What's Happening Inside the NIH and NSF

I've never seen a piece in Science that raidates more emotion- to use the author's excellent phrase, "volcanically pissed off". Essential (if awful) reading.

What's Happening Inside the NIH and NSF | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/blog...

Inside Musk’s Aggressive Incursion Into the Federal Government The billionaire is creating major upheaval as his team sweeps through agencies, in what has been an extraordinary flexing of power by a private individual.

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Your writing makes me smile. Glad to be following you here on Bluesky.

Why I'm quitting the Washington Post Democracy can't function without a free press

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I would love a copy if you are willing to share!

‘No Way To Prevent This,’ Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens MADISON, WI—In the hours following a violent rampage in Wisconsin in which a lone attacker killed at least two individuals and injured six others, citizens living in the only country where this kind o...

The 39th time we've had to post this, and this time about The Onion's original hometown.

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Maybe one of the reasons there are so many unhinged academics is that in order to keep your job, you’re constantly required to tout yourself as a Scholar of World-Historical Significance, even as your office’s ceiling tiles slowly dislodge themselves to fall on your head.

One of the most surprising lessons for me during my 30 years of doing science is how it's essentially impossible predict what major scientific breakthroughs will emerge or where they will emerge from. But the way we fund science is mostly based on the assumption that we can make such predictions.

This week in Science Without Anguish:

Loneliness and the long distance researcher. Overcoming isolation for science and wellbeing.

www.sciencewithoutanguish.com/blog/overcom...

This is the last post in Series 2. Stay tuned for webinar announcements, plans for a coaching programme and Series 3.

Anyone else coping with feelings of doom by stealthy planning of how to turn chunks of grass into habitat for insects and birds? #nativeplants #homegrownnationalpark