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Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽 @needhibhalla.bsky.social · 3h

"Once the midterms are over, they say, Trump officials who have retreated from some moves after heavy blowback may feel free to pursue more radical changes in the federal research landscape during Trump’s last 2 years in office...'It’s hard to know what’s up Russell Vought’s sleeve.'”

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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 3h

More from my earlier posts—>

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kelsey ables @kelseyables.bsky.social · 22h

New: The White House is conditioning $190 million for the Smithsonian on compliance with its executive order "Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History" through legally-binding footnotes in recent OMB apportionments. www.theatlantic.com/culture/2026...

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The White House Revives a Pressure Tactic Against the Smithsonian

The Trump administration is threatening $190 million in museum funding.

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Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD @prasad.bsky.social · 3h

Ohio’s own JD Vance tells us that only “Heritage Americans” count

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 3h

Trump admin's new rule adding prohibitively expensive new fees for "OPT"—temporary work authorization program for international students and new grads in the United States—is out. Would require colleges to pay $70,000 for year one. $30,000 for years two and three combined for STEM fields.

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Daniel Bolnick @danielbolnick.bsky.social · 3h

Not sure I’ve ever seen an essay that so precisely hits the mark as this. Read it. Share it.

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 21h

Uh, whoa. But if you're curious as to WHY the Kansas Senate race — which features Methodist megapastor Rev. Adam Hamilton as the Democratic nominee — is suddenly a toss up, I went down and spoke to and members of his church last month. What I found was striking: religionnews.com/2026/09/23/h...

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How megapastor Adam Hamilton could break the GOP's hold on Kansas

LEAWOOD, Kansas (RNS) — While Democrats have long been considered a longshot for statewide races in Kansas, the Rev. Adam Hamilton's candidacy has proven unexpectedly competitive.

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The UnPopulist @theunpopulist.net · 4h

Jeff Flake once estimated that at least 35 Republican senators would vote to remove Trump if the ballot were secret. A Democratic Senate could give them that chance. @andycraig.bsky.social

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A Democratic Senate Should Adopt Secret Impeachment Ballots on a Priority Basis

Such a change, requiring no constitutional amendment, would free senators to vote their judgment instead of their fears

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 4h

Ahead of a $39 billion 10-year note auction at 1p.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 5h

“.. We don’t have the attitude, the infrastructure, or the resources. We lost that battle decades ago, and cannot will it back.” @fastcompany.com @scottlincicome.bsky.social www.fastcompany.com/91617670/why...

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Nereide @drnereide.bsky.social · 5h

#NobelPrize2026 in #chemistry Kagan showed that, in certain reactions, a small predominance of a molecule’s "right-handed" or "left-handed" form (in the catalyst) can produce a much higher excess than expected. 🧪 #HistSci #Science

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Mark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social · 6h

One of the coolest topics in molecular evolution

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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 14h

Umm wow. Michael Lewis’s new book says what about NIH??? “He was terrified," said Brought. "He'd never been close to power. He'd never even worked with someone who had been so close to power… He was there because he’d follow orders.”

the job, Memoli simply did whatever downtown told him to do. And downtown had told him to do crazy stuff: fire all the younger scientists, for example, and forbid NIH scientists from buying any supplies that cost more than a dollar.
Memoli's executive secretary, a former Marine Corps intelligence officer named Nate Brought, had finally sat Memoli down and said, Right now you kind of look like a bitch. And everyone here is seeing you like a bitch. You gotta man up. "He was terrified," said Brought. "He'd never been close to power. He'd never even worked with someone who had been so close to power. He didn't know what he was doing. He was there because he'd follow orders."

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David Burbach 🇺🇸 @dburbach.bsky.social · 5h

Apparently this kid, Ed 'Big Balls' Coristine, with a screaming red flag criminal background is *still* in a sensitive federal job, head of engineering for the national design studio, which builds high profile public facing govt websites www.wired.com/story/myster...

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A Mysterious Nonprofit Run by SpaceXAI’s Top Lawyer Is Paying the Salaries of Government Workers

The National Design Studio has been something of a successor agency to DOGE. A WIRED investigation finds some of its members are on loan from a nonprofit run by SpaceXAI’s general counsel.

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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 6h

Censorship is the point. “Republican lawmakers say faculty can only call it the Gulf of Mexico for ‘historical purposes’ in academic courses. Journalists are constrained by the restriction, too.” www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...

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Alabama’s New “Gulf of America” Mandate Impacts Colleges

Republican lawmakers say faculty can only call it the Gulf of Mexico for “historical purposes” in academic courses. Journalists are constrained by the restriction, too.

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 14h

Terry Tao @teorth.bsky.social: Indiscriminate brute-force application of AI to mathematics is depleting the field of good questions without renewing this resource or providing commensurate value. OpenAI: We hear you. Here's a .zip file with 377 hasty AI solutions to important open problems.

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OpenAI Releases Findings on 377 Math Problems, Further Roiling Field (Gift Article)

After a previous solution angered mathematicians, the company characterized the new release as being more responsive to concerns about A.I. disrupting research.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 6h

oh this is going to be a cavalcade of shit and I can’t wait to watch it go down

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Faye McNeill @vfmcneill.bsky.social · 5h

The timing of this reporting with Nobel announcement week is chilling

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 5h

It happened again! Another leaked audio of Ken Paxton from his supporters or aides! Must be because they all love this guy and want us to know him better. www.axios.com/2026/10/07/k...

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Exclusive: Paxton privately blames campaign woes on Iran war, gas prices

The GOP Senate candidate told donors he doesn't "know what was behind some of the decisions."

