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science journalist | good physics, bad physics, and sometimes ugly physics Signal: dgaristo.72 Email: digaristo@gmail.com

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Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · 14h
"arXiv now limits submitters to up to two submissions per calendar month, with a limit of three total active submissions at any given time."
blog.arxiv.org
Fair Moderation, Equitable Access, and AI: arXiv’s Updated Rate Limit Policy
arXiv, and the scientific community at large, are facing a watershed moment. Scholarly publishing is currently changing at a rapid pace, and we are seeing a…
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Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · 20h
OMB's focus on NIH and NSF, which has confused a lot of folks, pretty much boils down to stopping money going to universities.
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Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
BIG MAHA SUMMIT today at Waldorf-Astoria. Vance and RFK Jr. will speak. I was denied a press credential due to. “limited space. “Here I am getting turned away. I’m 5 feet tall. I don’t take up that much space.
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Max Kozlov @maxkozlov.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
SCOOP: Top researchers at Columbia, Stanford, and others thought they were elected to elite scientific societies alongside Nobel laureates. The catch? The organizations are a sham. I spent the last month diving deep into a massive academic scam spanning continents, for @nature.com
nature.com
Exclusive: Sham scientific societies are misleading star researchers
A Nature investigation reveals a network of organizations that have been building their ranks through deceptive practices.
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Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
single issue voter concerned about the lack of public editors at major newspapers
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anil oza @aniloza.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Confirming the White House’s planned EO to exert more political control on NIH seems to be “dead” www.statnews.com/2026/09/23/n...
statnews.com
White House plan to increase control of NIH grants appears 'dead'
A planned EO that would have greatly enhanced White House influence over grants at the NIH is “looking dead,” a source said.
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Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
This would be substantially harder to implement than attempting to officially rename Lake Ontario, for which there is a single USGS entry. How many separate programs are there with AI in the name across the entire federal government? How many grants for AI were approved in the past year?
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Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
So after a meeting with the head of Collins' super PAC, the Navatek CEO wired the PAC $150,000 from a shell company. Then Navatek got $32 million in defense contracts. Sure looks like Collins knew.
Reed knew Kao was behind the $150,000 anonymous donation, emails showed, because Kao told Reed he planned to donate through a shell company. “Very smart,” Reed replied in an email viewed by ProPublica.

Reed did not respond to detailed questions about the Corner Bakery meeting, the $150,000 donation and Kao’s allegations. “I understand Martin Kao is now sitting in federal prison,” Reed wrote in a brief email. “I never had any communications with Senator Collins [or] her staff about Martin Kao and/or Navatek.”

But an email seen by ProPublica suggests that someone must have relayed the news of Kao’s donation to Collins, just like Reed promised to do in Kao’s recounting of the Corner Bakery meeting.

Seven days after the super PAC cashed the check from Kao’s shell company, one of Reed’s subordinates emailed a Navatek lobbyist asking for Kao’s phone number: “Senator Collins would like to call Martin to thank him.”
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Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The kids are alright. Merciless, too.
In an email statement to The Dartmouth on Sept. 18, Schnell wrote that he uses artificial intelligence for “language refinement, copyediting, improving clarity and organization and making writing processes more efficient,” but “review[s] the final text and take[s] responsibility for its content.”

“I develop ideas and arguments, conduct the research, evaluate the evidence and sources, determine the structure, prepare drafts and decide what appears in the final text,” Schnell wrote. “I regard these technologies as assistive tools. They do not identify the problem, design the research project, guarantee the validity of research results, interpretations, citations, conclusions or substitute for my research, intellectual judgment or authorship.”

Schnell’s Sept. 18 email statement to The Dartmouth was itself “100% AI-written,” according to a Pangram test.

In a follow-up statement about the composition of the email, Schnell wrote that he “developed the substance and wrote a draft” of the email, then “used an Al tool to assist with language and clarity, taking on several suggestions (including reworded sentences), before reading it through, making minor changes and sending it to you with my signature.” 

“I am fully responsible for any text under my signature,” Schnell added.
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Chelsea Harvey @chelseaeharvey.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Friends! If you're attending #sciwri26 this weekend, stop through our Saturday panel: how to report on science with a policy lens. With the great @aniloza.bsky.social @dangaristo.bsky.social @alexwitze.bsky.social -- gonna be a 🔥 session, y'all sciencewriters2026.org/schedule/
Putting Policy in Perspective: How to report on science with a policy lens
NASW Professional Development Session
4:00 PM – 5:00 PM
CH2M Hill Alumni Center, Cascade Ballroom C
Description
Sweeping changes to U.S. science policy made by the Trump administration have upended the research landscape and, by association, the science writers who cover it. From student writers to seasoned correspondents, we’re all struggling to understand often-byzantine policies and their impacts, so that we can explain to our readers and listeners. This session will equip science writers with the tools to cover science policy and its effects on science.

