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Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · 9h

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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STAT @statnews.com · 3h

A STAT analysis of NIH spending shows that in the 2026 fiscal year, which ended Wednesday, the agency continued reducing grant awards involving health disparities, race, and ethnicity but made little progress toward other Trump administration priorities. bit.ly/3Vu0JPq

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Emily @emilydawn.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

@hockeyviz.com I found some beautiful data viz for you

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Nigel Goldenfeld @nigelgoldenfeld.bsky.social · 4h

🧪 "Mr. Trump’s science adviser, Michael Kratsios, has criticized the agency’s system for deciding which grants to fund ... He also argued the N.S.F. should ... bypass external review panels.” Kratsios lost 90% of assets while CFO of Clarium Capital. Do you trust him with the US science portfolio?

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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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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

“A plurality of federal R&D funding goes to businesses, followed by internal R&D expenditure, followed by higher education.”

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Simon Cleary @simoncleary.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Nikon: '"At this time, we don't see that any rules were violated," it said in a statement.' www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Tiny image sparks big backlash in Nikon photo contest

Dr Ning Xu denies he broke the rules of Nikon's annual Small World In Motion contest.

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 01/10/2026

"This sort of behavior is entirely in character for the Trump administration—and, as it happens, a vivid example of the very kind of interference that the architects of agencies like NIH were desperate to avoid in the first place."

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This Is a Five-Alarm Fire for Medical Research

Future cures and America’s innovation lead are in jeopardy thanks to Donald Trump and Russ Vought’s latest scheme.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 01/10/2026

“We strongly recommend that AI labs refrain from treating the release of mathematical results as marketing vehicles to promote their models, ignoring the substantial negative externalities that this practice inflicts on the mathematical community.”

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Sasha Gusev @sashagusevposts.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

A searchable mapping between NIH study sections and program officers that doesn't suck. (Claude one-shot) sashagusev.github.io/po-study-sec...

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Cathy Abbott @cathyabbott.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Great reporting from @robinbisson.bsky.social on an absolutely dire funding situation…

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Luke Sjulson @lukesjulson.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This is truly awful. We all need to fight against this

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Annika Barber @annikabarber.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

🚨🚨🚨 Very urgent for many of us. I also just learned this today. Tell your friends. Tell your grant admins. 🧪

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Christophe 🔬 Leterrier @christlet.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I think I'm going to lose it being lectured on microscopy image presentation integrity by the winner of the Small Artificial World in Motion competition

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MwahahahahahadScientist @mads100tist.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This is it. This is what everyone is enabling by humoring genAI: you spend months writing something that took you years to get at, for an opaque algorithm that a few control to spit a number and cut you off right there and then. This is what we're up against 🧪

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John Stott @jpsastro.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I've seen the future and it's bleak. Coming to an inbox near you soon too I imagine. I don't use LLMs for anything I do and never will but it's depressing that I wrote something that no one ever read before it was rejected. 🧪 #academicsky

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John Stott @jpsastro.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Had a UKRI funded grant proposal rejected at the "AI triage stage". "This AI-based triage was used only to identify approximately 50% of the strongest proposals to take forward to full human review." 🧪 #academicsky

I am writing to let you know that, unfortunately, your application was not successful.

Review process

As part of the initial triage of the 179 proposals submitted to this call, each was assessed using an AI-based review. Every proposal was read independently by several different AI models against the same seven criteria used to shape this call (including cyber security relevance, research quality and novelty, importance of the problem addressed, feasibility of the project plan, likely outputs and impact, value for money, and responsible research practice), with each model asked to give a score and a written justification with supporting quotations from the text. To guard against any one model's idiosyncrasies, we also ran a second, independent process in which different AI models debated the merits and weaknesses of each proposal before reaching a judgement, again against the same criteria. Scores from both processes were combined to produce an overall ranking.

This AI-based triage was used only to identify approximately 50% of the strongest proposals to take forward to full human review. Projects selected for funding were drawn from those that progressed to the full human review stage. We recognise that AI-assisted assessment is a new and evolving part of the review process, and we are continuing to evaluate how well it aligns with the judgements of human reviewers on this call. We will soon produce a document detailing our method, so that others can build upon it and improve it.

