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… and so what happens to the compsci pipeline???

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. 🧵👇

ITS TIME TO STAND UP FOR SCIENCE RALLY ON MARCH 7th AT YOUR NEAREST RALLY OR REGISTER TO HOST A RALLY! A map showing the various rallies being hosted across the US. standupforscience.net/march7

On March 7th, we are rallying nationwide and NEED YOU 🫵 to rally with us! Visit standupforscience.net/march7 to find a rally near you and volunteer or to host your own rally!

#March7
#standupforscience
#rally
#ImpeachRFKJr
#RFKJr

Inside the quest to make a safer football helmet New energy-absorbing designs and materials have revolutionized the iconic safety device

Watching the Super Bowl and noticed how interesting the helmets looked and remembered Science just did a piece on them. Read it between plays. Fascinating. www.science.org/content/arti...

Opinion | A viral infection can have devastating effects. I experienced this firsthand. The consequences of the anti-vaccine movement reach beyond today’s controversies.

Someone, somewhere, needs to hear this. Common diseases don’t always “go away” without lasting effects. wapo.st/3MhEY0U (Gift article) p.s. The Post is headed down the tubes, but I’ll still share articles while my subscription is still active and the paper still exists.

The powerful tools in ICE’s arsenal to track suspects — and protesters Biometric trackers, cellphone location databases and drones are among the surveillance technologies agents are using in their immigration enforcement campaign.

wapo.st/4bXee03 Gift article about the technology ICE is using.

A big list of ways to help Minneapolis and Minnesotans. linktr.ee/mplsmutualaid

Breaking: Rep Haley Stevens files articles of impeachment against RFK Jr. with support from Stand Up for Science

"RFK Jr.'s actions are negligent and will result in harm and loss of life. He must be impeached and removed,” said Colette Delawalla, Founder and CEO of Stand Up for Science. “As a scientist and a mother, I am not willing to go back to a time before robust public health interventions. For the first time in human history, we progressed from 30% of babies not making it to adulthood to over 98% surviving to adulthood because of modern medicine and vaccines. Eliminating effective public health interventions with proven track records and dismantling evidence-based science is not the way to promote health and reduce chronic illness. Stand Up For Science is ready to hold Secretary Kennedy accountable, as well as political candidates and other officeholders who are pushing a dangerous anti-science agenda.”

BREAKING‼️ @rephaleystevens.bsky.social files articles of impeachment against RFK Jr. for his actions as Health Secretary endangering American lives.

This is a huge victory in our fight. Take action with us! #ImpeachRFKJR #Impeachthequack

www.standupforscience.net/impeach-rfkjr

With eye on future, Lowell Observatory shaves jobs, focuses science As scientists scramble to land on their feet, the observatory’s mission remains to conduct science and public outreach.

“The observatory is perhaps best known for its 1912 radial velocity measurements of a spiral nebula, which were the first observations of the expanding universe, and for the 1930 discovery of Pluto.”
physicstoday.aip.org/news/with-ey...

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This could be for you if you're a student from a community historically underrepresented in #journalism who's interested in in covering science for general audiences: recruiting.ultipro.com/AME1123ASEM/...

‘This is censorship.’ Conference requires abstracts to comply with Trump anti-DEI order NASA-funded planetary science institute previously scrubbed hundreds of records from its archive

New from me for @science.org: A major planetary science conference will require submitted abstracts to comply with Trump's anti-DEI executive orders.

This conference, LPSC, is a big deal. It's been running since 1970 and is one of the biggest planetary science conferences out there. 🧪🔭

Chatbots may make learning feel easy — but it’s superficial People who use search engines develop deeper knowledge and are more invested in what they learn than those relying on AI chatbots, a study reports.

A new study pitted Google against ChatGPT as research tools. Across 7 experiments, one pattern held: Knowledge gained from chatbot summaries was shallower compared with knowledge gained from web links.
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/ai-chatbots-learning-superficial-llm

Last one! Donate $200 to Project Monarch and name your own monarch butterfly. 🧡🦋🧡 www.capemaypointsciencecenter.org/project-mona...

Project Monarch Science App - App Store Download Project Monarch Science by Cellular Tracking Technologies on the App Store. See screenshots, ratings and reviews, user tips, and more games like…

App so you can contribute data to Project Monarch and help track their migration apps.apple.com/us/app/proje...