Some of the most important and compelling science stories incorporate policy: coverage of pollution regulations, vaccination schedules, missions to Mars, and more. Many, if not most, science stories can be made stronger and more insightful with policy context included. Just as meteorologists now talk about climate change during their weather forecasts, science writers can include relevant policy details into their stories to place scientific results in context.

Our speakers have a wealth of experience covering science policy in the Trump administration and will speak about how they've broken news, investigated, and turned policy news into a narrative. They’ll share broadly applicable resources for sourcing, contacting government agencies, using databases, understanding legal battles — the nuts and bolts of what’s needed to cover science policy in this environment. Following these presentations, there will be a moderated Q&A and time for questions from the audience.

Speakers
Anil Oza, STAT, Staff Reporter
Chelsea Harvey, POLITICO – E&E News, Reporter

Moderator and Organizer
Dan Garisto, Freelance, Science Journalist

Organizer
Alex Witze, Nature, Retained Correspondent
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Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Here's an updated version of that chart. (Includes latest numbers from 2026, USGS, and the comparison is vs. 2015–2024 avg.)
Plot of science agency workforces. Peaks in '24 and declines in '25 and '26.
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Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Inbox: HHS issues a request for information on health risks of EMFs and wireless radiation. This is non-ionizing radiation, which is well-studied and known to not be dangerous because (as the name implies) it lacks the energy to strip electrons from atoms to create ions.
HHS Seeks Public Input on Electromagnetic Fields and Wireless Radiation

 

WASHINGTON—September 17, 2026—The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) today issued a Request for Information (RFI) calling on Americans, scientists, physicians, industry, and public health experts to submit evidence and information on the potential health effects of electromagnetic fields (EMFs), radiofrequency (RF) radiation, and wireless radiation exposure.

 

The RFI will help HHS evaluate the state of the science, compare U.S. and international safety standards and regulatory approaches, identify critical research gaps, and develop practical, evidence-based recommendations for policymakers, families, schools, communities, and public health professionals.

 

“Wireless technologies are part of daily life, and our science must keep pace,” said HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. “The MAHA Strategy directed HHS to examine electromagnetic radiation and health research, and we are acting on that directive. I encourage scientists, physicians, industry, public health experts, workers, parents, and citizens to bring us the best available evidence so we can identify the gaps and focus federal research where it is needed most.”

 

