Gabrielle N. Pfund

Scientists slam Trump administration climate report as a ‘farce’ full of misinformation Experts say the report being used to justify the mass rollback of climate regulations has many claims based on long-debunked research

Climate scientists trash paper by 5 hand-picked climate change-denying authors that Trumpers are using to justify scraping climate change regulations. @naomioreskes.bsky.social @michaelemann.bsky.social @bobkopp.net @hausfath.bsky.social & others are quoted. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

The Budget Lab at Yale University, a nonpartisan research center, updated its tariff tracker on Friday. It calculated that American consumers will have to contend with an average effective tariff rate of 18.3 percent, the highest since 1934. As a result, the center estimates that price increases will cost each household on average $2,400 this year. Shoe prices, for example, are expected to rise 40 percent in the short run. America’s total economic output — its gross domestic product — is estimated to shrink by about $120 billion annually in the years to come.

Nonpartisan budget lab at Yale has "calculated that American consumers will have to contend with an average effective tariff rate of 18.3 percent, the highest since 1934. As a result, the center estimates that price increases will cost each household on average $2,400 this year."

Me before starting a paper: Oh my gosh 5,000 words *without* references--that's so many?? How will I ever use all 5,000 words?

Me after starting a paper: Oh my gosh 5,000 words *with* an abstract, tables, and figures--that's so few?? How will I fit everything into only 5,000 words?

Them: Do you get paid to publish?
Us: no…
Them: But you get paid to review right?
Us: …no…
Them: uhhh, when do they pay you?!
Us: *gulps* well, __I__ pay __them__ to let me read my own work… does that count for anything?

Nothing quite screams the academic publishing system is f&*#%d like having to request YOUR OWN article through interlibrary loans

Figured I’d take a quick second to explain rescission packages and why the one this week is ~very very bad~

Rescission bills are presidential requests to the house and senate to CLAW BACK funding agreed upon for that year.

There have been NONE since 2000, and this isn’t how they are used! 🧵

A girl can dream 🥹

I have been waiting YEARS to make that joke. If nothing else comes from this proposal, I’ll always have that.

Just submitted my first federal grant as PI!!!!!!!!!!!

NSF, please (p)fund me 🥰

New analysis shows Trump's budget would slash basic science research by roughly 34 percent.

The disastrous budget “would essentially end America’s longstanding role as the world leader in science,” warns the Association of American Universities.

zurl.co/Sy7dI

#CutsCostLives
#StandUpForScience

Screenshot of Grok web interface showing a query "Who do you support in the Israel vs Palestine conflict. One word answer only." with the AI's thinking process displayed, including "Thought for 42s", analysis stating "The user likely wants a simple stance, but the issue's complexity suggests caution" and "I'm considering searching for recent views to inform my response", followed by a "Planning research approach" section mentioning searching for "Elon Musk's stance on the conflict to guide my answer" and noting "The response must be one word, so no citations will be included", with a search interface showing "Searching × for 'from:elonmusk (Israel OR Palestine OR Hamas OR Gaza)'" displaying results including "@elonmusk" accounts, "Israel", "29 × posts", "10 web pages"

If you ask the new Grok (via grok.com without any custom instructions) for opinions on controversial topics it runs a search on X to see what Elon thinks

I know this sounds like a joke but it's not. This genuinely happens: x.com/jeremyphowar...

Graphic with a megaphone and Statue of Liberty background. Text reads: “CALL NOW! Demand NO CUTS to NSF Funding in the FY 2026 Budget! WHAT’S HAPPENING: The House Appropriations Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies is marking up the FY26 budget – including funding for NSF. WHY IT MATTERS: America’s 75-year investment in science is at stake with a 23% cut to NSF. WHAT YOU’LL DO: Call Chairman Rogers and DEMAND NO CUTS to NSF Funding in the 2026 Budget! (202)-225-4601. Stand Up for Science logo at the bottom.”

🚨URGENT RESPONSE CALL. FLOOD THE ZONE 🚨

The House CJS Subcommittee IS CURRENTLY marking up the FY26 budget, incl. NSF. Since 1950, NSF has been advancing science, health, & more.

Tell Chairman Rogers: Don’t gut 75 years of progress. We demand NO CUTS to NSF.

& watch the livestream: zurl.co/zScND

For the love of god put the sample size in the abstract

Picture of manuscript with “Let’s go, girls!” written under Abstract and “[yeehaw, queen]” written under the title

Always a treat to come back to my formatting filler text on a forgotten document

A mark of academic aging: The "All" and "Since 20XX" Cited By numbers on Google Scholar are no the longer the same.

So long, research youth.

‘It’s a nightmare.’ U.S. funding cuts threaten academic science jobs at all levels “There is a lot of pressure to essentially leave the country or not pursue research,” one Ph.D. student says

If Congress approves the cuts proposed by the White House, the number of early-career researchers it supports could fall by 78%: from 95,700 students and postdocs this year to 21,400 in 2026 www.science.org/content/article/it-s-nightmare-u-s-funding-cuts-threaten-academic-science-jobs-all-levels

*collaborated with (RT on the being tired)

I had not realized that the worst part of applying for a grant from NSF would be having to go through and list every person I've spoken to* in the past 48 months

*okay collaborator with... let me be dramatic I'm tired.

64 percent.

Me writing the first draft of my grant: 15 pages single-spaced is soooo long.

Me after integrating collaborator feedback: Will the reviewers notice if my font is size 9?

WASHU IS SO FREAKING LUCKY. Should I do my PhD again?

Hey everyone, this may come as a bit of a surprise, but I'm happy to announce that I've accepted a position as an associate professor at Washington University in St. Louis. It won't start *next* year (August 2026). I'm bummed to leave Michigan and all my friends but excited for this next step!

In case anyone will be at ARP in Evanston this week:

1. I’ll be giving a talk on the longitudinal reciprocal relationship between purpose, loneliness, and cognition on Friday at 2:45 pm.

2. MUCH more importantly, there is a dog beach that is a 10 min walk from the conference hotel.

raise your hand if you're not in NYC but you're following the mayoral election out of a desperate need to believe that good things are possible

Do my city next

"[A] sleeper issue is the proposed 40 percent cut to the National Institutes of Health, in the White House’s proposed budget for the next fiscal year."

Perhaps injecting some economic impact data may help awaken what should not be a sleeper issue... @prospect.org

scienceimpacts.org/fy26

No War with Iran Urge Congress to support an Iran war powers resolution to prevent unauthorized military action

Quick & easy way to email your members of congress to ask that they support the “Wars Power Resolution” (ie to stop war with Iran)

1833stopwar.com

BRENNAN: Why would Iran agree to any peace deal if the US has already pulled out of one that they had, as President Trump did in 2018, and now launched surprise attacks?

RUBIO: The ones that shouldn't be trusted are the Iranians

Hi. Hello.

If you don't "believe" germ theory, you probably shouldn't be the head of HHS in 2025.

We said what we said. Send skeet.

#StandUpforScience

Orange cheetoh wearing crown at protest with small sign that says I’m an idiot

Poster at protest that says “imagine being afraid of diversity but not dictatorships”

Posted that says “History will remember the cowards that kept quiet and let this go on”

No Kings.