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NSF Update
Funding curve overall. A little bit of progress in the past week, but only a little bit.
Now by Directorate...
1/11
Funding curve overall. A little bit of progress in the past week, but only a little bit.
Now by Directorate...
1/11
February 13, 2026 at 9:22 PM
NSF Update
Funding curve overall. A little bit of progress in the past week, but only a little bit.
Now by Directorate...
1/11
Funding curve overall. A little bit of progress in the past week, but only a little bit.
Now by Directorate...
1/11
“Universities in Afghanistan are no longer functioning as ‘real academic spaces’, according to scholars inside the country who describe ideological control, administrative purges and escalating personal risk for researchers who remain.”
Universities in Afghanistan ‘no longer functioning’
Scholars still inside the country describe administrative purges, censorship, exclusion and fear as merit-based systems collapse under Taliban ideological controls
www.timeshighereducation.com
February 13, 2026 at 8:07 PM
“Universities in Afghanistan are no longer functioning as ‘real academic spaces’, according to scholars inside the country who describe ideological control, administrative purges and escalating personal risk for researchers who remain.”
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In terms of what cures are being lost:
- Epstein-Barr virus is perhaps the major trigger for multiple sclerosis
- herpes simplex virus causes cold sores, genital herpes, infections in babies, deadly meningitis
- shingles virus causes an intensely painful disease
- Epstein-Barr virus is perhaps the major trigger for multiple sclerosis
- herpes simplex virus causes cold sores, genital herpes, infections in babies, deadly meningitis
- shingles virus causes an intensely painful disease
February 13, 2026 at 5:44 AM
In terms of what cures are being lost:
- Epstein-Barr virus is perhaps the major trigger for multiple sclerosis
- herpes simplex virus causes cold sores, genital herpes, infections in babies, deadly meningitis
- shingles virus causes an intensely painful disease
- Epstein-Barr virus is perhaps the major trigger for multiple sclerosis
- herpes simplex virus causes cold sores, genital herpes, infections in babies, deadly meningitis
- shingles virus causes an intensely painful disease
If you are having trouble keeping track of the Trump administration’s actions, here’s a website (based in the UK) that you might find useful. -
Trump Action Tracker | Keeping a tally of Trump's actions
Free and independent tracker documenting Trump-related actions using verified news sources. Statements & plans mapped to authoritarianism domains.
www.trumpactiontracker.info
February 13, 2026 at 1:38 PM
If you are having trouble keeping track of the Trump administration’s actions, here’s a website (based in the UK) that you might find useful. -
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FDA's decision not to accept Moderna's flu vaccine filing has sent shock waves through pharma. "When there’s uncertainty about the path to approval & the reliability of the process, that really has pretty serious consequences,” one player told @jasonmast.bsky.social. www.statnews.com/2026/02/12/f...
FDA’s rejection of Moderna threatens to stifle broader vaccine industry
Experts say the FDA "moved the goalposts" on Moderna, creating "a destructive precedent that will undermine the future of vaccine development" in the U.S.
www.statnews.com
February 12, 2026 at 9:04 PM
FDA's decision not to accept Moderna's flu vaccine filing has sent shock waves through pharma. "When there’s uncertainty about the path to approval & the reliability of the process, that really has pretty serious consequences,” one player told @jasonmast.bsky.social. www.statnews.com/2026/02/12/f...
Now that the legal situation is clear, it is time for the US to rebuild DEI
Now that the legal situation is clear, it is time for the US to rebuild DEI
The only question is how to do so in ways that are legally sound, institutionally durable and worthy of renewed trust, says James S. Bridgeforth
www.timeshighereducation.com
February 11, 2026 at 8:07 PM
Now that the legal situation is clear, it is time for the US to rebuild DEI
UNC Admin Can Now, Officially, Secretly Record Faculty
UNC Admin Can Now, Officially, Secretly Record Faculty
The new policy prohibits students from recording class without permission but explicitly allows administrators to surveil professors for any “lawful purpose.”
www.insidehighered.com
February 11, 2026 at 1:38 PM
UNC Admin Can Now, Officially, Secretly Record Faculty
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It is absolutely outrageous that Moderna’s flu vaccine was met with a “refusal-to-file” even after their approved their protocol with FDA and carried out the trial as agreed. This vaccine works better in older adults than the current flu vaccines.
apnews.com/article/mode...
apnews.com/article/mode...
