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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Ultimately, this letter from NSF is an announcement that universities will be funded a lot less and politically-connected industry will be funded a lot more. Fancy words around old-fashioned corruption.

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NSF leadership in a new golden age of science

The U.S. National Science Foundation was established in 1950 to keep American discovery at the frontier. That mission has not changed. The science and technology ecosystem around it has...

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Look at just this one page from Trump's garbage 2027 budget. nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/files/FY-202... And where's the money going instead? You guessed it: subsidizing corporate R&D that would happen without government involvement, but they prefer taxpayers cover it.

cuts to National Solar Observatory (NSO), NSF’s National Optical-Infrared Astronomy Research Laboratory (NOIRLab),IceCube Neutrino Observatory (ICNO), National Center for Atmospheric
Research (NCAR), Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI),
and Green Bank Observatory.

Consistent with the vision of a new Golden Age of American Science and Innovation, NSF’s FY 2027
Budget will build on its FY 2026 investments to support the development of specific critical
technologies—artificial intelligence (AI); quantum information science (QIS); biotechnology (biotech),
including neuroscience; and advanced materials and manufacturing (AMM).

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Adriana Darielle Mejía Briscoe @adrianabriscoe.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

"The character of the bibliophile who devotes his life to collecting and safeguarding books is particularly profound. His story reminds us that books are more than words on a page...they are keepers of hour histories, our culture, our collective memories, connecting the past, present, and future"

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Adriana Darielle Mejía Briscoe @adrianabriscoe.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Insights from the International Latino Book Award Judges:

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Adriana Darielle Mejía Briscoe @adrianabriscoe.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

If you do decide to help with this request, please let me know by messaging me, and Dad will send you a personal note. Librarians (along with teachers) are unsung heroes (in the widest sense) whose work is vital to the well-being of our society. Some of his best insights are shared in this book.

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Adriana Darielle Mejía Briscoe @adrianabriscoe.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I read Dad's novel when he was revising it, and gave my editorial input. It's a fine piece of writing, with loads of insight. If you read it, I promise you will learn something about the world of books you didn't already know.

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Adriana Darielle Mejía Briscoe @adrianabriscoe.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

It would be a dream come true if Dad's novel could find its way into more libraries. If you have a library card, please consider asking your librarian to add his book to their collection. Librarians are happy to accommodate these requests and his book is available from booksellers everywhere.

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Adriana Darielle Mejía Briscoe @adrianabriscoe.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

including photography and science fiction at UCR. He has written a splendid novel, BETWEEN MEMORY AND OBLIVION, about books and libraries which has just been honored with a Gold medal at the 2026 International Latino Book Awards in the category of Popular Fiction.

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Adriana Darielle Mejía Briscoe @adrianabriscoe.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

who himself has read thousands of novels, books about Latin America and European history, natural history books, accounts of early explorers, books about philosophy, and linguistics. And during his career he was responsible for building/overseeing important collections at three institutions,

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Adriana Darielle Mejía Briscoe @adrianabriscoe.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Friends who love to read, I have a small ask on behalf of my father, Peter Briscoe, who is not on social media. Dad is a retired librarian, who has devoted his life and career to the care, consideration, purchase, and curation of tens of thousands of books. He is a passionate bibliophile

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Quanta Magazine @quantamagazine.org · 05/10/2026

Today, three scientists were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their pioneering work on optogenetics, which lets researchers control and manipulate cells using light. It all started with a curious question about the biology of algae. 🧵

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Adriana Darielle Mejía Briscoe @adrianabriscoe.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Congratulations Dad/Peter Briscoe (BETWEEN MEMORY AND OBLIVION), Reyna Grande (MIGRANT HEART) and Daniel Olivas (WAITING FOR GODINEZ), Gold medal winners in Popular Fiction, Most Inspirational NonFiction, Book and Best Play, respectively, at the 2026 International Latino Book Awards!!!!

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Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Good end-of-FY coverage by the Times. The amount of unspent funds has wiggled but it was pretty clear for some time now that NSF was simply not going to spend a substantial portion of its congressional appropriation this year.

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National Science Foundation Diverted $1.4 Billion in Science Funds Mandated by Congress

The move, affecting about one-fifth of the National Science Foundation’s primary research budget, is the latest sign of how the White House is asserting more control over grants.

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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 03/10/2026

Trump corrupted America's most innovative institution, the National Science Foundation, by stealing $1.4B mandated by Congress for research. 🧪 🧵

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

~Approximately no one in the general public knows because the leaders of the R1 research universities - whose budgets, programs, & personnel are entirely or significantly dependent on federal funding - have been totally absent from the public square in explaining & collectively protesting this.

