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Share why doing and supporting science is patriotic at the poll below! 🇺🇸

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This 4th of July, we're looking for scientists to share why they're proud to do science in the US. Or maybe you're not a scientist -- but you're proud of the work that US scientists do or you've benefited from US science research. Let us know in the survey below! forms.gle/j8gWMSggKVvJ...

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NEW: Scientists are reeling from the Trump/DOGE-created funding crisis have come to a realization: the public doesn't know what they study or why So several groups have come up with plans to change that, with radically humble approaches www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

1/ R vs Python for bioinformatics? Which one should you learn first? I’ve used both. I started with one. Here’s what I learned the hard way:

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

according to conservatives on the court, the constitution does not protect your right to your own body but does enable the government to ship you off to a foreign gulag without any hope of return

submitted 7 days ago • 253 comments

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

submitted 11 days ago • 558 comments

As grant money starts drying up, it's more important than ever not to waste it on paying publishers' open access "article processing fees" when we can host PDFs for free. Tom Morgan and I wrote a paper on this, forthcoming at Science and Public Policy. Accepted draft here: osf.io/preprints/os...

submitted 52 days ago • 9 comments

A call to stand up and show support for the Bethesda Declaration, the NIH, and for federally funded science in general.

submitted 21 days ago • 4 comments

Furiously logging all the new budget news, laughing grimly that it landed just after we hit publish. Of course it did. Grateful that the entire point of @unbreaking.org is to give us a durable platform where we can keep integrating new developments. We'll digest, contextualize & update next week.

submitted 31 days ago • 3 comments

The US scientific enterprise is about to collapse unless we do something about it.

submitted 30 days ago • 6 comments

How bad will it be? Catastrophic. Proposed cuts to #NSF, #NIH, and #NASA will set the US R&D landscape back 25 yrs+, cause economic and job loss now, and undermine innovations to come. But, this is the WH's proposed budget. Speak up now before it is too late. (inflation adjusted $-s below)

submitted 30 days ago • 77 comments

If the CEO of a soda company declared that soda-making technology is getting so good it’s going to ruin the global economy, you’d be forgiven for thinking that person is either lying or fully detached from reality... www.cnn.com/2025/05/30/b...

submitted 31 days ago • 21 comments

Our op-ed in the Guardian addresses the danger of Trump's "Gold Standard Science" executive order. with @cdelawalla.bsky.social @vambros.bsky.social Carol Greider @michaelemann.bsky.social @briannosek.bsky.social

submitted 32 days ago • 9 comments

Germany is stepping up to create an alternative to PubMed that could be used globally. PubMed is a database that includes all of the critical scientific journal articles that researchers use. They are doing this because of serious concerns that PubMed will be pulled offline by The Regime.

submitted 33 days ago • 35 comments

pleased to report that the grandmother jailbreak still works for chatgpt 😂

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

tl;dr — this EO co-opts the language of open science to implement a system of political control wherein presidential appointees are given broad latitude to designate any number of reasonable scientific activities and inferences as scientific misconduct, and to penalize those involved accordingly.

submitted 37 days ago • 105 comments

Just remember: autocrats purge the universities or otherwise bring them to heel. It’s how it works: Orban, Modi in the modern era and dictators and tyrants going way back. They want a monopoly on telling you how to think. #doubleplusgood

submitted 38 days ago • 8 comments

1. It's Fustilarian Friday and today's drop is the "Restoring Gold Standard Science" executive order. My read is that this is designed to (1) protect far-fringe figures such as the antvaxxers now heading our health agencies, and (2) kneecap efforts to use scientific evidence in regulatory policy.

submitted 37 days ago • 32 comments

SNAP makes money! It keeps people from starving! It has literally no downsides! 85% of the country supports it for that obvious reason!

submitted 39 days ago • 30 comments

Who said complaining never solved anything??

submitted 41 days ago • 0 comments

Oh no, I think I’m going to have to actually learn SQL

submitted 41 days ago • 1 comment

i realize the title is a bit counterintuitive but the answer is that you cannot as an individual guarantee your food is safe. we can, as a collective, push back HARD on dismantling food safety regulations, and put pressure on an unpopular administration to keep our food from killing us.

submitted 61 days ago • 35 comments

Scientists work together with others across all sectors of our communities, including public health. This week, we’re bringing you an article from Alyssa Maturen, who leads a vaccine coalition & discusses how vaccines build strong, healthy communities for everyone. You can read & subscribe below:

submitted 66 days ago • 0 comments

If your perception is that all interactions are transactional and that there is no such thing as sincerity of curiosity, or a desire to discover, then you will never value science. No matter how many economic arguments there are for funding it. Because you don’t understand the fundamental premise.

submitted 68 days ago • 16 comments

It really works though!

submitted 69 days ago • 0 comments

Shout out to the home of my monthly column, @newscientist.com, which nailed their headline about the genetically modified GREY wolves www.newscientist.com/article/2475...

submitted 83 days ago • 50 comments

This week’s Neighborhood Scientist is Dr. Francesca Costabile, who discusses her journey through science, starting with an unconventional birthday celebration in her childhood. In addition, thank you to local artist Holy Diode for illustrating Francesca's immunological symphony! 🧪 👩‍🔬 Read below:

submitted 87 days ago • 0 comments

If you or someone you know has been negatively affected by NIH-funded clinical trials being paused, disrupted, cancelled etc., I have a contact with the Senate HELP Committee eager to collect stories of everyday Americans affected by the NIH closures. Please DM me.

submitted 87 days ago • 0 comments

I am going to lose my mind. Every previous coronavirus spilled over from animals. A novel virus has never leaked from a lab. Peak Ted Talk Brain to suggest that something which has never happened is the occam's razor explanation. www.nytimes.com/2024/06/14/b...

submitted 90 days ago • 217 comments

Seems like we’re having a “great new people should run for office” chat again. Awesome! However: I have yet to be convinced that “more scientists in office” is a better outcome for science than “people who are talented politicians who understand and value science and listen to their advisors.”

submitted 89 days ago • 35 comments