Chad Haney

At the #StandUpforScience rally in Chicago, one of the speakers mentioned that the most important six words are "let me tell you a story" when it comes to trying to explain why science funding is important. The idea is to explain to everyday people how the work we (scientists) do makes life better.

Donald Trump is making it clear: He doesn’t care what the courts say. trib.al/U3xRCsH

RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open, period. No ChatGPT or Claude

Apparently, some Houston voters are putting their I Voted stickers on the Lorenzo Salgado Araujo memorial. Stephen Miller is ALREADY trying to scapegoat others for losing whatever races they lose in Texas and elsewhere. This is a vivid testament that for some voters, his murder squad is the reason.

Hopefully this means liquid helium will be less expensive and availability will improve.

One reason Prop. 38 in CA is SO bad is that it is written such that only one institute could get ~$4 billion in funding and that Institute is run by the person sponsoring the bill. Here are some of the constraints the Prop. puts on the institute to guarantee only one place gets the money:

I was just telling a group of undergrads touring the lab that we don't have enough helium to ramp up our 7T MRI. We had to take it down to remove ice.

Hear us out: The richest person in the world should not be allowed to dump hundreds of millions to affect the midterm elections. This is not a radical idea. We need campaign finance reform.

I see we're having a debate about whether it's okay to go back to "X," the site owned by a trillionaire fascist who is currently bankrolling the GOP's midterm, throttled Ukraine's war effort, and still winkingly allows vast amounts of CSAM on his service Answer: No, what the fuck is wrong with you

“It’s only fascism if they manipulate elections!” “It’s only fascism if they disappear people off the street!” “It’s only fascism if they take over the media!” “It’s only fascism if they jail their political opponents!” Is there even anything left?

Go to your camera roll and search "boat" and then post a picture of a boat you like.

Here's my comment, as an image with alt-text (given character limits). Full comment and expanded context on first post in this thread. Two more days left. Take the time to respond. rfi.grants.nih.gov?s=6a2b1c22c3... /🧵

If the NIH succeeds in hiding reviewer scores, both program officers and investigators will have access to less information, increasing the risk that other factors (including political priorities) will be used to shape the future of US science and biomedical research.

Comments due tomorrow (Oct. 13) on a proposed change to NIH procedures that would conceal expert reviewer scores on grant proposals from program officers & PIs and reduce the effectiveness of peer review, part of a larger project to sideline experts and politicize federal funding decisions. 👇

You might remember images of the volume of paper at IRS. Biden created a new in-house scanning system to deal with the problem. Trump stopped that project, contracted it out at higher cost. The contractor was unable to deliver and its been further scaled back. So the paper keeps mounting.

Research shows that the U.S. pays, on average, anywhere from three to four times as much for brand-name drugs compared with other wealthy countries. But a breaking point is imminent, one that makes government intervention to curb health care costs inevitable, experts insist. https://bit.ly/4edjsFi

for as long as i've been alive, republicans have ran the same playbook: a few weeks before voting begins, they roll out completely fabricated smear campaigns. these things are always coordinated, so the talking points take over the news. the party is never electorally punished for their dishonesty.

The most comprehensive data that I know isis from Grant-Witness and States United. www.lostfunds.org

Looking forward to Debbie's book. I got to know her through EPR spectroscopy.

Trump announced that a group of companies—including OpenAI, Anthropic, xAI, Palantir, and Amazon—have committed over $2.4 billion to accelerate American scientific research. In other words, he's replacing established research institutions with the corporations that have curried favor with him.

Setting aside the callous cruelty of this assertion--it's pretty telling that our so-called Commander-in-Chief doesn't know that active-duty military, veterans, and their families make up almost a quarter of the population of San Diego.

this is my favorite example ever of an interactive clearly, creatively illustrated concept

I need a T-shirt that says if your dog can't ask for a Scooby snack, i.e., talk like Scooby-Doo, then they need to be on a leash.