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Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD @prasad.bsky.social · 16h

it’s high school all over again the country club kids are butthurt about curve breakers turning their gentleman’s C into the slightest of liabilities

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Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD @prasad.bsky.social · 16h

meanwhile superpowers are meant to compete on the global stage

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Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD @prasad.bsky.social · 17h

“too meritocratic” is a wild thing for a supposed conservative to say

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Jane Coaston @janecoaston.bsky.social · 18h

they were *lying* when they were "worried" about Asian-American college applicants, and they are *lying* now when they're "worried" about "strivers." They do not want non-white people being in any way superior (or evident) to white people. that's it. that's the whole thing.

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Jane Coaston @janecoaston.bsky.social · 19h

I long for just straight up racism instead of this "actually white people possess uh ancient ways of knowing and studying hurts us"

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Jane Coaston @janecoaston.bsky.social · 19h

they're all just lying, it is tremendous lying, but it is just lying

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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 17h

You have to “execute” the instruction under the Take Care Clause, not “ignore” the instruction. This is the same twinkly-fairy stuff they pulled in the first Trump impeachment.

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Matt Darling @besttrousers.bsky.social · 17h

...as a Dad, I talk about the virtue of hard work to my daughter, like, all the time.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17h

"What will it take for you to admit you are ever wrong?" -- Troy Jackson nails Susan Collins on her vote to confirm Kavanaugh, 8 years to the day after Collins cast the vote that doomed Roe v Wade

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Schrödinger's Sneetch Belly @rtodkelly.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

It's absolutely bonkers to me that this image led directly to this tweet.

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Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD @prasad.bsky.social · 17h

of course it’s Tim Carney “hustle” (laudatory) is coupled to race, ethnicity, and gender who’s remotely surprised?

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A.J. Bauer @ajbauer.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Incredible.

Analysis. Does a sex assault claim kill a political career? It depends.

Ghraham Platner’s swift exit followed Eric Swallwell’s similar departure from the California governor’s race, but Republicans have taken a different tack.

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Barbara Mellone 🇺🇦 @centromellone.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

An other example of the value and beauty of fundamental biology research: we don’t always know what kind of future applications will be made possible by a basic discovery. This work in a single-celled alga open the doors to optigenetics 💡🧬

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Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · 21h

In response to our questions, an NSF spokesperson said that SBE has not been shut down. But with zero SBE-specific funding opportunities, no review panels, and dwindling numbers of staff, it's hard to see the directorate continuing for much longer.

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Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · 21h

But no part was hit as hard as SBE, which went from an average of 800 new grants to just 91, a precipitous, 90% decline. SBE spent just 95 million on new grants, far less than its average of 247 million.

Chart of SBE new grants by FY shows a massive decline in FY26

Chart of obligations by SBE shows a 62% decline in FY26

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Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · 21h

NEW: In March the White House released an FY27 budget request that zeroed out the National Science Foundation's directorate of Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences (SBE). For months it was unclear what would happen. Now, with FY26 over, the damage to SBE is coming to light. My reporting:

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‘Complete devastation’: How NSF gutted its social sciences research

Agency body that funds sociology, linguistics, and archaeology studies in U.S. gave 90% fewer new grants this year

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 20h

One striking difference between NIH and NSF is that NIH seems to have leadership able to push back against Vought, as well as a broader public base of support in Congress. NSF leadership seem to be doing nothing to push back against the killing of social science research.

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 20h

Fuck.

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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I'm very excited to share that I had the pleasure of working with Michael Lewis on a section of his new book Blockers: Rebels in the Deep State! This is SUCH an important book that tells the stories of seven public servants standing up to DOGE. Buy it here: bookshop.org/p/books/bloc...

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Blockers: Rebels in the Deep State

An inside look at the early days of Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency, as told by the public servants it targeted and one of America’s best storytellers.Blockers. It wasn’t a compliment. In ...

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Nobel Prize @nobelprize.org · 06/10/2026

Can particles move faster than light? Have a look at the video to learn more about Cherenkov radiation – the discovery that received the 1958 physics prize. This was a key component in the experiments made by today's physics laureate Francis Halzen in his research on neutrinos.

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Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 06/10/2026

US naturalization approvals have dropped 74% in the last year

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Today would be a particularly great, long overdue day for the Chancellor of the University of Wisconsin - Madison to get up in front of microphones & explain to the public, voters, students, & their families that we are facing an existential crisis because of the GOP’s illegal federal funding cuts.

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Geoff Brumfiel @gbrumfiel.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The IceCube neutrino detector has won the 2026 Nobel Prize in physics. The Trump administration has proposed slashing its budget in half in 2027.

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Science Magazine @science.org · 06/10/2026

This year’s #NobelPrize in Physics has been awarded to Francis Halzen of the University of Wisconsin-Madison for devising a new way to do astronomy. Learn more: scim.ag/4AIMM06

Architect of South Pole observatory wins physics Nobel
Francis Halzen honored for work on IceCube Neutrino Observatory, used to discover ghostly particles from far off universe

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Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD @prasad.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Butterfly meme.jpg: “is this sharia law?”

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Dan Silverman @dmsilverman.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Amazing Martha MacCallum has to say “I’m interviewing YOU” when pressed repeatedly by AES on her pro-Iran war orientation Candidates need to make every hostile interviewer say that line

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

sadly the huge leaps forward in machine translation are likely to deprive us of such reliable gems as "dry" and "fuck" in Chinese using the same simplified character or my all-time favorite "Racist Park" (which was also an accurate description of the park, as it happened)

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