Feedback on your application

Your application was not selected to progress beyond the AI triage stage. To provide transparency on the outcome of this assessment, we are sharing below the scores (out of 5) from each of the two AI review processes described above, together with the mean score across the two processes.

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I would be very interested in good examples where cell-based or computational models have been shown to be more predictive than animal models (ideally prospectively). I realize that animal models have plenty of issues, but I would documentation of the state of NAMs and computational models. 2/2

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Eugene Levy: Random Question For You

ALT: Eugene Levy: Random Question For You

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Leslie B Vosshall PhD @leslievosshall.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Transformative opportunity for early career faculty @hhmi-science.bsky.social #FreemanHrabowski Scholars competition opens 11/3/2026 but you can get started NOW: view application components, establish eligibility, and unlock example applications and other resources www.hhmi.org/programs/fre...

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Early Career Faculty Program | Freeman Hrabowski Scholars | HHMI

The Freeman Hrabowski Scholars Program offers comprehensive support to outstanding early career faculty committed to scientific excellence in their own research, and to fostering labs that expand the ...

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Toxicologist here. If you have a working liver and kidneys then you are already “detoxing.” Supplement use is one of the leading causes of liver and kidney failure. The only thing you’re getting rid of when you fall for these predatory wellness grifts is your money.

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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Two of the world’s most extreme & dangerous anti-vaxx activists & grifters—Andrew Wakefield and RFK Jr—headlining a conference held by the extraordinarily damaging anti-vaxx group Children’s Health Defense in the midst of the worst measles outbreak in 35 yrs tells you all you need to know about MAHA

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed." -Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953

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Anil Seth @anilseth.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

1/6 An extraordinary @nature.com paper has just landed from the lab of @sergiuppasca.bsky.social. They found a way to create "xenocortical mice" which have ~92% of their cortex occupied by a cortical organoid derived from human stem cells.

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Future Heist @futureheist.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

So the bad news about methods of cooling data center that use less water: they rely on forever chemicals. "In “two-phase immersion cooling” systems, servers are immersed in a pool of Pfas with a low boiling point." www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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‘Tidal wave’ of Pfas being launched to satisfy AI industry, campaigners warn

Big manufacturers planning to produce more of the forever chemicals to meet demand from datacentres

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Oded Rechavi @odedrechavi.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Departmental seminars when there's no pizza

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International Brain Research Organization @ibroorg.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

🧠 Applications are open for IBRO/Dana Foundation #BrainAwarenessWeek #grants! Help your community better understand the brain through an event/activity: 🌍 For 2027 events in Africa, Asia-Pacific, Latin America, US & Canada 💰 Up to USD 1,250 Apply by 15 Oct: ow.ly/sK8X50ZNFe7 #BrainWeek

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Mazen Kheirbek @mazenkheirbek.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Our new review is out now on the ventral hippocampus, highlighting a large body of recent work, from the information it represents to how internal state shapes its activity to how its circuits influence behavior.

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Neuronline (SfN) @neuronline.sfn.org · 11/09/2026

Want to learn more about SfN chapters? Explore these chapter spotlights and more on Neuronline to learn more about chapter leaders and how chapters fit into the SfN mission. Read now on Neuronline: vist.ly/5i5y8

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Society for Neuroscience @sfn.org · 27/08/2026

Lab visits are one of the most effective advocacy tools available to scientists. They give policymakers a firsthand look at the people, training, and timelines behind the science they fund. Check out our Lab Tour Guide to learn how to host a tour. 🔗 www.sfn.org/-/media/SfN/... #neurosky #scisky

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a birb @rhiolit.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

may be a long shot since I hardly have followers, but does anyone know a good, trans-friendly family lawyer based in the twin cities? have someone facing a potential custody battle over a trans kid whose other parent does not accept her and is trying to take her back to a red state

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iamals.bsky.social @iamals.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

"Reauthorization of ACT for ALS is critical"—Dr. Jinsy Andrews, ALS Neurologist Congress has 3 days next week to pass ACT for ALS before it expires September 30. We're at 1,600 signatures. Add yours and push Congress to schedule the vote → bit.ly/passA4A

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Molecular & Cellular Cognition Society @molcellcog.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Reminder to get your abstract in by September 15 for a chance to present at #MCCS26. Submit your abstract and register here: event.fourwaves.com/4599d6d4-273...

