I am *not* shocked.

Massive budget cuts for US science proposed again by Trump administration Budget proposal would also curb federal payments for scientific publishing.

BREAKING: In response to huge cuts in Trump's budget request, NSF is shuttering its SBE directorate. Staff will be transferred to other parts of the agency and "grants that align with Administration priorities" will be maintained.

That & more w/ @maxkozlov.bsky.social & @edwrdchen.bsky.social

By any means necessary ..

This one sticks

The Draft is Ready. Now We Need You. Share your perspective on the state of nature in the U.S.

The draft Nature Record National Assessment is now open for comment!

Take a look and tell us what we got right, what we missed, and what changes you’re seeing where you live.

Your perspective will help shape the final record of nature in the U.S.

naturerecord.substack.com/p/the-draft-...

Nature Report, Killed by Trump, Is Released Independently

Care about nature? I know you do!

Consider engaging and commenting on The Nature Record via the website's public portal. naturerecord.org

Also - today's related article..
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/05/c...

Biotech investor set to lead US National Science Foundation If confirmed by the US Senate, Jim O'Neill would be the first non-scientist or engineer to lead the agency, a big funder of US basic research.

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

😳😑

“The Nation” Nominates Minneapolis for the Nobel Peace Prize With their resistance to violent authoritarianism, the people of Minneapolis have renewed the spirit of Dr. King’s call for “the positive affirmation of peace.”

The Nation stands up for the nation.
www.thenation.com/article/acti...

Oh my gosh - he is even more lovable to me now, if that is possible.

Nah, the Super Bowl is totally boring. But you did miss an absolutely epic Bad Bunny Bowl!

I stand with Colette.

WTF

Staying silent would be better than this… a lot better.

He also said that he would sue Harvard for $1B because to NYT hurt his feelings with good reporting.

@standupforscience.bsky.social

#studiesingrey

“The Homeland” Is War on America: The Blood-and-Soil Nationalism That Killed Renee Good and Alex Pretti In the killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti, Trump has clarified an inconvenient fact: The culture war is an actual war.

Ta-Nehisi Coates lays bare in brilliant prose the original sin of the Department of Homeland Security. It is right there in its name. www.vanityfair.com/news/story/t...

Is there anyone else who can so unflinchingly write about the very heart of an issue with such stunning honesty, and with prose so beautiful that it will take your breath away? He is just a very unique blessing. (And so are you, thank you.)

This graph makes me want to cry.

Sometimes, you just really have to contemplate the distinction between gatekeeping and peer review...

Beautiful light and shadows, Penny!

Yeats is pure gold, Kent, and this poem is so devastatingly appropriate right now.

I so appreciate your vibe. It's hopeful and helpful when it feels so so bad and when it's hard to know what to do.

Exactly. Not to mention damage to translational science-based policies, or the redistribution of funding away from critical research agendas and towards others.

The NIH has lost its scientific integrity. So we left “We can no longer lend our credibility to an organization that has lost its integrity,” write four scientists and administrators who recently resigned from the NIH.

Powerful piece in STAT this morning from some NIH staff members who have resigned

www.statnews.com/2026/01/10/n...

1/3

Split-screen image on a deep green background. Left side contains a statement from Dr David Obura, IPBES Chair, regarding the US withdrawal from IPBES and extinction threats to over 1 million species. Right side shows a photograph of a man wearing glasses, dressed in a dark jacket and grey shirt, seated at a conference table with a microphone. The IPBES logo appears at the bottom with the tagline "Science and Policy for People and Nature". The design features white typography on the dark green background, creating a professional contrast. Several small pins or badges are visible on the speaker's jacket.

“We cannot withdraw from the fact that over 1 million species of plants and animals face extinction.”

IPBES remains committed to its mandate to provide the most credible science and evidence about biodiversity to all decision makers and actors.

— @davidobura.bsky.social , @ipbes.net Chair

Trump Sinks to New Low by Announcing US Withdrawal from 66 International Organizations, Including UNFCCC and IPCC President Trump announced today that he is removing the United States from the UNFCCC and IPCC, as well as 64 other entities or U.N. organizations. Statements by the Union of Concerned Scientists.

“President Trump’s withdrawal of the United States from the bedrock global treaty to tackle climate change is a new low and yet another a sign that this authoritarian, anti-science administration is determined to sacrifice people’s well-being and destabilize global cooperation."

Read UCS Statement:

Includes withdrawal from IPBES and IPCC..

This morning, Mavis Staples' "It's a Sad and Beautiful World" came up for me and I thought - pretty apropos right now. And that was before the news of today...

Maybe all we have left right now is to document things and tell the truth about what's happening and write heartrending songs, IDK.

This is a little orgasmic, I won’t lie.

You know you really have the right sort of friends, when you receive a gift with a card that reads "CAUTION: Contains mushrooms!"😍

Reassessing Interkingdom Horizontal Gene Transfer Suggests Limited Influence on Plant Genomes Horizontal gene transfer (HGT) has been proposed as an important contributor to plant genome evolution, with hundreds of candidate genes reported across kingdoms. By reanalyzing published cases with ...

But it is also frequently over-estiamted. Thus I would suggest people look at this new paper (not by me) on this topic:

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

"Reassessing Interkingdom Horizontal Gene Transfer Suggests Limited Influence on Plant Genomes"