"Trump Proposed Slashing the National Science Foundation’s Budget. A Key Senate Committee Just Refused."
https://www.chronicle.com/article/trump-proposed-slashing-the-national-science-foundations-budget-a-key-senate-committee-just-refused
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"The Senate Committee on Appropriations voted 19-10 on [July 17] to keep funding for the National Science Foundation and other federal science agencies nearly intact for the 2026 fiscal year."
"Terminated #NIH grants are being reinstated almost entirely in blue states."
https://www.statnews.com/2025/07/03/nih-cuts-grant-restoration-complicated-by-limits-to-court-order-trump-dei-restrictions/
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PS: It's not that #Trump officials feel more lenient toward blue-state scientists. It's that blue-state Attorneys General fight back in court. Sometimes resistance works.
Update. Three past editors of the New England Journal of Medicine (#NEJM) answer the attack on their journal from #RFKJr.
https://www.statnews.com/2025/06/30/rfk-jr-medical-journals-nejm-jama-lancet-editors-respond-medical-journals-ethics/
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"Kennedy claimed that one of us (Angell) said, 'We are no longer a science journal, we are a vessel for pharmaceutical propaganda.' In fact, what Angell said in a 2009 article was that 'it is simply no longer possible to believe much of the clinical research that is published,' due to researchers’ financial ties with pharmaceutical companies."
The editors also point out that the three journals named by Kennedy happen to have published editorials criticizing the #Trump admin assault of science.
We could applaud #TaylorAndFrancis for pausing submissions at a journal that seems to be publishing a lot of fraudulent papers. Or we could ask why it waited until now.
https://www.science.org/content/article/journal-plagued-problematic-papers-likely-paper-mills-pauses-submissions
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"Out of a sample of nearly 900 papers _Bioengineered_ published from 𝟮𝟬𝟭𝟬 through 2023, one-quarter showed signs of image manipulation or duplication." (Emphasis added.)
Politics. No one country's.
"Hurricane Science Was Great While It Lasted."
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2025/07/hurricane-science-noaa-cuts/683398/
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"For years, the National Hurricane Center has been improving the accuracy of its forecasts, and one short year ago, the United States was better at predicting storms’ tracks than it had ever been. But the Trump administration has been cutting the forecasting staff and budgets. And now these satellite data will be missing too. The U.S. is rapidly losing state-of-the-art hurricane forecasting, just in time for hurricane season’s busiest months…What’s easy to see coming now are the possible consequences: at best, a needless evacuation. But just as easily: a rushed evacuation, a surprise landfall, a flattened house."
@katyswain I din't think that #CCSS is good either, but the demands of #GPLv3 are not compatible with the (adnitteldy shitty) reality of how #IP, #Licensing and #Patents work and thus it kneecaps a lot of things.
GPLv3 caused #Apple to freeze their #bash version and divest into #LLVM and adopt #zsh.
As @landley showed, enforcing the #GPL(v2) resulted in exactly 0 code being committed to #BusyBox and it only made said project look toxic and litigatious.
Also i've yet to see anything happen re: #paywalled #SourceCodeAccess for #grsec & #RedHat #Linux. Maybe #GPLv4 will ban #paxwalling and force violators to work on #GNU / #HURD?
I chose #0BSD for _OS/1337 because as with any "intellectual labour", one cannot force others to collaborate and I'd rather have people join in out of the goodness of their hearts instead of just dumping some random git commit that is useless.
"Instead of going on #immigration raids…the majority of #FBI agents on immigration duty are now returning to traditional roles to thwart possible threats from #Iran and its proxies."
https://www.thedailybeast.com/fbi-abandons-stephen-millers-migrant-round-up-in-humiliating-blow/
(#paywalled)
So I don’t understand sites that show a pop up not letting me read the ad you put into my feed because I have an ad blocker. You baited me with a #paywalled post, served me the content and paid for the #CDN, but then don’t let me read the article. You aren’t going to convince me to pay for a subscription or give you info to feed the marketing machine. So you paid to bait me l, paid to serve me the content, then don’t let me read it. You already lost me as a subscriber. #perplexed
@janboehm Leider #paywalled 
Entsprechender Hinweis wäre nice, danke. 
@troed Yeah, #IrSimple is AFAIK basically is a 115200 baud half-duplex serial transfer.
irdajp.info nowadays used by some #scammers / #DomainSquatters..."The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (#NASEM) has launched a major downsizing to help it cope with a significant loss of federal funding since President Donald #Trump took office."
https://www.science.org/content/article/u-s-national-academies-adopts-new-business-model-weather-financial-storm
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Nicht Kallstadt: Trumps Urahn kommt aus einem anderen Pfälzer Dorf
#Kallstadt. Dass Donald Trumps Großvater aus Kallstadt stammt, ist seit dem Besuch von Friedrich Merz wieder in aller Munde. Doch ein Urahn der Trumps kommt aus einem anderen Dorf.
#paywalled #Ahnenforschung #DieRheinpfalz #MichaelWolf #Trump #DonaldTrump #BadDürkheim #JohannesSteiniger #Fischer #HorstKöhler #Kohl #BobenheimAmBerg #Kirchheim #vonCastellum #vonWeidel #Ellerstadt
@ahnenforschung
Update. Kudos to Andrea Sella for returning his 2014 Faraday Prize to the #RoyalSociety because the society refuses to expel or discipline Fellow Elon #Musk.
https://www.chemistryworld.com/opinion/why-i-returned-the-faraday-prize-to-the-royal-society/4021668.article
From Sella: "Musk has amplified wild conspiracy theories, repeated racist and eugenic ideas, and spread calls for harming of one of his fellow Royal Society members, Anthony Fauci. The Royal Society stayed silent, declining to take disciplinary action against Musk even after resignations and petitions. Acting for the US administration, this past spring Musk embarked on a rampage…gutting science-based agencies, shutting down scientific databases, shredding public health programmes."
Also see the (#paywalled) coverage at the Financial Times.
https://www.ft.com/content/877853df-1687-4d1f-940b-9eefc0cf69c0
Gestapo-Dokumente werden wissenschaftlich erschlossen
#Neustadt/Weinstraße. Ein Langzeit-Projekt an der Uni Trier wertet die Kartei der Gestapo-Stelle aus, die von Neustadt aus für die ganze Pfalz zuständig war.
#paywalled #Ahnenforschung #Gestapo #UniversitätTrier #LandesarchivSpeyer #EginhardScharf #SarahBaltes #MaximilianEifert #SEAL #Verfolgung #Nationalsozialismus #HeinrichStützel #AloisBühl #AntonLeonhardDunckern #OttoBradfisch #Pfalz
@ahnenforschung
Does anyone have the full version of this paper? which is #paywalled?
https://www.rsc.org/suppdata/d2/ee/d2ee00233g/d2ee00233g1.pdf
https://newatlas.com/energy/algae-energy-harvester-electronics/
"Do you remember the Human Genome Project? I’m not sure the Trump administration wants you to."
https://www.statnews.com/2025/06/05/nih-national-human-genome-project-institute-hgp-archives-trump-cuts/
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"My job was to preserve and provide access to the records of the Human Genome Project [#HGP]...All of that work, like so much else at #NIH, is currently being dismantled...The digital archival records my colleagues and I maintained are currently inaccessible. I worry that they might be gone altogether, either now or sometime in the future."
@neuralreckoning not to mention many journals are absurldy #paywalled (#Elsevier are just the greediest #rentseekers!) whilst also charging for #submissions to the point that some are existing mostly as a means of #corporations to commit "#AssetDenial" against competitiors by #publishing their own research, thus enshuring the #competition can't #patent a specific product.
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