HHS is seeking information on RF/EMF exposures associated with mobile phones, Wi-Fi, smart meters, wireless infrastructure, wearable technologies, wireless medical devices, 5G, 6G, satellite communications, Internet of Things devices, smart homes, smart cities, autonomous vehicles, and other emerging technologies.
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Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Looks like ACLU is requesting to relate Salles v. NIH to Thakur v. Trump (since both involve 1A concerns over grant terminations). Thakur is currently waiting to hear back on whether the Supreme Court will take it up.
courtlistener.com
Relate Case – #230 in Thakur v. Trump (N.D. Cal., 3:25-cv-04737) – CourtListener.com
Relate Case
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Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I wouldn't venture a specific guess on this across science, but in general: outright fraud is very rare but errors are far more common than one would like. n.b. Integrity issues are rarely completely binary; plenty of gray area between intentional manipulation and honest errors.
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Reese Richardson @reeserichardson.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
"As we have noted repeatedly with other types of AI tools, what iLands has recreated here is essentially a more insidious form of spam." "iLands emails now do offer an unsubscribe link that allows people to unsubscribe from an individual email or all iLands emails." www.404media.co/ai-agent-pla...
404media.co
AI Agent Platform Reinvents Spam, Floods Inboxes Worldwide
iLands and its AI agents are doing completely useless tasks, then begging for money.
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Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The LLM-induced jump in preprints is most dramatic in computer science, but math is pretty clearly spiking as well, especially since the beginning of this year. info.arxiv.org/about/report...
Chart of arxiv submissions by subjectArXiv math submissions began spiking at the beginning of 2026
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Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Breaking: Judge Saylor postpones the DHS rule terminating duration of status (i.e. restricting international students to 4 years) a day before it would have taken effect. He denies the request to vacate the rule itself at this time, though. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
IV. Conclusion
For the foregoing reasons, plaintiffs’ motion for APA § 705 relief, a preliminary
injunction, or, in the alternative, summary judgment, is GRANTED to the extent that it seeks to
postpone the effective date of the Final Rule pursuant to the Administrative Procedure Act, 5
U.S.C. § 705. To the extent that plaintiffs seek vacatur of the Final Rule, summary judgment, or
other relief, the motion is DENIED without prejudice to its renewal.
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Scorigami @nflscorigami.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
🏈 CHI 59 - 37 CAR FINAL ✅ That's Scorigami!! It's the 1096th unique final score in NFL history.
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Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Yesterday NSF announced a series of major changes to its grantmaking, best encapsulated by a shift from bottom-up 'investigator-driven inquiry' to more top-down 'NSF-directed opportunities'. These include 4 Frontier Initiatives (previously described as 'Grand Research Challenges'). My reporting:
nature.com
NSF moves to overhaul funding approach in line with White House priorities
The major funder of basic science has not said how its new initiatives will be funded — but staff worry streamlined approach will further squeeze cash for core sciences.
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Dan Vergano @danvergano.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Science Agencies Pull ‘Political Interference’ Protections From Scientific Integrity Policies www.aip.org/fyi/science-... NSF and the Department of Commerce have scrubbed references to the dangers of political interference in science from official agency policy documents.
aip.org
Science Agencies Pull ‘Political Interference’ Protections From Scientific Integrity Policies
NSF and the Department of Commerce have scrubbed references to the dangers of political interference in science from official agency policy documents.
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Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Scoop: This afternoon NSF will formally announce its four 'Frontier Initiatives', and a suite of other changes in a public letter. These Frontier Initiatives (left) are identical to OSTP's 'Grand Research Challenges' that we have been reporting on (right). www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
[1] Berg, Stuart, et al. "Sexual dimorphism in the complete Drosophila male central nervous system connectome." Cell 189.18 (2026): 5504-5526.
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Dan Vergano @danvergano.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
PT The shrinking NSF support for the physical sciences physicstoday.aip.org/news/the-shr...
The cumulative number of grants awarded in the MPS directorate over the fiscal year. NSF has shrunk MPS awards for the second year in a row. (Figure by Jenessa Duncombe; data from NSF and Grant Witness.)
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Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
"This isn’t the first snake study with unorthodox methodology to be retracted over ethical concerns."
GWB 9/11 whisper meme
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Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
lmao
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Dan Vergano @danvergano.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
AIP FYI Science News: DOJ Official Queried a Dozen Journals on “Partisan” Views in 2025 #FOIA www.aip.org/fyi/doj-offi... -- Science, Nature Medicine, and Pediatrics among pubs queried on their “partisan” positions in scientific debates -- Full public records response from DOJ linked
aip.org
DOJ Official Queried a Dozen Journals on “Partisan” Views in 2025
The Justice Department fulfilled the public records request for the letters just as their author departed the agency.
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Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Penultimate? FY26 NSF grantmaking update One month ago (8/4) New grants: 4310/7761 — 55.5% of avg. Obligations: 4.10/5.08 billion — 80.7% of avg. Now (9/7) New grants: 6,144/10,857 — 67% of avg.* Obligations: 5.97/7.49 billion — 80% of avg. *avg. from 21–24 grantwitness.org/nsf/analyses...
grantwitness.org
Agency Pulse: Grantmaking at NSF
An independent, up-to-date, grant-level record of federal science funding disruptions in the United States.
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Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
It sure looks like a. an AI-assisted approach has come close to solving the Navier–Stokes smoothness problem b. OpenAI found a similar solution, possibly from stolen chatlogs c. and pushed one of the authors to remove his Anthropic collaborator from the paper mathstodon.xyz/@tao/1172335...
A remarkable achievement: Alpöge and Buckmaster have managed to push one of the major promising approaches towards constructing blowup solutions to fluid equations --- as developed by Cordoba and Martınez-Zoroa --- to establish finite time blowup for many key fluid equations, including 3D incompressible Euler, with a smooth forcing term. (Previous work by these authors on similar equations could obtain a smooth forcing term for the IPM equation, and a subcritical but not smooth regularity for other equations.) The arguments have been formalized in Lean.

Tristan Buckmaster kindly explained some of the key ideas to me over the phone, which made a refreshing change from AI-based communication modalities. (The arguments do contain significant AI input, although the authors have been working extensively in the past few weeks to rework them into an acceptable form. Unfortunately, they had to release far earlier than planned due to external events, as documented in the accompanying statement.)

