Carlos Patiño Descovich

Federal funding for science ensures that scientific agendas respond to the wants and needs of scientists and the public. We do not want to live in a society where the scientific agenda is set by a handful of billionaires.

Delighted that we could contribute to this textbook 😀

Their politics are all different, but the appeal of Mamdani, Ossoff, and El-Sayed as speakers and campaigners is that they don't seem afraid they're going to get in trouble. That makes them hard to bully or even make fun of successfully.

SCOOP: 'Tommy' from the now-viral exchange with Abdul El-Sayed is Thomas Teepell, a former staffer for Republican Senator Josh Hawley with close ties to Christian Nationalist Sean Feucht. He's the son of a former Bobby Jindal staffer whose consultant work was instrumental in getting Hawley elected.

❗❗❗Mark Zuckerberg's meta just suspended the No Kings Instagram account. I just rushed back from my local No Kings to jump on this. Bottom line, would be helpful for all pro-No Kings folks to elevate the issue and help us get the word out about No Kings today. The Nerd Reich strikes again.

The number of people signed up for NYC Care decreased 12% from 140,222 patients in fiscal 2025 to 123,124 in fiscal 2026, according to the latest Mayor’s Management Report.

Students from North Carolina A&T can be seen marching back to their HBCU after voting on the first day of early voting in the state. The Guilford County Board of Elections voted to remove the school’s on-campus polling site. (video via Todd Simmons) greensboro.com/news/local/g...

😡😡😡 “Meta employees acknowledged in internal communications that the Instagram accounts of Brazilian ​President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva were hindered by ‌restrictions during [Brazil’s] election” & that Meta “recommended the profile ​of challenger…Flavio Bolsonaro” & “his ​WhatsApp channel…” 1/

Masked Israeli settlers attacked Palestinian villagers on Friday, setting olive groves on fire and slinging rocks. Caught in the attack was Post photographer Heidi Levine. “They just kept kicking me and kicking me, like probably 50 times,” Levine said. https://wapo.st/4yt6dHY

"Releasing over 700 files at once is not a demonstration of scholarship, but a demonstration of power. We urge mathematicians to discontinue their work with OpenAI and to return to a vision of science that centers human understanding." www.ahmath.org/statements

Smart microscope platform PyCLM controls stimulation & imaging – showcased with optogenetic controlled EGFR to direct tissue movement 📹 Harrison R. Oatman et al @toettch.bsky.social lab @princeton.edu in @cp-cellsystems.bsky.social ➡️ bpod.org.uk/archive/2026... with @antdlewis.bsky.social

Statement from Robert E. Hall: Recipient of the Nobel Price in Economic Sciences.

Oct 13 comment deadline for NIH peer review score binning is fast approaching! Please add your voice! Direct link to RFI: rfi.grants.nih.gov?s=6a2b1c22c3... Background on why it matters: 27unihted.substack.com/p/nih-wants-...

BREAKING: Federal agents searched Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar's home as part of a criminal investigation, AP sources say.

Cartoonist: David Horsey

The first Russian diesel cargo heading for the US left St Petersburg on September 22, two weeks *before* Trump announced the deal with Putin, Windward reports. The Greek-flagged tanker Minerva Zen carrying 275,000 barrels of diesel/gasoil is due at the US East Coast around 11–12 October.

The deadline is approaching! NIH is proposing changes to how peer review is used in funding decisions and how outcomes are reported and they want to hear from you. Comments are due by October 13! Comment here: grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

This is what we had been warning about for over a year: diversion of funds from real science to Trump vanity projects. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/02/u...

We're in turbulent times in health research with unprecedented advances coupled with funding challenges. CIHR is at the cross-roads of this and is looking for a special advisor to the President (2 days a week, secondment). Be part of the solution. cihr-irsc.gc.ca/e/54823.html

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If you’ve bet on sports with FanDuel or DraftKings, you can help us understand how these apps respond to users’ betting behavior. We’re aiming to get data from at least 250 people, and we’ll share back what we learn:

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😳 On 9/29/26, Argentina’s Supreme cleared the way for President Javier Milei’s administration to scrap historical restrictions on foreign land ownership, opening the door to the likes of Peter Thiel & Sam Altman who have shown great interest in the region … 1/ share.google/t7nTsPAkbpC8...

