Brendan Harley

On sabotage of our young scientists, by @holdenthorp.bsky.social @science.org
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If I get one more email about Claude or whomever the fuck.

1. I wanna read my own shit.

2. I wanna write my own shit.

3. I wanna pay an editor to talk me through my own shit.

4. I don’t want that AI bullshit. If you don’t use it, you lose it. And I want to hold my brain as long as possible.

Rebecca is starting her lab as a UCSF Sandler fellow in August 2026; folks at #Dros26 interested in host-parasitoid interactions should try to catch her at the meeting to find out about available positions: www.tarnopollab.org/people

Neither did Secretary of State Marco Rubio, the nation’s top diplomat.

The video of a United States Senator joining the violent removal of U.S. marine from a hearing and hideously breaking his arm in a door is an example of what has been unleashed in this country. They’re tapping in to get in on the violence.
And then he bragged about it on X later.

... and whose intentions are cruel.

This is entirely unsurprising with a 'No stupid rules of engagement' mantra

RFK Jr. wants Dunkin’ to prove drinking its iced coffee is safe - The Boston Globe The warning comes as Kennedy is leaning heavily into his agenda to improve American diets.

This moron has no idea how much of a third rail this is. If he goes through with a public fight with Dunkin he will never live this down. In the words of my people "fuck ya motha."

Delays in awards and funding calls worry NIH-funded researchers Many programs may be pushed into the next fiscal year, and some could face funding gaps

"The biomedical research community is facing the prospect of major funding disruptions again this year." www.science.org/content/arti...

Looking forward to an article about all the Black women scientists who thrived despite Epstein and friends best efforts to shove us out of the field including by not offering us funding that our competitors were getting

how is the only correct answer on a campus Title IX training program for a situation involving (non-violent) interactions between two people the "delegate the handling of the situation to the police" answer?

i know! that interview is giving vibes that are ...not... good

This is a strange 'bar' to celebrate.

A post from Jason Locasale quoting Paul Thacker complaining about a Nature story from Max Kozlov using data from NIH Reporter that I posted on my Bluesky account.

Apparently Jason Locasale and Paul Thacker have a problem with using publicly available data from NIH Reporter about the number of new and competitive renewal grants from fiscal year 2026 compared to previous fiscal years because I first posted it.

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Pete Hegseth’s Crazed, Angry Tirades on Iran Give Dems a Big Opening It’s not enough for Democrats to say Trump’s war rationales haven’t been fully explained. The problem is that they are patently false.

Pete Hegseth's crazed rants at reporters reveal that Trump's rationales for attacking Iran are incoherent, confused, and based on lies. Dems don't have to take refuge in criticizing Trump's war on purely procedural grounds. They can go much harder. 1/

(new piece)
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They've been talking like that about trans people for awhile now.

This is a graph of the death of US science.

I'm begging my fellow politicians, Illinoisans, and Americans to realize that right now, we aren't fighting over policy or political party.

We're fighting over whether we're going to be a country rooted in empathy and kindness — or one rooted in cruelty and rage.

Got a tip? Got a tip for Science’s news department? Our reporters would like to hear from you. Here are ways to contact us.

@policyhound.bsky.social and I have sent NSF an email asking for more information. If anyone has knowledge of what's going on behind the scenes you're welcome to contact us. My Signal ID is klangin.48. You can also email the news department through an encrypted email: www.science.org/content/page...

UNC-CH Will ‘Scrap’ New Recording Policy, Chancellor Says The move comes less than three weeks after the controversial rules were enacted.

UNC-Chapel Hill will “scrap” a policy that would have allowed administrators to secretly record professors, Chancellor Lee Roberts said Friday. The move comes less than three weeks after the controversial rules were enacted.

www.theassemblync.com/news/educati...

In my time at Princeton, we've had several Army officers in our doctoral program. They've all done excellent work.

When this former Princeton undergrad says we're actually teaching them "the enemy's wicked ideology" I have no idea what the hell he's talking about but, of course, neither does he.

Nurul Amin Shah Alam, Blind Rohingya refugee dumped by CBP, dies in cold "They just left him."

"He cannot use a phone. He doesn’t know his address, he doesn’t know phone numbers, he can’t communicate, he can’t see. And they just left him.”

Gokhale awarded ACS early career bridge grant Gokhale awarded ACS early career bridge grant

Congrats to ChBE post-doc Devashish Gokhale, who has received an Early Career Postdoctoral-Faculty Bridge Grant from the ACS!

chbe.illinois.edu/news/stories...

The impact is already hitting science agencies hard. The NIH—the world's largest public biomedical research funder—has had to rely on leftover stopgap funds.

New grant awards have slowed to a trickle — exacerbating the effects of a record-long shutdown in October.

(h/t @jeremymberg.bsky.social)

White House stalls release of approved US science budgets The US Congress rejected sweeping cuts to science agencies. But the NIH, the NSF and NASA have had their spending slowed.

Congress rejected massive cuts to US science budgets for 2026, but much of the money still isn’t flowing to researchers.

The culprit? The White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) is quietly slow-walking the release of funds. 🧵👇

In which he again fails to understand the nuance of how different ICs apply ESI status.... But understanding how NIH works has never been his goal. Which is why he says things on podcasts that don't reflect reality.

What a garbage decision.

Side note: I was recently there for seminar. Met President. Not surprised.

I grew up in KS. This is so cruel and unnecessary. Just horrific

The cruelty is always the point.

I often have a biphasic response. 3rd percentile or 35th percentile. Not a lot in between 🤷

I once wrote a post, can’t find it right now, pondering whether some of us had a relatively fixed priority position in the NIH grant game. Say, I feel I can somewhat regularly put together an objectively 15-19%ile proposal. Maybe others come in at 8-9%ile regularly.