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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 31
https://buttondown.com/liminalcreations/archive/year-2-week-31/
Published: August 1, 2026 04:48
Hello friends, I’m back after trading my office for a world of salt and sun and stories, creating the thing we call Storymakers. This is where my theory and practice collide. I learn about blueschist, biogeochemistry, and more, in a place where I can no…
Year 2, Week 28
https://buttondown.com/liminalcreations/archive/year-2-week-28/
Published: July 11, 2026 03:45
Hello friends, Earlier today I submitted my public comment on the proposed OMB rule change. I ended up keeping it short and focused on the international collaboration and conference travel restrictions. This felt strange because those are just two of the…
Year 2, Week 27
https://buttondown.com/liminalcreations/archive/year-2-week-27/
Published: July 4, 2026 02:11
Hello friends, This country is celebrating 250 years since the signing of the Declaration of Independence: our semiquincentennial.1 Today is a federal holiday. I used to be so proud about not taking time off, but I stopped that nonsense when I realized…
Year 2, Week 26
https://buttondown.com/liminalcreations/archive/year-2-week-26/
Published: June 27, 2026 05:55
Hello friends,Earlier this week, a friend of mine sent an open letter to more than fifty collaborators and colleagues. He reminded us not just that our work inspires him, but that how we choose to approach the work is itself something precious. Most…
Year 2, Week 25
https://buttondown.com/liminalcreations/archive/year-2-week-25/
Published: June 20, 2026 03:40
Hello friends, Today is Juneteenth, and I’m thinking about how long emancipation took, and all the long, painful years of struggle since. As Deborah Archer writes, “General Granger rode into Galveston with a message that was two and a half years late. Two…
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…