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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 5h

Unconstitutionally taking money that the law says must be spent on one purpose & using it for something else—when it's to establish personalist control over the FUCKING MILITARY—is about as dangerous a constitutional crisis/failure as you can imagine

Via: www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

The Office of Management and Budget sent a notification to Congress about their intent to use research and development funds to pay members of the military, two sources with direct knowledge tell NBC News.

A spokesperson for the OMB confirmed to NBC News that it plans to use the research and development funds and that there are two years' worth of funds available within the Department of Defense.

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Colette Delawalla @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 14h

Russ Vought wasn't lying when he said he wanted to inflict "trauma" on our public servants.

This is what he is doing...with RFK Jr.'s permission at HHS. Last night, they destroyed our nation's ability to track and report emerging diseases/potential pandemics, among other things.

This cannot stand.

Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.bsky.social · 3d

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Jennifer C @thejenniwren.teamlh.social · 2d

Here’s an easy way to fight back this #BannedBooksWeek
Join Authors Against Book Bans + Little Free Library to flood communities with banned and challenged books!

Drop one in your local Little Free Library, snap a pic or video, and tag them or me😊

Let’s fill the shelves with freedom.

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Chronicle of Higher Education @chronicle.com · 1d

The Chronicle is documenting official university responses to Trump’s 'compact' as they are made public. Here’s what they’ve said so far.

The White House Sent Its Compact to 9 Universities. Here’s What Their Administrators and Faculty Are Saying.

Presidents have been guarded in their remarks on the Trump administration’s offer. But professors have expressed grave concerns.

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Steve Herman @w7voa.journa.host.ap.brid.gy · 1d

The Tech - MIT’s president has formally rejected the Trump administration's proposed compact. https://thetech.com/2025/10/10/mit-rejects-compact

BREAKING: MIT rejects federal compact | The Tech

On Friday Oct. 10, MIT President Sally Kornbluth formally rejected the Trump administration's proposed compact in an email to the U.S. Education Secretary Linda McMahon.

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Yangyang Cheng @yangyangcheng.bsky.social · 1d

"Generations of Chinese women have been rendered voiceless by the patriarchy. Their stories refuse soft burials."
So honored to have a review essay out in Banned Books Week @chinabooksreview.com on two of Fang Fang's most acclaimed novels, Soft Burial & The Running Flame, tr. @bairuiwen.bsky.social:

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Joshua Weitz @joshuasweitz.bsky.social · 2d

This is quite literally, anti-science.

It is what happens when ideologues fit the data to the narrative and not the other way around. With these leaders in charge, HHS will generate junk discoveries, junk findings, and ultimately, junk cures.

Americans must turn elsewhere for guidance.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

RFK Jr on Tylenol and autism: "It is not proof. We're doing the studies to make the proof."

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Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com · 2d

Recently learned that if you are an AFT member—as, for example, members of the UC Faculty Association are, if we opt in to AAUP membership—you’re eligible for $6/mo professional legal insurance. Useful if, say, you’re in a dispute with your employer. www.aft.org/sites/defaul...

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Joshua Weitz @joshuasweitz.bsky.social · 3d

Documenting what has been lost... and what still could be found with a renewed commitment to science in America.

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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 3d

Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE

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Laura Lopez @ohdearz.bsky.social · 3d

Ohio State astronomy is still waiting to see what happens with the federal funding landscape before deciding whether to proceed. With programs that are still TBD, I recommend waiting right now because *application fees do not get refunded if they decide to cancel after you have already paid*!!

Laura Lopez @ohdearz.bsky.social · 3d

So far the astronomy PhD programs that have cancelled admissions are Washington, Michigan State, and Case Western.

Meg Schwamb @megschwamb.bsky.social · 4d

Sad to see the University of Washington Astronomy Department has suspended graduate admissions for the 2026-2027 Academic Year. astro.washington.edu/graduate-adm...

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Todd Woody @toddwoody.bsky.social · 3d

New: A heat pump that can be installed in minutes is allowing Boston to quickly decarbonize a public housing complex for the elderly and provide air conditioning as climate change-driven heat waves intensify. The window heat pump is made by SF startup Gradient.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Boston Public Housing Upgrades Units With Window Heat Pumps

A pilot project aims to cut heating costs and provide air conditioning while reducing emissions.

www.bloomberg.com

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Anna Nagurney @annanagurney.bsky.social · 3d

Congratulations to the 2025 MacArthur Fellows www.macfound.org/programs/awa...

