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- "Academics tend to be averse to discussing mental health openly, and higher education’s mental health safety net is patchy—a forgotten footnote that all too often fails its students." #MentalHealthAwarenessMonth scim.ag/4m61iaU
- The National Institutes of Health's Vaccine Research Center has lost dozens of contractor staff. scim.ag/4dckdNn
- NSF officials announced they are essentially abandoning the use of “rotators”— scientists on leave from academic positions who help the agency choose the best research to fund. NSF also plans to reduce the number of administrators classified as senior executive service employees. scim.ag/3EKnxmc
- Exclusive: National Science Foundation staff were told today that the agency’s 37 divisions—across all eight directorates—are being abolished and the number of programs within those divisions will be drastically reduced.
- Reposted by Science MagazineResearchers immediately condemned the recent HHS report on gender-affirming care for transgender youth, which declined to disclose its authors: “Scientists stand by their work. There is nobody standing by this thing.” My recent story for @science.org
- Reposted by Science MagazineMeet a worm that can stretch like an accordion! Found off the coast of a Spanish estuary, worm can contract its body to one-fifth its original length. More in my story for @science.org www.science.org/content/arti...
- 🌱 Unravel the plant mechanisms involved in plant-microbe interactions in Priya Reddy's winning entry for this year's #DanceYourPhD #biology category. Watch the entire video—and learn more about the other category winners: scim.ag/4lSpjCl
- Soil health hinges more on how agricultural land is managed than whether the farming system is organic or conventional, according to a new Science study showing that farms with more intensive management have lower overall soil functionality. scim.ag/44nEI7m
- Our 1 May 2025 issue introduces a print redesign—the magazine’s first redesign in 11 years. Developed entirely in-house, this project brought together our staff’s editorial and design expertise. (THREAD 🧵)
- Work relating to Microsoft’s new quantum computing chip has been called into question after an author on the 2017 study acknowledged it contained “undisclosed data manipulations,” according to emails obtained by Retraction Watch and Science. scim.ag/42Z6Vz2
