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submitted 2 days ago • 92 comments

With or without Elon, the march of terminations continues at #NSF and #NIH, with 31 new terminations in the past week, plus dozens more from earlier weeks that we've surfaced. - NSF: 1,669 grants worth $1.5B - NIH: 2,182 grants, worth $9.7B, $4.9B, 79 restored/in limbo

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

I urge everyone to read Unbreaking’s new page on everything the govt is doing to destroy & diminish medical research funding. It’s the best thing I’ve read on this topic: @lizneeley.bsky.social & co have such done an incredible job. unbreaking.org/issues/medic...

submitted 3 days ago • 22 comments

Knowledge can be a public good, collected by government to benefit all. Trump and Musk have decimated it.

submitted 4 days ago • 3 comments

It isn't the content that's the problem. It's the way that center and left discourse is stuck behind paywalls while rightwing discourse is pushed out free, bankrolled by billionaires, and distributed like wildfire across social networks. We aren't failing at ideas, we're failing at spreading them.

submitted 5 days ago • 25 comments

Trump’s new ‘gold standard’ rule will destroy American science as we know it" by Colette Delawalla (@cdelawalla.bsky.social), Victor Ambros, Carl Bergstrom, Carol Greider, Michael Mann and Brian Nosek for @theguardian.com: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

submitted 5 days ago • 13 comments

Aside from the fact that anyone can get seriously ill from COVID, a key point they are deliberately hiding when removing access is that COVID vaccines reduce transmission. People choose to get vaccinated to protect other people. It is wrong and harmful to take that choice away.

submitted 7 days ago • 35 comments

Good thread here. The administration is not acting in good faith. This is another attack to devastate American science.

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

This comment period ends today, 5/23, at 11:59 pm ET. Please do comment asap if you believe the government should allow us to get COVID vaccinations. I can't believe we even have to petition them about this, but here we are.

submitted 11 days ago • 38 comments

“If they succeed in these cuts, the result will be slower economic growth, less innovation and new tech startups, and even more diminished competitiveness vis-à-vis China.” www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

submitted 12 days ago • 2 comments

Who's calling the shots at NIH? Sworn testimonies and internal e-mails reveal for the first time the breadth of DOGE's control over the world's largest public biomedical funder. DOGE has provided lists of hundreds of grants to cut, and DOGE is now reviewing ALL NIH awards before they're released

submitted 12 days ago • 14 comments

The story of how much cancer research is being intentionally dismantled is hugely undercovered. Thi matters to so many people but we are failing to tell the story clearly. So great to see this.

submitted 14 days ago • 3 comments

The Trump administration wants us to be sicker.

submitted 14 days ago • 1 comment

people need to internalize, very quickly, that federal research grants are a hypercompetitive contracting process not charity, and that what Uncle Sam gets in return for that money is American dominance in the future

submitted 16 days ago • 164 comments

Read the whole thing. You won’t be surprised, but you should be outraged.

submitted 21 days ago • 39 comments

Here’s the revised version eliminating font case differences

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

It’s weird to live in a time when basic principles like cruelty is wrong, cheating is empty & the idea that curiosity, generosity, originality, the satisfaction of earned accomplishments & loving intimacy are the center of a good life feel like countercultural concepts

submitted 27 days ago • 119 comments

They are dismantling our entire research apparatus, piece by piece. Make sure everybody knows what they are doing. Call your reps whatever color your district is and demand more action.

submitted 25 days ago • 2 comments

Seeking links to non-paywalled news stories or blogs that you recommend to share with our non science friends to explain what’s happening with NIH #academicsky

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

Has anyone done a word cloud on the cancelled NIH grants? #academicsky

submitted 26 days ago • 1 comment

If you see this, post the most recent photo of yourself from your camera roll. No cheating!

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

If you're a grad student or an undergrad interested in research I need to you listen to me very carefully. You cannot learn to write good research papers if you do not read good research papers. Stop asking LLMs to summarize papers for you.

submitted 30 days ago • 24 comments

So these frequent protest marches on subjects du jour: what effects are they having aside from making participants feel better? How are they creating change? The media and the politicians ignore them.

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

The Trump economic plan is to discourage the non-rich from attending college, take away social supports of all kinds, and tell people they’ll be in paradise when they get a (non-union) factory job. paulwaldman.substack.com/p/precarity-...

submitted 33 days ago • 1 comment

I just published the most personal thing I’ve ever written. The High Cost of Saying No: Why I Can’t Stop Talking About Housing. It’s about Atlanta and San Francisco, growth, and grief. And the decisions that shaped my marriage, my loss, and everything after www.dataandpolitics.net/the-high-cos...

submitted 34 days ago • 56 comments