Moderna says FDA refuses its application for new mRNA flu vaccine
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is refusing to consider Moderna’s application for a new flu vaccine made with mRNA technology.
apnews.com
February 11, 2026 at 12:13 AM
It is absolutely outrageous that Moderna’s flu vaccine was met with a “refusal-to-file” even after their approved their protocol with FDA and carried out the trial as agreed. This vaccine works better in older adults than the current flu vaccines.
apnews.com/article/mode...
apnews.com/article/mode...
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No YOU'RE crying!!
I just stumbled across this and thought some of you might like to see it. A letter from E.B. White to a man who'd written he'd lost all hope:
February 10, 2026 at 8:47 PM
No YOU'RE crying!!
The trail was a little narrow in spots this morning. Actually, only one spot. This one.
February 10, 2026 at 9:05 PM
The trail was a little narrow in spots this morning. Actually, only one spot. This one.
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Excited for this. Teaching popgen is one of my favourite parts of my job and I've wondered about doing an online version of the class for sometime. Teaming up with @jrossibarra.bsky.social to do this is wonderful.
Fun news! @gcbias.bsky.social and I are teaching a 2-week online population genetics workshop this summer to raise money for the Center for Population Biology at UC Davis. We're trying to gauge interest -- please fill this out if you might be interested! And please share broadly!
Davis Summer Population Genomics Program
Want to learn population genetics? Please fill out this form to indicate your potential interest in a 2-week intensive online summer population genetics course taught by Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra and Graham...
docs.google.com
February 10, 2026 at 6:04 PM
Excited for this. Teaching popgen is one of my favourite parts of my job and I've wondered about doing an online version of the class for sometime. Teaming up with @jrossibarra.bsky.social to do this is wonderful.
RealClimate: The Climate Science reference they don’t want Judges to read
RealClimate: The Climate Science reference they don’t want Judges to read
RealClimate: For the first time, the Federal Judicial Center (FJC) commissioned a chapter on climate science for the manual they put out (with the NASEM) for judges, the Reference on Scientific…
www.realclimate.org
February 10, 2026 at 1:38 PM
RealClimate: The Climate Science reference they don’t want Judges to read
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Fun news! @gcbias.bsky.social and I are teaching a 2-week online population genetics workshop this summer to raise money for the Center for Population Biology at UC Davis. We're trying to gauge interest -- please fill this out if you might be interested! And please share broadly!
Davis Summer Population Genomics Program
Want to learn population genetics? Please fill out this form to indicate your potential interest in a 2-week intensive online summer population genetics course taught by Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra and Graham...
docs.google.com
February 9, 2026 at 6:24 PM
Fun news! @gcbias.bsky.social and I are teaching a 2-week online population genetics workshop this summer to raise money for the Center for Population Biology at UC Davis. We're trying to gauge interest -- please fill this out if you might be interested! And please share broadly!
The taxonomic description should be the highlight of the paper. Yes, you need to provide evidence that the species is distinct, but describing the new thing you found is (almost) the whole point.
I just read a paper describing a new species (a fossil, but still a new species), but the actual taxonomic description is relegated to the Supplementary material! 😱😟
Why is the taxonomy being treated like a bibliographic footnote? 😡#Botany #taxonomy
Why is the taxonomy being treated like a bibliographic footnote? 😡#Botany #taxonomy
February 10, 2026 at 12:36 PM
The taxonomic description should be the highlight of the paper. Yes, you need to provide evidence that the species is distinct, but describing the new thing you found is (almost) the whole point.
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I just read a paper describing a new species (a fossil, but still a new species), but the actual taxonomic description is relegated to the Supplementary material! 😱😟
Why is the taxonomy being treated like a bibliographic footnote? 😡#Botany #taxonomy
Why is the taxonomy being treated like a bibliographic footnote? 😡#Botany #taxonomy
February 10, 2026 at 12:01 PM
I just read a paper describing a new species (a fossil, but still a new species), but the actual taxonomic description is relegated to the Supplementary material! 😱😟
Why is the taxonomy being treated like a bibliographic footnote? 😡#Botany #taxonomy
Why is the taxonomy being treated like a bibliographic footnote? 😡#Botany #taxonomy
“The real question is not how many vice presidents a college needs. It is the number of priorities an institution is willing to abandon to serve its academic mission effectively.”
