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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · Aug 20

Call for Papers! 🧵

The Public's Science–A New Social Contract for American Research Policy a Special Issue of The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science

Editors: Alondra Nelson (IAS) and Jenny Reardon (UC, Santa Cruz)

Abstract Deadline: Sept 19

www.ias.edu/stsv-lab/pub...

Public Science

Call for Papers Special Issue of The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social ScienceThe Public's Science–A New Social Contract for American Research Policy

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Patrick Emami @patrickomid.bsky.social · Aug 13

Donald Trump is *literally* Patrick Bateman’s hero in the novel American Psycho

Aman Batheja @amanbatheja.bsky.social · Aug 12

Trump plans to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the adoption of the Declaration of Independence—literally on Independence Day, July 4— by hosting a cage fight between two men at the White House time.com/7309114/ufc-...

White House to Hold UFC Fight on U.S.'s 250th Birthday

The event will be the first-ever professional mixed-martial arts fight at the White House.

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JP Acosta @acosta32jp.bsky.social · Aug 9

The Jacksonville Jaguars, imo

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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · Aug 8

The U.S. government has fueled decades of world-leading scientific and technical innovation by funding research efforts through grants programs & universities where researchers controlled decisions.

In the USSR, no decisions were made by scientists alone. Every decision required political approval.

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · Aug 7

One more effort to politicize federal grantmaking.
*Grants must by approved by a political appointee, working with OMB.
*"Discretionary awards must, where applicable, demonstrably advance the President’s policy priorities."
*Cannot "promote anti-American values"
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

Improving Oversight of Federal Grantmaking

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, and to improve the process of Federal

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · Aug 8

1. Federal funding for research promotes tech, biomedical, and scientific discovery in the US, and provides training for the sci/tech workforce that has brought immeasurable wealth to the US over the past 75 years.

Today's executive order includes a provision that will obliterate both functions.

Improving Oversight of Federal Grantmaking

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, and to improve the process of Federal

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · Aug 8

6. This makes it impossible to engage in anything other than the shortest-term, most incremental research.

Far-reaching, innovative, creative, world-changing research will no longer take place in the United States.

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AGU (American Geophysical Union) @agu.org · Aug 7

💬 Comments count.

Submit yours by 15 Sept. to oppose the EPA’s rollback of its greenhouse gas endangerment finding.

Submit:https://buff.ly/gPQyo15

#AGUAdvocacy #SciencePolicy

Proposed Rule: Reconsideration of 2009 Endangerment Finding and Greenhouse Gas Vehicle Standards | US EPA

The proposed rule on the reconsideration of the greenhouse gas endangerment finding and motor vehicle rule

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molly taft @mollytaft.com · Jul 30

NEW: i spoke to nine (!) scientists across several disciplines whose work was cited in the new Department of Energy report that downplays the severity of climate change. all of them say their work was misrepresented, cherry picked, and/or lacked context —

Scientists Say New Government Climate Report Twists Their Work

A new Department of Energy report “fundamentally misrepresents” climate research and leaves out key context, multiple scientists cited in the report tell WIRED.

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Naomi Saphra @nsaphra.bsky.social · Jul 25

PSA: NeurIPS position track has no rebuttal period so reviews won’t be released until August. Don’t bother emailing the PCs!

(Multiple people have asked me why their reviews aren’t visible. PCs should send a mass email and change the CFP.)

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Bhaskar Mitra | ভাস্কর মিত্র @bmitra.bsky.social · Jul 17

A personal update.

Why I am leaving big tech…

After spending almost two decades in big tech, I was notified last month that I am being laid off.There have been massive waves of layoffs across the industry recently, and I am just one of the many t...

bhaskar-mitra.github.io

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Kosta Derpanis @csprofkgd.bsky.social · Jul 15

#ICML2025 test of time award

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · Jul 14

This is an insane time in the tech industry. Superintelligence is fictional! This is so much an egregious waste of money, Meta's Chief AI scientist said generative AI won't lead to it either! AhhhhhHhhhh

George Pearkes @peark.es · Jul 14

Some absolutely insane numbers here.

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For our superintelligence effort, I'm focused on building the most elite and talent-dense team in the industry. We're also going to invest hundreds of billions of dollars into compute to build superintelligence. We have the capital from our business to do this.
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SemiAnalysis just reported that Meta is on track to be the first lab to bring a 1GW+ supercluster online. 💪
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We're actually building several multi-GW clusters. We're calling the first one Prometheus and it's coming online in '26. We're also building Hyperion, which will be able to scale up to 5GW over several years. We're building multiple more titan clusters as well. Just one of these covers a significant part of the footprint of Manhattan.
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Meta Superintelligence Labs will have industry-leading levels of compute and by far the greatest compute per researcher. I'm looking forward to working with the top researchers to advance the frontier!

