Karianne Bergen

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Trump’s Get-Tough Approach on Homelessness May Sweep Up Veterans The administration has pledged to end support for Housing First, the approach behind the V.A.’s greatest housing success story.

Many who work with homeless veterans said they were blindsided by President Trump's pledge to end support for Housing First, the approach behind the VA’s greatest housing success story.

The purpose of academic freedom is not to allow faculty to live cushy lives free from criticism or constraint. Its purpose is to allow them to investigate widely and report (or criticize) the results openly, instead of allowing politicians to decide what is true and what is not.

Hidden Inside Our Electronics, Tiny Doodles From Another Era

I hope this article about doodles etched onto silicon chips offers you some relief from all the doom.

Challenge: post your last photo taken in DC to show what a hell-hole it is.

If you are applying to a PhD, don't use an LLM in composing your proposal.

If you are doing a PhD, don't use an LLM to do the writing and reading and thinking for you.

Sorry, I am going to die on this hill.

Postdoctoral Position — Machine Learning and Downscaling to Advance Ecological Applications | Climate Change AI As part of an IVADO initiative on AI and environment, a coalition of Montreal labs is recruiting a postdoctoral researcher for an interdisciplinary project applying state-of-the-art machine learning a...

Postdoc opportunity in collaboration with our lab on downscaling/superresolution for biodiversity, details here:
community.climatechange.ai/c/postdoc/po...

I’m thinking today about all the women doing DEI work in universities, and how all of our canceled grants and shuttered initiatives means that not only are we losing the time we’ve already put in, we’re now even more behind our male peers who stayed focused on their research.

We traveled to DC to talk to Congressional Staffers about the impact of NIH and NIBIB funding. It enables us to develop synthetic biology tools to advance cell & genetic medicines for patients in need. REPOST to deliver the message that SCIENCE saves lives & makes America GREAT!

Someone take up this very generous offer! I also recommend checking out the resources from the OpEd Project if you want to learn to write opinion: www.theopedproject.org

If any of my scientist *mutuals* wants to write an op-ed for their newspaper about science but you’re not feeling confident about your writing skills, I will happily ghost co-write the piece with you. I’m fast, and I’m pretty good. And we need people making the case for science. 🧪⚛️🔭

For those attending #AGU2025, consider submitting an abstract to our session “Advances in Machine Learning for Solid Earth Geoscience”.

Please share with your network!

NOAA Proposes Permanently Closing Premiere Hurricane Research Institute In its proposed 2026 budget released Monday, NOAA closes all federally funded weather and climate research labs, including the one responsible for maintaining the nation’s top hurricane models

It's hard to adequately summarize how destructive NOAA's 2026 proposed budget released on Monday is for hurricane forecasting, but I crammed all I could into today's newsletter. I encourage everyone with interests along the coast to read it carefully. ⬇️

Commentary: Project 2025 spells disaster for oceans and coasts in a changing climate Project 2025’s authors and contributors — a who’s who of fossil fuel industry insiders and climate denialists — have proposed policies that paint a terrifying future for the ocean and the mil…

When I wrote an op-ed during the campaign saying that Project 2025 called for the near-total elimination of NOAA and that ocean scientists should therefore oppose Trump and support Harris, senior scientists in my field called me alarmist and hysterical and unprofessional

🧪🦑🦈🌎

Trump’s new ‘gold standard’ rule will destroy American science as we know it | Colette Delawalla The new executive order allows political appointees to undermine research they oppose, paving the way to state-controlled science

Very good piece by some great people about the "Gold standards" for science that are nothing but a Trojan horse to make science subservient to politics. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

We did the math on AI’s energy footprint. Here’s the story you haven’t heard. The emissions from individual AI text, image, and video queries seem small—until you add up what the industry isn’t tracking and consider where it’s heading next.

Noting that our AI footprint today is likely the smallest it will ever be, ‪@technologyreview.com‬ offers a comprehensive — and sobering — analysis of how much energy the AI industry uses and where it's headed. www.technologyreview.com/2025/05/20/1...

