U.S. college is first to decline federal science grants because of new DEI language | Science | AAAS

Researchers have shown that Bitcoin mining has added more energy production to the U.S. grid than the amount required by the city of Los Angeles. Bitcoin Mining’s Outsized Impact on the U.S. Grid

“Trump is kindling bogus emergencies.” Opinion | Trump’s fake emergencies are the real crisis - The Washington Post

Most Phoenicians did not come from the land of Canaan, challenging historical assumptions | Science | AAAS

“Somebody has to be prepared to stand up if the director of the National Institutes of Health declares that mRNA vaccine technology is potentially dangerous,” Vaccine experts band together to counter U.S. government misinformation | Science | AAAS

Women's Health Initiative study loses federal funding : Shots - Health News : NPR

“This was really meant as a makeup project for women, because women have been excluded from research for so many years,” NIH cancels its first and largest study centered on women | Science | AAAS

Cuts for research, including air pollution, and clean energy. EPA orders staff to begin canceling research grants | Science | AAAS

Major cuts to research ranging from tuberculosis to military readiness to new technologies to test vaccines. Why? NIH freezes funds to Harvard and four other universities, but can’t tell them | Science | AAAS

“Democrats … released a rebuttal of Senator Cruz’s October report last week, noting several flaws, including the misinterpretation of scientific terms, such as “biodiversity,” as being related to D.E.I. “.via @NYTimes.

This is shocking even by today’s new standards where we get a shock every hour. And note the threats to the whistleblower even before he reported : NLRB whistleblower claims Musk’s DOGE potentially caused significant security breach | PBS News

“We experienced what amounts to censorship and controlling of the reporting of our science,” Dr. Hall said. via @NYTimes.

Federal cuts to fight, TB, detect, ALS, and other deadly diseases. “People are going to die…”

RT @Nature: “These aren’t luxury items. They’re the core infrastructure of modern science.”. Import taxes on staples such as microscopes, g….

RT @BarackObama: Harvard has set an example for other higher-ed institutions – rejecting an unlawful and ham-handed attempt to stifle acade….

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This is real and terrifying: via @NYTimes.

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What a surprise. Not. Federal R&D funding cuts could destroy a source of lab-grown unicorn startups - PitchBook

Rollout of ‘miracle’ HIV prevention drug is threatened by Trump cuts to global AIDS relief program - STAT