Founder of Liminal (LiminalCreations.com) & co-founder of Unbreaking (Unbreaking.org) Focused on turning knowledge into action. #science #communication #sensemaking #scicomm She/her. Married to Ed Yong.
Liz Neeley
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ADA censors scientists at their own conference on Friday
2 (maybe more) board members resign by Monday
It shows scientists in solidarity with each other 👏🏻
www.medpagetoday.com/special-repo...
Each Friday night, I write a briefing on what happened in US science & higher ed. 🧪
A deep dive in tonight’s special and urgent issue on the OMB’s gambit to achieve by rule-making what the administration fails to win in court.
buttondown.com/liminalcreat...
FYI @defendresearch.bsky.social has weekly Action Hours June 9-30 to help folks submit comments re. the #OMB proposed changes, using resources from @standupforscience.net, @jeremymberg.bsky.social, @lizneeley.bsky.social, @ucs.org & others. Register here: tinyurl.com/5t3cfh5p #censorship #research
“The Auburn University Board of Trustees on Friday gave itself complete control over course offerings, curriculum, degree requirements and academic credentials while eliminating shared governance at the Alabama land-grant university… The policy leaves many questions unanswered”
It’s really important to remember is that Vought’s Regulation on Federal Financial Assistance works without agency action.
University offices of sponsored programs and other recipients will change their behavior to avoid being noncompliant.
There’s no “it’s not so bad” outcome. That’s the point.
Sobering estimates out from CDC. This was not inevitable.
Oh I *LOVE* the @planetarysociety.bsky.social's dashboard of OMB proposed rule changes.
The clarity of their thematic clusters is great, but the insertion/deletion tracked changes is outstanding. I hope everyone prepping comments makes great use of it.
dashboards.planetary.org/rules-change...
It’s the Bethesda Declaration’s birthday — to mark the occasion, 73 NIHers have a report outlining ongoing concerns, which have become “more insidious and systematized, but no less harmful” as @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social put it
www.statnews.com/2026/06/09/n...
