Mike Sieracki

A Compact for Control (opinion) No self-respecting institution of higher education should accept the Trump administration’s unconstitutional terms, Robert Post and Tom Ginsburg write.

A Compact for Control:
No self-respecting institution of higher education should accept the Trump administration’s unconstitutional terms, Robert Post and Tom Ginsburg write.
@yalelawschool-yls.bsky.social @uchicagolaw.bsky.social
www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view...

🌊 Job Opportunity with BGC-Argo! 🌊

We’re hiring a Data Analyst to work on processing, quality control, and scientific analysis of data from Biogeochemical-Argo floats.

📩 Interested? Reach out to Dr. Giorgio Dall’Olmo: gdallolmo@ogs.it

How We Can Eliminate the Need for Mined Minerals by 2050 - RMI Battery circularity strengthens the EV battery supply chain, improves its efficiency, bolsters the economy, and increases energy independence.

@rebeccasolnit.bsky.social and this

rmi.org/how-we-can-e...

The Battery Mineral Loop - RMI A comprehensive strategy to address the rising demand for battery minerals.

@rebeccasolnit.bsky.social The Rocky Mountain Institute has done good work on the circular economy for battery materials. Like: rmi.org/insight/the-...

Historic High Seas Treaty is a "turning point for humanity" - Oceanographic An historic treaty to protect the marine life and ecosystems of the high seas, the High Seas Treaty, will come into force in 120 days.

A United Nations treaty designed to protect the abundant marine life and ecosystems of the high seas - known colloquially as the High Seas Treaty - has received the 60th ratification required for the agreement to be brought into full force.

oceanographicmagazine.com/news/histori...

Yes, how do we know it’s our lucky day!?

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I think unregulated AI would be the end of social media. People seek truth and authenticity. It will take a while. And AI companies will be begging for regulation, but using different words.

Not sure that free speech and gun rights are compatible. Will we need to choose?

National Hurricane Center map of the Atlantic showing a storm system just off the coast of Senegal, marked in orange indicating a 40-60% chance of cyclone formation within 7 days, with an arrow heading mostly west and a little bit north

Latest test to our good luck this year on its way

Come join the BioGOSHIP team. In search of a postdoc at NOAA/Miami.

Who is working on what the new science funding will look like? Lots or work to do!

Opinion | How Short-Term Thinking Is Destroying America

How Short-Term Thinking Is Destroying America www.nytimes.com/2025/08/11/o...

“…in the short-term, Democrats must mobilize to ensure that we still have a democratic foundation to build upon on the other side. Yet their animating purpose should be to imagine, and then build, what will come after.”

Lofgren, AFGE Leaders Hold Press Conference Releasing NSF Employees' Letter of Dissent | House Committee on Science, Space and Technology The House Committee on Science, Space and Technology

Yay NSF!

democrats-science.house.gov/news/press-r...

Amid Fear of Retaliation, N.S.F. Workers Sign Letter of Dissent

Now NSF employees have also stood up.

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/22/s...

Characterizing organisms from three domains of life with universal primers from throughout the global ocean www.nature.com/articles/s41...

U.S. GO-SHIP seeks physical/biogeochemical oceanographer with hydrographic & cruise-planning experience to be Chief Scientist on Feb-May 2026 P04E (tentatively Costa Rica, to the Marshall Islands) Deadline August. 15 tinyurl.com/334y4daw 🌊

Thank you Naomi. Sorry I missed it

The problem was DOGEwould have been classified as essential workers and the wrecking ball would have had free reign. No regular workers to resist. The shutdown could happen soon enough.

They are highly recursive, just like A”I”.

Screen shot of question grom Grant Watch's submittal form, showing text: Submission Type Use "Grant Termination" for stop-work orders, unexpected non-renewals, or effective termination through updated notice of award. And options:, Grant termination, Grant application that was pulled in the review process / prior to funding, and Grant reinstatement. The toggle by "Grant reinstatement" is checked. Clear Selection

With news of court-ordered #NIH grant reinstatements, and rumors of changes to termination policy, we're trying to get a handle on what is actually happening to PIs. Your reports are the best info we have!

Please submit reports of *reinstatements* to grant-watch.us as well as terminations.

Judge Sides With Universities, Blocks NSF’s 15% Indirect Cost Cap A federal judge has blocked the National Science Foundation from implementing a 15% cap on the reimbursement of indirect costs on research grants funded by the agency.

Federal judge rules against NSF rate cap, a victory for research universities. #AcademicSky #HigherEd www.forbes.com/sites/michae...

BREAKING: Judge denies NSF's 15% indirect rate plan. Like the DOE and NIH attempts, it too has now been rejected by courts. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

THIS IS IT! THIS IS HUGE!!

PLAINTIFF'S WIN!!

Judge Young rules that the NIH grant terminations at issue in these cases are illegal and therefore vacated. BOOM!

Time for Congress to save American science … and the nation We believe the best hope for saving science and, perhaps, saving our form of democracy, is convincing at least a couple dozen Republican members of Congress that it’s up to them—that the stakes requir...

"the best hope for saving science and, perhaps, saving our form of democracy, is convincing at least a couple dozen Republican members of Congress that it’s up to them"

The new leadership cancelled planned events for NSF’s 75th anniversary and tried to prevent staff from even taking a group photo to celebrate the landmark. These are the faces of the hardworking employees they’ve been treating as disposable.

NSF, we appreciate you even if your own leaders don’t ❤️

Is rfk out now?

YouTube video by Amy Rodgers lastnsfhistorian

Hi. I'm Amy. Today's NSF's 75th anniversary, so I made a video: youtu.be/xnt2V4ygBG0
#ScienceMatters #NSFExcellence #AmericanInnovation #NSF #FederalScience #SciencePolicy #NSFRotator #PublicService #WeAreNSF
#SaveNSF #NSF75 #Scienceat75 #ISupportNSF #FundNSF

Wow, this is insane. @billgates.com: you want to spend your foundation money by 2045? Why not open up your own version of NSF to fund all science EXCEPT artificial intelligence, quantum information science, biotechnology, nuclear energy, and translational science?

Awful