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!