats: https://gist.github.com/ursulams/effa28b21cdafc3e36328a901d165d03

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time to revisit recursion. #adventofcode day 3 in base #rstats: https://gist.github.com/ursulams/744cc54e18d764b675151c27edf7366e

brevity, thy name is functional. #adventofcode day 2 in base #rstats: https://gist.github.com/ursulams/a02911b0472711ecab76ebb581478c56

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another year of #adventofcode, another year of me struggling with #rstats functionals only to employ pythonic loops in the end. day 1: https://gist.github.com/ursulams/a4b6032f13b4f4da0ad40cb53e100212

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Data Science for Social Good #NYC is hosting its second hackathon along with @BetaNYC In service of Families for Safe Streets, we're calling all civic techies to join us on December 6 in FiDi to prototype a system that reads and manages alerts about super […] [Original post on fosstodon.org]

big tech fuels the trump ai action plan. say no to buying more of their products and enshittification of their current ones by repairing rather than replacing. start by swapping your soon-to-be obsolete windows 10 OS for a fresh #LinuxMint distro today at backmarket soho #nyc. we'll back up your […]

are you in #nyc and running a windows 10 machine? come visit us at Backmarket SoHo today and we'll install a fresh copy of @linuxmint or Chrome OS Flex on it for free! #internatioanlrepairday

I recently co-founded Data Science for Social Good NYC and we're calling all civic technologists to our first hackathon! We're building an MVP chatbot to guide vulnerable communities in #NYC in their food purchase and meal planning decisions.

happy primary #election day from #nyc where ~10% of voters registering this year aren't joining the democratic party and ~6% aren't joining any party at all. #ggplot2

as #NASA prioritizes scrubbing mentions of women in leadership, let us remember their leaders also had once thought women needed to take 100 tampons with them for a one-week space flight: https://www.poynter.org/tfcn/2021/did-nasa-send-a-woman-to-space-with-100-tampons/

TFCN Fact-check: Did NASA send a woman to space with 100 tampons? - Poynter

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you let that genie out of the bottle three months ago, america. can't put it back no matter how curious about #tariffs you become now. #dumbesttradewarever

day 7 #adventofcode solution in #rstats. a̶ d̶a̶y̶ 14 days late and a d̶o̶l̶l̶a̶r̶ star short: https://gist.github.com/ursulams/ca7340b5b39345f9db381eb5ebf65575

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