A Loophole Allows Ranchers to Renew Grazing Permits With Little Scrutiny of the Environmental Impact With dwindling oversight, cattle are grazing where they’re not supposed to and in greater numbers or for longer periods than permitted. This can spread invasive plants, pushing out native species and ...

Kudos to Melissa Cain for her excellent GIS-argued research storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/45ea... cited in big ProPublica story on abuse of public lands

www.propublica.org/article/graz...

NO KINGS Bloomington · No Kings **In America, we don’t put up with would-be kings.** NO KINGS is a national day of action and mass mobilization in response to increasing authoritarian excesses and corruption from Trump and his allie...

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Here is an open letter signed from UChicago AAUP signed by over 200 faculty to our administration on what we believe this moment requires:
uchicagoaaup.wordpress.com

Not to ignore the extraordinary cost to the economy of upheavals in the face of (response to) these actions.

NIH OD office bomb on F&A rates is a huge failure of trust by the NIH OD office. It means, folks, that the integrity of science is on us, and we can't look to political appointees to federal funding agencies as role models. Sad.

So many conflicting justifications given for NIH supplement guidance NOT-OD-25-068 reduction in F&A: Reduce federal budget. Recovery more funds for research. Stop university repurposing of F&A towards diversity programs. Release the required justification language!

Whenever you hear someone sneer about scientific research that seems useless to them — “they’re studying the spit of lizards?!” — remind them that’s exactly how we got Ozempic.

globalnews.ca/news/9793403...

All roads lead to Birmingham right now. Company town of UAB Medicine.

Research Universities Are Poised to Lose Billions Under Trump’s Sudden Cut The NIH’s decision late Friday to drastically shrink its reimbursement of indirect costs, which help pay for facilities, equipment, and staff to support grants, will have an immediate impact on higher...

“Our competitors are loving watching us do this …at the very time when we’re in a global competition that is determined by technological capability. This is certainly not the time when you want to be cutting down on the research acumen of the United States.”

www.chronicle.com/article/rese...

It makes sense to be anxious. We can navigate the drama at the NIH (and now NSF), but there's no use in pretending there aren't a lot of frightening and maddening unknowns

I tried to write about what we’re going through. Hang in there, everyone. open.substack.com/pub/holdenth...

Using social choice for fine tuning a language model is a great idea. Can the diverse perspectives be represented in all cases of need?

hi. here now. partly as apolitical science communicator 🧪 partly as one who deeply appreciates the creativity humor I find here #science #safeAI #research #humanrights ⛷️ 🫶 🕊️