Reuters got some of the IPO docs. Anthropic is a total dog of a company. Spent $12.6bn to make $4.6bn in revenue in 2025, $7.33bn of which was compute costs. Operating loss of $8bn. Losses getting worse year over year. Amazing stuff www.reuters.com/business/fin...

1. Vought tells Trump to cut NIH budget by 40% Congress rejects it 2. Vought moves to give political appointees power over grants Congress delays it 3. Vought writes EO to create NIH board that gives him veto power. It is blocked. Now, this. IMPEACH VOUGHT 🧪 www.politico.com/news/2026/09...

DoorDash spent $1.4M trying to stop Zohran Mamdani from becoming mayor. This week's historic $131.5M enforcement action against DoorDash for underpaying NYC delivery workers shows why. Yet another reminder that the only thing that can beat organized money is organized people.

Science peeps: Looks like SciENcv updated the digital certificate used to sign Biosketch and Current & Pending documents without notification. The old certificate expires Saturday, September 26, 2026. SciENcv docs before that date may fail validation in eRA Commons delaying or blocking submission.

IF WE WANT TO SEE RADICAL CHANGE (I’m talking healthcare for all, big science budgets, decarbonization, etc) WE MUST MAKE IT HAPPEN OURSELVES. LOOK IN THE MIRROR, SAY HELLO TO THE PERSON WHO IS GOING TO BRING FORWARD CHANGE, AND GO OUT INTO THE WORLD ACCORDINGLY. You are the change you want to see.

Happy Dolly day.

The AI build-out is on track to become the biggest economic bet in U.S. history, dwarfing the investments made to fund other huge U.S. infrastructure projects such as the railroads, the highway system and the plumbing for the internet. www.wsj.com/economy/the-...

Now THIS is a chart

NYT has now independently corroborated all the major allegations against Susan Collins in the ProPublica report, including that investigators were prepared to move against her and then Trump intervened to shut it down. This put Trump in a position of exceptional and extortionate leverage over her.

At her 22-week ultrasound, Amanda Jablonski learned their daughter had developed without a skull or a brain. There was no chance for survival, and every day Amanda stayed pregnant was a threat to her health and life. Under TN law, she was denied an abortion. www.wbir.com/article/news...

Does this work to break up the doomscrolling?

While ICE agents were shooting Wilber Rafael Garces Perez in Austin on Sunday, their colleagues were violently detaining a US citizen in Evanston, IL who "resembled" a person they were seeking. The victim reported "injuries to his head, neck and teeth":

Russell Vought wants to be in charge of #ScienceDeathPanels at NIH. Congress has made it pretty clear they don’t want political appointees in charge of funding decisions. Science community: it’s time to get loud (again)! www.politico.com/news/2026/09...

DOGE is still running the show: The Bureau of Land Management gave its state directors *3 days* to list public lands that could be turned over to Big Tech to build AI hyperscalers, after Interior Secretary Doug Burgum met with Amazon CEO Andrew Jassy

Do y’all see why China looks good right now? "Not one of them is trained in technical skills. Not one research PhD, as opposed to China, where half the cabinet is science & technology PhDs. We're led by grifters & fools." — Columbia University Professor Jeffrey Sachs on Trump's 35-member cabinet.🧪

Total dictator move. Lawsuits to come.

Sorry, but all the way back on February 13th, 2025 we passed the point where 52 REPUBLICAN Senators had some explaining to do for confirming a known anti-science, anti-vaccine conspiracy theorist as HHS Secretary. Part of the reason is exactly this: a lot of the media pretended like it was NBD.

"With regard to killing 230 people in a fiery plane crash, Boeing needs to fix that problem on their own. We're not going to get smart enough on MCAS to regulate them."

found at ucsf

In the EPA’s announcement of the proposed repeal, the agency claimed that its action was based on “the best reading of the Clean Air Act," an assertion that has drawn scrutiny from a long list of public health and environmental groups.

For @motherjones.com, I looked into how Meta could be using disabled people to promote its Meta glasses to the masses. As one expert told me, “companies have used accessibility...as a Trojan horse for a tool that poses significant privacy and security threats.” www.motherjones.com/politics/202...