Is Jim O'Neill a good fit for NSF?https://www.science.org/content/article/trump-s-nsf-pick-stranger-its-research-community
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Is Jim O'Neill a good fit for NSF?https://www.science.org/content/article/trump-s-nsf-pick-stranger-its-research-community
amid uncertainty from the fed govt, states are toying around with the idea of implementing their own funding initiatives
the moves feel necessary to researchers in those states, but some policy experts cautioned it could feed rhetoric about not needing federal $
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SCOOP: Jay Bhattacharya, NIH director, will also serve as acting CDC director, per two admin officials, until Trump names a permanent director.
POTUS will nominate Jim O'Neill, who left HHS on Friday, to run National Science Foundation.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/18/u...
Sudip Parikh, a brown-skinned man in a black suit with a white button down, speaks at a podium with geometric designs on the front.
After ‘Rupture,’ Science Leaders Call for More Advocacy
The Trump administration’s seismic disruptions to the academic research enterprise were top of mind at the annual meeting of the @aaas.org in Phoenix last week. https://bit.ly/4rUUuPC
#EDUSky #AcademicSky #HigherEd
Talking #SciPol on last session of last day of @AAASmtg. Running on fumes, but excited as a #SciComm professional to learn more about science policy writing. #AAASmtg
For a panel this morning at the #aaasmtg, the other speakers and I will share ideas and examples for improving trust in science. Here are a few I'll mention if I get a chance (we have a LOT to talk about). I'd love to hear yours. (1/7)
@techiewonk.bsky.social @scipolguy.bsky.social @alesszimm.bsky.social
A large hotel conference room with a man at a podium and several speakers sitting on stage. There are screens on either side of the speakers that say “2026 ESEP Science Policy Town Hall.” The room is decently full.
Join us TONIGHT (Friday, February 13) for the #AAASmtg #AAAS2026 Science Policy Shindig taking place from 8:30 to 11:30pm at Dust Cutter in the Renaissance Phoenix Downtown. You do not have to be registered for the Annual Meeting to attend, all are welcome! #scipol #scicomm #sciengage
Already stopped by to see Kelsey. Miss you and Megan bunches!!!
Alas, I am not at #aaasmtg because I got Covid! Who’da thunk? But you can visit @issuesinst.bsky.social’s Kelsey Schoenberg and Monya Baker in the (great big) @arizonastateuni.bsky.social booth. Get your own copy of the glorious Buttercow issue!
Thanks to @sarahrovito.bsky.social you can subscribe to a feed of Bluesky posts from the meeting: bsky.app/profile/did:...
The NYT published a story that highlights how Congress has pulled back from the PBR's proposed cuts. The numbers show more favorable outcomes in the House and Senate for R&D. Damage was done in 2025, but these potential funding outcomes are better than what was feared.
The district court injunction that prevented NIH from capping indirects at 15% was upheld today on appeal!
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DHS has published its final rule to change the H-1B lottery to favor people in senior positions. By disadvantaging international students in the H-1B selection process, the rule achieves a longtime goal of Stephen Miller. @mclem.org @justinwolfers.bsky.social
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Here’s the thing, emerging scientists aren’t going to flee to do science elsewhere…they just won’t do the science.
We will lose at least one, if not two generations of knowledge if we don’t get this shit sorted out immediately.
The economic effects of international students go far beyond their tuition dollars.
Many stay, innovate, & shape the productivity of the entire economy.
My co-authors & I estimate the impact of US international student exclusion policy in this new paper commissioned by the @nationalacademies.org.
A graphic with the text, "Rethinking Researcher Assessment and Incentives at U.S. Academic Institutions, a workshop on October 28 from 9 AM to 5 PM and October 29 from 9 AM to 12 PM Eastern Time."
Researchers are typically assessed by traditional criteria such as grants, publications, and citation counts — but new approaches aim to change that.
Explore strategies for implementing these changes at U.S. universities at our upcoming workshop: https://ow.ly/KIQv50XgtMj
Wow. Harvard nuking its PhD programs
- Science PhD admissions reduced by more than 75%
- Arts & Humanities reduced by about 60%
- Social Sciences by 50–70%
- History by 60%
- Biology by 75%
- The German department will lose all PhD seats
- Sociology from six PhD students to zero
The pointed clarity with which each of the universities rejecting the compact have made this point is incredibly refreshing.
From the University of Arizona's president: president.arizona.edu/sites/defaul...
After getting zero firm commitments to this point from the first nine invitees, the Trump administration is extending its proposed compact to all colleges. Expect some red-state publics to say yes.
Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE
The problem with every post-Millennial generation is they got to go straight to high speed internet. Of course you'll get computer madness that way. Make them start with those old screeching modems and work their way up
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Rainbow! On the metro (Fort Totten) 🌈 @capitalweather.bsky.social
If this is turning into a battle, then the researchers’ possible counter is to normalize updating preprints and CVs with “accepted at journal x” as sufficient for getting publication credit and not pay the fees.
“We feel like the lost generation.” A story on the collapse of US science, which is hitting young scientists hardest www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...
we used to build household shrines to Going On The Computer and it's no coincidence that as we abandoned these we started straying further from god's light
New: Both NIH and NSF have put out their gold-standard science plans.
NIH: www.nih.gov/sites/defaul...
NSF: nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/files/NSF-GS...
Our story from May:
Just got an email that the NIH Early Independence award is "not going forward." This was an award that catapulted promising PhD students into faculty positions and is part of the High-Risk High-Reward grant program in the NIH Office of the Director. Deadline was 9.6.25!
FlyBase, a Drosophila database, will lose a third of its team in early October because the Harvard grant that covered the employees’ salaries was canceled. Scientists warn that losing FlyBase could devastate fly research.
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Pandemic preparedness in the US has been leveled a crippling blow with the cancellation of multiple #BARDA contracts to help develop mRNA vaccines. No other vaccine platform produces vaccine so quickly; without mRNA, Americans will have a long wait for pandemic vax. www.statnews.com/2025/08/05/m...