Congress rejected massive cuts to US science budgets for 2026, but much of the money still isnβt flowing to researchers.
The culprit? The White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) is quietly slow-walking the release of funds. π§΅π
Congress rejected massive cuts to US science budgets for 2026, but much of the money still isnβt flowing to researchers.
The culprit? The White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) is quietly slow-walking the release of funds. π§΅π
Loved TACKY, a remarkable collection of deeply personal essays by @raxkingisdead.bsky.social! You'll never look at Creed, the Cheesecake Factory, or "The Jersey Shore" the same way again. π www.goodreads.com/book/show/57...
01.03.2026 17:06 β π 15 π 1 π¬ 1 π 0Donald the Dove, Hillary the Hawk By Maureen Dowd April 30, 2016
happy 10-year anniversary to this razor-sharp political prognostication
28.02.2026 23:00 β π 1296 π 246 π¬ 30 π 4Absolutely thrilled to have @theopennotebook.bsky.social join forces with @retractionwatch.com for a new fellowship program exclusively for local journalists! Details π
27.02.2026 18:43 β π 1 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0βWe know the fraudsters are going to fraud. Weβre gonna make it a little bit harder for themβ. @elisabethbik.bsky.social @abalkina.bsky.social & other sleuths share tips for detecting dodgy papers. By @sjmelchor.bsky.social @nature.com π§ͺ www.nature.com/articles/d41...
25.02.2026 16:22 β π 30 π 21 π¬ 0 π 1This is correct β π
26.02.2026 02:28 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0As of tonight, licenses of trans people across Kansas are being invalidated en masse, enabling the overnight criminalization of an entire group of people for going about our lives. Itβs often said you never know when youβre living through history, so let me assure you: thatβs whatβs happening now.
26.02.2026 01:30 β π 10800 π 5224 π¬ 86 π 339SACRED FERTILITY π₯΄
25.02.2026 22:53 β π 257 π 99 π¬ 15 π 13Ugh.
25.02.2026 22:15 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0βWe know the fraudsters are going to fraud. Weβre gonna make it a little bit harder for themβ. @elisabethbik.bsky.social @abalkina.bsky.social & other sleuths share tips for detecting dodgy papers. By @sjmelchor.bsky.social @nature.com π§ͺ www.nature.com/articles/d41...
25.02.2026 16:22 β π 30 π 21 π¬ 0 π 1Illustration of a small black cat with big shiny eyes looking up, sitting on a soft pink surface against a green background. Text above reads: βEvery now and then, I think I understand why roosters start the day screaming.β
25.02.2026 14:43 β π 819 π 256 π¬ 6 π 12$120,000 β thatβs the financial hit for new mothers over 20 years, in Denmark π©π°
24.02.2026 16:45 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0βThis research underlines the powerful role of the state in cushioning the financial shock of motherhood. But replacement income is not enough.β New study documents the financial hit new mothers experience -- and how much governmental aid can help. @nature.com π§ͺ www.nature.com/articles/d41...
23.02.2026 20:55 β π 5 π 3 π¬ 0 π 1If you need another reason to listen to @lyz.bsky.social βs amazing podcast, her theme song is a banger. Canβt stop humming it! πΆhttps://www.patreon.com/posts/151313199?utm_campaign=postshare_fan
22.02.2026 03:28 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
#RStats is up baby
www.infoworld.com/article/4129...
Pritzkerβs invoice to White House:
(via @nbcnews.com) @govpritzker.illinois.gov
headline at the Wall Street Journal: Itβs Called the βFitbit for Fartsββand Itβs No Joke Scientists developing a new underwear-able hope to do for gastroenterology what the Apple Watch did for cardiology By Christopher Mims Feb. 20, 2026
my work here (on this earth) is done
20.02.2026 21:56 β π 157 π 18 π¬ 16 π 6Ooh, here's a useful tool in the age of #AI hallucinations and LLM-generated content. arxiv.org/abs/2602.15871 -- CheckIfExist provides a web form to check if the refs in a paper you are reading (or perhaps, provided by an AI writing tool) are legit. π§ͺ
20.02.2026 16:21 β π 7 π 1 π¬ 0 π 1Nallo: a Nextflow pipeline for comprehensive human long-read genome analysis academic.oup.com/bioinformati... π§¬π»π§ͺ github.com/genomic-medi...
20.02.2026 15:01 β π 8 π 5 π¬ 0 π 0
Hard drives fail after a few years -- ever thought about writing your data into glass instead?
Microsoft has developed a ready-to-deploy system which, while pricey to read and write, could save data for millennia, with minimal storage costs π§ͺ
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
TFW you realize you can distill a bunch of joins and for-loops into about 10 lines of #tidyverse #rstats code. :)
19.02.2026 17:50 β π 8 π 2 π¬ 1 π 0So thrilled @lizzylawrence.bsky.social and @statnews.com have won a Polk Award for our coverage of the Trump Administration assault on science+health. I couldnβt be prouder of our powerful coverage and the many stories we were first on. What a team. www.statnews.com/american-sci...
18.02.2026 16:43 β π 58 π 18 π¬ 3 π 2ht @lyz.bsky.social and her wonderful essay, out today! www.patreon.com/posts/151038...
18.02.2026 15:20 β π 10 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0This is from 2019, but this is a fantastic essay by @raxkingisdead.bsky.social. magazine.catapult.co/people/stori...
18.02.2026 15:18 β π 25 π 7 π¬ 2 π 0@marynmck.bsky.social has an excellent TED talk on this.
17.02.2026 22:50 β π 81 π 27 π¬ 3 π 1
This is the Colbert interview with Texas Democrat James Talarico that Barri Weiss, David Ellison & Donald Trump donβt want you to see.
Twice in three months content on CBS has been censored. And this is only the beginningβ¦
Scoop: The NIH infectious-diseases institute (NIAID) will soon scrub βpandemic preparednessβ and βbiodefenseβ from its web pages, according to e-mails I obtained.
The directive is the start of a broader shake-up at NIAID, which has long been attacked by Republicans.
Let me just make a few little adjustments to that titleβ¦
βHow a scientist with a PhD in Geology and 25 years of experience is helping lead Californiaβs earthquake workβ
Way to devalue my experience.
A photo of Frodo speaking with Gandalf in the Mines of Moria: "I wish it had not happened in my time," said Frodo. "So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But the Dow is over 50,000."
14.02.2026 00:18 β π 2344 π 390 π¬ 17 π 12Apparently, neither am I.
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