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Adriana Darielle Mejía Briscoe @adrianabriscoe.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I'm excited for my Dad. He and my Mom are heading over to the International Latino Book Awards where he will be honored along with other finalists in the category of Popular Fiction for his novel, BETWEEN MEMORY AND OBLIVION. The ceremony will be live streamed on Instagram @EmpoweringLatinoFutures

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Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪 @altnih4science.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

a few weeks old now

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Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪 @altnih4science.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

this matters

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Daniel A. Olivas @danielolivas.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

UT Austin Axes Several Ethnic, Gender Studies Majors The University of Texas at Austin will eliminate four majors—African and African diaspora studies; Mexican American and Latina/o studies; women’s and gender studies; and race, indigeneity and migration. www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...

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UT Austin Axes Several Ethnic, Gender Studies Majors

Some faculty members consider the decision the next step in a broader effort to gut what remains of ethnic and gender studies at the university.

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The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine @nationalacademies.org · 18/09/2026

The research landscape is changing rapidly, bringing new and complex ethical questions. Our updated "On Being a Scientist" guide helps early-career researchers navigate these challenges while building on longstanding principles of research ethics. 👇

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Mongabay @mongabay.com · 18/09/2026

Electric fences caused 14 of 15 recent giant pangolin deaths near Kenya's Nyekweri Forest. To protect the country's last remaining 30 individuals, local landowners have modified 134 km of fencing to allow safe passage, though habitat loss continues to threaten progress. Pauline Kairu reports.

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Electric fences that kill and the Maasai trying to save Kenya’s last giant pangolins

Naserian, a giant ground pangolin, lived for about two years in Kenya’s last remaining stronghold for this animal, Nyekweri Forest. When researchers from The Pangolin Project began tracking her in…

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Dmitri Petrov @petrovadmitri.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

We are searching for an Assistant Professor in Evolutionary Biology! Looking for colleagues asking fundamental questions relating to evolutionary processes and drivers of evolutionary patterns. If you think it is you, please do apply! And please repost. facultypositions.stanford.edu/jobs/assista...

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Assistant Professor in Evolutionary Biology - Stanford University, California, United States

The Department of Biology at Stanford University seeks applicants for a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Evolutionary Biology. A successful candidate will conduct research that asks fundamental que...

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Nathan Ellstrand @nellstra.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

New book forthcoming next week from @wwnorton.com: Racist by Design: Two Centuries of U.S. Immigration Control by Kelly Lytle Hernández wwnorton.com/books/978132...

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Zinn Education Project @zinnedproject.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Why should educators teach the 100-year history of HS student activism? What can teachers today learn from students about supporting student activism without trying to control it? Find the answers to these questions & more at our TBFS class on 9/28, 100 Years of HS Student Organizing. 🧵 More ⬇️

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One Hundred Years of High School Student Organizing

Rethinking Schools editor Jesse Hagopian will be in conversation with historians Aaron G. Fountain Jr. and Jon N. Hale about student organizing and state repression. This class is part of the Zinn…

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Adriana Darielle Mejía Briscoe @adrianabriscoe.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

In the end, my writing about this particular topic can be traced back decades to Carlos Cortés' Chicano History course, which is why I will always support the teaching of ethnic studies in the U.S. It helps us understand who we are, where we came from, and where we are going.

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Adriana Darielle Mejía Briscoe @adrianabriscoe.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

For more in-depth description of this period, Marla Ramírez has written eloquently about the burden placed on women and their families forced to leave for Mexico, including with children or family members who were not born in Mexico: www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...

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Banished Citizens — Harvard University Press

A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of the YearA moving portrait of a grim period in American immigration history, when approximately one million ethnic Mexicans—mostly women and children who were U...

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Adriana Darielle Mejía Briscoe @adrianabriscoe.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The 2nd essay is based on an extraordinary discovery I made in 2021. A relative sent me an ancestor's writing which turned out to be a corrido (a ballad) about the 1930s repatriation which led to the banishment and deportation of ~500K people of Mexican descent. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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“Despedida”: My great great grandfather’s corrido about the Mexican repatriation - Latino Studies

Latino Studies -

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Adriana Darielle Mejía Briscoe @adrianabriscoe.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The first essay I wrote paints a picture of the milieu in Mexico my family was fleeing from when they decided to emigrate to Southern California in 1898. Unfortunately it is behind a paywall but I'm happy to share a pdf if you DM me. read.dukeupress.edu/meridians/ar...

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Leaving Michoacán: My Family’s Migration Ahead of the Mexican Revolution

Abstract. The author reflects on her great-grandmother’s migration from a hacienda in Michoacán, Mexico, in the early 1900s to an ethnically segregated Mexican American community within the city of Co...

