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bowmaniac.bsky.social @bowmaniac.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
WAKE UP!
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bowmaniac.bsky.social @bowmaniac.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Not great
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Douglas Natelson @nanoscaleviews.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
🧪⚛️ 1/7 We are one month away from the end of the federal fiscal year. Right now, the NSF is on track to issue about 4000 fewer (!!) awards in FY26 than it did back in FY21-FY24, and 2000 fewer than it did in the tumultuous FY25 (with its government shutdowns and mass cutbacks in agency personnel).
Graphs from grantwitness.com of NSF award and obligations vs time during the last several fiscal years, showing drastic shortfalls in FY26 relative to prior responses.
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bowmaniac.bsky.social @bowmaniac.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
You have nothing to fear if you didn't do anything wrong. Pretty sure I heard that once.
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
We're being told that if we sacrifice the rights of some people, then the rest of us get to keep our rights. We all know that's some BS.
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bowmaniac.bsky.social @bowmaniac.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
I want to build a society around the ethos of this flower
A pink flower grows between bricks on a path just outside an enclosed garden space A pink flower grows between bricks on a path just outside an enclosed garden space
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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 09/08/2026
Trump 2.0 has blown up US scientific research in a way that will take decades to roll back. Labs that took years to build have closed, young people have left science. NYT Mag published a long report on Dismantling Cancer Research. Why does Ross Douthat lie like this?
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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 25/07/2026
Admirable clarity @science.org
The Trump administration hates academic science funding, full stop. They hate where that money goes, and they hate who it goes to. They want to keep all that money for themselves, to hand out to favored cronies who can help them get elected and to steer yet more money and more power back into their hands.

That’s it. That’s the story
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bowmaniac.bsky.social @bowmaniac.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
I hate these fucking people
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Richard M. Nixon @dicknixon.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Larry got a mouse this morning.
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anti-zionist dog 🇵🇸 @puppydoggaming.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
i will say lindsey graham being asked by a reporter how mitch mcconnell is doing, answering “i don’t know, i’m going to check right now” and then dying is hilarious
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bowmaniac.bsky.social @bowmaniac.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
It's a wild and crazy Saturday night
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J. L. Westover @mrlovenstein.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
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bowmaniac.bsky.social @bowmaniac.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
It's a rough life
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c t @whatulysses.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
can't argue with this.
screenshot from a pop-up window received after downloading Microsoft Office. It features a yellow triangle with an exclamation point and the text, "'Microsoft Teams' is damaged and can't be opened. You should move it to the Trash."
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Douglas Natelson @nanoscaleviews.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
🧪⚛️ 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...
politico.com
OMB nominee touts plan to give Trump appointees power to kill grants
The administration is expected to finalize the proposed changes as soon as this summer.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
bookmarking this for use anytime someone asks how we can afford social safety nets.
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Douglas Natelson @nanoscaleviews.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
🧪⚛️ For scale, this is roughly 25 years of NSF funding, or 5 years of NIH funding. This, from people who claim that we can’t afford to support research, or public health.
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 08/06/2026
I thought people were kidding, turns out Elon really did axe the screwworm containment program back in March 25. fucking imbecile www.agri-pulse.com/articles/226...
agri-pulse.com
Bird flu, screwworm monitoring among foreign aid programs killed by Trump
Among the more than 5,300 grants and programs killed as a result of the Trump administration’s USAID cuts are a slate of U.S.-funded programs at the UN Food and Agriculture Organization, including eff...
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bowmaniac.bsky.social @bowmaniac.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Portrait of a Cat Waiting for a Sunbeam 2026 Digital Artist Unknown
Picture of a black cat sprawled on a mat in front of a window with a Sunbeam 6 inches away from her
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bowmaniac.bsky.social @bowmaniac.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
I'm in the comments and I don't like it...
Picture of an arm with a burn scar on it
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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
tl,dr; Scientists no longer allowed to use federal funding to publish, attend meetings, or talk to the public. They cannot collaborate internationally. Grants can be cancelled for any reason, at any time, political appointees have a final say over what gets funded, and who gets funded.
