What the NSF is doing this week is damaging *generations* of scientific researchers and American investments in science. Billions of US tax payer dollars in investment, being thrown away, because of a fucking fishing expedition that is intended to terrorize and set the stage for a real witch hunt.

The only equity ruining everything is private equity

the headline is not “trump blames deadly plane crash on DEI” but “trump seizes on deadly plane crash to attack minorities”

If you are in danger unless you comply with a regime, you are in danger whether you comply or not

Unelected agents of a oligarch have seized core services of the state without legal sanction or authorization; yes, that's a coup

if a major politician held an emergency rally about the current ongoing coup by the richest man in the world, I think people would go to it. Shit is well and truly fucked. I can think of a couple of people who should do that right now.

Your daughter has died serving her country, and now you have to hide her identity because the President and his supporters will predictably scapegoat her for the accident.

People surprised that university admins are ready to throw people under the bus haven’t really been paying attention to how universities work

Now is a good time to change that

Jen Rubin and Andrew Weissmann on the mass firings from the FBI With the news of the mass firing of FBI agents who worked on January 6 and Trump investigations, Jen Rubin and Andrew Weissmann discuss what the upcoming changes in leadership means for the national i...

@weissmann11.bsky.social 's stellar interview on FBI and Kash Patel... if you watch nothing else: open.substack.com/pub/contrari...

National Science Foundation freezes grant review in response to Trump executive orders The National Science Foundation has canceled all grant review panels this week. It's unclear how long the pause could last.

This administration will have disastrous impacts on science and education in the U.S. this is just the start I fear. Please share far and wide. 🧪 www.npr.org/sections/sho...

Research Coordination Networks in Undergraduate Biology Education (RCN-UBE)

NSF's Undergraduate Research Coordination Networks in Undergraduate Biology program has been abruptly archived. The deadline was tomorrow. People were submitting proposals.

This program is designed to support the American scientific workforce. I cannot see the point of this level of self-sabotage.

36 deg F above the average today in Fairbanks. It reached 47 earlier this month and was the warmest on record.

First they came for the immigrants, and I spoke out, because I’ve read the damn poem before and I know how it ends.