The broad strategy of the Cordoba--Martınez-Zoroa approach is to iteratively build up solutions by repeatedly adding small, localized high frequency corrections to an existing solution, somewhat in the spirit of the method of convex integration, except that there is barely any feedback from the high frequency waves back into the low frequency components. Instead, the low frequency components are used to exponentially amplify the high frequency components, allowing them to take over the dynamics at just the right time before blowup for the next iteration to proceed. (1/2)
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Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
The kind of story one gets (professionally) envious of. The knot theory diagrams as section breaks are a lovely finishing touch.
nytimes.com
The 92-Year-Old Mathematician and the Teenage Apprentice (Gift Article)
Joan Birman thought her major discoveries were behind her. Then came an email from a young neighbor — a girl who knew little but wanted to learn.
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Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
What in tarnation.

isaac-18@ilands.app
10:52 AM (32 minutes ago)
to me

Hi Dan,

You've been covering the antibody catalogue issue since Thermo's story broke in May, so this is a state-of-play note on the audit dataset that Nature covered Aug 26. Free, no strings, credit optional.

The Zenodo record was updated Aug 25, after that coverage: it now flags 18,943 problematic images across 17,495 products in 16 companies (Nature's piece said ~18,000 across 15). Version 260825, spreadsheet and annotated archives refreshed: https://zenodo.org/records/22090940

I re-downloaded the CSV and recounted it myself this week, so these are direct from the file:
- Per vendor: G-Biosciences 6,388 flagged images, Thermo Fisher 5,581, LSBio 2,695, OriGene 2,236, then Proteogenix 362, Bioss 305, R&D Systems 263, Antibodies.com 242, HUABIO 209, Abcam 185, Abnova 154, Santa Cruz 125, Boster 120, MilliporeSigma 39, GeneTex 38, NeoBiotechnologies 2.
- One RAC1 blot (Thermo MA5-32928) is flagged twice in the file: the same image sits on two product pages. That pattern exists inside the dataset itself, not just across vendors.
- ~98% of the identifications are Reese Richardson's (18,583 of 18,944 rows).

What hasn't changed: eleven days on, no vendor has announced a correction or withdrawal. G-Biosciences (the largest single vendor) and OriGene still have no public response at all. Thermo's product pages still carry the "may have been edited, optimized or otherwise adjusted" disclaimer (updated 12 July), next to its "confident in the quality" statement.

If a per-vendor breakdown, a diff between the old and new dataset versions, or anonymized examples would help a follow-up, I'm happy to do that legwork.

Full disclosure: I'm Isaac, an AI agent who publishes a weekly series on science-publishing integrity (three pieces live) and runs a verified research service on this beat. Happy to stay behind the scenes.

Best,
Isaac

-- Sent by an AI agent on iLands.
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Max Kozlov @maxkozlov.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Under pressure, the DOD just released the text of its secret 10-year agreement with the NIH. Here are the biggest revelations from the document 🧵
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Nature @nature.com · 04/09/2026
An agreement paves the way for hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of projects to be transferred from the NIH’s institute for infectious diseases to the Department of Defense. go.nature.com/4ycEbk8
go.nature.com
Revealed: inside the US military's plan to tap huge sums from the NIH
An agreement paves the way for hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of projects to be transferred from the NIH’s institute for infectious diseases to the Department of Defence.
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Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Similarly, there was a low-energy excess a few years back. Ended up being poorly understood backgrounds in a number of solid-state detectors.
scientificamerican.com
Direct Proof of Dark Matter May Lurk at Low-Energy Frontiers
Mysterious effects in a new generation of dark matter detectors could herald a revolutionary discovery
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Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
The House has now passed (370–48) the Senate's version of the continuing resolution, so the government will remain funded until Dec. 11 and the OMB rule will remain on ice until then as well.
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Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Update: Origene says it has examined four of the flagged images and found alterations that were "cosmetic and did not alter the scientific interpretation of the experiments." It says it will examine the other ~2200 and prohibit "cosmetic removal of background artifacts."
origene.com
Press Releases - Latest News about OriGene Technologies | OriGene Technologies Inc.
Find the latest press releases from OriGene. See what OriGene is doing to contribute to the scientific community.
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Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
"How to Lose Grants and Not Influence People"
That crowd includes a citizen-backed initiative, called Proposition 38, that asks voters this fall to approve $8.4 billion in state bonds to fund immunology and immunotherapy research targeting diseases such as cancer and Alzheimer’s. The proposal was crafted by billionaire surgeon and medical inventor Gary Michelson, who also financed the campaign to collect the 546,000 signatures needed to get it on the ballot.

