Hospitals reporting they are overwhelmed with victims. Over 100 strikes in just minutes. Many in Beirut and its southern suburbs.

War planes are still flying overhead

🚨 Congress held NIH and NSF budgets roughly flat. Scientists celebrated.

Here is what actually happened.

NIH awarded 4,641 fewer grants in FY2025 than the 4-year avg. New awards dropped 14%. Over $1.3B never reached investigators.

NSF awards fell 22%.

The money was there.

📉 FY2026 is worse.

NIH has made 10,195 awards so far. NSF has made 613.

Six hundred thirteen.

Congress appropriated the money. The agencies are not spending it.

Grant freezes. NOFO collapse. Staff RIFs. Review cancellations. You can win the budget fight and still lose the funding war.

I was just going to cross out his name but this is a much better idea

Republicans are trying to BAN medication abortion in all 50 states. They want to force women to give birth no matter the circumstances.

Let me be clear: I'll be fighting to kill this bill.

American women deserve full reproductive freedom and nothing less.

Way too many people genuinely think people are doing things to upset them in particular, like they’re the target of this random person’s life, and their behavior was meant to upset them specifically, which informs their reactions to be oh so upset at someone clearly experiencing a crisis.

Justice Department withheld and removed some Epstein files related to Trump An NPR investigation finds the public database of Epstein files is missing dozens of pages related to sexual abuse accusations against President Trump.

An NPR investigation finds the public database of Epstein files is missing dozens of pages related to sexual abuse accusations against President Trump. n.pr/4qTItsU

SHAME on the Wall Street journal for even posing this question.

NO. Trump is a maniacal, pedophilic idiot and the only thing we should be doing is CONDEMNING this horrible monster to PRISON.

Glad to see it’s back. Not glad to see the hyper-focus on AI. Really limits the kind of science that can be done when applicants are pigeonholed into using a developing technology.

Epstein’s economic power among academics was made possible by a capitalist system that makes higher education dependent on the charity economy rather than a public good supported by taxing the rich

A bearded man in nurse's scrubs offers aid to Justice, wearing a blindfold and holding a sword and scales, who has fallen to her knees.

Street art memorializing Alex Pretti in Seattle. Per r/Seattle, it was painted on a building facing Swedish Hospital in the First Hill neighborhood www.reddit.com/r/nursing/co...

science peeps.

NSF building on Eisenhower Av. HUD now owns.

Destroying the NSF mural in the foyer. Of the Eisenhower building.

The National Science Foundation sign on our Eisenhower Av building is now gone.

The NSF mural in the foyer is removed and torn off in sheets.

We were supposed to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the agency in May 2025. That never happened.

this is what's needed (& where everyone needs to be):

✅️ calls the killing "outright murder"

✅️ calls ice a "rouge agency"

✅️ supports its abolition

Dis mean I can has job now? 🥹

Formally prepared to send 2025 straight to hell.

Can confirm. I am okay and more motivated than ever to speak up.

Nothing scares this administration more. Their power lies in our silence.

I can think of a few people to smite

imagining a NSF PO handing a VC bro the stack of 10-to-15 proposals they'll have to be ready to discuss, then explaining that they'll be paid $600 for the three days of the panel meeting

Miami art fair exhibit protests Alligator Alcatraz Protest art — and political demonstrations — are not new to Miami Art Week.

This is a brag from the family group chat. My brother’s art peice protesting the so-called Alligator Alcatraz is showing in Miami.

www.axios.com/local/miami/...

Trump’s DOGE Is Dead and We Won’t Miss It RIP, Department of Government Efficiency.

DOGE was nothing short of a catastrophic failure, taking a wrecking ball to everything from cancer research to lifesaving humanitarian aid that will almost certainly lead to millions of preventable deaths.

The real fraud and waste is happening at the White House.

Research Associate-Fixed Term - East Lansing, Michigan, United States Position Summary The Lowry Lab at Michigan State University is searching for a postdoctoral research associate to conduct molecular and physiological experiments to understand the causes of genetic va...

I am currently searching for a new postdoctoral researcher to study the evolution, genetics, and physiology of cold acclimation and freezing tolerance in switchgrass at Michigan State University. This work will be funded by a newly funded five-year DOE grant. careers.msu.edu/jobs/researc...

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Available now in @asn-amnat.bsky.social ! Taking on some big-scale natural history: processed >40k @inaturalist.bsky.social images of Monarda fistulosa using computer vision to query for flower presence and phenotype flower color: doi.org/10.1086/739413

Proud to share the preprint for some of my postdoctoral work in developing a high-throughput sequencing screen to find apomixis in plants. We sequenced 55 apple genotypes maintained by the USDA and over 1200 of their embryos. 🍎
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