Are you looking for a postdoc exploring the cell biology of development, defining how cells change shape and move? Do you want to develop a research program & teaching skills preparing you for a position at a college or small University? Our new NIH grant will support those goals 1/n Please share

Want to enhance your image analysis skills with napari? We’re running a two-day training event on how to use napari to effectively analyse your bioimaging data. 🕒 Applications close on 15 September. Learn more and apply 👇 www.crick.ac.uk/whats-on/cbi...

📙 BOOKS: People ask me what to read to understand how we got here. So we've published the "America 2.0 Reading List." 120 books — the founders on faction, Russia's political technologists, the anti-democratic right, and the strange ideas underneath it all. america2.news/the-america-...

The power of funding fundamental discovery in driving unexpected benefits for humankind are unmatched. We should be funding more basic research not less

Tech companies suddenly decide they can, in fact, moderate content on their platforms after all

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.

The Small World in Motion winner is now officially a "rendition" 🙄

Pompeii is a UNESCO world heritage site not because it was remarkable in its prime, but because it survived to our era untouched: one moment, preserved for all time. But future generations won't know what OUR world was like unless we do the same. This is why we MUST bury Toronto with a volcano

EIon Musk’s Wealth 2009: $.6B 2026: $984B Jeff Bezos’s Wealth 2009: $6B 2026: $370B Mark Zuckerberg’s Wealth 2009: $.6B 2026: $256B Federal Minimum Wage 2009: $7.25 2023: $7.25 Billionaire tax rate: 8.2% Worker tax rate: 13% Pay workers. Tax & Abolish Billionaires. Save our economy & country.

What. A. Day. NIH grant-making was paused for several hours today. Not sure who gave the order. But in light of the Friday night Bhattacharya-Vought feud & threatened EO to implement #ScienceDeathPanels, my money is on Russell Vought. I learned of the pause from a colleague around 11:30. 🧵

Sens. Susan Collins and Patty Murray are rejecting efforts by the Trump administration to give the White House control of National Institutes of Health grant funding. https://to.pbs.org/4iH9YW1

"White House Moves to Take Control of N.I.H. Grants" [everybody up in arms, as they should be, but for those who have been paying close attention, this has pretty much already happened - the realization just hasn't sunk in yet] www.nytimes.com/2026/09/20/s...

‘Don’t spend $20 on an acai bowl’: gen Z are shunning private equity’s restaurant takeover

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...

Your life saving clinical trail could be TERMINATED by the Trump administration. We scraped through the data and found that 50% of all clinical trials are at risk of being cancelled. It's time to talk about it and what you can do to stop this. 🧵 🧪

At the start of the Trump administration, an executive order was released with certain words and phrases that will now be flagged by federal agencies. Including "climate", which affects a large range of research topics from extreme weather to workplace environment & employee moral 🧪 🧵

Breaking: Judge blocks Trump administration plans to limit visa length for grad students, postdocs www.statnews.com/2026/09/14/c...

Palantir co-founder Joe Lonsdale assures his X followers that “We are on top of it” in apparent response to recent warnings from the CEOs of Anthropic and OpenAI about AI. So I guess we can all relax now. 🙄 … 1/

Science Agencies Pull ‘Political Interference’ Protections From Scientific Integrity Policies www.aip.org/fyi/science-... NSF and the Department of Commerce have scrubbed references to the dangers of political interference in science from official agency policy documents.

A Nazi salute from a far-right activist at an AfD election celebration following the party’s victory. @rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social

„All of this is why we believe that end times fascism … should be seen as a twisted and sadistic form of climate-change adaptation. Now that the reality of planetary heating has become undeniable, all that is left to deny is the humanity of our fellow humans.“ giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

I have a question for Peter Thiel