Counting Vice Presidents Misses the Point (opinion)
The real problem is unbounded priorities.
www.insidehighered.com
February 9, 2026 at 1:51 PM
“The real question is not how many vice presidents a college needs. It is the number of priorities an institution is willing to abandon to serve its academic mission effectively.”
Sarcasm alert! - Everything I ever needed to know in life I learned from the men in the Epstein files
Everything I ever needed to know in life I learned from the men in the Epstein files | Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
This is Jessica. As literary agent and Epstein comrade John Brockman tells us, “Only a small number of people have done the serious thinking for everybody else.” I was curious what serious thoughts…
statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu
February 9, 2026 at 1:38 PM
Sarcasm alert! - Everything I ever needed to know in life I learned from the men in the Epstein files
#SilentSunday Prospect Mountain Ski Area, Vermont
February 8, 2026 at 12:26 PM
#SilentSunday Prospect Mountain Ski Area, Vermont
@bcdreyer.social might want to weigh in on this thread.
Yesterday, I spotted significant typos in two Washington Post articles that I read, one after the other.
And, a dumb typo in NYT today, too. (They fired copy editors a few years ago.)
And, a dumb typo in NYT today, too. (They fired copy editors a few years ago.)
This is what happens when you fire all of your copy editors:
“His expert fluency in both today's media business landscape also grew from his leadership and management roles…”
“His expert fluency in both today's media business landscape also grew from his leadership and management roles…”
February 8, 2026 at 1:22 AM
@bcdreyer.social might want to weigh in on this thread.
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Alberto Castañeda Mondragón was hospitalized with eight skull fractures and five life-threatening brain hemorrhages. Officers claimed he ran into a wall, but medical staff doubted that account. n.pr/4bHoZDU
Immigrant whose skull was broken in 8 places during ICE arrest says beating was unprovoked
Alberto Castañeda Mondragón was hospitalized with eight skull fractures and five life-threatening brain hemorrhages. Officers claimed he ran into a wall, but medical staff doubted that account.
n.pr
February 8, 2026 at 1:01 AM
Alberto Castañeda Mondragón was hospitalized with eight skull fractures and five life-threatening brain hemorrhages. Officers claimed he ran into a wall, but medical staff doubted that account. n.pr/4bHoZDU
Federal Vaccine Advisers Take Aim at Covid Shots www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/h...
www.nytimes.com
February 6, 2026 at 11:40 PM
Federal Vaccine Advisers Take Aim at Covid Shots www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/h...
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Lots of correspondence between Robert Trivers and Jeffrey Epstein mentioning money and a predatory view of women 🤮https://www.justice.gov/epstein
January 31, 2026 at 7:03 PM
Lots of correspondence between Robert Trivers and Jeffrey Epstein mentioning money and a predatory view of women 🤮https://www.justice.gov/epstein
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Scotland has passed a law that all new buildings must install ‘swift bricks’ which are hollowed out bricks to help nesting swifts and other endangered birds! Swifts are especially endangered because so many chimneys now have chimney caps. Swifts return to the same nesting spot year after year.
February 6, 2026 at 3:01 AM
Scotland has passed a law that all new buildings must install ‘swift bricks’ which are hollowed out bricks to help nesting swifts and other endangered birds! Swifts are especially endangered because so many chimneys now have chimney caps. Swifts return to the same nesting spot year after year.
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Oh boy. “The University of Florida and the Florida Department of Health in Alachua County are investigating potential measles exposure in two UF classes following two confirmed cases in the county.
Health officials have begun contacting individuals who may have been exposed.” @aetiology.bsky.social
Health officials have begun contacting individuals who may have been exposed.” @aetiology.bsky.social
Measles exposure reported in two University of Florida classes, university says
The University of Florida and the Florida Department of Health in Alachua County are investigating potential measles exposure in two UF classes following two confirmed cases in the county.
www.news4jax.com
February 6, 2026 at 12:37 AM
Oh boy. “The University of Florida and the Florida Department of Health in Alachua County are investigating potential measles exposure in two UF classes following two confirmed cases in the county.
Health officials have begun contacting individuals who may have been exposed.” @aetiology.bsky.social
Health officials have begun contacting individuals who may have been exposed.” @aetiology.bsky.social