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Adriana Darielle Mejía Briscoe @adrianabriscoe.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

around the extraction of labor from Native American and immigrant workers, as described in countless books, including this recent highlight by Eladio Bobadilla. www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=p0...

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Dangerous Migration

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Adriana Darielle Mejía Briscoe @adrianabriscoe.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Even though I went on to become a scientist, the experience of learning Mexican American history was very valuable to me. It helped me understand some of the ways that people of Mexican descent are othered in the U.S., and that the U.S. has from its very beginning been a violent place centered

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Adriana Darielle Mejía Briscoe @adrianabriscoe.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

When I was a senior in high school, I took Professor Carlos Cortés Intro to Chicano History course at UC Riverside. It was my first ethnic studies course. The first time I learned about Mexican American history and I ♥️ it so much that I ended up with an A+. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_...

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Carlos E. Cortés - Wikipedia

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Adriana Darielle Mejía Briscoe @adrianabriscoe.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

For Hispanic Heritage Month 2026, I am sharing links to essays about my ancestors who came to California from Mexico. I was curious about why they chose to migrate, the economic forces driving them, and the challenges they faced getting their footing in the U.S. My story writing began in the 80s.

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MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

"Engaging and hopeful [...] this is an important book, highlighting the need for collective action to reduce carbon emissions for our generation and generations to come." @science.org recommends @leahstokes.bsky.social's new book, "The Carbon Wave."

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Adriana Darielle Mejía Briscoe @adrianabriscoe.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

"[A.I.] creates a product so drastically new that the text as an individual work is effectively destroyed. This less obvious form of erasure is much more hazardous and worrisome than destructive scanning." No. Widespread book destruction will lead to oblivion. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

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Destroying Books to Build a Mind

Anthropic is trying to “destructively scan all the books in the world.” How worried should we be?

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Adriana Darielle Mejía Briscoe @adrianabriscoe.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I'll just mention that an key and timely theme of my father's novel is the importance of the preservation of the physicality of books. Right now, as we speak Anthropic and other companies, are slicing the spines off millions of books to train their AIs, then throwing them away after destruction.

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Biodiversity Pics @biodiversitypix.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

🍐 The butterflies of North America Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1884. [Source]

Pear illustration from historical archives

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Adriana Darielle Mejía Briscoe @adrianabriscoe.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Daniel, I'm really thrilled for him and for you!!!!

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Adriana Darielle Mejía Briscoe @adrianabriscoe.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

@danielolivas.bsky.social Congratulations on being short-listed for the International Latino Book Award's Luis Valdez Best Play category for WAITING FOR GODÍNEZ!!!

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Adriana Darielle Mejía Briscoe @adrianabriscoe.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Wow! Dad (Peter Briscoe) just learned that his book, BETWEEN MEMORY & OBLIVION is a 2026 International Latino Book Award Finalist in the Category of Popular Fiction!!!! An incredible honor to be named alongside these other amazing ILBA finalists! Go dad! So proud.🔥😍♥️ www.amazon.com/Between-Memo...

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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Look, I know I sound crazy, but WHY WOULD RUSSELL VOUGHT, mastermind behind Project 2025, WRITE THAT OMB CAN CANCEL ANY GRANT FOR ANY REASON IF THEY WEREN'T GOING TO DO EXACTLY THAT?! Mark my words: Agencies will send out blanket grant cancellation emails that will make 2025 look like child's play.

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Science Magazine @science.org · 02/06/2026

Proposed changes by the Trump administration to rules that govern how federal dollars are spent "would inevitably lead to unlegislated reductions in funding and damage US leadership in science, both in academia and industry," writes H. Holden Thorp in a new #ScienceEditorial. scim.ag/4uK0fBj

Text quote on a black background. The quote reads: "... the White House ... has found new ways to circumvent the will of Congress and starve American science." Below, the quote is attributed to H. Holden Thorp, Editor-in-chief, Science journals.

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Matthew Cortland (they) @matthewcort.land · 31/05/2026

• Submit a comment opposing the destruction of 🇺🇸 science; • Pressure every org, professional body, association, uni, etc. you are affiliated with to submit the strongest possible comment opposing this calamity (highest ROI move for most of us) • Make sure your electeds see those comments 🧪

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Trump's Russ Vought Is Trying To Kill American Science. We Can Try To Stop Him, | Shouldn't Need to Be a Lawyer by Matthew Cortland

Trump's Russ Vought Is Trying To Kill American Science. We Can Try To Stop Him, by Shouldn't Need to Be a Lawyer by Matthew Cortland on Patreon. Join Shouldn't Need to Be a Lawyer by Matthew Cortland...

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