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METR @metr.org · Jul 10

When AI is allowed, developers spend less time actively coding and searching for information, and instead spend time prompting AI, waiting on/reviewing AI outputs, and idle. We find no single reason for the slowdown—it’s driven by a combination of factors.

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Matt Henry @menrywy.bsky.social · Jul 10

One thing that's stood out to me at NREL under Trump 2.0: the contrast between the institution's instinct for self-preservation reflected in deep changes to the way the lab stories itself vs. how rural coalitions I work with have remained steadfast in their commitment to building new energy futures.

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Patrick Emami @patrickomid.bsky.social · Jul 9

we are cooked

Brendan Pierpont @brendan.bsky.social · Jul 9

Have you ever just wanted to yell at a PDF for being so wrong about so many things? Now's your chance: www.energy.gov/sites/defaul...

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charles (young QB agnostic) mcdonald @fourverts.bsky.social · Jun 19

happy juneteenth everyone ✊🏾

legendary social media post from the florida state football team featuring MARTIN LUTHER KING in a vapormax glove with the words “DO SOMETHING” behind him

equally funny and offensive. perfect postmanship. bluesky needs more of this.

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Patrick Emami @patrickomid.bsky.social · Jun 14

CatFrat @catfrat.bsky.social · Jun 14

And this is why not a thing will be done about it

"What does a human slowly going insane look like to a corporation?" Mr. Yudkowsky asked in an interview. "It looks like an additional monthly user."

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sylvain gignac @sylvaingignac.bsky.social · Jun 14

Great report = comprehensive coverage of all aspects related to the integration of DC/AI loads.
gridlab.org/portfolio-it...

Practical Guidance and Considerations for Large Load Interconnections - GridLab

This report provides an outline of the current state of Large Load interconnections including data centers. It includes recommended questions for regulators and utilities to develop more robust interc...

gridlab.org

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Ted Pavlic (he/him/his) @tedpavlic.bsky.social · Jun 8

Reminder: Nobel-prize winning PCR (1983), used in basically all genetic tech today, was only possible because of extremophile bacterium discovered in 1964 in Yellowstone funded by a small ~$80k NSF grant with no obvious application at the time. #science 🧪
www.richmondscientific.com/how-a-discov...

How a discovery in Yellowstone National Park led to the development of PCR - Richmond Scientific

A discovery in Yellowstone National Park led to the development of PCR, the gold-standard COVID-19 tests used to fight the global pandemic.

www.richmondscientific.com

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · Jun 5

incredible that, looking back to 2019, every large firm working on LLMs had the attitude that this was an enormously disruptive technology and that the rollout needed to be careful and stage-managed in order to avoid catastrophic legal and consumer backlash and then in 2022 went "lol nevermind"

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Ecological Society of America @ecologicalsociety.bsky.social · Jun 2

URGENT! Contact your senators today to advocate to fund science agencies and programs!

The Senate Appropriations Committee & its subcommittees are writing appropriation bills for the federal FY26 budget now.

Here's how you can help: esa.org/esablog/2025...

the U.S. Capitol building on an overcast day, looking ominous

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Tim Clancy @viewfromarchstreet.com · Jun 1

DOE budget is out -- the summary table at least. Here are a few energy research lowlights:

EERE -74.3%
Science -13.9%
Nuclear -20.7%
Fossil -31.2%
Electricity -31.1%
Cybersecurity -25%
Technology Commercialization -50% (moved to admin)

www.energy.gov/sites/defaul...

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Patrick Emami @patrickomid.bsky.social · May 31

Recommended reading: Scientific Babel

history.princeton.edu/about/public...

What will be the next dominant language? 🥲

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David Pfau @davidpfau.com · May 28

The war on science in the US is already having an effect on private sector research like AlphaFold. Bears repeating but the private sector builds on top of things created by academic research for the public good. This hurts everyone.

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Daniel Drezner @dandrezner.bsky.social · May 28

I wish this was hyperbole but the facts speak for themselves. danieldrezner.substack.com/p/the-trump-...

The Trump Administration Is Trying to Kill American Higher Education

I don't care about the "why" -- I care about the "what."

danieldrezner.substack.com

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