A small Montana town grapples with the fallouts from federal worker cuts Science is an economic driver in Hamilton, Mont., thanks to Rocky Mountain Laboratories, a federal research lab. Now, layoffs and funding cuts are having an impact in this town far from Washington.

Science is an economic driver in Hamilton, Mont., thanks to Rocky Mountain Laboratories, a federal research lab. Now, layoffs and funding cuts are having an impact in this town far from Washington.

All the gratitude --

- to scientists who've reported their grants to grant-watch.us. Your willingness to share matters & has made a difference.

- to @aniloza.bsky.social for this article and many others that document the destruction of American science.

- to @noamross.net as the perfect teammate.

Trump Has Cut Science Funding to Its Lowest Level in Decades The lag in funding extends far beyond D.E.I. initiatives, affecting almost every area of science: chemistry, computing, engineering, materials and more.

I want better futures, not whatever is next when you don’t invest in discovery and education.

“Economists have warned that cutting federal funding for scientific research could, in the long run, damage the U.S. economy by an amount equivalent to a major recession”

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

9 Federally Funded Scientific Breakthroughs That Changed Everything

We wouldn't have some essential everyday things without federal funding for science.

Opinion | I Came to Study Aging. Now I’m Trapped in ICE Detention.

America is intentionally squandering our global scientific advantage by persecuting academics and researchers. There is beauty and wonder in the quest for scientific understanding, and we should be helping that curiosity bloom, not crushing it under jackboots.

www.nytimes.com/2025/05/13/o...

The NSF Is Being Dismantled — With Broad Implications For The American Economy The economic consequences of cuts to the National Science Foundation and restricting scientific inquiry on this scale could be far-reaching.

“The Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas — hardly a partisan institution — finds that nondefense government R&D yields long-run economic returns of 150% to 300% …“Our findings therefore point to a misallocation of public capital, and substantial underinvestment in nondefense R&D.”

Calling all science advocates!! Carlos Brody+ are creating a searchable database of tangible science benefits, and they need you.

publicusaresearchbenefits.com

They are asking for suggestions - from brief to lengthy. The database is state-searchable, so all 50 states.

Please spread the word!

Rapid Response Bridge Funding Program In the face of recent abrupt shifts in federal funding for education research, including large-scale terminations of National Science Foundation (NSF) research grant awards, we have developed a rap...

I’m generally a cynic. Glass half empty kind of guy. But then I see something like this and think…there are good people out there. be positive and have hope. There is light in darkness. Early career scientists are being prioritized. Take a look! 🧪

www.spencer.org/grant_types/...

Trump’s Cuts to Science Funding Could Hurt U.S. Economy, Study Shows (Gift Article) Reducing federal support for research and development could cause long-run economic damage and reduce government revenue.

Cutting federal funding for scientific research could cause long-term economic damage, equivalent to a major recession.

A 25% reduction in public support for research and development results in a 3.8% drop in economic output. A 50% reduction lowers GDP by ~7.6%, and a 75% cut reduces it by ~11.3%.

My Paris-based university is recruiting a researcher in machine learning, with a 5-year contract and reduced teaching load. The hosting lab (CERMICS) is an amazing environment for math & CS research.
International candidates welcome, deadline next week!
Link: cermics-lab.enpc.fr/2025/04/04/n...

Due to maintenance, Research.gov (including access to NSF-PAR, GRFP, PES, and ETAP) will be unavailable from Fri., 4/25 at 10:00 PM ET to Sat., 4/26 at 1:00 PM ET. NSF apologizes for any inconvenience.

🚨 Practical URGENT tip for NSF grantees:

Out of an abundance of caution, I would right now go into Research.gov and…

1. Download your NSF award letters.

2. Print PDF your annual reports.

3. Screenshot the status table for annual reports.

NSF is planning maintenance tomorrow to Research.gov

Women, minorities fired in purge of NIH science review boards Scientists, with expertise in fields that include mental health, cancer and infectious disease, typically serve five-year terms and were not given a reason for their dismissal.

Thirty-eight of 43 experts cut last month from the boards that review the science and research that happens in laboratories at the National Institutes of Health are female, Black or Hispanic, according to an analysis by the chairs of a dozen of the boards.