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

What are you doing with your midlife existential crisis? No wrong answers. Just trying to see something, as the kids say.

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BWJones @bwjones.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

You have to. We just had a 6% score go unfunded.

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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

An OB-GYN sued (often low-income, uninsured) patients for owing as little as $114. He charged them 18% interest. And oh, he had many of them *arrested* if they didn't follow through. That OB-GYN? Republican Senator Roger Marshall www.nytimes.com/2026/09/08/u... Insane story by Sarah Kliff

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Roger Marshall Sued 700 Patients for Debts; 81 Were Arrested. Now He’s a Senator.

Patients sued by Senator Roger Marshall of Kansas were routinely charged 18 percent interest, The Times found. Some had bank accounts garnished.

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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...

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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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Greg Folkers @gregfolkers.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Wash Examiner: Trump wants to cut NIH. What future medicines will your family lose? By David Adler @washingtonexaminer.bsky.social bit.ly/467WQSv

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Greg Folkers @gregfolkers.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

New NIAID Strategic plan Launched quietly I guess. Apologies if I missed the press release. No more discussion of emerging infectious diseases/pandemic preparedness. That's not good amid the many ongoing outbreaks/epidemics and the ones to come. NIH Jay Bhattacharya RFK bit.ly/4qYzkRa

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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

No one. No one. No one can ever say to me again that Jay Bhattacharya was a reasonable pick for NIH Director. He was and is an ideological zealot. This is his doing. Shame on him. Shame on Matthew Memoli, Jon Lorsch, John Powers and the rest of them at NIH.

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Cats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

We would not be able to feed ourselves or our cats without farm workers! Please follow and support @ufw.bsky.social this Labor Day. 🥣

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

So we want to livestream the rally tomorrow from the Save The Academy instagram account, but the accounts needs 1000 followers to allow livestreaming. Please please please can everyone go follow this instagram account? www.instagram.com/savetheacade...

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Instagram

Create an account or log in to Instagram - Share what you're into with the people who get you.

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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I talked to @donmoyn.bsky.social about the state of the government for my newsletter "It's sort of like if you had a car and you took out 10 percent of the parts of the car. It's not that the car is going to be 10 percent slower. The car is not going to work."

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The federal government is falling apart

Don Moynihan on what's been broken within the federal government.

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Dr Buki Fatona @bukifatona.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Hodgkin continues "To speak more personally, I could never have carried out the amount of scientific research I have achieved if I had not, at the time of my marriage, been earning a sufficient salary to permit me to pay for help in our home." The Research Council reinstated her assistant's grant.

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Dr Buki Fatona @bukifatona.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

When Dorothy Hodgkin--the only British woman to get a Nobel prize in science--heard that one of her assistants' grant had been cut because she got married, she wrote a furious letter to the Secretary of the Research Council dated 21st October 1955. #WomenInStem

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Nature @nature.com · 07/09/2026

Just two doses of psilocybin administered before chemotherapy completely prevented mice from developing neuropathy go.nature.com/3Vg19sq

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Magic-mushroom compound blocks a severe side effect of chemotherapy, in mice

Study shows that psilocybin acts on nerves to prevent the painful condition called peripheral neuropathy.

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Science Magazine @science.org · 05/09/2026

The Department of Defense has signed an unusual financial agreement with the National Institutes of Health, sparking outrage among Democrats and prompting skepticism from some in the biomedical community. scim.ag/4qTiMtW

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Outrage greets NIH pact that could funnel biodefense research funds to Pentagon

NIH director defends interagency plan as “100% aligned with our public health mission”

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