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bowmaniac.bsky.social @bowmaniac.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
This is insanity
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Nicholas Sideras ☃️ @nicholas.sideras.net · 15/05/2026
> early data from the report … suggests the system saves the region as much in $345 million annually. The system’s operating budget in 2026 was approximately $161 million. shout it from the rooftops @ridemcts.bsky.social
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bowmaniac.bsky.social @bowmaniac.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
16 years ago I walked into a bar* at closing time and convinced a young lady** to come home with me. Or maybe she convinced me. We both have a few more gray hairs now but she still makes me smile every day. Happy adoptaversary to my little boo-boo bear. *@arlboston.bsky.social **kitty cat
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bowmaniac.bsky.social @bowmaniac.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
I had kind of thought the season was over but it has been kind of a late arriving spring... #GlovesInTheCity
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Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD DSc(hon) @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
MAHA
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 22/04/2026
In honor of #EarthDay, here is a reminder that there is a bot account that posts a photo of the whole Earth from a million miles away, taken by the Deep Space Climate Observatory, several times daily. You can view all the images (and zoom in) here: epic.gsfc.nasa.gov
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Lena Sun @lenasun.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
SCOOP: Two weeks ago, the head of the CDC delayed publication of a report showing covid vaccine cut likelihood of ER visits and hospitalizations by half. Now that report is no longer allowed to be published in CDC’s flagship scientific journal. My latest. 1/2 www.washingtonpost.com/health/2026/...
washingtonpost.com
CDC won’t publish report showing covid shots cut likelihood of hospital visits
The report, which had cleared the agency’s scientific-review process, had been delayed. It now won’t be published at all, people familiar with the decision told The Post.
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Ariel Waldman @arielwaldman.com · 20/04/2026
I am again asking people to pay attention to what has happened to our National Science Foundation and by extension thousands of researchers across the country. The devastation is ongoing and worthy of continued outcry to officials and journalists. 🧪
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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Absolutely incredible. NASA Astronaut Reid Wiseman, who commanded Artemis II, took this footage from the far side of the Moon with his iPhone. Watch with sound on.
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bowmaniac.bsky.social @bowmaniac.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
Fuck cancer
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bowmaniac.bsky.social @bowmaniac.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Blep
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bowmaniac.bsky.social @bowmaniac.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
Alleluia!
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bowmaniac.bsky.social @bowmaniac.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
"What the hell is even that?"
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
I don't think people fully appreciate how apocalyptic things are for US science. I haven't had any new funding since 2024, but I'm still ok since typical grants are for three years. This means next year I will be completely out of funding and will have to fire everyone in the lab. It's not great.
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bowmaniac.bsky.social @bowmaniac.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
That's a nice spot. But I'm pretty good at hide and seek... #GlovesInTheCity
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bowmaniac.bsky.social @bowmaniac.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
This is what social media is for
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bowmaniac.bsky.social @bowmaniac.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Schrödinger's boots
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Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Baseball is a beautiful, intricate game, and at its best is a joy to both play and watch--every other team in the WBC knew this. The US team, though, approached it like they were preparing to invade the straight of hormuz, and as a result when the in-game moments got big, they became small.
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Douglas Natelson @nanoscaleviews.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
⚛️🧪 This is very bad. Is Congress going to stand up for its own power of the purse? www.science.org/content/arti...
science.org
Analysis: Why the research money isn’t flowing from NSF and NIH
White House review of agency spending plans for this year is causing delays
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bowmaniac.bsky.social @bowmaniac.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
In the Spring a young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of umbrellas #GlovesInTheCity
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Jennifer N. Victor @jenvictor.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
This is an incredible documentation of the systematic, intentional collapse of American health science, by Elizabeth Ginexi. open.substack.com/pub/elizabet...
open.substack.com
I Wrote Research Funding Announcements for NIH for 22 Years. This Year They’ve Published 14
How NIH went from 756 funding announcements to 14 in two years — and what it means for every disease that depends on federal research
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Robert "The Bobby Yaga" McNees @mcnees.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
That’s 125% of the National Science Foundation’s annual budget, for anyone keeping track.
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bowmaniac.bsky.social @bowmaniac.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Someone sat in "my" pew at church this morning and I've felt discombobulated all day
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bowmaniac.bsky.social @bowmaniac.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Date night? #GlovesInTheCity
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bowmaniac.bsky.social @bowmaniac.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Is that a chewy box? We love chewy boxes! Is it for me? What's in it? #GlovesInTheCity
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Still up on the official White House website: www.whitehouse.gov/articles/202...
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bowmaniac.bsky.social @bowmaniac.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Not great
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