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SciLit: “How a little-noticed tax and a bureaucratic cap could reshape U.S. innovation. The U.S. House of Representatives passed H.R. 1 today, the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” a sweeping reconciliation bill intended to implement key components of the Trump administration’s fiscal agenda. Among its most controversial implications are those for science. You can read …
It’s hard to imagine a more wasteful way to catch fish” David Attenborough narrates never-before-seen footage of destructive bottom trawlers. The widespread fishing practise has been filmed for the first time in such detail as part of a new Attenborough-narrated documentary: https://www.discoverwildlife.com/tv/david-attenborough-narrates-footage-of-bottom-trawler-fishing Never-before-seen footage of bottom trawling released from Ocean with David Attenborough: https://silverbackfilms.tv/never-before-seen-footage-of-bottom-trawling-released-from-ocean-with-david-attenborough/
CBS News: “The gap between what Americans earn and how much they need to bring in to achieve a basic standard of living is growing, according to a new report. The analysis, from the Ludwig Institute for Shared Economic Prosperity (LISEP), looks beyond whether people can afford daily necessities like food and shelter to consider …
Bloomberg Law [no paywall]: “The FDA’s public posting of warning letters from its food division stalled after the agency temporarily fired staff to review them, making the center overdue on notices that flag compliance violations in seafood, produce, and other foods. At least a dozen letters warning companies on significant violations of federal requirements have …
The Verge: “After farmers filed suit, the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) has agreed to restore climate information to webpages it took down soon after President Donald Trump took office this year. The US Department of Justice filed a letter late last night on behalf of the USDA that says the agency “will restore the …
The Works in Progress Newsletter: “Creating the perfect vegetable Walk into a supermarket anywhere in the world and chances are you’ll be able to find a tomato in mere minutes. While technically a fruit, the tomato is more often grouped with vegetables because, due to its low sugar content, it is used more like a …
The Verge [no paywall] – “By gutting USAID, the Trump administration has cut off access to data people relied on to warn people about weather disasters and food shortages around the world. Within weeks of President Trump stepping into office, key health and environmental resources that doctors and farmers rely on started disappearing from federal …
The Atlantic – no paywall: Experts fear what comes next. “If you were tasked with building a panopticon, your design might look a lot like the information stores of the U.S. federal government—a collection of large, complex agencies, each making use of enormous volumes of data provided by or collected from citizens. The federal government …
The New York Times – no paywall: “Late yesterday, Sethuraman Panchanathan, whom President Trump hired to run the National Science Foundation five years ago, quit. He didn’t say why, but it was clear enough: Last weekend, Trump cut more than 400 active research awards from the N.S.F., and he is pressing Congress to halve the …
Abby André, Director of the Impact Project | Doctoral Fellow, Lawyer, Professor, Data Visualization Expert – “I wanted to share this 91.7 WVXU/Cincinnati Public Radio story about The Impact Map, a tool I created to help visualize how federal employment, funding, and policy decisions affect our communities. With more than 5,300 data points—and growing—the map is …
The New Republic: “…Surveying this Boschian hellscape, many good people will despair. Yes, Trump is much more dangerous than he was during his first term (which was harrowing enough). He’s more giddily reckless about impounding funds, shutting down agencies, disobeying court orders, and using the government to punish political enemies. But if you allow yourself …
Via LLRX – Censor, purge, defund: how Trump is following the authoritarian playbook on science and universities – Professor of Operational Research Christian Pagel has mapped 35 of the Trump administration’s attacks on science and universities to the authoritarian playbook – and considers what it means for attacks still to come. Pagel states that the …