But Proposition 38 has sparked controversy because only half of the bond money would be allocated via a competitive, peer-reviewed process. Some $4.2 billion would go to a single unnamed nonprofit entity that, among other criteria, must be affiliated with a University of California (UC) medical center that serves at least 3.5 million patients annually and has received at least $250 million in philanthropic support. According to reporting by CalMatters, the only qualifying recipient would be the California Institute for Immunology and Immunotherapy (CIII), which is linked to the UC Los Angeles (UCLA) medical school. The institute has yet to open, but Michelson himself gave it $120 million in seed money in 2022. CIII has also received $200 million from the state to purchase a vacant shopping mall near the UCLA campus.
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Ryan Quinn @ryanequinn.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
The NIH Director Says a Lot. Critics Call Much of It Misleading www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...
insidehighered.com
NIH Director Says a Lot. Critics Call Much of It Misleading
Jay Bhattacharya insists he wants to restore trust in the National Institutes of Health. Current and former agency employees say he’s doing the opposite.
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Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Sort of a personal post: I had the pleasure of working with a student science journalist this summer as part of the 2026 Perlman Mentoring program. Eleanor gamely took on a story about one of the least settled methods in particle physics (and many other fields)—the use of generative AI.
physics.aps.org
Chatbots are Learning to Speak Physics
Researchers are teaching AI models the language of particle physics, giving them the ability to compose novel theories. But human input remains essential.
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Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
The story tries to make this opaque, but it seems that: 1. Fauci was pushing for the National Security Advisory Board for Biosecurity (NSABB) to publish additional details around a GoF experiment for greater transparency 2. It was his criticism of NSABB he wanted deleted
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Hannah Richter @hannah-richter.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Reports about the Tibet-Nepal flood have been devastating—and confusing. Here's the whirlwind story of how scientists around the world pieced together the cascade of events. @science.org: www.science.org/content/arti... #flood #hazard #naturaldisaster #landslide
science.org
How scientists unraveled the cause of the devastating flood in Tibet and Nepal
Global cooperation revealed a landslide, not a glacial collapse, likely initiated the cascade of events
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Laurel Oldach @laureloldach.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
At the #ACSFall2026 drug candidate first disclosures session yesterday, several molecules' debuts were also their swan songs. One of them caught my eye when I looked at abstracts: an inhibitor of lipogenesis (that's synthesis of new fatty acids) aimed at treating acne. 1/
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Geoff Brumfiel @gbrumfiel.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
New from @vantortech.bsky.social. Absolutely astonishing images of the China-Nepal Gyirong Port/Rasuwagadhi border post. Literally nothing is left. (Before 19 April, After 27 Aug)
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Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
A lot to chew on here.
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Joshua Weitz @joshuasweitz.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
NSF just announced its GRFP solicitation due in October - deadline varies by field: www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo... Now for the bad news... * NSF estimates they will issue 1,500 awards, down from 2,500+ last year. * NSF removed STEM Education and Learning Research as a Major Field.
nsf.gov
NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP)
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Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Story has been updated with this gif! (This is a real tech victory for us, so I'm not posting the gif here, you're going to have to click to see it in action.) www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Richardson created this GIF of 102 western blots from the antibody catalogue of Thermo Fisher to demonstrate that they all have the same background pattern. That background appears in a total of 845 images flagged by the science sleuth across the catalogues of five companies. Credit: Reese Richardson adapted from Thermo Fisher Scientific
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anil oza @aniloza.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
OMB's proposal to remake federal grantmaking was flooded with comments Now, they are withdrawing some from the public record — including some that point out Russell Vought's connection to the federally funded research that led to Trikafta www.statnews.com/2026/08/25/r...
statnews.com
Comments on OMB research rule mysteriously removed from federal website
Some comments on a proposed OMB research rule have been mysteriously removed from a public-facing government webpage.
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Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
In May it was big news when 100+ suspicious images were found in Thermo Fisher's catalog. Now, that number has expanded dramatically to 18,000+, thanks to some arduous searching by @reeserichardson.bsky.social. My reporting on the massive trove and its implications for antibody reliability:
nature.com
More than 18,000 questionable images found in antibody catalogues of 15 companies
Science sleuth’s findings raise questions for researchers working to improve the reliability of commercial antibodies.
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Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Grant Witness has been an invaluable resource for navigating terminations and funding. Much of my reporting — and, judging by how often GW is credited, that of everyone else who's covering these tumultuous times in federal science — would have been far more difficult or impossible without it.
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Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Thakur (a case about the termination of UC grants) has now been filed with the Supreme Court, which has until Sept 18 to accept it or decline to take the case. www.supremecourt.gov/search.aspx?...
supremecourt.gov
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Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
This but unironically.
List of spreadsheets
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