the ai industry unleashing genai into the public & expecting society (academics, policy makers & cso) to find solutions is like big oil polluting oceans & expecting individuals to clean it up
👇🏾 approaches are important but we need sustainable solution that tackles prob from th root: regulate big AI
BREAKING:
New proposed OMB regulation, applying to all federal grants, requiring grant reviews by senior political appointees and re-emphasizes that "peer review remains advisory and does not replace agency discretion".
#standupforscience
public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2026-10817.pdf
NPR story about multi-year funding, few NOFOs, and delays with me, Elizabeth Ginexi, and @docsirianni.bsky.social
www.npr.org/2026/05/05/n...
People have already memory-holed how critical #TeslaTakeDown was. It was the earliest decentralized set of protests in the second term as early as Feb 2025 at a time when most people were shell-shocked and Dem leadership was cowering and capitulating. And it pushed Elon out of the WH.
Subtle
🧵 Public science in the US has taken some heavy hits over the last year, but the White House OMB is proposing a series of changes that will result in a TKO for science as we know it unless we fight back. Here's what's happening, and why it matters. 1/n
Call your reps -- blue, red, purple, it doesn't matter -- about the proposed OMB science funding rule. The house can stop this. Let them know it matters for your district.