Liz Neeley

@lizneeley.bsky.social

Founder of Liminal (LiminalCreations.com) & co-founder of Unbreaking (Unbreaking.org) Focused on turning knowledge into action. #science #communication #sensemaking #scicomm She/her. Married to Ed Yong.

@lizneeley.bsky.social Aug 1, 2026, 4:55 AM Pinned

I'm back!

Each Friday night, I write a briefing on what happened in US science & higher ed. 🧪

July 31 (Year 2, Week 31)
- student visas, asylum cases & ICE surge at airports
- "Golden Age" & Vanderbilt reports
- kangaroo courts, grant terminations & so much more

buttondown.com/liminalcreat...

buttondown.comYear 2, Week 31Jul 11-31, 2026 – the abracadabra of it all

@joshuasweitz.bsky.social Oct 11, 2026, 10:30 PMReposted by @lizneeley.bsky.social

The NIH proposal to conceal reviewer scores from program officers, investigators, and advisory councils is ill-conceived, introduces disproportionate weight to small percentile differences, diminishes the role of scientific peer review, and should be withdrawn in its entirety. a 🧵

@lizneeley.bsky.social Oct 10, 2026, 11:35 PM

I could not be more grateful for the friends and collaborators @unbreaking.org has brought into my life.

Thank you all SO MUCH.

@ruha9.bsky.social Oct 9, 2026, 5:58 PMReposted by @lizneeley.bsky.social

UPDATE: After hearing from friends in the DMs, we’re gonna make this a cohosted gathering. So after my censored remarks, we’ll hear about people actually doing the work that so many of our institutions pretend to. If your org wants to cohost, DM me.

Black & white photo of “Black Community Survival Conference: Serve the People Body & Sold” —a banner hanging above a group of people standing on a platform. This is a photo depicting the work of the Black Panther Party.

@lizneeley.bsky.social Oct 10, 2026, 3:42 AM

It is truly exhausting to see this kind of organizational cowardice (not to mention the stunning disrespect and abysmal preparation).

@lizneeley.bsky.social Oct 10, 2026, 12:38 AM

I'm a bit early on this Friday’s briefing on what happened in US science & higher ed this week 🧪

Oct 8 (Year 2, Week 41)
- Penn officially wins: feds don’t get lists of Jewish community
- J-1 & H-1B visa “fraud” narratives
- corrupting the Census
& so much more

buttondown.com/liminalcreat...

@courtneymilan.com Oct 9, 2026, 2:22 AMReposted by @lizneeley.bsky.social

People in California who are facing a terrible ICE surge: remember that if you need whistles, we are still sending them out for free.

In fact, we just passed 1.7 million whistles sent out.

linktr.ee/3Dwhistles

@shengokai.blacksky.app Oct 8, 2026, 4:55 PMReposted by @lizneeley.bsky.social

The census, at bottom level, is an exercise in world building via data collection. Viewed in this light, these changes disappear millions of people from our shared world. It is an exercise in building a world without them.

@noamross.net Oct 7, 2026, 9:25 PMReposted by @lizneeley.bsky.social

Trump announced $100M to train U.S. citizen scientists only. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

These are not new funds. NSF underspent its education funds by $100M this past year.

Of course, it pales in comparison to the $560M lost due to terminated NSF education grants: grantwitness.org/nsf 🧪

Trump Makes $100 Million Push to Train American Scientists

By Liam Knox
October 7, 2026 at 7:00 PM UTC

The Trump administration is injecting more than $100 million into education programs for American researchers in STEM fields, as federal policies stanch the flow of foreign scientists to the US and policymakers focus on an AI arms race with China.
The initiative, which President Donald Trump is set to announce at a White House summit on Thursday, aims to increase the number of highly trained scientific researchers who are American citizens through fellowships for PhD programs in science and engineering disciplines, according to a White House official.

@lizneeley.bsky.social Oct 6, 2026, 10:09 PM

One of the great long-term collaborations in my career has been with Ciencia Puerto Rico. The latest is a practical handbook with a chapter from me & Nic Bennett on "Using Self-Determination Theory to Facilitate for Shared Purpose and Sustained Engagement." www.cienciapr.org/en/media/41876

@lizneeley.bsky.social Oct 3, 2026, 5:14 AMReposted by @lizneeley.bsky.social

Each Friday night, I write a briefing on what happened in US science & higher ed. 🧪

Oct 2 (Year 2, Week 40)
- NIH gets $$ out, but $1.4 billion “diverted out” of NSF research funding
- student journalism, suppression & censorship
- 21 states sue EPA & so much more

buttondown.com/liminalcreat...

@katharinehayhoe.com Oct 1, 2026, 2:15 PMReposted by @lizneeley.bsky.social

Imagine a room full of brilliant jazz musicians, all playing solos, none of them listening to each other.

That's climate communication right now--and we have the data to prove it.

Join @fisherdanar.bsky.social, @bernwoodsplacky.bsky.social & I on our @tccollab.bsky.social webinar today, 3pm ET!

@lizneeley.bsky.social Oct 3, 2026, 5:51 PM

Absolutely. We are going to need some elegant survey designs to adequately capture the full reality of what this all has done

@jackiantonovich.bsky.social Oct 3, 2026, 12:00 PMReposted by @lizneeley.bsky.social

In 1974, Cornell lecturer Lin Farley began recognizing a pattern in the experiences women shared in her Women and Work course: women were being pushed out of jobs by men’s sexual behavior. Farley coined the term, “sexual harassment.”

@alondra.bsky.social Oct 3, 2026, 1:30 PMReposted by @lizneeley.bsky.social

David’s essay reveals clearly that this is not the priority of OpenAI. The “alignment problem” here is that the values of human wellbeing and humility are misaligned with the risk culture and social indifference of some in Silicon Valley. This is the first order problem.

@lizneeley.bsky.social Oct 3, 2026, 5:16 AM

More on the NIH funding data now that the fiscal year has ended bsky.app/profile/mich...

@lizneeley.bsky.social Oct 3, 2026, 5:14 AM

Each Friday night, I write a briefing on what happened in US science & higher ed. 🧪

Oct 2 (Year 2, Week 40)
- NIH gets $$ out, but $1.4 billion “diverted out” of NSF research funding
- student journalism, suppression & censorship
- 21 states sue EPA & so much more

buttondown.com/liminalcreat...

@lizneeley.bsky.social Oct 1, 2026, 4:07 PM

I think all of us must seriously confront the prospect that our good-faith critiques can and will be co-opted. This does NOT mean silence is the only option, but careful consideration and open discussion of who we welcome as allies, funders, and champions feels like a bare minimum.

@cydneydupree.bsky.social Sep 30, 2026, 10:35 AMReposted by @lizneeley.bsky.social

Mixed feelings about this one. The Arday case is painful, and I get vulnerable in this piece. But the message is important, and it draws some of my favorite research, led by Brittany Torrez with @mwkraus.bsky.social .

My latest, in Times Higher Ed. www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/blac...

@reuters.com Sep 28, 2026, 6:45 PMReposted by @lizneeley.bsky.social

Pennsylvania measles cases cross 900 as outbreak grows reut.rs/46Oj8sO

@voosen.me Sep 28, 2026, 3:29 PMReposted by @lizneeley.bsky.social

New Horizons is now *three days away* from shutting off its two heliophysics instruments, simply because NASA has not provided the $2M in funding it had promised to the mission last year or this year. There is no science basis for shutting these off. Our earlier coverage:

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