This is literally some of the craziest shit I have ever read.

And that's saying a lot.

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Urging researchers who are scrambling for funding and thinking that private money is The Answer to read widely and think deeply about what exactly “science-first philanthropy” is doing.

Thank you for your reporting. Can you please clarify if the intent is to only fund the 5 priority areas in each directorate? There's some confusion in the community based on the statement in the piece that directorates will remain but clusters will focus on the 5 core areas.

I'm really sorry, Tim

Check out this new #OA paper led by @dannyszydlowski.bsky.social investigating the effect of heatwaves on chlorophyll in lakes!

US based scientists are not ok.

URGENT ACTION FOR NSF GRANTEES.

For current & recent (since 2020) awards, archive your award history this afternoon/tonight. Screenshot/download/print your work in research.gov & alert your partners.

We have credible threats to integrity of awards tracking systems (via @jeremymberg.bsky.social)

Writing about this right now, just need to scream.

"Investigators wishing to expand participation in STEM for women & underrepresented groups must ensure that all outreach, recruitment, or participatory activities in NSF projects are open & available to all Americans"

www.nsf.gov/updates-on-p...

To my knowledge, POs haven’t even seen these letters. We heard only minutes before the public FAQs came out.

Hearing from sources that grant terminations are starting now, likely targeting grants aimed at broadening participation of underrepresented groups in science.... which congress explicitly asks NSF grants to do.

🚨 Breaking: The NSF director just announced how the agency and DOGE intends to terminate active grants:

"Research projects with more narrow impact limited to subgroups of people based on protected class or characteristics do not effectuate NSF priorities."

www.nsf.gov/updates-on-p...

It is really bothering me (understatement) that the message is “bring back that one innocent guy” and not “WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK SHUT DOWN THIS WHOLE OPERATION IMMEDIATELY.”

Tiny bit of good news out of Wisconsin

Again, that Musk/DOGE penetrated this deep into the government this quickly is the most damning indictment of supposed American norms and guardrails imaginable. These are fuckin pirates; unelected, unappointed, unqualified marauders. A functional country would have laughed them out of the building.

BREAKING from @science.org: The Trump admin is seeking to kill nearly all climate research at NOAA, its climate science agency.

Its near-final budget proposal would end all NOAA research labs, academic institutes, and regional climate centers. And it wants to fully end the NOAA Research division.

it's wild that today ICE was just like, "we're the thought police" unironically

One sign that we are living under an authoritarian regime is that a lot of people are acting like they are living under an authoritarian regime.

1. Stop assuming people announce all their activism on social media.

2. Stop demanding people announce all their activism on social media.

3. Stop deriding people for not announcing all their activism on social media.

4. Dunking on people on social media isn't activism and isn't praxis.

Friends, I know you're excited to try protesting, but under no circumstances should you ever sign up to attend one. I'm suspicious of any org asking people to put their name on a list that is easily accessible via warrant or may even be public. You can just show up day of.

One important thing to understand about Wisconsin is that our local oligarchs (the Uehleins, Hendricks, and others) have been pouring money into state elections for years and this was a big loss for them too. Another important thing is that this election would have been critical even if...

Ugly crying that my civil liberties will be maintained (at the state level...) for the next 3 years.

You all are excited about the decisive middle finger WI delivered to Musk and Trump. I'm excited that we have a fighting chance at abortion rights, affordable care, gun control, unionizing...

One of many moments in Omar El Akkad’s new book, “One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This,” that will stop you in your tracks.