MacArthur Fellows - MacArthur Foundation

The MacArthur Foundation supports creative people and effective institutions committed to building a more just, verdant, and peaceful world. In addition to selecting the MacArthur Fellows, we work to ...

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Matt Ghoulberg @mattgoldberg.bsky.social · 3d

There's also Kanopy and Hoopla! Libraries rule!

Eric D. Snider @ericdsnider.bsky.social · 3d

You know what's a great, free way to watch movies and listen to audiobooks in our declining empire? Your local public library (if still open)! I quit Audible when I quit Amazon, and I listen to more books now, through Libby, than I did before. Libraries have DVDs, too! Maybe even DVD players!

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Tony Tassell @tonytassell.bsky.social · 9d

One of Jane Goodall's last interviews here www.ft.com/content/9600...

‘You must not give up’: the last testament of Jane Goodall

The conservationist, who died yesterday, led a 65-year fight to raise eco awareness. She gave the Financial Times one of her final interviews

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Chris Gorski @scigorski.bsky.social · 3d

From a 2019 interview with Kitagawa -- "it was common sense that organic materials could not make a stable porous structure. People thought we were doing “useless” research because they did not realize the potential of the seemingly trivial space inside the pores." pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

Interview with Professor Susumu Kitagawa

CONTENT TYPES

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Meg Schwamb @megschwamb.bsky.social · 4d

Sad to see the University of Washington Astronomy Department has suspended graduate admissions for the 2026-2027 Academic Year. astro.washington.edu/graduate-adm...

Graduate Admissions | Department of Astronomy | University of Washington

The Department of Astronomy has suspended graduate admissions for the 2026-2027 Academic Year. General Information for applying to UW Astronomy Graduate Program. Applications must be submitted using ...

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Dr. Gita Gnanadesikan ❌👑 @ggnanadesikan.bsky.social · 4d

I know a lot of wonderful people at Emory who are continuing Jane Goodall's legacy of studying chimpanzees at Gombe.

Here's a little bit about their stories and their ongoing work:

news.emory.edu/features/202...

Emory scientists work to continue Jane Goodall’s legacy

Emory University scholars forged close bonds with the legendary naturalist and humanitarian Jane Goodall over many years, supporting her work to put hope into action in Tanzania and globally.

news.emory.edu

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Dani cRabaiotti 🦀 @danirabaiotti.bsky.social · Feb 10

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Emily Hunt @emily.space · 4d

Today's reading begins with Lise Meitner, who co-discovered nuclear fission (she wrote the paper!) and was in general an INCREDIBLE trailblazing scientist.

Except, as a Jew, she had to flee Nazi Germany to Sweden and lost her professorship in Berlin. The men she worked with got the prize instead 🧪🔭

Lise Meitner - Wikipedia

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Predrag Cvitanović @chaosbook.bsky.social · 5d

Thank you for being so kind. You always are, and we value that.

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Predrag Cvitanović @chaosbook.bsky.social · 5d

Kvetch: Why does Bluesky give me no science (it did not even bring up last night's Nobel Prize in Medicine?). The Twitter, before turning into a cesspool, did that.

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Predrag Cvitanović @chaosbook.bsky.social · 5d

Michael Peskin might have been in the audience. Maybe. He got it. I never wrote it down, so curls still remain a problem set.

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Predrag Cvitanović @chaosbook.bsky.social · 5d

I promised to do it without a single formula. Might have been a lecture on Green's theorem for flux. I explained the birdtracks technology, and the rest of the lecture was only birdtracks, no letters. It was beautiful. Kiddies might be still digesting it.

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Predrag Cvitanović @chaosbook.bsky.social · 5d

The longer version goes like this:

In Spring 1985 I was a visiting professor in Cornell physics department. One time my friend Mitchell Feigenbaum asked me to teach his insanely popular graduate (no Jackson) E&M course that filled one of the large lecture halls. It was formula after formula.

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Predrag Cvitanović @chaosbook.bsky.social · 5d

Well, that has to do with my prejudices: 3d is just a special case, and I would never call 3-index Levi-Civita a "curl". But indeed, it's a homework - if you write it up, I'll add it to birdtrakcs.eu .

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