"Scientists and allies must create a new vision for how science agencies should be run, and that vision must itself be part of a bigger rethinking of how the American government should be run."
essential via @markhisted.org in @theatlantic.com
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
I will take the win. Why can’t Congress protect other aspects of American science?
Such good news. Human beings are capable of magical and wonderful things.
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The Trump regime has paid $2.5 billion of our money to ensure that fossil fuel companies continue to profit off the destruction of our planet.
📣 New Preprint!
Here we use bees as a model to study how a temperate phage-bacteria pair interact in the gut and how antibiotics change these interactions.
The take home? Phage can play a major role in shaping how gut microbiomes respond to antibiotic perturbation!
#microsky #phagesky
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The substrate couldn't be more perfect for biofilm formation, acres of microscopic refugia that will make organisms comprising it effectively impossible to kill.
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NSF's grantmaking is miserly when compared to recent years, but when compared it to the historical record, we see it's a radical break from the long-term consensus of investing in scientific innovation. grant-witness.us/posts/2026-0... #NSF 🧪
🧪⚛️ OMB is not being shy, at all, about wanting to cancel or deny grants based on political preferences. This is very very bad. www.politico.com/live-updates...
A 20 year study on 2 NIH diversity programs in Science Advances shows they doubled undergrads' odds of getting a Ph.D.
That is, before the funding for those programs and for the study itself was terminated last year:
www.statnews.com/2026/06/17/n...
The Trump administration’s theory of how the federal government should work is a threat to American science.
HAHAHAhaha! they're making the world's biggest synthetic scum pond!!!
The coating is a polyurea used inside pipes. It gels in about 3 seconds, making it non self-leveling. The texture is like an orange peel, the perfect substrate for biofilms.
www.nytimes.com/2026/05/19/u...
anil oza
Throttling of science funding is utterly unprecedented and radical when compared to the past 50 years.
