Journalists keep asking me, baffled, “What’s the Trump administration really trying to do to the science agencies?”

So I say “They are trying to destroy them. Cut off their funding, ruin their facilities, harass their staff into leaving.”

It’s not reform, and it never was. It’s destruction.

Crabz.

Exactly. We need a shadow ACIP committee that will provide us with real information. Let the RFK group do its worst, I'd listen the shadow committee.

Right. And then to discover that the article you really want to read has been ripped out of the only copy. Or that your library doesn't subscribe to THAT journal. Of course, there would be books, which is more than I can say about current university libraries.

quote on a dark blue and purple background from Sudip S. Parikh, CEO of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), criticizing proposed cuts to science funding in the FY26 U.S. federal budget. The quote reads: “If enacted, the FY26 budget request would end America’s global scientific leadership. The cuts to science would imperil our nation’s future health, security and prosperity. This budget proposal stands in stark contrast to the President’s call for a renewed commitment to American scientific leadership. Congress has demonstrated a bipartisan commitment to investment in research and must do so again to answer the President’s call.” The quote is attributed to Sudip S. Parikh, CEO of AAAS and Executive Publisher of the Science family of journals. The AAAS logo appears at the bottom right.

I don't think anyone outside of universities, pharma and biotech, independent research institutions have any idea of what is happening right now. If you haven't sounded the alarm among your friends, family and colleagues, now is the time to do it.

Yeah, on stuff like inventing the Internet, and GPS. Who needs that stuff.

Crabz

If a foreign adversary snuck into our Federal budget and cut science research and education the way we’re cutting it ourselves — strategically undermining America’s long-term health, wealth, and security — we would likely consider it an act of war.

Crabz

YouTube video by Stanford The Mother of All Demos

Some of these innovations were directly funded. Others build upon basic research funding by the US government. If you haven’t seen Engelbart’s 1969 “mother of all demos” (where he introduces the mouse, word processor, collab editing, video conf, etc.), watch it: www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQ8Z...

returning to the Red Sea to spawn is an essential and beautiful part of the Super Hornet life cycle

Hot take: the only true metric of human progress is the global reduction of suffering. Any technological advancement that does not work in service to this is a lateral step, not forward progress. I don't care if we get to Mars, when rampant famine and disease and poverty remain unsolved for.

Your presence here will make it better. Be here, not there.

This is why your lab automation sucks

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This is exactly right, I’ve said it 1,000 times, and @schumer.senate.gov and @schatz.bsky.social and @warren.senate.gov need to wake TF up and understand it:

These are abnormal times, the media isn’t covering things as abnormal, and that’s b/c Dem Senators are not ACTING like things are abnormal.

Your comment would be more compelling if you knew the difference between 'affect' and 'effect.' Not true, of courrse.

I love Brother P-Touch labels. Many colors, many widths. With the laptop driven version, it will automatically include initials and date: print one for the tube, one for your notebook, saves grief when you find a mystery tube in the freezer. Barcodes too.

How Ironic that on the International Day of Women and Girls in Science, Woman's portraits have been taken down at NIH and Women is a forbidden word that if found in your NSF grant could get it revoked. #womeninstem

Happy International Women and Girls in Science Day. I celebrate Emily Noether, capturing the remarkable relationship between conservation and symmetry in Noether's theorem. Einstein said she was a "creative mathematical genius."

why do people still post their papers on X? I'm trying to find papers to read and it seems BlueSky doesn't propagate papers as much as X or maybe because people still post their new papers on X instead of BlueSky? Because I always find myself wander over there to find relevant papers.

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When I started research, I. used science citation index to look for more recent papers referencing a relevant one. In print, large volumes, yearly To save effort, collated to every. decade.

If someone genuinely believes that we're in a peer-level competition with Beijing, it is utterly foolish to cancel NIH and other research efforts primarily out of a Vought-driven ideological mission to terrify civil servants. It's utterly counterproductive.

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This is one of the reasons why "logic design" for synthetic biology is not very interesting. Everything happens at once. It's much closer to an analog computer than a digital one.

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