MIT Haystack Observatory’s SIMONe meteor radar network caught something at the same time that a loud boom was heard over eastern Massachusetts. Scientists are already analyzing the data!
“Even if you stopped climate change today, New Orleans’s days are still numbered,” he added. “It will be surrounded by open water, and you can’t keep an island situated below sea level afloat. There’s no amount of money that can do that.”
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Of all the harm this administration has done to US science, today's proposed changes to the way federal grants are awarded and administered is the most damaging yet.
The text of the federal register document is impenetrably tedious by design, so here's an excellent summary of what it says.
An absolute masterpiece. Guy spent years making this and uploading dozens of videos on how, getting zero to 8 views each. I hope he can rack up more.
UMass Amherst
OMB has a new proposal for the regulation of all federal grants, which would
-deemphasize peer review
-ban $ for publication costs and conference travel
-make it easier to terminate grants
we read the 400 page document () so you don't have to
www.statnews.com/2026/05/29/n...
Louisiana’s cultural hotspot could be surrounded by the Gulf of Mexico before the end of this century, authors say
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The Trump administration has released a sweeping proposal to overhaul the bedrock regulation for all federal grants.
