This will end your night on a good note.

Gratitude. 🚀 🌕

Y'all there is a woman and a black man circling the moon and NASA's mission control+ science teams are so diverse and people are nerding out about science and exploration this is all a gigantic middle finger to the stupid and hate and grotesque ghouls running our country

The MAGA project is in a very real sense about undoing the 14th Amendment.

newrepublic.com/article/2084...

YES

The radical terrorist group Sault Ste. Marie Unionists are a constant threat

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What do you say to those who claim you’re not American? I understand it’s confusing to encounter an American who can speak two different languages.

The Onion’s Exclusive Interview With Bad Bunny theonion.com/the-onions-exclusive-int...

U.S. government has lost more than 10,000 STEM Ph.D.s since Trump took office A Science analysis reveals how many were fired, retired, or quit across 14 agencies

It's going to take DECADES to rebuild the federal government after what Trump and Musk and Vought and the rest of them did.

www.science.org/content/arti...

The way there was a difference between teachers who taught pre and post-COVID lockdown, there will be a difference between who taught through Trump 2.0 and who did not.

I’ve been trying not to argue with people but you should see the things they say

The current situation of NIH science is a tragedy. So much was lost in 2025. Many of us are struggling to keep afloat. I only hope that in 2026 more people wake up to the fact that USA science has been deeply damaged. We are resilient, but we are in grave danger of losing ourselves./end

It’s a loss for our field. #Bioethics

No one in the United States should go hungry. I don't care if they are working or not. If a person is hungry, you give them food, full stop

Oh dang. This is an excellent analogy.

What if NIH had been 40% smaller? Replaying history with less NIH funding shows widespread impacts on drug-linked research

This may be the most important paper ever published about NIH funded research.

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

so many dead canaries and we just keep on mining

Comic. [Building with large sign in front of it[ SIGN: Welcome to the *Biology Department* It has been [changeable sign: 3] days since we discovered something existentially horrifying about bugs that makes you question your whole reality

Biology Department

xkcd.com/3140/

Good heads up especially for media: do not take a bunch if correlations by motivated actors seriously. If they don’t preregister their hypotheses and data, chances are the results are spurious and cherry picked

Paris said au revoir to cars. Air pollution maps reveal a dramatic change. Air pollution fell substantially as the city restricted car traffic and made way for parks and bike lanes.

“Over the past 20 years, Paris has undergone a major physical transformation, trading automotive arteries for bike lanes, adding green spaces and eliminating 50,000 parking spaces.

Part of the payoff has been invisible — in the air itself.”

Leadership, strategy, real action, common sense. #Paris

The COVID-19 pandemic undermined the right in several key ways:

1) It showed us which workers are essential and empowered them.

2) It showed that the markets can’t solve everything.

2) It threatened GOP political prospects in a critical election.

4) Government relief proved popular and effective

Monarez is playing her weak hand perfectly, and should be a model for institutional resistance for the next four years:
1. Make them fire you
2. Don’t go along to get along
3. Don’t apologize, have confidence in your own integrity and the importance of your role
4. Always escalate the conflict

Last day before the start of the new academic year.

Send help, I forgot to take time off this summer.

Ketanji Brown Jackson Stops Just Short of Saying the Supreme Court Is Breathtakingly Full of Shit “Calvinball has only one rule: There are no fixed rules. We seem to have two: that one, and this Administration always wins.”

Justice Jackson is basically reporting live from inside a garbage fire

www.ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/nih-c...

3. To get through the AI revolution intact (not to mention other crises such as the GOP's all-out war on science, knowledge, and expertise) we need to be able to view science from outside and reflect on how it is changing and how we might wish to engineer rather than passively accept those changes.

love sitting through an hour worth of unskippable overproduced skit videos to answer a 5 question cybersecurity quiz that's like "true or false: cyber should always be secure"

5. It has been centuries since any one human could know everything that is known; understand everything that is understood.

This is a remarkable power of science. We delegate trust and authority to experts as internally established in ways that are remarkably resilient to mistakes and malfeasance.

They recovered over 180 bullet shells at the CDC. Debris from shattered glass is still being cleaned up. I am completely stunned at how quickly the news cycle has moved on. This was an act of terrorism targeting public health experts, and the response seems to be a collective shrug.

In goose meme form.

The Cells That Breathe Two Ways | Quanta Magazine In a hot spring at Yellowstone National Park, a microbe does something that life shouldn’t be able to do: It breathes oxygen and sulfur at the same time.

Bacteria from a Yellowstone hot spring do something no other organism has been found to do: breathe oxygen and sulfur at the same time. 🧪 It's both aerobic and anaerobic, a beautiful freaky creature from a beautiful freaky place