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Hi! I’m Liz Neeley and I’m glad you’re here. Each Friday evening, I write a summary of the week’s events in science and higher education. I pull together roughly three bulleted paragraphs about what has happened, hazard a guess about what to expect next, and offer at least one useful thing to do. My goal is to help us keep current—but avoid feeling flooded—by staying focused. Meeting the Moment builds on my work at Liminal. Liminal is a science communication collective focused on sensemaking in a noisy and complicated world. I built it as an antidote to that horrible feeling of being alone and adrift amidst high volumes of low-value advice about what to do. What you can expect from me here is connections, curation, and strategic clarity grounded in twenty years of work in science communication. In other words, I hope, a small volume of high-value content. Meeting the Moment has also contributed to the bigger project I’ve recently co-founded. Unbreaking is an ambitious new effort to document and explain the institutional destruction we’re witnessing across all of American life. This newsletter is and will remain a completely free resource. You can support our work with a monthly subscription, if you are moved to do so. We have no walls to put our backs against except each other. Thank you for reading and thinking along with me!
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Year 2, Week 24
https://buttondown.com/liminalcreations/archive/year-2-week-24/
Published: June 13, 2026 04:50
Hello friends, I started my day with some much-needed co-working time to draft my own public comment on the administration’s latest proposal for radically altering how the US government manages grants and loans. There are more than 15,000 comments already…
Year 2, Week 23
https://buttondown.com/liminalcreations/archive/year-2-week-23/
Published: June 6, 2026 05:57
Hello friends, A few hours ago, the American Diabetes Association enlisted police to eject the editor-in-chief of one of their own journals from their conference. His offense? Quietly distributing copies of his editorial in Diabetes Care1 that calls for…
Year 2, Week 22
https://buttondown.com/liminalcreations/archive/year-2-week-22/
Published: May 29, 2026 04:39
Hello friends, Between the holiday and travel, this is a very short week for me, and in some ways, a very hard one. My feeds are full of awful news: the blistering heat dome in Europe, the intensifying danger of Ebola to people in Central Africa, the…
Year 2, Week 21
https://buttondown.com/liminalcreations/archive/year-2-week-21/
Published: May 23, 2026 06:44
Hello friends, I’m back from some travel and back to myself in a way I haven’t been for some time. I caught myself in a little airport habit earlier this week. Instead of letting all the strangers around me blur into an annoying crowd, I try to properly…
Year 2, Week 19
https://buttondown.com/liminalcreations/archive/year-2-week-19/
Published: May 8, 2026 05:21
Hello friends,You might notice that this issue of the newsletter is early. I am headed into several weeks of travel and in-person meetings, so this is the first of several abbreviated or off-schedule updates. Wish me luck! This was Year 2, Week 19 What's…
Year 2, Week 18
https://buttondown.com/liminalcreations/archive/year-2-week-18/
Published: May 2, 2026 00:54
Hello friends, Today is May Day, and across America, working people are protesting economic inequality with a day of “No school. No work. No shopping.” This was Year 2, Week 18. I’m going to keep it brief. What happening in science & higher ed The entire…
Year 2, Week 17
https://buttondown.com/liminalcreations/archive/year-2-week-17/
Published: April 25, 2026 06:56
Hello friends, Last week, I published this newsletter just after 11:00pm and collapsed into bed. A few hours later, I was violently yanked back to consciousness with what I can only describe as a sense of imminent doom. I was choking and dizzy, somehow…