There's a tiny detail in the Atlantic story that reveals how books on pressing news really come together. Reporters don't hold their most important stories for personal gain, the way everyone on Bluesky thinks.
Don't be shy to take on a little two-week side project. These five months will be the most precious three years of your academic journey.
Feels like this paper on protein-templated DNA synthesis by a natural enzyme warrants some comment.
So here's a 🧵. /1
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Idk who did this comic but it's hilarious
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Screen shot of part of an award's event history with sources: 2025-05-26: Award termination date in TAGGS PDF (TAGGS PDF) 2025-05-27: 'TERMINATED' action added (HHS TAGGS) 2025-05-27: End date cut off from 2026-05-31 to 2025-08-31 (USAspending awards) 2025-05-31: Other amendment (USAspending File C) 2025-06-03: Grant marked as terminated (RePORTER website) 2025-06-13: Added to TAGGS PDF of terminations (TAGGS PDF) 2025-06-18: Court-ordered reinstatement (MA v. RFK ) (Court case) 2025-06-18: Court-ordered reinstatement (APHA v. NIH ) (Court case) 2025-06-30: End date extended from 2025-05-31 to 2026-05-31 (USAspending File C) 2025-07-03: Removed from TAGGS PDF of terminations (TAGGS PDF)
We've released a major update to our #NIH tracking at Grant Witness. We now publish a complete, multi-source history of events to track the complex administrative and legal history of each grant.
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🚨“A new state office with the power to investigate whether public universities in TX are violating laws on diversity, curriculum and campus decision-making has no written policies explaining how those investigations work, even after accepting complaints...”
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I think he understands his job extremely well. The job description has changed under Trump & RFK Jr
went down an interesting rabbit hole finding the source for that quote, which is similar to 'when you elect a clown, you get a circus'
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My quote of the day
When a clown moves into a palace, he does not become a king. The palace becomes a circus
Elizabeth Bangs
That's home. That's us.
This image of home just came down from the Artemis II crew.
Taken after their translunar injection burn, there are aurorae at top right and lower left, and zodiacal light at lower right.
Credit: NASA/Reid Wiseman
Very cool! thanks for sharing. Is it possible to get days from submission to first decision (with peer review)? this would focus more on how long each journal takes to review, rather than include time where the authors respond to revisions (which is highly variable and author-dependent)
Where is the data from? Manually scraped from websites? Would love to play around with this
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How will this be enforced?
The form is short. You can submit anonymously. Even one sentence counts.
"I want NIH to fund the best science based on merit, not politics" is a valid comment.
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Congrats Professor M!
This is an incredible documentation of the systematic, intentional collapse of American health science, by Elizabeth Ginexi.
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This is such a great video. Nice reminder that not everything is awful.
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ArXiv is hiring a CEO. This would be a cool gig for someone. Maybe someone awesome who got DOGE’d at one of the govt sciences orgs…
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Following @joshuasweitz.bsky.social post and discussions with him and the Vox story, I have estimated R01 success rates for each NIH institute and center with enough awards for this to be meaningful.
A long 🧵...
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Biology Open. Published by a nonprofit. Peer reviewers get paid ~$300 per manuscript, only if reviews are high quality. Authors get a decision with reviews 7 working days following submission. Broader scope journal than you requested, but you can't beat nonprofit & paying reviewers. $2500 APC
If this is happening at Nature Communications...
you can also imagine a scenario where labs intentionally dump erroneous results into AI, to trick the competition -- either way, research efficiency goes down
this is an extension of what happens now. labs that can afford to attend conferences (where unpublished work is presented/discussed) have a competitive advantage over labs that don't attend. i'm not saying this is a good thing, just an observation.
Guess where this doesn't happen? In a system where reviewers are paid (only if they provide a good review), and editors monitor review quality like hawks journals.biologists.com/bio/pages/fa...
then maybe you name and shame the journal, so that you (and others) have more complete information before deciding to submit there?
the journal could name & shame this reviewer, so that this journal, and others, never use this person to peer review again (assuming that due process shows this reviewer is guilty)
