Jule Higgins Bishop

Which countries breed Nobel laureates, and which import them? Without immigrants America’s medal haul would be much smaller

The share of foreign-born scientists recognised with a Nobel prize has increased in recent decades. Which countries are the biggest winners, and losers, of this scientific migration?

Trump's Terminally Online DOJ Could Be Killing Its Cases Just to Own the Libs Read more here.

NEW: Between her personal and DOJ accounts, Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Harmeet Dhillon tweets over 100 times a day — a behavior that can safely be categorized as chronically online. But could her social media presence be killing her cases? @jimsaksa.com explains👇

Smithsonian Institution Postpones Prestigious Portrait Exhibition The National Portrait Gallery said it decided to “proactively postpone” the Outwin Competition show ahead of a prolonged government shutdown.

As the Smithsonian prepares to run out of federal funding, the National Portrait Gallery has postponed an exhibition celebrating its triennial Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition.

Portland's Dancing Protesters Are Showing Us How to Stand Up to Trump The president wants us to be afraid. These activists are clowning him instead.

Perhaps deciding that it’s best to fight fire with fire, Portlanders have deployed a more joyful form of protest. wearing animal costumes while dancing in the streets in front of Trump’s heavily armed ICE troops.

Maine Gov. Janet Mills to run for Senate, seeking to dislodge Susan Collins Mills, a two-term governor, will join an already crowded field of Democratic candidates hoping to challenge the Republican who has held the seat for nearly three decades.

Maine Gov. Janet Mills, a two-term Democrat who drew the national spotlight after sparring with President Trump, plans to launch a campaign for Senate early next week, according to two people familiar with the decision.

Protect Source Leaks, Limit Leak Investigations Defending press freedom for the next generation

Journalists are not stenographers.

Use our easy action center tool to tell the Senate to reject a nominee for the Army’s top lawyer, who told Sen. @warren.senate.gov the government can punish reporters who publish news it doesn’t authorize.

China is building a thriving semi industry off US leftovers, export controls be damned House Committee on China wants more comprehensive ban on chipmaking equipment exports to Middle Kingdom US export controls have had mixed results in stemming the flow of chipmaking equipment into China, according to a congressional investigation, which found US and allied companies sold $38 billion worth of semiconductor tools in 2024 alone.…

China is building a thriving semi industry off US leftovers, export controls be damned

UK slaps Google Search with special market status, making way for stricter regulations | TechCrunch The CMA has designated Google as having "strategic market status" in the search and search advertising markets, which means the company has such "a substantial and entrenched" position that it requires special regulations to ensure fair competition.

The CMA has designated Google as having "strategic market status" in the search and search advertising markets, which means the company has such "a substantial and entrenched" position that it requires special regulations to ensure fair competition.

US Cancels Major Solar Project in Nevada Biden Had Championed The US is canceling a huge solar project in Nevada, the latest effort by President Donald Trump to limit renewable energy development.

The US is canceling a huge solar project in Nevada, the latest effort by President Donald Trump to limit renewable energy development

The vast, terrifying scale of Trump’s detention state With $75 billion and thousands of masked agents, ICE is just getting started.

The vast, terrifying scale of Trump’s detention state

Former Republican election official buys Dominion Voting — a target of 2020 conspiracy theories Voting equipment company Dominion Voting Systems, a target of false conspiracy theories since the 2020 election, has been bought by a firm run by a former Republican elections official.

Courts ruled Trump doesn’t have the power to mandate voting.
Dominion Voting is now privately owned by a Republican conspiracy theorist.

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Monsters in Chicago

They’re really excelling at selecting woefully underqualified individuals. The Justice Department has appointed retired Marine Corps Colonel Daren K. Margolin as the new head of its immigration court system.

Trump posted on Truth Social this morning claiming that Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson and Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker should be jailed for “failing to protect ICE officers.” Seriously? ICE officers are upset they can’t use restrooms or grab brunch.

Hoping these federal agents are held accountable, breaking the law should have real consequences. A federal judge has ruled that federal immigration agents illegally arrested more than two dozen people.

President Gustavo Petro of Colombia said his government believed one of the boats recently bombed by the United States in its campaign against alleged drug traffickers had been carrying Colombian citizens, not drug traffickers.

The loyalty purge continues. This week, FBI Director Kash Patel dismissed two longtime agents who had previously worked with Special Counsel Jack Smith, who led the federal investigations into Trump. Both agents had strong performance records, and no official reason was provided for their removal.

The monster is really coming for us all. General Letitia James has been indicted following Trump’s pressure campaign. She’s accused of committing “mortgage fraud.” The MAGA movement is weaponizing the Justice Department.

Renowned U.S. climate center trims staff ahead of expected budget cuts NSF-funded National Center for Atmospheric Research is already shuttered during shutdown

Anticipating steep cuts to its budget, the National Center for Atmospheric Research, one of the world’s leading climate research centers, has laid off 29 employees and decided not to fill 21 vacant positions. https://scim.ag/46yaM9g

Science teachers scramble as U.S. climate resources vanish As government websites go dark, some nonprofits are trying to fill the void

As government websites go dark, educators across the country have been reworking lesson plans and searching for reliable sources of up-to-date scientific information. https://scim.ag/46Vlwxu

Scientists scramble to track LA wildfires’ long-term health impacts Urban infernos spew a unique brew of toxic smoke and ash—with unknown effects on the risk of diseases such as cancer

After wildfires burned houses and brush alike in Los Angeles, researchers have mobilized to understand the health risks posed by urban conflagrations.

Learn more on #WorldHabitatDay. https://scim.ag/3WjuNdE

New research in #ScienceAdvances finds automated texts for California defendants reduced warrants issued for missed court dates by 20%. https://scim.ag/48FSnIX

AI reveals vast ‘ghost forests’ along U.S. coast Machine learning method counts nearly 12 million dead trees, many likely killed by rising seas

A machine learning method counts nearly 12 million dead trees, many likely killed by rising seas. https://scim.ag/3Wg37q3

When women researchers publish, media attention doesn’t always follow Men-led papers receive more media coverage than women’s, new study finds

In an analysis of 1.2 million news stories about scholarly research, men-led papers were found to receive more attention overall and were heavily overrepresented in the top 5% of most covered studies. https://scim.ag/4o7l5a5

"Without sharing … data, weather forecasts and early warning systems would not be feasible." - Petteri Taalas, Finnish Meteorological Institute

"Climate change and weather extremes affect everyone, everywhere. Countries should not retreat from supporting the early warning systems and related technologies that save lives," writes Petteri Taalas in a new #ScienceEditorial. https://scim.ag/42tU88u

Cuts in global health and climate hit Research Triangle Institute hard “Financial drubbing” underscores reliance of some independent research organizations on federal funding

President Donald Trump’s administration has terminated $352 million in grants and contracts this year to the Research Triangle Institute, the United States’s third largest independent research organization, a report estimates.

So excited to finally share our work on how birds responded to the 2024 Great American Eclipse! Thanks to @rosvall-lab.bsky.social for inviting me on this journey! I never expected any of my research to show up in @science.org, let alone on the cover. Surreal. I hope you enjoy it!

So proud of this multidisciplinary project, showing in particular the power of community science when enabled by user-friendly design, bolstering deep expertise.

In the 2024 solar eclipse, 11k observations from 1700 laypeople via a jointly developed, user-friendly smartphone app.🔭🧪