We Can Now Track Individual Monarch Butterflies. It’s a Revelation.

Teeny tiny tracking devices on butterflies. Related app for citizen science in next post. (Gift article) #science #citizenscience
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/s...

Too much social media gives AI chatbots ‘brain rot’ Large language models fed low-quality data skip steps in their reasoning process.

AI chatbots are worse at retrieving accurate information and reasoning when trained on large amounts of low-quality content, particularly if the content is popular on social media

go.nature.com/4hBqDrB

American here. Momentarily confused until I re-read the post. I initially thought it was about being deprived of the English language. hah!

7 basic science discoveries that changed the world Ozempic, MRI machines and flat screen televisions all emerged out of fundamental research decades earlier — the very types of study being slashed by the US government.

7 basic science discoveries that changed the world 🧪

Ozempic, MRI machines and flat screen televisions all emerged out of fundamental research decades earlier — the very types of study being slashed by the US government.

www.nature.com/articles/d41... @nature.com

Scientist in a lab coat and gloves operating a machine with multiple test tubes arranged in racks in a laboratory setting.

ICYMI: We recently hosted a reporter training on how to cover vaccines effectively and accurately in 2025. Reporters can request the recording to learn what research indicates are the most effective ways of sharing that information. bit.ly/4nz3sj5

#PublicHealth #SciComm #news #journalism

Cuts in global health and climate hit Research Triangle Institute hard “Financial drubbing” underscores reliance of some independent research organizations on federal funding

President Donald Trump’s administration has terminated $352 million in grants and contracts this year to the Research Triangle Institute, the United States’s third largest independent research organization, a report estimates.

Just because I find this charming and uplifting.

Energy Dept. adds ‘climate change’ and ‘emissions’ to banned words list It is the latest in a series of Trump administration efforts to dispute, silence or downplay climate change.

www.politico.com/news/2025/09...

Juno is an AMAZING mission. The camera onboard was never supposed to last this long (the radiation around Big J should've zapped it a while back) but it just keeps on ticking. Killing this mission while it's still working and producing great science is a crime.

An anole extends its dewlap, which says "call for scientists!"

Seeking scientist volunteers for this fall! Want to practice science communication and help author a 🌟comic🌟 about your research? I need collaborators for the next cohort of SciComm & Comics art and design students. All countries and scientific fields eligible.

Why AI chatbots lie to us A few weeks ago, a colleague of mine needed to collect and format some data from a website, and he asked the latest version of Anthropic’s generative AI system, Claude, for help. Claude cheerfully agr...

In my latest (and last!) column for Science’s Expert Voices series, I write about the reasons behind AI chatbots’ “deceptive” behaviors (and why Claude threatened a fictional CEO with blackmail).

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

From the NYTimes “The Morning” newsletter: “Media: The F.C.C. approved the $8 billion merger between Paramount and Skydance. As part of the deal, the company will install an official to monitor bias at CBS’s news division.”

ick. reminiscent of state-sponsored censorship…

EPA places staffers who signed ‘dissent’ letter on leave The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is placing staffers who signed a letter of dissent against the Trump administration’s actions and policies on leave. The EPA says it has placed 1…

🚨BREAKING NEWS🚨

Brave #EPA employees who signed the #DeclarationofDissent are now facing administrative leave after speaking out.

NOW MORE THAN EVER THESE EPA EMPLOYEES NEED YOUR SUPPORT & SOLIDARITY!

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Paramount to Pay Trump $16 Million to Settle ‘60 Minutes’ Lawsuit

Look, long protracted legal battles are no fun and cost tons of money, but it’s disappointing to not see a fight for journalistic freedom here. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/02/b...

Eight tools that investigative and data journalists are using and recommending Eight tools that investigative and data journalists are using and recommending Innovation. Latin American Journalism Review by The Knight Center at The University of Texas at Austin.

Eight tools that investigative and data journalists are using and recommending latamjournalismreview.org/articles/eig...

COVID-19 Vaccine Effectiveness New data show the updated COVID-19 vaccines were effective against COVID-19.

Lots of misinformation in the comments. The science shows that COVID vaccines reduce transmission, including for recent variants. A 2024 CDC study showed that people who received the updated COVID vaccine were 54% less likely to get COVID-19.