This is eugenics.

Trump Sues Himself Billions of taxpayer dollars could end up in the pocket of the president

Trump Sues Himself
open.substack.com/pub/steady/p...

Next up: T grants

These support grad student and post doc training programs at certain institutions.

# of new grants issued through April 15 in

FY2024 (the last “normal” year): 70
FY2025: 23
FY2026: 2

My first thought whenever someone mentions Palantir:

Palantir posts mini-manifesto denouncing inclusivity and ‘regressive’ cultures | TechCrunch Palantir's ideological bent has come under more scrutiny as it's worked with ICE and positioned itself as a defender of "the West."

Palantir posts mini-manifesto denouncing inclusivity and ‘regressive’ cultures techcrunch.com/2026/... via TechCrunch

A year ago today, my dream #NSF CAREER climate justice grant was illegally terminated as part of trump’s anti-DEI agenda. Science teachers/students collected temperature data, mapped tree canopy. It’s been the most professionally devastating year of my life, but I’m still fighting. I always will! 💪🏼🫶🏼

‘It’s just madness’: Trump administration to close three-quarters of Forest Service research stations Between funding cuts, facility closures, and the inevitable resignations that will follow, there’s virtually no way for the Forest Service to continue to do research at its current level or quality, w...

“The reason why I love these Forest Service research stations is because they have the capacity to look at change over long timescales, the timescales that it actually takes for plant communities to change...A five-year project is a really long project for me, but that’s nothing for a plant”

Cactus flowers are popping in the Mojave

“NSF Plant Biology Act.”
H.R. 7949
www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c...

This bill would expand NSF funding for plant and microbial biology grants with $150 million authorized each year from FY2026 through 2031.

Reach out to your representatives.

www.house.gov/representati...

Whistleblower Explains How Cambridge Analytica Helped Fuel U.S. 'Insurgency' In 2014, Christopher Wylie resigned from his position as Cambridge Analytica's research director. He later exposed the company's role in the Trump presidential campaign and the Brexit referendum.

This interview still FLOORS me. Then Facebook partnered w/ Cambridge Analytica (under Bannon) to socially engineer the 2016 election by targeting/radicalizing white ppl into what’s now MAGA, it’s chilling AF. We would not be here w/o Meta! Need a deep dive piece that puts all the atrocities together

Her project directly tests what many geneticists + biologists have been observing: LLMs will, with very little promptly, direct users to information about human genetics and evolution that is at best outdated and biased, and at worst actively promotes scientific racism.

We should be learning from other countries...

It shocks me how many businesses still don’t seem to get that Trump’s cultural revolution did not actually happen

Excited to share our new findings in @science.org on how the DRT3 bacterial defense system uses a reverse transcriptase that builds DNA repeats without a nucleic acid template. Microbes never cease to amaze!

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

go home biology, you’re drunk.
reverse transcriptase is now taking sequence instructions from a protein

No I don't want to "quickly hop on a call with you". I want to bump into you at random on a rain-lashed heath, nod at you in silent mutual admiration as we watch a buzzard gliding smoothly over a dramatic chicane in the river, then get the fuck on with my day

Strait of Iran, folks.

"The term “AI” resists definition because it is continually reappropriated by people to mean different things. This, in turn, means that discussions of AI that do not provide working definitions for the purposes at hand risk incoherence. [...]"

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OpenAI: We’re burning money like the Joker. A miracle needs to happen for us to turn a profit

Microsoft: Please please use our AI systems, we’re teetering on the edge here

Anthropic: I wonder what’ll kill us first: lawsuits, regulations or model collapse

Media and universities: AI is here to stay

These are all pretty amazingly obtuse, but my favorite is "avoid stress triggers" and using rush hour as an example.

Because it's 100% an option to avoid and just "go later"! I mean, it's not like there's an applicable reason rush hour even exists.

Perfection.

We are looking for a postdoc to help with a project on eelgrass genomics, in collaboration with the O'Connor and Rieseberg labs at UBC - see ad here tinyurl.com/2yd487p4! Come and join us in beautiful Vancouver 🌊🌾🏔️

These fuckin chuds

Naming your biology LLM after Rosalind Franklin is… hell is not hot enough

Gender affirming care.

not sure any website is going to be able to withstand the internet joy when It Happens but this one is definitely not

Close-up of a large crimson-orange flower that on a very small cactus (in 2” nursery pot).

A large crimson-orange flower extending from the side of a wee cactus in 2” nursery pot.

I love cacti so much 🌵

In the footsteps of Linnaeus: scientists share their passion for species from tiny wasps to hairy plants – in pictures For his project ‘De Oförtrutna’ (The Relentless), photographer Christer Björkman pictured Swedish scientists working in the spirit of Carl Linneaus, the botanist who created the modern taxonomic syste...

well these are cute 🥲
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Siiiiick 🤧

Grotesque: In a dispute over a will, two brothers including a retired Alabama state trooper now working at a federal courthouse, appear to have gotten their mother-in-law arrested by ICE.
Using the state to remove disfavored family members is the sort of thing that happens in totalitarian regimes.

“If we’re offloading to AI at scale for everything & anything, what will it do to our own beliefs about our own selves?… We will have a generation of learners & people who will not know what they’re capable of, & then that will really dilute human innovation & creativity.”🧪
@rachitdubey.bsky.social